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27.Sep.2000
KDH on ANF


Movieplayer MooVID Pro 2 Available from Today
Version 2 of the popular movie player MooVID Pro 2 is available at KDH Datentechnik from now on. The new version of this program supports PPC accelerators.

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27.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
STEP_Txt.lha         biz/dbase  251K+Star Trek StarBase-Text (620)
OpusGIFlags.lha      biz/dopus  144K++180 Flags NewIcons in OpusGIBar's forma
XADopus.lha          biz/dopus   23K+XADopus.module 1.2 - browse XAD archives
eGroupsScanner.lha   comm/mail    4K+Strips eGroup adverts, with GUI.  V0.13 
MuYaReq.lha          comm/mail   31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
MLogBook.lha         comm/misc  509K+HAM Radio LogBook with CallBook (v0.40be
SMSEngineerMUI.lha   comm/tcp   246K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.2 - *
SRTG.lha             comm/tcp    58K+Simple Router Traffic Grapher for MiamiD
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   385K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
JavaSScrollTex.lha   comm/www     1K+JavaScript Scrolling Text Aweb3.3 IBrows
Tidy.lha             comm/www   133K+Tidy your HTML - fixes common HTML error
WebYAM.lha           comm/www    13K+Web interface for YAM
nebula.lha           demo/aga    19K+V1.01 - Real-time creation of galaxies a
TRSI-Ear.lha         demo/aga   229K+Ear Brothers Promo-tro by TRSI in the ye
TRSI-Porky.lha       demo/aga   474K+Porky's Disco promo by TRSI in the year 
TRSI-Shane.lha       demo/aga   234K+Shane-tro by TRSI in the year 2000 
wla_dx_020_6.6.lzh   dev/cross  209K+WLA DX v6.6 - GB-Z80/Z80/6502 Macro Asse
adfblitzer.lha       disk/misc   23K+A program to write & read adf-files!
DVD-RAM.lha          disk/misc   61K+DVD-RAM (2.6, 4.7 GB) FFS/SFS/FAT95 Driv
BuffyHTML.lha        docs/hyper 403K+Buffy Guide HTML edition v2.2 (79)
AIOV39.lha           docs/mags  1.2M+Amiga Information Online, Issue 39 (Sept
FunnynessRel6.txt    docs/misc   26K+Funnyness release 6. Some jokes and comp
Fnurr2000.lha        game/actio 137K+Simple game by DawnBringer
amigo5_7.lha         game/board  81K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
AMono_source.lha     game/board 770K+Source code for AMonopoly
ChaosLite.lha        game/board 5.4M+World's Best Board Game! 1-8 players! Fa
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (25 Sept
PiH.lha              game/think  39K+People in History Revision
GfxCon.guide-i.lha   gfx/conv    16K+Translation into Italian Language of the
mccontrol.lha        hard/hack  413K+V1.51 PSX MemoryCard Reader
TestGear1.lha        hard/hack  325K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 1.
TestGear2.lha        hard/hack  330K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 2.
TestGear3.lha        hard/hack  194K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 3.
vtxthack.lha         hard/hack    6K+At the I C BUS adapts the signal lengths
Juggler.lha          misc/antiq 241K+The famous Juggler ray-traced animation 
RoboCity.lha         misc/antiq  44K+The famous "Robo City" animation demo
DarcNES.lha          misc/emu   136K+NES/SMS/GG/PCE/SG1000/CV emulator v9a091
cutquotes.lha        misc/imdb   12K+Patch 'quotes.list' for MovieMUI 3.5a (1
imdbDiff000915.lha   misc/imdb  3.3M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
TheSender.lha        mods/atmos 411K+Orchestral DBM with guitar by R.KAPP
asphmix.lha          mods/blkha 153K+Protracker mod by blakkhar
crazyphasemix.lha    mods/blkha  93K+Remix Protracker mod by blakkhar
getrennteZeite.lha   mods/blkha 559K+Protracker mod by blakkhar
likdamind.lha        mods/blkha 210K+Digibooster mod by blakkhar with DSP-Ech
Str_elec.mpg         mods/elbie 7.5M+Stripped Electronique [Synth] by ElbiE^t
sbf_ls2k.lha         mods/misc   20K+Little Song 2k - sbf/phx
crs_brd.lha          mods/techn 2.5M+CRS00056: hardcorrosion :: brain damage
tek_vacum_mmx.lha    mods/techn  64K+Vacuum mmx - minimalistic stomp
SampleZ.lha          mus/edit   117K+16Bit HD-Edit SampleEditor successor of 
Timidity270.lha      mus/midi   1.9M+TiMidity++ 2.7.0 -- MIDI to WAVE convert
BileLeague_Rai.lha   pix/boot   535K+BileLeague Rainboot config
Bile_Rainboot.lha    pix/boot   433K+Bile Rainboot config
ALEM_0032.lha        pix/misc   2.2M+ALEM's ScalaMM Digitized Backgrounds
HexShow.lha          util/cli     5K+Shows files as Hex
EasyConvert.lha      util/conv   21K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc   60K+Report+ 3.4: 9-function utility
ReqAttackUpd.lha     util/misc  200K+Rel6: ReqAttack1.3, RAPrefsMUI 1.64, Req
NewSearch.lha        util/sys     7K+Open-source replacement for "C:Search".
VEPatchBrain.lha     util/virus  17K+PatchBrain v1.18 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
VirusExecutor.lha    util/virus 218K+VirusExecutor v2.05
MagicUser.lha        util/wb    552K+MultiUser System for the Amiga Workbench
WB2000_16.lha        util/wb    411K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)
Workbench2000N.lha   util/wb      4K+Norwegian catalog for Workbench2000


