Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:16:48 +0200
From: ELBOX press@elbox.com
To:   amiga-news.de ps@amiga-news.de
Subject: INSIDER REPORT

INSIDER REPORT
ELBOX COMPUTER
http://www.elbox.com
Krakow, 17 Oct 2000

In brief

In July 2000, ELBOX Computer and Frank Mariak (VFD) negotiated and
agreed upon writing drivers for MEDIATOR PCI busboard.

Frank Mariak agreed to write the software with hardware and technical
documentation provided to him by ELBOX Computer as requested by him.
He had never asked for cash reimbursement and never asked for making
cash-based contract.

Frank Mariak was to write drivers dedicated for ELBOX hardware,
to the order of ELBOX, based on an agreement between ELBOX
and himself.

Frank Mariak's long-term benefit was spreading and popularising
his commercial product: CGX4.

Ultimately, Frank Mariak sold rights to these drivers in exclusive
form to a third party, who are not affiliated with ELBOX Computer
in any way. This transaction, with the following use of confidential
ELBOX documentation within third-party agreements is clear-cut
breach of commercial law in any country in the world.

This step was thought to block developing highly-demanded software
for Amiga computers.

ELBOX Computer decided to clear this situation up in the following
report.

The last part of the report announces software solutions to make
good the damage caused by Frank Mariak's decisions.


On Saturday, 14 Oct 2000

community of Amiga users were informed that an agreement was signed
by virtue of which Mr. Frank Mariak (Vision Factory Development)
transferred exclusive rights to Voodoo PCI drivers written by
himself to a third party.

We, ELBOX Computer, feel obliged to make the entire situation clear
to Amiga users world-wide, as the circumstances around this event
are twisted again and again and give false image of the situation
to public opinion.

Please find the below report as the clarification of what has been
transpiring in the recent weeks behind the scenes.


Background

On 24 July 2000, Elbox Computer and Vision Factory Development
jointly released an announcement on concluding an agreement,
by virtue of which VFD undertook to develop support for PCI graphic
cards installed in the MEDIATOR PCI busboard.
(See http://www.vgr.com/mediator/pressrelease1.txt )

Before this agreement was concluded, both parties negotiated
and finally decided on some specific terms and conditions of
co-operation as follows:

  The key point of the agreement was that support for PCI graphic
  cards in CGX3 was to be devoid of hardware acceleration, which
  was to be fully developed in the CGX4 commercial version.

The parties decided to make the following commitments:

1. ELBOX Computer shall make the developer's documentation for
   the MEDIATOR PCI busboard available in order to complete the
   agreed work.

      The developer's documentation was transferred to
      Mr. Frank Mariak on 14 July 2000.

2. ELBOX Computer will provide Vision Factor Development with
   computer hardware for preparing drivers for PCI graphic cards
   installed in the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, which Mr. Mariak
   needed at that time.

      ELBOX Computer sent the hardware: Amiga 1200 in E/BOX tower
      with the developer's MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, 1240 turbo
      card, FastATA 1200 controller, a hard disk and other necessary
      add-ons as well as S3 ViRGE and Voodoo3 PCI cards to
      Mr. Frank Mariak on 07 Aug 2000. Another computer hardware
      set was delivered to VFD team last week.

3. Vision Factory Development shall develop support for graphic
   cards operating in the MEDIATOR PCI busboard. Support for
   S3 ViRGE and Voodoo3 chipsets was agreed upon as the minimum.

      S3 Virge:
      ELBOX Computer received a test version of an S3 ViRGE card
      driver (enabling starting Workbench in the S3 ViRGE PCI card)
      from Vision Factory Development on 18 July 2000;
      S3 ViRGE drivers are currently available.

      Voodoo3:
      ELBOX Computer received a test version of Voodoo3 drivers
      for MEDIATOR PCI for presentation purposes (allowing for
      operation with Workbench) on 29 Sep 2000.

