23.Dec.2000
H&P
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Merry Christmas from Haage & Partner
The Haage&Partner team wish all of the AMIGA devotees a merry Christmas and ....
a happy new year!
From 25th of December to 7th of January 2001 our office will be closed. From Monday 8th of
January we will be there again for advice and deed.
Within this time the OS 3.9 support will only be available on 27th and 28th of December, 16:00 to 18:00 h MET.
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23.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Makers of Exodus Taken In by Swindler
Fun Time World wrote:
«The makers of the game "Exodus - Tha Last War" apparently were taken by a swindler.
Mariuz Samson (Exodus) voiced on this problem in an
article on the homepage of the
Polish magazine eXec. The person in question, whose name
wasn't mentioned, has also been responsible for the server problems due to which it partly was
very difficult to download the demo version from the page. Similar problems also happened with
e-mails which didn't always arrive. For the alleged hacker attack also the person in question
has been responsible. Unfortunately the swindler was also able to read the e-mails sent to the
group and possibly answered some of those.
If you happened to receive an e-mail with a reply-to address different from the following, so this one
might be sent by the person in question: samsonm@poczta.onet.pl,
darexodus@poczta.onet.pl, sland@skrzynka.getin.pl, and maybe also slandsales@go2.pl.
Now you can reach the group under the following e-mail address:
samson10@box43.pl.»
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23.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Christmas and new year wishes from Stefan Robl
Under the above title link Stefan Robl (AmiDock, AmigaMPEGPlayer) does not only
wish a merry Christmas and a happy new year, but also recalls
his Amiga year 2000.
During his internship at Haage&Partner he developed the speed optimized ARexx
interpreter "StormRexx" which but isn't finished, yet. For AmigaOS V3.9 he developed
'AmiDock', and for the AmigaSDK he released the MPEG player 'AmigaMPEGPlayer'.
At the Neuss show he was able to present his "AmiCamedia" driver for digital cameras
by Olympus.
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23.Dec.2000
amiga.org
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Amiga.org V7.0 Now Online
The newly designed website of amiga.org now is accessible directly under the
known URL http://amiga.org/.
Among other things this site provides actual Amiga news on which you now can
comment directly. Additionally there are among other things several discussion forums,
a login for members, and immediate display of the latest uploads to the AmigaDE software
archive at Amiga Inc..
The rss- and
ultramode-Backend
allow developers of web-tools easy to access the current headlines.
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23.Dec.2000
amiga.org
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Official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ
On the AmigaOS V3.9 pages
at Amiga Inc. there is to find a link to the official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ by
Gregory Donner. This English FAQ contains a.o. the topics installation tips, icon operation,
compatibility, internet applications, undocumented features, 3rd party utilities, and
known bugs. Beside of the online version there is the HTML version as both, LHA and ZIP archive
available for download.
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23.Dec.2000
Innovative
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Merry Christmas from Innovative
We wish all of our customers and friends a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
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23.Dec.2000
AIO
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AIO Magazine Issue #42
Just in time for Christmas issue #42 of the AIO magazine has been released.
Download: AIOV42.LHA
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23.Dec.2000
Jens Schoenfeld via eMail
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Individual Computers: ISDN Surfer Driver V1.938
At the download area from now on the new capi20.device, and the new isdnsurfer.device
are available for download. The only change: capi20.device does no longer claim to
be a demo version. This expiry of the software was meant to remind of updating.
Unfortunately the deadline for further development was set too short.
By this we want to wish all of our customers, suppliers and business friends a merry Christmas and
a happy new year.
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23.Dec.2000
Eyetech Group Ltd.
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Merry Christmas from Eyetech
Merry Christmas from Eyetech.
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23.Dec.2000
HiSoft Systems
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iBrowse News
Middle of December on the support forum of iBrowse, which was hosted by
www.senduptheflares.com/
and now doesn't exist no more it was to read that Stefan Burstroem, author of iBrowse
has got a full time job, cause he wasn't able to exist from what he gains from iBrowse, any more.
Here the original message form the HiSoft forum:
«Unfortunately, after many, many years of hard work on iBrowse, Stefan
Burstroem (the author of iBrowse) has been forced to get a full-time job.
The revenues coming in from iBrowse sales simply are not enough to support
worldwide marketing plus a salary for the author.
Although Stefan remains committed to iBrowse and the Amiga, it is difficult
to see how he can take the product forward without help. And, even then, I
cannot see how enough revenue will come to pay the people involved.
Please let me know if any of you have any ideas how this problem can be
solved. David»
On the iBrowse product page at Hisoft (see title link) it is mentioned that
it is absolute necessary to have a look at the demo version of iBrowse before
registering, to be sure that the browser fulfils your needs. According to Hisoft
so much changes have happened to the internet, that Amiga browser cannot keep up,
any more.
Here the original text:
«The latest version of the Amiga's premier web browser.
Note that the Internet has moved on and the Amiga has not kept up, so some
modern websites are not accessible on the Amiga because they require software
that is not available for the Amiga. Therefore, before you purchase an
iBrowse 2 keyfile please ensure that you have downloaded the evaluation version
and satisfied yourself that iBrowse 2.2 is suitable for your requirements.»
Conclusion: At this time further development of iBrowse is not to expect. But at
eGroups still a discussion forum for iBrowse users is available:
http://www.egroups.com/group/ibrowselist.
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23.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail
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COOL bits Newsletter
We wish all of our customers a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
After our stocktaking an update of the homepage will be put online.
Due to stocktaking and holiday our shop will be closed from 12-27-2000 to 01-07-2000.
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23.Dec.2000
Ralph Debusmann via eMail
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EasyPlayer Version 1.03 Released
Ralph Debusmann wrote:
I've just uploaded the Christmas release (version 1.03) of my
music player "EasyPlayer" to Aminet, now with "be quiet" option.
Who cannot beat waiting until it appears there, will find the version
on my homage under the title link.
Greetings, merry Christmas and a happy new year!
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23.Dec.2000
Elbox via eMail
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Merry Christmas
Elbox Computer Team wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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23.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Merry Christmas from Amiga Future
Amiga Future wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
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23.Dec.2000
utopia on ANF
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Amiga Mall Now Open
Vince Pfeifer (Amiga Inc.): "The Amiga community is now able to purchase
the same goodies that we here at Amiga wear!"
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23.Dec.2000
Peter Sander im ANF
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Season Greetings from AS-WebShop
We wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2oo1. Along with our wishes
we want to thank for the great reception in the year 2000. The AS-WebShop will continue
to available for everybody in the year 2001 with it's offerings all around the AMIGA.
We also want to thank for laud and criticism of many kind. With the soon to come new
version (v3) of the WebShop software we will take care of many of these. Extra thanks to:
Heiko and Lars, as well as all of the #AmigaClub-BTX. - Some of it wouldn't not be
possible without your help. Special thanks to: Family Horbach from KDH-Datentechnik -
their sovereignty to master our whims is admirable. - Thank you!
- Danke!
Finally one note: Our office will not be available by phone between the holidays.
FAX (05121-39586), EMail (info@as-webshop.de)
or the online shop of course will be accessible.
PS: I want to thank you Petra (and of course the amiga-news.de team) for daily suppling
us with news, tips, and information all around AMIGA and similar subjects. Great
performance - Thank you!
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23.Dec.2000
AMItac on ANF
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Amiga Emulation and More to Come
AMITac wrote:
We are a young NetTeam among other things dealing with emulation of Playstation and Amiga.
We've started doing the manual for the UAE emulator, which will be finished at latest in a week
(HTML manual). Later on more classic stuff will be added. Who would like to can contact AMItac or
RamireZ or put a link to our site.
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23.Dec.2000
Peter Merfeld on ANF
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Voodoo 5 CyberGraphx Driver Finished
DCE Computer Service GmbH, Oberhausen, Germany, is exited to announce the
Voodoo 5-5500 graphics board to be supported by CyberGraphX driver
in time for the upcoming release of the G-REX PCI interface end of January 2001.
The following drivers are finished:
- Voodoo 3 - 2000 - 3000
- Voodoo 4 - 4500
- Voodoo 5 - 5500
- 10Mbit PCI Netcard (Realtek Chipset)
- S3 Virge
End of January 2001 also the initial beta version of the new Warp3D driver
will be available. This driver will support Voodoo 3-2000-3000.
DCE wish all of the readers a merry Christmas and a happy new millennium.
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23.Dec.2000
utopia on ANF
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Holiday Executive Update from Bill McEwen
December 23, 2000
Executive Update - Looking Back
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to one and all:
Wow, have we been a blessed company. On December 27, 1999 we executed
our agreement with Gateway, and January 3rd 2000 was our first day of
business.
In one year we have been able to release an upgrade to the AmigaOS
(3.9, with our partners Haage and Partner), we have announced and
released two versions of the SDK for the New AmigaDE (Digital
Environment), we have released the AmigaOne specification and
announced two partners in building these new machines, (bPlan, and
Eyetech).
Yes this has been an amazing year.
As we look back upon these last 12 months, there have been many
lessons learned, and it is with these new lessons that we will be
moving into 2001, with clear focus, and numerous new announcements and
deals. Yes, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will be great
fun for Amigans around the world, for it is here that the rest of the
world will begin to learn what you already know! :-)
At this time of remembrance and thanks, we are also reminded of our
friends that we have lost. Coz, Bob Cosby is very missed and we think
of him, and pray daily for his wife Marsha. It has been the most
sobering event for Amiga, and it helped us to remember that Family is
what makes Amiga great. We are looking to add many new members to the
Amiga family this year.
This year has been hard for us in other ways also: the stock market
has certainly hindered our ability to raise the capital we wanted to
accelerate our plans, and many of us have had to endure financial
hardships making the dream of Amiga a reality. The Amiga team is
together, and moving ahead quickly towards this new and exciting year.
I want to thank each and every one of you for your continued support
and for everyone hanging in there with us.
We are truly a blessed company.
I want to personally wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and a very
Happy New Year.
God Bless,
><> Bill McEwen ><>
President CEO Amiga, Inc,
bill@amiga.com.
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22.Dec.2000
Benjamin Yoris by e-mail
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Merry Xmas from Hyperion
The Hyperion Entertainment team would like to wish all of you a very happy
holiday season and a merry Xmas. Rendez-vous in 2001 with even more outstanding
games and new deals to come.
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22.Dec.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF
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IRC-Server runs on Amiga 500 :-)
I've just noticed that the information text of the EFnet IRC server irc.gigabell.de
says: "Running on AmigaOS, Kick 1.3". If you want to see it yourself, just log
into this IRC server of the Gigabell AG and have a look at your Whois.
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22.Dec.2000
Thomas Würgler on ANF
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Christmas gift from e.p.i.c. and Pagan Games
You should remember to look at the Pagan Games site on
the 23rd of December for an early Christmas gift to all Amiga gamers. Merry Christmas from
Pagan Games and e.p.i.c. interactive.
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22.Dec.2000
Stefan Falke on ANF
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EZP@gerNG Christmas release
The latest version 1.3 is immediately available - it can be downloaded from
the download area.
The unregistered version is free as always. All registered EZP@agerNG users
find an update archive there which they can use to update their registered
version 1.2 to version 1.3.
The most important changes in this release:
- Different backfill images are supported for the EZP screen, the main window
and the requester.
- toolbar graphics are evaluated a lot more flexible so that the creation
of own toolbars is much easier now.
- Shell and ARexx scripts to install toolbar and service images more easily.
- New ARexx command SENDMAIL to make the sending of e-mails through ARexx
easier.
- Arguments can be passed to the ARexx menu item scripts
All changes of this release.
A merry Christmas to all Amiga users and a happy new year 2001!
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22.Dec.2000
2IDs on ANF
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Happy X-Mas
With this entry in the amiga news, we would like to thank you for the many
visits and the great support.
The last year has brought quite some changes to those working on the web. Even
at us, the PC and thus Flash5 have made their entrances - which doesn't mean
that we will leave or neglect the Amiga sector. On the contrary: there's something
planned in the Amiga sector for next year, you'll be pleasantly surprised!
A special thanks to the AMIGA-NEWS-TEAM. Always reliable and latest informations.
Thanks also to Stefan Kost (SOUNDFX) and Patrick Meng (SYMPHONIEPRO) for the
uncomplicated co-operation.
We wish all who read this pleasant Christmas days and a successful and purposeful
year 2001.
Your 2IDs.TEAM
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22.Dec.2000
Matthias Henze on ANF
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New beta version (V.45.00 beta 4) of stormamiga.lib V.45.00 for StormC
After a long time there's a new version of stormamiga.lib as a Christmas
gift from Matthias Henze. The most important improvements in this version
are certainly the new, very fast and exact math functions for the MC68040
and MC68060. Other function were also rewritten from the scratch up. Furthermore,
there are many optimizations and some bugfixes.
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22.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Amiga Extreme takes a break
«Amiga Extreme will be closing for a while. This is because I feel
that I don't have the motivation to continue the site, and the fact that there's almost
nothing to post, I don't see much of a point in updating. There are better sites for that
(Amiga.org and Czech Amiga News for example).
Once again, this is not the end, it's just the end for Amiga Extreme on the classic platform.
The next time Amiga Extreme will open is when the AmigaONE release is closing in on us and when there's
some real news for the new platform. I'm already working on a new design and have lots of ideas for
the new AE.
Also, the e-mail addresses will still be up, so you can mail me at syke@amigaextreme.com.
More info will be posted when it's time. I have no plans to leave the Amiga platform, and I'm confident
that the new Amiga platform will be successful. Your sincerely - Stefan "Syke" Falk -
webmaster@amigaextreme.com.»
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22.Dec.2000
Stefan Robl by e-mail
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FMdriver V1.14 BETA released
Stefan writes:
On my homepage is now an official beta version of my driver system for the
FrameMachine video card. New additions include a GrabbingCenter, hardware
drivers were moved into a library (68k and PPC), slight speed improvements,
localisation of the most important programs and a couple of little things ... :)
I can only offer limited support until February 2001 as I will put all my projects
"on ice" to allow me more time for my studies. Thanks for your understanding!
Christmas is soon ... what's missing? Of course, my annual "Christmas letter" ;-),
here in English.
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22.Dec.2000
BTTR-Team
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Back to the Roots Amiga-News 226
Christmas is near and again another year has passed. Therefore
"Back to the Roots" (http://www.back2roots.org) brings you
some nice presents in form of some wonderful classic Amiga
games - as always for free and with permission!
The companies Dynamix and Digital Integration are supporting
our project now, too so the flight simulations Red Baron,
F-16 Combat Pilot and Tornado are now online. Also the great
adventure games Space Quest 1 (the remake!), Colonel's Bequest,
Code name: Iceman and others like Thunderhawk, Wonder Dog, Vroom
and Warhead!
There are interviews with the legendary Scene-musicians "Jester/
Sanity" and "Clawz/Bomb" online, too! Both are telling some
interesting news, not only for music lovers.
As usual there were also tons of Scene-demos, pictures and
modules from Amiga games and the demo scene added.
We'd like to thank all our visitors for their support during
the last year and send greetings to all companies and people
who helped us to keep the classic stuff alive. We wish you
all a merry X-mas and a happy new year.
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22.Dec.2000
Frey United Software on ANF
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PSV Manager v1.41
Updated version of our freeware football management game "PSV Manager".
Added:
- French league
- Finnish league
- samples to end of career
- different "dan" background-pics for different leagues.
- Fixed: two samples after chat with the chairman.
- Fixed: few spelling mistakes.
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21.Dec.2000
Timo Kloss on ANF
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Ermentrud-Demo Update
For those who find the Ermentrud demo too fast, now the speed is
adjustable with a small update. The update is available for download
under the title link.
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21.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: AOL is testing accounts for standard protocols
The online provider AOL allows their customers to connect to net the only with a special
connection software, so far. This might change soon. See title link for complete article (German).
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21.Dec.2000
Matthias Gietzelt on ANF
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Christmas Version of Emperor Released
Emperor is an object-oriented programming language allowing even users without
knowledge of C/C++ to become master of AmigaOS 3.5 and to programm for it by a programming help.
Emperor provides variegated macro elements for menus, requesters, etc., which put aside dealing
with complicated system structures. Emperor can create source code for AmigaOS 2.0 as well as for
OS 3.5.
Advantages of Emperor:
- Direct visualising availabel for every macro element
- C/C++- source code generating
- Integrierated text editor
- StormC connection
- Extended guide (German / English)
- FREEWARE
Innovations in Emperor version 3.5:
- Display of scroll- und slider gadgets reworked
- Finnish catalog support
- Program environment for configuration of version, author, program name, stack, memory check, and much more added
- GadgetHelp for own programs: easily connect a gadget to configure this feature
- Function [delete menu-edit-list] added
- GadgetHelp for almost any gadget (more than 600 online help files)
- Editing of the include list possible
- New startup picture added (thanks to Janne Peraäho)
The program is available as version 3.5 from the Aminet directory dev/c.
Matthias Gietzelt wishes the entire Amiga community a merry Christmas and a happy new millenium.
Download: Emperor_v3.5.lha
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21.Dec.2000
Martin R. Elsner on ANF
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MainPrefs 2.0 Released
For those who want to change environment variables, easily change configuration files
such as s:startup-sequence or start the OS preferences programs in a predictable way,
now can do all of this with MainPrefs V2.0. New in the program is the possibility to change
assigns, and an Italian catalog by Arturo Franzin.
The program requires OS3.5, cause it has a Reaction GUI. It shall be available from Aminet from
the next update, but from now also on the homepage under the title link. The programmer Martin R. Elsner
makes efforts to further enhance the program and is open for new suggestions.
Download: mainprefs.lha - 64 KB
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21.Dec.2000
amiga.org
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3ivX.nu: Poll
3ivX.nu poll: On which operating system would you like to run the new video format
3ivX ? Beside of Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD, Linux, and BeOS also
Amiga is one of the possiblities to vote for.
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21.Dec.2000
Stephan Rupprecht
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SGrab Version 1.14 Released
Version 1.14 of Stephan Rupprecht's screen-grabber with graphical GUI was released.
