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11.Aug.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - interview campaign
An interview with Sebastian Bauer, the developer of, among other things, SimpleMail and FreeCiv is online. (main focus: FreeCiv)

Amiga Arena - full version
In co-operation with K.-P. Koljonen the Amiga Arena makes the release of "HippoPlayer v2.38" available! The HippoPlayer is a module player for the Amiga that supports a big number of formats.

Some facts about the HippoPlayer:
  • Screamtracker I, Fasttracker 1 & 2, Taketracker, Multitracker, 1-32 channels
  • "SID-Emulation" by Håkan Sundell & Ron Birk (runs with Kickstart 1.2, too)
  • "TFMX modules" (the normal ones as well as the 7-channels version)
  • Some 4 to 8 channels sample & synth formats
  • Easy-to-use 3D-Interface
  • Completely controlled via keyboard
  • AppWindow: simply drag icons into the window of HiP
  • ARexx
  • Public Screen support
  • Internal multitasking
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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11.Aug.2001
Stefan Instinske (email)


Event: Maxpo 2001 cancelled
We got yesterday evening information by Stefan Instinske via mail that the Maxpo 2001 is cancelled. As already reported Falke-Media wanted to hold the "AMIGA WORLD 2001" at this fair. Talks with Falke-Media showed that they work with high pressure on finding an alternative location for the Amiga fair. Detailed information about this can be found at the beginning of next week at amiga-messe.de.

Here's the complete mail of Stefan Instinske (translated from German):

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| 22:56 | Friday - 10. August 2001 |
What was already in several forums broadcasted as rumor seems now to be official: the Maxpo 2001 in Cologne won't take place this year. Though the organizers have not officially commented on their webseite yet it seems definitely that all exhibitors have been written to and informed about the fair's cancellation. Not least the following message from Arktis makes clear that this year's exhibition falls through:

»As the MAXPO in Cologne unexpectedly won't take place this year ARKTIS holds on the 21. and 22. September a big MAC DAY in the ARKTIS company building in Rosendahl. Detailed information about participiants and supporting programme will follow soon...«

Reason for the cancellation of the fair may well be the withdrawings of some big exhibitors and financial losses resulting from this for the organizers. As soon as we have further and more definitive information we will announce them here of course.
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Further link about this topic:
Heise: Macintosh-Messe Maxpo cancelled (German only)
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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11.Aug.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)


Event: more pictures from Göttingen
On the 4. and 5. August the G.A.U. & APC&TCP meeting took place in Göttingen. The computer club ACBB wasn't idle at the meeting and shot many photos (see title link). Have fun watching them and recognizing. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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11.Aug.2001
REBOLforces


Magazine: REBOL/Zine Issue 4 Vol 1
On 3. August 2001 Jeff Kreis has released the 4. issue of the REBOL/Zine magazine and made it today online available. This English online magazine covers the REBOL system. The current issue contains articles regarding the following subjects:
  • REBOL Header is alive - accessing header entries of a script
  • Plain text to HTML.. in one line - inserting of P tags using the Parse command
  • Look ma, just one face! - example for the Pane function
  • RUGBY - sending commands via the network to REBOL processes (Distributed Computing)
  • It's Alive!!! - Several practical hints for REBOL
  • Basic Make-doc - short introduction into the document format of 'Make-doc'
  • Get-Word! - correction referring to the mail filtering article (mbox) in the REBOL Zine 1
(sd) (Translation: wk)

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10.Aug.2001
David Brunet (e-mail)


Magazine: Obligement 28 is now available
The 28th issue of the famous French e-zine Obligement is now available. You can read in this issue an interview with Gary Peake (Amiga Inc.) and Bernard Noel (author of the game Imperator), a review of Land of Genesis, reports of the Amiwest and Amiga Benelux Show, an article about the Prometheus PCI card and much more!

You can download it at the address: http://obligement.free.fr (ps) (Translation: rh)

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10.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (e-mail)


Virus Help Denmark: New team member
The members in "Virus Help Denmark - Amiga Team" have now grown 100% ... now we are 2 persons in the Amiga team. :-)

Jan Erik Olausen (programmer of VirusExecutor & xvs.library) has now joined as a full member of Virus Help Denmark. This will help you all of you, if one of us is away you can always contact the other member of the "Amiga Team".
Jan Andersen
Jan Erik Olausen
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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10.Aug.2001
Golem - IT News for experts


Golem: Speedball comeback
»Bitmap-Brothers classic soon available in new version
Game freaks who once owned an Amiga will remember well the popular developer team Bitmap Brothers and their excellent sports game Speedball. As the team announced, they are currently working on a sequel to the classic.«
Full German article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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10.Aug.2001
Lionel Thillot (ANF)


New information web site for french people
While waiting for the return of Amiga Impact, Amedia Software opened a section 'current events' for knowledge of the current events of the world Amiga in Frenchman.

En français:

En attendant le retour d'Amiga Impact, Amedia Software a ouvert une section 'actualité' pour que vous puissiez connaître toute l'actualité actuelle du monde Amiga en français et quotidiennement. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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10.Aug.2001
no risc no fun (ANF)


nrnf: Monzoom3D special summer sale
Together with Oberland Computer, 'no risc no fun' makes a special price for the current version 4.3 of Monzoom3D for AMIGA possible. This program is the direct successor of the popular Reflections and offers countless useful features. The sale continues until end of October. Prices and ordering information are at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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10.Aug.2001
Amiga Inc.


Amiga Inc.: Merlancia buys Amiga Walker and MCC designs
Merlancia Industries is pleased to announce the purchase of the legendary Amiga Walker and MCC designs.

The Walker and MCC designs (created by Frogdesign and Pentagram respectively) are now owned exclusively by Merlancia Industries. These designs will be implemented in Merlancia's MMC/Torro line of multimedia PowerPC products.

The Walker case, designed in 1995-6 by Frogdesign for Escom AG will be implemented in a Space Conservative Desktop unit; expressly useful for offices and cramped desks. The Walker design, currently Merlancia Radian, will feature a PowerPC G3 or G4 (750 and 7410 resp.) processor with an advanced graphics chipset and will be targeted for sale around the $1500 to $2000 price point.

The MCC case, designed in 1999 by Pentagram was planned as Amiga's Multimedia Convergence Console. Merlancia will be implementing this design for its Apocalypse DT and ST series systems, based on the PowerPC 7xx and 8xxx series processors. The MCC design will be implemented in set top box and low cost desktop packages based on the X-Casting Broadband Video delivery method next year for prices ranging between $699 and $1299.

Dr. Ryan E. A. Czerwinski, CEO of Merlancia Industries comments "We anticipate minor styling changes and modifications, as needed for the implementation of our hardware, none of which will effect the beauty or harmony of the case designs. We will be producing the cases out of stainless steel, with the possibility of other materials being available as well."

Bill McEwen, President & CEO of Amiga, Inc said "As Amiga has transformed itself to a Software company, having Merlancia build new products based on these designs is exciting, and we look forward to seeing more great products from the Merlancia team".

About Merlancia

Merlancia Industries is a technologies company specializing in the design and manufacture of industrial and consumer multimedia and internet appliances and workstations. Merlancia Industries is a privately held Corporation with offices in Phoenix, AZ USA and Frankfurt Germany. PR Contact: Malcolm J. Brenner - m.brenner@merlancia.com

About Amiga

Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media operating systems which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at www.amiga.com.

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10.Aug.2001
Cinemaware


Game: 'Defender of the Crown' for free download
Cinemaware kept their promise to make more game classics freely available and offers the game ´Defender of the Crown - The Age of Chivalry!´ for free download.

A time of lusty wenches and black hearted villains. King Richard has been murdered and England is thrown into civil war! Amidst the ringing clash of steel and the thunder of charging steeds the bold Saxon knights have chosen you to lead them into battle against the hated Normans. Victory will not come easy. To save England your skills as swordsman and military leader will be severely tested. But should you succeed you'll win the Crown of England and the love of many a beautiful damsel!
  • Heart pounding action as you rescue your lady from a foul Norman prison.
  • Majestic tournaments where you joust for fame, fortune and land.
  • Heroic battles featuring castle shattering giant catapults!
  • A unique blend of role playing and strategy combined with dazzling arcade style sequences.
  • Easy-to-use mouse or joystick controls. No typing required!
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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09.Aug.2001
Fun Time World


Blittersoft: Future development of iFusion
The future development of iFusion

We are pleased to announce agreements with several partners to bring new features and enhance iFusion. This is part of our commitment of continued development.

Microcode Solutions
When Blittersoft purchased iFusion, we did so with an agreement to allow Microcode Solutions to add new features for us. We are pleased to say that we have now agreed the following news features to be added:

  • Direct SCSI - Allowing direct CD-ROM, Scanners, etc. (with appropriate Mac drivers)
  • Networking - Allowing networking between iFusion and another computer
  • Parallel/Serial support - Allowing printing and modem use.


Merlancia Industries
We have signed a developer agreement with Merlancia Industries. This will initially provide a new GUI for iFusion, but other features are possible in the future.

Haage & Partner
We have signed a developer agreement with Haage & Partner. This is to devote more time to the Blizzard PPC problem with iFusion. Other features are also possible. (ps)

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09.Aug.2001
DCE Computer Service GmbH


DCE: Warp 3D GREX-PCI Voodoo3 VGA board drivers released
DCE have released the Warp 3D GREX-PCI drivers for Voodoo3 VGA boards and made them online available for any GREX user.

Furthermore DCE is reworking their website.

There was a flash update released for Blizzard PPC containing the PCI library v1.3. Any GREX user is recommended to use this version.

Download:
Warp3D-4.2a.lha
BlizzPPC_1_3.lha
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09.Aug.2001
Dirk Stöcker (ANF)


Game: RekoNet online again
After a long break the RekoNet is online again, at last. Rekonet is a playing card collection for the popular Klondike AGA Solitair variant (also for PC). Interested people might drop by and get some card sets. Card sets still not included are welcome. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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09.Aug.2001
The Register


The Register: Gateway pulls out of UK and Ireland
As already reported for several times, the American PC manufacturer Gateway - who obtained AMIGA in 1997 and sold it again in late 1999 - this year is deep in the red. After the closing of 27 US stores and the announcement to close their German offices, now the closing of their European headquarter in Dublin as well as their English office was confirmed, too. Only for Ireland and England 1,200 people will loose their jobs.
See title link for The Register article.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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09.Aug.2001
Eternity Hard- und Software


Eternity News: New Eternity1 offers and packets
Since some time Eternity Hard- and Software offers a PC named 'Eternity1' with an Amiga emulator pre-installed. Since 01. August 2001 they changed the distribution concept for the Eternity1 to offer two different basic machines. Moreover the software is delivered separately (meaning no pre-installed software, anymore). This should better meet future offers of different alternative Amiga systems.

At the time being Eternity offers the following computer configurations:
1. Eternity One Economy
  • Midi-Case 300W
  • AMD Athlon 1Ghz
  • Quantum Fireball QML 30000 30 GB
  • GeForce 2 MX-200
  • 128 MB SD-RAM
  • CD-ROM BTC 52x
  • Gigabyte Mainboard GA7ZX (5 PCI/1 ISA/1 4xAGP)
  • Keyboard, Mouse
2. Eternity One Business
  • Midi-Case 300W
  • AMD Athlon 1,4 Ghz (266 FSB)
  • Seagate Barracuda III 40 GB 7200 rpm
  • GeForce 2 GTS
  • 256 MB DDR-RAM (266 FSB)
  • DVD-ROM LiteOn 52x
  • Gigabyte Mainboard DA7DXR (5 PCI/1 4xAGP) incl. Raid-Controller (266 FSB)
  • Network Card 100 Mbit
  • Keyboard, Mouse
3. Eternity One Amiga-Software Packet 1
  • Amiga-Forever
  • WinUAE-JIT
  • Amiga OS 3.9
More details and prices are to find under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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09.Aug.2001
Stephan Rupprecht


Tool: SGrab Version 1.18
Stephan Rupprecht released version 1.18 of his screen grabber SGrab. With this program you can create screen grabs and save them in different formats.

Download: sgrab.lha (97 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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09.Aug.2001
Satra Systems


Database: SatraDB for AmigaOS
Satra Systems develops a new database management system for AmigaOS 3.5 called SatraDB. 85% of the design have been finished, development progress is at 66%. More details under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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09.Aug.2001
Fr3dY


Tool: xlHTML for MorphOS Version 0.2.9.11
Fr3dY has written loads of useful tools for the AmigaOS and MorphOS. On 07. August 2001 he has released version 0.2.9.11 of xlHTML. This program converts Excel and Powerpoint files to HTML.

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

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09.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Golem: News from the Bitboys - XBA about to outplay GeForce3
»Extreme bandwith due to embedded DRAM within the graphics chip
Since 1998 the Finnish graphics chip manufactures Bitboys are working on their Xtreme Bandwith Architecture (XBA), a memory architecture embedding fast eDRAM directly into the graphics chip and thus is said to offer noticeable higher bandwith than GeForce3 and similar. Now the Finns have released some new information: Their upcoming "wonder graphics chip" now will have integrated 12 MB instead of 9 MB eDRAM and additionally will be capable to address up to 64 MB external SDRAM. «
For complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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09.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Chip: ATI Radeon 2 - Samples of the new 3D board
»Initial samples of an ATI graphics board with Radeon-2 chip have shipped in Korea. The hardware magazine "Brainbox" contains pictures of a Radeon-2 board with 64 MB DDR-RAM at 4 ns access time.«
See title link for complete article.

More messages about this subject:
The Register: ATI Radeon 200 debuts on Web
Brainbox: ATi R200 (incl. pictures)
The Register: ATI R200, R300 roadmap spied

(ps) (Translation: mj)

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09.Aug.2001
Borut Zivkovic (ANF)


Game: Heretic II patch (especially weaker Amigas will benefit from this)
Hyperion Entertainment released a patch for Heretic II for download. Especially weaker Amigas will benefit from this one; BilzzardPPC users with 040/25 CPU will experience significant more speed. Moreover now the so called "wheel mouse" is supported and visual effects have been enhanced.

The innovations are:
  • Speed. The new version is up to 25% faster depending on the hardware. Especially users with relatively weak hardware (BlizzardPPC with 040/25) will notice a significant speed-up.
  • Mouse Wheel support. Heretic II now supports mouse wheel adaptors that map to rawkeys 122/123 (newMouse etc.).
  • Improved visual effects: "new" Permedia 2 additive blending mode (requires Warp 3D V4.2) (see before and after screenshots) and full Voodoo 3 support.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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09.Aug.2001
Ben Yoris / Hyperion (ANF)


Hyperion Entertainment: Website moved and has got new features
Hyperion Entertainment is very proud to announce our webmaster has completely revamped our website and migrated it to a more powerful server.

The new website can be reached on www.hyperion-entertainment.com.

Key-sections of the site including the general FAQ and the corporate info have been updated.

Apart from a new progress report on Freespace, the new site now also has a download section where users can register their copies of Heretic 2 and Shogo:MAD.

Registered users will be able to download updates of Heretic 2 and Shogo:MAD which will address certain issues with the Voodoo 3 drivers, squeeze out more performance and boost visual quality.

Registered users will moreover enjoy further priviliges such as early access to new versions of Warp3D and be eligible for beta-testing of our future titles.

Please take the time to register your copy of Heretic 2 and Shogo:MAD!
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Golem: First version of Opera-browser for QNX
»Unicode-support for Opera-versions announced
The strategy of Opera supporting as many as possible operating systems continues: The Norwegian programmers has now published Opera 5.2 for QNX. The QNX-version supports Unicode as the first Opera-browser.«
You can read the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Golem: New open-source-competition for DivX and Co.
»On2 Technologies releases TrueMotion VP3.2 video compression technology
The small software company On2 Technologies which is situated in New York has released its powerful video compression algorithm TrueMotion VP3.2 as open-source. With this step the company which formerly has been known as Duck Corporation wants to offer a powerful competition to DivX and the ISO-standard MPEG-4 which has to be licensed.«
Read the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Aug.2001
Ralf Berg (ANF)


Tool: New alpha-version of IFFAnzeiger
Ralf Berg writes:
Today I have uploaded a new alpha-version of the IFFAnzeiger on my homepage. IFFAnzeiger can also display oversized pictures directly of the harddrive. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Aug.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


ASP: e-mail address changed
Marius 'Cyborg' Schwarz wrote:
At eanet.de there is probably a problem with forwarding of mails. Because of that I have changed the email address. All those who have sent me mails in the last week and who did not get any response please send it again to the new mail address. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Golem: Corel wants to take possession of SoftQuad
»Enterprises signed taking possession
Corel wants to take possession of the enterprise SoftQuad Software which is specialized for XML-solutions. The enterprises informed that a corresponding agreement has been signed. According to it Corel will take possession of SoftQuad by buying of shares.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Aug.2001
M0rpheus (ANF)


New Amiga-website for hard- and software news
M0rpheus writes:
I have created this website to confirm my existing interest in the Amiga-computer. At the moment only one project is online which is a new Amiga-online-game based on the board game RISIKO!

I hope you will enjoy this site and the content :)
Respects M0rpheus (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.27
Yesterday Jan Erik Olausen has published version 33.27 of 'xvs.library'. This version contains the following changes:

  • Added Penetrator 2001 Link virus
    Thanks to Krzysztof Duda for the files.
  • Added CCCP Clone Bootblock virus
    Thanx to Mr Yoard for sending me this bootblock
  • Fixed bug in recognition code for DKG-Blum file virus again!
    Thanks to Urban Mueller for reporting this.
  • Added Smeg2a Installer File virus
    Thanks to Antonio De Cicco for the file.
  • Added Smeg2a Link virus
  • Added Smeg2b Link virus
    Thanks to Zeeball for the files.
To be done:
  • Remove Penetrator 2001 from memory.
Name: xvs.library v33.27
Archive name : xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 56.483 Bytes
Release date: 7. August 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
eMail: virusexecutor@c2i.net
xvs.library program length: 56.828 Bytes

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07.Aug.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)


AROS reachable at new URL
As reported earlier there was a hardware problem with the server hosting the AROS website. In the meantime you can get to the website with this URL: http://www.hepe.com/aros/ (ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Aug.2001
Emerald Imaging


Game: Demoversion of Aqua released
A demo version of the adventure "Aqua" is released. In this game you will find yourself in a mysterious world and have to try to get a way out.

Download: AquaDemo.lha - Readme (ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Aug.2001
Assembly


Event: Assembly 2001
At the Finnish Demoparty Assembly 2001, that has happen not long ago in Helsinki, MatureFunk has won the first place with the Amiga demo Lapsuus.

