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`21.Jul.2001` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: full version and comment Amiga Arena Full Version In co-operation with Denis Unger the Amiga Arena makes the release of "Foreign Language Master V2.3" possible! FLM is a program for foreign languages that can be used as a dictionary for text translation and to learning of vocabularies. FLM contains some English-German dictionaries (all in all about 8 MB with about 175,000 entries). Denis Unger continues developing "FLM". For a new version of "FLM" Denis Unger would be pleased to receive concrete suggestions for improving the software and to receive feedback! Further information and data bases for use with "FLM" can be found here, contact: flmdic@gmx.de. Amiga Arena - comment I use "FLM" almost daily myself and don't want to miss it anymore! My call to you - with a short mail to Denis U. everybody would contribute to further supporting and improving this tool. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 21. Jul. 2001, 21:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jul.2001` Andreas Günther (ANF)	Spanish catalog files for ScanQuix 5 From now on there are Spanish program texts for ScanQuix 5 available. The texts were translated by Dámaso D. Estévez and made available on Aminet under "hard/drivr/ScanQuixSP.lha". Alternatively the archive can be downloaded using the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 21. Jul. 2001, 21:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jul.2001` Richard Kapp (E-Mail)	GFX-BASE: poll results and font tutorial On the GFX-BASE you can now find the results of our latest poll. We had 331 votes regarding our question which graphics board you use/own. Have a look yourself to see which one got the most votes. Additionally we have a new (English) tutorial. It's all about fonts. We explain the use of different fonts and font tools as well as the conversion of different font types that you can use on the Amiga. We also deal with webfonts and the use of fonts in word processors. And then we have received again some more entries of games and scene demos that support graphics cards. More to follow soon. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 21. Jul. 2001, 21:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jul.2001` Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla	AROS News As announced, the aros.org domain is temporarily down. I'll announce it when the routine problems have been solved. Until then, the mailing lists can be reached on lists.hepe.com and the CVS server is at sbb.hepe.com (use updatecvspath in AROS/scripts/ to change it). Party on :-) (ps) [News message: 21. Jul. 2001, 21:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jul.2001` FORE-MATT Home Computing (E-Mail)	Genetic Species on 100%AMIGA 100%AMIGA and Marble Eyes are proud to announce that the Amiga's best ever first person shooter, Genetic Species, will be on the August edition of the premier Amiga CD magazine. Subscribers getting issue 15 of 100%AMIGA will get a special 2CD set including the full commercial release of Genetic Species FREE. 100%AMIGA - 100%BIGGER and 100%BETTER than any other Amiga magazine. Issue 15 will be available from 5th August. Subscribe Now! http://www.100PercentAmiga.org http://www.marble-eyes.dk (ps) [News message: 21. Jul. 2001, 21:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jul.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Amiga Society says thank you! 97% of the poll participiants want the Amiga-Society to stay alive! For this we want to thank you very much, as well as we thank all the people who offered us their help and to whom we will surely come back in the next time. The site is now available in a light version. The two central points 'Schlachtfeld' and the 'BBoAH' are still online. By the way, there's a poll running whether a software page (in German) shall be created on the basis of the Big Book of Amiga hardware. The full functionality will be reached again until September, but till then it will have changed in content in quite some ways! (ps) [News message: 21. Jul. 2001, 08:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jul.2001` Tommy Tamsen (ANF)	JVC announce OCPA coorperation At the URL JVC announce the "Open Contents Platform Association to be Established". There are many interesting companies listed, e.g. Sega and Taito, to create content for the intent (Tao) based computers, cell phones etc., but Amiga Inc. are not mentioned anywhere... (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 20. Jul. 2001, 21:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jul.2001` SOL-Invictus (ANF)	H&P: Toolbars for AmigaWriter and ArtEffect The team Thomas Peterseim, Heinz Andreolla, Marco Schärfchen and Oliver Tacke has provided Haage&Partner with new toolbars for AmigaWriter and ArtEffect. Download: AE-Toolbars.lha - AW220-Toolbars.lha (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 20. Jul. 2001, 21:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jul.2001` Amarpreet Singh Munde (ANF)	Datatype: New version of DocDatatypes (v40.20) I have just released a new version of DocDatatypes. New for this version (40.20) is the support of writing Compressed Palm Docs and the fixing of the Mac Write descriptor. Also all datatypes have had some speed improvements and memory optimisations. DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. The list of supported formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc(pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write, Mac TeachText and Mac Text. There is also a new version of FindFile in the archive. A new fast, easy to use file finder application that offers search by name, size, date, and even file type. Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes. Also SpitFire, the Palm Desktop by Ralph Torchia becomes the first application to support Native File Format Loading and Saving via DocDatatypes. Now convert any supported format and use it on your Palm. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 20. Jul. 2001, 19:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jul.2001` MorphOS	MorphOS: Developer Support Page opened A support area for developers was opened on the MorphOS website. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 20. Jul. 2001, 11:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jul.2001` AudioLabs	AudioLabs: Special offer for ProStationAudio The Millennium version of the music editor 'ProStationAudio' is currently being offered by AudioLabs for special conditions. ProStationAudio Millennium V4, 16 track / 32 channel non linear editor for AmigaOS all the realtime ALPS plugins for ProStationAudio included AudioLab16 processing software for AmigaOS unlimited tech support for ProStationAudio Prices and more details at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 20. Jul. 2001, 11:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jul.2001` Frank Fenn	Music: Audiomaster 2000 version 0.77 Version 0.77 of Audiomaster 2000, the sample editor, has been released. The program uses MUI and supports all AHI devices. The program by Frank 'Fenny' Fenn is shareware, the demo version does not allow saving. Download: audiomaster2k.lha (354 KB) (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 20. Jul. 2001, 11:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jul.2001` Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)	Role-playing game: Exult 0.93alpha4 Rüdiger Hanke writes: My Exult port for Amiga is available for download on my homepage. Exult is a role-playing game engine which can interpret Ultima 7 datafiles. Ultima 7 still captivates after many years with an epic storyline, a vast world and many details. You can find some screenshots on my webpage. The story: 200 years have passed in Britannia since your last visit as the Avatar. Driven by the mockery of a demonic creature calling itself "The Guardian", you travel once more to Britannia and arrive in Trinsic on a scene of gruesome murder. Maybe the new organization "The Fellowship", which is gaining more and more influence in the lands, is involved in it? Or maybe this is just the beginning of a larger plan that might endanger all Britannia? Required is an Amiga with FPU and graphics card as well as the original PC game by Origin. Please note that the files on the disk version are usually packed and have to be installed on an MS-DOS system to get the required files. Alternately, the uncompressed game is contained on the "Ultima Collection" CD-ROM. As a small goodie for the Amiga I have included a preferences program with which you can change all game options with a graphical interface on OS3.5 and above. An interesting tidbit: While porting the game, I found a sourcecode to read IFF files. Indeed, some of the Ultima 7 files are in IFF format. Even the chunk lengths are in Motorola and not Intel byteorder ... (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 20. Jul. 2001, 02:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Stephan Rupprecht (E-Mail)	Tool: SGrab with PNG format to save Stephan Rupprecht wrote: I just released SGrab v1.16 on my homepage. This now offers the possibility to save screenshots as PNG files. Download: sgrab.lha - (99 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 16:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)	e.p.i.c. interactive: Feeble Ubdate Thomas Steiding of e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH wrote: Update & FAQs about The Feeble Files As announced last week we require at least 400 pre-orders to enable an Amiga port of the cartoon adventure The Feeble Files. Including today's entries we received 232 pre-orders and we are hoping, that the following days will bring the rest. The game can be pre-orders from us (order@epic-interactive.com) or from any stockist. With the enclosed FAQ we hope to be able to answers some frequently asked questions regarding the announcement. Q: What is The Feeble Files about? A: The Feeble Files is the official sequel to Simon The Sorcerer II by the British Adventuresoft company. Feeble is a little green alien having the task to make circles in grain fields on earth. He lives in a world restrictively ruled by the Omnibrain and he is an honest citizen never violating the group's big catalog of rules. But one day this kind hearted gawky stumbles into a full-grown conspiracy against the Omnibrain. As one can see from the screenshots on our homepage, the characters of this game are fully rendered. The game comes along with complete German or English spoken samples. The German games magazine PC-Games rated the title at 80%, then. The German vocals came for example from the German movie voices of Brad Pitt, Whoopi Goldberg, and Roseanne. More information and topical Mac screenshot are to find on our homepage. Q: What Amiga do I need for The Feeble Files? A: The Feeble Files requires an Amiga equipped with a 4 MB graphics board and 32 MB of memory. Furthermore a 68060 OR a PPC CPU is required. Theoretically the game would run on a 68040/40, but sure would be very very slow on this configuration. Q: When will the game be out? A: As soon as we have received 400 pre-orders (no matter if those were directly ordered from us or from a vendor - who forwards the orders to us), we will start to port the game to the Amiga. Due to the porting engine of our leader of development, Paul Burkey, the game then should be shipping for the Amiga within 6 weeks!! Q: Will there be more Amiga games from e.p.i.c. interactive? A: Theoretically it would be possible to port to the Amiga more games currently available for the Apple Macintosh. But since license fees for other games, e.g. like in case of the Settlers clone Knights&Merchants or the RPG-mix Gorky 17, are much more expensive (and hence the number of sales to be expected for an Amiga version must be higher), it is clear: If The Feeble Files port will not become reality, we don't need to start thinking about more games. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 16:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Andre Geisler (ANF)	GRex4000T available from August Andre Geisler wrote: This moring I called DCE on the phone. From this call I learned, that definite there will be a PCI expansion for the Amiga4000T (and A4000D built into a case), which will be connected to the PPC board's bus, as usual. This would be available from the end of August, the latest on the Cologne show. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 15:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` infinity (ANF)	Elbox Computer announce mutual consent with Hyperion After a long time of both official and private discussions Elbox announced on the Mediator mailing list to sign Hyperion's contract for the Warp3D drivers. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 15:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Michael Asse (ANF)	Start of the AmigaFFE project Michael Asse wrote: Today I would like to announce the official start of the AmigaFFE project in which I would like to tackle the port of the 'Frontier First Encounters' game to the Amiga with help of other interested people. As a first step I defined preliminary project aims to which you can, may and shall send me suggestions and tips, etc., since this is my first project and I don't have the specialised knowledge to do this perfectly. Please, don't send me any "What should that gain...?" mails. I would not reply. The provisional time limit to send suggestions for the project aims was set to 31. August 2001. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 15:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Matthias Münch (ANF)	PowerPC ATX Board Matthias Muench wrote: I just happend to find an interesting article on the IBM site, which is about a new PowerPC ATX board. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 15:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` T.o.T.	Game: Tales of Tamar News Tales of Tamar is an Internet based rounds game by Eternity Entertainment for the Amiga, Atari, Linux, and PC. Since a few days the first Java version is available, which later will be available for settop boxes, handheld, and all other computers not supported native. New Atari version v0.21 The option screen was ported to the Atari version v0.21, enabling sound, Internet, and modem settings. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 11:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Marco Miljak, c't 14/2001 (ANF)	AltairBASIC source code by Bill Gates Under the mentioned URL one can find a very interesting analysis of the AltairBASIC once programmed by Bill Gates. The British computer scientist Reuben Harris disassembled and elaborately described it on his website. There also is an AltairBASIC simulation basing on Java applets. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 11:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Stephan Rupprecht	Library: WBStartEmu V45.2 / Datatype: Icon-Datatype V44.3 Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.2 of his WBStartEmu (wbstart.library) for OS3.9. The icon datatype for OS3.5+ was updated and now is available as v44.3. Download: WBStartEmu.lha (5 KB) IconDT44.lha (8 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 11:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Sven Zander (ANF)	Kult is coming home - News at "com!online" 08/2001 The current issue 08/2001 of the German print magazine com!online mentions the Amiga in the news on page #20 reading that the Amiga boss Bill McEwen announced the cult-brand soon to come back. The new One PPC 1200 would be under development specially for this purpose. If this computer will attract enough customers the company would found new agencies, yet. The following interesting wording was used for the Amiga: "In the long run this box cannot be killed", and, "....for the scuffproofed veteran...". (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)	AROS News As already reported there were hardware problems with the server hosting the AROS website. Some good and bad news about that: the good news is, that the hardware will be replaced, the bad news is, that the machine will be connected to a new network and thus the page temporary might not be available, again, due to DNS conversion. Here the original message with more details: As you might have noticed, we had a lot of hardware failures in the last months. Now there are good and bad news. The good one is that the hardware will be replaced. The bad one is that the machine is moved to a different network and this means that we'll have DNS hell all over again ! The "real" name of the machine on which AROS is hosted is "sebigbos.hepe.com". This name should work when aros.org doesn't. So when CVS doesn't like you anymore, check AROS/scripts/updatecvspath to fix the host name until I have fixed the DNS server (usually takes only several weeks...hrm :-). The mailing list runs on lists.hepe.com. The only thing which will not be reachable for the time being is the web and the ftp site. Sorry for any inconvenience. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Game: New Schlachtfeld survey The previously announced Schlachtfeld survey is online. This survey is about how to differ the units: Units in red/green/blue/yellow. Units with tactical field signs. Units with different textures. Units with different textures and tactical field signs. Different textures with certain primary colours (red/green/blue/yellow) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` No Risc No Fun (ANF)	nrnf: Interview with Matay There is an interview (English) with Filip Dab-Mirowski of Matay online on 'no risc no fun'. Learn about the future of the Prometheus. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)	Stardate-Mailbox back to the Internet One week after a flashlight caused damage to the DSL connection the Stardate-Mailbox is available via Internet (http/telnet), again: stardate.2y.net (title link). Also the Dynamite server of same denominator is running, again. Background: While a thunderbolt in Muenster (Germany) and the surrounding area a flashlight hit the telephone switch and put off my DSL connection. The (German) Telekom repaired it, now. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Alexander Kurtz (ANF)	Upload function for the Aminet on www.aminet-gui.de Soon there will be an upload function available on the AminetGUI. Thus it will be possible to upload files of up to 5 MB of size to the Aminet, without any FTP knowledge. The current script still is beta and is being reworked. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Thorsten Schoelzel (E-Mail)	RealAudio/Media-Support page updated (Update) A few days ago Sigbjørn Skjæret released version 2 of his RealAudio/Media player "RAPlay". New is among other things the support of the RealMedia format, which could not be played up to now. More information e.g. about installation as well as download possibilities are to find under the title link. Of course there also is a PPC version. Update 19. July 2001: Thorsten Schoelzel wrote: As I just was told by Sigbjørn Skjæret, RealMedia is not supported, yet. But there is a better RealAudio 1 & 2 support. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 22:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Christoph Meier (ANF)	Tom's Hardware Guide: Corel takes over Micrografx The Canadian software manufacturer Corel according to Tom's Hardware Guide is about to take over their American graphics software competitor Micrografx. This fusion will be established by exchange of shares. Some 32 Millions USD were mentioned for the price. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 21:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Big Book of Amiga Hardware Update On the 5th of July in 2001 Big Book of Amiga Hardware has been updated. From today the updates are also available at the German mirror. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 14:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Diverse	Apple: Quarterly results Q3/2001 After Apple has published its quarterly profits- and loss results there are some articles in various media. At Macworld Expo which currently takes place in New York some new models are supposed to be showed. Apple: Apple Reports Third Quarter Profit of $61 Million Golem: Apple looks optimisticly in the future Heise: Apple gains hope Macnews.de: Detailed quarterly results q3/2001 of Apple Spiegel: Apple: Anxious in the autumn Stern: Apple finally is profitable again ZDNet: Apple got profits (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 14:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Scalos	Workbench replacement: New autodocs for Scalos In the section 'Developers' of the website you can find new autodocs for Scalos. Autodocs are developer-documentations which were made in a standardized way. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 13:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Oliver Roberts	Datatypes: WarpJPEG.datatype version 44.21 With the help of so called datatypes various datatypes can be showed with different programs. Oliver Roberts has published version 44.21 of his 24-bit JPEG-datatype which is available for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS. Some bugs has been fixed and the support for some webcam-pictures has been added. Besides this the memory management has been optimized and the PowerPC-version was newly compiled with VBCC 0.8. Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (134 KB) (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 13:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Haage&Partner	H&P: StormC student version (Update) Because of the immense request Haage&Partner offers a student version of the developer system 'StormC'. It is a cheap full version without any restrictions. It is available for schoolboys and schoolgirls as well as students who send H&P an officially recognized evidence of their school or their university with the order. Postscript: If you can prove a valid training contract trainee can order the student version, too. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 13:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: Safe version 16.2 With the virus scanner 'Safe' you can detect virus but you can not eleminate them. It follows the details to version 16.2 which has been published today: Name: Safe v16.2 Archive name: Safe.lha Archive size: 37.500 bytes Release date: 17. Juli 2001 Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski Required: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended) NOTE THAT SAFE IS VIRUS DETECTOR - NOT FILE CHECKER OR CLEANER! IT ONLY INFORMS ABOUT ATTACK AND REMOVES VIRUS FROM MEMORY IF POSSIBLE! New in v16.2 Added XFD slave to detect and remove PENETRATOR and two SMEG2 clones from files. Please use xfdDecrunch to perform cleaning or VirusZ to see the infected files. Added to Safe memory removal for SMEG2 viruses. Added generic memory removal for PENETRATOR and other SMEG1 kind infectors. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 02:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` Joerg Rebenstorf, CEO ALiENDESiGN (ANF)	New web-design at ALiENDESIGN The web-design of the ALiENDESiGN company was completely reworked. We think that our web-designer FoX did a very good job, again, as he previously did with the product pages, and so we would be happy, if you would drop by. The Repulse sound card still is available from our online shop and the online shop now is fully integrated to the web-offer. Suggestions are welcome, contact sales@aliendesign-gbr.de. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 21:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001`	Aminet Uploads until 17.07.2001 IBrowseMI.lha comm/www 26K+GlowIcons Toolbar for IBrowse IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 19K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.2.0 MD2MI.lha comm/www 25K+GlowIcons Toolbar for MicroDOT 2 simplehtml.lha comm/www 38K+V0.17 of the simple HTML Offline Browser lns-hst.lha demo/aga 2.6M+Hotstyle Takeover by Loonies (MS2001 2nd PhxAss.lha dev/asm 151K+PhxAss V4.40 68xxx Macro Assembler uncat.lha dev/misc 8K+Create .cd file from running program PFS3ud.lha disk/misc 124K+PFS3 undelete qformat.lha disk/misc 6K+Quick format for FFS disks SyQuest270-ML.lha disk/misc 17K+Mountlist for SyQuest 270MB Drives f1me.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Formula 1 Manager enhanced paranoia.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Paranoia Vol.1 psv.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: PSV Football manager revolution.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Classic Revolution scorpius.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Scorpius toons.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Amiga Toons Vol.1 vt2.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: VideoTracker 2.0 PSX-BlackCheat.lha docs/mags 177K+PSX-CheatBook HTML-Only CircusLinux.lha game/actio 744K+SDL game compiled for Amiga Mattonite.lha game/demo 484K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress FoundationMan.lha game/misc 256K+Foundation Manual (PDF version) IChing.lha game/misc 100K+V2.0 of a GUI I-Ching fortune telling pr PicShow.lha gfx/show 9K+Datatype picture viewer for directory to DickTracy.lha mods/misc 32K+Custom module from "Dick Tracy" rno-r063.lha mods/misc 190K+Rno-records release no.63 by tang (triph NeuralAss.lha mods/pro 100K+Two Protracker mod's from the demo 'Neur ClassMI.lha pix/gicon 33K+A GlowIconsSet for ClassAction eNoteMI.lha pix/gicon 9K+A GlowIconsSet for eNote PlayMI.lha pix/gicon 38K+A GlowIconsSet for PlayGUI FF9_icons.lha pix/nicon 29K+Great set of FF9 Newicons HP_Deskjet400C.lha text/print 24K+Deskjet 400C/L Driver for WB 40.10 HP_Deskjet600C.lha text/print 26K+Deskjet 600C Driver for WB V40.12 CheckX.lha util/arc 28K+V1.85 Check for Archive/Packer/Virus alba.lha util/boot 61K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG JPEG-DT.lha util/dtype 433K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (43.5) JPEG-DT35.lha util/dtype 357K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (46.3a) JoinReplace.lha util/sys 17K+V1.20 powerful Join replacement Easyreset.lha util/wb 18K+EasyReset - system reset utility Memicon.lha util/wb 17K+Memory/Screen/OS display for OS3.5/OS3.9 (as) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 21:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` Da SixK Port Page	Tool: Webalizer 2.01-06 for MorphOS With this tool HTML statistics can be created from Apache log-files. This version is for MorphOS and is faster than the 68k version (1.8 seconds contrary to 11 seconds, determined using the same Apache log-file). Download: webalizer-2.01-06_mos.lzx (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 17:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Game: New Schlachtfeld pictures In spite of the turbulences around the Amiga-Society of course development of the Game Schlachtfeld is being continued. Edgar Leiding rendered some units for the game's board, again. Thus now there are nine unit previews available - there will be some changes, of course. There will be a survey regarding the camouflage: the question is, if the enemies should use different colours (red, blue, ...) or should differ by different textures and/or tactical field signs. You can also post your opinion about that in the forum of the Schlachtfeld website. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 15:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` I. Souvatzis (ANF)	NetBSD-1.5.1 released NetBSD-1.5.1 is a patch release for the Unix like open source operating system from now available via FTP. Since NetBSD-1.5 mainly some enhancements regarding system security were added. VLAN's (viruel LAN's) support is one of the new features. Closer information can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 14:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` Christian Effenberger (ANF)	mSQL database administration program Who ever dealt with SQL database systems soon realized that in fact only mSQL comes into question for working offline. mSQL is the most compact and resource sparing SQL-DBMS for the Amiga. One example to point this up: The mSQL daemon requires less than 10% of the resources the MySQL daemon needs and even can react 4-times faster on client requests via mUSD (unix socks daemon). The biggest disadvantage of all SQL systems for the Amiga is the lack of any GUI software for administration and database care. That's why I wrote a program named mSQL-Administrator, which contains the operation of the following executables of the "mSQL.bin" directory: msql, msql2d, msqladmin, msqldump, msqlexport, msqlimport, relshow, and mUSD. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 14:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` Richard Körber (ANF)	Palmiga is now called amiga-pda The Palmiga Project is a project for all Amiga users that own a PalmOS-PDA to use with their Amigas. Palm Inc. wrote to me that the name is violating their trademark, combined with the request to change it. Due to this the mailinglist can from now on be reached via "amiga-pda": http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amiga-pda. Assigned members should post to amiga-pda@yahoogroups.com. The Pamiga website will be redesigned in the near future available at the URL http://amigapda.shredzone.de. I want to let you know they have send their request in a very polite way against the trend without announcing any lawyers. :) (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 09:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jul.2001` WHDLoad	Installer: WHDLoad - New packages By using WHDLoad you can install floppy-based games on your harddisc. Available new packages: 15.07.01 new: Cebit'90 (RSI) done by Galahad (ReadMe,Image) 15.07.01 new: Arcade Pool (Team 17) done by Jeff (ReadMe) 15.07.01 fixed: Super Methane Bros (Apache) protection work around (ReadMe,Image) 15.07.01 new: Seven Sins (Scoopex) done by Galahad (ReadMe,Image) 15.07.01 improved: Operation Stealth (Delphine) misc changes (ReadMe) 15.07.01 improved: Magic Pockets (Renegade/Bitmap Brothers) some changes (ReadMe,Image) 15.07.01 new: Colors (Devils) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image) 15.07.01 new: BlockOut (California Dreams) done by Jeff (ReadMe) 14.07.01 new: Paperboy (Atari) done by Ralf Huvendiek & Jeff (ReadMe) 14.07.01 improved: IK+ (Archer MacLean) supports another version (ReadMe) 13.07.01 new: Great Courts 2 (Blue Byte) done by Psygore (ReadMe) (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jul. 2001, 23:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jul.2001` Sebastian Bauer	HTML-Offline Browser: SimpleHTML Version 0.17 SimpleHTML (version 0.17) is a HTML offline browser. It lets you quickly display small HTML-files (for example as a MIME-viewer of HTML-files with YAM). But only a small set of HTML-tags is supported. A html.datatype is available, too. Only OS3.0 is recommended. For dislpaying embeded pictures you need the corresponding datatype. Download: simplehtml.lzx (36 KB) html-dt.lzx (27 KB) (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jul. 2001, 21:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jul.2001` Amiga Inc.	Edivision LLC working with Amiga Inc. Edivision Teams Up With Amiga To Develop Exciting New Content Snoqualmie, WA - July 12, 2001 Edivision LLC announced today that they would create game applications for the Amiga Digital Environment (AmigaDE). The company plans to create 3 titles in the coming year for the AmigaDE environment. The games 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. Edivision Press Release Los Angeles, CA - July ##, 2001 Edivision LLC announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with Amiga, Inc. Amiga, Inc. will have world-wide distribution rights on software titles Edivision will produce using the AmigaDE operating environment. Also under the agreement Edivision will make technology it develops for its AmigaDE titles available to Amiga, Inc. Edivision LLC will create 3 development labels over the next year that run on the AmigaDE platform. Two labels will be exclusively devoted to entertainment titles, while the third will provide utilities, drivers, and extended functionality. Edivision will focus on original titles for its first set of releases, but the company is also negotiating with other developers to bring their titles to the AmigaDE platform. "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. "With their expertise in gaming and the entertainment industry, we look forward to some revolutionary games for the PDA market." "Titles created for the AmigaDE are capable of running unmodified on a number of platforms including PocketPC, Zaurus, Windows, and Linux. This gives us a tremendous advantage in bringing a title to market." remarked Steven Haun, CFO of Edivision. "It allows us to focus development on the title itself and not the limitations of cross-platform least common denominator intrinsics." About Amiga Inc. 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. The 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 http://www.amiga.com. About Edivision Edivision LLC was formed in May 2001 in Los Angeles, CA. Its founders, Patrick Roberts, Jeremy Engelman, and Steven Haun are veterans of the computer gaming industry. They have received numerous awards and accolades for their cutting-edge work in computer graphics and animation. For more details about Edivision, visit http://www.e-d-i-v-i-s-i-o-n.com or contact Steven Haun at Steven.Haun@e-d-i-v-i-s-i-o-n.com or via phone at (323) 578-1998. All Trademarks are the Property of their Respective Owners. All Rights Reserved. ## (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 16. Jul. 2001, 20:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jul.2001` Ben Yoris/Hyperion (ANF)	Hyperion publishes Voodoo3 vs. Permedia 2 benchmarks Hyperion Entertainment recently conducted some tests benchmarking the Permedia 2 based Cybervision PPC against a Voodoo 3 / Prometheus combo. The test is a timedemo in Heretic II. Cybervision PPC 640x480: 14.9 FPS 800x600: 9.9 FPS Configuration: Cyberstorm PPC 604e/233-060/50, 128 MB of RAM Voodoo 3 (Prometheus) 640x480: 18.6 FPS 800x600: 18.6 FPS Configuration: Cyberstorm PPC 604e/200-060/50, 96 MB of RAM For more detailed informations you may check the Amiga Extreme Web site. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jul. 2001, 14:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jul.2001` Milan Pollé (ANF)	Genetic Species for Gameboy Advance petition Milan Pollé (author of the site, but not the petition pages) write: Seeing the FPS games announced for the Gameboy Advance started me thinking about the awesome Amiga game Genetic Species, by Marble Eyes. This game is an FPS with really great atmosphere and elements borrowed from the classic 'Paradroid', like being able to take over the bodies and skills of your enemies. As this game worked well on low-end Amigas, about three years ago, I thought it might be possible to port it to the Gameboy Advance. The developers of this game worked for three years on it and only sold hundreds or at the most a couple of thousands of copies, as the Amiga market had shrunk when the game was completed, but also because of piracy. Needless to say the developers were really disappointed. I coined this idea in the Gameboy Advance forum on www.ign.com and people were really interested in this game, so they started contacting the developers, who were suprised by the sudden attention this game got. At the moment the developers are looking into the possibilities of doing a port. We ask anyone interested in a Gameboy Advance version to sign our petition. Even if in the end a port won't or can't be done, it will show the developers that their work is appreciated by a lot of people. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jul. 2001, 08:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jul.2001` Webmaster SAUGe.V. (ANF)	Attention: virus after EBay-auction? Attention: virus after EBay-auction? Attention: sellers and byers: It seems that shortly after the end of an auction some sellers and byers got an e-mail with the sender of the seller or byer that contains a ".exe"-file. Do not open this file! If you do your Windows-system will be infected with the "W95/Hybris.worm.B"-virus. Maybe this virus makes it possible to attack your system with a subseven program. EBay is allready informed. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jul. 2001, 08:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jul.2001` No Risc No Fun (ANF)	nrnf: Voodoo3 Speedtest Fabio Trotta wrote: The day before yesterday when I wanted to post the Voodoo3-speedtest I recognized that there was a new version of the display driver. This was why I trashed all the findings and retested everything with this new versions of the P96 and W3D drivers. Now my findings are available at the title link. I compared the speed of the Voodoo3, the CVPPC, PicassoIV and the AGA-chip. There are some 3D-game-tests and also 2D-graphicfunctions-tests available now. Find out what a Voodoo3 is able to offer you in your Amiga. (ps) [News message: 16. Jul. 2001, 08:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jul.2001` ANN	Event: Saku 2001 - Website online 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 Amiga Users Group is pleased to announce that the Web site for its fourth Amiga event, Saku 2001, is now open. The Web site features highlights, directions and other vital information for interested visitors and exhibitors from Finland and abroad. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Finnish Amiga Users Group Announces Saku 2001 Web Site VANTAA, FINLAND - July 15, 2001 - Finnish Amiga Users Group is pleased to announce that the Web site for its fourth Amiga event, Saku 2001, is now open. The Web site features highlights, directions and other vital information for interested visitors and exhibitors from Finland and abroad. Two webcams will be available from the venue. We are also planning an IRC channel. Fleecy Moss, Vice President of Amiga Inc., will attend the show and demonstrate the latest Amiga products such as the AmigaDE. A representative of Matay company will present their new PCI bridge, the Prometheus. The Mediator PCI bridge will also be demonstrated with a Voodoo3 graphics card. Latest versions of Nova Design's ImageFX and Aladdin4D are available for testing. Finnish Amiga retailer Gentle Eye Ky offers a variety of Amiga products to buy at the venue. Other highlights and competitions are planned. 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. 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. About Finnish Amiga Users Group Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in Finland. Also known as Saku, after its e-zine, the group is trying to accomplish its goals by organizing meetings and by publishing an e-zine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and its predecessors have released over thirty issues of the magazine and held several public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet, a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems. (sd) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jul. 2001, 00:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2001` Martin Merz (ANF)	Icons: MasonIcons - New Archives Some new and reworked archives are available on the MasonIcons homepage and on Aminet: ClassMI - complete icon set for ClassAction eNoteMI - reworked toolbar image set for eNote MD2MI - new GlowIcons toolbar for MicroDOT II PlayMI - image set and new skin for PlayGUI For further information, please visit the 'projects' site of Mason.Home. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Jul. 2001, 23:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2001` Amiga Future	History: ExoticA extended The ExoticA website deals with the music capabilities and history of the Amiga. On the website you will find exotic Amiga music, demo information, Amiga games cover-scans, utilities, disk magazines, and more of nostalgic and historic value from the Amiga world. On 14. July 2001 the site was updated and many new things were added: The 'BP-SoundMon-section' was extended. Missing Newsflash issues were added - this disk magazine contains many exclusive software and music reviews. 'The tracker history' is now online, again, and can be found in the 'Info-section'. The 'Demo Scene Reference Manual' and 'The Demo Pack Reference Manual' were extended very much. Closer information can be taken from the news site of ExoticA. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Jul. 2001, 23:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2001` Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)	History: AmigaPage extended with adverts Marcus Neervoort wrote: Again an update after longer delay.... I received some Amiga adverts and Amiga show adverts, again. Those are online from today and can be found under 'AMIGA GESCHICHTE'. Furthermore from today my special site about the Amiga World 2001 is online. Unfortunately there is not much content, yet, but this will change during the following weeks..... So, have fun till the next update. Kind regards, Marcus (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Jul. 2001, 22:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2001` Olaf Koebnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena News: 'The Prophet' Olaf Koebnik wrote: Amiga Arena Full Version With permission of Mark Ford the Amiga Arena makes possible the release of 'The Prophet'. 'The Prophet' is a role game released by 'Alive Media Soft' in 1999. Unfortunately a number of problems occured, hence more than one year of development were in vane for Mark F. The 'Amiga Format' rated 'The Prophet' at 81%, those days. 'The Prophet' is available in English, only. Some features: more than 200.000 locations non-linear game flow HD version different enemies Amiga Arena Status Report Due to holidays and Amiga's future in the air activities decrease somehow, at this time. Several things are in the works, but I don't want to put you off with announcements (unfortunately that's what others are doing sufficient!). :-( Also it becomes more and more difficult to achieve special prices for shareware software, cause almost no market remaining. Ideas and tips are always welcome! Also I'm still wanting someone who would like to translate interviews and texts. Contact: Olaf Koebnik (olaf.koebnik@online-club.de) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Jul. 2001, 21:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2001` Andreas Wolff (gg-gcc-ML)	Compiler: gcc V2.95.3-3 Bugfix On 15. July 2001 Andreas Wolff has released a new version of his gcc-m68k port for the Amiga on Geek Gadgets. This one fixes problems with the compiling options: '-fbaserel' und '-fbaserel32'. Download: gcc-2.95.3-3-bin.tgz (7,3M) gcc-2.95.3-3-diffs.gz (296K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Jul. 2001, 20:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2001` Metalmoon-ML	Music: Faces of Mars Patrick Henz released 'Donwloads', which contains the best-of of the 'Faces of Mars' series including music taken from other free CDs like 'Formula 1 Manager enhanced', 'Paranoia' or 'Amiga Toons'. The following pieces of music are contained: Lexx, Mulher do meus Sonhos, The Song G'Kar, Herzschlag, Faces of Mars, Verao, Theme from 3Pyramids, Party Time, Dias Oscuros, Traveller, Das Experiment, Faces of Mars 2001, Future World, The Dark Theme, Lights over Mars, Human by Design, Touching Earth, Elegant Sound of Hal, Samba de Smurfet, History and Future, Phoenix Machine, Martians! - Part 2, and Dartk Time. 'Downloads' can be ordered as CD or VHS video tape via the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Jul. 2001, 19:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2001` Amiga Future	Scalos: New Plugin 'Titlebar Clock' On 14. July 2001 the new plug-in 'Titlebar Clock' was released for the alternative Workbench 'Scalos'. This plug-in adds a clock and date display to the titlebar of the Scalos desktop. Download: Scalos-Plugin_Clock.lha (12K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Jul. 2001, 19:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	The end of Amiga-Society? On 17. July 2001 the Amiga-Society would have had their first anniversary. After the initial problems on start-up, the end of A4EP, etc., etc., etc., the new page was taken offline (for the time being). Hence among other sites also the mirror of the Big Book of Amiga Hardware and the new Schlachtfeld website were disabled. On 17. July an opinion poll shall determine whether or not we should continue the pages / projects. But the previous feedback rather indicates the end of the project. Best regards, Horst Diebel (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Jul. 2001, 15:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2001` Bernd Gmeineder / Peter Levan (ANF)	Game: Emerald Mine Online now part of AMI Sector One The popular site 'Emerald Mine Online', dedicated to the same named well known Kingsoft game, now became a part of AMI Sector One by the name of 'Emerald Web'. Emerald Web offers downloads of hundreds of Emerald Mine clones for the Amiga as well as editors, cover-scans, and more. The layout of Emerald Web was adjusted to AMI Sector One, too. Who owns Emerald Mine relating games still not listed on Emerald Web, please contact. The URL of Emerald Web is http://amiga.emucamp.com/emerald/. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Jul. 2001, 15:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2001` REBOLforces	Magazine: REBOL/Zine Issue 3 Vol 1 On 13. July 2001 Jeff Kreis has released the 3rd issue of the REBOL/Zine magazine. This online magazine deals with the REBOL system. The current issue contains articles about the following subjects: REBOL Puzzles and Idioms Compose is your friend Compose Idioms Block stripper Parsing financial statements - sort of. Doing the impossible - shell access without shell access Iterated Fields?? (an iterator intro and iter-field howto(-fakeit)) Get-Word! (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Jul. 2001, 15:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2001` Starmag-Team (ANF)	PSX-CheatBook V1.7.1 released Today a PSX cheat book was put online on our site. Unfortunately only PSX 1 relating at this time, but this would change in the next version. The cheat book is located under "PSX". (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Jul. 2001, 00:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jul.2001` Amiga Inc.	