Download: sgrab.lha (51 KB) -
readme
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20.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
FSCP_Txt.lha biz/dbase 55K+Farscape StarBase-Text (47)
XFLS_Txt.lha biz/dbase 256K+The X-Files StarBase-Text (168)
BestOfASGold.lha biz/demo 406K+Demo of Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold CD
AmIRC_GR.lha comm/irc 13K+Greek locale catalog for AmIRC 3.5
amlog.lha comm/misc 99K+V2.1 - HTTP/FTP/MAIL adress database
dvbcontrol.lha comm/misc 315K+V1.31 D-Box/Mediamaster Settings Editor
MPackMUI.lha comm/misc 50K+V1.01 MUI interface for MPack V1.5
HTTPResume.lha comm/www 117K+Resume interrupted HTTP downloads
2b_CreativE.lha dev/e 112K+CreativE - AmigaE compiler/linker [binar
CreativE.lha dev/e 112K+CreativE - AmigaE compiler/linker [binar
BestOfASGold_A.lha docs/anno 32K+Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold announceme
FSCP_Gde.lha docs/hyper 56K+Farscape Guide (47)
XFLS_Gde.lha docs/hyper 259K+The X-Files Guide (168)
Fireball_3.lha docs/mags 841K+German Entertainment Magazine
Onkelz.lha docs/mags 67K+German B hse Onkelz guide AG
amigo6_1.lha game/board 87K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
NewWorms.lha game/data 2.8M+New Worms-Samples for WormsDC
Fate1.21.lha game/role 16K+Fate - Polish Version of Dice Simulator
Frotz.lha game/role 256K+Frotz 2.40R14 Infocom game interpreter
MUIReversi_GR.lha game/think 2K+Greek locale catalog for MUI Reversi
CreateIndex.lha gfx/conv 71K+Make HTML picture index with ImageStudio
AmiCAD_2.07.lha gfx/edit 660K+Schematics vectorial electronics program
h8ilbm.lha gfx/show 24K+HiQuality-HAM8 IFF-24bit image viewer
clock_port.txt hard/hack 6K+A1200 Clock port info, updated
pario15.lha hard/hack 21K+Parallel Port access routines
ShapeShifterGR.lha misc/emu 3K+Greek locale catalog for ShapeShifter
imdbDiff001208.lha misc/imdb 6.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
rno-r053.mpg mods/mpg 3.4M+Rno-records release no.53 by FarFar/lns
downtime.lha mods/pro 273K+'Downtime' - a protracked MOD by My&.
ikava.lha mods/pro 438K+'Ikava' - a protracked MOD by My&.
rats.lha mods/pro 164K+'Rats' - a protracked MOD by My&.
vauva.lha mods/pro 197K+'Vauva' - a protracked MOD by My&.
y2k.lha mods/pro 419K+'Y2k' - a protracked MOD by My&.
sakuvk00.lha pix/misc 1.8M+Pics from Finnish Amiga UG 2000 meeting.
OS3.9Grab.jpg pix/wb 137K+OS3.9 Screengrab running on Voodoo3 (Med
BareED.lha text/edit 214K+A simple text-editor for the use of non-
BurnGUI_GR.lha util/arc 3K+Greek locale catalog for BurnGUI
SystemPatch.lha util/boot 6K+Speedup patch for 68020+
titleshadow.lha util/boot 2K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
MCP_GR.lha util/cdity 8K+Greek locale catalogs for MCP and MCPPre
ModePro.lha util/cdity 240K+4.66 Screenmode Promotion & Public Scree
DevsList.lha util/cli 2K+V1.0 - Devices lister
WBStartEmu.lha util/libs 2K+Os3.9 version of wbstart.library (45.1a)
FindChanges.lha util/misc 40K+Finds changes made to disk
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 286K+Report+ 4.2: 10-function utility
Snapper.lha util/misc 40K+V1.0 Snapshot any window's position
PowerTools.lha util/moni 10K+Power failure logger
Ver.lha util/sys 13K+Bugfixed replacement for c:version
IconMaster1_0.lha util/wb 19K+Icon copier with some nice features V1.0
tv-prog.lha util/wb 310K+(PL/CZ) TV programe on computer! [v0.82]
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20.Dec.2000
Michael Wurstwasser via eMail
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ANN: Fleecy Discussing
Michael wrote:
«Each one who is not perfectly aware of the intentions and attitudes of Amiga Inc. might be interested in
the long discussion at ANN (see title link - ca. 350 kB).
Even if it might never happen and MorphOS assumedly would be the better choice, so it might be interesting
with Fleecy Moss' statements there in mind for once to consider the "50,000-copies"-edge to be the promise of a solid
4.0 PPC under active headship by Amiga Inc. Contrary to the suspicion this might only be an unsocial lure
to gain more income, cause I initially took it by this, too.
It's a pity that always only hard discussions and impeachment generate clarifying answers from Amiga Inc. or
other companies. In this case regarding the 50,000 copies promise.»
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20.Dec.2000
Amiga Resource
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Amiga Resource: Contest
You can win an AmigaOS 3.9 in the contest at Amiga Resource if you know a feature which
was introduced by OS 3.0.
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20.Dec.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Background details: Microsoft are Stricken
«Crippled due to the cartel case, tantalized by cracker's attacks, and trailed by the general
downwards trend of the PC branch the software giant from Redmond now starts to paddle hectically.
Because the signs are indicating storm: For the first time after ten years and for the second time
in the company's history at all Microsoft had to call out a profit caution for the current quarter.
PC sales in the otherwise so opulent Christmas business are stagnating worldwide, thus the best
income source stops bubbling the way Bill Gates' crew was used to. After all, almost a third of volume of
sales Microsoft draws from the fact that vendors sell PC's along with Windows or other products by Microsoft.»
Complete article under the title link (German).
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20.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Andreas Kleinert makes it possible to sell SView IV with PPC-modules and
the AK datatypes at a special price. SView IV is a program for converting, showing and formating of
pictures in a fast and comfortable way. This special price is valid until 15th of January 2001.
You can find further information under the title link or to SView IV and AK datatypes (PNG,JFIF,TIFF)
under ar-kleinert.de.
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20.Dec.2000
Rolf Tingler via eMail
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Cellular Phones Top Shells with Amiga Design
From now on top shells with Amiga design for Nokia 3310 are available.
You can have a look at the top shells on the website of
Airbrush Paradise Tingler.
Orders can be placed at the shop of Airbrush Paradise.
Furthermore APT is looking for distributors within the EU. If you are interested in this,
please send an e-mail to the sales manager Gabi Tingler.
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20.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software
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Trogladite Awards - Subtotal
As already reported Trogsoft gives an awards for each of the categories application, games,
hardware, developer, and websites every year. Under the title link you will find a summary
of votes after the second week.
For applications 'YAM 2.2' still is far ahead; for games &180;Heretic 2' still is
ahead followed by &180;Foundation'; for hardware with 'Mediator' ahead followed by 'AmigaOne'
also nothing changed; for development 'MorphOS' and 'Hyperion' are still close up.
The only change appeared for websites with amiga-news.de ahead followed by Czech Amiga News. At this
occasion I would like to thank the readers for voting!
Did you already vote? If not, we would be very happy about you
voting for amiga-news.de.
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20.Dec.2000
Gregory Donner
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AmigaOS 3.9 Review by Gregory Donner
Gregory Donner has put an extended review of AmigaOS 3.9 online on his website.
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20.Dec.2000
Stephan Rupprecht
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WBStartEmu Update for OS3.9
Downlaod: WBStartEmu.lha -
readme
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20.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: Virus Warning
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will only execute
it self if you have named your hard-disk "DH0" & "DH1". The trojan
is spread in and archive with the name "DKG-BLUM.LHA". If you run
the "DKG-BLUM.exe", the trojan will replace your c:loadwb with
another loadwb (size: 3560 bytes) and replace c:assign with another
assign (size: 2408 bytes), and the screen will tell you that there
is not enough memory, and you will have to restart, then it looks
like the trojan will delete DH1:.
The trojan also adds or replaces 2 other files, "LIBS:asi.library"
& "DEVS:ASI.device".
The cure right now (If you have lost your DH1: to bad......), then
replace the trojan files with clean ones, here is the trojan sizes:
c:loadwb ( 3560 bytes)
c:assign ( 2408 bytes)
libs:asi.library (24548 bytes - delete if you dont have clean file)
devs:asi.device ( 2408 bytes - delete if you dont have clean file)
Here is some info about the infected archive:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Archive name.. : dkg-blum.lha
Archive size.. : 28.535 bytes (lha packet)
This archive has been send to all the antivirus programers.....
Thanx to Peter Gordon & Urban for the info and sending the archive
to us........
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20.Dec.2000
BoingWorld
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BoingWorld: Mediator PCI 1200 Review
A Mediator PCI 1200 review has been posted to BoingWorld.
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19.Dec.2000
AmiBroker
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Stock Exchange Sofware: AmiBroker 3.42 Released
Version 3.42 of the stock exchange software ',AmiBroker' has been released.
This version contains important bugfixes. Issue #7 of the AmiBroker newsletter is
online, too.
Supplement:
Sebastian Brylka noted that this is just the
version for Windows. Sorry, I overlooked that. The current version for Amiga is AmiBroker/Amiga
3.37 beta from 24.11.2000.
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19.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Arcadia: New Bubble Heroes Patch
A new patch for the game 'Bubble Heroes' by Arcadia was released. This patch fixes
a bug that caused the random function to produce too much yellow bubbles on some
machines, enhances sound output, and makes the game a little faster.
Download:
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19.Dec.2000
Carsten Scholling via E-Mail
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MUI: NListtree V18.6 Beta 5
Carsten Scholling released beta version V18.6 Beta 5 of the MUI class 'NListtree'. This
class displays data in a tree structure. For this time the update contains bugfixes and
useful enhancements.
- Bugfix: Multiselection bug fixed, which allowed entries to be dropped on thier children entries (crash!)
- Bugfix: Position calculation rewritten. No more accidently deleted entries.
- Bugfix: Drop-Typ "Sorted" never occured
- Bugfix: Renaming the user field wasn't possible.
- Bugfix: MUIV_NListtree_Insert_ListNode_ActiveFallback (see Autodocs).
- Bugfix: Inserting open nodes into one closed leaded to wrong position calculation (reported by Luca 'Hexaae' Longone, thx)
- New: Second find method implemented (user field). This searching function is rather meant as a backup to have different
searching possibilities, if needed. (Hooks must not always be set again).
- New: MUIA_NListtree_ShowTree implemented (tree on / off). Useful for different sorting orders for which a tree structure maybe
isn't wanted.
- New: Spanish localisation by Javier de las Rivas.
- New: New Trigger-Attribute: MUIA_NListtree_SelectChange.
Download: MCC_NListtree18.6b5.lha (306K)
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19.Dec.2000
UAE-JIT
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UAE-JIT: Service Pack for 'Ipswich Town'
On December 15th, 2000 Bernd Bernie Meyer has released a service pack for the
'Ipswich Town' version of 'UAE-JIT' for Linux/386, which is an Amiga emulator.
This Update in general fixes bugs of the previous version. Particulary it was
made more stabel, and portable while speed did not change. So this update in
general addresses those who had problems with the previous version in using
or compiling it. A detailed list of changes made are to find in the
WHATSNEW-JIT-Text.
This version is available as Linux/x86 binary for glibc V2.1 or glibc V2.0 in form of
complete source code or source code patch for the
UAE V0.8.15
Source code. In the source code archive the file 'dirct_access.c' is missing, which should
be downloaded separately in addition.
Download:
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19.Dec.2000
Alexander Wachau on ANF
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TechReview: Ten Passed Technologies
«Not every disappearing technology deserves that fate. Sometimes the
"losers" have an elegance and simplicity the "winners" lack. Here are
ten examples.»
In the article Amiga is mentioned as third along with the picture of an Amiga 1000.
Nick Montfort talks about the Amiga's good multitasking - but now which is being implemented
in MacOS X - and other good features we don't want to miss on our computers. It is also
mentioned that an new Amiga is already under construction.
New Ermentrud Demo Released !
Timo Kloss on ANF
mailto:Timo@inutilis.de
http://www.inutilis.de
Inutilis Software has released an new demo version of the adventure game "Ermentrud"
for CyberGfx. This demo is ready for download on their website. There are many innovations
compared to the initial demo version due to the entire story control system working now, too.
- Three locations (screens)
- Two dialog partners (shoes)
- Intro pictures
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19.Dec.2000
Jens Troeger on ANF
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New InstallerNG
I have uploaded a new version of InstallerNG to the support page (and to Aminet).
A stupid bug in the message system of the built-in BOOPSI GUI has been fixed, and
new is the CALL-PLUGIN function which allows the user to implement own functions
in InstallerNG by a typed API and to use it from a script. Example source code for
this as well as for all of the other API modules are included.
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19.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Guymay presents version 2.1 of Bubble Stones, the freeware
"Bust a Move" clone! New in this version 2.1:
- New game modes "Hot"
- Keyboard Support
- English manual
- Enhanced gameplay
Now you are able to design the look of the field yourself! If you have own fields,
please send them to me to create a Bubble Stones hompage for fields and high scores.
Please, send suggestions for the game to GuyMay, the develper of Bubble Stones!
Merry Christmas!
Amiga Arena wishes a merry Christmas and all the best for 2001 to all Amiga friends.
Keep The Flame burning!
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18.Dec.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Competitor to Microsoft's new Video Format
«3ivx is to be made available for every platform as there are Windows,
Macintosh, BeOS, Linux, Amiga, and other. A related player is planned as open source
project. Already for now there exists a delta version 1.0d1 of the 3ivx decoder for
MacOS Classic and Windows at the download area of the 3ivix pages. To play the example
videos Apple-Player from version QuickTime 4.0 is needed. Initial tries to use this
decoder with the QuickTime player under Windows leaded to less successful results -
the format wasn't recognized.»
Complete article at the title link (German).
3ivx Homepage for more information about the project.
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18.Dec.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM
From now on the successor of the 'The Best of Airsoft Softwair' CD-ROM, which
was released by APC&TCP last year, is directly available from Airsoft Softwair.
The Gold Edition is fully filled with 650 MB of data and contains all of the
releases by the user group Airsoft Softwair, again including some full versions exclusively,
e.g. the CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 NG, and Rainboot v3.1. The
other shareware applications of course are there as full versions, too.
The CD-ROM costs just 29.95 DM (20 USD) and can be ordered now.
Owners of the Best of Airsoft Softwair CD-ROM Vol.1 can even upgrade for only 19.95 DM (15 US$).
More information under the title link.
Airsoft Softwair Homepage
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18.Dec.2000
Marc Oberst at ANF
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Science Fiction Encyclopaedia for Amiga
The PKD-Guide, a freeware-encyclopaedia by the American sience fiction
author Philip K. Dick, started in 1994, now has it's 'own' homepage.
They are looking for help to publish an international version of the guide.
They are urgently looking for translators and collectors of informations all over the world.
But people who wants to read the newsletter or talk to others are also welcomed.
The guide is already available in the AmigaGuide-format and a HTML version will
be available, too. Version 4.0 beta is already available form Aminet.
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17.Dec.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III - Christmas Update
Achim Stegemann wrote:
The Christmas update for DA3 is ready and can be downloaded on the
homepage.
There had some adaption regarding the new OS 3.9 to be done (because of the new
math-libs).
During the installation pay attention to the hints by all means!
Besides that I wish all Amigans a merry Christmas and a happy new millenium!
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17.Dec.2000
Sven Droege on ANF
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Bonds v1.78 BETA3 with New Homepage
Sven Droege wrote:
The users of the financial software Bonds had to count on long waitstates for
updates. Since today there's a new homepage under the known address
www.programmed-excellence.de
online. Through a server change the access probabily should be improved
drastically. Besides that there's a new update v1.78 BETA3, which only contains
some small bugfixes. Additionally for registered users there's now the tool
"quotations updater", that can be used to update quotations also without Bonds.
The email-address of the author has also changed. It's now
Sven.Droege@programmed-excellence.de.
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17.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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ppclib.emu v0.8e
On 16. Dezember 2000 Frank Wille has released the version 0.8e of the
'ppclibemu'. This library makes it possible to run PPC programs, that use
the ppc.library made by p5 directly under WarpOS. Added in this version is the
support for DoMethod, DoSuperMethod and CoerceMethod, so that now the Voyager
Flash-PlugIn does also run with the ppclibemu.
Download:
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17.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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MorphOS: MUI class - NList v19
On 16. Dezember 2000 a PPC version of the MUI class NList v19 for MorphOS/PPC
has been released. This class is used for example by the email client YAM. The
PPC version speeds up the building of the lists.
Besides the PPC archive you need the 68k version of NList. This is ready for
download on the NList-Homepage.
Download: NList_19.lha/PPC (141K)
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17.Dec.2000
Gunter Hinrichsen on ANF
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HTMLread v.48
Gunter Hinrichsen has released an update of 'HTMLread' on 17. December 2000 and
an update of the Genesis plug-in for HTMLread on 14. December.
HTMLread is an extension for the email client YAM that allows reading HTML mails. YAM
can't display e-mails written in HTML for now, as they are sent by Netscape,
Eudora or Outlook. HTMLread discovers, converts and sends these e-mails to a
HTML viewer.
Some changes have been made in the new version:
Two bugs were fixed, it's become smaller, condition images are supported, the
download manager now doesn't open his condition windows anymore when you're
offline, the downloadmanager now knows the option QUIET, better looking
condition GIFs and some more changes.
The Genesis plug-in toggles Genesis automatically on- and offline again for the
download of web-images.
Download:
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17.Dec.2000
Marcus Neervoort on ANF
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Marcus Neervoort with New URL
Marcus Neervoort's homepage is now reachable under the new URL
http://amigapage.de/. On his site there are
among other things informtion about the history of the Amiga, Fleecy Moss'
speech on the WoA 2000 and pictures of the WoA 2000 to be found.
The move became necessary as the web-space Neervoort needs to keep the page
running wasn't sufficient anymore at T-Online coupled with other providers of
web-space.
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17.Dec.2000
Stefan Martens on ANF
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Stefan Martens with E-Mail Problems
Stefan Martens wrote:
Freedoms causes probs.
All those who have sent me an email from Thursday on to xy@stefan1200.de, xy@amiga-user-liste.de
or amiga@alternative-games.de, please send this mail once again to Stefan1200@gmx.de.
And please use this email address at least until Tuesday. As soon as the normal
e-mail addresses work again I'll announce this.
For the time being there are also problems with the related homepages, these are
partly not accessible! If there will occur any problem, please use:
Stefan1200/AUL: http://die.hotcity.de/stefan1200/
Alternative-Games.de: http://die.gamecity.de/alternative-games/.
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17.Dec.2000
Kurt Geens via eMail
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www.amigasdk.com with New Layout
www.amigasdk.com is presented in a new
layout and uses now PHP-Nuke for generating
the pages as Amiga.org already does.