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27.Sep.2000
R. Kuehn on ANF


Help Wanted
Robert Kuehn is looking for support for graphics for, and programming of his AmiGay-Website to whip it into shape again in some degree! People who are interested may contact webmaster@amigay.de4all.de.

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27.Sep.2000
Individual Computers


X-Surf Ethernet Driver for Linux
In the news section of Individual Computers Jens Schönfeld announced:

Geert Uytterhoeven from Belgium has coded a patch for his Ariadne II driver. With this patch the driver can be used for X-Surf. The patch has not been tested, yet. Thence we ask you for a short message from everyone who has tried the patch! The patch is to find at the Support-Area.
Geert recently had a knee surgery and therefore cannot work at the computer on the next days. We wish him to get well soon!

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27.Sep.2000
DirOpus Support Page


DirOpus 4 Plus (AddOns) Available
Jacek Rzeuski has continuous developed the source code of DirectoryOpus 4, which was made disposable by GP Software. Now he has made DirOpus 4 Plus available for download. The archive contains a collection of AddOns for Directory Opus 4 consisting of 20 ARexx scripts for several uses, and two CLI tools.

Download: DOpus4Plus.lha - 40 KB

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27.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


Digital Almanac and WarpGIF News
Digital Almanac:
Due to low demand for DA III production of an English version is doubtful, at this time. The final decision on this subject will not be made until the end of this year along with the decision if DA III will be further developed or this project will be completely stopped.
Every soled CD from now on will come with the enhanced version 1.2.

WarpGIF:
At this time support for animated GIF images on OS3.5 (picture.datatype V44) is being worked on. This should then make viewing animated images with AWeb possible.

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26.Sep.2000
Torben Mueller on ANF


GUI for AMOS 1.3
A versatile graphical interface is available for the AMOS 1.3 programming language. This way, AMOS programs can be quickly developed using a GUI. All functions are included as AMOS procedures, so they can be adjusted to every program. Informations and screenshots available at the titlelink.

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26.Sep.2000
Arexx Scripts - Ron Goertz


FW and Pagestream Applications
Creating calendars with FinalWriter v4+ or PageStream v3+? No problem - this link leads directly to the macros.

This very interesting site by Ron Goertz moreover offers numerous other ARexx scripts and applications for the Amiga, e.g. the "family tree". Try it!

Download: FWCalendar.lzx

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26.Sep.2000
Paul Nolan


Photogenics 5.0 Release Candidate 2 for Linux
Photogenics - THE graphics and image manipulation software, first developed for the Amiga, has also been ported to Linux by the author Paul Nolan.