4. ELBOX Computer, after starting the production of the MEDIATOR PCI
   busboard shall deliver a bundled free package of CyberGraphX v.3
   along with drivers for all the currently supported PCI graphic
   cards.

      ELBOX Computer is now selling the MEDIATOR PCI busboard
      through the network of its distributors world-wide.
      CGX3 is bundled with MEDIATOR PCI. This is an excellent
      advertising move for the commercial CGX4.


Before the agreement

ELBOX offered Mr. Frank Mariak that our programmers would prepare
drivers for various graphic chipsets, including Voodoo3 PCI, for
working with CyberGraphX. Such drivers would then be transferred in
the form of source codes written in assembler for Mr. Frank Mariak's
authorisation and distribution. We expected only making available
some developer's information related to CGX in return.

   However, Mr. Mariak decided he would himself write the drivers
   if we supported him with hardware and documentation. Which we did.


False information

in the announcement on selling rights to Voodoo drivers included
alleged expected technical problems related to implementation
of 3D drivers with our MEDIATOR PCI busboard.

   Please note that none such problems exist. On our request,
   Mr. Mariak was to report to us any possible problems related
   to his development work… and he remained silent all the time.


Using Developer's Documentation

for MEDIATOR PCI and computer hardware (including Voodoo3 PCI card)
provided free of charge by ELBOX Computer as requested by Mr. Frank
Mariak for writing Voodoo3 drivers, as it turned out, for another
company is the clearest form of breaching rules of social life
and business honesty and integrity.


New business vision

On 13 Oct 2000, Mr. Frank Mariak signed an agreement on selling
the Voodoo3 drivers for benefit of another company. In contacts
with our company, Mr. Frank Mariak never mentioned any intention
of this kind on his part, never suggested such a possibility
and never asked for or negotiated any payment for his software
writing work. He never contacted us in this issue.

Then, out of the blue, he surprised us and all Amiga users with
making a "simple BUSINESS DECISION" (original quotation from
Mr. Mariak's response to our inquiry for explanation of the
VFD & DCE's announcement) on making an alliance with a third
party for selling the above rights.


We hope this explanation clarifies the situation.

Please make sure that we refrain from any comments of ethical
or whatever nature. The above are simple facts to make you all
aware of the plot behind the scenes.


ELBOX MOVES FORWARD

In the view of the circumstances described above, ELBOX Computer
hereby announces that our programmers shall prepare software
for supporting Voodoo3 cards in the MEDIATOR PCI busboards.
These drivers will be included in the software package for the
MEDIATOR PCI busboard. We expect completing work on the first
version of this software within two weeks.


ELBOX Computer
Mariusz Wloczysiak, Press Department

• FPU support.
• SIGSEGV handler for direct memory access. This option offers the best performance and is highly recommended.
• Optimisations and according speed increase
• better timing
• many improvements in the source code

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• BackUp Version 1.2
  New cleanup function for automated display of updated files added.
• Detris Version 3.0
  This game were completely rewritten and offers a good Tetris clone.
• DRemind Version 1.56
  With the help of Alexander Doeller the program installer is available now.
• MultiRen Version 1.42
  It is now possible to automatically rename #?.info-files by selecting this option in the setup.
• TheMPegEncGUI Version 2.05
  Options for Pegase and Lame added. The requesters now opens parallel to the TMPEGUI window.

• Changes: Some minor changes of the GUI.
• New: ToolType for setting default signature.
• Bugfix: The signature is sent now.

• I think I isolated the problems with the Password being saved improperly, Capitalization and Spacing in ScreenName used for signon should no longer matter - I found that an Earlier built in data conversion was attempting a conversion anyway if spaces were used in the ScreenName in the Signon. I call the problem, the "amazingly growing password"
• I also now restrict the length of the ScreenName and PassWord entry blocks to a maximum of 16 characters (Longest AIM will allow anyway. Not sure why I hadn't done this already)

• AmigAIM_BETA.lha - complete archive
• AmigAIM.lha - update

• My ride has jumped off: Persons from the region Aix-la-Chapelle/Cologne who want to go there please contact me!
• Only 3 people (including me) have registered until now. All interested people please register!