This demo and other you will find under the title link for download. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Aug.2001
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - New packages
WHDLoad allows to install games you only can play from disks on harddisk. These are the new packages:

  • 05.08.01 new: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts)
  • 05.08.01 new: Missiles Over Xerion (Kingsoft/Cycletech)
  • 05.08.01 new: Garfield: A Winter's Tail (The Edge)
  • 05.08.01 enhanced: Fly Harder (Starbyte)
  • 05.08.01 new: Alien Breed Tower Assault (Team 17)
  • 04.08.01 new: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17)
  • 04.08.01 fixed: Fears (Bomb Software)
  • 04.08.01 new: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision)
  • 04.08.01 new: Castle Vania (Konami)
  • 01.08.01 enhanced: IK+ (Archer MacLean)
  • 31.07.01 enhanced: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold)
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Aug.2001



Aminet Uploads until 07.08.2001
YAT.lha              comm/mail  577K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
crossgcc_linux.tgz   dev/gcc    2.8M+Crossgcc linux to AmigaOS
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/lists 952K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 07/2001 (Itali
Aakt0801GFX.lha      docs/mags  542K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801GUIDE.lha    docs/mags   73K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801HTML.lha     docs/mags  218K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
HBible.lha           docs/misc  1.2M+Hebrew Bible with vowels and cantillatio
ChaosHeavy.lha       game/2play  16M+World's Best Magic Game! 1-8 players! Fa
AquaDemo.lha         game/demo  2.5M+Aqua demo version of great new adventure
mhi_MASPro.lha       hard/misc   10K+MHI MAS Player Pro driver
ASIE.lha             misc/emu    45K+ASIE (AMIGA Space Invaders Emulator)
mhi_dev.lha          mus/play    56K+MHI Dev - The new standard in MPEG audio
mhi_MASStd.lha       mus/play     9K+MHI MAS Player Standard driver
PlayGUI.lha          mus/play   785K+Skinnable multi-format player-GUI
PlayGUIShot.jpg      mus/play   172K+Screenshot of PlayGUI 3.2
arcadesnookeri.lha   pix/mwb      7K+Nice MWB icon for Arcade Snooker
doomicon.lha         pix/mwb     65K+Neat MWB icon for Doom
quakeicon.lha        pix/mwb      7K+Nice MWB icon for Quake
Robot.jpg            pix/trace   20K+Raytraced Robot
StarRacker.jpg       pix/trace   36K+Futuristic Rocket Car
Alecos-WB-1.jpg      pix/wb     141K+A nice desktop 800x600 16 Bit by Alecos
Ital301.lha          text/misc  566K+English to Italian Translator v. 3.1
GS-JAnim.lha         util/batch   7K+Join&Spare space on HD (Genetic Species)
2b_Spiral.lha        util/boot    3K+A little toy to make Your Workbench look
e-bin.lha            util/cli    72K+Port of "e", a full expression evaluator
WarpDTPrefs.lha      util/dtype 122K+WarpDT preferences program V44.5
WarpTIFFdt.lha       util/dtype 209K+TIFF datatype V44.1 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
AslToRT.lha          util/misc   23K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
envhandler.lha       util/sys    14K+A happyenv replacement (1.10)
Safe.lha             util/virus  35K+Virus detector v16.3
FlagsWB3.9_GR.lha    util/wb      3K+WB 3.9 Flags, Country files for Greece, 
sgrab.lha            util/wb     95K+Screen grabber with GUI (1.17)
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07.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9430
Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9430 of the AIM-client AmigAIM. It is a client to connect with the America Online Instant Messenger. Here is an excerpt of the history where you can see the changes:

  • Found bug in Mail Checking routine that could cause the program to go into an infinite busy loop under certain circumstances.
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha (ps) (Translation: gf)

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06.Aug.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)


Project: AmigaFFE status
I would like to give a short update of the topical status of the AmigaFFE-project. Due to the fact that the release of the source code of Frontier-First Encounters (quotation: "..when it's done.") I would like to suggest a small project that deals with Frontier, too.

Maybe some of you know the game "Elite - The New Kind". It is a Elite version, that looks slightly better then the original Amiga version. The Allegro-library (used for the new version of First Encounters, too) is used for the programming of this game (for Windows). Here is my question: Is out there any interest in a port of this game (for practice)?

Furthermore, I get an email containing the info that Alive Mediasoft already had a running version of First Encounters that was never finished. Does someone out there have any contact information (e-mail, snailmail) of one or more former employee of Alive? Because I would like to ask them if we could finish this version.

Additionally:
The analysis of the actual situation will be seperated in two parts:
  1. Technical information concerning the game (shortkeys, engine, and so on)
  2. Some kind list about what we can do and what we can not concerning the port.
In the near future I will put some impressions for example pictures on my page. I will publish the soundtrack (MIDI and maybe MP2 version, too.

If you did not hear anything about the AmigaFFE-project here are some information: The AmigaFFE-project wants to port the game Frontier First Encounters, the successor of Frontier Elite II, to the Amiga.

This is an "Everyone's Invited"-project. That means that everyone is welcomed to join the team wether he/she wants to program or 'just' write the documentation. Further details are available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Aug.2001
Amiga Security Page (ANF)


Information about SMH.com.au: 6000 Hacks a Week
Marius Schwarz wrote:
Because of the article (6,000 attempted hacks a week gets home user a bit annoyed) at smh.com.au I put together a small compilation of information concerning this topic. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Aug.2001
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)


Filemanager: DiskMaster 2.5b12
Rudolph Riedel released DiskMaster 2.5b12 and DM2.guide 1.97. It is available at the Archive-section of his homepage. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Aug.2001
Amiga. Inc.


Amiga Inc.: e.p.i.c. about to produce programs for the AmigaDE
The well known software house e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment will produce games for the AmigaDE. These games will be released for PDA's and micro-computers like the Sharp Zaurus. The first three games will be "Boxikon", "Piles O' Tiles" and "Pegger". The whole press release can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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05.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 16.3
Virus Help Denmark released version 16.3 of the virus detector 'Safe' by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' recognizes viruses in memory and removes them if possible.

Changes since last version:
  • fixed ReadArg() template in order to remove wrong message on machines which users didn't noticed that TCPPATCH is dead!
  • optimization
  • small fix in xfd slave for new SMEGs
  • added analyse of SMEG2 viri
Name : Safe v16.3
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 36.032 bytes
Release date : 05 August 2001
Compilation date: 30. July 2001
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires : Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)


Download: Safe.lha (35K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Richard Hackelbusch (ANF)


Game: Spaceward Ho! for free download
Richard Hackelbusch wrote:
While searching for signs of life of one of the best Amiga games (Spaceward Ho!, AmigaMagazin rated it "very good, 10,2", issue 9/94), which even runs on graphics boards, I happened to find the homepage of the author who has ported Spaceward Ho! to the Amiga, (http://www.bebbosoft.de/), and it turned out that with permission of the manufacturer (Delta Tao Software) he has put the game online for free download: (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)


Developer tool: CVS V1.11.1p1
Version 1.11.1p1 of the AmigaOS port of 'CVS' has been released. This update among other things fixes another Enforcer hit, which occurred along with an error message when using the internal SSH client.

Beside of this bugfix two more new features have been added to simplify working with cvs and ssh a bit or to make it more compatible with the prior version.

Jens Langner advises any developer to get the latest version at the following and well known address: http://amcvs.light-speed.de/.

During the following days this update should be on Aminet, too. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
amigadev.net


AmigaDE: cnvtools V0.99a Beta
Patrick Roberts released beta version 0.99a of his 'cnvtools'. The archive contains four tools for image and audio formats supported by the ave/cnv tools, including cpm and rpm. Using these tools you can convert the formats, get information about audio or image files, and more.

The tools' source codes are part of the archive.

Download: util/conv/cnvtools.tgz (29K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
amigadev.net


AmigaDE: playsound V0.96 Beta
Patrick Roberts released 'playsound' for the AmigaDE SDK v1.1. Playsound plays audio samples and supports all AVE-CNV formats.

Download: unclassified/playsound.tgz (425K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Fun Time World


Graphics: ImageFX V4.5 Introdution
Nova Design introduced version 4.5 of the image editing and effects software 'ImageFX' on the AmiWest 2001 show.

New drawing modes and a new animations system were added. This animations system can load GIF animations, ANIM's, ANIM brushes, as well as a set of single frames and can operate those using keyframe animation.

Follow the title link for the full press release. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Bernd Gmeineder (ANF)


AMI Sector One: Update with additional games
Bernd Gmeineder wrote:
'Paradox Software' and 'Hartwerk' are two more companies allowing us to make their software available for free at AMI Sector One. Some of the games and applications, which now can be legally downloaded, are 'ST-Protector', 'War Zone', and the translation software 'Translate It'. Beside of these there is also Ed Scio's futuristic flight simulation 'Armour-Geddon'. Various interesting public domain games and new Emerald Mine clones round out this little update. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News


AmiWest 2001: 9 minuts movie from the show
On http://emrl.com/amiwest/ a 9 minutes movie from the AmiWest 2001 show was released. This movie shows the responsiveness to AmigaOS x86, views on the Boxer, AmigaDE programming, Amiga tatoos, and SOCK PUPPETS.

It shows Kermit Woodall, Joe Torre, Dr. Ryan of Merlancia Industries, and many more.

There are two versions of the movie, one of low (8,795k) and one of high (25,567k) resolution MPEG-1 video format.

A copy of this movie, the MP3 files of the speeches, and the Sheep screenshot are also available from http://amiga.mc-kenna.org/. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News


Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.8
On 4. August 2001 beta version 40.8 of the alternative Workbench 'Scalos' was released. This release in particular fixes several bugs and makes it easier to handle the different preferences formats of Scalos.

Now Scalos tries to load the latest format, at first. If not available it falls back to prior formats, but always uses the latest format for saving.

All changes can be taken from the history.

You can report bugs using the bug report page.

Download: ScalosBeta.lha (210K) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Kevin Orme (ANF)


Website: Amiga University updated
OK. We've done quite a bit of work since the last update, and while that was too long ago (mid May, blame too much work travel! :) we've got some cool stuff up there now for you!

1) New Pages. Not only have we gone back and re-verified links throughout the site (we are up to ~2,000 links, probably only about 15% of those are 'within site') we have added new AmigaDE, Draco, and TVPaint pages as well as a huge slew of REBOL links to the 'rebol on the web' page in our programming section. There are many other new links throughout the site in its various sections as well, please let us know if we missed *your* site. If it has to do with Amigas and especially learning how to use them, enjoy them, etc., we're all ears. :)

2) Site Mirrors and Archives. We are pleased to announce that thanks to Bob Maple, Paul R. Santa-Maria and Marc Albrecht we have been able to 'preserve' three Amiga sites otherwise having been taken down, namely 'Zip Drives and the Amiga', 'Motorola 68000 Resources' and the former Amiga-software.com website. Take a look from the 'site archives' link off the home page.

Even cooler is the generosity of David McMinn, who is allowing us to mirror his 'Blitz Basic 2000' site. This is still an active and growing site, even though at the moment he's changing servers on the home site in the UK, thus not all his content is online at the moment but that will soon change. Check it out!

3) Downloads. As you may or may not already know, we've had Bars & Pipes available for download for a long time, probably almost a year now. But we are pleased to announce that due to the generosity of NewTek, (who released Amiga TVPaint a while back as freeware), TVPaint is also now free to be distributed by other sites as well. We have created a ~4MB zip archive containing all you'll need to install this premier Amiga paint package (you'll need UnZip from Aminet as well as a graphics card, however, to use TVPaint - UAE/Amiga Forever users can also use it because they employ Picasso96 within the emulation). To help thank NewTek for their continued support of the Amiga community, if you use a PC, buy a copy of Aura, their newest and incredibly powerful paint/graphics package - you won't be disappointed.

In sum, come on back and check us out, we've got lots to offer and hopefully will have another large site update next month to announce. In the meantime, enjoy! (sd)

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05.Aug.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Game: New units for "Schlachtfeld"
Horst Diebel wrote:
Again, there are new unit pictures as in-game graphics by Eddy for the strategy game 'Schlachtfeld'. This should almost complete the vehicle fleet. Please, use the forum of the page to post any suggestions about the final design or textures. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


Messenger: AmigAIM with new WWW and download addresses
The WWW and download addresses have changed for the instant messenger 'AmigAIM' by Richard H. Poser II to use the AOL messenger service.

The new addresses are: (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Robert Williams, Editor Clubbed Magazine (E-Mail)


SEAL: Clubbed Issue 8 Now Available
A brand new issue of Clubbed, South Essex Amiga Link's (SEAL) quarterly subscription Amiga magazine, is available now. All subscriber copies have been posted and should be received in the next week.

We are also happy to announce that you can now buy your Clubbed subscription online from at Kicksoft using a variety of credit and debit cards.

Highlights of issue 8 include:

Networking Explained: Find out how you can connect several Amigas or integrate your Amiga into a network with other platforms. This feature is complemented by a tutorial on setting up network printing with Samba.

Photogenics 5: What did we think of the latest release of this well known art and image processing package?

DrawStudio Tutorial: We guide you through combining bitmap and structured elements in this recently re-released drawing package.

Plus much more (including our first Reader's Wives section!)

If you'd like to know more visit our website for a full contents list and sample articles from previous issues.

Clubbed is a not-for-profit publication. (mj)

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04.Aug.2001
Carsten Schröder (ANF)


AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 released
The August issue of AMIGA aktuell contains this time even three top reviews: We take a close look at
  • the AmigaDE in the »Party Pack« version,
  • the PCI busboard »Prometheus« and
  • the soundcard »Repulse«.
Additionally AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 contains
  • the second part of the background report about the legendary »Phoenix« mainboard,
  • the second part of the experience report about the emulator package »AmigaForever«,
  • of course extensive information about the latest AMIGA announcements
and much more. AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 can be read online on our website as well as it can be downloaded in HTML resp. AmigaGuide format.

Attention: As the AMIGA aktuell website is on its way to moving to another server some services, among others the archived online issues, are unusable for quite some time. We apologize for the inconvenience caused. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Aug.2001
Carsten Scholling (ANF)


The revolution - a fictitious story
The vague information one gets from Amiga Inc. don't allow a continuation of the story about Amithlon and the forces of darkness for the moment. But surely later :)

But as I was asked to write something, now for something completely different. Though not very Amiga related it fits somehow the present situation.

Ciao, Carsten
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Aug.2001
Andreas Magerl (email)


Disk magazine: NoCover 89 released
Today the NoCover issue #89 has been released. It can be read online on the APC&TCP homepage.

The online subscriptions were sent away today. The disk subscriptions will be brought to the post on Sunday. As usual, the NoCover contains the latest issue of the 'Amiga Aktuell' magazine. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Aug.2001
Thomas Hoppe (ANF)


Domain amiga-center.de to give away
For some months now the domain amiga-center.de lies fallow. I don't need it anymore, and I'm now looking for a new non-commercial user. A permission for such a non-commercial use was given by Amiga Inc. but would have to be renewed with a change of the owner and the service.

I give the domain away for free. The costs resulting from a change may be taken over by the new owner. When interested please send an email to Thomas Hoppe.

For now the domain is looked after by DomainFactory. A change is no problem but needs a little more time at DomainFactory. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Aug.2001



Aminet Uploads until 04.08.2001
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04.Aug.2001
AmigArt / Christoph Meier (ANF)


Alan Redhouse (Eyetech UK) comments AmigaOne, OS4-PPC and Amithlon
»Well apart from unduly cluttering up the AmigaOne mailing list I think Gary has handled the points raised admirably. Of course a large proportion of posters appear to have completely ignored his answers and have started indulging in even greater realms of virtual computing fantasy. I dont really see it as a particularly good use of my time or the lists bandwith to comment until the party atmosphere has died down a little.

However, since you ask, this is how I see things, (having first discussed it with Bill, Fleecy & Gary):

There are currently 4 Amiga-on-PC emulators in existence/under development.: UAE (Linux/windows); Amiga Forever; Amithlon; and 'x' (as previewed in AmigaActive but shortly to be released).

All use the same basic 68K emulation process, but have different trade-offs in terms of speed, chipset emulation (and therefore compatibility), windows integration and other features. All only run 68K (not PPC) code so cannot run modern software with PPC code.

All can only run os3.x (for which development has been capped) and will not be able to run any version of OS4.x , all of which are PPC coded. All will be irrelevant with OS5.0 (sometime) as this will run native on PPC and x86 (plus possibly some other) hardware.

From Amiga Inc's point of view all these products have a potential benefit in increasing the overall Amiga user base. The theory is that they will act as a taster to get old PC-owning Amigans excited again and to give ex Amiga (who are now PC) dealers a low cost way of re-evaluating the Amiga. The ultimate goal (in Amiga Inc's eyes) is to get more people to purchase/stock the new PPC-based Amigas.

I am personally unsure whether this will be successful as:

Virtually all new software will be written to OS4.x and PPC interfaces. Showing PC users an old unsupported operating system and its associated 68K applications does not - to me - seem the best way to impress them and get them to change platforms.

(As Ben Hermans from Hyperion says) these emulators will inevitably be installed on an existing windows machine where more functional - but mainly more familiar - productivity and games software already exists for these users.

I personally feel that we have the best chance of winning back old Amigans with an all new hardware (including case - details available in a couple of weeks), OS and application software bundle. That is we need a stand-alone fully functioning solution with sufficient native applications and performance to impress existing independant PC dealers. Of course this means that we need some of these new applications ready when os4.2 arrives and that means that we need sufficient sales of the AmigaOne with OS4.0 to make it financially attractive for software developers to port their games and applications. Careful timing is everything - we (Amigans) will only get one chance to get it right.

Contrary to what many may expect, I actually believe it would be helpful if OS 4.0 could be made to run on some of the existing PPC platforms (eg on the Cyberstorm PPC) - albeit at lower performance - to rapidly increase the OS4.0 user base that application developers can write for. As I understand it this would be possible but would need the cyberstormPPC's flash ROM to be updated and made available by its author (Ralph Schmidt I believe).