A manual for the installation, in addition to screenshots and a detailed description of the new features, is available at "Paul Nolan's Photogenics" (titlelink).

Download Linux version 5.0 Release Candidate 2:
PhotogenicsB101Setup.tgz - 1.8 MB
Tutorials.zip - 1.7 MB

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26.Sep.2000
Andreas Etzrodt on ANF


ADFBlitzer Verion 2.0 Available
Since yesterday, version 2.0 of the popular ADF program ADFBlitzer is available from my homepage. Magnus Lundin, author of the first versions (up to v1.2) gave me the source code and permission to continue development.

Currently there are mainly visual improvements. However, since almost everything has been turned upside down internally, it might not run as expected. Therefore I ask for your e-mail feedback if it works - or doesn't work.

Sorry but currently the only way to download the program is by the direct link (titlelink), because my homepage has not yet been updated.

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26.Sep.2000
LinuxInfo.de


RedHat Linux 7.0 Available
Since yesterday, the latest Linux distribution is available from RedHat, Inc.. A first review is available at www.linuxplanet.com.

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26.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


QNX Real-Time Operating System for Free Download
get.qnx.com is the download site for the QNX Realtime Platform (RTP). You can now download QNX RTP free for non-commecial use. There are a self-installing exe file for Windows (24MB) or a CD-ROM image (91MB). Or you can also order QNX RTP on CD for $29.95 US. Don't forget to consult the Supported Hardware section for a full list of platform-compatible hardware.

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25.Sep.2000
Andreas Rief on ANF


AsimWare Stops Support for Amiga
Asimware announces at the titlelink that they will discontinue the development of, and support for Amiga-products and that Software Hut still has some Amiga-products by Asimware on stock.

«All Asimware Amiga products and technical support have now been discontinued. Asimware announces, with great regret, that they immediately discontinue all sales and development of all its Amiga-related products. There will be no more product patches or updates for Amiga products. Technical support for Amiga products will come to an end on September 6th, 2000. All remaining information for Amiga products can be found at: http://amiga.asimware.com If you are still interested to purchase of any of Asimware's Amiga products, Software Hut http://www.softhut.com still has some left on stock.»

At the Asimware contactpage you can find the following hint:

«Questions or problems with an Amiga Product? Asimware Amiga products and technical support are now discontinued. This does not affect our product line for the Windows platform. amigasupport@asimware.com <- not for HotBurn 2»

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25.Sep.2000
Andrew Elia on ANF


AmigaSoc Activ Again
«After several months worth of unscheduled silence, AmigaSoc is back! In fact, we were never really gone! The primary reason for our apparant absence was lack of time.

The company two of AmigaSoc's founder members are shareholders of has grown from a staff complement of five to nearly fifty and has recently received first round investment. Squeeze in the purchase and renovation of houses, and a bit of marriage and you might begin to see where we've been! Our user group mailing list (and a couple of others) had to be shut down at very short notice owing to security issues beyond our control.

Rest assured that we haven't given up and we'll still support the Amiga community the best we can in the future.

The plethora of unanswered E-Mails and lack of updates to the website are now being dealt with (including our popular "Lookalikes" section), and we will aim to be back on form as soon as possible. We'd like to thank those who have demonstrated understanding and patience throughout this time and we look forward to once again making our contribution.»

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25.Sep.2000
Richard H. Poser via eMail


AmigaAIM Beta Version 0.9392
The new betaversion 0.9392 is available now and downloadable at the wellnown locations. The changes are the following:
  • Finally located and removed a tough to find bug which would occur when the Directory Info on the Server and Client didn't agree. It now only asks for a decision if the data on the Server isn't empty. Otherwise it just sends the current data to the server.


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25.Sep.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Graphics Artist and Musician Wanted
APC&TCP is looking for a graphics artist and a musician for a game developing project that are able to do the following things :

The graphics designer has to paint 21 maps of towns showing buildings, streets and parks depending on the dimensions. One version with 256 colors for AGA and graphicboards and one version with 32 colors for ECS (resolution: 640x480). Furthermore he has to paint backgroundpictures for windows and the screen.