The site informs comprehensively about the AmigaSDK.
The actual editoral by James Russell with 'Why Linux Needs Amiga' as topic
covers the running-anywhere feature of AmigaDE regarding games for Linux.
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17.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Office package 'Papyrus' for Amiga
The office package 'Papyrus' by the company
R.O.M logicware shall be ported to
the Amiga. Until now the package was available for OS/2, TOS(Atari) and Windows.
Responsible for the prot is Titan
Computer. For the next issue of Amiga Plus it is planned to print more
information. In the issue 11/2000 of the 'st-computer' there's an interview with
the manager of R.O.M. logicware. Fun Time World had already released the
following quote on 11. December:
«For all the love for the Amiga, but very important for us are a Macintosh
and a Linux version at the moment..... As we have just come together for a
cooperation with an important company in the Amiga market, that also supports us
heavily on doing the MacIntosh version one can count indeed on three more
supported platforms:
Mac, Linux and also Amiga.»
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17.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Online shops of Epic Direct Ltd.
The shops AmigaGames.co.uk and
AmigaUtils.co.uk of
Epic Direct Ltd. are online. The former offers games and hardware like
joysticks, the latter applications like office and developer software.
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17.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Status of the AmigaOS v4.0 Petition
On the website of Amigart there's a form made available a little
bit to the bottom which can be used to show one's interest for Amiga v4.0. For
the time being 825 people have subscribed to this petition. For now it is
planned to run it until 1. January 2001 and then hand them over to Amiga
Inc.
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16.Dec.2000
Simon II
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Simon The Sorcerer II - Update 3
Paul Burkley has released Update 3 of Simon II for download.
This update solves problems with loading and saving with the adventure game while running AmigaOS 3.9.
I just tried it myself and now the game runs without any problems under AmigaOS 3.9..
Download: Simon2Upd3.lha - 79 KB
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16.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Aqua - New Adventure-Game
Crystal Interactive will retail the new adventure 'Aqua' .
At Emerald Imaging
you will find information and screenshots of this game.
In this game you'll find yourself in a mysterious world and you must find a way to leave it.
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16.Dec.2000
Frank Carlos on ANF
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Amiga Expands the Linux Community through Cross-Platform Architecture
Here's an article/demo
about the Amiga's revolutionary VP (virtual processor) assembly code,
the heart of the new Amiga's Digital Environment. It takes you through an in-depth look at an
an Amiga demo written in VP (virtual processor) assembly code. Also take a look at this
Interview
with Bill McEwen (President) and Fleecy Moss (VP of Technology), to learn more about the
technology behind the new Amiga Digital Environment and why it's so revolutionary and so
damn cool! And here's an article,
that covers more advanced Amiga topics about the new Amiga SDK.
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16.Dec.2000
Andre Beer on ANF
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GeoWorld - Christmas Offer for People Interested in Geography
There is an abslolutely special offer of the newest version of GeoWorld for
all who quickly decide to buy it. The offer is valid until 24.12.2000 (date on
the stamp or email order). A demo version and an order form and more
information can be found under the title link.
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16.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha biz/dbase 116K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.4b)
StarBase_SCR.lha biz/dbase 116K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v4.0)
streamer.lha comm/www 24K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
d4-bullp4pp3r.lha demo/ecs 76K+D4rkn3ss - Amigademo from Dreamhack 00
SamplesMaster.lha dev/amos 108K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
BlitzLstFeb00.lha dev/basic 383K+Blitz mailing list archives for February
BlitzLstMar00.lha dev/basic 179K+Blitz mailing list archives for March 20
BlitzLstNov00.lha dev/basic 140K+Blitz mailing list archives for November
Amiga-C-Nov00.lha dev/c 89K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Nove
amiga12.lha dev/cross 71K+LUnix SDK (binary distribution)
WarpUp-Nov00.lha docs/misc 97K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in N
Snace.lha game/2play 308K+2pl. snake-like racing game, but in all
Mattonite.lha game/demo 234K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
DiamondBOX.lha gfx/edit 390K+Layer based 24 bit image editing V1.XMAS
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 522K+V1.55 PSX MemoryCard Reader
LocaleCS_cats.lha misc/misc 1.7M+Czech and Slovak Locale - catalogs
OS39-Boot.lha pix/boot 88K+CyberGraphX-BootPic.library for OS3.9
HideWB.lha util/boot 17K+HideWB is a nice util that shift up WB s
EasyConvert.lha util/conv 23K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
GuiSplatch.lha util/misc 31K+Split and join files with easy to use GU
ShootTheScreen.lha util/misc 502K+It's main task is doing series of Screen
GoodTime.lha util/time 410K+GoodTime is a WB clock showing time usin
TacyCacy.lha util/wb 469K+Display citation on WB in very nice way.
VisualPrefs.lha util/wb 459K+Configure the look of the Amiga GUI!
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16.Dec.2000
Thorsten Schölzel via eMail
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CD³²-Allianz News
On the CD³²-Developer-Site there are new information about coding
including the Akiko-GPU. Furthermore you can find three more documents there.
These texts are only available in English and therefor we are searching for
somebody who could translate them.
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16.Dec.2000
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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aminetGUI is NOT offline
In some forums there is a rumor that says the aminetGUI and even the whole
AmiNET were offline. This is not true. he AmiNET as well as the aminetGUI are
online. Only the URL www.aminet.de is offline since the domainprovider has
problems. The current URL is
www.amiga-gateway.de/aminetgui/index.html.
All services of the GUI can be reached under this URL.
Alexander Kurtz, webmaster of the Aminet-GUI wrote: "I do not
intend to give up on this project.
Currently I lack the time to make all the changes I imagined to make, but I am
still working on it! I owe this to you, the Amiga community."
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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier
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Chip: Nvidia buys 3dfx: Spectacular 3D-Company takeover
The moment has finally come: 3D graphics pioneer 3dfx closes its doors - and
sells the company to its hardest opponent: Nvidia. You can find the complete
report under the title link.
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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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EASys! Update 4.8.4 and bugfix with OS 3.9
The update to version 4.8.4 of EASys! will be ready for 20.12.2000 at the
latest. User who bought the 4.8.4 CD-R package at the fair in Cologne don't
need that update anymore. But following things should be arranged with 4.8.4
CD-R package so OS 3.9 runs completely.
- rename the file EASys!:config/OS39_with_toolsdaemon to OS39_with_rexxmenu
- in file SYS:StartSys/e_WB/2_Toolbar (or 2_ToolManager_EASys) add one line
before the startup of the toolmanager:
wait 10
this is required because
an asynchron simultaneous start of AmiDock and ToolManager causes a bug.
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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Interview with Paul Nolan
GraphicsBoard.com did an interview with Paul Nolan, the author of Photogenics.
You can find the complete interview under the title link.
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16.Dec.2000
Michael Ufer on ANF
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New Sample-Set for WormsDC
Since Hyperion are taking their time for "Worms Armageddon" for the Amiga, I
have created a new sample-set with up to 90% of German samples for the old
"Worms - The Directors Cut" (try the "Suizid-Oma" or atomic bomb;)). This puts
the fun back into WormsDC :-). Caution: the set is approximately 3 MB large
(you need a lot of Fast-Ram to use the samples).
Download: NewWorms.lha
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16.Dec.2000
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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Mini-GlowIcons 1.3 including OS3.9 Updates
The current MiniGlowincons archive with over 400 small icons for start-bars or
small VGA desktop is now available on our homepage. Included are among
others icons for OS 3.9 (UnArch, AmiDock, Action...). In the download area
there are also some desktop backgrounds and MP2/MP3 sound files that where
created with the Amiga.
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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: Speculations about Corel's Linux-business
As formerly announced, Corel sold its Linux area. Here are more links
concerning the subject:
ZDNet: Scoop: Corel to sell its Linux arm
The Register: Corel Linux selloff nearly a done deal
The Register: Corel responds to Linux sale speculation
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15.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF
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Trouble with Defective Crusoe Processors
NEC calls back notebooks
Shortly after notebooks with the Transmeta processor went on sale, they make negative
headlines. Because of defective chips, NEC calls back the sold notebooks.
NEC shipped the new notebooks La Vie XM. 284 in Japan for only a few days, now
they were called back because of defective processors. According to Transmeta,
the fault has already been fixed, the devices run without problem. Probably a
reaction to the defective chips: the stock market value of the processor manufacturer
dropped by 5.06 US$. Apparently, defective chips have also been built into the new
Sony Picture Books Vaio PCGCi VE. Other than NEC, the Japanese company does not
plan to call back the computers. An exact number of affected devices is not known
yet. US media speak of about 13,000. Sony offers free exchange of the notebooks if
difficulties with installing Windows appear.
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15.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF
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SEGA in the red
(Irina Srebot) - Since the introduction of the Dreamcast console, the former hope
becomes a millstone round the company's neck. The Japanese company faces a financial
dilemma. Sega expects for the current financial year a loss of 193 million Euro.
Despite price reductions to stay competitive with Sony's Playstation 2, there's
no hope for a change. Analysts recommend Sega to concentrate on developing software.
Since March 2000, Sega sold profitably 30.2 million games.
Supplement 12-16-2000:
Accidently we coughed an elder message. On 12-12-2000
Heise reported that
contrary to what many experts expected Dreamcast sells very well after the release of
Playstation 2. So according to the manufacturer around Thanksgiving sells increased of 85% percent
compared to sells of the week before. Also Sega would profit from Sony's delivery problems in the case
of Playstation 2, said Peter Moore, president of Sega USA, in an interview with the news service CNET
on the Jupiter Entertainment Conference in Los Angeles, yesterday.
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15.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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ZDNet: Scoop: Corel to sell its Linux Arm
According to unconfirmed rumors, Corel wants to get rid of its Linux arm.
You'll find the full article at the title link.
Slashdot link on this topic:
Slashdot: Corel To Sell Linux Arm
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15.Dec.2000
IKE on ANF
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Unofficial AmigaOS 3.9 Mailing List
An inofficial AmigaOS 3.9 mailing list was created at eGroups. The discussion group
is a forum for all questions regarding AmigaOS 3.9. To subscribe,please send an e-mail
to AmigaOS39-subscribe@egroups.com.
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15.Dec.2000
Deftone on ANF
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BlitzEngineers with new domain!
The BlitzEngineers Homepage has moved. The new address is
http://www.blitzengineers.de.
There you can download the latest version of SMSEngineer.
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15.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Frogger 1.64b1 released
The MPEG 1/2 decoder 'Frogger' is now available for
download in version 1.64b1.
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15.Dec.2000
Eternity via eMail
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Eternity is waiting for Visitor #40,000
As Christmas time is the time of presents, we will give the person who e-mails
our webmaster Patrick Beerhorst at patrick@synotec-newmedia.de
with a screenshot and mentioning of approximate time and date
a Tornado 3d 1.5 worth about 200 DM!
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15.Dec.2000
J.R. Wilson via eMail
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Amiga Extravaganza Delayed
The show 'Amiga Extravaganza' which was planned by ARCUG for early January 2001
in Indianapolis was postponed for indefinite time because of too little interest.
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14.Dec.2000
SimonII
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SimonII - Update
Paul Burkey has released an update for the game Simon The Sorcerer II.
This update among other things should fix the ASL requester problem.
Download: Simon2Upd1.lha
Supplement: 12-15-2000:
Update #2 is online, cause update #1 didn't fix the ASL requester problem.
Download: Simon2Upd2.lha - 89 KB
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14.Dec.2000
Maciek Binek via eMail
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Elbox - WoA 2000 Pictures
You will find show pictures by Elbox under the title link.
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14.Dec.2000
ANN
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Show Videos by Elwood
Elwood did many smaller videos of the Cologne Amiga show and provides them for download
as MPG files under the title link.
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14.Dec.2000
Microcode Solutions
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iFusion PPC News
iFusion, an iMac emulator for PPC Amigas, has entered beta level. When to expect a final
version isn't mentioned. On the website some
screenshots
of a working iFusion are to see.
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14.Dec.2000
SpawnPPC on ANF
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AmiWorld On-Line
The Italian online magazine 'AmiWorld' is online again.
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14.Dec.2000
Stéphane Campan via eMail
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Alchemy Laboratory Junior by XTeam Software available
Chrystal Interactive took on stock 'Alchemy Laboratory Junior'
by XTeam Software, an education software
for chemistry. With the CD you can learn about chemistry in an easy way, can watch
experiments as 3D simulations and the interactive teacher. Necessary materials are
included. Existing localisations: Italian, English, German.
Requirements: A current version of Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer.
Compatible to Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Linux, Amiga, and BeOS.
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14.Dec.2000
Amiga Impact
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Project Amiga Java Engine looking for Programmers
Merlancia Industries is looking for programmers wanting
to participate in developing the Amiga Java Engine for AmigaOS. Interested programmers
might contact amiga@merlancia.com.
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14.Dec.2000
Virtual Dimension
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Virtual Dimension Show Pictures
To shorten waiting for the show video by Virtual Dimension a bit on the "Vor Ort" page
there are already some photos of the World of Amiga in Cologne.
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13.Dec.2000
Ignatios Souvatzis via eMail
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NetBSD-1.5
As reported before NetBSD 1.5 is available for download.
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13.Dec.2000
Bob Scharp
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Amiga 2001 - Website online
We already have several exhibitors listed in this
first listing of our web pages. More will be added
each week. Be sure to keep posted on this the biggest
Amiga show in the Americas.
St. Louis is centrally located in the heart of the
U.S., and is served by several airlines, including
TWA, which has a hub here. Check the web page for
the phone number of our official travel agency,
Best Way Travel. They can help you get your travel
arrangements made to attend the show.
Amiga2001 - an Amiga Odyssey, will be hosted at the
Sheraton West Port Hotel, located in St. Louis, MO.
The hotel is physically located in the city of
Maryland Heights at:
Sheraton West Port Hotel
900 West Port Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63146
For reservations contact them at 314-878-1500 and
ask for the reservation desk. Reservations is open
from 8 AM until 10:30 PM CST. Be certain to tell
them that you are attending the Amiga2001 show,
so that you get the special rates. Stay at the
Sheraton West Port, get special rates, and help
the show. The Sheraton has 17 Restaurants, 6 Bistros,
a Comedy Night Club, a two screen Cinema, the
West Port Playhouse, and several snack shops,
magazine shop and speciality shops all available
and within a one to five minute walk. Convenient
undercover parking for guest as well.
While your viewing the web page, be certain to send
in your money for tickets to attend and tickets for
the Amiga2001 Banquet to be held Saturday evening.
The show is Friday, March 30 thru Sunday April 1st,
2001. Friday is the Developers Conference with
classes and the vendor setup Friday evening. Saturday
and Sunday are the exhibit floor displays with lots
of exhibitors showing off their latest Amiga products
and offering good prices to boot. Classes are
also available on Saturday and Sunday for those
not quite up to the more challenging ones on Friday.
Check out the Amiga2001 web pages and come enjoy
the show and say happy retirement to Petro Tyschtschenko,
who will retire while at the show on Saturday, March 31.
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13.Dec.2000
Met@box
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Met@box introducing Set-Top Boxes
In time for start of production Met@box AG today introduced to the public
their new generation of set-top boxes. The modular built met@box 1000, which can be
connected to any TV-set, enables interactive TV watching, and by the integrated
digital TV-standard (DVB) is capable of the future TV broadcasting standard.
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13.Dec.2000
Petra Struck
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Nursery School ?
As I learned the IRC conferences organized by UGN and conducted by the Amiga-Club didn't
went off as without a hitch as I said in my show report. Script-kiddies didn't have better
things to do as to flood the channel with multilating scripts, so some of the panned IRC
conferences had be interrupted or could not take place, at all. UGN was already thinking of
never again to organize conferences from shows.
To people not able to attend a show the IRC conferences always were an appreciated possibility
to get actual information, and most of all the only opportunity to address their questions
directly to the VIP's of the branch.
Therefore I appeal to the scrip-kiddies to grow up at last and to stop their nursery school
behavior.
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13.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
StarBase_CLI.lha biz/dbase 104K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v3.8)
TProspEd2.lha biz/demo 81K+V2.0.0alpha Form Editor For TurboFat2 (I
AW20-francais.lha biz/haage 14K+AmigaWriter 2.0 - Francais (french) loca
tf02.lha comm/net 255K+TinyFugue MUCK client for Amigas.
AmftpSp.lha comm/www 188K+Amftp sound Spanish
AmsterSP.lha comm/www 206K+Spanish sounds for Amster.
AmsterSpF.lha comm/www 367K+Spanish sound female for amster
streamer.lha comm/www 23K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
ltp4_demodisk.dms demo/disk 464K+XMFC - Lucky&Tigrou Party 4 Megademo
BlitzLstMar00.lha dev/basic 211K+Blitz mailing list archives for March 20
MuForce.lha dev/debug 265K+The V40 Enforcer, detects illegal RAM ac
MuGuardianAnge.lha dev/debug 287K+MungWall superset, detect accesses to no
MuLink.lha dev/misc 116K+Memory protect selected hunks of binarie
MuScan.lha dev/misc 113K+Print the MMU tree layout.
xad_bzip2.lha dev/src 39K+Bzip2 xadmaster client
xad_COP.lha dev/src 11K+COP xadmaster client
xad_MakeSFX.lha dev/src 11K+MakeSFX xadmaster client
SortCopy.lha disk/bakup 28K+Copy or backup files,directories and lin
F1Champ.lha docs/misc 60K+Statistics of Formula One '50-'00
MuManual.lha docs/misc 780K+Tutorial, examples, includes, (auto)docs
WHDSupremacy.lha game/patch 24K+HD Installer for Supremacy V1.1
WBsteroids.lha game/wb 272K+Asteroids-clone in scaleable wb-window
GeoWorld-DemoD.lha misc/edu 806K+GeoWorld-Demo german (12/09/2000) - Geog
App8ImU.lha misc/emu 19K+Apple ][ disk image file utility (V0.8)
MuEVD.lha misc/emu 123K+MuLib driven ShSh driver for ECS,AGA,P96
Afraid.lha mods/atmos 125K+Afraid by Chris, The Highlander
Ambiance.lha mods/atmos 69K+Ambiance by Chris, The Highlander
Ambiance_II.lha mods/atmos 32K+Ambiance II by Chris, The Highlander
Ambiance_III.lha mods/atmos 39K+Ambiance III by Chris, The Highlander
Apocalworld.lha mods/atmos 63K+Apocalworld by Chris, The Highlander
Lastchance.lha mods/atmos 65K+Lastchance by Chris, The Highlander
Life.lha mods/atmos 80K+Life by Chris, The Highlander
MiddleOfGround.lha mods/atmos 36K+MiddleOfGround by Chris, The Highlander
Spirituol2.lha mods/atmos 39K+Spirituol 2 by Chris, The Highlander
Thend.lha mods/atmos 130K+Thend by Chris, The Highlander
The_Branle.lha mods/funet 83K+The Branle by Chris, The Highlander
HouseCore.lha mods/house 315K+HouseCore by TailS...