BTW I do think Bills statement at AmiWest that three products (AmigaOne, OS4.0, and Amithlon) are all to be launched simultaneously in November is a bit of orator's licence. As far as we are concerned we will be sticking to the (October) timetable for the AmigaOne and OS4.0 as announced in Rotterdam in June. Hope this helps.«
(ps)

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04.Aug.2001
UAE Discussion Board (ANF)


Emulator: UAE 0.8.17 (beta) released
Beta/Development versions of UAE will be available here, as soon as there are any changes to the code. The current stable versions are numbered 0.7.x, while the next beta versions of UAE will be numbered 0.8.x; and finally 0.9.0 once it's stable again. Previously, the idea was to have a stable version 0.x.0 and beta versions 0.x.y, for y > 0. That didn't work very well: all versions that appeared in public were rather stable, while the beta versions mostly remained in a private directory. We'll try a different model now and see how it works out. You can also check out the ChangeLog of the latest version here.

Download: uae-0.8.17.tar.gz (ps)

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04.Aug.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)


Stardate-BBS again out of business because of flash of lightning
Again is the Stardate during a strong storm affected by a flash of lightning. In the exchange my port only works for two hours then the Telekom has to reset the whole router. Again has expensive equipment to be exchanged. I was told that I shouldn't count on this until next week.

So the Stardate is again not accessible via the Internet. All Telnet points/ boxes please use the access numbers instead (you can find them e.g. here in the ALD). The http access of the mailbox isn't possible for now, either.

I should like to emphasize that this is (as was the last time) an act of God (struck by lightning). On my site of the Telekom all pieces of equipment are secured and there is backup equipment for the case of emergency. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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03.Aug.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (e-mail)


Datatype: akPNG V44.110 released
Andreas R. Kleinert has released version 44.110 of his akPNG datatype. As usual there are several processor versions available.

With help of datatypes you can view all kind of files in many programs. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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03.Aug.2001
Markus Nerding (e-mail)


H&P: English PageStream manual released
The English manual for PageStream 4 for Amiga, Windows & Macintosh has just been released as PDF file. The PageStream customers registered with us for the online service get the download link by e-mail. If you haven't signed up yet, you can do this at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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03.Aug.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


New screenshot of AmigaDE/Sheep
Fleecy Moss has provided a new Screenshot of AmigaDE. An open window shows the sourcecode of a "Sheep" program:



"Sheep" is a scripting language (similar to ARexx) which is part of AmigaDE.

Update (06.12.2012, cg): integrated the screenshot into the news item. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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03.Aug.2001
Markus Nerding (e-mail)


H&P: ArtEffect-PlugIns-Collection available now
Haage&Partner write:
Update: we have now opened a special area which presents all effects. Also now the improved ArtEffect 2.5 is shipped with it since there were problems with the border effects.

Here you will find all details on the ArtEffect-PlugIns-Collection and sample pictures for the border effects (all in all more than 250 borders are contained!). Further an overview of the effects with samples was added.

The ArtEffect-Plugins-Collection brings for the first time a comprehensive collection of sensational effects and postprocessing filters for the bestseller ArtEffect. The collection is shipped with ArtEffect 2.5 so that you can start right away.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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03.Aug.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)


Software: RB2Exe v1.5 released
RB2Exe version 1.5 is available now on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. This program converts Rainboot multimedia shows into executable programs.

Version 1.5 allows you to use all great features of Rainboot3+ in your executable shows! Additionally the memory routines have been optimized and the generated executables' memory usage was reduced by almost 60 percent (!). Also, the GUI's functionality was improved and bugs were fixed. Online help is available now too. This version is only available for owners of the 'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM'. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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03.Aug.2001
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)


epic interactive: last status update for 'The Feeble Files' on Amiga
So far we have received 328 preorders for a possible port of the cartoon adventure 'The Feeble Files' to the Amiga. Required are 400 to make a port of this great adventure possible. The preorder campaign will run until 12.8.2001. If we have received 400 preorders for this game by then, we will port it to the Amiga and it should be available within 4-6 weeks.

In order to run The Feeble Files on your Amiga you will need either a 68060 or a PPC CPU, 32 MByte Ram and a 4 MByte gfx board.

You can place your preorder directly with us by sending an e-mail to order@epic-interactive.com or the following dealers who will accept preorders for it:

Germany: KDH Datentechnik

Italy: Virtual Works

England: Amiga Games and Eyetech

Netherlands: Computer City
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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03.Aug.2001
Bright Light Software (ANF)


Development and bugfixing suspended
Frank Fenn writes:
Because of a defect motherboard, the development and bugfixing is suspended for some time. If anybody should have a RAMSEY (A3000) in revision 4 and doesn't need it anymore, please contact me.

Affected from this is software as for example Audiomaster, WBStartup, TIDesigner, AmiMTI and many other small tools. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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02.Aug.2001
Matthias Gietzelt (ANF)


Programming language: Emperor V4.1
Emperor is an object oriented programming language enabling programming of applications both for the new AmigaOS 3.9 and for AmigaOS 2.0 in the easiest way. Standard GUI elements, windows, menus, requesters, ASL requesters, ReAction and GadTools gadgets are integrated just by mouse-clicks and can be programmed using macro functions and the integrated text editor.

The gadgets can communicate with each other by the so called interconnection maps implemented, without typing even one line of source code. Creating of locale catalogs and variables, implementing libraries, etc. is likewise easy.

Emperor has an easy to see though and user friendly ReAction interface and comes with an extended online manual in ".guide" format. Thus programming the new AmigaOS becomes child's play!

Emperor has the following features:
  • Direct visualising available for every element.
  • Generates C/C++- source code.
  • Integrated text editor
  • StormC connection via ARexx
  • Generates source code for AmigaOS 2.0, AmigaOS 3.9 or in mixed mode
  • Transparent layout
  • GIFTWARE
Characteristics of Emperor v4.1:
  • French catalog added (written by Olivier Martin - many thanks!).
  • Translation for prepared menus and gadgets added.
  • Attributes for text editor, speed-bar, and space-gadget added.
  • New and specialized type of requester (Reaction style).
  • ARexx script changed / problems while project transfer fixed.
  • Fix positions for attribute window removed.
  • Problem with preview window fixed.
  • Array for speed-bar buttons added.
  • Problems with arrays fixed.
  • Adjustment fields extended with GadTools gadgets.
  • Configurable path to includes and libs.
  • Main window layout changed (no overlapping gadgets, anymore).
  • Requester added, if menu item "New" was chosen.
  • Error fixed in menu item "New".
  • Error fixed in menu item "Delete".
  • Selectable generation of macro functions.
  • Generated source code is considerably smaller by omitting unused macro functions (about 40 %).
  • Initially opened window for own project can be chosen.
  • Error fixed in source code when generated with one gadget only.
  • Specific project directory configurable.
  • Error fixed while opening old projects containing a slider.
  • Creation of locale files selectable.
  • Creation of Storm projects selectable.
  • Text editor now operates changes made correctly.
  • Saving of character lines containing a linefeed ('\n') is no problem, anymore.
  • amigaguide.library opened due to starting problems.
Version 4.1 of the program is available from Aminet "dev/c".
Download: Emperor_v4.1.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
Golem IT-News für Profis


Golem: Amithlon - PC emulates Amiga
The new Amiga emulator by Harald Frank and Bernd Meyer for x86 does not only attract Amiga specific media. Today Golem.de reports about it:

»Amiga Inc. announce Amiga emulator for PC users
On the American Amiga show "AmiWest", which took place in the end of July, again Bill McEwen presented some news and among those an emulation software by the code name of "Amithlon". Thanks to fast x86 processors applications shall run definite faster than on Amiga bolides with Motorola's 68060 processor.«
Complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


First official beta version of the X-Surf PPPoE driver
From now on the first public beta version of the xsurfadsl.device is available for download at the support section. Only experienced users should try the installation, since inconvenient patches are necessary because of limitation of the known TCP/IP stacks. An extended readme file informs you about the details.

Download: dsl-beta.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
Andy Silva (ANF)


Tool: Amiga Filterium - extendable ripper and filetype tool
With the following message Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo introduces his new, flexible and extendable datatype processor and Ripper.

Short: flexible filetype processor and ripper
Uploader: silva@psi5.com
Author: silva@psi5.com (Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo)
Type: util/misc
Version: 1.1, 7/2001
Requires: - any amiga or uae
- filerequester library like asl, reqtools or arp
- optionally xfd/xpk/xad/xvs...
Distribution: NoCD

features overview:
  • knows, rips, converts a total value of about 400 game/demo scene related file types (about 100 self, others by accessing libraries)
  • find music, pictures, text and much more in memory, in files like demos/intros, packed files, etc
  • decrunch with XFD/XAD/XPK (all modes) recursively
  • convert mods back to Protracker (like Prowizard)
  • rip loaders and intros from boot loading games/demos
  • monitor files or memory as bitplane/hex/asc, mark ranges
  • decrypt data with eor
  • use your preferred file requester
  • check for viruses with XVS
  • highly configurable
  • interactive and automatically processing by script language


This introduces a _new_ standard of file type identification and ripper all in one. It works together with standard interfaces like shell (give arguments in command line), Workbench (set tooltypes), opus, arexx and appicon.

Highly configurable, for example: you can specify file type specific save directories and output filename extensions. Macros for custom processing methods can be defined.

It can invoke external programs, example: send the outputs to Multiview.

Amiga Filterium is based on plugins. Programmers can easily extend the power of this tool by writing more afilter-plugins. If you are interested:

The purpose of this release is to motivate YOU to try this out and maybe join to the development team as author of a plugin, beta tester or other. Its totally actual and maybe there was never something else like this. Lets get this chance! Lets make it top and standard!
(ps)

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02.Aug.2001
Scalos


Workbench replacement: Scalos 1.3 Beta (Version 40.7)
Beta version 40.7 of the extended Workbench replacement Scalos 1.3 was released. The changes made can be taken from the history. If you will happend to find bugs, please make an entry in the bug report.

Download: ScalosBeta.lha (140 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
Suite101/John Chandler


John Chandler: What Are The Odds...?
Monthly John Chandler writes an article about the subject Amiga at Suite101.com. In the current one Chandler deals with the announcements Amiga Inc. did on the AmiWest, especially with the new Amiga emulator for x86 platforms 'Amithlon'. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
amiga.org


AmiWest: Pictures by Harv Laser
Harv Laser of AmigaZone released some pictures from the AmiWest show. The appendant readme file contains picture descriptions. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
Alexander Lohrmann (ANF)


Amiga Inc.: AmiWest Show Report
Amiga put online the announcements done on the AmiWest show in form of a report:

Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc., made a number of exciting announcements at the AmiWest show in Sacramento, California. The AmiWest show is organized by the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club and is one of the largest Amiga shows on the West Coast.

The following products were announced for release by Q4, 2001.  
  • AmigaOne PPC Computer
  • AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System
  • Amiga x86 (x86 Amiga emulator)
  • AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack

AmigaOne PPC Computer

The AmigaOne PPC computer, being built by Eyetech in the UK, is based on Zico specs published by Amiga Inc. Amiga Inc.'s flagship next generation desktop continues to advance towards the first real new hardware for the Amiga community in over 6 years. Excitement is mounting at both the Amiga office and around the world as Amigans realize that the long wait will soon be over. All partners in the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.0 project have been working hard to meet deadlines as the project moves into its final stages.

Bill also announced that the two week slip in schedule for the Eyetech AmigaOne which had appeared in June had now been pulled back to just one week. The new Rev B boards are functioning well, with live PCI and AGP slots and work is now focused on bringing the board and the CPU cards together. The first week of August will see full system boards delivered to the AmigaOS4 team for preparations to move AmigaOS4.0 from the test bed machines.

For more details regarding the AmigaOne, see http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/ or http://www.amiga.com/products/one/.

AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System

The AmigaOS 4.0 project is being managed by Amiga Inc. in partnership with both Haage-Partner (H&P) who are porting the main portions of the new PPC OS and Hyperion Software who are doing 3D and Mesa for the new PPC Operating System.

AmigaOS 4.0, which will only run on the Eyetech AmigaOne, is moving forward nicely. With the help of Amiga partners such as Matay, much of the development work has used a combination of A3/4000s, Matay Prometheus PCI bridge boards, Cyberstorm PPC Accelerators and H&P's StormC v4.

This has allowed the project to move forwards without having to wait for an actual AmigaOne board to become available. Consequently, the new file system and the core of the TCP/IP stack were completed over two weeks ago. The PPC 68K emulator is being fine-tuned and the new Amiga PCI library is being profiled against the Eyetech AmigaOne live PCI slots. The RTG system is being enhanced, with a full PPC implementation of the extended and most used functions, to allow for stunning 2D and 3D performance. In addition, the Voodoo 3 drivers have been completed and the G450 drivers are under development, to be followed by drivers for the new Matrox G550.

While the porting of the 68K elements of the AmigaOS will continue through AmigaOS4.2 and AmigaOS4.5, the first set of libraries ported to PPC will ensure that AmigaOS offers impressive increases in stability, functionality and speed.

Once the test bed to AmigaOne migration has been completed, Amiga will provide screenshots and benchmarks of the new system. These reports are aimed at demonstrating the superiority of the AmigaOne and will give the community an early look at the features of the product. In addition, Eyetech has commissioned some very impressive case designs that will give the AmigaOne the looks to go along with its brains.

Amiga x86

Amiga was able to demonstrate a prototype of an x86 emulator for 68K for the AmigaOS3.x series. This product, codenamed Amithlon, provides only RTG compatibility and is being targeted at providing a first step from x86 towards the AmigaOne. Amithlon is self-booting from CD on almost any x86 laptop or PC desktop. It is able to run most RTG programs at speeds beyond that of a standard Amiga 060 chipset. Several developers at the AmiWest show tried their applications on Amithlon and commented that they had never seen such fast run times before on a 68060 Amiga computer. Amithlon is being written by Harald Frank and Bernie Meyer.

Many Amigans who left when Commodore went bankrupt have been looking for a way to run their favorite Amiga applications on newer hardware. The purpose of the emulator is to allow x86 PC owners to experience the benefits of running the AmigaOS and applications without having to make a potentially risky purchase of an entire machine. Marketing and community will then slowly draw these people towards the superiority of an AmigaOne with a full native OS running on it, along with the latest applications. Amithlon is not a port of the AmigaOS and there are currently no plans to see the AmigaOS ported to x86.

More details of the Amithlon including feature lists and release dates will be published shortly.

AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack

AmigaDE 1.0 (based on Elate/Intent by Tao Group) is being programmed by more than 30 programmers worldwide under the management of Amiga Inc. There are over 3000 developers currently signed up to produce content for various digital devices from cell phones, PDA’s, handhelds, and even desktop computers running AmigaDE 1.0. Amiga also announced the first set of games that is being released under the moniker “Series Zero” to Sharp for use on the Zaurus handheld devices. The 5 games that are being released as part of the Series Zero Game Pack are:

Batty by Titan Computers
Boxikon by e.p.i.c. interactive gmbh
Convex by Zeoneo
Linea by Titan Computers
Solitaire by John Harris (ps)

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02.Aug.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


Mail client: SimpleMail 0.8 Alpha
I just uploaded the new SimpleMail alpha version. The new features:
  • SSL support for POP3 servers. AmiSSL required!
  • POP3 servers can be deactivated individually.
  • Menu bar in main window.
  • A new setting for the reading window allows smilies to be replaced by pictures (pictures by Richard Kapp).
  • Now groups can be deleted, too.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Aug.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)


Datatype: akPNG V44.100 published
Andreas R. Kleinert has published version 44.100 of his akPNG datatype. You can download several processor versions.

With the help of so called datatypes you can display different datatypes with different programs. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - new packets
WHDLoad can install games on the harddrive which were formerly meant to be used on disks. The following new packets have been added:

  • 31.07.01 improved: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold)
  • 30.07.01 new: Alien Syndrome (SEGA)
  • 29.07.01 new: Crystal Hammer (Hannover)
  • 29.07.01 new: Pipe Mania (Empire/The Assembly Line)
  • 29.07.01 new: Jaws (Screen 7 Ltd/Intelligent Design)
  • 29.07.01 new: Huckleberry Hound (Alternative)
  • 29.07.01 new: The Halley Project (Mindscape)
  • 29.07.01 updated: Pipe Dream (Lucasfilm)
  • 29.07.01 improved: Operation Stealth (Delphine)
  • 29.07.01 new: Morph (Millennium/Flair)
  • 27.07.01 new: Cruise for a Corpse (Delphine Software)
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001
http://www.amiga-news.net (ANF)


Amiga-News.net online again
From today on Amiga-News.net is online again. Amiga-News.net is not a seperate site but rather a survey of several news-sites. Here you can daily read the headlines of several news-sites. Thus you have a quick overall view about the current news.

Remark: This site was not made by amiga-news.de.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001
Oliver Roberts (ANF)


WarpTIFF-introduction - New TIFF-picture datatype
Oliver Roberts introduces his new WarpTIFF freeware-datatype with the following message. This new datatype can also read pictures which were made under TIFF specifications 5.0 and 6.0. The datatype was optimized for 68k, WarpOS and native MorphOS and is of course very fast.

It follows the original message:

The first release of WarpTIFF is now available - a new freeware datatype capable of reading 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec images, available in optimized 68k, WarpOS and native MorphOS versions. Needless to say, WarpTIFF is fast - very fast in fact :) Full feature list below. WarpDTPrefs has also been updated to support WarpTIFF.