• 1. The underlying C++ class library for image handling (loading, saving)
• 2. The program surface (GUI) in form of a MFC 4.1-based design

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Date    Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:59:45 +0200
From    ELBOX press@elbox.com
Subject SHARK ATTACK

ELBOX COMPUTER
Krakow, 12 October 2000

ELBOX COMPUTER is proud to announce the breath-taking new product: the
most powerful PowerPC accelerator for Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000.

The new accelerator  -  SharkPPC G3/G4 board  -  is a pure PowerPC-based
processor card to be fitted in MEDIATOR PCI A1200 and MEDIATOR PCI
A3/4000 busboards.

SharkPPC G3/G4 cards give Amiga Classic computers the top performance of
the latest PowerPC technology and the power of the long-awaited next
generation computer.

New PowerPC750 processors installed in SharkPPC G3/G4 cards offer the
following performance: 17.4SPECint95@400MHz, 11.7SPECfp95@400MHz,
928DMIPS@400MHz, 22.4SPECint95@550MHz, 13.3SPECfp95@550MHz,
1276DMIPS@550MHz.

The SharkPPC G3/G4 design combines speed of PowerPC G3/G4 processors
with extremely fast on-board memory interface controlling two SDRAM
modules, up to 512MB each. The peak memory transfer rate reaches
582MB/s. The accelerator card takes control over the PCI busboard with a
66MHz PCI 2.1 compliant interface fitted with a two-channel DMA
controller.

Communication between the existing Amiga turbo accelerator and the
SharkPPC G3/G4 card is executed with the shared SDRAM memory and the
interrupt controller in the MEDIATOR PCI hardware. The new accelerator
offers excellent bandwidth to any PCI card: 264 MB/s (132 MB/s in the
system with 33 MHz PCI cards). This powerful performance in PCI graphic
cards enables development of new superb games/graphic applications in
the native PPC code.

All the currently available Amiga software may be executed in the 68k
processor with full use of all the PCI cards installed in the computer.
It is possible because both accelerator cards installed in the computer
access all the PCI cards independently.

On top of that, in new applications to be developed both accelerators
may enhance performance of each other just the same way as it is done in
advanced multi-processor systems. This is due to the fact that
processors in both accelerators (68k/PPC and SharkPPC) work fully
simultaneously, which is for the first time available for Amiga users.

The first SharkPPC G3/G4 cards for developers will be available by end
of November, with production planned to commence in January 2001.

When new speed versions of PowerPC processors are available, the
SharkPPC line will be expanded with more models.

The suggested retail price (VAT excl.) for the SharkPPC G3/G4
accelerators are:

SharkPPC G3/G4 750@400................ EUR 390.00
(PowerPC750@400MHz and 256KB@400MHz L2 Cache)

SharkPPC G3/G4 750@550................ EUR 520.00
(PowerPC750@550MHz and 256KB@550MHz L2 Cache)

Pricing of versions with other processors will be announced separately.

NEW

Please look for our further releases:

1. Development progress of PCI Sound and TV card drivers for MEDIATOR
PCI 1200.

2. MEDIATOR development line (A4000 and A3000).

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department

• MPEG-Movie-Player could surrender playing of sound completely to the MAS and thereby would have to deal almost only with playing the movie.
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• Internet-Radio via MASplayer is already under construction.

• A. One elects a Linux kernel adaptation to e.g. AMD hardware (Athlon, Duron) and standard board peripheral equipment. Along with this a board will be chosen which just has to be imported in this country. If requirement like a big flash eprom are fulfilled this can be a TOS basing computer as before starting directly from chip. Performance with this solution would increase proportional to the used processor and with a 400MHz would have a much higher performance than a 060 processor.
• B. One uses a (in case of need own) PPC G3/G4 board which is more close to the 68060 processor, so that from 350 MHz more than double performance would be gained.

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1. The SDK for Amiga DE.
   