AMIGA Inc. News press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Amiga joins Tao in its plans to support Open Contents Platform Association Snoqualmie, WA - July 13, 2001 Amiga today announced its support of the Open Content Platform Association (OCPA), The Tao Group, along with Sharp, JVC and Kyocera, launched the OCPA today to promote the creation of a flexible and open environment that will benefit hardware vendors and content developers. The Amiga developer community is the largest and most experienced at creating applications targeting the intent platform from Tao. Amiga developers are well known in the industry for creating compelling multimedia applications. Amiga is already working with a number of Tao partners to deliver games and productivity applications for the intent platform. "The standardization of the intent platform will help Amiga's development community target a broad number of hardware devices", said Bill McEwen, the President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "Our experience with intent has shown that it is an excellent platform for building multimedia applications. We have more than 18 months of expertise in creating application that run on intent and we look forward to working with the OCPA to share our experience with them." "Amiga has been an excellent partner with a worldwide development community that can benefit from this initiative", said Francis Charig, Chairman of the Tao Group. "Amiga's inputs will be valuable to the working members of the OCPA and we welcome their participation." Amiga offers developers a number of programs and products to help build applications. The Amiga SDK (available at http://www.amiga.com) offers a development environment and tools for developers. The Amiga Support Network (http://www.amigadev.net) offers developers a forum for discussion, mailing lists, and other infrastructure for joint collaboration efforts. Amiga has also signed a distribution agreement with Sharp Corporation that allows content created by Amiga developers to be distributed on Sharp Space Town. Sharp Space Town provides applications and other content that run on the Sharp Zaurus and other Sharp PDA devices. Amiga also offers distribution channels for worldwide markets. About Amiga Inc. Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media operating system which is hardware and operating system agnostic. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Contacts: Bill McEwen Amiga, Inc. Tel: +1 (425) 396-5660 Fax: +1 (425) 396-5671 Email: bill@amiga.com http://www.amiga.com (ps) [News message: 14. Jul. 2001, 22:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jul.2001` Matay	Matay: New Prometheus SDK and new drivers There's a new software kit for developers in version 1.49 ready for download at Matay's homepage. All Voodoo3 2000/3000 drivers have been revised and are now available in a final version. Download: Prometheus149.lha V3_13JUL.lha Picasso96InstallPrometheus.lha (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jul. 2001, 17:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jul.2001` Steffen Haeuser (ANF)	Hyperion and the StormC 4 Steffen Haeuser wrote: After our reactions on the "StormC 4 news" I was asked by Ben Hermans to explain our position on this topic to clarify some misunderstandings and falsifications. At Heretic II times we were using a "self development" called gcc-WarpUP, a self standing port of gcc to WarpUP and 68k. This compiler had the substantial disadvantage that no debugger - very important for program testing and fast bug fixing - was available (and wasn't easily made, either). Besides that the compiling speed was quite slow (despite PPC exe), and there was no GUI available. At that time this compiler was the only alternative, though: SAS/C: Even when leaving aside the missing WarpOS support, this compiler isn't really suitable for a "big" PC port. Doing a PC port there's normally a heavy use of C++, and when a compiler isn't 100% compatible with the standard used by compilers like gcc/VisualC++/Metroworks CodeWarrior - inclusive possible "enhancements" of these compilers - doing a port is made much more difficult, if not even impossible. It may well be possible to develop a C project with such a compiler but not a C++ project. The only one of our projects being not C++ was Heretic II. And the most of our projects rely HEAVILY on C++, with STL and all things belonging to it. Because of that we don't feel like doing long ports and then, when linking, having to realize that the compiler isn't compatible enough with gcc/... making a compiler change necessary. vbcc: In my opinion this is a great compiler, too, but as it doesn't support C++ using this compiler is completely out of question for us. Besides that we prefer a commercial product. In case of bugs you may demand a fast bugfix, or you get telephone support or so. But sure, the vbcc is a good compiler - but it simply doesn't suit our needs. By the way: vbcc has no source level debugger, either (wosdebug is not source level but assembler level). StormC 3: For StormC 3 (in contrary to 4) counts the same as for SAS/C - a special compiler not compatible enough for the Amiga market. Now Haage&Partner have decided to drop their "own" code generator in favour of the gcc code generator - what was welcomed by us - with the version 4 of StormC. That means: StormC 4 has more in common with gcc-WarpUP than with StormC 3. That means that with StormC 4 you get all what you get with gcc-WarpUP but additionally you get the special features of the StormC that gcc-WarpUP doesn't offer: A superb source level debugger 40% faster compiling than with gcc-WarpUP thanks to optimizations (in the PPC version) A significiantly more efficient I/O linker library A profiler for 68k and PPC A graphical IDE The possibility to compile via network (Partly) Object file compatibility with StormC 3 and vbcc-WarpUP and SAS/C 68k The possibility to create mixedbinaries The possibility to easily create PPC shared libraries Support possibilities from the developer (very important for us, no matter what compiler !!!) Though this sounds like advertising: For a developer of commercial software there's simply no alternative to StormC 4 on the Amiga. And I don't see any rason why people absolutely want to talk about an alternative. If I only think of the many weeks (!!!) of work the debugger of StormC 4 has shortened my work on the port of Freespace. These are REAL working hours I have saved through this. By the way, the BSD compatibility of the includes of StormC (as gcc derivative) is considerably better than the one of the CodeWarrior includes for MacOS. Steffen Haeuser Hyperion Entertainment SteffenH@hyperion-software.de (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jul. 2001, 17:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jul.2001` Thomas Wolf (ANF)	Failure at amigakult.com repaired Lift switchboard Unfortunately my site couldn't be viewed since Friday. Because of a small error was the start of the page cancelled. This error was removed now and therefore the is the lift switchboard for the Cologne exhibition reachable again. Please excuse this disturbance many times. Thomas Wolf (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jul. 2001, 12:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jul.2001`	Aminet Uploads until 14.07.2001 TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 476K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). MKD_Euskal9.lha demo/aga 390K+Euskal Party 9 invitation 680x0 aga/cgx PerfectCircle.lha demo/aga 5.2M+Perfect Circle demo by TBL - fixed versi i3Pm-qcv.lha demo/intro 67K+Q[r]COV - intro contribution to Flag2001 Devotion2.lha demo/mag 1.3M+Devotion issue 2 - diskmag by Haujobb SNMAOptsMUI.lha dev/asm 29K+Modern SNMA assembler options GUI v1.4 2b_CreativE.lha dev/e 120K+CreativE - AmigaE compiler/linker [binar 2b_CrtvE_src.lha dev/e 183K+AmigaE compiler [sources] AmigaSDLstorm4.lha dev/misc 171K+Version 1.2.0 of Amiga SDL for StormC4 ( MakeTagBase.lha dev/misc 7K+Make methods and tags bases 1.15 (21.06. urltext.lha dev/mui 19K+MUI public custom url class AaktInt0601.lha docs/mags 166K+International infotainment magazine AaktInt0601GFX.lha docs/mags 147K+International infotainment magazine mc801.lha docs/mags 260K+German Metal Mag in HTML - 8 / 01 (Augu TheCrypt18.lha docs/mags 2.8M+Issue 18 of "The Crypt" magazine Mattonite.lha game/demo 484K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress SWOSEd_GR.lha game/patch 18K+Greek documentation for SWOS Ed 1.85 WHD_Ikari.lha game/patch 20K+HD Installer for Ikari Warriors WHD_UridiumII.lha game/patch 18K+Uridium II Hard Drive Installer MMKeyboard.lha hard/hack 153K+V1.14 Use entire Multmedia Keyboard on A imdbDiff010706.lha misc/imdb 2.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase bird.lha misc/sci 2K+Small program of flocking birds MoonDial.lha misc/sci 46K+Graphically shows the moons phase. V1.6 Relativity.lha misc/sci 16K+Time dilatation calculator V1.1 Chipnonchip.lha mods/blkha 235K+Chipy styled PT mod by blakkhar Finsternis.lha mods/blkha 261K+"Schranz" PT mod by blakkhar Solong.lha mods/blkha 1.0M+16 channel DBM by blakkhar NP_ZShuf.lha mods/misc 858K+Noyz Phaktah '007 - Zombie Shuffle by Ho Projectyle.lha mods/misc 88K+Custom module from "Projectyle" rno-r062.mpg mods/mpg 6.7M+Rno-records release #62 by Habit(Elektro vdo_ninj.lha mods/vdo 39K+Ninjat rannalla [xm 18ch] ForrestLevel.lzh mods/xm 989K+And in the forrest we go... EP_JasonPage.lha mus/play 17K+EaglePlayer "Jason Page" external replay EP_SteveTurner.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "Steve Turner" external repl EP_TME.lha mus/play 6K+EaglePlayer "The Musical Enlightenment" MASMPegDevice.lha mus/play 129K+CBM compat. device for MAS MP3 Player htmldoc.lha text/misc 844K+Convert HTML to PDF,PostScript...v1.8.14 alba.lha util/boot 62K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG TxtToHTML.lha util/conv 23K+TXT files to HTML Documents Converter ReqToolsLib.lha util/libs 195K+V39.1 reqtools.library w/src (AROS back Safe.lha util/virus 33K+Virus detector v16.1 classaction.lha util/wb 399K+AmigaOS multipurpose filemanager handmouse.lha util/wb 1K+Cute mousepointer (hand+sleeping mouse) suomicountry.lha util/wb 1K+Suomi.country file (Finnish) (as) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jul. 2001, 11:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jul.2001` Michael Merkel (ANF)	Amiga chooses H&P's StormC as official development environment 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." The complete press release can be found following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jul. 2001, 00:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jul.2001` Hans-Jörg Frieden (e-mail)	Hyperion Entertainment: Warp3D for Voodoo 3 We are pleased to announce that our Voodoo 3 Warp 3D V4 drivers for Prometheus (both 68K and PPC) are now fully completed. We are currently in the process of rewriting the Warp 3D license agreement so you can expect the full driver package in the course of the next week. As we are still getting e-mails about the Elbox situation, we would like to point out that we have not heard from anybody at Elbox for over two weeks now. At this point it appears to be highly improbable that we will ever see 3D drivers for the Elbox's range of PCI products. Again, we would like to ask everybody mailing us about 3D support for Elbox PCI hardware to contact Elbox rather than Hyperion Entertainment. We cannot be held responsible in any way for the lack of 3D support. If 3D graphics are important to you, we advise you to look into purchasing a competing PCI product." Ben Hermans Managing Partner, Hyperion Entertainment (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 13. Jul. 2001, 22:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jul.2001` Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)	Amiga-Mailbox Stardate access disrupted The Stardate mailbox (Amiga mailbox since 10 years and since more than one year accessible through web portal http/telnet) can not be reached for some days because of a lightning stroke. Also affected is the Dynamite server stardate.2y.net. Polling boxes and users are asked to switch to the Modem/ISDN numbers (can be found here in the Amiga Link Directory). It'll be announced when access via internet is possible again. (ps) [News message: 13. Jul. 2001, 21:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jul.2001` Bernhard Kellerer (e-mail)	Soundtrack and Boing beachballs sought My name is Bernhard Kellerer, I am Creative Director of the London film production company "iMagic Films Limited". I am Amiga fan since 1987, foundation member of the Austrian Amiga Club Tirol and still convinced that we'll be "Back For The Future" one day. What always fascinated me about the Amiga is the community that sticked through thick and thin with our "girlfriend". And just this community it is that gave me this idea. We will soon film a commercial for an Austrian town. It is a low budget production which is made possible only through the (mostly) free of charge working volunteers. Despite the low budget, the 30 - 40 second spot will certainly have a high cinematic standard. It is about a young woman who is catapulted from a dreary surroundings into a fascinating dreamworld. About 150 extras, some fire-eaters, pyros and confetti bombs will provide a proper spectacle. The spot will be shown in many cinemas. Now we're looking for a piece of music which accompanies the dream journey of our protagonist. GEMA-free music is out of question, but a real movie composer too expensive. Here the community comes into play: there are many talented musicians in the Amiga MOD- and demo-scene who could easily compose a soundtrack for us. Maybe an already existing piece could be modified. We haven't agreed on any music style so far and are thus open for everything. Since nevertheless some conditions regarding length and structure of the piece should be obeyed, I suggest that people who are interested in the project contact me directly by e-mail. As a special insider gag it's supposed to rain boing balls which the local firemen will let fall down upon the extras from a net affixed to a ladder. For this, we need a larger number of boing beachballs. And here again the community is asked: who can do without his beachball before the summer vacation? Which dealers have maybe still boing beachballs in stock and could put them shortly at our disposal? Maybe this commercial could later be adapted as an AMIGA commercial. My postal address is: Bernhard Kellerer Langgasse 8 A-6065 Thaur - Austria - (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 13. Jul. 2001, 21:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jul.2001` AMIGAplus newsletter	Event: AMIGA World 2001 website online The website of the AMIGA World 2001, which is held from 20th to 22nd September 2001 in Cologne together with the maxpo2001, can from now on be reached at www.amiga-messe.de and contains the first, preliminary information. The English version should be available this weekend. If you want to book a booth at the show, please note that the definitive deadline for booking is the 31st July. Later bookings are not possible. Please send organizational or technical questions to info@amiga-messe.de. If you are an exhibitor and want to publish news on the show website, please send them to nico@amigaos.de. Please note also that the phone and fax numbers of the show organizer falkemedia have changed. The new numbers are (+49)-431 200766-0 and (+49)-431 200766-1 respectively and will be available from tomorrow on. Contact: falkemedia An der Holsatiamühle 1, D-24149 Köln Tel: (+49)-431 - 200766-0 Fax: (+49)-431 - 200766-0 info@amiga-messe.de (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 13. Jul. 2001, 17:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jul.2001` Saku 2001	Event: Matay and Nova Design at Saku 2001 The companies Matay and Nova Design will attend the Finnish Amiga show Saku 2001 held on September 1st in Vantaa (near Helsinki). Read the announcement at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 13. Jul. 2001, 11:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jul.2001` Pawel Filipczak (ANF)	SMS-Tool: TaskiSMS version 2.58 The new version 2.58 of TaskiSMS has been released. With this program you can send short messages (SMS) to mobile phones in 160 countries of the world. The program can be downloaded from the TaskiSMS homepage or on Aminet. News in this release: updated HandyLand plugin updated Lycos plugin added GoldenTelecom plugin fixed sms split routine, it's now more intelligent (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 13. Jul. 2001, 11:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jul.2001` Thomas Steiding (e-mail)	epic interactive: Amiga version of The Feeble Files? In the last weeks we received quite a few e-mails and requests for an Amiga version of our upcoming Mac conversion of the cartoon adventure The Feeble Files. Since porting the game to the Macintosh is now completed we have evaluated the possibility of an Amiga version of this great game. An Amiga version would require an 060/PPC equipped Amiga with 32 MByte RAM and a graphics board (4 MB). The game would come with complete English and German speech versions on at least 2 CDs. You can find more information on this great title in the projects section of our homepage. Because the Amiga market has declined over the past 12 months and porting a game to another platform is always also a financial risk we have decided to start a preorder campaign for The Feeble Files Amiga: If we receive at least 400 preorders for this game we will bring The Feeble Files to the Amiga. Porting the game from the Mac to the Amiga should not take more than 6 weeks, so that the game could theoretically reach Amiga users by early September. Please send orders to order@epic-interactive.com. The game will cost Euro 51,10 (plus shipping). If you wish to pay by credit card please contact KDH Datentechnik. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 13. Jul. 2001, 11:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jul.2001` Fun Time World	MP3 Encoder: LamePPC 3.89 Jarmo Laakkonen has released version 3.89 of the MP3 encoder LamePPC, which only runs on WarpOS. Download: lame.lha (246 KB) lam_src.lha (933 KB) (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 13. Jul. 2001, 01:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jul.2001` Jan Andersen (e-mail)	Virus Help Denmark: Updates of bootable disks Virus Help Denmark has updated the bootable antivirus disks, with version 33.26 of xvs.library. And we have also made a new disk with VirusExecutor by Jan Erik Olausen. Here is some info about the disks: Kickstart 2.0x or higher: VirusExecutor v2.19 (xvs.library v33.26) - 563.617 bytes (.dms packed) VirusCheckerII v2.5 (xvs.library v33.26) - 468.680 bytes (.dms packed) VirusZ III v0.94b (xvs.library v33.26) - 545.671 bytes (.dms packed) Kickstart 1.2 or higher: VT-Schutz v3.17 - 428.401 bytes (.dms packed) NOT UPDATED Virus Help Denmark still needs some translators who can translate some virus tests from German into English. E-mail Jan Andersen if you want to help. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 13. Jul. 2001, 01:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` Merlancia Industries	Dave Haynie: CTO of Merlancia Industries Dave Haynie is the new CTO of Merlancia Industries. Dave Haynie might be well known by any Amiga user, cause he's a kind of living legend. The following is a brief summary of his career so far: Dave Haynie studied electronic engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University. After his studies four month of employment at General Electric he was hired by Commodore in September 1983 to support their "TED" project, which was started by Jack Tramiel. Later the C116 emerged from the "TED" project. While his times at Commodore Haynie decisively worked on many projects, like several 8 bit machines (e.g. C128), the Amigas A500, A2000, A2500, A3000, and A4000, Zorro-III, and he took part in the development of the AA and AAA chipsets, etc.. All in all he spent 11½ years at Commodore. 'Beside' of that he wrote about 50 articles for Amiga magazines of those times; Amiga Sentry, .Info, Amiga Transactor, Amazing Computing, Amiga World, etc.. Furthermore he wrote some developer tools and the FFS tool "DiskSalv". Some of his 'stations' at Commodore: 1983: Commodore "TED" project, low-cost VIC-20 replacement. 1984: Commodore 128 project, the sequel to the venerable Commodore 64.. 1986: Amiga 2000-B - slot-based Amiga. He designed the gate-array (Buster) and a "coprocessor interface" for the CPU slot. 1988: Amiga 2620/2630: 68020/30 CPU cards for the Amiga 2000. 1989: Amiga 3000: First fully 32-bit Amiga architecture. As a co-creator of the system, he designed the basic system architecture, the Zorro III expansion bus standard, and the "Buster" bus control gate array which implemented Zorro III. 1991: Amiga 3000+": initially a product oriented design, this coupled the new Amiga "AA" system/graphics chipset, an AT&T DSP3210 media coprocessor, 16-bit audio and modem CODECs, etc. Management changes canceled the project, though some of its "DNA" lived on the Amiga 4000 and 1200. He also developed basic modular "Acutiator" architecture for next-generation Amiga systems. 1992: Developed 32-bit SCSI controller for Amiga 4000, architecture for stand-alone DSP add-in cards, and prototype of "AAA" motherboard, for Commodore's 4th generation, 64-bit Amiga graphics system. System works, but by 1993, there's no money left to fix the four full-custom ASICs. 1994: Developed plug-in graphics subsystem for the Amiga. Commodore declares bankruptcy, this is never built. Haynie created a 2-hours video about the last day at Commodore and the goodbye-party, known by the name of "The Deathbed Vigil and Other Tales of Digital Angst". This video for example is as a bonus content of the "Amiga Forever" CD by Cloanto. After his times at Commodore Dave Haynie worked for the Scala Inc. company for a short time, where about 80% of the former Commodore engineers met, again. In November 1995 Amiga Technologies contracted him to consult for the PowerAmiga project. He developed a concept, but due to Escom's financial problems this project got canceled. After that, in May 1996, Haynie was contracted by the PIOS Computer AG, where he was in charge of the hardware. Shortly before founded by Stefan Domeyer PIOS engaged also other former Amiga Int. or Commodore employees, among them such clinking names like Dr. Peter Kittel and Andy Finkel. PIOS formed up to become a successful distributor of PowerPC hardware and to make the PowerAmiga dream reality - the term of "PiosONE" was born. Later from the PIOS Computer AG the Met@box AG emerged, a group of meanwhile six companies with among other things Settop boxes as part of their product line. Me@box made application for insolvency in May 2001. More stations on Haynie's way: 1999 - Fleecy Moss started the KOSH project to develop a new open source operating system for the Amiga - Dave Haynie is responsible for the hardware. systems and audio. 1999 - The "Phoenix Platform Consortium" to define the Amiga's future was founded - beside of Dave Haynie also Carl Sassenrath, RJ Mical, Wolf Dietrich (Phase 5), and Dan Dodge (QNX) were part of it. 2001 - In July Dave Haynie became CTO of Merlancia Industries. He contributed information for the "The International Technology And. Computing Historical Association" ITACHA, who collect 'artefacts' from technic and computer industry and make these information available online. Unfortunately at this time there is only one page about the "C65" available. Also a really rich source for Amiga devotees are the "The Dave Haynie Archives". Last but not least it might be to mention that he became known and dear to many of the Amiga community as a an unweary, all-time helpful co-worker/partner/friend. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 20:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` Thomas Wolf (ANF)	Ride agency at Amigakult Thomas Wolf wrote: I created a rubric on the new page of Amigakult (www.amigakult.com) where people wanting to attend the Cologne show can search or offer a ride to the show. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 17:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)	Change of address: PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX The new address of perSuaSiVe SoftWorX since 01. July 2001 is: Andreas R. Kleinert Rabenflugstrasse 1 D-57074 Siegen E-Mail-address, phone and fax number did not change and letters to the old address will not get lost. (ps) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 16:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` Deftone (ANF)	Website: graphician wanted! Who would be interested in creating a logo for the DJ portal for a banner on the site in return? Just send an e-mail to deftone@blitzengineers.de. Thanks. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 15:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` amiga.org (ANF)	CNet: Psion leaving handheld business Psion, who were about to utilize the AmigaDE for future PDAs, will leave the handheld business. The reason might be that Psion do not have enough financial resources to compete with PalmOS or WinCE products. The share declined in price to it's all-time-low during the last weeks. But Psion is working on the Netbook. It is obscure to what extent these changes will affect the use of the AmigaDE. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 15:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` Golem IT-News (ANF)	Golem: Motorola at severe loss As to read at golem.de Motorola suffers from a crisis in the tele-communication market. The company drew sales of 7.5 millions USD in 1Q/01 which stands for a minus of 19% compared to last year's sales. Follow the title link for the Golem article (German). Edtor's note: Since at the moment every chip manufacturer in fact is in the same situation this seems to be more likely a normal evolution of market. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 15:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` SixK	Webserver: MorphOS Apache 1.3.20 + PHP 4.0.6 Version v1.3.20 of the webserver including the script language module PHP v4.0.6 for MorphOS is available from the 'SixK Port Page'. This version is for use with the official Amiga Apache archive. Download: apache1320_php406_mos.lzx (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 11:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` Thorsten Schoelzel (E-Mail)	CD32-Allianz website moved Thorsten Schoelzel wrote: CD32/CDTV-Corner moving Unfortunately I'm not able to update the CD32/CDTV-Corner more often, at the time being. The server space decreased more an more, so the site now move to a new server. The new address is: http://home.nexgo.de/cd32-allianz/ Along with this move new possibilities raise for the CD32/CDTV-Corner, cause now other CD32 and CDTV freaks can help working on the website to design it more interesting and topical. Everybody wanting to help now can contribute own content, as long as this content matches the subject of the page. Who is interested and means business will get all access data via e-mail promptly. If this test of organizing a webpage with several webmasters will succeed, this will sure affect other homepages, too. A very interesting test, I think. (ps) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 10:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2001` Stephan Rupprecht	Tool: ENVHandler V 1.9 Stephan Rupprecht has released version 1.9 of his HappyEnv replacement 'ENVHandler'. Download: envhandler.lha - (13 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 11. Jul. 2001, 21:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2001` T.o.T.	Game: Tales of Tamar now also for PC Tales of Tamar is an Internet-based round game for Amiga, Atari, Linux and PC of Eternity Entertainment Software. With PC-version 0.20 the game is now playable without any restricts on a PC. Distributing grain, feeding the folk, gathering the corn, controlling the increase of the population, setting the tax, exploring...belong to the tasks of the ruler in the PC version up to now. Thus Tales of Tamar is the first game in the world which unites the computer platforms of Atari, Amiga and PC in an online-game. We are still looking for alpha-tester for each platform. Ask your friends and acquaintances and try to prove yourself in this fantasy-world. Who really is the better strategist? Please mail to Martin Wolf if you are interested in. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Jul. 2001, 20:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2001` Chris Hodges	MP3: MASMPegDevice V1.4 On 9th July 2001 Chris Hodges has published version 1.4 of the MASMPeg-device. This device is a Commodore compatible mpeg.device for the MAS-player (MP3/2-audio-hardwareplayer) of Dirk Conrad. It enables MAS-player being used together with software which support the mpeg.device standard. AMPlifier, Frogger and MPEGMovie belong to this. Download: MASMPegDevice.lha (129 KB) (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Jul. 2001, 16:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2001` Richard Kapp (E-Mail)	NARR-site: Skin for MUICD-player and MI-set for PlayGUI Richard Kapp writes: All those who do not like the OS 3.9 CD-player and miss a graphically appropriate other one should risk a peep at MUI-CD player where you can exchange the graphical buttons. On my homepage you can download a gfx-set with aqua-look for the great CD-player ´MUICD-Player´. The alternative images glow and give away when clicking them. Have a look at a screenshot. Maybe it encourage some users to create their own sets? Besides this some areas have been changed. There are now more current screenshots and a MI-icon (thanks to Martin Merz!) image set for PlayGUI which also contains a special MI-skin. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Jul. 2001, 16:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2001` Rüdiger Engel (ANF)	Homepage of IMAGE now hosted on an Amiga From today on the homepage of IMAGE works on proper Amiga! For this purpose an Amiga 4000 equipped with AmigaOS 3.9, a 68040/40, a X-Surf and hopefully sufficient RAM as well as Amiga-Apache, Amiga-MySQL, PHP4 and Perl has been set up at a web-hoster. Thus the IMAGE-pages might be the only sites of a Amiga user group which also run on an Amiga. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Jul. 2001, 14:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2001` WHDLoad	Installer: WHDLoad - New packets Games which formerly have been made for disks can be installed with the help of WHDLoad to the harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated: 09.07.01 new: Return of the Jedi (Domark) done by Bored Seal (ReadMe) 09.07.01 new: X-Out (Rainbow Arts) done by Jeff (ReadMe) 09.07.01 new: Enjoy The Silents (TSL) done by Galahad (ReadMe,Image) 09.07.01 new: Sierra Soccer (Dynamix) done by Jeff (ReadMe) 09.07.01 new: Run the Gauntlet (Ocean) done by Codetapper (ReadMe) 09.07.01 improved: Populous 2 (EOA/Bullfrog) supports data disk and some other fixes (ReadMe) 09.07.01 improved: Plotting (Ocean) supports another version and some fixes (ReadMe) 09.07.01 new: Operation Stealth (Delphine) done by Jeff (ReadMe) 09.07.01 new: Gobliiins (Cocktel Vision) done by Jeff (ReadMe) 09.07.01 new: Defender (Giles.F.McArdell) done by Jeff (ReadMe,Image) 09.07.01 new: Chrome (Gremlin) done by Codetapper (ReadMe) The current version of WHDLoad is version 14.3 from 04.06.2001. Download: WHDLoad_14.3_usr.lzx (119 KB) (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Jul. 2001, 10:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2001` Paul Nolan, CEO Idruna Software Inc. (ANF)	Image editing: Photogenics for Pocket-PC 1.0A published The image editing program 'Photogenics' for Pocket-PC 1.0A supports Compaq iPAQ, Casio Cassiopeia, HP Jornada and Palmax Amigo. You can download a demo version and some videos. The program will be sold for a special introducing price for another week. All those who already own the demo version only have to download the free upgrade-file of 1.0 to 1.0A and the full guide in HTML- or Windows-help-format. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Jul. 2001, 03:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jul.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark needs your help We need your help to get our "Amiga Virus Encyclopedia" on our website up to 100%. So we are looking for a few persons that can help us with to translate about 200 German virus documentation into English. If you will help us, we are waiting for your reply. We have about 200 tests that we need translations for, so we do need more that one person. We can't pay you any money for your work, but you will support the a 'Good Case'.... If you are interested, mail to Jan Andersen. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 10. Jul. 2001, 20:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jul.2001` AWeb ML	Help: ARexx / AWNPipe Tutorials Bruce Steers has written several tutorials for ARexx and AWNPipe and released them in the net (title link). (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 10. Jul. 2001, 15:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jul.2001` Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)	Updater v1.31 / Reactions of the press Airsoft Softwair released Updater version 1.31 on there homepage. The program lets you - as a owner of ´The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM´ - download new updates from the protected downloadsection. The new version contains a major bugfix so it is highly recommended to use the new version. Furthermore there are some pressreviews of this CD-ROM. For example an article by AMIGAplus (7/8 2001) and one by the Amiga-Magazin (7/2001). So if you want to find some information about the CD you are now able to find some at the Airsoft homepage. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jul. 2001, 23:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jul.2001` Ralf Berg (ANF)	IFFAnzeiger Ralf Berg wrote: Today I released the first ALPHA-version of my program called IFFAnzeiger (IFFDisplayer). This program lets you display images that have actually a bigger size than your memory has. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jul. 2001, 23:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jul.2001` Alfred Faust (ANF)	Midi-Sequencer: BarsnPipes1 Alfred Faust wrote: The first official version of the new development fork of the well known and popular MIDI-sequencer BarsnPipes is now available in the download section of my homepage. New: The screenmode can now be changed via a requester. You can change the resolution, the color depth (up to 256 colors), and the size of the screen. Nearly every requester and menu is now ported to Gadtools.library without losing the feeling of BarsnPipes. This makes it possible to control big parts of the program via the keyboard. The program now supports different languages. Volunteers who want to translate the program can download a small development package (CatTrans.lha) that contains the catalogue-compiler CComp and a small how-to. Download: BarsnPipes1.lha (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jul. 2001, 20:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jul.2001`	amiga-news.de headlines on your homepage Within the scope of a PHP workshop the (German) Amiga-Magazin has recently dealt with the possibility to include our news via a backend within their own PHP website. As the scripts were thoroughly tested since then we don't want to withhold this possibility from our users. Here you can see an example of the result. Important: The preset time of six hours must not be reduced! Calls with shorter intervals will lead to IP blocking! Please read in the following translation of the article from Amiga-Magazin how you can include this service in your website: Fresh news with PHP Some news sites like amiga-news.de offer a backend service for up-to-date news. To do this the site creators provide a special file on the server that e.g. makes the last ten headlines available. These data can be included in the own start page by using PHP so that you can always offer fresh news on your site. In listing 3 you see a solution in PHP. You can include this script snip in the own document and with every call are the current headlines of amiga-news.de shown on your page. The PHP script pulls the data file and does a conversion into HTML code. This is written into a temporary file and then included in the page. Before doing the transfer the script verify the age of the present local data. After reaching an appointed age the head file of amiga-news.de is read and the list is created anew. Then the script overwrites the local data. In the first part are declared some variables. These are the server address, the port used by the script to transfer the data from amiga-news.de and the file the data are written to. The following variables define some values for time and date. In the example comes a list with names of months next that are later needed for generating the HTML text. Now the actual program begins. The script gets the headlines every six hours from amiga-news.de. A shorter period of time shouldn't be chosen because of performance reasons. Otherwise data would be pulled too often from the server and unnecessarily increase the data transfer. If the data are too old the script opens a connection via port Port 80 (HTTP) to amiga-news.de, transfers the data and generates the HTML data by using these. If a connection to amiga-news.de can't be established a corresponding error message will appear. The script now read line by line the data -- the format of the amiga.news.de headlines can be found in listing 4. If the script hits the string %% (beginning of a message) it starts the evaluation of the data. The first line in the headline is the title -- it is read into a corresponding variable ($headline). Then follows the link to the message -- it goes to $headlink. After that follow date and time. In our case only the date is of interest for us. That's why the back part of the data is simply cut with the strtok command. The space between date and time is the parting sign. In the example we want always summarize the news of a day and place the date before it. For that reason the program is testing the date -- if it's empty it becomes the current date. With explode the year, month and day are parted into single strings (parting sign is a hyphen -- see listing 4). Then is the string for the output of the current date assembled. A non-breakable space is set at the beginning so that the date is inserted a little bit and the tag for the bold print (<B>) is set. Now follow the day, the month and the year. In this step are also the predefined month names inserted (see beginning of the listing). At the end there has to be a </B> to deactivate the bold mode (bold print). With the following if-clause the program tests whether the last read data ($current_date) is greater than the obtained one ($akdate). If this is the case a new date line for HTML has to be generated, as the next message comes from the previous day. Here is the advantage of the automatic type conversion in PHP used. When comparing with »greater« PHP interpretes the string as number. If $current_date is not greater than $akdate there's simply an empty string allocated for $ak_date. Hint: The variable $akdate has two functions in the script - it is used as memory for the date obtained by amiga-news.de and later on used for the date line in the HTML code. When the date line is done the HTML code for the headline with link is being generated. At the beginning is the date integrated. Is the headline from the same day as in the line before this string is set to »empty« during the date comparison in the upper part -- no date is inserted. After that the program writes the generated HTML line into th local news file. This is done until all lines of the headline file have been read. The local data file will then be closed and the connection to the server of amiga-news.de will be closed. In the last part of the script is the integration of the news file (that already contains HTML code) into the website done. The server then sents this part to the client. The presented solutions can in principe already be integrated in the own website. But it contains almost no text formatting. During the assembling of the string for the date the text is set to bold in the example -- but you can here also change the font size (font tag). You can built a table, too, and feed the other data (time, rubric, editor) into the list. With kind permission by © 2001 Amiga Magazin, WEKA Computerzeitschriften GmbH http://www.amiga-magazin.de/ (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jul. 2001, 20:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
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util/dtype 433K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (43.4) Catharsis.lha util/libs 55K+Shared library to modify looks of fonts GEV_SetUp.lha util/misc 25K+Make `SetUp' Global Enviroment Variables Gev_setup.lha util/misc 25K+Make `SetUp' Global Enviroment Variables NH.lha util/misc 18K+Uses NumericPad Keys for functions, etc. ReportPlus.lha util/misc 400K+Report+ 4.71: Multipurpose utility AmiGOD.lha util/moni 499K+V1.45 - WB graphics benchmark Libby.lha util/moni 3K+Libraries manager LSClock.lha util/time 40K+SHAREWARE clock utility - New Release v2 classaction.lha util/wb 399K+AmigaOS multipurpose filemanager (as) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. 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`09.Jul.2001` Amiga.org (ANF)	Movie / anim player: SoftCinema with DivX for Amiga Robert wrote: Softcinema released version 0.13 of the movie and anim player 'SoftCinema'. 'SoftCinema' offers the possibilty to display DivX on the Amiga (not OpenDivX or 3ivX). (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jul. 2001, 14:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jul.2001` 3ivx	3ivx: New URL The 3ivx homepage moved to a new URL. http://www.3ivx.nu changed to http://www.3ivx.com. 3ivX is a compression algorithm for video files with integrated audio-stream. It is available for different OS's such as Windows, Linux and Amiga (WarpUP and PowerUP). (mj) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jul. 2001, 12:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jul.2001` TheLegacy	Nostalgie: The Legacy - new screenshost and cover-scans There are some new screenshots, cover-scans and genredefinitions of up to 335 games in the 'Nostalgic Game Museum'. 'The Legacy' contains screenshots, cover-scans and information about the developers of old C64, Amiga, Atari, PC and Schneider/Amstrad CPC games. (mj) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jul. 2001, 12:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jul.2001` PureBasic	Programing language: PureBasic V2.32 for Linux released The preview version PureBasic v2.32 for Linux contains the following libraries: File FileSystem Gadget Keyboard Misc Network Requester Sound A MS Word version of the manual of PureBasic is available for free download from the PureBasic support page. An online version of the manual is available, too. Download: PureBasicDemo2_32.tgz Furthermore required: nasm-0.98-1_lib6.i386.rpm SDL-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm purebasicmanual.zip - PureBasic manual (MS-Word) (mj) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Jul. 2001, 12:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` AMI Sector One (ANF)	AMI Sector One: Airbus A320, Airball, Amiga Soccer... At 'AMI Sector One' the zivil flight simulator 'Airbus A320' by Rainer Bopf is available for free and legal download. Flight physics, navigating and flying skills are focal points of this realistic simulation. Also another game by the programmer of 'Airbus' never released before is available: the 'JU-52 Flight Simulator', again a very complex flight simulator. With permission of the former employees of 'Microdeal' the oldies 'Airball' and the seldom 'Amiga Soccer' are now online, too. Of course there are more games, music disks, applications, as well as cover scans. Closer information are directly available on AMI Sector One. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 17:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` ANN	Jobs: Bonehead Development - help wanted Newly founded Bonehead Development needs help for High-End Amiga game. Yes, thats right! The newly founded game developer Bonehead Development is seeking help for their new and first project. We need all kind of people working with us and don't think twice about sending in your work to us. Please mail us soon! Wer are a very small group of people who want to aim high on the gaming market with our first project called "Z-Squad" which is a mix of horror, 3d action, humour, beat 'em up, and strategy. We are early in development, in fact that early that we need help to get it going and we need GFX artists, coders, sketch artists, musicians, sound artists, and maybe some more. We hope that the game will be released both to Amiga and PC, cause we're seeing very serious in the matter and were not doing it out of good will. In other words, if there's no money there's no game. We want your work, but please don't mail us your 20MB demo before letting us know, cause our mail-server is a bit slow. PS: It's an advantage if you live in Sweden, but no demand. So now, send us your work and we will answer all of those who will mail us. With Regards Fredrik Robertsson Game Designer and in charge of this project Contact address: Fredrik Robertsson (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 17:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` ANN	Game: Short interview about PaybackPPC On 7. July 2001 a short interview with James Daniels, Apex Designs, about the PPC version of Payback was published on amipal. Among other things the current frame-rates accomplished by James Daniels can be taken from this interview. Indeed these lag behind of what Jack Daniels was hoping for. The memory bandwidth appears to slow down. 30 fps on 320x240 17 fps on 480x480 12 fps on 640x480 (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 17:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` 3ivx	3ivx: Changing server Due to changes of server locations it might happen that the web- or mail-server of 3ivx is temporary not available. (mj) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 16:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` Heise Newsticker	Heise: Linux developers planning .NET as Open-Source According to reports on TechWeb and Wired the Linux company Ximian is about to announce an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET frameworks. Read the full article under the title link (German). There is an article (English) regarding this subject on ZDNet, too. (mj) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 16:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` BoingWorld	Game: BabeAnoid Screenshots Richard Fhager released some links to screenshots of his BreakOut clone 'BabeAnoid' on BoinWorld.com. (mj) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 16:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` ANN	Events: AmiWest 2001 Rides Who is looking for a ride to the AmiWest 2001 in Sacremento, California, U.S.A., (28th to 29th of July at the Holiday Inn) might sign up the guest-book on 'AmiWest 2001 Rides' (title link). (mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 16:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` Timo Kloss (E-Mail)	Graphic Adventure Engine: Inga Beta Timo Kloss wrote: The developer pack for the graphic adventure engine 'Inga' was finished, more or less. Thus I'm now wanting beta testers. Since the engine itself was not finished, yet, testing will focus the tools and manual. The following shall be checked: Are the developer programs bug-free? Do these run on any machine? Are there suggestions for the tools? Is the manual complete and plain? Of course also the runability of the engine shall be tested. If you are interested, please contact Timo@inutilis.de and provide close information about your configuration (hardware, software, versions, etc.) The people elected will then receive the developer pack as digital version, only, (that is to say without the printed manual, but with a text file) and are enabled to purchase it at the half price on release. You will be allowed to go on using the digital version, anyway. The developer pack runs on: AmigaOS V3.0+, CPU 68020+, graphics board with CyberGraphX. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 16:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	AmigaDE: CodeWarrior for AmigaDE Gary Peak, Amiga Inc., did the following expression in a posting on the AmigaOne mailing list (title link): «As you may or may not know, Code Warrior has agreed to develop a professional IDE for the DE. We are still talking details so I can't give any at this time.» CodeWarrior is a very popular developer environment available for different systems (MacOS, PalmOS, and more). It is being developed by Metrowerks. Update 12.07.2001: Martina Jacobs has compiled more information on this topic: About CodeWarrior: The cross-platform-compiler CodeWarrior supports C, C++, Java, and assembly programming languages and is being used by more than 200,000 developers in over 80 countries all over the world to create platforms and applications for desktops and embedded systems. The open architecture of this integrated development system allows to add new programming languages and computing platforms to it's IDE with relative ease. From the CodeWarrior White Papers you can learn more about this multi-architecture, how to use GNU tools in CodeWarrior and how to import makefiles. Extent: CodeWarrior comprises a multitude of developer tools for different platforms / processors. Here you will find a list and detailed descriptions of these tools. Currently supported: Standard platforms: Windows Macintosh Solaris Linux PalmOS Java Processors by Motorola: PowerPC-CPUs, 5xx, 6xx, 7xx and 8xx PowerPC processors AltiVec (7400), PowerQUICC II (8260), MPC 8240, hosted on Windows and Solaris. 68K/ColdFire-CPUs, incl. CPU32, DragonBall, DragonBallEZ, DragonBallVZ, ColdFire 5206e, and 5307. Motorola MCore-CPUs, incl. CMB1200/EVB1200, CMB2080EVB2080, CMB2107/EVB2107, CMB210, and CMB3401 evaluation boards. 568xx DSP (Digital Signal Processors). Processors by others: StarCore DSP NEC V8xx MIPS Special version for Java development. RTOS development: Embedded Linux QNX Neutrino Nucleus PLUS 8, 16 and 32 bit architectures Game consoles: Nintendo PlayStation®/2 CodeWarrior is being developed, marketed, and supported by Metrowerks. About Metrowerks: Metrowerks was founded in 1985 in Montreal, Canada. 10 years later the corporate headquarters were moved to Austin, Texas. Metrowerks has offices in Silicon Valley, Europe, India, and Tokyo. In September 1999 Metrowerks became an independently operating subsidiary of Motorola. They have strategic partnerships with several important companies including Apple Computer, Microsoft® Corporation, Sun Microsystems®, and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 15:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` amiga.org	AmigaDE: AmigaDE Interface FAQ The 'AmigaDE Interface FAQ' has been released on teotwin.com. This FAQ contains tips on how to customize the AmigaSDK together with the PartyPack. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 10:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` Carl Sassenrath (REBOL-ML)	REBOL: Build Package Carl Sassenrath has released the utility 'build-pack' for REBOL on 06. July 2001. This utility comes in handy for bigger REBOL programs existing of many files, but are to be distributed as one single file. A list of files gets assigned to this tool, being merged to one single and compressed script. Beside of the program code binary files - like graphics and sounds - are supported, too. The script can be downloaded from the Util section of the REBOL script library. Download: build-pack.r (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 09:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` Czech Amiga News	Magazine: The Crypt #18 Issue #18 of the English online magazine 'The Crypt' was released, yesterday. This issue contains tests of the jump'n run game 'Furball' and of two Amiga ports for Windows - Warblade ('Deluxe Galaga') by Edgar Vigdal, and DOpus 6. In the article 'A wooden Amiga tower case' Fisherking introduces his wooden Amiga tower case and shows several pictures. Moreover there are other articles, news, stories, and graphics. Download: TheCrypt18.lha (2,8M) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 09:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Richard H. Poser II	Messenger: AmigAIM BETA version 0.9427 The latest version has been uploaded to the normal locations, on the webpage and descriptions on the links section of the mailing list have been changed. History Extract of AmigAIM... AmigAIM 0.9427 Beta (7 July 2001) Found a bug in the Instant Message Windows color system, it wasn't being told to turn on the colors, as it didn't have access to the prefs structure. Also made a small cosmetic change in a couple items having to do with returning from away via the Dock Window's contextmenu. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with America Online's (AOL) AIM service. (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 22:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Andreas Falkenhahn	Emulation: CD32 emulation for Windows (update) The first CD32 emulator for Windows, the CD32 Games Install Kit, was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. This emulator works in connection with the famous WinUAE. Exactly like in the Amiga version, patches are applied to every single game. This gives a very good compatibility. Even digital CD audio is already supported. However you will require a custom version of the WinUAE which can be downloaded from my web page. Currently the CD32 Games Install Kit for Windows is only available for owners of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM (download it in the protected update area!). Update 08. July 2001: Andreas Falkenhahn wrote in the German comments on this message: I have had implemented some functions for CD audio handling in the custom version of WinUAE. Indeed those only can be utilized by my sub-system Install2001 which runs on the Amiga part, thus I don't know if the WinUAE team would like to have those functions in every official release. I will inquire it, anyway. But like already told, without Install2001, so without the Install Kit, those functions are just useless.... (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 22:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Suite101.com	AmigaOS: AmigaSDL The cross platform handling of games and multimedia applications is often very difficult. There's a great number of libraries that are supposed to close this gap. Among them SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) seems to come out as the probably most elegant and best supported project of this kind. Thanks to the latest work of long standing Amiga developer Gabriele Greco there's now an AmigaOS port of SDL available. In his article (title link) John Chandler wrote on Suite101.com why SDL may probably be the best solution in cross platform programming for the AmigaOS and delivers some links. (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 21:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` SixK	Webserver: Apache 1.3.20 binary for Morphos The Amiga webserver Apache (v1.3.20) is available as binary for MophOS and can be downloaded at SixK. This binary was not compiled with the PHP module but there's a version with PHP in the work. This MorphOS version is for use with the official Apache archive that can be found on amiga-apache.org. To be able to use Apache several more packages of the Geekgadgets project are needed. Please look at the hints on the download page of amiga-apache.org. (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 19:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Martin R. Elsner	Tools: ClassAction v4.2 (update) After a long waiting time it's now time to let the users enjoy: ClassAction V4.2 - The Next Generation! Many proposals have been implemented, such as configurable icons, more images, better archive handling, easy configuration, many many new options, ... You will find ClassAction on my homepage and soon in Aminet. This will not be the last version - I have a list of other features that will be found in V4.3. But for today, accept this version - you can't loose! Many thanks to all who have contributed to this version - betatesters, translators, and of course all users for their good proposals and encouraging words! Update 08. July 2001: ClassAction is a multifunctional file manager for the AmigaOS. (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 19:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Olaf Köbnik	Amiga Arena News Amiga Arena full version! In co-operation with Christian Steiner the Amiga Arena makes the release of "Sharks Multi Version 1.5 Final" possible! SHARKS! is a skill game playing underwater. Our brave diver is away to search the sea ground for treasures. The area in which he is is full of sharks, though ..., so: BE CAREFUL !!! Collect as many treasues as possible and be aware of the sharks! Because of too little feedback by the users the further development has ceased! Amiga Arena "File Cutter" code! Stefan Berge has made the code of File Cutter available to the Amiga Arena! File Cutter serves to split files. You can e.g. split a file of 8MB (animation, LHA archive) into several small files so that you can put this file with no problem shared over several disks for further transport. On another computer these files are put together to the original complete file again. Amiga Arena full version Beneath a Steel Sky: With permission by Revolution Software Ltd. (thanks to Tony W.) the readers CD of the Amiga Future 31 contains the original sales version of the presumably best action adventure for the Amiga until today. Very special thanks to: Jürgen B. who made the archive available to me. (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 18:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Rene Stelljes	Amiga users list updated Rene wrote: "The Amiga users list was again updated and is now available in version 11.00 on my homepage. The version change from 10.00 to 11.00 was made because I got erroneously an old version of the list when taking over the AUL. All entries that were made in the last Amiga users list by Stefan Martens are now contained in the new version, too. From the next version on I'll update the AUL, therefore I'll verify the entries and delete all non up-to-date entries without replacement! Everybody already listed should check his/her entry and tell should something have changed meanwhile." (cd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 18:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Sebastian Bauer (ANF)	Simulation:new Freeciv beta version A new Amiga Freeciv beta version has just been released on the freeciv page of my homepage. (cd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 16:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)	Fonts: new Fontutility ports / dictionaries wanted On my homepage (and soon on aminet, too) can two new ports of font utilities be found that will be of use for the DTP interested and the font freaks. "ttf2pt1" converts TrueType fonts into the Postscript format for use in Pagestream, FinalWriter, Drawstudio, etc. and bases on the latest source codes. "afm2pfm" converts between Postscript fontmetric files. Despite the archive's name it's also possible to convert from PFM files to AFM files. Both programs can be found in the "Font Utilties" area of my website, additionally there's a PowerPC version for WarpOS available of "ttf2pt1". Furthermore I'm looking for German language dictionary files of all kind (term definitions, thesaurus, foreign word dictionary, ...) for my new project. In contrary to the English there seems to be a real lack in the German speech area, at least regarding free, documented formats. If anybody owns such files or some Duden software out of the PC library series (or something similar) I'd be thankful if he/she would contact me via email. (cd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 16:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` (ANF)	Software: The Other Amiga World Biggest public collection of Amiga demo-scene material. Available via www.amigascne.org ftp.amigascne.org uk.amigascne.org ftp.uk.amigascne.org (cd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 16:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` Andreas Magerl (e-mail)	Amiga Future: Interview with Matay An interview with Matay was published today on the Amiga Future homepage. The English translation can be found in the English section of the homepage. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 21:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` DirOpus 4	File manager: DirOpus 4.16j Jacek Rzeuski has released version 4.16j of the file manager 'DirOpus'. DirOpus now contains the following localizations: Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish. The most recent changes and improvements can be found in the history. DirOpus is a file manager, programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software. The Windows version is now available in version 6. The sourcecode of version 4 was released 1999 under the GNU Public License. Jacek Rzeuski then started to work on the program and improve it. Download: DOpus416JRbin.lha (873 KB) Mirror: http://dopus.free.fr/ Alternative download: DOpus416JRbin.lha (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 21:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` Czech Amiga News	Action: Interview with Rob Northen Action has made an extensive and interesting interview with Rob Northen. Rob Northen wrote the copy protection for dozens of Amiga games. Action will make more interviews with VIPs from the Amiga scene. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 10:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` Sven Ottemann (e-mail)	Tool: Contextswitch Sven Ottemann writes: A new version of Contextswitch is available at the titlelink. This tool is monitoring the number of context switches between PPC/68k on WarpOS. It was originally developed by Haage & Partner and is contained for example on the StormC4-CD. Download: ContextSwitch.lha (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 10:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` Richard Kapp (e-mail)	GFX-BASE:Interview with the programmer of DiamondBOX Richard Kapp writes: Yesterday, Nikolaj Thygesen has released a new version of his excellent layer-based paint program 'DiamondBOX'. Maybe you have already downloaded the program - but maybe you want to learn more about the author. Just at the right time you can now read a current interview with Nikolaj. He reveals and explains the new features of the current version, talks about new plans, the creation of DiamondBOX and much more. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 10:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` Richard H. Poser (e-mail)	Messenger: AmigAIM 0.9426 beta The new beta version 0.9426 of AmigAIM, the AOL Instant Messenger for Amiga by Richard H. Poser, is available. All AmigAIM text files such as AmigAIM.guide, custom.txt and history.txt were updated and are available for download as well. Changes: Implemented the apparently forgotten about Notify menu items... Added a Reset Connection menu item. Download: AmigAIM_Beta - full archive AmigAIM.lha - update AmigAIM.guide (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 10:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` Nikolaj Thygesen (E-Mail)	Paint program: DiamondBOX Version 1.12 Nikolaj Thygesen has released version 1.12 of his Amiga paint program 'DiamondBOX'. This program is CGFX compatible and requires at least AmigaOS 3.0, 8 MB RAM, 1 MB harddisk space, an Amiga with 68020 CPU and of course a little creativity. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 22:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001`	Aminet Uploads until 05.07.2001 DOpus416JRsrc.lha biz/dopus 981K+Great filemanager from GP Software DigiCamGUI.lha comm/misc 6K+TritonRexx based GUI for DigiCam v1.01 PinkFloyd.lha demo/intro 1.7M+Vidi_Pink_Demo vbcc.lha dev/c 3.6M+Optimizing ISO C compiler (68k/WarpOS/Po SetFileSize.lha disk/misc 14K+Truncate or expand a file AIOV48.lha docs/mags 560K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 48 (June eyangband.lha game/role 808K+EyAngband 0.3.3 - Roguelike solo RPG gumband.lha game/role 975K+Gumband 2.1.7a - Roguelike solo RPG psiangband.lha game/role 741K+PsiAngband 1.3.0 - Roguelike solo RPG vcdimager_077.lha gfx/conv 535K+VCDImager 0.7.7 Beta (WarpUP and 68k Sup amifig31.lha gfx/edit 308K+Structured drawing tool v3.1, Xfig compa amifig31_68k.lha gfx/edit 338K+Structured drawing tool v3.1, Xfig compa mouseps2.lha hard/hack 12K+PS/2 Mouse conv. No drivers needed! v1.0 mamevg37b16.lha misc/emu 2.5M+MAME Visual Guide 37b16 Addendum - PDF I sg-strip_13.lha pix/misc 48K+[ancor] strip 13 of the online-comic sg-strip_14.lha pix/misc 41K+[ancor] strip 14 of the online-comic ReqToolsLib.lha util/libs 195K+V39 reqtools.library w/src (AROS back po ACE-Startup.lha util/wb 15K+WBStartup-Prog for ACE-Progs MemoryRemV1-18.lha util/wb 57K+Clock-Replace, shows actual RAM & Larges (as) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 20:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` Scalos	Workbench replacement Scalos: New Plugin 'Device Filter' A new module named 'DevFilter' for the extended Workbench replacement Scalos was released. With this plugin drive icons can be blinded out from the Workbench. Unfortunately the download page currently is not available. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 17:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` CodePoet	Emulator: WinUAE Version 0.8.16R4 released (Update) Version 0.8.16 Release 4 of WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K, and WinXP, was released. The following has changed: FIXED: 50Hz/60Hz switching (B.C. Kid) works again. (Toni Wilen) FIXED: Various Picasso96 issues. (Bernd Roesch) FIXED: F11 should be back-slash again. ADDED: .GZ support in floppy dialog. (Timothy Roughton, aka Inner) CHANGED: Tweaked the sound-code yet again, hopefully will be less choppy. CHANGED: Tweaked the exception-handling code for JIT. (Bernie Meyer) REMOVED: icon1.ico from the source-code archive. Download: WinUAE0816R4.exe - help.zip (German) - help.zip (English) Update: This version was created on 03. June 2001, already. Sorry for this double message, must be due to the heat ;-). (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 17:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` Green-Hosting / Ragonsoft (E-Mail)	Web-space: Cheap Hosting for Amiga Sites From now on Amiga users, devotees, etc. can host their websites at Green-Hosting. There are deductions from regular offers and even free web-space (e.g. for www.yourname.de): Free web-space 50 MB for Amiga relating sites (banners in return). Deduction of 20-30% from existing offers! This offer applies to Amiga users and Amiga sites. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 17:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` Wolf Faust (ANF)	Universal-Filter V2.1 Update for PageStream 3.x/4.x A new version 2.1 of the PageStream universal filter was released. This free universal filter enables PageStream to load many graphic formats, BME or HHV. This new version fixes a v2.0 filter problem in loading pictures with colour palettes, which could crash PageStream or HHV. It is strongly suggested to install this update. Beside of the above fix some more small things were enhanced (e.g. new pnglib, lower stack requirement). Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to finish the support for the PhotoShop format. :-( (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 12:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` FORE-MATT Home Computing (E-Mail)	Magazine-CD: 100%AMIGA Issue 14 Issue #14 of the Amiga magazine '100%AMIGA' was released - the magazine you don't need to read, but can watch from CD. Read the original message: »The July edition of 100%AMIGA is now available for sale. This month's magazine features the start of our new monthly "Easy to Understand" Assembly Programming Tutorial. So you think there is not enough Amiga programs? Then write your own or brush up on your skills with this non-technical guide to technical things! Alternatively, browse a great new collection of icons or just sit back and let us take you through a visual tour of the recent K4 Show, Land of Genesis from Clearwater Interactive as well as our usual news and latest previews.« (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 12:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` Achim Stegemann (ANF)	Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - Update V3.8 The update to V3.8 of the astronomy program 'Digital Almanac III' was released. Again this time some new features were added and wishes of users were taken into account. The update can be downloaded from the mailing list by Yahoo members. It already was uploaded to the Aminet and should appear there, soon. (ps) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 09:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2001` Mike Bouma (ANF)	Photo report about the Benelux Amiga Show 2001 Mike Bouma wrote: I've bundled some of my pictures from the Benelux Amiga Show. You can view them on my website. I also put down some English words. :-) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Jul. 2001, 21:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2001` CUCUG	CUCUG: Status Register June 2001 The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group dealing with topical and important information regarding the Amiga, Macintosh, and PC, as well as the computer industry. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Jul. 2001, 21:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2001` Chaos Computer Club	CCC: Greenpeace seizes the intercepting station The environment and human rights organisation Greenpeace seizes the US intercepting station Menwith Hill (UK) to protest the utilization of this station for Bush's Star-Wars-plans. Closer information are to find here, here, and here. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Jul. 2001, 21:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2001` Fun Time World	Compiler: vbcc V0.8 Volker Barthelmann released version 0.8 of his portable ANSI-C compiler 'vbcc'. This compiler is open source. There are backends for m68k, PPC, i368, DEC Alpha, c16c, and HC12. Program code for AmigaOS, several Unix variants, and Windows can be generated. The archive released for Amiga computers contains the compiler, preprocessor, assembler, linker, frontend, message browser, startup codes, C libraries, amiga.lib, replacements, as well as several other tools for generating code for AmigaOS/68k, WarpOS, PowerUp, and MorphOS. Most of the tools (but not all of them) are available as binaries runnable on 68k Amigas or PPC Amigas with WarpOS or PowerUp. The following has changed since the prior Amiga version: Bugfix: several bugs fixed in compiler, optimizer, tools, and libraries. Changed: enhanced generating of code. Changed: enhanced optimization, incl. inter-procedural-, cross-module-optimization and alias-analysis. New: some c99 features supported: long long flexible array-members as a structure's last element mixing of statements and declarations declarations inside of the for-loop inline function-specifier restrict-qualifier Vararg-Makros. _Pragma increased translation-limits. stdint.h New: Stack check as well as measurement of the stack size required. New: Documentation in PDF- and HTML format. New: New Attributes like '__amigainterrupt' and '__section'. New: New #pragmas for PPC like 'amiga-align', etc. New: Inline-headers for the WarpOS PPC-native-libraries. New: (Backend-specific) pre-defined makros. Changed: Enhanced libraries and headers. Changed: New versions of Frank Wille's assemblers and linkers. New: Use of a built-in preprocessors. New: MorphOS support. The developer kit runs on AmigaOS 2.0 and above with at least 1 MB RAM. But to compile bigger programs definite more RAM is required. To compile Amiga programs the AmigaOS includes are required in addition (Developer-CD by Amiga, Geek Gadgets CD, and similar). Download: vbcc.lha (3,6M), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Jul. 2001, 20:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2001` VaporWare	Mail- and Newsreader: Microdot II 1.4.15beta Yesterday, a new beta version 1.4.15beta of the mail- and newsreader 'Microdot II' was released. Many new features were integrated, for example multiple POP3 folders can be created and display of the head-lines of mails is configurable, now. Moreover handling of mailing list was enhanced and the number of bugs reduced. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Jul. 2001, 20:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2001` Timo Kloss (E-Mail)	Music: Inutilis News about Moonlight Timo Kloss wrote: There are two new listening patterns of Moonlight. These are about extracts from the songs "Fallen Angel 2" and "Night", which do NOT originate from test recordings, but from the original CD versions! This music mainly was created on an Amiga. Since I don't have enough web-space, I only can offer two patterns at once. To enable an overview regardless, the songs will be changed about every second week. inutilis.de now has got a new start page containing an advertising banner, too. You might be right, if you think that inutilis will be infested with advertising, now, but there will be Moonlight banners on many other pages in return. So please, forgive me! (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Jul. 2001, 19:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2001` Apple	Apple puts Power Mac G4 Cube on hold Apple Press information: Feldkirchen, Germany, 4. July 2001: Apple will put on hold the production of the Power Mac G4 Cube for an indefinitely time. Even though there is little chance to re-introduce this unique computer by an all around renewed model, there are currently not plans to do so. "Owners of a Cube love this computer, but most of the customers decided in favour of a Power Mac G4 mini-tower, instead", said Phil Schiller, vice president, worldwide product marketing, of Apple. The Power Mac G4 Cube, only 25% as big as a common PC, represented a completely new class of computers: the power of a super-computer in a 8-inch-cube hanging inside of a glassy casing. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Jul. 2001, 19:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2001` Heise [Newsticker] / SOL-Invictus (ANF)	Heise: Cell phone manufacturers for 3G game standard To put developers of games and manufacturers of cell phones into the position to agree to a mutual and open standard for future 3G cell phones, some cell phone manufacturers have started the "Mobil Games Interoperability Forum". Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Siemens will discuss with game developers consolidated. See Heise's article (German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Jul. 2001, 13:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2001` Amiga Future	Game: New map for Payback For the game "Payback" from Apex Designs a new and updated map is available in the "Extra Maps" section for download. The upgrade fo the PPC version is not ready yet because the author wants to release it as bugfree as possible. In "Payback" you are a young driver on escape and now tries to become a big gangsterboss. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 03. Jul. 2001, 20:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2001` Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)	Amiga Future: Interview with Martin Elsner (Update) A detailed interview with Martin Elsner is published on the interactive section of the Amiga Future homepage. Martin is the author of the program "ClassAction". An english translation of this interview should be available soon. Update 05.07.2001: Translation: English (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 03. Jul. 2001, 20:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2001` Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)	Airsoft Softwair: Online-Ordering by credit card It is now possible to order my programs with a credit card via RegNet. More information is available on the Airsoft Softwair homepage in the section "order". Especially for all users from overseas this is a real easy method to order for example the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" CD-ROM. RegNet accepts all major credit cards, checks and money orders. Ordering by phone is also possible. Please see the Airsoft Softwair homepage for more details. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 03. Jul. 2001, 19:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2001` Amiga.org	NEC Corp. uses Boingball On the website of the NEC Corp. the BoinBall is used as a logo in a shockwave flash (down right) for an announcement of the 'Permeo Technologies'. If and how this has to do with Amiga, Inc. or if it is a violation of copyright is not known to us, but we will clear up things. Update: The Boingball is replaced by a logo that is similar to the Windows program "GetRight". (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 03. Jul. 2001, 12:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2001`	amiga-news.de via WAP now in english Starting today, even english speaking users of Amiga News are able to use the wap-service of amiga-news.de. Just point your wap-browser to www.amiga-news.de/en/, you will be redirectet to the wap-version of amiga-news.de. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jul. 2001, 21:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2001` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: Fullversion of StopMenu Amiga Arena fullversion With the permission of Damir Arh Amiga Arena made "StopMenu" available for download. StopMenu is some kind of a start-bar-program with many features. Start programs. Control system for Commodities. Direct access to Prefs-programs (as an substitue for Exchange) Screen-control with Snapshots in IFF-format. Window-control of Workbench-windows. GlowIcon or NewIcon style. Amiga Arena supplement Download of "OffColours" fixed. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jul. 2001, 20:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2001`	Aminet Uploads until 02.07.2001 DOpus416JRbin.lha biz/dopus 873K+Great filemanager from GP Software TaskiSMS_GR.lha comm/tcp 13K+Greek documentation for TaskiSMS v 2.55+ TaskiSMS_TUR.lha comm/tcp 155K+Turkey translation for TaskiSMS DFT_BW2-1.lha demo/slide 824K+Black'n'White 2 / DRIFTERS - 1992 (slide DFT_BW2-2.lha demo/slide 806K+Black'n'White 2 / DRIFTERS - 1992 (slide FD2Pragma.lha dev/misc 191K+V2.134 create pragma, inline, ... files uncat.lha dev/misc 7K+Create .cd file from running program FlashROM.lha disk/cdrom 17K+Amiga tool to change the flash ROM of Pl NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 911K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 06/2001 (Itali Bdynamite.lha game/data 308K+A significantly improved style/graphics BdynamiteMplb.lha game/data 6K+A Bdynamite graphics module for the Dyna F1GP_2001.lha game/data 10K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (1 July) Mattonite.lha game/demo 478K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress zangband.lha game/role 1.2M+Zangband 2.6.1 - Roguelike solo RPG vcdimager.lha gfx/conv 311K+VCDImager (WarpUP and 68k Supported) x3270_3_2_16.lha gfx/x11 1.1M+For 3270-access to IBM-Mainframes (requi Medication.lha hard/misc 108K+V1.01: A powerfull GUI for Mediator owne Med_Up.lha hard/misc 48K+Medication update archive for 1.0 users imdbDiff010622.lha misc/imdb 1.7M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase ForbiddenColor.lha mods/chip 1K+Short chip tune named Forbidden Colours tek_aosXB.lha pix/boot 2.9M+AmigaOSX - rainboot2-3 config os2-3.X tek_aosXB_prv.jpg pix/boot 87K+AmigaosXboot - rainboot config preview ltools23_demo.lha text/misc 47K+Multifunctional dictionary progrM Voodoo-X.lha util/arc 121K+V1.5, Supports over 80 archive formats ( vht-vg33.lha util/virus 99K+VirusWarning.Guide v3.3 (VHT-DK) (as) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jul. 2001, 18:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2001` DynAMIte	Game: New styles for DynAMIte A new version (1.5) of the Dynablaster-clone 'DynAMite' is now available. Download: Styles (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jul. 2001, 12:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2001` Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)	BAS 2001: Summary and some reactions On the 23.06.2001 the ´Benelux Amiga Show 2001´, called ´BAS 2001´, took place in Rotterdam. Marvin Droogsma now published all reports and pictures dealing with this show and the reactions of Fleecy Moss, Petro Tyschtschenko and Jürgen Haage at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jul. 2001, 11:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: VirusWarning.guide V3.3 Virus Help Denmark updatet theire VirusWarning.guide with the topical warnings and information. Details: Name: VirusWarning.guide v3.3 Archive name: vht-vg33.lha Archive size: 101.174 Bytes Release date: 2. Juli 2001 Programmer: Virus Help Denmark (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jul. 2001, 10:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2001` Alexander Fritsch (ANF)	New PC Emulator: First Beta-Version available Alexander Fritsch wrote: The first official beta version of a new pc-emulator is now available for download at the title link. The program emulates an XT with 8086 CPU and textmode. There are a 68000, 68020 and a PPC-version. Two disc drives and a harddisk are currently support as imagefiles. The emulator was tested with TurboC 2.0, Borland C++ 2.0, Turbo Pascal 5.0, Norton Commander, LHA, ARJ and PKZIP. Topicaly they are working on the graphic support, at least for CGA-modes. I have to mention that this emulator is a complete new program and not just a port of a program existing on another platform. This means that a further development depends on my own motivation and the interest of the users. Please feel free to report bugs and indications. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jul. 2001, 09:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2001` no risc no fun (ANF)	nrnf: AmigaClassix3 MEGA Review ! Fabio Trotta wrote: Due to my stay in a hospital there were not so much news at no risc no fun. Today I published a very huge review of Amiga Classix 3 and I am sure that this is the longest review I have ever wrote. Furthermore there are two new Workbench-shots and tomorrow we will publish the results of our surveys "New nrnf-layout" and "AmigaDE GUI-Designs". (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jul. 2001, 08:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2001` amiga-news.de	amiga-news.de on KDE (v2.1.2) Since the release of KDE 2.1 (a GUI for Linux-X11) there is a new tool called Knewsticker. This program fetches the news of different news-services and display them in the control-bar - have a look at Picture 1. We thought that this would be a good service for our users - Picture 2. Please use the following links to fetch our news: www.amiga-news.de/de/backends/news/index.rss (German) and www.amiga-news.de/en/backends/news/index.rss (English) (cd) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jul. 2001, 08:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` Amiga Future	Geography: GeoWorld Status The following information about the current status of the geography program 'GeoWorld' is to read on the homepage: As already announced on the GeoWorld mailing list, we wasn't able to continue development before two weeks ago, since job-related and complementary obligations took all of my time for more than a quarter. Sorry! But now we found a co-worker Kai Stegemann to help with the further development of the database. More help is always welcome - just send an e-mail to GeoWorld@bigfoot.com. Until 15. August 2001 GeoWorld v1.12 is also available from the Amiga Arena at the special summer price . (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 22:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` Amiga Future	Unpacker Frontend: Voodoo-X V1.5 Andrew Bell released version 1.5 of his MUI frontend 'Voodoo-X' for Dirk Stoecker's archive unpacking system 'XAD'. The HTML documentation is not part of the update, but contained in the v1.4 archive. Download: Voodoo-X.lha V1.5 (123K) Voodoo-X14.lha (240K) - incl. HTML documentation (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 22:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` Uwe Hirth-Schmidt (ANF)	Filesystem: Smart Filesystem V1.190a Already on 24. June 2001 Joerg Strohmayer has released version V1.190a of the filesystem 'SFS' for AmigaOS and MorphOS. This update seems to cause no problems on my system, any more - contrary to the previous versions 1.187 and 0.193. Download: SFS.lha (40K) (sd) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 16:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` REBOLforces	Magazine: REBOL/Zine Issue 2 Vol 1 On 29. June 2001 Jeff Kreis has published the 2nd issue of the REBOL/Zine-magazine. This online magazine deals with the REBOL system. The current issue contains articles about the following subjects. REBOL puzzLES and idioms Brain Binder - riddle If IF Were Different - overwriting the IF command Dynamic face positioning - moving GUI elements Creating a Log File Dining with Dynamic Interpreters - Interpreter for adventure games Exposing Rebol CGI through SOAP The GENERATE-DATA Dialect - dialect to generate output according to rules Rebbots - REBOL email robots Mental Reduction - reduce a REBOL construct to it's minimum (sd) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 16:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` Czech Amiga News	UMS: PINT V2.10 On 30. June 2001 Joerg Strohmayer has released version 2.10 of the news-reader 'PINT' for UMS. This reader originally was developed by Magnus Heino and David Rydh. Changes since the prior version: New: Partial support of displaying of messages with the following font coding: iso-8859-2, 3, 4, 9, 14, and 15. Changed: The DEL key function was changed to not to delete messages immediately, but to set the expired+old+junk flags. Removing of "(was: ...)" from the subject line of replies/followups. UMS is a system to read/write e-mails and postings and supports several networks, like Usenet, Z-Netz, Fido, and Maus via im-/exporters. Download: PINT.lha (224K) (sd) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 16:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` Czech Amiga News	Instant Messenger: Amiga IRC Resource The 'Amiga IRC Resource' offers an overview of Amiga specific IRC channels, as well as information and downloads to the subject IRC. The descriptions contain the channel's name, the IRC network, the channel's subject, a comment, as well as a contact address. The channels list can be extended using the submit page. The page is being created by the makers of the magazine 'The Ripper'. (sd) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 15:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` Amiga Future	CDTV: Pictures of the CDTV CR On 29. June 2001 the website of the 'The Commodore CDTV Information Center' was updated. An archive of pictures of the CDTV CR was added. The CDTV CR (cost reduced) was designed in 1992 and bases on the Amiga 600. Contrary to the other cost reduced Amiga models, each basing on it's original machine, the CDTV CR therefore is to be an exception since this version represents a completely new design. The CDTV CR is equipped with a PCMCIA slot replacing the memory card slot of the CDTV. More information are to find on the 'The Commodore CDTV CR Prototype' page. (sd) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 11:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` Amiga Future	Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets WHDLoad enables floppy-disk only games to be installed to harddisk. On 29. June 2001 two new packets were released. New: Race Drivin' (Domark), created by John Girvin (Readme) New: Amberstar (Thalion), created by Bored Seal (Readme) (sd) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 11:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` ANN	Magazine: Amiga Information Online #48 (Update) Issue #48 of the English online magazine 'Amiga Information Online' (AIO) was published. This issue among other things contains a short test of WHDLoad 14.3.3 137, AWeb 3.3SE, and Photoalbum 6.5a. The article 'Fixing your Amiga's keyboard' describes how to possibly save the original Amiga keyboard. Moreover the magazine still is wanting two editors, one for the news section, and one for the games section. AIO utilizes it's own program for display, which is part of the archive. Download: AIOV48.LHA (560K) Update 01.07.2001: Added information about content and help request. (sd) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 11:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` AGDB	Game test: F19 Stealth Fighter (second test report) At 'The Amiga Games Database' Angus Manwaring released a second test of the flight simulator 'F19 Stealth Fighter' by Micropose. This game offers different missions, 3D graphics with many objects in a not that high resolution, and as a special feature the Stealth-Indicator. This factor among other things depends on flight attitude and speed, and indicates how invisible you are at the moment. This makes it an important feature for your own tactic. (sd) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 08:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` BoingWorld	Game: BabeAnoid Demo V1.1 Richard Fhager released a demo version of his Breakout game 'BabeAnoid', a graphically emotive designed game offering numerous features. Development of this game started in Summer 1995. Meantime - after many further development and changes - 3,000 to 4,000 hours of work have been spend to develop the game. Only some level designs are missing to finally finish the game. But Richard Fhager wants to release the finished game only after he received enough feedback, e.g. in form of suggestions how to enhance it. Features: +30 Different Bonuses (Balls, Bats, Weapons, BonusLetters, Lemmings!..etc) 6 different Balls (Normal, Plasma, Shield, Fly, Rubber & Spike) Bats: 5 Sizes, Help-bat, Gold-bat (That will survive one enemy hit) Blocks: Moveable, Walls, Multi-hit, Lamps, Invisible, Round, Spawn etc... Weapons: Cannon and Laser (To use against enemies) Many Enemies: Tank, Invader, Morpher, Blocker and Enemy bat. 2 Teleporter sets, 2 hit-all-switches-to-open-gate sets. Fruit-bonuses to pickup, X-tra balls that gives more points for each save. Lemmings that can catch a ride with the ball(!) or be saved by the bat. Expandable ScoreBoard and Minimum-Batsize by using MegaBonus-system. Bonus-game by collecting letters B-O-N-U-S. Roofs, One-way zones, Pinball-like slides, Speed-zones, Bumps etc... The game uses 32 colours (ECS) and was developed to require an Amiga with 68020 and 2MB FastRAM as a minimum equipment. If the settings are lowered it should also run on an Amiga with only 1MB ChipRAM. Download: babeanoid_demo.lha (1,7M) (sd) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 08:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` Thomas Igracki (ANF)	Filesystem: Workaround for SFS V1.84 on nearly filled-up partitions Thomas Igracki wrote: Using this little program one can change the size of a file. This is very handy if one uses the SmartFilesystem and suddenly cannot delete files, any more ('Disk is full' error pops up). This is a known bug of SFS (V1.84) which occurs on partitions which are nearly filled-up. What else this program is in aid of: I don't know. ;-) Well, using this program one is able to delete files on such a partition, again. One just shortens any desired file on that partition (e.g. to 10 bytes) and deleting works, again. This way for example: SetFileSize <file name> 10 I have to say thank you to Neil Williams for the information about that shortening a file 'fixes' this bug. Thank you! Download: SetFileSize.lha, and soon on Aminet in '/disc/misc'. (sd) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 06:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` Brad Webb (E-Mail)	Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb Brad Webb monthly publishes his newsletter 'Amiga Update' in which he writes about the most important Amiga events: ====================================================================== ________ _________ ____ _\|__ __ __\|_______ _________ __\ _____ \\\\ \_ _/ //___// _____//______\ _____ \\ // \\\\ /. \\\\__ \/ __// \\ \\____. /// \\\\ /. \\ \\___\¯ /___///___\ /___\ \\_________//\\___\¯ /___// ¯ \/ ¯ ¯ \/. \|¯ ¯\|z!o ¯ ¯ \/ ¯ A M I G A \|#010630 \| U P D A T E \|________\| "SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW" ====================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- B I L L M C E W E N O N M I S - R E P R E S E N T A T I O N T H I R D A N N U A L A M I G A F E S T A M I G A I N C A N D M A T A Y D E A L O T T A W A S H O W M O V E S T O N E W D A T E S F I N N I S H S A K U 2 0 0 1 S H O W N E W S A M I W E S T 2 0 0 1 N E W S M E R L A N C I A / I N D I V I D U A L A L L I A N C E M E R L A N C I A O P E N L E T T E R A M I G A O N E T I M E T A B L E F R O M E Y E T E C H E Y E T E C K C L A R I F I E S O S 4 A N D W A R P A N O T H E R E L B O X C O N T R O V E R S Y , P A R T 1 A N O T H E R E L B O X C O N T R O V E R S Y , P A R T 2 D C E L I C E N S E S V O O D O O 3 W A R P 3 D E Y E T E C H A N D M A T A Y D E A L P U R E B A S I C V 1 . 