  • Supports 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec, including Packbits, Thunderscan, CCITT (fax), Pixar, LogLuv (CIE and SGILog) and Deflate (zip) encodings, and uncompressed files. LZW and JPEG encodings are currently unsupported
  • Image types supported include RGB (24-bit and 48-bit), palette based and greyscale (1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 16-bit)
  • Supports image data organized as strips, tiles or separate components
  • Highly optimized datatype dispatch engine, and fast TIFF decoder, resulting in a very efficient, compact and quick TIFF datatype
  • Asynchronous file i/o and double buffering techniques (WarpOS only), which speeds up image decoding
  • Optimized versions for 68020, 030, 040 and 060
  • PowerPC support with native WarpOS and native MorphOS versions
  • Alter the pen allocation precision when images are remapped to an 8-bit display
  • Specific support for the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype, when available
  • The dithering feature of the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype can be configured to your liking (e.g. disabled for 15/16-bit displays)
  • Based on libtiff 3.5.6-beta and zlib 1.1.3


As some of you will know, WarpTIFF has been in development (on and off) for some time, but it's ready at last :) It already handles a more comprehensive coverage of various TIFF encodings than other TIFF datatypes, but if you should find some TIFF images that don't work properly with WarpTIFF, then please let me know and I'll try to add support for them. Likewise, if you need support for JPEG encoded TIFFs, let me know.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001



Aminet Uploads until 01.08.2001
gkartei.lha          biz/dbase  224K+Powerful and easy database.
Regist_II.lha        biz/dbase  133K+V0.2A user-administration for programmer
DOpusSpawn.lha       biz/dopus   13M+Opus Mangellan 2 - SPAWN - Themes
AmBoS-Demo.lha       comm/ambos 1.6M+AmBoS 2.98 - Full/demo archive
DalHelper.lha        comm/irc    44K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
YahooGpScan1_2.lha   comm/mail    5K+Strips YahooGroup adverts.         V1.2
cim_v3_update.lha    comm/misc  214K+CIM - Caller Id Manager V3.702 r42 - ONL
facts.lha            comm/tcp    94K+V4.6 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
netspeechd.lha       comm/tcp     7K+Outputs incomming packets to speak:
DKG-Neo2.lha         demo/aga   1.0M+Neo2 final version (30/07/01) by Darkage
Eurochart43b.lha     demo/mag   804K+The Official Eurochart #43 by DEPTH & IR
Emperor_v4.1.lha     dev/c      671K+Object-oriented programming language
fractal.lha          dev/c       69K+OpenGL C Source: Mandelbrot and Julia fr
freetype_S4.lha      dev/c      458K+Freetype link library for StormC 4
koch.lha             dev/c       18K+OpenGL Source: Koch's Snowflake
fd2pragma.lha        dev/misc   191K+V2.136 create pragma, inline, ... files
AmigaArena3.lha      docs/misc   44K+Amiga Arena News German/English
BraSwos2001.lha      game/data    6K+Brazilian league update for swos
ETWBrasil2001.lha    game/data    7K+Brazilian league update for Eat The Whis
F1GP_2001.lha        game/data   10K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (29 July
BetaScanMustek.lha   hard/drivr  91K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
LyraKeyMap_dk.lha    hard/drivr   9K+Danish Lyra PC keyboard layout v1.01
WhirlDisc.lha        misc/edu    77K+World Book encyclopaedia viewer. BETA
LC2.lha              misc/misc  274K+Aussie Lotto checker/database.
Squid.lha            misc/sci    95K+A squid's skin simulator
OldSchoolMania.lha   mods/hardc 168K+Old School hardcore MOD by REVOLVER DOG 
Budbrain1.lha        mods/pro   645K+Mod's from the demo 'Budbrain Megademo 1
Budbrain2.lha        mods/pro   408K+Mod's from the demo 'Budbrain Megademo 2
Amoralplay1.5.lha    mus/play   125K+A no fuss multiformat audio player.
EP_MMDC.lha          mus/play     9K+EaglePlayer "MMDC" external replayer
EP_MWalker.lha       mus/play     8K+EaglePlayer "Martin Walker" external rep
EP_RobHubbard.lha    mus/play     8K+EaglePlayer "Rob Hubbard" external repla
EP_TFMX.lha          mus/play    10K+EaglePlayer "TFMX" external replayer
QSID.lha             mus/play    10K+Small & Simple SID player
raycat.lha           pix/misc   186K+[ancor] a new picture
sg-strip_15.lha      pix/misc    45K+[ancor] StarGround strip 15
sg-strip_16.lha      pix/misc    46K+[ancor] StarGround strip 16
doomicon.lha         pix/mwb     66K+Neat MWB icon for Doom
(as) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9429
Richard H. Poser has published betaversion 0.9429 of AIM-messenger AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with the America Online Instant-messenger (AIM-service). It follows an extract of the history of which you can recognize the changes which were made:

  • Custom interests can now be set and/or searched for by selecting <custom> and inputting into the resulting input box. (BTW: Setting AmigAIM would allow anybody using AmigAIM to search for others :-)
  • I think I fixed a problem that could occur if program is told to shutdown via the Close Gadget while a service/search is logging in.
  • Added an Online check capability, it can now check if a named interface is online and give an error if an attempt to go online is done and the interface is offline.
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


Virus Help Denmark: Installer of SMEG 2 Virus found
The installer of the new 'SMEG 2' linkvirus was found. It was found in the faked keyfiles of MiamiDLX but it is possibly included in other files. Now read the details:

»We have now found the installer of the new 'SMEG 2' linkvirus. If the info text from the archive is correct, the 'SMEG 2' virus has been around since February 2001.

The archive has only been on Elite BBS'es or Elite websites.

Jan Erik Olausen the programmer of VirusExecutor & xvs.library, has made a recog for the virus, but is having problems with removing the virus from memory. As soon as Jan has solved this virus, a new update of xvs.library will be released.

There is "NO" cure for this virus right now. But with the help of the program 'Safe v16.2', you can find infected files, but not remove the virus, you will have to replace the infected files with new clean files. This virus will infect everything that is executed. And on my test A1200 over 200 files, was infected in under 5 minutes.

The programmer of 'Safe' (Zbigniew Trzcionkowski) has written this about the new 'SMEG 2' virus:

Released probably by mistake. Non crypted version of the next one. Code is almost equal to old SMEG, but this time author invented NEW WAY of patching PRIVATE routine of device task. This routine handles receiving of dos packets.
Virus patch is stealing packets and sending them to the supervisor task called 'SMG'. I have never seen such advanced digging code that works properly. This means also that no visible changes are seen in the system beside one new task.
I have noticed that freezing of SMG task stops spreading of the virus, so at the moment Safe does only that. I will add removal of the 'magic' patches if I found it necessary.
File repair was as easy as Penetrator files - one move.l 4.w,a6 was replaced with jump to virus.

Hidden text (decoder was included, but not used by virus code):

Smeg! it's a Hostile TakeOver! (Again!)
And just when you thought it was safe..
Flake and Georg have left the building!
-= On Tour 1995-2001 =-

This is what we know of the virus:

Virus Type.... : Linkvirus
Virus name.... : SMEG 2a & SMEG 2b
Virus size.... : SMEG 2a: 1556 bytes & SMEG 2b: 1604 bytes
Archive name.. : MIAMIDLX.LZX
Archive size.. : 3.427 bytes (lzx packed)

There might just be more installers of the 'SMEG 2' virus out there, so do not install these fake-keys.

Thank to the person that send the archive to Jan Erik Olausen, and to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski for the first test of this virus.« (ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jul.2001
Bebits (Seite über BeOS) (ANF)


New hardware platform for AmigaOS & AmigaDE
Marcel Maurmann wrote:
Here I found a link with an interesting news from Merlancia about a hardware platform with 1 or 2 G4 PowerPC processors. It should run with: MorphOS, QNX, BeOS and -AmigaOS-/AmigaDE. The product series is called Merlancia Multimedia Computer - Torro Series (System name: Apocolyps (Desktop/ASTB)).

Another link: BeGroovy: BeOS on a G4?
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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31.Jul.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Interview with Rüdiger Hanke
A detailed and interesting interview with Rüdiger Hanke, developer of "Excult" and several filters, e.g. for PageStream etc., is online in english. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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31.Jul.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)


Amiga Inc. with Sharp at IFA
Thomas Nosutta wrote:
Bill McEwen announces in a keynote from Saturday that Amiga, Inc. will be present together with Sharp on the IFA (Berlin from 25.08.-02.09.2001) (ps) (Translation: gf)

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31.Jul.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


e.p.i.c. interactive: Status
Cartoon adventure The Feeble Files is now shipping for the Mac. If you want to find out more about green aliens, the Omnibrain and rebellions please turn to the projects section of our homepage.

Empire builder Knights and Merchants is now in final beta testing. The game is running properly with only a few bugs that need attention. We expect this game to be ready for release by the end of August. Watch out for the forthcoming demoversion of Knights&Merchants.

RPG/strategy mix Gorky 17 has, after many many frustrating setbacks with this project, entered beta stages on the Mac. We expect the game to be finished in September.

The release of Earth 2140 Mission Pack for both Mac and Amiga is scheduled for late august. The Mission Pack brings over 80 new missions to the original EARTH 2140 as well as 2 new buildings, 6 completely new units and one new terrain.

You will find more information on all our games in the projects section of these pages.
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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31.Jul.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)


PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX: Comment about Amithlon development
Although I've only limited spare time available, I'm investigating the possibility of doing x86-native plugins for my software within the Amithlon-context.

Since diversification does not pay in the long term - especially given the limited time and the outdated current PPC platform for Amiga (200 MHz without l2-cache) those x86-developments may replace current PPC-support in my software completely. Support and testing for PPC, PPC/MorphOS and x86 would be too much.

Basically there's fewer people than ever ordering and registering software - this results in two considerations: first of all, it does not pay to buy a newer standalone PPC-machine, if it never will pay back. Secondly, if "no one else" is interested in this x86 stuff, it will be for my personal fun and needs, in case my 68k/PPC-Amiga once breaks apart. Amiga 68k/PPC-Software slowly goes hobbyist.

That were my 2 cents - I'd be all for an architectural elegant PPC architecture, but it did not happen in 6 years, and now it's too late in my personal opinion.

Nevertheless I've full sympathy for the MorphOS development and the other PPC-oriented approaches. But remember, I've been among the very first to support PPC on Amiga - but doing the same mistake again? No, not this time... (ps) (Translation: gf)

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31.Jul.2001
Soren Ladegaard, webmaster at commodorebillboard.com (ANF)


Haage & Partner supports The Commodore Billboard (Update)
As a sign of their continued commitment to the community, Haage & Partner will now be hosting more than 25 Commodore TV-ads featured at The Commodore Billboard.

The Commodore Billboard is the internet's largest archive of Commodore marketing material such as adverts, brochures, tv-commercials, merchandise etc.

The Commodore Billboard has had server problems during the past few months resulting in dead links in the "commercials section".

"Sure we are pleased to help" says Markus Nerding, managing director of Haage & Partner. With Haage & Partners' solid position in the Amiga market, the files are guaranteed to be online for a long time for all Amiga / Commodore fans to enjoy.

Update:
Lots of classic Commodore marketing material has been scanned and added to The Commodore Billboard.

  • A fourty-page Page English Commodore Brochure!
  • New Danish Commodore Adverts Section! Two Danish Commodore Adverts.
  • New Greek Section! One Greek A500 Brochure
  • One German 1541 Brochure
  • Two German CDTV Brochures
  • Two German CD32 Brochures
  • Two German A1200 Brochures
  • One German A4000 Brochure
  • One Dutch PC Brochure
  • One German PC 286 / 386 Brochure
  • One German 286 / 386 / 486 / Amiga / C64 Brochure
  • Nine New Items In The Miscellaneous Section - Matches, T-shirts And Much More!
(ps)

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31.Jul.2001
Kaliko (ANF)


Looking for talented people
Kaliko is a new development-team dedicated to create games for Amiga, AmigaDE and other platforms. Our first game will hopefully be published in a couple of weeks and we have many ongoing projects. We are currently looking for talented people to join our team and to help us create high-quality games. We are looking especially for graphicians and coders, but we welcome all interest. If you are interested, please email fredrik@kaliko.net.
(ps)

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30.Jul.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)


Tool: SRename V3.0.0 beta1
Constantinos Nicolakakis released the first public beta of his program 'SRename', a feature rich 'rename' for AmigaOS 3.0+. Further details are available at the titlelink. Please mail any bugreport to cnicol@ath.forthnet.gr

Download: SRename3beta1.lzx (ps)

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30.Jul.2001
$teveTRSi im Heise Newsticker-Forum (ANF)


Obituary for Wau Holland
Obituary by the Demoscene $teveTRSi (30. July 2001 17:00) The death of Wau Holland caused us to publish a obituary. Greetings,
Steve
Tristar Red Sector Inc.
(ps)

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30.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


BigBook of Amiga Hardware Updates
Once again there are some updates for the Big Book of Amiga Hardware:

  • NEW ENTRY & PICTURE A1501 RAM Expansion (by Daniele Gratteri)
  • NEW PICTURES Blizzard 1230 MK III (by Stephan Neise)
  • NEW PICTURES X-Surf (by Stephan Neise)
  • NEW ENTRY Elbox 1230-II (by Connie Quist)
  • CORRECTION Action Replay (A2000 Version) (by Christophe Decanini)
  • CORRECTION Action Replay MK II (A2000 Version) (by Christophe Decanini)
  • NEW ENTRY & PICTURE Viper 530 (by Keith Robertson-Turner)
  • UPDATE SX-1 Manual (by Kim Tommy and Ludwig Schmitz)
  • UPDATE BSC Graffity (by Alexander Kneer)
  • UPDATE Akiko (by Maximilian Rehkopf)
  • NEW ENTRY & PICTURE Xtra RAM (by Will Swann)
  • NEW ENTRY & PICTURE MBX 1200 (by Will Swann)
  • UPDATE SSL A5000-16 (by Will Swann)
  • UPDATE SSL B5000-25 (by Will Swann)
  • NEW PICTURES Commodore A4000T Motherboard
  • NEW PICTURE Commodore A4000T Disk Controller
  • NEW PICTURE Commodore A3640
(ps)

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30.Jul.2001
Benjamin Yoris (E-Mail)


Hyperion Entertainment blasts idea of x86 Amiga OS
Press release: Following the recent article in AmigActive and the announcement of the "Amithlon" product at Amiwest, we received quite a number of e-mails of people asking us our opinion about the desirability of a x86 AmigaOS as opposed to a PPC native OS.

Would we support it? What would be the consequences of a native x86 for Amiga developers?

In one word: disastrous. A native x86 Amiga OS would spell the end of all serious commercial development for Amiga OS.

Before we argue our point, let's get a number of things out of the way here first:

The fact that Hyperion specialises in porting software for Windows has no bearing on our position because the Amiga market is only of marginal economic importance to us.

We moreover do not wish to be drawn into a debate about the respective merits of the PPC versus x86 architectures. Both CPU families deliver the goods in terms of performance and have their respective strengths and weaknesses. Unparalleled multimedia performance (Altivec), low power consumption and a clear 64 bit upgrade path for the PPC family and rapid development, raw horse-power and low price-point for the x86 family.

We also do not want to belittle the technical feats accomplished by VMC: their Amithlon product is technically impressive and very fast.

It also holds the danger of ending all serious commercial development for Amiga.

Why?

Because as soon as a x86 enters the picture, along tags Windows. In essence, the temptation for x86 users to have Windows installed in parallel to a native Amiga OS x86 will be irresistible and we will be seeing «dual boot» systems as we saw on Beos and now Linux x86.

Both Beos and Linux serve as a stern warning about what happens if you try to compete with Windows on the same hardware: you become relegated to a Windows add-on product without any native software to speak of.

Beos, despite being a very impressive OS, failed to get any marketshare, never had any serious applications and Hyperion has more game licenses than there were ever games for Beos.

Take a look at the Linux situation which we experienced first hand. How many native apps and games does Linux have? Despite the very large installed base, Linux only has one serious game developer (Loki) and the number of serious (non-server related) native apps can be counted on one hand.

The reason is simple: why would a software company invest money in porting its software to another x86 OS when it knows people can also boot into Windows or run an «emulator» like Wine or VMWare which allows you to run Windows software under Linux x86 at near native speeds? The costs could never be recuperated through sales.

The result is clear: nobody is buying any product for Linux. A major, brand-new game-title can at best expect to sell a few thousand copies on Linux and several tens of thousands on Mac. Plus on Linux x86 you need to keep your pricing in line with the Windows version (without having the benefits of the economies of scale that the Windows market offers) otherwise you will provide even more incentive for people to buy Windows products.

Linux x86 is currently relegated to the status of a Windows add-on with a lot of software (like the Corel products and media-players) just working on Linux x86 because it uses Windows code in some way or another.

Linux has carved out a very nice niche in the server and embedded systems markets but the desktop market is a joke with all major Linux companies closing down or shedding jobs because nobody was making any money with desktop Linux.

So when somebody asks you: who has the bigger market-share on the desktop, Red Hat Linux or Apple Mac, the answer is: who cares? The real question is: who is making (more) money on the desktop and what desk-top platform has a wider range of native applications and games.

Mac OS X could be brought to x86 relatively easily. The core of Mac OS X already runs on x86 but there isn't a hair on Steve Jobs' head that thinks about giving up his nicely insulated niche-market in favor of head to head competition with Windows on the same hardware. Apple wants its developers to stay in business so they can keep Apple's users happy by providing them with software not available on other platforms.

The resources that large commercial developers on Windows can command and the price-point they can reach by the sheer number of sales cannot be matched by developers on a niche-platform who can only survive in their niche-market if that platform is insulated from the Windows market.

People advocating a native x86 Amiga OS should look beyond the cheap hardware and understand they are condemning the Amiga desktop platform to become an emulation platform for old software with no new native software available.

Nobody but a handful of fanatics will pay more money to run a slower (partially emulated) version of the same or similar software on Windows when they can instead buy a cheaper, faster, native Windows-version which can run on the same hardware.

What good is cheap hardware when you have no software to run on your native x86 OS and you are forced to boot into Windows all the time? How long would it take before the development of such an OS would fall by the wayside because of low sales, which is exactly what happened to Beos?

Ben Hermans
Managing partner, Hyperion Entertainment (ps)

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30.Jul.2001
Steffen Nitz (ANF)


Regist II released in the Aminet
Regist II by Steffen Nitz helps you to manage the users registerd for your program. The topical version is 0.2Alpha and only few features are already implemented.

Steffen Nitz pleases you to give him some feedback (Steffen.Nitz@t-online.de) because he wants to figure out if a further development is needed. Additional Steffen is looking for some one who is able to translate the texts included in the program and the documentation.

Some already available and planned features of Regist II:
  • Administration of users of different programs and versions in only one file.
  • Storage of informations about the user (name, firstname, address, registration-number, date and so on).
  • Automated keyfile, snailmail and email generation and computation of the registration-number.
  • Computation of the overall income including currency-conversion.
  • 13 different statistics that can be combined and a configurable user list gives you a very good overview over your data.
  • Extensive search and sort functions.
  • Password protection.
  • Support for compression tools for documents.
  • All windows are fontsentive
Download: Regist_II.lha (133 KB) - Regist_II.readme (ps) (Translation: sk)

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30.Jul.2001
Nordic Global


Holger Kruse is back :)
I am afraid during the last year I have had virtually no time for Amiga-related things, have not been able to respond to communication on a regular basis, and my Amigas along with parts of my user and registration list have been powered down for quite a while. This is unlikely to change any time soon, although I expect to have some time during the next two months to at least partially catch up with email and help with registration-related issues. Whether I will have time for further development and participation in mailing lists etc. I don't know yet. Recently users have tried to contact me in very aggressive ways, e.g. through my employer. Please do NOT do that ! I cannot and will not respond to any Miami-related query sent to my employer. At best any emails sent there will be forwarded to my regular email address. Same for phone calls: my private line is NOT a support line, I only pick up calls from known callers (caller id), and support-related phone calls will not be returned. I have neither the time nor the inclination to come home from work only to deal with even more "computer stuff". I am sure you understand. For urgent, registration-related issues, bugs etc. please send email to "miami-support@nordicglobal.com". This is a new mailbox, so far spam-free, allowing me to respond a little more quickly than recently. It may still take a week or two though, depending on how much time I have. Please check this web page for new information. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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30.Jul.2001
Ryan Czerwinski in the Shoutcast stream from the Amiwest 2001 (ANF)


AmiWest 2001: Merlancia announces new products
Merlancia Industries announced some very impressive products that will be released in August or September.