   This has been very exciting, and we are really pleased with the number of applications and the number developers using the product to create some great products.
   
   The next version of the Software Development Kit will be out in the next couple of weeks. In addition to the Linux version there is now a version available for Windows. That's correct you are now able to develop for the new Amiga on either Linux, or Windows.
   
   It will feature a new raft of multimedia (Mesa, the SSEYO Koan Audio Engine, streaming) as well better development tools, a richer AVE and enhanced performance.
   
   
2. Amiga OS 3.5 and beyond
   
   We are continuing taking a very hard look at the current Amiga and how we can best move the platform forward. There are discussions on going for some new opportunities and we will be able to share some announcements in the very near future.
   
   
3. Amiga DE business opportunities.
   
   Wow, this is an area that is absolutely exploding. For developers this is going to be great news. Not only will the applications you are working on be used by your Amiga family members, but with the deals that are either executed or in motion there will be millions more consumers joining the Amiga family.
   
   Now many of you began to speculate on the Meternet announcement. Meternet is offering a great product, and they are going to be making it available to the Amiga community, but it is not the AmigaOne.
   
   
4. The AmigaOne.
   
   We have listened to a great many of you with comments, suggestions, business ideas and technical ideas. Dean Brown has been a huge help, especially that he is now here in Snoqualmie with the other members of the team.
   
   Because of this input we have begun negotiations for a brand new design. Most of the details have been worked out, and I hope to have the finished announcement ready by the middle of October. It is my firm belief that you will all be very pleased and excited.
   
   
5. Dealers/Distributors, and our friends in the Press:
   
   The well of information for all of you has been too dry, and inconsistent. To better provide information to each and every one of you.
   
   Amiga has created two new mailing lists. Please go to:
   
   http://www.amigadev.net/index.php?sid=&subpage=home&function=showmaillists or to www.amigadev.com and select mailing lists on the right hand side of the screen. Select either press or dealer, and fill out your information. We will begin weekly feeds to these lists to better support our press and dealers.

• Maps of Europe from 16th and 17th century.
• Fotos of castles, palaces and buildings used for economic purposes of the above mentioned centuries.
• Fotos or pictures of armours and weapons of this time.

• Enhanced JavaScript (supports some JavaScript v1.2 commands)
• Support for AmiSSL
• Option to disable banner-ads
• Designed SELECT-objects appear now as a popup-menu
• Context menus are using now the same palette as the system-menus
• Better navigation by support for wheel mice
• Function for displaying "tool tips" ('ALT' tags)
• Support for "FONT FACES" including the possibility of using different fonts in the same HTML-document

• Fixed problems with showing of Auto Responses from an Away Buddy, as well as now sending a real Auto Response message when supposed to when Away and one is set (Was sending as normal message, automatically)
• Away window now shows nicks and number of messages received while being away, as well as time of last message.