Banjo_kazooie.lha mods/med 201K+Banjo & Kazooie by Chris, The Highlander
EWJ2-Anything.lha mods/med 60K+EWJ2-Anything But Tangerines by Chris, T
GlobalGladiato.lha mods/med 109K+GlobalGladiator by Chris, The Highlander
Lastime.lha mods/med 39K+Lastime by Chris, The Highlander
Mario64.lha mods/med 44K+Mario 64 by Chris, The Highlander
MegamanX.lha mods/med 99K+Megaman X by Chris, The Highlander
R-Type-Stage_5.lha mods/med 21K+R-Type, Stage 5 by Chris, The Highlander
R-Type-Stage_7.lha mods/med 25K+R-Type, Stage 7 by Chris, The Highlander
SofM-Village.lha mods/med 37K+SofM-Village by Chris, The Highlander
Suffer.lha mods/med 101K+Suffer by Chris, The Highlander
Tempest-Funky.lha mods/med 170K+Tempest 2000-Funky by Chris, The Highlan
Tempest-T6-.lha mods/med 144K+Tempest 2000 -T6- by Chris, The Highland
Zildteck.lha mods/med 23K+Zildteck by Chris, The Highlander
DZY-tat.mpg mods/mpg 5.5M+MP3 Tune by Dazzy of Soundforce
Pianing.lha mods/piano 19K+Pianing by Chris, The Highlander
Viewdown.lha mods/piano 22K+Viewdown by Chris, The Highlander
Hard.lha mods/rock 243K+Hard by Chris, The Highlander
Hardboss.lha mods/rock 63K+Hardboss by Chris, The Highlander
Iktys.lha mods/rock 42K+Iktys by Chris, The Highlander
Terra.lha mods/rock 127K+Terra by Chris, The Highlander
Acoustic.lha mods/slow 54K+Acoustic by Chris, The Highlander
Finalgame.lha mods/slow 36K+Finalgame by Chris, The Highlander
Sweet_Stars.lha mods/slow 270K+Sweet Stars by Chris, The Highlander
666-alarma.lha mods/techn 357K+666-ALARMA by Chris, The Highlander
daftpunk.lha mods/techn 363K+Daftpunk by TailS...
Dags.lha mods/techn 194K+Dags by Chris, The Highlander
Distruct.lha mods/techn 277K+Distruct by Chris, The Highlander
DJ-ROM.lha mods/techn 376K+DJ-ROM by Chris, The Highlander
dreampart.lha mods/techn 183K+Moby - GO by TailS...
no_way_out.lha mods/techn 317K+Hardtrance Track from Psycho/MOODS
ShortLifespend.lha mods/techn 209K+Short Lifespend by Chris, The Highlander
Teckbeat.lha mods/techn 49K+Teckbeat by Chris, The Highlander
Transmod.lha mods/tranc 36K+Transmod by Chris, The Highlander
MTRS_V2.16.lha mus/edit 194K+8 track HD-recorder + AHI
GriGanDer.mpg pix/3dani 3.6M+El GriGanDer
Inspector_de_H.mpg pix/3dani 1.6M+Inspector de Hacienda
Los_Mariachis.mpg pix/3dani 4.4M+Los Mariachis
AnimCool.lha pix/anim 1.2M+Anim time real
DeathconBKdr01.lha pix/back 614K+WB backdrops
OS3.9Bootpic.lha pix/boot 165K+OS3.9 boot-picure for AGA users
kerst10.jpg pix/misc 268K+Amiga Christmascard
sg-strip_1.lha pix/misc 77K+[ancor] StarGround - the new online-com
Sens_Icons.lha pix/nicon 207K+NewIcons for Sens. Soccer + other games
Amiga_PC.lha util/boot 109K+Make your Amiga booting like a PC
MuFastChip.lha util/boot 111K+Chip memory cache mode fine tuning tool
MuFastRom.lha util/boot 112K+MuLib conformal ROM to RAM remapper
MuFastZero.lha util/boot 127K+MuLib Zero Page remapper, FastExec/Prepa
MuLockLib.lha util/boot 105K+Lock the mmu.library in memory on startu
MuOmniSCSIPatc.lha util/boot 110K+Make the omniscsi.device MMULib aware
MuSetCacheMode.lha util/boot 115K+MMU tree adjustment tool for experts
ModePro.lha util/cdity 239K+4.65 Screenmode Promotion & Public Scree
AutoCLI.lha util/cli 18K+Auto (un)pack LHA/LZX & other things. V0
SED.lha util/cli 14K+Amiga stream editor
MMULib.lha util/libs 582K+Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 52K+Minimal MuLib archive for redistribution
xpk_User.lha util/pack 226K+V5.2a Compression package, user edition
68040Lib.lha util/sys 290K+A MuLib aware 68040.library, 68030.libra
FastIEEE.lha util/sys 138K+Speed up your mathieee libraries!
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13.Dec.2000
Xandiy on ANF
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Free Advertising Banners at Amiga-Community.net
Amiga-Community.net Christmas special: Free advertising banners on the main page
without link! (Editor's note: An advertising banner without link might be pretty useless.)
Send your logo (max. 120x120) to xandiy@web.de.
All of the logos sent in up to 12-23-2000 will be put on the site.
The logos will appear rotatory where at this time the pictures of the
WoA2000 are shown. It would have to be a pretty definite logo, cause there
will be no linking! This action will start if enough logos will be there and will
last until 01-06-2001 incl..
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13.Dec.2000
2IDs GRAFIX DESIGN MUSIX and more
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Flash version finished of the gallery "The man as subject of art"
Well, now it is the time, at last: also the flash version today did
the jump to the net. Beseide of the HTML version now the optically
more extended pages, but of same content, are online. Under the title
link all of the render-workes / grafix-people and artists are invited
to exhibit their art works. Of course copyright will stay with the
relative artis.
Subject of the pictures is "THE MAN AS SUBJECT OF ART".
We are looking forward to your contributions. So, get to your AMIGA or PC
or even MAC and start creatively. Let the artists know what you think about
their art work, and use our guest book to do so.
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13.Dec.2000
Martin Baute on ANF
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Pictures from the WoA
Also the Amiga user & developers from Bielefeld (Germany) were at the show, and
we even took photos with us! (Unfortunately I wasn't there myself, hence the
comments to the pictures are somewhat scanty.)
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13.Dec.2000
Michael Burkhardt on ANF
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With Amiga to the Diploma
By this I would like to officially thank everybody who guided and supported my during
my studies to become a graduate engineer for media technics. To everybody who suffered
from my lack of time I would like to say thank you for your understanding.
As my final year project substantially deals with Amiga I would not withdraw it from
the public. It is available for download on my homepage (German):
un-archived as pdf file(1,8 MB)
lha archived (1,2 MB)
The subject of the project is:
Conception and implementation of an automated control for a monitor-wall under technical
and marketing political aspects. Automation bases on an ARexx script controlling several
applications running non an Amiga 1200. For creation of software my special thanks go to:
Rico Schreckenbach
Stefan Robl
Karlheinz Marks
Stefan Steppat
To continue this project placing of some hardware for MPEG video display would be necessary.
As e.g. the related module for the CD32 isn't available any more, for this new projects
as like as Mediator might be addressed as a solution.
With this technic and our software an arrangement could be designed and delivered that would
be unique in the event branch.
- runs stable and reliable
- optimized software
- well-priced hardware
- easy editing
- arbitrary expandable
With this the most efficient and moreover cheapest device of it's kind would be created. Well now, dear
hardware developers: don't let them detain or discourage you. THANK YOU.
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13.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF
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Think-pad without Crusoe
IBM will not bring note-books with the Crusoe processor by Transmeta to the market.
On detailed reasons the company keeps silent.
The official statement from IBM said the processor would not fit to the current
marketing concept. The decision not to equip think-pads with this processor is
a bad blow for Transmeta. An unfavourable timing, because from November the
company's shares shall be deald in Nasdaq. Senior analyser Peter Glaskowsky from
Microdesign Resources assumes that IBM wouldn't like to use the processor due to the
bad performance. Testings with Sony note-books would have turned out that a Crusoe
processor 700MHz would not be faster than an Pentium 233MHz, Glaskowsky added.
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13.Dec.2000
Dirk Baeyens
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AmigaOS 3.9 registration
At the title link you will find the registration form to register your copy of AmigaOS 3.9.
Supplement 16 Dec 2000
You will need SSL installed to access this page.
If you don't recommend secure data transfer you might use
this page for registration.
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12.Dec.2000
Suite101
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John Chandler: Making Way In The Universe
In his new article John Chandler gives an interesting overview
of the work done by Amiga in the year 2000.
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12.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software
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Trogladite Awards - Subtotal
Every year Trogsoft gives an awards for each of the categories application, games, hardware,
developer, and websites. Under the title link you will find a summary of the votes given in first
week.
In category application at this time 'YAM' is ahead, 'Heretic 2' in games, 'Mediator'
in hardware, 'MorphOS' and 'Hyperion' close up in development, and in websites 'Czech Amiga
News' is ahead closely followed by 'amiga-news.de'.
Die you already vote? If not, would be happy about
your vote for amiga-news.de.
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12.Dec.2000
AmigaGlobe
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AmigaGlobe WoA 2000 Report
A WoA 2000 report by AmigaGlobe.
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12.Dec.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS: CGX Update
cgxsystem.library.elf version 42.5 was released.
The library now contains SuperLayers for PPC, and some speed enhancements for MagicMenuPPC.
Download: cgxsysppc_20001210.lha - 156 KB)
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12.Dec.2000
AROS
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AROS News
In December again a number of things happened at AROS. Stefan Berger did
a complete rewrite of the layers.library, hence it is much faster, but
easier than the old one. Georg Steger contributed further files for ReqTools, and
Adam Chodorowski started working on the workbench.library. Johan Alfredsson has
enhanced the ReqTools file requester, and the drive requester now works. A PS/2
Mouse.HIDD was added by Michael Schulz. More details are to find under the
title link.
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12.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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Merlancia with new specifications for hand-held?
Amiga.org reported about that Merlancia already put specifications for the
Hurrican system (hand-held computer) as well as it's interface on their website.
Links for this:
http://www.merlancia.com/MISEL/
http://www.merlancia.com/MISEL/torroindex.html
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12.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Golem: IBM introduced progressive technology for chip production
«The first chips with CMOS 9S technology form early 2001
IBM for the first time unifies copper wiring, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transitors, and the
enhanced "low-k delectric" insulation in circuits with 0.13 mikron by their new technology named CMOS 9S.»
Further messages about this subject:
The Register: IBM reveals 10GHz, .13µ PowerPC chip tech
3DNews: IBM unwraps world's most advanced chip-making technology
ZdNet: IBM, Intel chips: Smaller and faster
Slashdot: IBMs CMOS 9S
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12.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF
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boeder - no salvation at sight
Some still remember this company from old Amiga days (disks, joysticks, a.m.m.).
The "Computer Partner 43/00" wrote, that the company already in October made application for
insolvency. Negotiations for takeover failed, so the company faces the off. At the time being the
Vivanco AG only is interested in the name, but even this only if the price is right. Insolvency
procedures are planned to be started between December, 15th and 20th.
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12.Dec.2000
BoingWorld
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BoingWorld - WoA 2000 Report
BoingWorld has published a WoA 2000 Report.
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11.Dec.2000
Jens Larsson on ANF
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Boingworld WoA 2000 Report
Boingworld.com published the WoA 2000 show report with some wonderful photos.
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11.Dec.2000
Ingo Musquinier on ANF
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dynAMIte Server
We distributed a free preview of the game dynAMIte among the visitors of the WoA 2000.
Normally you find the addresses of the game-servers on our support-side. Unfortunately
the server is out of order at the moment.
You should use pulp.2y.net (port 6318) as the default server. This one is the official
dynAMIte-server (TDSL-connection). Normally this server is available after 7 p.m. As soon
as the web-server is back again you will be able to find the addresses of the other server
on our support-page.
If there are any problems with the game you can discuss them with us at the IRC. We are
daily available at the euIRCnet (irc.hes.de.euirc.net:6667 channel #AmigaZeux).
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11.Dec.2000
Frank Fenn on ANF
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TIDesigner (Addon for TealInfo Developer Kit)
For everyone who wants to be able to increase the speed of the editing of TealInfo Folios
for the Palm, TIDesigner is a good help. The program is shareware.
Download: tidesigner.lha
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11.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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Payback Preview-Update (Nightlevel)
There is a update for the Payback-Preview.
This time Juergen A. Theiner put the focus on the Nightlevel.
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11.Dec.2000
Michael Burkhardt via eMail
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WoA Pictures by IOM
IOM published some WoA pictures.
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11.Dec.2000
Yoris Benjamin via eMail
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Realsoft 3D V4 - Press release
As mentioned in the exhibition-report, Hyperion will publish a AMIGA-version of there
'Realsoft 3D'. Here's the press release:
From: Yoris Benjamin
Subject: Realsoft 3D V4 press-release
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:32:54 +0100
Hello World !
Realsoft and Hyperion Entertainment team up to bring Realsoft 3D to the
Amiga.
Cologne, December 9, 2000.
Realsoft and Hyperion Entertainment have entered into an agreement to bring
Realsoft's critically acclaimed and highly advanced 3D modelling and
rendering package to the Amiga.
'Realsoft 3D' is a full featured modelling, rendering, animation and
simulation software tool. Its predecessor, Real 3D, originated on the Amiga
all these years ago and was renowned for its powerful and innovative tools.
Now the new, rewritten 'Realsoft 3D' provides even more power and introduces
dozens of exciting innovations, all accessible through a very carefully
designed, intelligent, and user-friendly interface. This new interface
adapts to the skills of the user and helps him/her to master advanced 3D
techniques with surprising ease. Realsoft 3D is designed to meet the
requirements of today's 3D artist who requires extreme performance through an
easy to use, productive user interface.
Commenting on the agreement, Realsoft's managing director Vesa Meskanen
remarked: "The success of our 3D product line started on the Amiga platform.
This opportunity to port our latest product generation back to Amiga is
therefore very welcome. The platform independent design of Realsoft 3D
together with Hyperion Entertainment's knowledge about the latest
developments of Amiga OS entails that after the initial porting work is done,
all our new software releases will include the Amiga platform without further
porting delays."
"We were extremely impressed by the feature-set of Realsoft 3D. This package
truly represents unbelievable value for money", said Ben Hermans, managing
partner of Hyperion Entertainment. "Through our activities in the field of
entertainment software, we have acquired enormous expertise in the field of
3D graphics. We were looking for a way to leverage this expertise and apply
it to other areas. Given Realsoft's Amiga background, it seemed natural to
approach them. We are very excited that we can play a role in bringing back
Real 3D's successor to the Amiga."
Realsoft 3D will be available for Amiga OS 3.x and Amiga DE in the course of
2001. Requirements and further details to be announced.
About Realsoft Graphics Oy
Realsoft Graphics Oy, a Finnish corporation founded in 1989 as Realsoft Ky,
has been pushing the cutting edge of 3D visualization for over a decade. For
more information about Realsoft Graphics and its products, visit the
company's website at www.realsoft3d.com
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German corporation
founded in April of 1999 with the stated aim of porting AAA entertainment
software to Amiga, Linux (x86/PPC) and Mac. The company has signed license
deals with industry leaders such as Activision (ATVI), Interplay (IPLY) and
Monolith.
Regards,
Ben Yoris
Hyperion Entertainment Software
PR Manager
Web: http://www.hyperion-software.com
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11.Dec.2000
Wolf Faust via eMail
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ICS V2 released
After more than a year of work, the free scanner color correction
ICS V2 was released. Following features have been added to V2 of ICS:
- Now all ICS image reading and writing is done using the new IRW library
- ICSConvert can now write JPEG, IFF, and TIFF
- ICSConvert and ScanTarget now support 16 bit/channel image data.
- ICSConvert can now read/write embeded ICC color and IPTC/NAA editorial
information
- Now includes tools to extract ICC and IPTC information from images
(IFF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- Spanish localization added
- ICSConvert can now be used as tool for image format conversion.
- IRW does offer improved and localized error handling. Error requesters
now offer detailed information,
hints and often also a Retry function.
- Major speed improvement for loading certain files formats. Also,
memory requirement was reduced.
- Many new small enhancements....
Download the new software from http://www.ics.coloraid.de
--
Wolf Faust
Tel: +49-69-5486556
e-mail
Fax: +49-69-95409598
homepage
Mobile: +49-179-6924769
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11.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena special offer
Together with Helmut Hoffmann, Amiga Arena offers a special Christmas price for
PhotoAlbum/Cybershow inclusive all additional modules. The price will be 35,- DM.
This offer will be valid until 12-31-2000.
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11.Dec.2000
Torsten Dudai
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OS 3.9 - Presentation by Juergen Haage and Martin Steigerwald
Torsten Dudai did a report about the OS 3.9 presentation on the WoA:
Though there was "US-Amiga-News / Bill McEwen" an item of the agenda, neither Bill McEwen - who
stayed in America - nor Fleecy Moss - who was at the show - were available at that time, so
Juergen Haage had to stand in. In a direct dialogue with the users he tried to collect their
worries and sorrows for Amiga Inc. to be able to estimate the current mood. But the discussion
(due to the lack of facts on the subject AmigaDE) very soon resulted in the new OS 3.9, in which
every attendant of the seminar was very interested. So, Juergen Haage was able to seamlessly led
over to the following seminar.
Besides of individual problems (one elder man was especially "persistent") also much of the known
subjects were addressed, as like as the condition of "50,000" sold copies of OS3.9 (Fleecy Moss), and
the "license quarrel" around AmiTCP. In both cases Juergen Haage was able to quiet the devotees' minds: the number
"50,000" would not be meaningful at all, because it even isn't combined with a date. Later one just
would have to able to estimate if or if not OS 3.9 has been a success. For example only 40,000
(or less) sold copies already would be a big success. About the license quarrel Juergen Haage just
said, "There is no license quarrel". Haage & Partner obtained the license for AmiTCP correctly
and is allowed to distribute the TCP stack along with Genesis (no MUI, but Reaction GUI) on the
CD-ROM.