The musician has to produce at least 4 modules of the type protracker matching the genre of tradesimulation.

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25.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail


Epic Interactive Website with New Layout
The Epic Interactive homepage was completely redesigned. The webside is graphicly more attractive and more open now. Altogether it is a great improvement.

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25.Sep.2000
Thorsten Schoelzel via eMail


AmigaNG Programs Overview Updated
The AmigaNG Programs Overview was updated and contains now 74 programs for the new Amiga. All the programs are downlaodable directly.

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25.Sep.2000
AmiDog


AMP 2 Version 2 pre 5 Released
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund released a new prerelease of his program AMP2. Some parts of the MPEG audio decoder were rewriten and the MPEG video decoder were optimized.

Download: AMP2pre5.lha

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25.Sep.2000
GoldED Studio 6


Last Week of GoldED Specialoffer
If you are looking for an editor with special addons, for example for programming or HTML-design purposes, you are maybe interested in GoldED Studio 6. Until the 09-30-2000 there is a specialoffer for upgrading from the publicversion 5 to the new version 6. By following the titlelink you can find out more details on the specialoffer.

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25.Sep.2000
Manuel Weinert on ANF


Amiga NG - Microsoft is Planning this for Years.
Microsoft, Redmond, USA.
Microsoft is developing a technic called IL (Intermediate Language) for years. The underlying concepts are amazing similar to the AmigaNG! There is no JustInTime compiler but the IL-modules were preloaded and compiled into native code at runtime (with corresponding hardwareoptimizations). All is integrated in Windows and will be released with VisualStudio 7.0 and C# in 2001 or 2002. This is another way for MS to other hardwaresystems like mobile phones or handhelds. Even games will be available for different hardwaresystems by using IL and a core-kernel.

Annotation of the author: AmigaNG still have chances: it is smaller, does not depend on a special OS, faster available for different devices and not a product by Microsoft.

Further informations are available at the titlelink.

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25.Sep.2000
Deftone on ANF


Aminet Upload Problems
SMSEngineer v1.0.2 was not uploaded due to some reasons. I uploaded it again and I am hoping, that it will be in the recent area. Once again I bag your pardon.

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25.Sep.2000
Amiga Update


Amiga Update Newsletter (23.09.2000)
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            M E T E R N E T   A N D   A M I G A   T E A M

           A S   D O   A M I G A   A N D   H Y P E R I O N

        C O N C E R N   O V E R   P E T R O   B U S I N E S S

         P L A N S   S T A R T   F O R   A M I G A   2 0 0 1

 F I N N I S H   U S E R S   G R O U P   A N N U A L   M E E T I N G

             T E X A S   G R O U P   F L E A M A R K E T

                   A C E   I N   A U S T R A L I A

      N E W S   F R O M   C R Y S T A L   I N T E R A C T I V E

               H A A G E   &   P A R T N E R   N E W S

               E L B O X   A I R S   C O M P L A I N T

            I N N O V A T I V E   M O V E S   O N   . . .

         . . .   A S   D O E S   E P I C   M A R K E T I N G

                 . . .   A N D   A S I M W A R E   ?

            M R .   M Y S Z A   M O U S E   A D A P T E R

          T H E   P R E D A T O R   F R O M   E Y E T E C H

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 There's a stong dichotomy in this issue's stories. There are a number
of items showing a clear move forward on Amiga's part into the future
with its new generation of software and hardware standards. There's an
equally clear picture presented by other stories of the Classic Amiga
market shutting down.
 We don't think there will be any problem with those of us dependent
on classic machines surviving until there are new computers with new
software to move to, so there's no reason for panic. There is,
however, every reason to see the transition as real and happening now.
 It's about time, but we can't deny it's always a bit frightening to
move into a new existence and see the door to the old closing behind
you. Keep in mind it's an entire community making the transition, and
we're all in it together. You will also find in this issue many
stories showing just how strong our Amiga community remains.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:


27 Aug 2000

Brad,

 I was glad to see that some users out there still have the A2000 and
A3000! Mine are not in operating mode at present. No fault of mine. An
expensive tradesman repair gone sour. But perhaps there is hope. I
loved those Amigas! I thought these old favorites would be left in the
dust of the 1200, and the new products I saw displayed by Bill McEwen
on The Screensavers TV show on ZDTV! Quite an impressive introduction
to the new Amiga.