Merlancia rejects to be a Hoax like IWIN. They hired Dave Haynie lately and are topicaly trying to get Andy Finkel and RJ Mical. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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29.Jul.2001
Bernd ´Bernie´ Meyer (E-Mail)


Interview with Bernd 'Bernie' Meyer and Harald Frank / Amithlon-FAQ
On the AmiWest 2001 show Amiga, Inc. introduced the 'AmigaOS x86' product, which is about 'Amithlon' being an Amiga emulator developed by Harald Frank (VMC) and Bernd Meyer (UAE-JIT).

We asked Bernd ´Bernie´ Meyer and Harald Frank to give us some information about their project 'Amithlon' and sent them the following questions via e-mail:

"In our comments section the term of ´Amithlon´ is accumulating. Gary Peake named Harald Frank for the developer of this Amiga emulation for x86 in the IRC log-file from the AmiWest show. To deliver our readers some insight to your project we would be happy if you could account for giving us a somewhat closer view of your technic.

Of course we are in especially interested in how this idea to develop a new Amiga emulator for x86 platforms came up, which problems you met in doing it, how about the status of development, and of course from when and where the product will be available."

Bernd ´Bernie´ Meyer bothered creating a FAQ answering frequently asked questions. You will find this FAQ under the title link.

It must be pointed out that this is no official document from Amiga, Inc., but simply Bernd Meyer's answers to frequently asked questions to thereby clear up misunderstandings. Supposedly there will be a press release about 'AmigaOS x86' by Amiga published on the Amiga Inc. website within the next days. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Jul.2001



Aminet Uploads until 29.07.2001
AmBoS-Update.lha     comm/ambos 1.2M+AmBoS-Update Rel. 2.98k (Thursday 26-Jul
binbatchpost.lha     comm/news    6K+Post binary files with NewsRog
FWControl.lha        comm/tcp   152K+Firewallcontrol for miamidx 0.1 *BETA*
DKG-MMFX.lha         demo/sound 586K+MultiMegaMix/Kefrens 1oo% fixed and impr
numconv.lha          dev/misc     8K+Simple DEC/HEX/BIN/ASC/FLT/OCT converter
MCDP_GldPanel.lha    disk/cdrom  29K+Replacement for standard Gold panel for 
MyRepulse-2.txt      docs/rview  23K+Review of the REPULSE audio card.
MyRepulse2.txt       docs/rview  23K+Review of REPULSE audio card. Revision 2
DopeWars-Final.lha   game/actio  14K+New version of Dope Wars
slimcdrom_in_a.txt   hard/hack    6K+Use Slimline CD/CDR/DVD in your Amiga
anescgfx.lha         misc/emu   134K+A/NES CGFX v1.24 - Nintendo emulator
imdbDiff010720.lha   misc/imdb  1.8M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
tomaatti.lha         mods/chip    6K+Chip DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Void
skobe.lha            mods/demo  195K+Demostyle 4ch-MOD by Tripper^Moods^Void
bicycle.lha          mods/house 341K+Moods-Onlinecompo DBM mod by Tripper^Moo
boyfunky.lha         mods/house 315K+Funkyhouse DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Void
fantasynew.lha       mods/house 452K+Demohousetrance DBM mod by Tripper^Moods
monobeats.lha        mods/house 343K+Monotonic house,detroit DBM mod by Tripp
upground.lha         mods/house 702K+House, Dance DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Vo
washgo.lha           mods/house  28K+House 4ch MOD by Tripper^Moods^Void
sjuice.lha           mods/jungl 772K+Drum'n'Bass DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Voi
sjuicedit.lha        mods/jungl 772K+Drum'n'Bass DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Voi
rollercoast.lha      mods/tranc 856K+Trance to monotonic DBM mod by Tripper^M
timedist.lha         mods/tranc 844K+Trance, Goa DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Voi
timegate.lha         mods/tranc 844K+Trance, Goa DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Voi
id3taglibgui.lha     mus/edit   170K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
Projector_C4D.lha    pix/trace  515K+Projector-scene created with Cinema4D
CoolOS6.jpg          pix/wb     245K+WB pic made with DiamondBOX and PfPaint
GhostBuster.lha      util/cdity  38K+Automatically hides invalid disk icons
JPEG-DT.lha          util/dtype 434K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (43.6)
JPEG-DT35.lha        util/dtype 357K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (46.4)
PCD-DT.lha           util/dtype 141K+Datatype for Photo-CD Images (43.14)
PCD-DT35.lha         util/dtype  71K+Datatype for Photo-CD Images (44.3)
RGFX-DT.lha          util/dtype 126K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (43.16)
RGFX-DT35.lha        util/dtype  50K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (44.3)
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype 135K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.22 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
WarpPNGdt.lha        util/dtype 140K+PNG image datatype V44.18 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
GlowAttack.lha       util/misc  193K+"Glow" anims for ReqAttack v1.80+
NewHomer.lha         util/misc   37K+(bugfixed update) Another talking Homer 
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  383K+Report+ 5.0: Multipurpose utility
MiniI17.lha          util/wb    820K+Mini-Icone over 540
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29.Jul.2001
ANN


AmiWest 2001: Discussion at Slashdot 'An Amiga Round-up'
Under the title link you can find a discussion about the AmiWest 2001 Show at Slashdot. Focal point is 'AmigaOS for x86'. (Christoph Meier) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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29.Jul.2001
Cyborg (ANF)


Security: Amiga Security Page updated
Cyborg wrote:
Now ASP has new documents about active firewalling, basic hacker discovery, interactive firewall rules, and introduces initial plans and project for the near future, in which the sshd port is of highest priority. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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29.Jul.2001
Olaf Koebnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Special price, interview with Frank Reibold
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project I
In cooperation with Max Larsson the Amiga Arena enables a special price for the CD version of 'Digital Universe'.

'Digital Universe' is an astronomy software for both amateur and professional astronomers. More information are to find under http://www.syz.com/DU/amigacd.html.

Visitors of the Amiga Arena can purchase the CD version of 'Digital Universe' from Max Larsson (distribution for Germany) at the special price of 99,- DM until 31. August 2001 (original price 289,- DM).

The developers of 'Digital Universe' told me that development was not stopped. A survey regarding 'Digital Universe' can be found on the homepage.

Amiga Arena - Interview Project
An extended interview with Frank Reibold, developer of 'MicroPaint' and 'MicroBase' is online (German / English). Special thank to Christian B. for the translation.

Amiga Arena - Special Price Project II
In cooperation with Frank Reibold the Amiga Arena enables a special price for both programs 'MicroPaint' and 'Microbase'.

The most important features of 'MicroPaint' are it's functions for image editing and it's Un*x / Linux compatibility (extract):
  • up to 256 colours on AA machines
  • IntelliFont support, font styles, draw modes, colour fonts
  • all graphic modes of your computer are supported
  • flexible spray function
  • multi spray: spray with random colours
  • invert / colourise graphics
  • swap colours
  • ARexx port
  • lists the lastly used files in the project menu
'MicroBase' offers the following options at the time being (extract):
  • Im/export of ASCII files in the formats of SuperBase Professional 4, BECKERtext III, Documentum 2, ProWrite, TransWrite, Personal Write; possible adjustment to other formats
  • Flexible functions to search and replace field contents, e.g. multiply field contents by a constant.
  • field names can have up to 20 characters and may contain blanks.
  • direct access via dataset numbers
  • filter function
More information are to find under www.reibold-online.de.

Amiga Arena - Special Price Project III
The following special price projects will expire, soon:
  • LangTool until 31. July 01
  • SoundFX until 01. August 01
  • XadMaster Lib until 14. August 01
  • GeoWorld until 15. August 01


Amiga Arena Full Version
With permission of Per B. (Marble Eys) the reader's CD of the Amiga Future #32 (German Amiga games print magazine) will come with the ego shooter 'Genetic Species' along with other full versions.

More infos about this issue are to find under www.amigafuture.de. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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29.Jul.2001
Chaos Computer Club e.v.


CCC: We mourn for Wau
Wau Holland, co-founder and old age president of the CCC today at the age of 49 died of the aftermath of a stroke he already had in May. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


UGN: AmiWest 2001 pictures
Schedule:
  • 10:00 am: Begin show
  • 11:00 am: Kermit Woodall of NovaDesign
  • 12:00 pm: John developer of Series Zero application
  • 1:00 pm: AudioLabs
  • 2:00 pm: Joe Torre
All times are PDT (sd)

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29.Jul.2001
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb
Monthly Brad Webb releases his newsletter 'Amiga Update' reporting about the most important events regarding the Amiga:

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               A M I G A   C H O O S E S   S T O R M C 

        A M I G A   A N D   E D I V I S I O N   I N   D E A L

            P U S H   F O R   A   T A O   S T A N D A R D

     N E W ,   F A S T E R   P O W E R   P C   A N N O U N C E D

     W O R L D   O F   A M I G A   B A C K  -  I N   T H E   U K 

         A M I G A F E S T   2 0 0 1   A P P R O A C H I N G 

            A M I W E S T   I S   S T A R T I N G   . . . 

    A N D   T H E R E ' L L   B E   A   D E V C O N   T H E R E ! 

    A L M O S T   H E R E   -   A M I G A   B B Q ,   O T T A W A 

       N E W   I N F O R M A T I O N   O N   S A K U   2 0 0 1 

           A M I G A   S E C U R I T Y   W E B P A G E 

     M E R L A N C I A   I N D U S T R I E S   I S   H I R I N G 

          G E N E T I C   S P E C I E S   F O R   F R E E !

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 July is often a dry month in this part of the world. Maybe that's why
there hasn't been much Amiga news? Perhaps it's dried up as well.
 Regardless, we have enough information to make a newsletter for you
and there are some interesting items in it.
 For one thing there are a number of Amiga shows coming up. Two of
them are set to kick off tomorrow (actually, AmiWest gets some
activities underway today). If you're in the area for either, please
attend and show your Amiga community spirit.
 We were going to include an article or two on the continuing feud
between Hyperion and Elbox, distasteful as that would have been, but
it appears these two companies may actually have settled matters. On
July 18 there was information to that affect posted to the net. We can
only hope that's true.
 You will notice a story below on Merlancia Industries recruiting new
employees. It's good to see an Amiga company expanding and we wish
them well. We also notice that they've apparently already been
rounding up Amiga talent. A quick look at their web site shows Amiga
legend Dave Haynie is now on their staff. 
 And to round the month out, there's the matter of a new Power PC chip
announced by Motorola. Details are below.
 There may not be a lot of news, but what there is, is interesting.
 We hope you enjoy this issue.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

14 Jul 2001 

Hello,

 I would like first to congratulate you for your efforts to give us
the the information in your e-mag .
 
 Can you tell me if there is still support for Miami ?
 
 I received last year my registred-keyfile for the full package ( from
OS3.5).
 
 I tried since March to receive the MiamiSSL_USA . I send my request
from the register in the Miami-register program for the SSL file . I
received confirmation of my request a week later then nothing .
 
 I send email to kruse@nordicglobal.com two months ago at least ,still
no anwser
 .
 I download MiamiSSL from Aminet but it needs one of the two en-
cryption librairies which is my request .
 
 Can you help me to have this librairy .