Then together with Stefan Robl, the programmer of AmiDocks, the new OS3.9 tool-bar, (almost) all of
the features of the new Amiga operating system were presented. During the presentation again ideas,
criticism, and suggestions were given by the viewers. Juergen Haage put an implementation in parts into
prospective for a coming "Boing-Pack 2". But the limits of what can be done are almost reached with
this update. Without a change of the KickROMs not much further can be done, any more.
But about one subject he could not give any clear statement: Amiga DE. Haage & Partner still didn't
decide whether or not they would port their own products to the new system. In parts this depends on the
availability of a sophisticated GUI system, which isn't available at the time being.
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11.Dec.2000
Petra Struck
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Show Report by Petra Struck
World of Amiga - Gleanings - 10.12.2000
Autor: Petra Struck (German version)
More amiga-news.de Links
Pictures by Petra Struck vom 1. Tag
Pictures by Torsten Dudai vom 1. Tag
Pictures by Petra Struck of the 2nd day
OS3.9 - Presentation by Torsten Dudai - in German
Exteral links to reports and pictures
Fun Time: Eyetech - AmigaONE/AmigaDE Timelines
(Pictures of the Eyetech diagramms)
Fun Time: World of Amiga 2000 - Die ersten Infos
IRC: Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc.
IRC: Elbox
Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (4,1 MB)
Marcus Neervoort: Fleecy Moss's lecture on Dec., 9th
Tom's WOA 2000 Pictures (Thomas Wenzel)
No Risc No Fun
Fun Time World
WoA 2000 pitctures by Salva
Amiga-Community.net
Videos from Elwood
Report from amiga.topcool.de
Pictures from Virtual Dimension
Pictures from Elbox
Pictures from BAUD
Report from Amiga Globe
Report from Boing World
Report from IOM
Show report by Petra Struck
The World of Amiga 2000 from December, 9th to 10th, which was organized by
Haage & Partner, was branded by the vending start of
the new AMIGA OS3.9, which according to the vendors sold brilliant on the fair.
The show took place inside the really imposing building of Cologne's Mediapark 7 on about 300 m² room.
For this show were organized within shortest time this event was attended very well with an amount of
about 1500 visitors (note: own estimation). Seminars were held in the opposite building Mediapark 6. The first
day of the fair Saturday was stamped by active crowd, while on Sunday it was rather unhurried, cause of only half
as full as on the day before.
Before I start describing the highlights of the show I want to put across to every reader that I personally
again liked this fair very much. I'm always exited about the cheerful and personal atmosphere. As already
in Neuss an amazing amount of international attendants had come to the show. I've met and spoken to
people from England, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, France, and Spain. The visitors had visible
fun and where impressed by the many different presentations. Everywhere crowds of interested viewers got together.
Disappointment only dispersed caused by the fact that Bill McEwen didn't attend the show;
short- termed and insuspendable deadlines kept him from coming to Cologne. Fleecy Moss, Vice President
and Chief of Development, but provided for incredulous astonishment by stating there must be at least
50,000 copies of AMIGA OS3.9 sold, to be able to do OS4.0. As for this time nobody thinks this to be
possible his statement was taken for a clear No for OS4.0.
As already in Neuss amiga-news.de together with the
Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet was present with an
own booth. From our editorial staff were on the fair: Dirk Baeyens,
Tomás J. Cantó, Torsten Dudai, Ruediger Engel, Guido Fehst, Eric Gillé,
Martina Jacobs, Rolf Tingler, and me truly. Nico Barbat was also on the show, but of course was very
busy at his own booth (Falke-Verlag). Rolf inspired the visitor with his
airbrushing skills.
We enjoyed to get in close contact with the readers and numerous dialogues convinced us to have high
acknowledgment for our work, and encouraged us to continue to spend our free time for this project.
Especially intensive and interesting were the dialogues with editors of other news services, as like
Andrea Vallinotto from diff.org (ItalY), Adrian Sweeney from
amigaglobe.com (Irland), Ian Maack from
amiga.dk (Denmark), Sebastian Brylka from
Fun Time World (Germany), and Mark Hinton
and Russell Trent from AmigActive (England).
Along this I would like to say thank you very much for the many kind compliments regarding our news service.
The Amiga-Club provided the people not able to attend the show with actual pictures from the fair, and
cared for trouble-free UGN IRC chats. Traditional the club members answered our questions, and helped
solving one or the other user's problem.
Also this time Michael Schaefer and Dennis Pauler from
Virtual Dimension were busy with their video camera to
create informing show videos. They did many interviews, and over and over made the microphone sure to work,
cause on the last fair the microphone failed completely, which sure was half a disaster.
Trade and the big ones of the branch were present with their own booths - as a matter of fairness this
time in alphabetical order or vice versa:
In talks with the exhibitors it became clear that - almost unisonous - they all came with mixed feelings,
but against what they expected the visitors were joyfully buying. Trade overall voiced positive about
sales.
Almost at all of the above mentioned booths presentations of different software and hardware took
place which I will describe without special order. So for example Peter Hoffmann, Stefan Sommerfeld,
and Juergen Rebensdorf from
Aliendesign introduced their new sound card
'Repulse', which can be used with every Amiga with Zorro-II expansion. The sound card
offers sampling rates from 8 to 48 kHz, including 44.1 kHz and 96 kHz S/P-Diff, and supports
16, 18, 20, and 24 Bit (S/P-DIF) sampling frequence in mono or stereo.
New at individual computers was the ISDN-Surfer Zorro card which was to purchase either with or
without OVP. The announced products 'Lyra' (adapter to use WindowsTM keyborads with Amiga),
and 'Buddha Flash MK2' unfortunately were not finished, but probably will be available before
Christmas.
Dirk Conrad introduced his MAS-Player which is distributed by
Eternity. The MPEG-Player is a small piece of hardware looking like a serial plug. The player can
play MP3 files already on a machine only equipped with a 68000 68k processor. HiFi quality is around
18 Bit / 44 kHz. Since the WoA 2000 AmigaAMP is supported.
At the booth of Hyperion the attendants were able to admire a prototype of the G-Rex PCI board
by DCE with Voodoo3 graphics board on action. With this system
Heretic II really looked smooth, it was fast and the lightning effects were wonderfully visible.
Users can look forward to better speed and nice graphics. The boards are planned to be finished end
of December 2000.
Of course we yet asked for the projects under construction at Hyperion, and summarized the answers as
follows:
- Shogo: Hans-Joerg and Thomas Frieden are working on the Amiga version which presumably will be
finished end of January 2001.
- Freespace: On the port of this space shooter Steffen Haeuser and
Matthias Roslund are working. It is planned to finished 1Q/2001.
- Majesty: Stephan Rusdorf and Thomas Frieden are busy porting this
fantasy strategy game which includes roll game elements. It is expected to be finished 2Q/2001.
- Die Voelker (Alien Nations): Harry Sintonen is working on the port of this popular build-up and
strategy game, which is a big success similar to Siedler.
- SIN: Steffen Haeuser and Peter Annuss are working on the port of the 3D shooter.
The game will presumably be finished 1Q/2001.
- Hyperion will also port the 3D software 'Realsoft 3D' by Realsoft to the
Amiga! With this software comparable to 'Cinema3D' or 'Reflections'
the Amiga users will get a 3D modelling tool more extended and modern than anything else released
before.
Eyetech together with Martin Schueler from
Escena introduce the plans for the AmigaOne
machine. It was shown on diagrams how the system will look like. The 68k emulation is being developed
by Haage & Partner.
At Eternity Tales of Tamar was presented - Martin Wolf's
favourite project. In the meantime the world map and cities have been enabled. Still intense online
tests are running and the beta testers are really sold on the game. Initial bigger beta test are planned
for 2Q/2001.
Also at Eternity EASys!
by Tom Neidhardt was presented. The current update offers improvements like e.g. a built-in start menu,
OS3.9 menu support and alignment. Other changes: the archive manager now supports XPK; the menus are
structured better, and extend of menus is scalable, and moreover the buggy installation of the previous
version has been fixed, hence a trouble-less installation is possible,yet.
Eternity moreover presented a PC (Eternity 1) basing on 1 GHz (Tunderbird processor by AMD), equipped with
gigabyte board, 128 MB DIMM -133, Ge-Force II graphics board 32 MB DD-RAM, Catweazel controller, 52x CD-ROM drive,
20 GB Quantum HD, two PC floppy drives (one of them connected to the Catweasel), as well as a sound card 128 Bit
PCI. The gag of this PC is a perfectly pre-installed UAE under Windows. This way one gets a fast PC, and
an AMIGA at the speed of 68040/60.
During an interview with Andreas Magerl and Georg Breitsprecher from
Amiga Future and APC&TCP
Mr. Magerl stated that financing of the now self-produced print magazine
'Amiga Future' finally is safe. Number of orders still isn't 100% satisfying, but a huge layout enhancement
would attract more orders. I've seen the new layout and I can confirm it to be a difference like night and day. :-)
Andreas Kuessner from WK-Artworks presented
'Taifun', the successor of 'WildFire'. Taifun is being developed for the new
operating system 'Amiga DE' using the Amiga Software Developer Kit (SDK). KDH-Datentechnik
will be distributor of Taifun.
At epic interactive Paul Burkey introduce 'Simon The Sorcerer II'. The game will be at the vendors
form the middle of next week. Also presented was 'Earth 2140', a real-time strategy game has been
ported to the Amiga by Pagan Games on demand of epic interactive. The master volume is on its way to production.
Still under development is Dafel:Bloodline. Status: Thomas Wuergler continues to work on this game, but
when it will be finished cannot be estimated at the time being. 'Converting games' currently has
a higher priority.
The ATC team handed me a disk containing a preview of the reworked classic game
Dynamite. This one will be to play via internet. I promise to have
a look at it soon. :)
My quite personal summary: The AMIGA is anything but dead! There are innovative developments in hardware
and software taking place. There is unfractured engagement and unrestricted attendance to continue. In many
dialogues it got clear that we are facing a future which though is undetermined, it's not hopeless.
Tenor from the exhibitors' commercial point of view was, "Though one is able to make enough money with the
Amiga, one cannot 'line his pockets'". Already from just this solitary point of view I rate this
fair as a success. I had a lot of fun, anyway, and to have been there really pushed on my motivation. :-)
In terms of this....
Petra Struck
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10.Dec.2000
Salva via email
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WoA 2000 pictures by Salva
WoA 2000 pictures by Salva.
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10.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
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xad_COP.lha dev/src 11K+COP xadmaster client
adfblitzer.lha disk/misc 23K+A program to write & read adf-files!
MountDos12.lha disk/misc 21K+Read & list/mount MS-Dos partition-table
pmangband.lha game/role 392K+Pern mangband 3.0.6
FlashMandel.lha gfx/fract 3.9M+The best fractal rendering program for A
FormAldiHyd.lha hard/drivr 21K+Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/...
imdbDiff001201.lha misc/imdb 1.8M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
YACAS.lha misc/math 551K+Mathematics Program, v1.0.43
Empire.mpg mods/elbie 1.8M+Empire_Topsy-Turvy [Piano] by ElbiE^t13n
5th-remi.lha mods/med 182K+Vetal's OCSS-ravemix on classic music
crashed_.lha mods/med 255K+Multipart Vetal OCSS module
naftalin.lha mods/med 376K+Cool MED module from ukrainian Dreamer
spirit_p.lha mods/med 72K+MED module from ukrainian Dreamer
tranz.lha mods/med 174K+MED module from ukrainian Dreamer
reboot.mpg mods/mpg 606K+Reboot (anti Pc-windoz FRENCH mp3)
aBc_Marie.lha mods/techn 459K+L'aBc de Marie by Chris, The Highlander
vdo_queu.lha mods/techn 339K+The 48th voodoo release
psidren.lha mus/misc 24K+Renames PSIDs tunes to their real name
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 82K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 120K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
PicDp5.lha pix/art 108K+Nice picture made with Dpaint5
SoundsforWB.lha pix/art 446K+Picture and Sound For Wb
DarkNowee.lha pix/wb 130K+Dark WB Look by Nowee for Visualprefs
Epson_400.lha text/print 34K+Epson Stylus 400/440/460 Driver for WB V
HP_Deskjet870C.lha text/print 16K+Deskjet 8x0C/9x0C Driver for WB V40.11
SetDTool.lha util/cli 7K+CLI-Program to change DefaultTool_Entrys
ilbmdt44.lha util/dtype 8K+Improved ilbmdt (44.25)
CountryEdit.lha util/misc 14K+Country definition editor (MUI)
GuiSplatch.lha util/misc 30K+Split and join files with easy to use GU
MultiRen.lha util/misc 175K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with
Ver.lha util/sys 13K+Bugfixed replacement for c:version
GuiSplatch.lha util/wb 30K+Split and join files with easy to use GU
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10.Dec.2000
Petra Struck
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Woa pictures
The first exhibiton day was gut visited and as could be read in the different
announcements there were interesting presentations of hard- and software all
over the place. As usual we'll supply you with comprehensive information about
all details in our exhibition review.
You can get a first impression through our pictures. Besides the photos by Petra Struck
under the title link Torsten Dudai has also
captured his impressions.
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10.Dec.2000
Thomas Wenzel on ANF
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New public beta of AmigaAmp
Just in time for the end of the WoA'2000 there's a new version of AmigaAmp.
Originally Thomas Wenzel had planned to release the final version 2.8 these
days. But there are two features he didn't want to psh back for later releases:
MAS-Player Support
The MAS-Player is an external MPEG-audio-decoder for the parallel port and can be
used with EVERY Amiga. The support in AmigaAmp exists in the form of a new
driver system developed by Paul Qureshi together with Dirk Conrad and Thomas
Wenzel. With the combination AmigaAMP and MAS-Player it is possible to play
MP3-files in full quality even on 68030 Amigas. Dirk himself offers a special
highly optimised software which makes playback of MP3 even on a 68000. The
MAS-Player is distributed by Eternity (Martin Wolf).
Shoutcast Streaming
Shoutcast is a protocol for live broadcastings of radio transmissions via the internet.
>From the today released version on AmigaAMP doesn't need an external program for
receiving such transmissions. The necessary protocol is directly integrated.
The two named features are still in development and don't run 100% stable. For
a first impression it is enough though. The new version of AmigaAMP is
downloadable from www.amigaamp.de.
Download: AmigaAMP28b9.lha (573K)
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10.Dec.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III Xmas update
Because of illness the release of the Xmas update for DA3 may be delayed some
days. Because of the same reason a preview of the new features was only possible
just now.
Under the title link you can find a summary of the new features including
screenshots.
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10.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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WOA: Eyetech - AmigaOne/AmigaDE-Roadmap
Together with the partners Escena
(Martin Schueler) and Hyperion Software
(further partners are Haage&Partner (68k-Emulation) and Michael Rock(PCI/AGP-Resource
Libraries and other things)) the company Eyetech has presented their plans
regarding their AmigaOne computer. Fun Time World has released
diagrams
of this presentation.
The AmigaOne 1200 from Eyetech is a PPC-PCI-system plus Amga hardware and
68k-emulation for use with Amiga Classic and AmigaDE software. The PPC system is
based on the project
Brainstormer by Escena.
Via the WestBridge
of the system the A1200, IDE, 1 AGP- and 4 PCI-slots are connected. Via the
NorthBridge the PPC-cpu, the SDRAM, USB and two more PCI-slots. The
PPC
can access the Amiga-system (custom chips, Chip RAM, Amiga I/O).
On starting the system the FlashROM is copied into the SDRAM, then the
68k-emulator respectively the AmigaDE is activated and the Amiga Classic'
booted. The Amiga Classic software now runs on top of the 68k-emulation on the
AmigaOne-board (PPC) and uses the Amiga specific hardware of the integrated
A1200-board.
The emulation only emulates the command set of the 68k-cpu-line but no Amiga
specific hardware like AGA which exists as real hardware. The emulation is
memory intensive and therefore needs a fast memory access. For a step-by-step
adaption of the software 'in-line'-PPC-code is supported.
The following planned schedule is given in the diagrams.
Amiga Classic
- 12/2000: developer system
- 01/2001: Classic OS-drivers
- 01/2001: 680x0-emulator
- 02/2001: system for betatesters
- 1. quarter 2001: finished version of the AmigaOne A1200 for use as extended
Amiga Classic (PPC, PCI/AGP-Slots)
AmigaDE
- 07/2001: AmigaDE for end-users
- 07/2001: AmigaDE graphics, drivers and so on
- 08/2001: AmigaDE port for (every) AmigaOne possible
- 1. quarter 2002: availability of ready-to-use applications especially for
AmigaDE
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10.Dec.2000
Alfred Faust on ANF
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Open source: Bars&Pipes Pro 2.0
Alfred Faust has released an email of Todor Fay, the former chief programmer of
Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc., on ANF that is dated 9. December 2000. In this
email Todor Fay announces the release of the source code of Bars&Pipes Pro
V2.0. Besides bugfixes this will make the continued development of the
sequencer possible.
For now Fay is collecting together the source code. For this he needs help from
one or more Amiga developers with an up and running Amiga developer environment.
«I think we can work towards a better solution:
I've gotten clearance to release the source code for
Bars&Pipes to the Amiga community. This means several
things:
1) Known bugs can be fixed.
2) Perhaps y'all can create special hooks for real time
services (timer, midi in and out) in the Amiga code so it
can connect more directly with the services in Windows. It's
pretty amazing that timing works at all, given that it is
running on an emulation of the audio interrupt (kudos to
Brian King!). 'Course that would require changes to WinUAE
to support this.
3) Port Bars&Pipes to Windows. If people want to collaborate
on such a project, I will very gladly provide advice and
assistance.
At this point, I'm collecting together the source code. I
need to work with one or more developers who have Amiga dev
environments up and running to help put this together. We
need to make sure everything is there and compiles
correctly.
Any volunteers?
Todor»
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10.Dec.2000
André Siegel on ANF
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BlueBlack Solution websites gets revamped
André Siegel wrote:
Our net presentation gets momentarily reworked, please have therefor some days
patience until we can give you again access to our complete web offer.
You like the new design of our website? You recognised deficiencies? Show
courage, write us an email
and help us to improve our offers furthermore.