• demo1.lha
• demo2.lha
• demo3.lha

OpusGIFlags.lha      biz/dopus  171K++200 Flags NewIcons in OpusGIBar's forma
WW5spCatalog.lha     biz/misc    10K+Wordworth5 spanish catalogs. Update 2
DalHelper.lha        comm/irc    37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
MuYaReq.lha          comm/mail   31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
PSMail.lha           comm/mail   93K+Prints YAM mails using GhostScript.
YerYamLogo.lha       comm/mail    3K+YerYamLogo, quick and Fun Yam Logo
EZPagerNG_CE.lha     comm/misc  357K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
StreAmi.lha          comm/misc   23K+Shoutcast/Icecast Amiga client
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   431K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
Lynx.lha             comm/www   785K+Great WWW Browser,version 284dev10
SPO3-Invtro.lha      demo/aga   115K+Invitation intro for SPO ! (Amiga-only d
UP-EP004.lha         demo/sound 1.8M+UP ROUGH "Mixagrip EP" feat. Mortimer Tw
Emperor.lha          dev/c      498K+Object-oriented programming language
advlite20b8.lha      dev/misc   276K+Powerfull & neat AutodocViewer v2.0 BETA
MusicBox-2.1bi.lha   disk/cdrom 421K+Most powerful CDDA player and CD manager
NoDirCache.lha       disk/misc   33K+Reset DirCache partitions to FFS or FFS 
StarTrekCONN.lha     game/misc  570K+Play in the StarTrek:TNG Universe
ADoomPPC.lha         game/shoot 551K+Amiga PPC port of ADoom v1.5
ADoomPPC_src.lha     game/shoot 532K+Source code of Amiga PPC port of DOOM v1
WBPacman.lha         game/wb     49K+V1.10 BETA - Small workbench Pacman
RivaAudio.lha        gfx/show     4K+Real Fast Mpeg video 1 Player with sound
BetaScanMustek.lha   hard/drivr  71K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
likdamind_II.lha     mods/blkha 330K+Digibooster mod by blakkhar with DSP-Ech
positron.mpg         mods/elbie 3.0M+Positronic Robotique [Synth] by ElbiE^t1
rno-r048.lha         mods/misc  300K+Rno-records release no.48 by Roz (Funkyh
Phm_Rmsc.lha         mods/pro   141K+014: "Reminiscenes" [Dance]
XGToolset7.lha       mus/midi   184K+Version 1.7 of the XGToolset for Bars&Pi
XGToolset7_src.lha   mus/midi   303K+Source of the XGToolset7 for Bars&Pipes
DelfScope.lha        mus/misc    51K+Oscilloscope/analyzer for Delfina DSP
MpegAnalys-r.lha     mus/misc    41K+Checks Mpeg audio files for errors
EP_MikeDavies.lha    mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "Mike Davies" external repla
EP_PSA.lha           mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "Professional Sound Artists"
PobreJoaquim.lha     pix/anim   991K+The famous Joaquim anim. Now with sound!
Anabolic_Koala.lha   pix/art     65K+Anabolic Koala
OS3.5-HQ-icons.lha   pix/icon   263K+High quality OS3.5 icons for games P1
OS35InputImg.lha     pix/misc   110K+OS3.5 Input Prefs remplacememt images
OS35LocaleImg.lha    pix/misc    78K+OS3.5 Locale Prefs remplacememt images
Silver_Gate.jpg      pix/vehic   96K+M/S Silver Gate
ttf2pfb.lha          text/font   70K+Convert TrueType to Postscript Type1 fon
ttfr.lha             text/font   16K+Rename true type fonts file correctly
DPMSManager.lha      util/blank  13K+CyberGfx/P96 DPMS energy saving manager
AHelp_NO.lha         util/cdity   2K+Norwegian catalog for AHelp v1.5
WbOpen1_11.lha       util/cli    15K+Open WB-drawers/files using CLI/Asl-requ
RC5Control.lha       util/misc   11K+Automated RC5 client control (FREEWARE)
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   39K+V1.15 - Test and identify wb-program
XPKPatch18.lha       util/pack   22K+Unpacks XPK, PP & CrM files "on the fly"
y2four.lha           util/sys     1K+Year showing with four digits for list- 
DRemind_HU.lha       util/time    9K+Hungarian catalogs for DRemind 1.55
Safe.lha             util/virus  19K+Safe v14.5 - virus dicovering system
bc-machines.lha      util/wb    390K+Stylish set for VisualPrefs and Birdie

• only here You'll find 9 real/fantasy leagues and 40 generated,
• You can choose any of 46 teams in each league,
• You'll be playing in league and domestic cup competitions,
• all European cups are simulated (including Intertoto Cup and Cup Winners Cup),
• there are at least 10 ways to buy or loan player from one of approximately 1000 teams (maybe more),
• summer and winter breakes are full of options to choose from (for example indoor-football tournaments, trips to foreign camps, friendly matches, transfers, vacations, etc.),
• many options, statistics, hidden chances (or traps) gives that game an unforgetable atmosphere thanks to funny samples commenting Your actual situation.