Regards,
N.Renaud (Canada)
~~~~~~
Hello,
 As far as I know, there is no more support for Miami. However, it
continues to work fine and the international SSL library, at least, is
available. The difficulty is you are not supposed to use the
international version in Canada, and I believe you can't get the
US/Canadian version from Nordic Global. The international version will
work, of course, but downloading that and using it is not legal in the
US/Canada (Nordic Global's site does provide a link to download this
version for the benefit of non-US/Canadian users)..
 Does anyone among the readers have more information on Miami and SSL? 
 Brad
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             A M I G A   C H O O S E S   S T O R M C 

 July 14, 2001 - Amiga Inc is pleased to announce that it is
partnering with HAAGE&PARTNER GmbH, of Glashuetten, Germany in order
to provide Amiga developers with a world class development
environment.
 
 Amiga Inc is working closely with HAAGE&PARTNER to provide for the
first their flagship StormC developer package will become the official
Amiga Development System. This will see StormC providing transparent,
language independent support for both the AmigaOS and the AmigaDE.
 
 "Amiga is committed to moving application development forwards to
support our new architecture." said Fleecy Moss, Chief Technical
Officer of Amiga Inc. "This means dynamic, persistent components,
descriptive, location independent interfaces, brokered services and a
complete separation of design from implementation. HAAGE&PARTNER have
spent many years creating a simple, easy to use, yet powerful
development package for the AmigaOS, and we are delighted to be
working with them as we push forwards.
 
 "We are very pleased about the Amiga certification on StormC", said
Jürgen Haage, General Manager of HAAGE&PARTNER GmbH. "This
certification is a quality assurance for Amiga Inc. and guarantees the
Amiga developer community a continuous further development of our
StormC development system. "
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       A M I G A   A N D   E D I V I S I O N   I N   D E A L

Snoqualmie, WA - July 16, 2001

 Edivision LLC announced today that they would create game
applications for the Amiga Digital Environment (AmigaDE). The company
plans to create 3 development labels in the coming year for the
AmigaDE environment. The titles created under these labels will be
distributed through the Sharp Space Town web site for release in Japan
and through other Amiga distribution channels worldwide. Amiga and
Edivision also announced a joint relationship where Edivision would
provide key pieces of technology for the AmigaDE.
 
 The principals at Edivision have more than 30 years of experience in
the computer graphics field. Patrick Roberts created 2D and 3D effects
for Walt Disney's feature animation classic "Dinosaur". He has also
created software and animation for Dreamworks Animation, Disney
Classics and the Disney channel. Jeremy Engelman is one of the finest
3D artists in the world. His best-known work is the artwork for Cyan's
Riven, the sequel to Myst. Steven Haun is an award-winning computer
graphics producer with more than 10 years of experience in the
computer graphics and entertainment industry. His credits include
effects production for Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, ABC, CBS,
and Fox Television.
 
 "This relationship with Edivision will offer consumers some exciting
content and an enjoyable experience that they will want to share with
others," said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "Patrick,
Jeremy and Steven are longtime supporters of Amiga and we appreciate
their contributions to driving adoption of our software. With their
expertise in gaming and the entertainment industry, we look forward to
some revolutionary games for the PDA market."
 
 "We are very excited to be working with Amiga to generate compelling
content for the AmigaDE," said Patrick Roberts, one of the founders at
Edivision. "When Amiga announced their relation with Sharp, we saw
this as an opportunity to get in early on a new, exciting gaming
platform. Devices like the Sharp Zaurus and other PDA's offer the
ability to reach a new and different generation of gamers."
 
 Edivision will focus on original titles for its first set of
releases. The company is also negotiating with other content providers
to bring their titles to the AmigaDE platform.
 
 The market for video games in the United States, which includes
arcade, PC, console, and online gaming, is currently estimated to be
worth $11 billion. The AmigaDE platform allows developers to create
game applications that target this market. The binary portable nature
of AmigaDE content allows applications to migrate seamlessly from cell
phones and handheld devices to set-top boxes and up to desktop
machines and servers.
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          P U S H   F O R   A   T A O   S T A N D A R D

July 14, 2001

 World's leading consumer electronics firms push to create premium
contents platform standard. Sharp, JVC, Kyocera and the Tao Group
today announce the launch of the Open Contents Platform Association.
This move, initiated by Japan's consumer electronics giants, will
promote the global standardization of the intent(R) media platform as
a core on home and mobile connected devices, such as PDAs, phones, web
tablets, digital cameras and smart phones.

 The OCPA is a response to the proliferation of wired and wireless
devices with a requirement from carriers and broadcasters to deliver
premium contents to users. This trend of more devices has pushed up
development costs and increased application and device time to market
- an inevitable consequence when developing divergent software
implementations on every new product.
 
 The need for a flexible, open environment has become paramount. By
standardizing around Tao's open and pluggable platform, OCPA
manufacturers and developers will create powerful and differentiated
products, at the lowest cost and in the shortest possible time,
capable of running the kind of premium services required by operators
and broadcasters.
 
 Many of the world's leading technology companies, including
electronics manufacturers, content developers and software vendors,
will be joining the Association targeting the first general assembly
in September. Other major manufacturers that have already stated their
support to the OCPA will be announced at that time. Meanwhile, the
following companies have already publicly announced that they would
join the OCPA as of July 12, 2001: Bandai Networks Co. Ltd, Capcom Co
Ltd, Criterion Software Ltd., Digital Hollywood Corp, Espial Inc.,
Fujitsu Prime Software Technologies Ltd, HI Corporation, Justsystem
Corporation, Lineo Japan, Inc., MathEngine, plc., Mediaglue KK.,
Metrowerks Co., Ltd., Mobile Computing Technologies KK, MontaVista
Software Japan, Inc., Plazmic Inc., Prime Atlas, Inc., Sega
Enterprises, Sybergate KK., SSEYO Ltd., Taito KK., Web Soft
International Inc., Zoom Systems KK.

 Yoshio Mohri, President and CEO of Fujitsu Prime Software
Technologies Limited stated, "We are very pleased with the
announcement of the establishment of the OCPA. The full binary
portability of intent is undoubtedly now recognized as being the most
effective solution to enable the smooth distribution of enhanced
contents and software."
 
 Kazunori Ukigawa, President and CEO of Justsystem said, "As a member
of the OCPA, I am thrilled to contribute further to the market
development of Tao's open platform for multimedia content. Tao's rich
multimedia technology, based upon its unique virtual processor
technology, gives competitive edges to application and content
providers."
 
 Tao's intent is ideally placed as the core technology on open
platforms. It is independent of underlying hardware, operating system
and language and provides an exceptional high performance and small
footprint, branded multimedia Java(TM) software acceleration
technology authorized by Sun Microsystems. Francis Charig, the Tao
Group Executive Chairman, commented, "The establishment of the OCPA,
utilizing Tao's intent combined with a strong Sun compliant, Java
technology focus, is a response to the need for an open environment
across entire product portfolios. It will succeed in reducing time to
market and cost while enabling high quality, compelling contents on
the current and next generations of devices."

About OCPA

 The OCPA will provide a place for open discussion among content
providers, application service providers and hardware manufacturers,
regardless of their business fields. Members can present proposals for
new specifications, which will then be evaluated by working groups
within the Association, before their acceptance as standards, which
will then be openly published. The OCPA will also support verification
of Open Platform applications and contents, and will perform
promotional activities, such as seminars and exhibitions in order to
promote the OCPA specified platform standard.

About Tao Group Limited

 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. The technology allows these companies to have a single
strategy across all of their platforms, irrespective of operating
system, hardware and function. intent is now being used in products
including smart mobile appliances and digital television. Tao's range
of Java(TM) products have been designed from their inception to
combine the Java language with Tao's multimedia to run real-world
content many times faster than any alternative. The Company was
founded in 1992, has offices in the United States, Europe and Japan
and counts both Sony and Motorola amongst its investors. Tao has a
growing and high value, global patent portfolio and is the recipient
of multiple industry awards, both for its technologies and for the
rate of corporate growth. For more information please see
tao-group.com

{Note: Tao's Intent is a key element of AmigaDE. Brad}
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      N E W ,   F A S T E R   P O W E R   P C   A N N O U N C E D
 
 AUSTIN, TEXAS - July 18, 2001 - Delivering the highest performing
PowerPCTM processor on the market today, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT)
today announced the 867MHz MPC7450 processor with AltiVecTM
technology. Continuing to deliver on Motorola's leading PowerPC
roadmap, the MPC7450 is designed to provide powerful and innovative
solutions for the networking, telecommunications, high-end embedded
systems, scientific computing, and desktop computer markets.
 
 "Our goal is to continually provide our customers with PowerPC
processors that increase levels of real-world performance in both the
embedded and computing markets," said Brian Wilkie, corporate vice
president and general manager of Motorola's Computing Platform
Division. "Motorola's G4 line of PowerPC processors continues to
generate industry excitement, and we're pleased to offer yet another
powerful solution to further enhance our customers' product
portfolios."
 
 "Apple is thrilled that with the new 867MHz PowerPC processor added
to the Power Mac G4 line, Motorola has delivered a high-performance
component that enabled us to boost overall system performance up to
11.8 gigaflops," said Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of
Hardware Engineering. "These continued improvements to the PowerPC
processor further solidify the superfast Power Mac G4 as one of the
most powerful desktop personal computers ever."
 
 The MPC7450 processor has a deep seven-stage pipeline with eleven
execution units and an enhanced AltiVec engine. The L2 cache is
integrated onto the die for greater speed, with a 256-bit datapath to
the L1 cache. The MPC7450 processor also supports a large backside L3
cache with a 64-bit datapath, and provides multiple SRAM options.
Additionally, the MPC7450 processor implements Motorola's
high-bandwidth MPX system bus, capable of achieving sustained
bandwidth performance of 1064MB/sec., which can provide up to 4 times
the bus performance over earlier G3 generation processors.
 
 The PowerPC architecture enjoys the broadest third party tool support
of any RISC microprocessor today. Motorola's MPC7450 has extensive
tool support from compiler, debugger and emulator vendors providing
comprehensive sophisticated development environments.
 
 The MPC7450 PowerPC microprocessor is manufactured in the HiPerMOS 6
(HiP6) 0.18-micron copper fabrication process technology, and features
a low-power design with three power-saving user-programmable modes -
nap, doze (with bus snoop) and sleep - which reduce the power drawn by
the processor.
 
 Pricing and Availability The advanced 867MHz MPC7450 processors are
available today at a suggested unit list price of $435 in quantities
of 1000. The suggested unit list price (1000 quantity) of the 667, and
733MHz versions are approximately $341, and $374 respectively.
 
 For more information about Motorola's family of PowerPC processors
visit: http://www.motorola.com/smartnetworks
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    W O R L D   O F   A M I G A   B A C K  -   I N   T H E   U K 

Time to make a comeback!

 On Saturday, 3rd November 2001, Amiga Active magazine -
http://www.amigactive.com will be sponsoring the World of Amiga South
East Show, to be held in Brentwood, Essex, UK.

Exhibitors already confirmed, are as follows..
* Amiga Active
* Eyetech 
* Fore-matt Home Computing 
* 100% Amiga
* Analogic
* Blittersoft
* Kicksoft 
...with more to follow. 

 We are also very proud to announce that Amiga CTO, Fleecy Moss will
be in attendance to show the latest AmigaOS on the latest hardware.
 
 If that isn't enough, this could be your first opportunity anywhere
in the world to see and even buy the AmigaOne and OS 4.0.
 
 Discounted tickets will soon be available via selected Amiga dealers
and via the show's website, which will be launching soon. Further
details on this, including additional exhibitors and guest speakers,
will follow shortly.

 World of Amiga South East, is organised by SEAL, Kickstart, ANT, ASA
and Sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine http://www.amigactive.com from
Pinprint publishing.
 
 This year's planned SEAL-O-RAMA show has evolved into something
bigger!
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       A M I G A F E S T   2 0 0 1   A P P R O A C H I N G 

July 8, 2001 

 The time is rapidly approaching . AmigaFest 2001 - The Show Within a
Show at Dayton's Fall Computerfest®. This will be the third year that
AmiTech-Dayton has sponsored an Amiga section within the fall
Computerfest®. We currently have seven Amiga vendors and exhibitors
already committed and we are still working on increasing that number.

 The current list includes Compuquick, Dan's Deals, FWD Computing, G&G
Publishing Enterprises (The New Amigans Magazine), E. S. Productions,
Amiga Cafe, and AmiTech-DAyton.
 
 In addition to the Amiga specific exhibitors there will be
approximately 150 other vendors and exhibitors with all kinds of
general equipment and gear you can use on your Amiga at spectacular
prices. If youm live anywhere in the midwest don't miss this show.

 The AmigaFest2001 show is held inconjunction with the Dayton
ComputerFest at the Hara Convention Complex in Dayton, Ohio. It will
be held August 25th through the 26th. Pictures and a review of last
years show can be found at:
http://www.coax.net/people/erics/amitech.htm
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          A M I W E S T   I S   S T A R T I N G   . . . 

6 Jul 2001

AMIWEST 2001 SHOW SCHEDULE

 This is a tentative schedule and will be updated. Remember to check
out our website (and encourage all your friends to do the same!) at
www.sacc.org/amiwest.
 
 NEED A RIDE TO AMIWEST? Then visit http://get.to/amiwest if you're
willing to share transportation. Although not a part of our
organization and completely without warranty on our part, it is a
laudable effort to get to the show in the spirit of the Amiga
community.

FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2001

 6:00 PM Vendors to set up in the main exhibition hall
 
 8:00 PM Bill McEwen speaking on the Amiga One and Amiga DE. Come hear
what Bill has to say about the next step in the new digital
environment world.

SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2001

0930 AM Purchase/pick up tickets
1000 AM Doors open
1015 AM Welcome to AmiWest 2001

EXHIBIT HALL HOURS:  10:00 AM TO 4:30 PM

 IN THE EXHIBIT HALL: raffles every hour on the hour by the Raffle
Guy,
              Jack McCann.

Seminars in the Lindbergh Room: 

    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM:  Image FX (and relatives) 

                  PRESENTER:  Kermit Woodall, Nova Design

LUNCH

    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM:  Amiga DE Developers Conference (DevCon)

               PRESENTER:  Gary Peake et al.

    3:00 PM - 5:OO PM   AMIGAZONE class

                PRESENTER:  Harv Laser

FOR THOSE HOLDING BANQUET TICKETS:

 BANQUET 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Fine buffet served by the Holiday Inn
Northeast

                SPEAKERS:  Bill McEwen and Dr. Alan Havemose
                "Amiga and Gateway:  What REALLY Happened?"
                and the future of the Amiga.

SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2001

0930 AM Purchase/pick up tickets

1000 AM Doors open

EXHIBIT HALL HOURS:  10:00 AM TO 4:30 PM

 IN THE EXHIBIT HALL: raffles every hour on the hour by the Raffle
Guy,
              Jack McCann.

Seminars in the Lindbergh Room: 

    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: AMIGA ONE Introduction.  

LUNCH

    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM:  PAGESTREAM Desktop Publishing

                PRESENTER:  Todd Gustavson, Extreme Computers
                and Northwest Amiga Group

    3:00 PM - 4:3O PM   Image FX (and relatives) 

                PRESENTER:  Kermit Woodall, Nova Design

    4:30 in the Exhibit Hall:  the big raffle.  Don't miss it!!

AFTER SHOW GATHERING
    
    6:00 PM - ???????   Gathering at a local restaurant to wrap up all
               the last-minute impressions.  To be announced
                at the show on Sunday afternoon.


Plus lots of conversation and meeting new people along with those old
friends.

AND REMEMBER. . . 

 The only all-Amiga show on the U.S. West Coast is gearing up for July
28-29, 2001 in Sacramento California. So make your plans to attend
now. Favorable room rates are available, as always, so contact the
Holiday Inn Northeast at 1-916-338-5800 or, toll-free direct to the
hotel, 1-800-388-9284 to reserve your rooms. And keep checking our
website for all the latest updates at www.sacc.org/amiwest. Don't be
left out. This should be the biggest and best AmiWest show yet!


WHO'S COMING TO AMIWEST 2001?

 Part of the attraction of Amiga shows are the people who attend. Our
community includes some of the most creative and interesting people
around. And as most of already know, those people have been the
catalyst for the continuing re-birth of the Amiga platform.
 
 So who's going to be there? Here's a partial list:
 
 Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc. The ever-positive Bill
will give us the latest insights into the "benevolent dictatorship" of
Amiga Inc. and where our platform is heading.
 
 Gary Peake of Amiga Inc. will be with us to do an Amiga DE DevCon.
 
 Kermit Woodall, Nova Design, Inc. Creator of Image FX, Millenium and
all those other fine image-processing software packages.
 
 Randhir Jesrani, Compuquick Media Center. Since 1987, Randy has
supported the Amiga platform. He'll be here to greet old friends with
lots of Amiga classic hardware and software along with new products.
 
 Harv Laser, Amigazone legend. SYSOP of the oldest Amiga site in the
US (and maybe the world), Harv has been around since just about "the
beginning." Now affiliated with Merlancia Industries, Harv will be
with us to give us the latest on AmigaZone.
 
 Ryan E.A. Cerwinski, CEO of Merlancia Industries. Ryan will be
bringing his new computers in their current state of development for
us to see and (hopefully) order. Also lots of classic Amiga
software/hardware for your examination and purchase.
 
 Joe Torre, Amiga engineer. Joe has just bought his tickets, reserved
his room and in on the way to AmiWest 2001. His email said, in part:
 
 Hey man!
 
 I just finnished getting my flight and room booked. Thanx for the
better rate!
 
 I'm looking forward to chatting about Gateway days with Allan and
doing the Banquet again. . .
 
 Flights are still cheap this far in advance too!
 
 All the best!

JoeT. . .  Amiga, BeOS, Linux, QNX, Windoze
So many mice: with so many meanings....  

 And this is just the beginning! We'll be releasing more names in a
few days. Keep checking our website at www.sacc.org/amiwest for more
updates!
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    A N D   T H E R E ' L L   B E   A   D E V C O N   T H E R E ! 

2 July, 2001

 Amiga Inc. has said to us that they will be presenting an Amiga DE
Developers Conference (DevCon) at AmiWest 2001! Gary Peake is heading
up the effort and will be giving all the latest development
information at the show.
 
 This DevCon is scheduled for Saturday, July 28 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM.
We are trying to predict attendance for this event at AmiWest 2001.
Please email your intentions to bdeneen@infostations.com. Please be
advised that only those holding either a full show pass or a Saturday
pass will be admitted to the DevCon. Passes will be checked at the
door.
 
 So don't be left out! Order your show tickets now! Go to
www.sacc.org/amiwest and fill in the ticket order form on our site.
Then print it out and send it in along with your check or money order
to the address on the form. This will ensure your attendance and let
us know how many will be in attendance.
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    A L M O S T   H E R E   -   A M I G A   B B Q ,   O T T A W A 


Amiga BBQ
Strathcona Park
Ottawa, Ontario
Sunday, July 29, 2001
12:00pm to 4:00pm

 Join us for Amiga.info's first BBQ! Everyone is welcome. Bring your
familly and friends. The BBQ will give local Amiga users the
opportunity to meet each other. We will have news from the Amiwest
show, discuss the Ottawa Amiga Show, and we'll be throwing around some
Boing balls!
 
 Soft drinks and hot dogs will be served, but feel free to bring
food/drinks. We also strongly suggest to bring a lawn chair.
 
 Please RSVP by Friday, July 27 so we know how many hot dogs and soft
drinks to purchase. Send an e-mail to amigabbq@technomages.net to let
us know that you are coming (and how many will be with you).
 
 How To Get There?

 1. Take highway 417 (from either direction) to Nicholas Exit.
 
 2. At the first set of lights, turn right. This will put you onto
Laurier heading East (towards the Royal Oak).
 
 3. Turn right onto Range Road (about 1 Kilometer from Nicholas).
There is a large fountain at the entrance of the park. If you get to
the end of Laurier (it turns left just after Range Road) you have gone
too far. ;-)
 
 4. The parking lot is down the hill and to the left.
 
 5. Look for the Boing Balls and we will be there!

Parking?

 There is free parking but space is limited. Parking on the street is
also permitted.
 
 Bus?
 
 OC Transpo indicated that the #16 Alta Vista passes close by after
leaving from the Rideau Centre. For details, call OC Transpo
information at 741-4390.
 
 What if it Rains?

 If it rains, we will post that the BBQ is cancelled on
http://www.technomages.net/amiga.info/ by 10:00am (on July 29).
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       N E W   I N F O R M A T I O N   O N   S A K U   2 0 0 1 

July 10, 2001

 The tradition of quality guests at the Finnish Amiga Users Group's
Saku events continues as Mr. Fleecy Moss, Vice President of
Development of Amiga Inc., has agreed to attend Saku 2001 and
demonstrate the latest Amiga products such as the AmigaDE and PDA. A
representative of Matay company, the latest co-operative companion of
Amiga Inc., will also be there to present their new PCI bridge for
Zorro III Amigas, the Prometheus.
 
 The Mediator PCI bridge for the Amiga 1200 will also be demonstrated
with a Voodoo3 graphics card. Nova Design Inc. has offered the latest
versions of their quality graphics programs, ImageFX and Aladdin4D,
for demonstration on the show.
 
 Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science
Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00
and end at 18:00. Admission will be free of charge.
 