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10.Dec.2000
Richard de Rivaz on ANF
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INET DIAL v3.833
The internet management system 'INET DIAL' now offers a German localisation and
is in general prepared for translations. Everybody who wants to do a translation
may apply to the developer.
Download: inet_dial.lha (528K)
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10.Dec.2000
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WOA: Pictures and reports
pictures
reports
IRC-conferences
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10.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Obligement #24
The 24. issue of the french e-magazine 'Obligement' for Amigas
is ready for downlaod. This issue contains among other things an interesting
article about the AmigaOne, an interview with the graphical artist Eric W.
Schwartz, reviews of Nightlong and MooVid 2 and much more.
Download: obligement24.lha (598K)
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10.Dec.2000
James Russell on Open Amiga-ML
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AmigaDE: James Russell manages Mozilla porting
James Russell is the leader
of the Mozilla-engine-porting for AmigaDE.
Mozilla is the open source browser project
emerged from the Netscape browser.
To begin with Russell has contacted mozdev.org
about the possibility of hosting the necessary infrastructure (webspace, CVS,
mailing list) for the project. It would then become accessible under
mozamiga.mozdev.org.
Everybody who wants to help in porting, give constructive ideas or feedback may
post on the Open Amiga-Mailingliste
or address directly to James Russell.
He is to find on the IRC-channels #mozamiga at irc.mozilla.org
and #developer at irc.whiterose.net.
He suggests to interested people to have a look at the NSPR-Video on
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/brownbag.htmlfor now,
which informs in a comprehensive way about the NSPR module. This module presents the
biggest hurdle for the Mozilla-port for AmigaDE.
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09.Dec.2000
Stéphane Campan via eMail
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BoXer Board Status
On the Anti-Gravity page there is a press release dated November, 29th 2000
concerning the BoXer mainboard.
Current BoXeR prototype main-boards feature the emulated AGA chip-set on three
single chips. The final revision will integrate the AGA into one single chip.
The redesign has been completed and it is ready for build up. It is planned
to make this board with one single AGA chip available for the AmigaActive
magazine for testing purpose end of December.
The distributor network is growing. According to the latest survey there are
currently more than 500 distributors of the BoXer.
Our employment survey also got great and worldwide response. Anit-Gravity is
hoping to be able to contact everyone who replied to talk about possibilities
to enable all of them to take part in developing this system.
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09.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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WOA: Fun Time World - information
Sebastian Brylka released first information about the fair.
Bill McEwen didn't attend the fair - his place was taken by an
unprepared Fleecy Moss. Heretic II has been presented as a Voodoo version.
The graphics board was plugged into a G-Rex PCI prototype in an A4000. The
G-Rex board for A1200's has also been presented. This version is ready and
in progress. It's said to be released early 2001.
More information are available in the Fun Time World announcement. Photos and more
information have been announced.
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09.Dec.2000
ANN
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Amiga in Berlin Scene Club
Under the title link at the upper left you can see an Amiga 1200 in a
Scene Club in Berlin.
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09.Dec.2000
ANN
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Open Source Campaign planning to create a Counsil
The 'Campaign to Open Source the AmigaOS' campaign created by Steve Crietzman
is making efforts to release the AmigaOS sources as open source. In recent times it has
been quiet around this campaign. This was due to the fact that Crietzman had
taken a longer break, because work had gotten to much to handle. Now he regrets
to have been absent for so long without any explanation.
The current plan involves the creation of a transition plan for the Open
Amiga Foundation. Therefore they are looking for participants. Persons
interested in this initiative might contact OpenAmiga@aol.com.
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09.Dec.2000
André Beer on ANF
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GeoWorld V1.12 - New demo version of the geographical software
We of Beer Productions are happy to announce the release of a new
demo version of our geographical software for the Amiga. This demo version is
based on the current GeoWorld Version 1.12 and contains a foretaste of the
extensive data and many features that make this software unique on the Amiga.
The demoversion can be downloaded on our homepage as well as on the Aminet
(misc/edu). Currently GeoWorld can still be ordered for a special price at
Amiga Arena.
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09.Dec.2000
ANN
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WOA: IRC with Elbox
Under the title link you will find a log-file of ab IRC conference with Elbox.
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09.Dec.2000
Patrick Roberts in Open Amiga-ML
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AmigaDE: Etick V0.86 Beta and Ewinease V0.63 Alpha
On December 9th, 2000 Patrick Roberts released beta version 0.86
of the ticker 'ETick' and alphav ersion 0.63 of the GUI-Kit 'Ewinease'
Etick is a graphical ticker with plug-in support that can display
miscellaneous information like headlines of news services. The archive contains the
files that are necessary to develop plug-ins. Currently the following sources
are supported:
- Amiga.org: Headlines
- Amiga.com: First page headlines
- Amigadev.net: Headlines of the news, Top 10 Downloads, the last 10
uploads
- Time and date
- Weather forecast (needs 'forecast.tgz')
- Stats of the web-servers 'zAMilo'
The program further needs Clip and Artix_Nexttext by Richard Collier. These
packages have to be installed before 'Etick'.
There is a small update for 'Ewinease'. This kit simplifies the programming of
AVE-GUIs in C. This update is an alpha version. The product is not completed and
may contain bugs. More detailed information are in TODO_HISTORY.doc.
Download:
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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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AmigaOS 4.0 PPC theoretically possible
In the IRC of the WOA 2000 Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. stated that AmigaOS 4.0
PPC is possible to be. Condition for this is that enough copies of
AmigaOS V3.9 will be sold to show that there is a valuable market for this product.
The required number of sold copies is 50,000.
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09.Dec.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF
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KICKSTART ARCHIVES
The homepage of KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-ROM has moved and can be reached under
http://home.nexgo.de/kickstart/.
This page contains among others a wide collection of texts about the history of
the Amiga.
Release date of the CD-ROM is 12-31-2000.
You can find all the necessary information at the homepage.
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09.Dec.2000
xandiy on ANF
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Pictures from WOA 2000
At Amiga-Community.net there are first
pictures of the WOA.
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09.Dec.2000
Bernd on ANF
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Fireball Issue #3
Issue #3 of Fireball is ready for download under the title link.
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09.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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ASM-One V1.45 R454c
As announced on December 5th, 2000, version 1.45 revision 454c of the assembler
'ASM-One' has been released. In this version many bugs have been removed and
some functions added. The RTG version (for gfx boards) only made it to a beta
version since there has not been enough time to remove bigger bugs.
The normal version needs at least AmigaOS 2.x. The RTG version AmigaOS 3.x.
Both require reqtools.library and asl.library.
In the first archive there is also the ASM-One Guide, which contains ASM-One
source rescuer and the history
Download:
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09.Dec.2000
CyberGFX
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Mediator, G-Rex and P96
Several news have been released on the CyberGFX pages in the last few days.
In the channel #amiga(irc.whiterose.net), a collaborator of Hyperion, voiced
positively about the design of the Mediator board. To keep costs low the
people from Elbox only use one logic chip which is used as many times as
required. This way they have managed among otheres to create their PCI bus
without having to use expensive Glue- chipsets from third party companies.
«On #amiga (irc.whiterose.net) one of the guys from Hyperion was chatting about the design of
the Mediator: "They've shown some really clever ways to keep their costs down in design, certainly....
All of their hardware consists of ONE logic chip which they use repeatedly, as many as necessary.",
"They design all their own components, so no need to buy expensive external glue logic.",
"Their PCI bus, for instance, is entirely their own implementation, no glue chip-sets from a
3rd party manufacturer.", "For instance there was a bug in the FastATA 4000 hardware, and
they had to send out replacement chips to fix it. FPGA could just be reprogrammed.", FastATA 4000
is "EIDE controller for Z3. The ONLY one." "Umm it implements the fast ATA modes. like PIO-4, etc.
So I get better performance out of IDE drives.", "Again, like all their other products, their
IDE implementation is their own, using the same chip they use on all their products. :-) Pretty cool."
"Well it also does PIO-5 but Z3 has trouble with it."»
The vendors.txt has been
updated on November, 25th 2000 updated. 18 new boards have been added
respectively updated. There have been no particular changes related to the
Mediator itself.
Pictures about the G-Rex with 5 PCI slots, and about CyberGraphX running on a
VooDoo4 4500 have been released..
About Picasso96 concerning Elbox there has been a new article released
from the P96-Mailinglist.
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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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PDF-Version of AmigaWorld #4
Beside the Online-Version there is
now also the PDF version of the
AmigaWorld #4 by Amiga Inc. with information about the new system available.
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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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RxMUI V3.95
Alfonso Ranieri released version 3.95 of RxMUI. This
ARexx-Library makes it possible to create GUIs using MUI in ARexx.
Download: rxmui.lha (362K)
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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Price of the 'Martina' sound card
On December 5th, 2000 Czech Amiga News announced the approximate price of the
'Martina' sound card by Michal Kluczewski. The clockport version will cost
about 180,- DM(90,- EUR).
The MPEG decoder modul will be available seperately. Prices for this modul
and other card versions have not been fixed yet.
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08.Dec.2000
Christoph Dietz
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NSDi on AmiTCP/IP licensing and Genesis rights
Press release:
NSDi PRESS RELEASE 2000/12/08 22:45 EET, 21:45 CET, 20:45 UTC
The Issue About AmiTCP/IP Licensing and GENESiS Publishing Rights:
Since the World of Amiga (WOA) show begins tomorrow, Saturday, December 9th
2000 and Haage&Parther is expected to start selling their AmigaOS 3.9
and NSDi and Haage&Partner is not yet in agreement of the licensing
of the AmiTCP/IP software, NSDi is forced to publish this information:
Happened so far:
AmiTCP/IP was licensed to be part of Amiga GENESiS Networking System
with a license fee of $5 per AmiTCP/IP Copy. No later licensing
agreement has been done between NSDi (The AmiTCP/IP Copyright Holder)
and any AmiTCP/IP licensee.
The latest moment any license payments for NSDi has been made
January 1999, with amount of about EUR 4000.
1st quarter of year 2000 AmiTCP/IP source was provided for one of
the GENESiS developer so he could add some missing features. At this
time, however:
- NSDi or respective NSDi personnel has not given any immaterial
property rights of AmiTCP/IP software away.
- No right for further redistribution of AmiTCP/IP source to anybody.
(both of these has been violated, either by incompetence to follow the
copyright laws, or just unwillingity to obey it -- hopefully it is
the first case)
At fall 2000, without any prior notice to NSDi, publishing rights of
GENESiS has been transferred to Haage&Partner. I (Tomi Ollila) at NSDi
was informed this when the press release about 4 weeks after this has
happened, was sent to one of the vaporware mailinglists.
At that time, since such a radical change in GENESiS rights I asked our
current licensee when our payments are due. I basically got an answer
that there is no money since all has gone to publishing cost or lost when
the company that made the CD:s went bankcrupty. That is an answer I could
live with. I did not want our licensee to get into more trouble, as he
had done so hard work with it. I just thought I then ask Haage&Partner
that at a later time -- as publishing rights were transferred, all the
licensing issues should have come with it. But, I also have an ordinary
work -- with EUR 1000 one just cannot manage in modern western country
very long -- I have been pretty busy working so I forgot to ask that
just then.
Note that that does not lessen our immaterial property rights of the
software of ours: It is responsibility of the people who are going
to sell the software further the figure out under what copyright
the sofware is bound of.
But, at the end of November 2000, I heard that Haage&Partner is going to
include GENESiS in their forthcoming AmigaOS 3.9. The genesis package
included AmiTCP/IP, and NSDi has had the previously mentioned licensing
agreement effective with it. However, NSDi was never contacted of such an
arrangement.
I was forced to take a quick action: I sent an e-mail to Haage&Partner
explaining the situation using quite strong words just to get attention.
After a few e-mails sent back and forth, I was asked to make an offer
with a fixed sum for unlimited use of the AmiTCP/IP software. I come
first up with a market price of some TCP/IP stack I've heard, and
that was EUR 15000. That was way too much what the Haage&Partner
representative say they could handle. Since this was so close to
the beginning of WOA and we don't have much time to negotiate (even it
is not my fault that I did not know earlyer), I come up with much
lesser price in my next e-mail...
I sent that email yesterday morning, about 11 EET (10 CET, 9 UTC), and
I have got no answer to that e-mail up to now.
So, now we are in situation, where Haage&Partner does have publishing
rights to GENESiS software, but has no license to sell the included
AmiTCP/IP. It might be so, that Haage&Partner has been so busy that
they have had no time to answer my latest proposition -- that I don't
know. Anyway, If they start selling AmigaOS 3.9 with GENESiS and AmiTCP/IP
included, they are selling unlicensed software.
At the time being, we are still willing to come with AmiTCP/IP
licensing agreement with Haage&Partner and therefore we don't want
to forbid sales of AmigaOS 3.9 at WOA -- mainly since there is so
many Amiga users who don't want to wait any longer before getting
the new Amiga Operating System. Also, taking such a drastic move
don't help our efforts to come with a positive end result in
discussion with Haage&Partner. However, my unfortunate duty is
to declare unlawful to sell products that contains AmiTCP/IP without
valid licensing agreement with NSDi on other sales channels.
At the time being, we continue licensing discussions with
Haage&Partner to get the lisensing issue in order. We will
keep the media informed of the progress of the discussion.
If you have any supportive comments, critisim to throw, or
some more information what I should know, please send e-mail
to the address shown below.
If there is doubt of the authenticity of this information,
this text is also included in my homepage at
http://www.iki.fi/too/amitcp.txt
Tomi Ollila
tomi.ollila@tfi.net (*)
Network Solutions Development, Inc.
Helsinki, Finland
(*) @nsdi.fi -address no longer active due to poorness of the company.
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08.Dec.2000
GoldED
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GoldED - WoA 2000 special offer
Dietmar Eilert offers visitors of the WoA 2000 GoldED for half price.
To get the special price, please send your WoA ticket or a written
confirmation that proves your presence at the fair to the GoldED support.
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08.Dec.2000
bplan GmbH
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Specifications of the PowerPC mainboard
bplan GmbH releases the specification of the dual G3/G4 microATX mainboard
with codename PEGASOS.
With its PEGASOS development pblan GmbH of Germany brings the unleashed
PowerPC performance to the users.
By using a modular system design, the mainboard could be easily user upgraded
to the individual demands. With todays standard interfaces already designed
onto the PEGASOS mainboard, the users will be able to easily connect standard
components (like harddrives or CD Roms) and a wide range of high-end devices such
as digital video cameras to the system.
While PEGASOS itself is widely scaleable to the users needs, it's a easy task
for retailers or OEMs to configure the system for their demands. By hitting
the best price/performance point for the chosen configuration, systems
starting with one CPU (at entry level) up to multi PPC G4 based cluster computers
could be build using the same hardware.
For technical details follow the title link.
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08.Dec.2000
Petra Struck
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WoA 2000
I was shortly at the fair this morning to take some things there and to
get a first impression. The Mediapark consists of several architectonically
imposing buildings. The fair is held in the building Mediapark 7 (1st floor),
while the seminars are held in the building Mediapark 6 (also 1st floor). The
fair exhibitors are work like beavers on their booths and there's a bustle as in a
beehive.
Supplement:
In a talk with Juergen Haage, I have learned that Fleecy Moss will attend
the fair, too.
If you come by car, here a little tip:
A57 to Cologne-Centre, then follow "Innenstadt" until (very small) signs directing
to the MediaPark appear. The entrance to the underground bypass is directly
after the railway bridge. You drive from there either directly to the building
or down into the underground car park MediaPark. At the "Cinedom", the entrance
to the car park forks to the car park entrance and tunnel bypass. You can also
park in the underground car park Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring. Have a good trip and until
tomorrow :-).
More driving tips.
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08.Dec.2000
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: Petracell
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08.Dec.2000
Nico Barbat via eMail
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Scenet opens new areas
Scenet has been founded in 1998 as the first web-portal for the legal computer
demoscene, based on a project back in 1994. It offers a huge collection of
web-links, e-mails and icq-numbers of former and active members of the
demoscene on all platforms, just like Amiga, PC and C64 as well as Atari,
Acorn, Mac, CPC and ZX. Since the end of 1999 Scenet has been enlarged by
a big articles- and interviews-section.
Since December 6th, 2000, Scenet contains an internal and interactive
script-system with news items updated every day.
Contact: dire@scenet.de
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08.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Light over Mars CD-ROM released
Light over Mars CD-ROM (LOM) has been released and can be ordered from now on
at APC & TCP. The "Lights Over Mars" CD contains a huge archive with objects
of the best-known science fiction visions. All objects are copyrighted by the
original movie companies. They are for private use only. You'll find more
information in the support area of the APC & TCP homepage (title link).
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08.Dec.2000
Ignatios Souvatzis on ANF
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NetBSD 1.5 is here!
After some weeks ago, the last patch release of the NetBSD 1.4 branch has been
released with NetBSD 1.4.3, some days ago NetBSD 1.5 has also been released.
NetBSD is a complete open source operating system and is shipped with
system administration and user tools, as well as the X window system. New
in 1.5: IP version 6, IPsec, integrated OpenSSL, -SSH and Kerberos.
New for the Amiga architecture and hardware are: improved FPU emulation for
Amigas without FPU, support for media with large sectors for ADOSFS (reading)
and for Linux partitions, SVR4 (AMIX) emulation; drivers for parallel ports
on HyperCOM 3+/4+; a first version of the PCMCIA support; the IDE support can
use the NetBSD code instead of the Amiga-specific solution if the user wishes
(and will be converted in future to this option).
Support for ISDN is available for Master, MasterII, Blaster with the isdn4bsd packet,
and in preparation for ISDN surfer.
System requirements: 8 MB fast mem; 68020+68851 with/without FPU, 68030 with/without FPU,
68040, 68060, Phase5 PowerPC+68k boards in 68k mode (but with SCSI host driver!).
First attempts at a PPC support are available as source.
You can find more information and suppliers at the title link.
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08.Dec.2000
Chris Hodges on ANF
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FormAldiHyd -- driver for Aldi/Medion/Tevion/Aiptek graphic tablet
Chris Hodges writes:
Here
you'll find a new version of my driver for the graphic tablets by Aldi and Aiptek.
there is a MUI version as well as a CLI version. The day after tomorrow, the new
version 0.9ß should also be available on AmiNet.
The driver is freeware, but it would be nice if I'd get some feedback. Maybe it's also
compatible with Summagraphics, but I couldn't test it.