• The domain names will not be canceled for the time being, but either will be released exempt from charges to the sponsoring receivers or will be sold in early/middle 2001.
• I beg you to refrain from offering adoption of certain sites to me via e-mail. Contact persons are the web masters. Since the domains will not be canceled, the web space could be hosted "anywhere". I would like to care for DNS changes.
• Our partners, and ourselves of course will continue to host sites at our usual conditions, if desired by the web masters. It just doesn't match our future business plans to operate this special area for free.

DataM_II.lha         biz/dbase  777K+Spreadsheet using MUI (German only!)
MuYaReq.lha          comm/mail   31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
uprc.lha             comm/misc   80K+Generates Aminet upload readme files
speak_freely.lha     comm/net   1.3M+Internet Phone application with source
SMSEngineerMUI.lha   comm/tcp   297K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.3 - *
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   424K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
TRSI-DEAD.lha        demo/aga   420K+Our 4th and final intro for TRSI 
ExtrasLib.lha        dev/c      366K+Link library
tox.lha              dev/c       13K+Tokenizer for XML
GradientSlider.lha   dev/gui      7K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.6)
MultiDesktop.lha     dev/gui    416K+An incomplete *Open Source* GUI library 
MusicBox-2.1os.lha   disk/cdrom 264K+Most powerful CDDA player and CD manager
VCDGear.lha          disk/cdrom  79K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
DVD-RAM.lha          disk/misc   62K+DVD-RAM FFS/SFS/CrossDOS/FAT95/Allegro D
RDBrecov.lha         disk/salv   16K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
Aakt1000GFX.lha      docs/mags  264K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1000GUIDE.lha    docs/mags   84K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1000HTML.lha     docs/mags  211K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
alem_0027.lha        docs/rview   4K+ALEM's 1084 monitor guide v1.0 (FR)
TV-Logo.lha          gfx/misc    73K+Small but capable logotype display
ATUtilities.lha      misc/emu   919K+ATUtilities 4.0 - Replacement for the CB
TTU.lha              misc/emu     5K+Create TAP images with Amiga
imdbDiff000922.lha   misc/imdb  1.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
pie_dprs.lha         mods/hardc 687K+Speedcore By Dj Pie / Lunatic 2k
Pegase.lha           mus/misc   202K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
ltools13_demo.lha    text/misc   76K+Dictionary and Document Translator
ltools_engwrd.lha    text/misc  507K+Basic english word collection
ModeProSrc.lha       util/cdity 691K+Source code to the Screenmode Promotion 
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   38K+Test and identify wb-program
RAWBInfo_SI.lha      util/sys     2K+Slovenian catalog for RAWBInfo v1.18
aafont.lha           util/wb      3K+Antialiased fonts on wb (1.0)
DirScanner.lha       util/wb     74K+V2.12: Small but powerful filefinder. (M
Image2Icon.lha       util/wb     27K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.1

• Amiga 4000/A1200 with MAS-Player. Listen to MP3-music without using the PPC or 68k processor. Your processor is available for other tasks
• Amiga CDTV with MAS-Player could play MP3's directly from CD.
• Amiga 500/600 with MAS-Player could be a replacement for your hifi-radio. The integrated MP3-player-software uses PAL. There for you can use a TV.
• Amigas located in professional soundstudios could encode MP3 (using the processor) and play MP3's at the same time (using the MAS-Player)

• The MPEG-Saver were totaly rewriten (now with own presets)
• Enrico Meyer compiled the new version of LAME without using libSoundFile thats why it works with SoundFX now.
• The author Stefan Kost encoded the first whole CD by using the batch-processor.
• The SoundFX-menu contains now a MRU-list (MostRecentUsed).
• And a lot more bugfixes (thanks to the SoundFX-mailinglist).

• Filter for Word, Wordperfect, MSWork, ANSI, FinalWriter, Wordworth and many more
• HTML-code removing
• converter
• text encoding

• Bugfix: It seems that AIM had been changed so that the online-timer-system had to be adjusted.
• New: The bubble help, the Buddy List, has been extended with a capability display.
• Change: No auto-deny file requests anymore, at the moment such even can't be received.
• Change: A small change at the socket connection, which should not be noticed.