 Finnish speaking audience can join Saku 2001 discussion on our Web
discussion forum at http://saku.amigafin.org/keskustelu.
 
 Please stay tuned for more details as the planning progresses. For
further information, visit Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site at
http://saku.amigafin.org or http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/. E-mail
inquiries may be sent to Terho Henriksson
(terho.henriksson@kopteri.net). Please also contact Terho if you or
your company have products that you would like to demonstrate or
advertise in Saku 2001.
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           A M I G A   S E C U R I T Y   W E B P A G E 

26 July, 2001

{The following item appears on Czech Amiga News. Brad}

 "Thx to Aminet admins, the Amiga has now a Security Webpage. You can
find tools for analysing router- & miami logfiles, a fast workaround
for the birc exploit and ofcourse Amiga`s most advanced portscanner in
a new release. In the Firewall Section we develop a firewallsetup and
will show how to protect your amiga and other`s. We just started so it
will take time to increase tools and documents. I work for a NIDS
System based on MiamiDX (hopefully working on other stacks :) If you
wanne be part of it, mail me."

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bridge/5737/security.html
Czech Amiga News is at:
http://amiga.realdreams.cz/index.html
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     M E R L A N C I A   I N D U S T R I E S   I S   H I R I N G 

24 July, 2001

 Merlancia Industries is currently looking for individuals with skills
in the following areas: Professional graphic design (must be able to
create metallic images) Hardware and software/firmware engineering
Marketing & PR. If you feel that you would qualify for any of the
above positions, please contact Merlancia Industries and/or send your
resúme to: merlancia@merlancia.com

Merlancia Industries
3516A West Cactus Road
Phoenix, AZ 85029 USA 

 As a note, we would like to mention that for most immediate
positions, your location is largely unimportant. No relocations will
be needed.
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June 28, 2001

{Posted to the net by Mikey C}

 In case you have missed this elsewhere, former Amiga Publishers,
Vulcan Software and former Amiga developers Marble Eyes have uploaded
the entire hit game, Genetic Species to the Aminet
 
 An excellent review with screenshots is available from Kay Are
Ulvestad Website

 Don't forget, Marble-Eyes released a host of update patches, such us
faster graphics, Picture in Picture, Sound and Extended language
support. The files can be downloaded.
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29.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Fun Time World: Tales of Tamar - programmers wanted
For development of the game Tales of Tamar still talented programmers are wanted, having the time and motivation to faster push forward the Linux and Java version. Please send your candidature to eternity@pride.de.

New versions have been released for Amiga and Mac, which are to find at the download section. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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29.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Fun Time World: AmigaOS3.9-FAQ extended
On 27. July 2001 the official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ, managed by Greg Donner, got a new entry 'Disk&File Operation' page: 'HDToolBox shows my Maxtor hard drive as half its actual capacity. Is there a solution?' (sd) (Translation: mj)

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29.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Grafik: H&P release ArtEffect Plugin Collection
Haage & Partner released a plugin collection for the image editing software 'Art Effect' including more than 333 loader modules, frames, filters, and special effects. H&P wrote about this on their website:

«Finally - the biggest effects and filters collection for ArtEffect is available. It consists of more then 333 loaders/savers, borders, filters and special effects.

We heavily extended this collection since our first announcement. Now it also contains AE Superview with about 30 loader and saver modules.

Autolevel is a new filter that automatically corrects the contrast of a picture. This improves your scanned picture and those taken with a digital camera a lot. One of the best effects is Shine which adds a shine around objects. This effect is best know from the Glow icons. We also have a Glow effect that also adds a shine, but makes the object itself shine too.

It is important to mention, that Shine, Glow and most of the other effects (e.g. the popular "unsharp mask") will support layers or more specific: they can deal with the transparency of layers.

As a bonus we added the full version of ArtEffect 2. This version already support layers and so nearly all effects of this collection can be used. This makes the collection a full paint package.

This collection is the ideal and inexpensive tool to improve your scanned pictures and digital photos and to add amazing effects to them.» (sd) (Translation: mj)

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29.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


ANN: Amiga Information Online (AOI) #49
On 28. July 2001 issue #49 of the online magazine 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' was released.

It can be downloaded from the AOI site and soon from Aminet.

Download: AIOV49.LHA (sd) (Translation: mj)

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28.Jul.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)


CVS 1.11.1p1 - AmigaOS port BUGFIX - update
CVS is a tool for programmers that remarkably simplifies the version control of source code. More known under Unix/Linux this port to AmigaOS can be of use for one or another.

Some days after the release of a new version of the AmigaOS port of CVS 1.11.1p1 with ssh there's a new bugfix update on the homepage of the AmigaOS CVS project after some bugreports.

Within this an important bug has been removed that could make it impossible at times to check in files in remote directories via pserver or ssh.

It is strongly advised to all users of this port to update to this new version. The latest version can, as always, be downloaded from http://amcvs.light-speed.de/. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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28.Jul.2001
ANN / Christoph Meier (ANF)


Game: new Payback PPC screenshots
Christoph Meier wrote:
At Apex-Designs you can find four new screenshots of the PPC version of the game "Payback".

»The screenshots demonstrate "a new 3D mode to the upcoming PPC version of the game which rotates the view according to the speed and direction of the player".« (ps) (Translation: wk)

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28.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Amiga.org: 3ivx for AmigaDE in development
The creator of the MPEG-4 Codec 3ivx has confirmed that an AmigaDE version of 3ivx is in the works. Christoph spoke with him sometime ago and the creator was well informed about AmigaDE which was not only surprising but a good sign of things to come. It is yet unknown when a version will be ready for release. (sd) (Translation: wk)

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28.Jul.2001
Andreas Magerl (email)


Amiga Future: Lottery + AF #27 part 3
In issue #31 of the Amiga Future are several lotteries. One of these was just put online in the area 'INTERACTIVE'. Everybody can take part here. A full version of 'Myst' can be won. Closing date is the 01-Aug-2001.

Besides that the third part of the Amiga Future issue 27 was released yesterday. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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28.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Amiga.org: exclusive interview with Edivision
Amiga.org has interviewed Patrick Roberts, Jeremy Engelman and Steven Haun. The team of Edivision, recently named as a partner by Amiga Inc., was questioned by Amiga.org about their opinions regarding the Amiga and their (Edivision's) future products. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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28.Jul.2001
Marco Lovera (email)


AmigaPage now with graphics section
One place to go for Italian Amiga users is AmigaPage. Next to news, workshops, reviews and many more information the maintainer Marco Lovera has set up a new area for graphics.

In this section you'll find Workbench screenshots, FunArt, rendered and drawn pictures as well as photos. Everybody may make his/her works, done on the Amiga, available and participate this way in making this area grow and become more and more interesting. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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28.Jul.2001
Thorsten Schölzel (email)


CD32 alliance searching for webmaster
Thorsten Schölzel wrote:
After changing to another server with the CD32/CDTV Corner we are now looking for new webmasters. Everybody with knowlegde in HTML and CD32/CDTV has the chance to become one. We ourselves would like to see CD32/CDTV users themselves being involved here.

Assuming enough users participate the CD32/CDTV Corner could be continued as a homepage not relying on my person. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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28.Jul.2001
Dennis Lohr (email)


Psyria: new music piece
After a longer period the homepage of Psyria was yesterday updated again. A new music piece, "Uphold the law", is available for download.

Besides that Psyria is planning a second megamix out of the yet unreleased debut album "Out of my life". As the first megamix went down well Psyria would be pleased about feedback to see whether a second mix is in great demand at all.

Psyria is a music project, that is exclusively produced with the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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28.Jul.2001
ANN / Christoph Meier (ANF)


ANN: AmiWest 2001: Keynote speech online (update 2)
Christoph Meier wrote:
For the greater benefit of the Amiga Community Darren Eveland had placed (in mp3 format) the AmiWest 2001 keynote speech on his ftp server... You may download the 9 megabyte mp3 file to hear all the great announcements made by Amiga Inc.

Highlights:
  • Merlancia Industries has exclusive rights to Walker and Amiga MCC designs.
  • Amiga Inc. to release Amiga OS 1.0 X86 November 1st. They showed a live demo at Amiwest.
  • Amiga Inc. to release Amiga OS PPC November 1st. This will run on the Amiga One, which will also be released November 1st, 2001.
  • Much news about Amiga DE and other things...

  • server: 24.42.253.120
  • username: amiga
  • password: amiga
Enjoy this GREAT news!
Darren Eveland - aka. HammerD

Update:
Additional download links for the speech of Bill McEwen:
keynote.mp3 (9 MB)
keynote.mp3 (9 MB)

Update 2:

ANN: Amiga CEO Amiwest Question and Answer session online
Darren Eveland now has made available for download the questions Bill McEwen was asked and the answers he gave as mp3 file.

Server: 24.42.253.120
User name: amiga
Password: amiga

A maximum of 20 users can download simultaneous. (ps)

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28.Jul.2001
Dirk Baeyens (email)


AmiWest 2001: first information in advance (update 2)
For the time being the AmiWest 2001 Amiga show is taking place in Sacramento (California). According first information AmigaOS for PPC, AmigaOS for x86 and AmigaOne hardware for November 2001 were announced. Detailed press material is said to follow until Wednesday.

Further details can be taken from this (completely uncut) AmiWest IRC log. As always has UGN made the resources for IRC chats during the show available. Also the obligatoric WebCam of UGN is already working, though the time shift has to be taken into account.

Here are three pictures Dirk Baeyens has taken from the WebCam last night:







Update:
Christoph Meier found the following article at Amiga.org by ´TB´ in which, next to known details like the announcement of the AmigaOS for PPC, AmigaOS for x86 and AmigaOne hardware for November 2001, the following new details can be found, too:

AmiWest News Roundup
  • 3 Sharp devices including a Cellphone
  • Possible Game Boy Advanced type system, but better.
  • 6Ghz Equiv design for 3rd party (The info on this is vauge at best)
  • Various new content deals
  • SHEEP preview with-in 90 days
This information is as accurate as we can get it until Amiga posts the news themselves.

Update 2:

Christoph Meier further posted the following message from amiga.org on ANF, which we give as complete orignal here, since amiga.org is not accessible at the time being:

Heres the latest information from the show. There is little information but I will try and add more as it becomes available.
  • AmigaOS PPC - Nov 1st 2001.
  • AmigaOS x86 - Nov 1st 2001 (Demo'ed Live. Played Quake, Ran ImageFX, AIBB (Cel 500 vs 4K060) LineTest 162x Faster, Instuction 143x, WritePixel 804x, Matrix 316x, Sieve 1118x).
  • AmigaOne (Needs 1200) - Nov 1st 2001.
  • 3 Sharp devices including a Cellphone.
  • Psion netBook deal (The netBook is a business device, not consumer. As far as Amiga is aware, the deal is still on).
  • Series Zero (We think this is a game pack, 5 games per pack.).
  • Merlancia have rights to the Walker and MCC designs.
  • Possible Game Boy Advanced type system, but better. Aiming for 200Mhz, Sub 200USD, Xmas release.
  • 6 Ghz Equiv computer design for 3rd party (The info on this is vauge at best).
  • Deal with one of the worlds largest wireless carriers in next 90 days.
  • Various new content deals coming soon.
  • Targets - 10Million unit over the next 12 Months, 30Million in the following 12months.
  • SHEEP preview with-in 90 days
  • AmigaDE Content Network. Will supply content for those who have the PartyPack and DE in the future.
This information is as accurate as we can get it until Amiga posts the news themselves. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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27.Jul.2001
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Power Macintosh G4 with 1 GHz
As already reported new Macintosh G4 models were presented some days ago at the Macworld Expo New York.

The Japanese Takashi Imai has published some tuning instructions on his website to overclock these computers to 1 GHz and more.
German Heise article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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27.Jul.2001
SixK


Database: MySQL for Amiga version 3.23.40
At the French website 'SixK' you'll find the AmigaOS port of the MySQL database system in version 3.23.40, compiled for 68040 processors. Details on the changes in this release at the title link.

Download: MySqld_32340_040_base.lzx (ps) (Translation: rh)

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26.Jul.2001
Amiga-Active, English Amiga Magazine (ANF)


Amiga Active: New Amiga emulator for PC's
I just received the new "Amiga Active" reading about a new Amiga emulator for PC's using neither Windows nor Linux as it's OS base, but a not mentioned OS "which is not unalike the AmigaOS".

This emulator was tested by the editors on an 1.2 GHz Atholon, and is said to easily outshine everything, even the UAE JIT. It reaches multiple of the speed of the UAE and even of the speed of an 68060/50. Contrary to the UAE the AA emulation still doesn't work, thus one must widely abstain from games. But programs like Frogger or even Quake gave results embarrassing the performance of the PPC versions. The emulator reached their office near shutdown, name and programmer still are secret. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Jul.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


Update: The Feeble Files for Amiga
Thomas Steiding of e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH wrote:
Last week we received a few more pre-orders for a possible Amiga port of the cartoon adventure The Feeble Files. At this time we have altogether 298 pre-orders, so 102 still are missing, which should be sent either to us (order@epic-interactive.com) or to a stockist like KDH Datentechnik, who participate in this project. This pre-order project will be valid thru 12. August 2001. If there will be less than 400 pre-orders until that date, unfortunately an Amiga version of The Feeble Files (and probably any further Amiga port by e.p.i.c.) will be impossible to be done.

Reminder note: The Feeble File requires an Amiga with a 4 MB graphics board, 32 MB of memory, and a 68060 OR a PPC CPU. The game costs 99,95 DM and will be shipping on 2 CD's with both German and English version. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Jul.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)


H&P: Just haggle a bit.....
On 25. July 2001 the German discount law was suspended, so vendors can give discounts.

Hence Haage&Partner start a project: "Tell us for which price you would purchase a product and we will see whether we will do business with you".

Enter your name, e-mail address, desired price and a nice reason into a form - and then we will see.... (ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Jul.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9428
Richard H. Poser released beta version 0.9428 of the AIM messenger AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client to connect to the America Online Instant Messenger (AIM service). Following an extract from the program's history to take the changes from:

  • Modified handling of Context Menus in Buddy List Area
  • Online list - Selecting with Right Button...
    • Online Buddy Name: Will automatically select that name and then open the Online context menu
    • Offline Buddy Name: Does the same as above, but opens the Offline context menu
    • Anywhere Else: Context menu will reflect the already selected Buddy Name, if one is selected.
  • Setup list - Selecting with Right Button...
    • On Label or Buddy Name: Will automatically select that label/name and then open the context menu
    • Anywhere Else: Context menu will reflect the already selected Label/Buddy name
  • Modified Away, Online and Idle Time displays
  • Now displays time in Days, Hours and Minutes (If you actually get someone that idles for that long - I know someone that has idled for 2 days straight)
  • Found that warning display wasn't being handled correctly, as AIM sends out the value as a multiple of 10, such that 855 would equal 85.5. The display now calculates the correct value and rounds as necessary (Up, or down).
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Jul.2001
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - new packets
WHDLoad enables floppy disk only games to be installed on harddisk. The following new packets have been added:

  • 25. July 01 enhanced: Licence to Kill (Domark)
  • 25. July 01 new: Hunt for 7th October (Cryptoburners)
  • 23. July 01 fixed: Uridium 2 (Graftgold)
  • 23. July 01 enhanced: R-Type 2 (Activision)
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Jul.2001
The Legacy


Nostalgia: The Legacy updated
'The Legacy', the games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, and Schneider/Amstrad CPC collected new material, again. Along with tons of new covers you will also find a test report about the new Amiga-Classix CD. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Jul.2001
AmigActive


Print magazine: AmigActive #23 review
The August issue of the English print magazine, available from today, in detail deals with the following highlights:

  • "Here's Looking At Moovid"
    Digital video has come a long way since the days of the zoetrope.
  • Sleeping With The Enemy
    Can't do it on your Amiga? There is another way, you know...
  • Back To The Future
    Investigating the shiny, brushed-metal world of Merlancia Industries.
  • You've Got Mail
    Yet Another occurrence of the phrase "Yet Another Mailer"!
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Jul.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


Amiga Security Site online
Marius ´Cyborg´ Schwarz wrote:
Due to problems regarding Aminet I decided to put the programs online directly. Additionally I've made some documents dealing with firewalling on the Amiga and security in general, thus the side went online that late.

Now on this website among other things there are the TCPScanner in an even better version than it was planned for Aminet, a tool to analyse firewall-logs to discover undesirable portscans. I did it without the possibility to directly strike back, since this wouldn't pay. There is an additional manual how to create meaningful log-files and the promised protection against the misuse of BlackIRC from outside.

Anybody wanting to make her/his Amiga more secure is welcome. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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25.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News (ANF)


iBrowse-vote-site
In order to convince the author of iBrowse to continue developing it and to show him that many users are interested in it a website was created where you can write some words to the programmer. You can find more information under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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25.Jul.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


Amiga Future: Interview with Hyperion Entertainment
To this time an interview with Hyperion Entertainment was published on the Amiga Future homepage.

Besides this the second part of the Amiga Future issue 27 went online. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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25.Jul.2001
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


Hardware: USB Central update
The Amiga USB Central site has been updated: There are some pictures of the Zorro-prototype and also a picture of the certainly final standard model for the clockport of the Amiga 1200. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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25.Jul.2001
Oliver Roberts


Datatypes: WarpJPEG.datatype V44.22
With the help of so called datatypes several datatypes can be displayed with different programs. Oliver Roberts has published a new version of his WarpJPEG.datatype.

It is a fast 24bit-JPEG-picture-datatype for computer with 68k, WarpOS or MorphOS.

Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (135 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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25.Jul.2001
Carsten Schröder (E-Mail)


Handelsblatt: Camgaroo: The second start
Carsten Schröder has drawn our attention to an article in Handelsblatt. The article is from 7th May 2001 and therefore is something old but nevertheless it is very interesting. The article is about the career of Gabriele Lechner which is well-known from her time where she was Amiga-publishing trader and author.

Here is a small part of the article:
»You can certainly still remember the Amiga?", Gabriele Lechner asks as a precaution as she fetches her little old-fashioned book from behind the desk. Only few poeple of the current dotcom-generation know the highly popular homecomputer of Commodore in the 80s. According to Lechner the Amiga was not only a computer - it was the beginning of her career as an employer. Because her publisher of that time only wants to publish her book about the Amiga very hesitantly she founded her own publishing house overnight.«
You can find the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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25.Jul.2001



Aminet Uploads until 25.07.2001
getnglist.lha        comm/news   19K+Downloads newsgrouplists from newsserver
ShoutcastIcons.lha   comm/www    74K+Launch Shoutcast streams with nice icons
PSY-CV.lha           demo/aga   420K+Prophesy - Cartoon violence demo. 
PSY-Hal.lha          demo/aga   282K+Prophesy - Halloween demo. 
Psy-tt2.lha          demo/aga   903K+Prophesy - Retribution (Halloween demo 2
PSY-xmas.lha         demo/aga   108K+Prophesy - Christmas demo. 
elt-ragg.lha         demo/euro   50K+Raggy by Eltech
eph-swap.lha         demo/euro   60K+Swaptro by Ephidrena
iris-viv.lha         demo/euro   48K+Vivid by IRIS
void-join.lha        demo/euro   69K+Jointro by Void
apt-ahar.lha         demo/intro  61K+"AHA-Remix" - A 64KB intro by Apathy fro