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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier
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Amigart: Earth2140 will be presented on the WOA in Cologne
According to Jason Hayman von Pagan Games
the full version of Earth 2140 Amiga PPC/68k will be presented on the
WoA 2000
in Cologne. The master CD is already on its way to production.
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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Simon The Sorcerer II is ready
Simon The Sorcerer II is ready and all who pre-ordered it at epic-interactive
will receive it from December, 14th. After many month of work and many problems
Paul Burkey and Peter Mulholland have made it, they have ported one of the best
cartoon adventures to the Amiga.
AGA or a gfx board is required. A 68030/50 with 8 MB RAM is minimal requirement.
The english game has subtitles in English, German, and Italian. It is delivered
in a DVD case with printed manual. You can preorder here.
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07.Dec.2000
Bill Borsari via eMail
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UGN-IRC from Cologne
The UGN is happy to announce the presentation of live internet chat with
some of the biggest names in the Amiga industry today. The conferences
will begin on Saturday 09.12.2000 at 12:00 CET (GMT +1h.) There will also
be a live webcam from the show at http://ugn.amiga.org/webcam. You can
join the conferences on the AmigaNet family of IRC servers on channel
#woa2000. Here is a list of servers and the port:
- Server (Port always 6667):
- whiterose.us.amiganet.org
- thule.no.amiganet.org
- kth.se.amiganet.org
- linux.us.amiganet.org
- spod.uk.amiganet.org
- fullcomp.au.amiganet.org
For more information about IRC please visit http://ugn.amiga.org/irc.
We have put together a perliminary schedule as a reference:
Participant Company Time
Darek Dulian. ELBOX 12:30:00 CET
Mick Tinker BoXer 13:00:00 CET
Ralph Schmidt MorphOs 14:00:00 CET
Allan M. Redhouse Eyetech 15:00:00 CET
Bill McEwan Amiga Inc 16:00:00 CET
Juergen Haage Haage & Partner 17:00:00 CET
Hope to see you there!
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07.Dec.2000
amiga.org
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News from Fleecy Moss
Fleecy Moss, Technical Director of Amiga, Inc. sends the message, that
Amiga, Inc. about to release in a few weeks the first part of the
AmigaDE technology.
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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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WayneCam is now online
Wayne Hunt of the Amiga.org team has installed a webcam on his working place.
If you want to watch him work you can do this here.
It is updated every 30 seconds.
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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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WebCam on WoA
Ruediger Engel of the Amiga-Club has installed a webcam on the
WoA2000
and shows the pictures on his homepage: WoA Webcam
or the picture directly.
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07.Dec.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail
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MEDIATOR PCI for Amiga 4000
MEDIATOR PCI 4000 features:
- PCI busboard for Amiga 4000D in: E-BOX (Power Tower,
Winner Tower) tower cases
- 5 PCI slots - PCI 2.1 compatible (DMA, Bus-mastering, etc.)
- 7 ZORRO III/II slots
- 1 Video slot
- The fastest possible PCI design for Amiga, 66 MHz, 32-bit
- Transfer rates between PCI cards up to 264 MB/s
- Ready to run with all the existing Amiga 4000: 68k and PPC
accelerator cards
- Ready to run with SharkPPC G3/G4 cards
MEDIATOR PCI 4000 is made up of two devices:
a) MEDIATOR 4000 core logic card
b) ELBOX A4000 ZORRO III/II PCI busboard
The PCI to Amiga bridge is a PCI 2.1-compliant implementation
for connecting PCI devices, thus allowing expansion of Amiga
with all kinds of industry standard hardware products.
DRIVERS for MEDIATOR 4000 add-on PCI cards:
- Graphic cards based on processors:
3dfx Voodoo3 16MB (ready)
3dfx Voodoo5 32MB (in development)
- Network cards:
Ethernet 10 Mb/s (ready)
Fast Ethernet 100/10 Mb/s (in development)
- Sound cards:
SB 128 (in development)
SB 1024 Live (in development)
- TV tuner (in development)
- MPEG-2 hardware decoder (in development)
- USB Controller (planned)
- ISDN cards (planned)
Availability:
ELBOX A4000 ZORRO III/II PCI will be sold as a complete set
with the E-BOX 4000 (Power Tower, Winner Tower), beginning
with 9 December 2000 (during the WOA 2000!).
The MEDIATOR 4000 core logic card will be available in January 2001.
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07.Dec.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment present on the Cologne Show
Also e.p.i.c interactive entertainment will be present on the Cologen Show. At the booth of
Falke Verlag Paul Burkey will present the finished Amiga version of "Simon The Sorcerer II". Thomas
Wuergler from Pagan Games, which ported the real-time strategy game "Earth 2140" by our order to
the Amiga, will present the final version exclusively at the Falke booth. Look forward to two
great PC ports, which you can play already this year.
Furthermore we will offer our games at special fair prices on the fair.
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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Wired: Forever Amigos with Amiga
Wired reported about Amiga Forever 4.0 by Cloanto.
You can find the article under the title link.
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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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G-Rex with 5 PCI Slots will be presented on WoA
According to DCE the board was completely new designed and the production
has already started. The board will be presented on the WoA in Cologne. Two new pictures of the board
were published at CyberGFX-homepage. You can also look at
a picture of CyberGraphX on a Voodoo 4-4500 there.
Besides this there are news of the P96 team:
On Saturday the programmer of Picasso96 probably will be present on the WoA2000. Tobias wrote:
"Hi! Alex and I will probably attend the WoA 2000 in Cologne
on Saturday. If you want to meet us (register Picasso96 or complain about
our greed) just look out for us. The pictures on the Picasso96 home page
should be good enough for that. :-) C ya! :-))" .....click on their pictures
for a better view:
picture 1
and picture 2.
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06.Dec.2000
Christian Sobotta on ANF
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ACSYS canceled
After a last telephone call with programmer it is now official that the development of ACSYS (Turrican-clone)
will be canceled. In our opinion for 86 interested people (result of a opinion poll) it is not
worthy continuing the development.
If the development will be continued by a third person the following applies:
The complete code will be released as open source. Only the engine will be given as an object file.
If a commercial publication is planned percentage share of the profit have to be given to us.
The level has to be negotiated with the developer. If the game is going to be published as freeware
we will waive the financial claims. PD,- shareware or something like that are not allowed.
The level of development is at fifty percent. If there are competent programmers we would continue
working on pictures if desired.
We regret this decision and hope you show understanding of it. If you want to write something
to this topic please mail to the programmer because
I have no influence on it no longer. The homepage will be online during the next time. I will complete
the list of interested people if I will get mails with this content.
For further questions we are at your disposal via eMail:
Code: Joerg Belger
Graphic: Christian Sobotta
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06.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
ET60DemoEnglis.lha biz/demo 2.5M+Multimedia language tutor - English ver.
ET60DemoGerman.lha biz/demo 2.4M+Multimedia language tutor - German ver.
DOpusCFG.lha biz/dopus 60K+DOpus4.x configuration with many feature
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha comm/irc 764K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Dreamforge
iris.lha comm/mail 326K+Email client (SMTP/POP3) V2.3
IrisUpdate.lha comm/mail 36K+Update Iris V2.2 to V2.3
Haracz.lha comm/misc 350K+Calculate fee for internet provider
jl_update.lha comm/tcp 2K+Script for updating your ip at Justlinux
rxsocket.lha comm/tcp 139K+Rxsocket.library - TCP/IP ARexx library
streamer.lha comm/www 25K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
APX-ITBM.lha demo/aga 3.7M+I Want To Be Machine by Appendix,release
APX-MAYHEM.lha demo/aga 1.7M+Mayhem by Appendix, released at Satellit
ays-atyp.lha demo/aga 31K+"A-Type 32k Game by Dexter/Abyss!"
ays-crsn.lha demo/aga 36K+"Cruisin 40k Intro by Dexter/Abyss!"
ays-dis4.lha demo/aga 78K+DISISSID #4 by ABYSS (THX songs)
SPO3-Photos.lha demo/aga 232K+Official photos from Spoletium3 demopart
wpz-frozen39.lha demo/aga 430K+Frozen#39 - Spoletium Party Edition
WT_intros_1996.lha demo/intro 1.4M+Wanted Team cracktros from the year 1996
hla-ap14fix.lha demo/mag 24K+Amiga Positive no.14 FIX, new executable
modifile.lha dev/amos 67K+File modifier written by AMOSPro
SamplesMaster.lha dev/amos 107K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
blitzgtfix.lha dev/basic 45K+Blitz2 fix for many Gadtools problems
clockita.lha dev/basic 73K+Italian clock with alarm + source code
libiconv_src.lha dev/c 3.4M+Src for libiconv.a
xad_ar.lha dev/src 12K+Ar(1) xadmaster client
xad_bzip.lha dev/src 19K+Bzip xadmaster client
xad_CAB.lha dev/src 54K+Cabinet (CAB) xadmaster client
xad_COP.lha dev/src 12K+COP xadmaster client
xad_DImp.lha dev/src 13K+DImp xadmaster client
xad_MSA.lha dev/src 8K+Magic Shadow (MSA) xadmaster client
xad_RPM.lha dev/src 10K+RPM xadmaster client
xad_Wrapster.lha dev/src 9K+Wrapster xadmaster client
xad_ZAP.lha dev/src 13K+ZAP xadmaster client
splatch.lha disk/misc 20K+CLI command to split and join files
BB.lha docs/hyper 285K+The BLACK BIBLE (Russian version) in Ami
Aakt1200GFX.lha docs/mags 336K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1200GUIDE.lha docs/mags 79K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1200HTML.lha docs/mags 215K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
mc0101.lha docs/mags 234K+German Metal Mag in HTML - Januar Issue
JumpingAround.lha game/demo 158K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
Mattonite.lha game/demo 276K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
LOS_ED.lha game/hint 99K+Save Editor for game Legacy of Sorasil
AllTerrainRaci.lha game/patch 25K+HD-Installer for All Terrain Racing V1.0
AllTerrainXmas.lha game/patch 23K+HD-Installer for All Terrain Racing Xmas
BatmanReturns.lha game/patch 24K+HD-Installer for Batman Returns V1.0
ColonizationPL.lha game/patch 78K+Polish translation for game Colonization
Microbes.lha game/patch 31K+HD-Installer for Microbes V1.0
pab3d1_1.lha game/patch 56K+(1.1) A Patch for Alien Breed 3D.
PuttySquadDemo.lha game/patch 30K+HD-Installer for Putty Squad Demo V1.0
Quartz.lha game/patch 28K+HD-Installer for Quartz V1.1
Fate1.2.lha game/role 16K+Fate - Polish Version of Dice Simulator
stefadv2.lha game/text 68K+2nd little italian text adventure
Frogger.lha gfx/show 932K+Ultimate MPEG video player (MOS|PUP|WOS|
VideoMPEGA.lha gfx/show 343K+Fast Mpeg video play 1&2 + sound 68k/AGA
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 73K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
PrimaxCD9600.lha hard/drivr 56K+Primax Colorado Direct 9600 Scanner Driv
Mentat.lha misc/edu 223K+Mentat 0.6 english2english Longman dicti
stlist.lha misc/emu 25K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
imdbDiff001124.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Budzet2000.lha misc/math 431K+Budzet 2000. Calculates your expenses an
ALEM_0018.lha misc/misc 696K+ALEM's ScalaScript 'GeneaBook' Demo (FR)
divert12.lha mods/midi 37K+Divertimento12, GM song by Stefano Regat
divert3.lha mods/midi 59K+Divertimento3, GM song by Stefano Regatt
felicida.lha mods/midi 35K+Felicidad, GM song by Stefano Regattin
rno-r052.lha mods/misc 258K+Rno-records release no.52 by Tang (tekno
dzy-inafantasy.mpg mods/mpg 5.2M+MP3 Tune by Dazzy of Soundforce
win95crash.lha mods/smpl 91K+Windows95Crash.wav : very famous sample
ac3dec.lha mus/play 73K+AC3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoder. (68k
DeliDecrunch.lha mus/play 8K+XFD/XAD DeliTracker Decruncher v2.2
WOA-2000.jpg pix/art 14K+Made with fxPaint and Cinema4D
AVK.lha pix/misc 2.0M+X-Mas Calendar
Jack01.lha pix/trace 950K+7 trace-pictures of Ford Mustang by JACK
a500_wb2000.png pix/wb 203K+Amiga500-WB w/WB2000 in 724x566x4
Textloader.lha text/edit 738K+TextEd 8.2 german/english SuperED!!
adTOag.lha text/hyper 17K+AdTOag - Autodocs TO Amigaguide. V1.3
ascii2jascii.lha text/misc 35K+ASCII to Japanese ASCII (68k/ppc/wos)
eNote.lha text/misc 161K+Electronical notebook
UnLZX2.lha util/arc 95K+UnLZX with new args (68k/PPC/i486)
xadmaster000.lha util/arc 248K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68000)
xadmaster020.lha util/arc 250K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68020)
xadmaster060.lha util/arc 256K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68060)
xadmasterdev.lha util/arc 141K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (DEVEL)
alba.lha util/boot 50K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
ALeXcompare.lha util/cli 67K+Compare files/dirs/trees & display diffe
makedict.lha util/cli 39K+MakeDict - Creates dictionary from ANY (
SRename.lha util/cli 107K+Advanced rename/renumber CLI program.
EasyConvert.lha util/conv 23K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
ppclibemu.lha util/libs 229K+Ppc.library emulation under WarpOS
Calculator.lha util/misc 28K+Fully functional scientific calculator
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 83K+Report+ 4.11: 10-function utility
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 98K+V1.42 - Graphics benchmark program
AmiLogVis.lha util/moni 36K+RC5 Log Visualizer (for distributed.net
dofile52.lha util/rexx 43K+Nice datatype based processfile script
rmh.lha util/rexx 54K+Rmh.library - Rexx Must Have library
LSClock20.lha util/time 31K+SHAREWARE clock utility - New Release v2
Gurus2000_18_G.lha util/wb 178K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
Gurus2000_HTML.lha util/wb 642K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
TweakWB18.lha util/wb 117K+Workbench 3.5/3.9 commodity & icon conve
VisualPrefs.lha util/wb 458K+Configure the look of the Amiga GUI!
WB2000_17.lha util/wb 386K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)
WB2000_17_NO.lha util/wb 5K+Norwegian catalog for WorkBench2000 1.7
yStart.lha util/wb 19K+Start menu for standard WB icons (v1.2)
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06.Dec.2000
Alfred Knoetig via eMail
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Digital Albums
Alf's Corner present "Digital Albums" for Amiga. Digital - Albums are photo CDs of Brasilia, Mexico
Argentina and Toscana. Each of the above mentioned CDs contain several hundreds of pictures of
landscapes in high quality. Everybody can start dreaming here.
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06.Dec.2000
Guvenc Kaplan via eMail
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AmigArt: AmigaOS 4.0 petition
AmigaArt wants to submit a petition with their wishes to AmigaOS 4.0 to Amiga Inc. It is an opinion poll
where you can express your opinion concerning the development of the Amiga Classic OS to a PPC-native-OS.
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06.Dec.2000
Paer Boberg via eMail
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List of famous use of Amiga updated
Paer Boberg has updated his list of famous use of Amiga available now in version 1.6.
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06.Dec.2000
Falk Lueke via eMail
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Eternity News regarding Cologne Show
Eternity will present at the "World of Amiga 2000" which takes place this weekend in Cologne the
following products:
*! EASys will be available in new version !*
- Important features of OS 3.9 are supported...
- Tom Neidhardt has added an important complementing which lacks in the modern operating system of OS 3.9.
- Converting of ToolsDemon-Prefs -> OS 3.9-menu added
- Adapting of the toolbar. Pre-configured for vertical and horizontal positions...
- Starting improved ans fastened...
- Choice between big ans small WB-menu...
- Menu itself was improved.
- Scripts of converting of icons do no longer need OS 3.x-CD...
- DEF-icon-fixing via point&click.
- Genisis connection improved...
You can buy the update as CD for 15,- DM at the fair. After the fair the update can be downloaded
from the internet for free...
*! MAS-Player goes AmigaAmp !*
As already promised during the last weeks we have worked on getting as many as possible software support
for MAS-player. A first step has taken now:
- The MAS-player will be supported right from the fair by AmigaAmp. Thanks a lot to Dirk Conrad, Thomas Wenzel und Paul Quershi.
Therefore MAS-player is the most effective, compatible and favourable MP3-player on the Amiga...
- The current version of AmigaAmp at our booth will be presented with internet-radio support for the first time.
*! Eternity presents Eternity-One !*
As a real alternative to the current Amiga-computer-systems we offer a computer with Amiga-emulation
for the first time. There are the following advantages:
- You can chose each Amiga!
- OS 3.x compatible
- OCS, ECS AGA and graphics board compatible
- Save protection in Amiga-box
- Speed as Amiga-Exorzist with 68040/68060 processor
- Access to Amiga-disks possible
- Amiga-sytem with 128 MB RAM
- 100% compatible to Windows-systems and all Windows-programs
- All Amiga & PC-games playable
- Network between Workbench and Windows
- Network to other Amigas over TCP-IP possible
- Cheap because of standard-pc-hardware
- MAc-emulation usable
- Linux usable
- Independent of Amiga-level
- Independent of Amiga Inc.
- Amigs-SDK usable und compatible for the future
- All Amiga 68k programs usable
- Kickstart 1.3-3.1
- Period of guarantee of hardware-producer longer
- No unnecessary long repairing time
- Compatible to OS 3.9
- Convince yourself of this system. It offers a good solution concerning the current Amiga-problems.
We point out that this computer is a starting system.
*! Tales of Tamar !*
We also present Tales of Tamar in the current beta-version at the fair. Convince yourself of the
progress and have a look at the things approaching you.
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06.Dec.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail
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Aminet CD 40 available
Aminet CD 40 - December 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (unpacked) of software in nearly thousand
archives. The very special highlight on this CD is the full version of TurboCalc 4.0 with a attractively priced
possibility of updating to TurboCalc 5.0.
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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Haage & Partner publishes new functions and pictures of OS 3.9
You can find the complete list here: OS 3.9 features.
Here you can find some pictures of the new programs and of the preferences: OS 3.9 screens.
Who has made OS 3.9? Here you can find the list of the involved poeple: OS 3.9 Who did it.
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06.Dec.2000
Xandiy on ANF
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Getting to Cologne
Everybody who wants to visit also the fair and needs a
driving possibility, please join here.