• AmigAIM_BETA.lha (full archive)
• AmigAIM.lha (update)

• Support of the German mobile radio networks D1, D2, EPlus, VIAG Interkom
• Sending e-mails via internet
• Sending messages via CLI-/WB arguments possible
• Active ARexx port with 20 commands
• Futher information

FSCP_Txt.lha         biz/dbase   51K+Farscape StarBase-Text (40)
REDD_Txt.lha         biz/dbase   16K+Red Dwarf StarBase-Text (52)
DOpus4Plus.lha       biz/dopus   42K+The ultimate AddOn collection for DOpus4
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha   comm/irc   486K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Dreamforge
AKTaskiSMS.lha       comm/tcp     6K+YAM-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 + better
Chronos.lha          demo/euro  637K+A nice demo by T. Hoyssa
EuroChart41a.lha     demo/mag   692K+The Official Eurochart #41 by DEPTH & IR
EuroChart41b.lha     demo/mag   831K+The Official Eurochart #41 by DEPTH & IR
PureStyle.lha        demo/track 310K+Demo Pure Style by Arise
TCS.lha              dev/misc   684K+Fast 8-bit Chunky TrueColor on AGA
AmigaInfo.lha        docs/hyper 298K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Settembre 2000
BuffyGuide.lha       docs/hyper 323K+Buffy The Vampire Slayer Guide v2.2 (79)
FSCP_Gde.lha         docs/hyper  51K+Farscape Guide (40)
hof-html.lha         docs/hyper 1.2M+Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame September 2000
hof_html.lha         docs/hyper 1.2M+Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame September 2000
STEP_Gde.lha         docs/hyper 263K+Star Trek Guide (620)
AaktInt0900.lha      docs/mags  302K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt0900GFX.lha   docs/mags  459K+International infotainment magazine (gra
AFD-Files1-18.lha    docs/misc  161K+Standard Copyright Note in 18 languages
BruceLee.lha         game/2play 559K+BruceLee V1.2
jb_pace.lha          game/data  1.2M+Hip Hop gfx/sound patch for James Bond.
NapalmSG05.lha       game/hint   72K+Napalm Saved Games 05 - Missions 10 & 11
NapalmSG06.lha       game/hint   66K+Napalm Saved Games 06 - Missions 12 & 13
NapalmSG07.lha       game/hint   74K+Napalm Saved Games 07 - Missions 14 & 15
PD_Cheater_V26.lha   game/hint  822K+PD_Cheater / Cheats for PD Games (german
amiram.lzh           hard/hack  309K+An idea of how to get A4000 RAM to STAY 
distance.lha         misc/sci    13K+A program to compute the distance betwee
VartiMods2.lha       mods/chip    6K+4 new AHX tunes by Varthall
lnsM28_ClorEp2.mpg   mods/mpg   6.4M+After we have gone - slowbeat techno (Cl
TIM_0035.lha         pix/3dani  251K+TIM's rendered animations (Cinema4D)
TinyGICollecti.lha   pix/icon    39K+GlowIcons - archive size doesn't matter 
Amiga5kpics.lha      pix/illu   356K+Official pics of the new Amiga 5000
JaseDarren.jpg       pix/irc     53K+Dave and Jay (D from #Wasteland, UNet)
recoilwb01.jpg       pix/wb     218K+*recoilBENCH 2000* 1024x768x16bit Picass
ltools_cdct.lha      text/misc    6K+Catalog description for LangTools
CAF_10.lha           util/rexx    4K+CommentAminetFiles v1.0 - Rexx script to
RAWBInfo_SI.lha      util/sys     2K+Slovenian catalog for RAWBInfo v1.17
VEPatchBrain.lha     util/virus  17K+PatchBrain v1.19 for VirusExecutor v2.xx

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