3 2 R E L E A S E D F R E E S C A N N E R C O L O R C A L I B R A T I O N A M I G A W R I T E R - F I L T E R F O R P A G E S T R E A M Editor's Thoughts and Introduction: It's hard to believe it's already the end of June. This has been a busy year, and there's lots more to come. We have a wide variety of items in this issue, mostly positive. There is yet another controversy involving the firm ElBox. We hope we present both sides of the story below. As Editor, I'd rather not even include items such as these but feel it necessary in order to present the news as it exists in the Amiga community. ... and that brings up a question I'd like to ask the readers. Recently, Amiga Inc. announced their "Party Pack" sale. This sale ran for such a short time, it's now over. The only way we could have gotten the news to the readers before it was no longer news would have been to distribute a special issue. We have never done special issues for sales. Many Amiga dealers have sales from time to time, and to distribute these as news would really be to turn Amiga Update into nothing more than a sales brochure. That's not our mission. But ... should we in the future make exceptions for specials from Amiga Inc.? I'd be interested in hearing from the readership on this one, as I'm not really sure what the right approach is. If you have an opinion, please drop a _short_ note to amigaupdate@globaldialog.com or amigaupdate@theropod.org and share it with us. On a personal note, I'd like to thank the group who took over development of YAM. This is a great program and its passing would be a tremendous loss to the Amiga community. Thanks much! You can find YAM at http://www.yam.ch/, where the following notice gives the latest good news: o 08-Jun-2001: The YAM Open Source Team proudly presents YAM 2.3. This new release fixes many bugs and adds some frequently requested features like SMTP-AUTH and PGP multipart support. Source code is included! A suggestion? A feature to strip html out of incoming mail. Recent changes in the way AOL handles mail has made it almost impossible to deal with mail from people who use that service! Okay, I'll stop dreaming now. We hope you enjoy this issue. Brad Webb, Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail to the E-ditor: Hi amigaupdate, Where can I get the "Advanced PPP implementation". Thanks a lot. lan N E W T C P / I P S T A C H A N N O U N C E D 12 Feb 1999 Active Technologies Announce Genesis, A New TCP/IP Stack for the Amiga Genesis is a state-of-the-art TCP/IP stack for the Amiga computer. Combining ease of use with advanced features, Genesis offers built in dialup Internet connectivity and/or local area networking. ----------------------> o Advanced PPP implementation: (MS)CHAP, PAP, Callback (WinNT compatible), VJ compression, protocol field compression, MTU negotiation, magic number negotiation, async map negotiation, MSDNS1/2 IP address negotiation, WINS1/2 IP address negotiation, Compression Control Protocol (modules include - BSD compress, deflate and MPPC). Also,PPP events control allows you to create scripts to perform actions when PPP has been put on or offline. <------------------ ~~~~~~ Hello Lan, The story you included is quite old (and its headline contained a typo, I see - shame on me!). A lot has happened to Genesis since February of 1999. The last I recall hearing, the program had been sold by the original developers. I thought, but am not certain, that it stopped being available some time ago. Perhaps some of our readers have current informaiton about Genesis and its PPP implementation and can let us know. Brad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- B I L L M C E W E N O N M I S - R E P R E S E N T A T I O N 21 June, 2001 Greetings To The Amiga Family: There have been some recent mis-representations that I have recently received about Amiga, Inc., and our office locations. Amiga is doing very well, and we are excited about the future of Amiga. The Amiga Family continues to grow with new partners, new products, and the very near release of AmigaDE 1.0. However with all of this activity there have been some out there who have recently sent out false information about Amiga, and I need to clarify this now. Amiga Incorporated in headquartered in Snoqualmie, Washington USA. Amiga Deutschland is still in business. We have only closed the Langen office. There are going to be some new additions, and a new office location announced in the next couple of weeks, but know now that Amiga International was a Gateway company, and was not and has not been associated with Amiga, Inc. since 1999. The dealer in Germany that is making claims that they are Amiga International is completely false, and Amiga Incorporated the parent company of Amiga Deutschland is going to take legal action against those who make these false claims. There is another dealer in India who has started claiming that they are Amiga in India. This again is also false. Amiga does NOT have any official representation in India outside of the Amiga dealers who are there. Amiga Incorporated is currently evaluating an office in India, and other countries where we do business. To those of you who continue to try and tear Amiga apart, it is time to stop. Amiga is moving forward, there are great things ahead, and for the first time in many years, the Amiga family will have new products, and choices. I look forward to a great year. Kindest regards, Bill McEwen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- T H I R D A N N U A L A M I G A F E S T 12 June, 2001 "Announcing: The Third Annual AmigaFest - The Show Within a Show at the Dayton Computerfest." Although summer has just begun, it's already time to plan for the fall Dayton Computerfest. And once again we have been asked to host the AmigaFest area of the show. The AmiTech-Dayton Amiga Users Group want to bring you, the Amiga users and vendors, together for an end of summer celebration of all things Amiga. Over the past two years, many present and former Amiga users have stopped by our exibitors tables to buy, sell, and trade Amiga hardware and software, as well as to swap stories and experiences like only Amiga people can. We also we wil be having a dinner get-together after closing on Saturday after the show closes for the day. This pay-as-you-go gathering has proved to be popular, and we will have exact arrangements to announce as we get closer to the show date. The setting for this festival is the Dayton ComputerFest, one of the largest shows of it's kind in the world. Everything about his show is BIG! over 125,000 square feet of computers and supplies. nearly 900 exhibitors. over 35,000 people will attend during the two days of the show. one of the most diverse assortments of hardware, software and accessories to be found under one roof. Won't you consider joining us? If you'd like to be an exhibitor, the rates are as follows: Tables are $55 if reserved by June 24th, each additional table will be $75. After June 24th, table prices rise to $60 for the first, and $90 for each additional. Contact: Ron Schwartz - schwartr@gemair.com or: Len Carsner - nard@erinet.com we'll get the process rolling with the ComputerFest co-ordinators. If you would like to conduct a seminar, please contact us to arrange seminar room reservation at no cost to you. The Dayton ComputerFest is a great place to introduce computer products of all nature. Dayton has a rich computer community, with a large computer user network, an organised IT association, and one of the most active Linux groups in the nation. It makes sense to exhibit in a location where you can reach so many for so little expense. As we get closer to show time, we will update you on who you can expect to see. Also we will post traveling instuctions and available lodging for attendees. Attention Amiga Vendors: while we hope you will choose to join us, we understand that many are unable to attend due to distance. We hope you will chose to show your support by making a donation to our prize drawing. With the retirement of Petro Tyschtschenko earlier this year, we cannot count on Amiga Inc. for support this year. Anything you could do for us would be apperciated and acknowledged to the crowd. Don't delay! Contact us NOW! The only Amiga get-together in the Midwest is less than 90 Days away! Make plans now to join in on a great time at a great show! AmigaFest - The Show Within A Show is THE place to be in August! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A I N C A N D M A T A Y D E A L Snoqualmie, 16 June, 2001 - Amiga Inc and Matay company are pleased to announce they are co-operating on a series of initiatives that will see the AmigaOS4 family of operating systems running on Matay's existing and future products. At the St Louis show in April, Amiga announced the continued development of AmigaOS, with AmigaOS4 moving AmigaOS3 to modern hardware and preparing the way for AmigaOS5. AmigaOS5 will be targeted at both the home server and the desktop/workstation markets. "In developing AmigaOS4.0, we have been making extensive use of the Prometheus PCI bridge board, to get a head start on developing drivers for the various sub systems whilst we wait for the Eyetech AmigaOne to be completed," said Fleecy Moss, CTO of Amiga Inc. "The quality of both their product and support, and their commitment to the future of the Amiga has made working with them a pleasure, and we look forward to this co-operation intensifying over the next few years." "We are very excited to work with Amiga Inc., the company that leads our community into the new technological revolution. In the incoming years, we will witness a breakthrough in digital home appliances, a trend to abandon a single computer workstation in favour of several smaller, yet more user-friendly devices. The revolution is coming, though we need to prepare for it, like the Amiga market needs transition from our classic computers to new technologies and standards. Amiga Inc. is the company that foresees these trends and enters the digital future today. We are proud that our Prometheus board, the first Zorro III PCI bridge for Amiga, helps them in making these plans come true," said Filip Dab- Mirowski, CEO of Matay company. "We will continue co-operation with Amiga Inc., not only providing them with hardware solutions for today Amiga market but also working together on products for the future digital market." About Amiga: Amiga Inc is a privately held Seattle based digital solutions company that revolutionised computing in 1984 with the introduction of the A1000, and has consistently been at the cutting edge of the digital revolution ever since. Currently it offers a complete solution for digital living, the AmigaDE (Digital Environment) which provide a device and OS (host) agnostic, universal, scalable content platform for OEMs and IHVs, consumers, producers and brokers of digital content, and the AmigaOS, a 68k and PPC based desktop, workstation and digital server platform for the most demanding of activities. The AmigaDE is currently being deployed on a variety of major cell phone, PDA, Set Top Box, Console, Digital Appliance and existing personal computer platforms. AmigaOS4 is expected to be launched in 3Q2001, running on the new AmigaOne computer. For further information, please email press@amiga.com, support@amiga.com or telephone (US) 425 396 5660. About Matay: Matay company is a privately held computer business oriented company. It was founded in 2000 as an Amiga-only software dealer and in a very short time earned trust of Polish Amiga users. With the introduction of Prometheus PCI bridge for Zorro III equipped Amigas, Matay has extended its offer with hardware solutions for the Amiga platform and professional electronic design of printed-circuitboards. Now, with the announcement of close co-operation with Amiga Inc., Matay enters a domain of digital appliances, which is predicted to be the future of home and business computing around the world. For more information, please email info@matay.pl, fei@matay.pl or telephone (+48) 609 394 778 or (+48) 603 785 100. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- O T T A W A S H O W M O V E S T O N E W D A T E S May 30, 2001 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada After speaking to the friendly organizers of AmiWest and receiving many e-mails regarding our Ottawa Amiga Show dates of July 28 and 29, we have decided to move the Amiga show, despite the overwhelming majority of users who voted in favour of the show on those dates. Once we have confirmed a date for the Ottawa Amiga Show we will let every one know (likely September 8 and 9, 2001). We would love to hear from everyone with suggestions for the show. As information becomes available, it will be posted on the show's website (http://www.technomages.net/amigashow/). Many Amiga users expressed their concerns of forcing people and vendors to choose which show to attend. This was not our intention. We initially projected that only people who lived within a few hours drive to Ottawa would attend our show, with everyone else attending AmiWest. We apologize for any inconvenience and confusion this may have caused. If you would like to be kept up to date on show announcements, send an email to oas-subscribe@technomages.net and you will be subscribed to the show's mailing list. On the weekend of July 28-29 we may have a BBQ for Amiga users who are interested in doing something. No vendors vending, just users around the BBQ talking about our favorite computer, and perhaps about the Ottawa Amiga Show. Keep an eye on the Amiga.info (http://www.technomages.net/amiga.info/) website for more information regarding the BBQ. Please attend the AmiWest 2001 show and have a great time. For more information regarding AmiWest, point your browser to http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/. We wish to thank everyone for their comments regarding the show dates. We hope to see many of you at the Ottawa Amiga Show. Sincerely, The Amiga Ottawa Show Team (amigashow@technomages.net) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- F I N N I S H S A K U 2 0 0 1 S H O W N E W S ESPOO, FINLAND - June 27, 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. Preliminary plans include demonstrations of Amiga's new products. 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. About Finnish Amiga Users Group: Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in Finland. Also known as Saku, after its e-zine, the group is trying to accomplish its goals by organizing meetings and by publishing an e-zine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and its predecessors have released over thirty issues of the magazine and held several public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet, a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I W E S T 2 0 0 1 N E W S 19 Jun 2001 Some of you have been asking us who is going to be at AmiWest 2001. Perhaps the following information will BLAST YOU OUT OF YOUR SEATS and get you going on travel reservations. ***************THIS IS AN AMIWEST 2001 EXCLUSIVE:************** After 11 minutes and 58 seconds worth of conversation with CEO Bill McEwen of Amiga Inc., the following NEWS FLASH was created: FRIDAY NIGHT, JULY 27, 2001 BILL McEWEN WILL BE AT AMIWEST 2001 IN PERSON, doing the keynote address ON FRIDAY NIGHT so that all who desire can attend the address!! Hear the latest buzz on what's happening at Amiga Inc.. Come one, come all and hear it FOR FREE! If you're thinking ahead, you'll buy your show and banquet tickets NOW when the price is low instead of waiting until July 27 and paying full price. You can see the Amiga One in action on SATURDAY, not Friday; same with the Sharp handheld. So get those cards and letters coming in with banquet and show ticket checks! You really don't want to be on the outside looking in!! ******************************************************************* SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2001 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1) THE AMIGA ONE WILL BE AT AMIWEST 2001. At least one example of the Amiga One 1200 will be there and perhaps two, running the new Amiga OS 4.0!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2) THE SHARP HANDHELD DEVICE running the Amiga DE will also be at AmiWest 2001!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3) AMIGA ONE 1200 BOARDS will go into production at the END OF JULY, appearing at the dealers by MID-AUGUST!! ORDER YOURS AT AMIWEST 2001!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4) THE AMIWEST 2001 SATURDAY NIGHT BANQUET will feature A JOINT PRESENTATION by Dr. Alan Havemose and Bill McEwen speaking on "Amiga and Gateway - What REALLY Happened"!! 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. THERE ARE NOW THREE LESS ROOMS AVAILABLE, TAKEN BY AMIGA INC. RESERVE YOUR ROOM NOW!! Favorable room rates are STILL 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! If you're thinking ahead, you'll buy your show and banquet tickets NOW when the price is low instead of waiting until July 27, Friday night, and paying full price. You can see the Amiga One in action on SATURDAY, not Friday; same with the Sharp handheld. So get those cards and letters coming in with banquet and show ticket checks! You really don't want to be on the outside looking in!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- M E R L A N C I A / I N D I V I D U A L A L L I A N C E 29th June 2001 Merlancia Industries is pleased to announce a strategic relationship with 'individual Computers'; to design a controller device that will be utilised on our Torro series systems. The device, a custom chip controller, named 'CLeo' will be available as an add-on kit for the Pilot release systems (to be included with all systems shipping after it's release, and to be sent to all developer systems sold before-hand). The 'CLeo" custom device is based on technology first implemented in individual Computers' 'CatWeasel' disc controller, and will allow the reading and writing of Amiga native disc formats (880k and 1760k) on our Tsunami system as well as future directives. Other formats will be supported as well including PC-DOS, and Macintosh-HFS. We expect to have a prototype of this design at AmiWest Conference (28th to 29th July 2001- Sacramento, CA; USA) as well as our prototype Pilot system. http://www.merlancia.com \| merlancia@merlancia.com -- individual Computers -Jens Schönfeld http://www.jschoenfeld.de \| jens@jschoenfeld.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- M E R L A N C I A O P E N L E T T E R 29th June 2001 Merlancia Open letter to the Amiga Community by Ryan E. A. Czerwinski, CEO of Merlancia Industries Greetings to all. We are happy that the Amiga community is taking a deep and serious interest in our products and what we are working on in the background! We will be releasing some more critical information to answer your questions soon, however, we are currently gagged until some other contracts are completed. I assure you all that welcomed good news is ahead...in fact, look forward to a feature article about us in an upcoming issue of AmigaActive magazine, where we hope to answer many of your questions. We are currently looking for those that are interested in developing for our system(s). (As the Tsunami will only be the first system we are releasing.) To answer some common questions that have been asked: Re bPlan: Yes, we are working with bPlan on the Tsunami design. The details of this partnership are due out soon. Let it be said that we are designing hardware, not just sitting idle and waiting for others to do our work for us. We have very talented people on staff, both software and hardware (not to mention press relations and marketing) and we are spending our $$$ wisely. Release dates: The Tsunami system is expected to be released in it's final consumer form in November to December 2001. We are working very hard to meet this deadline, though we cannot foresee any problems that may arise. The Pilot release will most likely be after the AmiWest conference, not at as we had hoped, as we are currently having a slight fault in the gfx display; We will have a demonstration system at the show. We plan to have a press conference as well as other 'events' at AmiWest, and we hope that there is a large amount of Amigans that think it wise to attend. ;) We need your talents!: We are looking for both software and hardware developers. A platform like this cannot succeed without a full range of software to run on it. Sure, the current software will run on our system, but we need a full library of up-to-date software, both multimedia and business applications, to be able to achieve our place in the market. We have already received orders for developer systems from some very impressive firms and individuals. We hope to grab up as much talent as possible, as it makes sense to have PowerPC software for new PowerPC hardware. We are looking for both the absurdly simple (tiny games or utilities) to the fairly complex (graphics packages, office suites) software titles. AN option will be available to have your software included with each unit sold, or special unit packages. AmigaOS 4/5: We are unfortunately unable to release details on this currently, however, we hope to do so shortly; most likely at the AmiWest conference. Let it be said currently that our system both meets and exceeds the Zico specification,as do all of our 'in development' systems. Our market: We are designing our Torro systems to be a natural complete system solution upgrade path for current Amiga users (see examples of how/why below) but we are not limiting our products to the current Amiga market or community. We anticipate high sales volumes to the consumer and industrial multimedia markets; Our systems are designed to be as CHRP resembling as possible. We are pitting them against the big names like Apple and SGI. Our partnership with Blittersoft was only the first step in this process- Working together on the iFusion project will allow us to migrate iFusion to our systems easily, allowing full Macintosh compatibility on our products, both under AmigaOS and stand-alone (later). We are also planning on offering other OS solutions as separate packages including QNX, Linux, Solaris, BeOS (hopefully), and others. We cannot provide MacOS ourselves, but the user will have the option of installing it, and we will also be working on an x86 emulator so that if the user desires he/she can use x86 operating systems including UNiX, Linux-x86, BeOs-x86, and (gasp!) even MS Windows (though we won't support it directly). We are also working on a firmware OS (think what Exec is to Amiga) that allows not only selection of startup devices via an 'early startup' screen, but also setting up multiple machine states that can be launched with ease and switched between instantly. (Thus allowing multiple OSs to be run at once.) This may not be included with the first launch, but an updater will be available to patch the firmware, which is flash updatable. Speaking of which, your machine state setting will be able to be saved, as well as your other setting, including screen mode and startup volume (individual to each machine state), thus allowing you to start up with those options each time you reboot. Why is it a natural upgrade path?: Unlike other machines promised in the past, and other projects in the works, we are working on something that will be completely natural to the Amiga user of today. Features like the ability to read and write to floppy discs and other media in native Amiga formats (880k and 1760k on floppy discs) as well as simple things like the layout of the keyboard and the look and feel of the design of the system all around all total up to Amiga-like. We are trying to make a product that is impressive from the inside and out, not just another `box'. Not to say that all offerings that are currently being made are bad. in fact, i look forward to the EyeTech AmigaOne. I know I will buy one personally, and our retail division will carry them. (We have the world's largest stock of A1200 NTSC systems; other dealers are now ordering them from us.) The future and beyond: What lies in store for us, the Amiga community? I can't say for sure, but I feel that the future is brighter than ever due both to the commitment from Amiga ( a lively bunch of bright and intelligent individuals) as well as out commitment to you, the Amiga community. As always, you come first in our thinking and our product design. This product is designed for you; We wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't. As always, best wishes to everyone. Thank you for being a customer, current, or future. Cheers, Ryan E. A. Czerwinski CEO - Merlancia Industries http://www.merlancia.com \| merlancia@merlancia.