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05.Dec.2000
Sylvio K. on ANF
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News about DeepSilence - The Secret of my Soul
The DeepSilence team is looking for a gifted story writer to cooperate
in case of the game's story and actions. Good knowledge of orthography
is recommended. Contact:
sylvio.kurze@oberland.or.at.
At the time being the SOMS homepage only is accessible at
http://suse.unixcity.de/mangapic/index.html
due to a failture of redirection. Moreover the DeepSilence team would like to mention
alternative-games.de
where a poll is up about which game you are most of all looking forward to. Everybody looking
forward to SOMS, please click DeepSilence-SOMS.
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05.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software
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Trogsoft Awards 2001
Trogladite Software will overall place five awards in categories application, games,
hardware, developer, and website. Trogladite Software spend a lot of time to simplify
the procedure of voting compared to last year.
If your favourite website for one of the categroies isn't on the list, you have the
possibility to nominate this website.
amiga-news.de is nominated for the category "website". If you would like to vote for us,
please click the following link:
Vote for amiga-news.de in the TS Awards 2001
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05.Dec.2000
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amiga-news.de present at the WoA 2000, too
Of course also the amiga-news.de team will not miss the this year's Amiga show
WoA 2000
in Cologne's Mediapark, which will take place this weekend. As usual we will
inform you about the novelties presented at the fair by extended reports and pictures, and
we are already looking forward to meet our readers in person.
As already traditional our graphics artist, the airbrush artist
Rolf Tingler, will decorate your hardware
live as wanted. He will also bring along the popular mobile phone shells with Amiga design, among others
for the brand-new Nokia 3310, too.
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05.Dec.2000
Andreas Weyrauch via eMail
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IRC-Logfile (revised version)
Andreas Weyrauch, who organized the Jochen Becher chat, has revised the log file and removed
all 'join', and 'left'. You will find the result (mixed, German and English) at
the title link.
Furthermore he says thank you to all of the attendants for the good replies, which encourage him to
go on.
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05.Dec.2000
Peter Merfeld on ANF
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G-REX driver for Voodoo 4-4500 finished
Peter Merfeld, PR manager at DCE Computer Service GmbH, wrote:
DCE Computer is excited to be able to announce that Vision Factory have finished
the CyberGraphx beta drivers for Voodoo 4-4500 boards. The technical data of the
Voodoo 4 are really impressing. With an impressing filling rate of 333 megapixles per
second, and 32 MB of graphics memory the Voodoo4 4500 will bring your PPC Amiga near
to industrial workstations.
Here are the technical data of the fastest graphics board ever used in an Amiga:
- 32 MB Graphics Memory 128-bit Interface
- 166 Mhz Core Clock
- 350 Mhz RAMDAC
- 60Hz-160Hz Vertical Refresh
- 32-bit Color Rendering
- 32-bit Texture rendering pipeline
- 24-bit floating point depth buffer
- 8-bit stencil buffer
- 2048*2048 Texture Support
- Full 128-bit 2D engine
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05.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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It's done: Payback-Work in Progress starts!
Jürgen A. Theiner of playamiga.de wrote:
From now on I will report about the current status of Payback
development irregulary. Because the programmer himself supports me in doing so, I think by now that there may
be many interesting news. It starts with the update to beta 8, which I already released on November, 30th.
The reports will not stop after the final release of the game, but later changes will be reported
(Mission Disks, Updates, Payback 2...), too. So, have a lot of fun on the other side of the law.
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05.Dec.2000
Stefan Sommerfeld via eMail
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Repulse News
Who would like to see this board live - BTW: which is available at reduced price - can come to
Individual Computer's booth on the World Of Amiga in Cologne, which will take place in the
Mediapark this weekend. We still need some preorders to be able to start production of the
board.
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04.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Amiga Future started webring
Amiga Future started a new webring today. Every webmaster is invited to join the ring.
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04.Dec.2000
Elbox via eMail
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Voodoo3 Graphics accelerator-review
Elboy made a new Voodoo3 graphics accelerator review online available.
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04.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier at ANF
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MPEG 4 available for Amiga soon
Let me inform you about our new MPEG-4-based codec called 3ivx. You probably heard of DivX ;-)
as a movie compression format. And indeed it's great. But we (the whole 3ivx.com team, under
the supervising eye of Mr. Stux who has created the DivX ;-) Player for Mac) want to go a bit
further. Our goal is to optimize compression so that the file size is smaller, of a higher
quality and fully streamable. Moreover the codec will be supported on all platforms (Windows,
Macintosh, BeOS, *nix (inlcuding Linux), Amiga ...). To accomplish this the code of the player
will become an open source.
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04.Dec.2000
KDH Messe-News at ANF
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KDH releases X-Surf/Miami-DeLuxe Bundle at WOA
KDH will offer a bundle that contains the netwotkadapter X-Surf and Miami-DeLuxe.
Miami-DeLuxe will only be available in this bundle (at the WoA).
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04.Dec.2000
KDH Messe-News at ANF
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KDH will make a short glimpse on the future of the Amiga
Andreas Küssner of WK-Artworks will demonstrate Taifun on Saturday.
Taifun is the successor of 'Wildfire' and it's being developed for the new OS 'Amiga DE'.
'Wildfire-for-Movieshop' will be available, too.
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04.Dec.2000
Carsten Schröder via eMail
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AMIGA aktuell 12/00 Published
The new issue contains Amiga news, software reviews and a summary of the latest
issue of »Amiga World« by Amiga Inc. Additional you find informations
about the »World of Amiga« in Cologne next weekend.
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04.Dec.2000
André Beer at ANF
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GeoWorld - Update 12 released
We, Beer Productions, are proud to announce the release of an other GeoWorld update.
The main feature of the new version are the revised history data. The data now reserve 50 times more space (400kb).
The update is available at our homepage and from the Aminet (misc/edu). A new demo will be available soon.
I would like to put you attention on the Amiga-Arena special offer.
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04.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail
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COOLbits at WoA2000
The exhibition-page of COOLbits is online. Apart from a new version of FX-Scan they will
present EaSys and Tales of Tamar at the exhibition. For all video-freaks there will be a
stand-alone video-editiong-system CASABLANCA AVIO.
We agreed with Irseesoft to sell there products at our booth. These products are Turboprint7.x
and Picture Manager5.5. If you bring your old Turboprint discs with you you can update to version 7.16.
The MAS Hardware MP3 Player will be demonstrated too.
We will present the new Eternity-One computer. It is a PC with installed Amiga-emulator.
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04.Dec.2000
Michael Lange at ANF
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CyberGraphX V4.2 'pre8'
A CyberGraphX V4.2 'pre8' - update is available at the title link.
Especially the MorphOS-Support was improved.
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04.Dec.2000
Ricco Clemens at ANF
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Server Problems
Because our server is overloaded we would like to please you to use the following addresses:
http://buerger.metropolis.de/riccoclemens oder
http://www.ev.2xt.de
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04.Dec.2000
Jürgen Haage via eMail
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Vesalia Computer will attend WoA 2000
Vesalia Computer short-term decided to attend the WOA 2000. A new stall-plan is available at the WoA-pages of
Haage&Partner.
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04.Dec.2000
Jürgen Haage via eMail
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Haage&Partner: There are no problems with Genesis
This morning a report comes up that blamed us for not having a valid license for
shipping Genesis with the new AmigaOS.
We strictly reject this charge. We have all rights that are needed to sell Genesis.
We bought these rights from the manufacturer Active Technologies this August. We
announced all of this 4 weeks later. We are very surprised about the campaign just
one week before the start of the shipping of AmigaOS3.9.
As planed, Amiga Inc. will start shipping it next Saturday. Bill McEwen will attend
the exhibition at Cologne. I hope you will be there.
Jürgen Haage
Geschäftsführer - HAAGE&PARTNER Computer GmbH
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03.Dec.2000
Anton Rolls on REBOL-ML
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Hosts with REBOL Support
On the basis of reports on the REBOL mailing list Anton Rolls has listed hosts
supporting REBOL. There the language REBOL can be used for example for the
generating of websites via CGI. For the time being the list contains 8 entries.
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03.Dec.2000
TFA
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ASM-One v1.45 on December, 5th
The release of the version 1.45 of the assembler ASM-One was originally planned
for the 30. November 2000. This date postpones on the 5. December 2000. The
reason for this is that Boussh has begun implementing pasting to the clipboard.
As the clipboard support is a feature that is requested since long by many he
has decided to take some extra days to complete the clipboard support (copy to
clipboard). This time will additionally be used to improve the RTG version of
the package and to update the documentation. For the 5. December is the release
of the standard and the RTG version of ASM-One 1.45 planned.
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03.Dec.2000
IrseeSoft
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Exhibition prices for IrseeSoft's Products
At the fair 'World of Amiga', happening on the 9. and 10. December 2000 at
the Mediapark Cologne, products and updates of IrseeSoft will be available for
favorable exhibition prices at the booth of CoolBits.
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03.Dec.2000
David Gerber via eMail
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Genesis Rights Controversial
On 28. September 2000 Haage&Partner released a
note
in which the company announced to have obtained distribution and copyrights
for the TCP/IP-Stack 'Genesis' from Active Technologies (Chris Wiles). Through
this acquisition H&P received the possibility to integrate an own TCP/IP
stack into the new AmigaOS Version 3.9 without any complications.
Note: The Genesis package is continued development of the AmiTCP/IP
package by Network Solutions Development, Inc. (NSDi).
On 2. Dezember 2000 David Gerber, who is working by order of NSDi on AmiTCP,
released a press note by NSDi. According to this Active Technologies didn't
possess the rights for the AmiTCP part of Genesis and hence couldn't
sell these rights to H&P.
In this message NSDi among other things were written that they regard a distribution
of AmiTCP/IP without a direct contract with NSDi as an act of piracy.
To avoid misunderstandings with actual valid license contracts NSDi further
withdraws all for the time being valid licence contracts. Due to NSDi' own
representation this is possible as Chris Wiles (Active Technologies)
didn't observe his part of the license by not paying any licensing fees since
early 1999.
H&P is anxious to solving this problem friendly.
The exact wording of the press release of NSDi is available under the title link.
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03.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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playamiga.de: Review of 'Codename: Hellsquad' online
On 3. Dezember 2000 Juergen A. Theiner has released a comprehensive
test
of the action aventures 'Codename:Hellsquad' by Digital Dream Entertainment
on www.playamiga.de.
A work in progress report about "Payback" will follow soon.
A first update of the P"Payback" review has been already released.
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03.Dec.2000
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org: Tools for Headlines and AmigaDE Update
Since 27. November 2000 Amiga.org offers the possibility to show the headlines
of this website automatically on the own homepage or directly on the
AmigaDE-Desktop. For this programs for JavaScript, PHP and AmigaDE(ETick V0.8)
are available.
Besides the amiga.org headlines ETick can additionally show the actual date and
time, weather forecasts and the statistics of an own zAMilo webserver.
On the website
itself the actual uploads and top downloads of the AmigaDE archive of www.amigadev.net are now also shown.
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03.Dec.2000
Ricco Clemens on ANF
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Amiga--------easy-PRINT Release (with a small delay)
On the 04. Dezember 2000 appears the new issue of Amiga--------easy-PRINT which
may be delayed by 2-3 days because of illness.
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03.Dec.2000
ANN
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Amiga has Installed their own Online Shop
Amiga has installed their own online shop under the above title link.
As for software AmigaOS V3.9 and AmigaSDK V1.0 are available.
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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SecondSpin v2.12 beta
On 02. December 2000 Lauri Ahonen has released the beta version 2.12 of
"SecondSpin". This is a tool to convert normal audio CD tracks into MPEG audio
files (layers 1, 2 or 3). Additionally more formats like AIFF and WAV are
supported. A modified version of LAME v3.87+ is needed for MPEG encoding.
With this update several bugs were removed and the error handling has been
improved. This update is a very early beta version.
Download:
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Sound card "Martina"
Michal Kluczewski has released some information about the upcoming sound card
"Martina" with the permission of the developer. This card shall be released within
already this year, at first for the clock port of the A1200 and later in addition for
ZorroII (Amiga 3000/4000).
It offers two 16bit channels each for in- and output with maximum 96 kHz and
an expansion port which can be used for a MPEG decoder. The website for the card
shall go online soon.
Specifications:
- Input: 2 channels with 16 bit, maximum 96 kHz.
- Output: 2 channels with 16 bit, maximum 96 kHz.
- Full duplex.
- FIFO 512 bytes.
- Soundmixer, for example of Paula and CD-ROM output.
- Expansion port. This enables a MPEG decoder enhancement
(MP3, MPEG-1 in der Uhrenport-Version) that is in the testing phase.
- Card in clock port version block of this port.
- The card will be delivered with AHI drivers. These take over the function
of the audio.device.
- The MPEG decoder will be library compatible to the mpega.library.
- Version under ROM stand (it doesn't dash with BVision and FastATA)
will be 24 bits (making possible trouble-free decoding MPEG)
and full compatible with A4000 (and probably with A3000).
Contact:
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03.Dec.2000
UAE-JIT
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New UAE-JIT Version
Bernd Bernie Meyer has released a new version of UAE-JIT. This version with the
name "Ipswich Town" contains a pci.library emulation and several improvements
inclusive optimisations and bugfixes.
the PCI emulation enables the usage of the CGX3 Virge drivers of the Mediator
board under UAE. Besides that UAE-JIT may be compiled with some luck with other
compilers than the, this wasn't tested yet tested.
Compared to the previous version the following has been changed:
- Bugfix: the saving of the settings should work now.
- Bugfix: Many more bugfixes. Quark runs now perfectly.
- New: pci.library emulation. This allows the usage of the free CGX3 Virge
drivers (for the Mediator board) with UAE-JIT.
As bonus up to four 4 PCI cards may be used (Mediator offers one slot).
- New: Further FPU support and aliasing support for the FPU registers.
- Lazy cache flushing.
- Lazy FPU-flag-evaluation.
- Lazy Register Updates for adding of offsets.
- Change: Many optimisations and therefor speed increasements.
The performance is now clearly better then that of the Executor
68k-JIT-Compiler.
In the sourcecode the following has been changed:
- Complete overhaul of block book keeping code.
- Bugfix: decisive bugfixes in the noflags-code of cpuemu.c.
- New: support for the saving of registers goes beyond the calling of
JIT-compiled code.
- Change: removing of gcc specific code. The sour cecode should get compiled
with other C-compilers.
- New: The JIT-compiler supports now many more 68k-commands.
- Largely eliminated updates of regs.pc_p; Instead, there are now
direct block-to-block jumps.
- New: Optimisation of the cycle-handling in events.h.
- Much more.
This version is available as Linux/x86-binary for glibc V2.1 respectively glibc V2.0,
as complete source code and as source code patch against the UAE V0.8.15 source code.
Download:
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03.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
The Amiga Arena releases for the first time 'Bubble Stones2' in an own Design
Bubble Stones2 is a 'Bust a Move'-clone and is
now available in the 256-color version. This version has been exclusively developed
for the Amiga Arena. The field was created by the Amiga Arena and is probably
the first own development the Amiga Arena is involved in.
Amiga Arena - Schlachtfeld v2.16 world premiere
The Amiga Arena presents exclusively in cooperation with Peter Weigoldt
Schlachtfeld v2.16.
The version 2.16 is a registered Amiga Arena edition with map editor.
The map editor is exclusively contained in this archive and will not be
available on Aminet or on the homepage of Schlachtfeld for the time being.
Schlachtfeld 2 is a strategy game for 1 to 4 players. It is a mixture between
"BattleIsle" and "Battleforce" .
Here some "highlights":
- Max. 4 Teams can fight against or together
- Teams can be controlled by the computer
- Round and action based
- Many different fighting units
- More than 50 different weapon systems
- Victorious teams can continue fighting in the next battle
- Save game option
- From Schlachtfeld2 v2.1 on voice output
- From Schlachtfeld2 v2.1 on nullmodem game
Schlachtfeld is shareware (20 DM) and Olaf Koebnik
appeals to all users who play Schlachtfeld intensively
to get registered by Peter Weigoldt and/or give feedback.
Amiga Arena interview action
An interview with Peter Weigoldt (Schlachfeld) is in the section
'Actions' online.
Amiga Arena lottery
The deadline for the lottery is the 06.12.2000.
Amiga Arena special discount offerings
The Amiga Arena has the following limited special discount offers still
online:
FLM, GeoWorld, VisualPrefs, AmiATLAS, Siteway, Apano Sin, SHARKS AGA und
Multi.
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03.Dec.2000
Nikolaos Damilakis on ANF
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Greek RC5 Team
The Hellenic Amiga User Group has set up a webpage for the greek members of the
Amiga-RC5-team. This contains information about the greek competitors such as
the ranking and the numberof the blocks. The usergroup suggests to other
Amiga-groups to set up similar pages.
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Payback Status Report
On the 3. Dezember 2000 James Daniels from Apex Designs has released the 16th
status report about the game 'Payback' inclusive new
screenshots.
The game similar to GTA nears completion, so there were added many new levels
during the last month, besides that, the following has been done:
- Resolutions up to 1280x1024 are now supported.
- Graphic cards are now supported. On a 68060 a smooth animation is reached
using a resolution of 640x480.
- There is now support for different languages. The
Amiga Translation Organisation(ATO)
is at translating the game into the following languages: German, French,
Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Czech, Slovenian and Serbian. Besides that
English and Swedish are supported.
- PSX controllers are now supported. All buttons are used so that the
navigation can be done completely over the game pad. The keyboard will then only
be needed to enter the filename for saving the game and similar things.
- Various bugs were fixed, among others a long standing bug which allowed the
it to the player walking on the water.
- New screenshots
of the night level were released. The textures will be improved until the
completion of the game.
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Tales of Tamar v0.32r6
For alpha testers the version 0.32 r6 of the "Tales of Tamar"-client for Amiga
computers has been released on the 30. November 2000. This update contains many
bugfixes regarding the map.
Tales of Tamar is an internet-based round based game for Amiga and IBM
compatibles by Eternity Entertainment Software.
Download: (1,4M)
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Short review of fxScan3.0
On Fun Time World appeared on the 29. November 2000 a short review of
'fxScan3.0' by Innovative. The program offers among other things text
recognition (OCR).
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Server Problem at Amiga Resource
Because of a server problem the website "Amiga Resource" can't be accessed for
now. On request you can be informed via email (by using the title link) about
the time the site will be online again.
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