apt-gore.lha         demo/intro   5K+"A500 Gourad" - A 4KB intro by Apathy fr
dnf-mess.lha         demo/intro  12K+A small BBS intro by Donut Fetish
dpt-chex.lha         demo/intro  64K+"Chexue" - A 64KB intro by Depth from Ki
vbcc_MorphOS.lha     dev/c      838K+Optimizing ISO C compiler (MorphOS-nativ
RDBrecov.lha         disk/salv   24K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
AlanCT152.lha        docs/misc   20K+Polish Guide for hand radio ALAN CT 152
obvious.lha          game/data  108K+DynAMIte style with obvious colors
ImageConvert.lha     gfx/conv    27K+ImageConvert 1.9, batch converting with 
smoke.mpg            mods/mpg   5.8M+Smoke - no comment - just smoke and list
StemFontPic.lha      text/font    3K+Shows visible characters in font Stem
mytail.lha           util/cli     3K+Tail - shows x lines from end of ascii f
pplib020.lha         util/libs    7K+Powerpacker.library 37.8 & PPLoadSeg 020
muFS4510p.lha        util/misc   19K+MultiUser patch for OS3.5/OS3.9 FastFile
wbinfo3_pl.lha       util/misc    7K+WBinfo3 Locale PL
GHelpDeluxe.lha      util/wb     82K+Provides access to all your AmigaGuides 
Memicon.lha          util/wb     18K+Memory/Screen/Clock/OS display for OS3.5
(as) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jul.2001
Bill Borsari (E-Mail)


Event: UGN webcast from AmiWest 2001
The UGN invites you to join us at the AmiWest 2001 show. This year we will start on Friday 27th at 7:00 PM PST (GMT -7) at 8:00 PM PST we will webcast a keynote speech by Bill McEwen. On the 28th and 29th we will have live coverage from the show floor, visit the UGN website for information on who will be available to chat with.

Like shows in the past the UGN will be using Shoutcast technology to deliver live audio to Amiga users round the world. To listen to the audio visit the AmiNet and grab a shoutcast compatible program. The UGN recommends the "StreAmi" program, for more information visit ugn.amiga.org. For the webcam images the UGN uses ImageFX from Novadesign, AmFTP from Vapor, and Miami from Nordic Global Inc.. To view the webcam you can use a browser or a webcam viewer from the AmiNet, see ugn.amiga.org for more details.

Participating at AmiWest 2001 will be done the same way as Amiga St Louis 2001. During the broadcast we will have ICQ available, if you can a question simply send us a message. We ask that you send us your real name and location so that we can give you credit for the question. For the Amiga the UGN recommends "STRICQ," it can be found the AmiNet or from ugn.amiga.org. To add the UGN to your ICQ friends list use the ICQ# 112800234, ICQ nick "UGN".

The UGN would like to thank Amiga.org, Amiga, Inc. and AmiWest 2001 for their support. With out their efforts this would not be possible.

Bill Borsari - Director UGN
tekmage@amiga.org (ps) (Translation: gf)

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24.Jul.2001
Etienne Vogt


System-Monitor: Sysmon V1.16
Etienne Vogt has released version 1.16 of his system-monitors.

Sysmon is a system monitoring and enhancing package based on a shared library and Shell based support commands. It requires AmigaOS 2.04 or higher. Installation of Richard Körber's Identify.library (util/libs/Identify.lha on Aminet) is recommended if you want the Sysmon monitor to be able to identify expansion boards.
If your Amiga has a MMU (Memory Management Unit), it is also recommended, but not required, that you install Thomas Richter's mmu.library, available from Aminet (util/libs/MMULib.lha).

Download: Sysmon116.lha (140 KB)
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24.Jul.2001
Stephan Rupprecht


Library: WBStartEmu V45.2a / Datatype: Icon-Datatype V44.3a (Update)
Stephan Rupprecht has updated his programs WBStartEmu (wbstart.library) version 45.2a for OS3.9 and the Icon datatype version 44.3a for OS3.5+, he has added spanish doc files.

WBStartEmu.lha (8 KB)
IconDT44.lha (8 KB)
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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24.Jul.2001
Fr3dY


Tools: Several updates on Fr3dY
Fr3dy presents many of his programs for free download. These tools are updated:

  • 23. July 2001: TekNap Update to v1.3g
  • 23. July 2001: Lynx Update to v2.8.4rel1
  • 23. July 2001: MPGTX Update to v1.0
  • 23. July 2001: Normalize Update to v0.6.1
  • 12. July 2001: HTMLDOC Update to v1.8.14
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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24.Jul.2001
AmigaGames.com


Icons: Icon Pack #11 from GameIcons.info
With the release of AmigaOS3.5 in 1999 a new downward compatible Amiga icon system was introduced. GameIcons.info has released many game icons since then. Now the Icon Pack #11 with more than 100 game icons of all kind is available for download.

Download: GameIcons-11_Jul2001.lha (ps) (Translation: gf)

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24.Jul.2001
Directory Opus 4 Research Project


Filemanager: Directory Opus 4.16 Beta 2
Jacek Rzeuski has released version 4.16 beta 2 of the filemanager 'DirOpus'. This update contains some improvements (listed in the History).

This beta version only contains files that have changed from version 4.16. you will find this version and the sourcecode on the download page.

DirOpus is a filemanager programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software. The Windows version is available in version 6.

1999 the sourcecode was released under the GNU license. Jacek Rzeuski has then started to rework and enhance the program.

Download: DOpus416b2.lzx (223 KB)

Mirror: http://dopus.free.fr/
Alternative download: DOpus416b2.lzx (ps) (Translation: gf)

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24.Jul.2001
WHDLoad Mailingliste (ANF)


WHDLoad Support Page reachable under other URL (Update)
The WHDLoad support page is not reachable under http://www.whdload.org/ since 1-2 days because of a DNS problem. You can reach it temporarily at http://www363.s-w1.webdesign-net.de/.

WHDLoad allows to install games you only can play from disks on harddisk. This are the new packages:
  • 23.07.01 fixed: Uridium 2 (Graftgold)
  • 23.07.01 enhanced: R-Type 2 (Activision)
  • 22.07.01 fixed: Putty (System 3)
  • 22.07.01 enhanced: OutRun Europe (U.S.Gold/Probe)
  • 22.07.01 new: Lothar Matthäus (Ocean/Audiogenic)
  • 22.07.01 new: Little Computer People (Activision)
  • 22.07.01 enhanced: Hammerboy (Dinamic)
  • 22.07.01 enhanced: European Champions (Ocean)
  • 22.07.01 new: Double Dragon (Ocean)
  • 22.07.01 new: Psychotic (Budbrain)
  • 22.07.01 enhanced: BlockOut (California Dreams)
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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24.Jul.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)


CVS 1.11.1p1 AmigaOS-Port SSH-Update released
After two months since the first complete, ixemul.library indpendent release of the AMigaOS port of CVS the authors (Olaf Barthel and Jens Langner) have released a new update of the port.

In the last version the SSH support was missing and so some requests for an implementation are send in. In this update it is fully integrated. So with this version it is possible via SSH to check in/out directly from CVS servern. This is needed fo example for Sourceforge-Accounts.

Besides many other important bugfixes since the last version now in this update are processor optimized versions (020/030/040/060) contained, this should give enhanced speed performance.

The latest version you will find here: http://amcvs.light-speed.de/ (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Jul.2001
Metalmoon-ML


Game-CD: neo's voyages
Patrick Henz wrote: neo's voyages includes the German versions of Whale's Voyage I+II, Fightin' Spirit, Spherical Worlds, Der Clou and Black Viper. Because of the licences this cd-rom can only be distributed for one year and only outside the UK. Price 2,50 Euro. If you have more questions, I will be glad to answer them.
Orders can be placed on the webpage you will find by following the title link. If you have any questions feel free to send a mail to Patrick Henz (fom@3pyramids.zzn.com). (sd) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Game: New screenshots of "Schlachtfeld"
There are some new screenshots of some units taken from the game. You will find them by following the link "Informationen zum Spiel". (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Joachim Schmid (ANF)


Matay: New Warp3D driver for graphic accelerators version 4.2
You can find a new version of the Warp3D graphic accelerator driver by Hyperion for the Voodoo3 2000/3000. This version (4.2) is the final version and fixes all bugs of the predecessor. The archive contains versions for PPC and 68k.

Download: Warp3D-42.lha (1,25 MB) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Scalos


Workbench replacement: Scalos 1.3 Beta (Version 40.6)
Beta version 40.6 of the extended Workbench replacement Scalos 1.3 was released. The changes made can be taken from the history. If you will happen to find bugs, please enter those to the bug report.

Download: ScalosBeta.lha (140 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Jul.2001
Massimo Tantingone


Massimo Tantingone: project page revised
Massimo Tantingone, well known due to a lot of Amiga-programs by him for example VisualPrefs, updated his project page. He made new versions of VisualPrefs (1.5j), WindowToFront (1.9), titlebar.image (40.15), and IconColors (44.1) avaialable for download.

An added section of his homepage now deals with his ideas of the graphical appearance of the upcoming AmigaOS 4/5. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)


H&P: New Wacom pages
During the last days we completely re-designed the Wacom section and now we are able to deliver almost all of the product line on short call. The professional graphic tablets by Wacom can be used with almost any kind of computer and operating system, like Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, Be, Linux, SGI, Solaris. We deliver any tablet in the Amiga version along with the PC drivers, special Amiga drivers, and Arteffect SE. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Jul.2001
CUCUG


CUCUG: Status Register Juli 2001
The "Status Register" is the monthly newsletter by the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. It deals with topical and important information concerning the Amiga, Macintosh, and the PC as well as news from the computer business. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Tom Parker


Browser: AWeb WarpOS Jpeg- and Gif-Plugin
Tom Parker already released some plugins for AWeb. Currently there are alpha-versions of the WarpOS Jpeg- and Gif-plugin available for download. Please be carefull when using this versions.

If you want to try them out, Tom Parker would be very pleased about any feedback. Further details and the download link can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Morphos Homepage (ANF)


MorphOS: New version of the PC-Emulator "Bochs"
Nicholai Benalal released a new version of "Bochs", a PC-emulator for MorphOS. Some of the changes made:

  • Built-in preference editor
  • Improved control over error handling
  • New, and more interactive, disk image creator
  • Dual hard drive support
  • multiple processor emulation (SMP)
  • VNC remote viewer mode
  • Bugfixes
  • Since some people seem to have problems with BIOS-bochs-latest, I've included the old one as well. Use the one that works best for you!
Additional information and the download link are available here. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
T.o.T.


Game: Tales of Tamar V0.36 R5
Tales of Tamar is an Internet based rounds strategy game by Eternity Entertainment Software for the Amiga, Atari, Java, Linux, and PC. The Amiga version v0.36 R5 now for the first time makes it possible to offer private (trade) agreements to other players. Agreement period, number of goods, and the price can be determined. In not bringing your goods to the official market you can establish an embargo against other players and make sure that own deliveries of amours and weapons are sent to certain players, only. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Jul.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


New feature of TCPScanner V0.40
Portscanning on the Amiga enters the next level, beside of UDP/TCP scanning the TCP-Scanner now is capable of identscan, also, hence can learn which user has started the service scanned. Additionally a rudimentary stealth technic was implemented to the scan operation, making it difficult for portscan detectors to find portscans.

If the upload will work the program will be for download on Aminet under /comm/tcp/, from tomorrow. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
UMTS-Report


Start-up: Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH (smac)
The Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH (smac) is a company newly founded by Siemens to promote mobile business companies. The company now settled in an office building in Oberhaching near Munich, Germany, offering 30 jobs for future start-up staffers.

The Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH wants to promote the worldwide most attractive business ideas of mobile business to fast and successful enter the market, and they want to be one of the top-players of acceleration business, soon.

To achieve this smac makes a wide range of services and infrastructure facilities available to the companies promoted, from professional management coaching, consulting in questions of strategy and law, help in employees recruitment, PR, marketing, and advertisement up to resourcing of office rooms and seed capital. Most of all important for the start-ups are the access to the latest technical innovations in the globals research compound of Siemens, which also enables extended test simulations. Additionally millions of customers can be reached via Siemens' worldwide distribution network.

In the first business year the company has 20 millions Euro available for promoting.

After the location in Munich another location in Europe is planned for Stockholm. Offices in Asia and the U.S.A. are to follow as a next step. It is planned to admit up to ten start-ups per region every year, all in all 30 per year. At the time being five start-ups are part of the last shortlist.

Interested start-ups will receive more information from the Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH by phone: +49 (0)89 636-29141. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
slashdot.org (ANF)


PPC Machine: The Yellow briQ Node
'The Yellow briQ Node' is a compact PPC machine of size of a CD-ROM drive (5,74 x 1,625 x 8,9 Inches) with G3 or G4 CPU and Linux. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News


AGDB: overview of Amiga-Adventures by Sierra
Seppo Typpö and Joachim Froholt have published a detailed article about the Amiga adventure games by Sierra (Kings Quest, Police Quest, Larry, etc.) on 'The Amiga Games Database' site. This article contains information about the formation of Sierra, the adventure interpret used, as well as an analysis of the single games.

Moreover tests of the following games are new on the site: Testament, Skidmarks, Colonial Conquest V1.0, Mig-29M Superfulcrum, and Earth 2140. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
Amiga Future


Security: AmiSSL V1.1
Version 1.1 of the 'amissl.library' is available for download. This version fixes a bug. The archive contains the installation script.

AmiSSL is an Amiga port of OpenSSL. This library allows secure data transfer in the WWW.

Note: Version 1.x of the library does not work with IBrowse v2.2. AmiSSL v2.0 would have come along with IBrowse v2.3.

Beside of the main archive a variety of encryption modules are required, like Blowfish, DES, IDEA, RC5, etc. Those are available for download on the homepage.

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

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22.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News


Matay: Special offer for computer clubs
Matay has a special offer for Amiga user groups located in countries without a Prometheus distributor. Members of such groups can centralized order the PCI board at a reduced price directly from Matay. Closer information can be received via e-mail from Filip Dab-Mirowski (filipdm@matay.pl), or via phone at: +48 603 78 51 00 or +48 812 94 32. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)


File Manager: DiskMaster2 V2.5b11
On 20. July 2001 Rudolph Riedel released version 2.5b11 of the file manager 'DiskMaster', as well as 'DM2.guide' v1.96, and 'DM2_deutsch.guide', v1.96 on his homepage.

The most important innovations:
  • Bugfix: 'Swap' runs again
  • Bugfix: the Startup.DM buffer wasn't always initialized correctly.
  • Changed: 'AddCmd' now also accepts hex-numbers for the colour pen number.
  • Bugfix: the colours set by 'Color' are now marked as used under OS3.9+, too.
  • New: 'SetX' has got a new parameter: 'UserColors'.
  • Changed: only screens with at least 4 colours are opened.
  • Changed: the command button colours are swapped now, instead of inverting the colour pen number, as done before.
  • Bugfix: up to 200 GB should be viewed correctly, now.

Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News


AmigaDE: AmigaDE test
An AmigaDE test was published on amigarticles.tripod.com.

This test discribes the history of the AmigaDE and in short addresses 'RealTime Test', 'Interaction', 'Font Analysis', 'Windows Sizing', 'New Amiga Shell', and 'Java Speed'.

This test is available as HTML and PDF document. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
ANN


Audio: 'REPULSE' sound card test
On 20. July 2001 Brent Santin published a detailed test of the 'REPULSE' sound card by Alien Design on Aminet.

The 'REPULSE' is a 24/16 bit sound card for Amigas with Zorro-II slots. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001



Aminet Uploads until 22.07.2001
mSQL-Admin.lha       biz/dbase   73K+MSQL-Database Administration Tool (with 
PrintMail.lha        comm/mail   12K+YAM ARexx script prints header & page
TruncateMail.lha     comm/mail   11K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
YAM_GR.lha           comm/mail    7K+Greek locale catalog for YAM
YAT.lha              comm/mail  574K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
nc_update_beta.lha   comm/news  154K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.4
newscoaster_b.lha    comm/news  376K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.4
smbfs.lha            comm/tcp   121K+SMB file system client; complements Samb
Aweb_GR.lha          comm/www     8K+Greek locale catalogs for Aweb and Awebc
ABF.lha              dev/basic   35K+[HACK] Modify on-the-fly the version
AntyDresiarz0s.lha   dev/basic  694K+AntyDresiarz Issue #0, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz1s.lha   dev/basic  1.4M+AntyDresiarz Issue #1, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz2s.lha   dev/basic  3.5M+AntyDresiarz Issue #2, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz3s.lha   dev/basic  5.4M+AntyDresiarz Issue #3, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz4s.lha   dev/basic  5.4M+AntyDresiarz Issue #4, Blitz2 source cod
clockita.lha         dev/basic   89K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
yaec.lha             dev/e      404K+Yaec - Yet Another E Compiler [1.8a]. Th
FoxEd.lha            dev/gui    152K+Screen Editor.  Creates code for FoxGUI
FoxGuiLibs.lha       dev/gui    186K+Free Gui Library V5.1
FoxGuiSource.lha     dev/gui    169K+FoxGUI Library V5.1 Source Code
titlebar_ic.lha      dev/gui     24K+BOOPSI class of titlebar gadget images
RDBrecov.lha         disk/salv   24K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
IBrowse2.2PL.lha     docs/help   14K+Polish Locale for IBrowse2.2 v.1.4
SCSI-help.txt        docs/help    1K+Help for SCSI and ultra SCSI
Visor-Amiga.txt      docs/help    1K+How to connect a Visor (Palm) PDA  with 
MyRepulse.txt        docs/rview  18K+Review of the REPULSE audio card
F1GP_2001.lha        game/data   10K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (15 July
WHD_UridiumII.lha    game/patch  18K+HD Installer for Uridium II
Emerald.lha          game/wb    872K+Graphical effects and games
vcdimager_077.lha    gfx/conv   472K+VCDImager 0.7.7 Beta (WarpUP and 68k Sup
SvIV-1.lha           gfx/misc   355K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 1/8
SvIV-2.lha           gfx/misc   220K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 2/8
SvIV-3a.lha          gfx/misc   142K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 3a/8
SvIV-3b.lha          gfx/misc   226K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 3b/8
SvIV-4.lha           gfx/misc    43K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 4/8
SvIV-5.lha           gfx/misc    60K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 5/8
SvIV-6.lha           gfx/misc   120K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 6/8 (op
SvIV-7.lha           gfx/misc   127K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 7/8 (op
SvIV-8.lha           gfx/misc   222K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 8/8 (op
PicShow.lha          gfx/show    10K+Datatype picture viewer for directory to
ScanQuixSP.lha       hard/drivr  14K+ScanQuix 5.x spanish catalogs v1.1.0
imdbDiff010713.lha   misc/imdb  2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
bird.lha             misc/sci    31K+Small program of flocking birds
fuzzcontr2.lha       misc/sci    42K+PID/Fuzzy Control Simulator
LiFun.lha            misc/sci   332K+Ant/flee simulation, with a warlike plot
boorang.mpg          mods/mpg   6.6M+Dubmusic for the dancefloor 7`12``
False.mpg            mods/mpg   4.3M+False - I didn`t knew Aphex Twin at the 
Sow.mpg              mods/mpg   6.6M+Symphonie of wetness - talkdrum trance b
SpaceDock.jpg        pix/trace   52K+Space Dock Star Trek
SpaceDockW.jpg       pix/trace   95K+Space Dock Wireframe Star Trek
NoweeBnB.lha         pix/wb     507K+Brown Workbench Look by Nowee for Visual
Screen_Pa.jpg        pix/wb     247K+Snapshot of Amiga (Voodoo3) Workbench Sc
StemFont.lha         text/font    9K+V2 Nice 12-point bitmap font for high-re
alba.lha             util/boot   64K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
WinToFront19.lha     util/cdity  43K+Replaces ClickToFront, with more options
tail.lha             util/cli     3K+Tail - shows x lines from end of ascii f
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype 134K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.21 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
PdaLink.lha          util/libs  131K+Connect Amiga with Palm PDA (V2.0)
AslToRT.lha          util/misc   23K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
Anno1.21.lha         util/time   23K+Reminder and calendar utility
666PntrEyes.lha      util/wb      8K+BNSMWB-palette image file for PointerEye
HitMenu.lha          util/wb     83K+Small "software manager" + screeshot
LaunchV3.53.lha      util/wb     82K+Nice Scrolling Program Launcher
VisualPrefs.lha      util/wb    464K+Configure the look of the Amiga GUI!
(as) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
NSM-Page


Midi: camd.library V40, CamdBnp-Tools
The camd library v40 as well as the CamdBnp tools for BarsnPipes were released on the NSM page.

'camd' is a shared library for midi, which is part of the AmigaOS. Due to several problems with the original one and because there was no camd.library for AROS, this library was completely new programmed. This one should work like the original one and was successfully tested with 'BarsnPipes' 'Radium', and the 'CAMD' toolkit.

An additional driver 'mmp' and a special camd midi driver for WinUAE are available for download for this library.

The 'camdbnp.lha.zip' archive contains 64 tools for BarsnPipes, which should simplify the communication with other programs. The 'camd library' is used for this communication.

'camd40.lha' and 'mmp.lha' contains both binary and source code (APL, AROS Public License). The includes are part of the AROS source code and also available via e-mail.

Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
Vapor


Messenger: AmIRC 3.5.17beta
On 20. July 2001 Oliver Wagner released beta version 3.5.17 of the IRC client 'AmIRC'.

This version contains several smaller extensions, bugfixes, and DCC support for IP-NAT gateways without internal DCC support.

Download: amirc_3517beta.lzx (300K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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