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A O N E T I M E T A B L E F R O M E Y E T E C H Updated 27 June 2001 It's now several months since this timeline was last updated as most of the day-to-day news items have been posted to the http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/amigaone mailing list. However lots of things have happened since we launched the AmigaOne project which have had an influence on the specification of the final product and therefore the timetable leading up to delivery. The main change has undoubtedly been the decision by Amiga to use the current Amiga OS as the basis for a home server solution and as an alternative (to Windows and Linux) hosting environment for the Amiga DE. This has meant that when it is first launched the AmigaOne 1200 will be a substantially improved product to what was originally envisaged. The majority of the improvements come from Amiga's commitment to develop OS4.0 specifically to run on the AmigaOne-1200 at launch. This is far more than the 'fixed' version of OS3.9 that was originally envisaged (pending the development of the native PPC Amiga DE implementation that was originally planned). The new OS4.0 will come with a high performance file system, virtual memory, high performance PPC-native TCP/IP stack, 1GB main memory support, UDMA IDE and SCSI and ethernet drivers and Picasso96 2D retargetable drivers for VooDoo3 PCI/AGP and Matrox G450 PCI/AGP & G550 AGP only graphics cards. Warp3D/Mesa 3D drivers will also be shipped with the first release of OS4.0. Sound card (with Paula emulation), USB (keyboard and mouse) drivers will follow as downloadable updates - ie you wont have to wait until OS4.2 (which we don't expect to ship until mid 2002) for these facilities. The whole AmigaOne-1200 project is suddenly much bigger and very much better as a result. The small downside however is that during the several weeks leading up to the OS4.x announcement (at St Louis at the beginning of April) and more particularly since then, we and Amiga Inc have had to redirect much of our efforts to carefully defining, planning and allocating tasks and responsibilities to OS4.0 development and integration with the A1-1200. The extra work involved has also, inevitably, meant that timeframes have slipped. Although this has also meant that the end time for hardware delivery has moved back actual progress has, so far, been ahead of plan with the development currently looking like it will come in at less than the estimate for elapsed engineering time. As reported earlier in the AmigaOne FAQ's, beta testers will not now be needed for the hardware which is being independantly tested/validated as development progresses. As most people probably know, Continental Europe (where most of the AmigaOne and OS4.0 development is being carried out) closes in August, making it a bad time for beta testing and the associated feedback. As you'll see below, application software/OS4.0 beta test boards are therefore now scheduled for release at the beginning of September. Manufacture of production AmigaOne1200 boards will now start in mid September, and be released for distribution as soon as OS4.0 is signed off for release in early October. Timeline summary: Item & Date Mk 2 PCB production and testing Complete All major custom chip logic building block development and testing Complete CPU module design Complete Custom chip PCI development Complete Custom chip memory and CPU controller integration June/July Bootstrap, flashrom maintenance and basic drivers implementation July/August OS4.0 build and 68K emulator porting/testing July/August Application software beta tester systems shipped End August/Start September AmigaOne 1200 boards into production Mid September Application software & OS4.0 beta test sign off End September AmigaOne-1200 boards and OS4.0 available to dealers 1st week October http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/timeframe.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E Y E T E C K C L A R I F I E S O S 4 A N D W A R P {Found on the net. Brad.} From: "Eyetech Group Ltd" Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:02:49 +0100 Subject: Re: [amigaone] Re: Upgrade? > Show me an official statement (i.e. a posting, web page, IRC log) > where an Amiga, H&P or Eyetech employee states that AOS 4.0 won't run > existing WarpOS software. You won't find any. > > Of course AOS 4.0 will be able to run WarpOS software, anything else > would be quite stupid. > OK time to kill some wasted bandwidth here Heres an official statement. "OS4.0 will run existing WarpOS apps" Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A N O T H E R E L B O X C O N T R O V E R S Y , P A R T 1 {Note: we have removed some e-mail addresses from these items. Brad} Krakow, 30 May 2001 Warp 3D for ELBOX Please note our explanations in reference to comments appearing in various news lists and concerning the date of sending a Warp3D offer to Elbox Computer. Someone is spreading false information on behalf of Hyperion in this reference. As we have informed, the FIRST Warp 3D V4 offer was sent to Elbox Computer on Friday 25 May 2001 at 22:29 CET. On Tuesday 22 May 2001, Elbox Computer was informed ONLY about the change in the Warp3D status. The following text was included in the end of this statement: "In the upcoming weeks we will be approaching all hardware developers with concrete and fair proposals which allow for very moderate compensation for Warp 3D V4 support." After 3 days, on Friday 25 May night, the announced offer was sent to Elbox Computer. However, there were no contract details in it, only the suggested price was given. Since Monday, 28 May 2001, Elbox Computer is in touch with Hyperion and discussing the offer. I hope to have dispelled all the fog concerning the date when we received the offer in question. Mariusz Wloczysiak ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department http://www.elbox.com PS. Please find the full text of the first message from Hyperion of 22 May; as the facts have already been made public, this is no longer a business secret. -------- Original Message -------- Hi! Hyperion Entertainment has decided to change the Status of Warp3D slightly because of the current market situation. Please find attached to this mail an explanation of these changes. For further questions, please contact Ben Hermans (mailto:LegendConsulting@netscape.net), Managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment. Thanks for your time. Best regards, Hans-Joerg Frieden Senior Software Developer, Hyperion Entertainment --------------Boundary-00=_9SFQGR0TN2SA0J1DHNKL Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Warp3D.rtf" -------- We want to inform you that after extensive deliberation, Hyperion Entertainment has decided to upgrade the status of Warp 3D V4 from a freeware product to a commercial OEM product which will offered to Amiga hardware developers. This decision was prompted by two major reasons: 1. Hyperion Entertainment has reached an agreement with Amiga Inc. to incorporate Warp3D V4 into Amiga OS 4.x on a per unit royalty basis. Producers of zico compliant hardware (Amiga One etc.) will be required to license Amiga OS 4.x and will as such be paying indirectly for Warp 3D V4 drivers. It is unacceptable to both Amiga Inc. and these hardware producers that they would be required to pay royalties for a product which other hardware producers would receive free of charge. 2. Warp 3D started out as a freeware product developed by non-commercial developers to support the Virge and Permedia 2 chipsets. Compared to current chipsets the Virge and Permedia 2 are extremely primitive and feature-poor. The effort and time needed to adequately support modern chipsets such as the Voodoo 3 and Matrox G450 with their rich and advanced feature-set is far greater than the effort required to support the Virge and Permedia 2 chipsets. As the original Warp 3D developers have now moved on to commercial development, maintaining Warp 3D as a freeware product would entail that development of new Warp 3D drivers and extension of the Warp 3D API would be very slow as development could only take place "after hours". This is not only not in the interest of Amiga users but it is also not in the interest of hardware producers and resellers who rely on the availability of Warp 3D drivers to successfully sell their Amiga hardware. Hyperion Entertainment fully understands that the company has a responsibility towards the Amiga community including the hardware producers because of its control over the Warp 3D API and no attempt has ever been made or will be made to exploit this position unfairly. In the upcoming weeks we will be approaching all hardware developers with concrete and fair proposals which allow for very moderate compensation for Warp 3D V4 support. As we know that market conditions in the Amiga market have been hard for everyone including hardware producers, Hyperion Entertainment is even willing to accept payment in kind (hardware). Best regards, {Note: the document as we obtained it stopped at this point, without a name. Brad} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A N O T H E R E L B O X C O N T R O V E R S Y , P A R T 2 June 27, 2001 "Elbox and Hyperion did NOT come to an agreement about licensing Voodoo 3drivers because Elbox insisted that the Mediator 1200 would be the very first PCI solution to be supported (of all PCI boards on the market regardless for which machine A1200 or A4000). There never was discussion about delivery dates. The fact of the matter was that Elbox wanted us to do something which was clearly impossible both practically and legally. Practically: we can't "unsupport" the Matay Prometheus PCI solution. Drivers are shipping with the Prometheus for some time now and it's impossible to turn back the hands of time and allow the Mediator 1200 drivers to be shipped first. Legally: We entered into a legally binding contract with Matay for driver support. They paid us, Elbox didn't. We cannot legally delay release of the Prometheus drivers (which are already released anyway) just because Elbox wants us to. This is a clear breach of contract and runs contrary to the requirement of good faith which is a general principle of contract law. In short, Elbox was trying to impose an impossible condition on us and as a result we failed to reach agreement about Voodoo 3 drivers. I have e-mails from several staff members of Elbox to back up these claims. Despite numerous attempts we could not convince Elbox that Mediator 1200 users really could care less about the fact that the Voodoo 3 drivers for an A4000 solution were shipping first. The result is apparently that there won't be any 3D drivers for the Elbox products unless Elbox drops this ridiculous condition. Or somebody could invent a time-machine. As anybody could see at the Benelux show, the Voodoo 3 drivers are quite ready and could be adapted to the Mediator 1200 in a relatively short time. Mediator 1200 users interested in Voodoo 3 drivers should e-mail Elbox explaining that they don't care if an A4000 PCI busboard is supported first as long as they can finally get their Mediator 1200 drivers. The ball is clearly in Elbox's court." -- Ben Hermans Managing partner Hyperion Entertainment" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- D C E L I C E N S E S V O O D O O 3 W A R P 3 D 25-June-2001 Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce that it has entered into a license agreement with DCE, producers of the G-REX line of PCI hardware for the Amiga. Under the agreement Hyperion will support DCE's G-REX 1200 and G-REX 4000 products with fully featured Warp 3D Voodoo 3 drivers for both 68K and PPC. « We're very pleased that DCE has decided to respond to demand by its customers for Warp3D drivers for Voodoo 3 », says Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment . « Amiga users currently have quite a number of PCI solutions to chose from and the manufacturers offering the widest range of drivers for their PCI solutions will clearly have a competitive advantage. From the large number of e-mails we have received, we can only conclude that the availability of 3D drivers is a key consideration for users when they make their decision to purchase a specific PCI solution. To avoid disappointment, we once again urge users interested in 3D graphics to investigate the availability of Warp3D drivers before purchasing a specific PCI solution. » ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E Y E T E C H A N D M A T A Y D E A L 19 June, 2001 Prometheus PCI expansion for Zorro3 Amigas will be in stock by 25th June - orders now being taken For immediate release We're particularly pleased to have struck a deal with Matay, the Polish makers of the Prometheus board as it enables A3000/A4000 (both desktop and tower systems) to gain 4 PCI slots for trading in just one Zorro slot. The board is shipped with 2D & 3D drivers for VooDoo graphics cards (also in stock), together with drivers for ethernet and sound cards, and an complete royalty-free SDK. It is an incredibly well designed and manufactured board, (guaranteed for 5 years) and is the first PCI expansion board on any Amiga to get Hyperion's seal of approval for its 3-D support. A PPC add-in card is in the pipeline giving a PPC-based forward path for those users who want to retain Zorro 3 compatibility in their big-box Amigas. The UK price inc VAT is £199.95 (or 269 euros/239USD, both excluding VAT). Specifications are as follows: General o Works with any Zorro III equipped Amiga, regardless of the accelerator/CPU board installed in the system. o Four 32-bit PCI slots clocked at 33 MHz. o Fits any tower case and also works with desktop A3000/4000s when open. o Works with other Zorro III cards, supports AutoConfig (TM). o Real transfer rates between Amiga and PCI cards - up to 12 MB/s (a limitation of the 'Buster' chip) o Real transfer rates between PCI cards - up to 120 MB/s. o Additional on-board connector for the power supply. o Professionally designed four-layer printed circuit board with gold-plated contacts - complies with the PCI standard specifications. Drivers The Prometheus card comes with a CDROM containing: o Drivers for the Voodoo3 graphics card, developed in close co-operation with Hyperion and the authors of Picasso96. 2D drivers work under the P96 system, 3D functions are available through Warp3D. o Drivers for the the network card. (Sound card drivers will be available for free download shortly) o A royalty-free, NDA-free software development kit for programmers. This is designed to make the Prometheus card the most open PCI bridge solution as far as the driver development goes. o Demo versions of games using the 3D functions of the Voodoo3 graphics card: Heretic 2, Shogo, Wipeout 2097. The package also contains a reference manual (in English, German & Polish), brackets for the Prometheus and PCI cards and an extension cable for a graphics card. Mechanical issues Due to the wide variety of tower solutions available for Amiga computers, it was not possible to design the Prometheus to be mechanically compatible with the card slots of all of them. The solution was therefore to design the Prometheus as the smallest possible Zorro 3 card and to provide brackets which hold the PCI cards to the Prometheus itself. Short cables (supplied) connect the PCI cards' I/O connectors to the rear panel of the computer case. This makes the card compatible with all Z3 tower cases that we are aware of. It also means that the Prometheus can be used in desktop A3000's an A4000's, although for these however the case lid cannot be closed with PCI cards installed. Other benefits of the Prometheus design approach o Suitable for 'riser' and 'motherboard' Zorro 3 slots o Works in conjuction with all CPU daughterboard/accelerator cards o Where mechanical layout allows, two Prometheus boards (8 PCI slots in total) can be used simultaneously o Future use with an be used with an G3/G4 card including 'off-the shelf' Macintosh types for running OS4.2 and higher. Prometheus driver CD list Graphics cards drivers o Voodoo3 2000 o Voodoo3 3000 o 2D drivers for Picasso96 graphics system o 3D drivers for Warp3D (full OpenGL support) Network cards drivers The prometheus NE2000 device driver should work with all NE2000 compatible PCI network cards, including the following: Producer Chipset Manufacturer ID Product ID Realtek RTL8029 $10EC $8029 Compex RL2000 $11F6 $1401 Winbond 89C940F $1050 $0940 Holtek HT80232 $12C3 $0058 Surecom NE34 $10BD $0E34 Holtek HT80229 $12C3 $5598 Tested network cards Genius GE2500-III SE, RTL8029 chipset TV card drivers Work in progress Sound card drivers Work in progress. It will be available for free download as soon as it is finished. Some independent developers have also started work on writing soundcard drivers for the Prometheus. No obligation pre-orders are being taken now to secure a card. Place your order by calling +44 1642 713185, emailing us at sales@eyetech.co.uk or through our website. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P U R E B A S I C V 1 . 3 2 R E L E A S E D 11 June 2001 PureBasic V2.32 Released (AmigaOS) : - Added: ReadMemory(), WriteMemory(), SetWindowTagList() - Added: Async palette fade - Added: New commands for Chunky library - Added: Procedures can now returns strings - Added: WaitWindowEvent() - Added: CompilerIf, CompilerElse, CompilerEndIf, CompilerSelect... - Added: FileSystem library - Added: Picasso96 library - Added: Path change when running a program from the editor (no need to put absolute path anymore) - Added: Editor: Auto-casing and contextual online help. - Added: Data support (new commands: Data, DataSection, EndDataSection, Read, Restore) - Changed: PokeS(), now returns the number of characters 'poked' (handy) - Changed: OpenWindow() (to be compatiable with other OSes) - Changed: The whole gadget library (to be compatiable with other OSes) - Fixed: A compiler bug (Structure can't be redeclared a second time..) - Fixed: A member in a structure used but not initialized - Fixed: Sprite lib (debugger and priority to the end) - Fixed: a Picture bug - Fixed: Screen/FontRequester(): now returns 0 when cancelled. - Fixed: ReadString(), Str() - Fixed: A lot of editor bugs http://www.purebasic.com/news10.html support@purebasic.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- F R E E S C A N N E R C O L O R C A L I B R A T I O N 9 June, 2001 ICS The Free AmigaOS Scanner Color Calibration Software ICS allows color calibrating basicly any scanner using scanner calibration photos (targets). Standard IT 8.7 (ISO 12641), various Corel and Epson targets are supported. The software can work independent of any Amiga scanner drivers, but works best with scanner software directly calling ICS for you (ScanQuix V4 or V5, ScanTrax, ImageFX, FXScan). Using the ICS software is fairly easy. Install using the provided standard Installer program. Scan the calibration photo with your scanner and generate a scanner profile. The profile can than be selected in the ICS preferences program and defines the color correction performed. Also, you can adjust the type of display the color correction is made for. Once done, further scans with the ICS enabled scanner driver will automaticly result in perfect scans. The system requirements of ICS are: Amiga with OS 2.04 or higher. Next you need a calibration target. For best results, use a calibration target according to the ANSI IT 8.7/2 (ISO 12641) standard. These are available from Kodak, Agfa, Fuji or for a very low price from www.targets.coloraid.de. In case you don't have a target, you can find generic profiles for various scanners in the ICSProfiles.lha file listed below. Use them only as last resort until you do have a real target photo for scanning. Despite the same brand/model, these generic profiles might not work with your scanner as each scanner is different! Following new features have been added to V2 of ICS: o Now all ICS image reading and writing is done using the new IRW library o ICSConvert can now write JPEG, IFF, and TIFF o ICSConvert and ScanTarget now support 16 bit/channel image data. o ICSConvert can now read/write embeded ICC color and IPTC/NAA editorial information o Now includes tools to extract ICC and IPTC information from images (IFF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG) o Spanish localization added o ICSConvert can now be used as tool for image format conversion. o IRW does offer improved and localized error handling. Error requesters now offer detailed information, hints and often also a Retry function. o Major speed improvement for loading certain file formats. Also, memory requirement was reduced. For further questions contact the author Wolf Faust. http://www.ics.coloraid.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A W R I T E R - F I L T E R F O R P A G E S T R E A M 3 June, 2001 AmigaWriter-Filter for PageStream 1.1 Written and Copyright ©2000-2001 by Rüdiger Hanke AmigaWriter-Filter is a new import filter for Soft-Logik's DTP program PageStream. Click on the thumbnail to the right to see a screenshot of what it can do! It consists of two parts: o The text filter inserts the main flowtext of your AmigaWriter documents into the current PageStream article with most of its text formattings. o The document filter loads your AmigaWriter documents as if they were native PageStream documents, retaining as much of your original document as possible. Applications AmigaWriter-Filter was designed to o print AmigaWriter documents to PostScript o export AmigaWriter documents to PDF o use AmigaWriter as a WYSIWYG replacement for PageLiner o ... and anything else you can think of :-)) The filter comes with the usual options you would expect from a PageStream import filter: it performs typographical conversions for quotes, dashes and ellipses. In addition, it allows you to choose the quote format (available are US, French, German and German-French). The text filter has another option called Apply Styles Only which can be a great help to achieve consistent layout, especially when several authors are working on one text. Download The AmigaWriter-Filter archive is now available in version 1.1. Minor and major updates will be available from the website from time to time, major updates will be uploaded to Aminet. Download: AW-Filter11.lha (55.3 kByte) http://www.muenster.de/~tomjoad/awfilter.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amiga Update on the net: All back issues available at: http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html Stop by and check out our archive! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2001 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified. ====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ A M I G A /\\ \|\ /\|\| \|\| / ` /\\ A M I G A U P D A T E /__\\ \| \ / \|\| \|\| \|\| ___ /__\\ U P D A T E / \\_ \| \/ \|\|_ _\|\|_ \__// / \\_ amigaupdate@globaldialog.com ====================================================================== (ps) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 01:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2001` VHT - Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus warning: Bobek2 & Ebola Link Virus found Another archive that is infected with the 'Bobek2' link virus has been found. It was on Aminet for a short time, but is has been removed now. But there just might be a few more archives out there, so take care.. Here is some info about the archive: Archive name : Hjb-DVN2.ha Archive size : 1.334.619 bytes Archive info : HJB - Devotion, issue two. Infected file : Devoprefs Infected size : 30.492 bytes Infected with : Bobek2 & Ebola link virus Note: The archive is safe to use after removing the viruses from the Devoprefs file. Use VirusExecutor, VirusZ & VirusChecker, with (and this is very important) the xvs.library v33.26. The correct size after removing the virus is: 28.340 bytes The programmer of this archive, was not aware that his system was infected with virus, but I'm sure that his system is clean now, we have told him.. So if you have installed or executed this archive, please check your system for virus....... In this context also have a look at the Aminet Message of the day: VIRUS ALERT. We've run a complete virus check of Aminet and found the following infected and otherwise dubious files: demo/mag/Hjb-DVN2.lha demo/euro/Itchy_3_Germs.lha game/gag/gzus001.lzh, game/gag/VirusHunter.lzh (the last 3 are pretty harmless). All of those are recognized by VirusExecutor.lha VIRUS ALERT. Some old files (2 years) turned out to be DKG-Blum infected (not known to us at the time). The files were in demo/aga and had the names PSY-Hal.lha Psy-tt2.lha PSY-xmas.lha and PSY-CV.lha . VirusExecutor.lha will detect that virus. (ps) [News message: 01. Jul. 2001, 00:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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