Lee
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Lee,
 Hang on, things are just starting to roll out for the new Amiga. As
noted in my comments above, you can really see the transition from the
old Amiga to the new taking place right now. At the moment, though,
the A2000s, A3000s and beyond are still working very well for many
Amigans, including me.
 Brad

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28 Aug 2000

Tell Johan that we're working on getting up more Music-x stuff, there's a
bit up on our site in the meantime in the Music section:

http://www.amigau.com/

Kevin Orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com
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Kevin,
 Message delivered, and we've included your note for the benefit of
anyone else interested in Music-x.
 Brad

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28 Aug 2000

 Thank you for the continued newsletters. I'm still an active Amiga
user and any Amiga news is greatly appreciated. My "other computer" is
a MacIntosh and news/tips having to do with Mac/Amiga interaction
would be of interest. (File exchanges via Consultron's CrossMAC
program allows some things on a Mac and Amiga to work very well with
each other).

 Has anyone used Castlewood's Orb drive on an Amiga? I hadn't found
any information regarding that yet and was wondering if their
headerless approach presents special problems for developing an Amiga
driver, or what special considerations might exist for implementing an
Orb drive on a SCSI-equipped Amiga (like my A3000UXD).

 My experience with the Orb drive on a MacIntosh system is positive so
far. It seems to work equally well on the Mac's standard SCSI or from
an Ultra SCSI card. The price of the drive and the media are certainly
reasonable enough to make it an attractive option for Amiga owners if
it could be made to work on one.

 Thanks for any information you may have.

-- Dave --
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Dave,
 As I do with any topic I'm not fully familiar with, let me throw this
one out to the readership. Can anyone help Dave?
 Brad

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27 Aug 2000

 I have an A4000/060 with an internal CD-ROM drive and an A500/030 and an
external ZIP drive (now, also a 2Gb Jaz drive).
I just copied the OS 3.5 data onto a ZIP disk, moved the drive over
to my A500 and installed from there.

Gary
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Gary,
 Thanks for the suggestion. We hope this information can help some of
those at least who've asked us about installing OS 3.5 on systems
without CD/ROM drives. It'll require finding someone else with an
Amiga, a CD/ROM drive and a Zip or similar, but looks like it can be
done fairly easily.
 Brad
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           M E T E R N E T   A N D   A M I G A   T E A M

Snoqualmie, WA - Reno, NV-September 20, 2000 - Business Wire - Targeting the
millions of computerless and offline consumers worldwide who will soon be
broadband enabled, Amiga and MeterNet have teamed to develop and deliver a
series of broadband SimpleBox Internet Devices powered by the next generation
Amiga.

MeterNet's SimpleBox Program is dedicated to bringing best of breed solutions
to their embedded platforms and target markets. Each device incorporates a
tailored SimpleBox User Interface (UI) on top of rugged solid state hardware
with no moving parts. Along with providing simple navigation and operation,
the SimpleBox UI offers optional feature-packed integrated web based eMail
that is optimized for display on TV and VGA screens.

The initial Mid Class product to be released powered by Amiga is the
SimpleBox Java Internet Device (JID) model wb8616JID. The Simplebox wb8616JID
is value packed with a robust v4. browser, audio/video streaming, instant
messaging and fast ethernet for easy broadband connection via cable, dsl,
satellite and local area networks.

Unlike other currently available devices from America Online (AOL), Microsoft
(MSFT), Ravisent (RVST), Web-2U (MUCP) and others, the SimpleBoxJID powered
by Amiga contains a Sun Authorized Virtual Machine, a very high performance,
memory efficient solution for running JavaTM technology based media content

MeterNet and Amiga are also developing a low cost Internet Radio Device for
worldwide consumer markets targeted for release early 2001.

Amiga Incorporated is the emerging leader in multiplatform, multimedia
Operating Systems. The Amiverse offers a multi-media digital environment that
provides developers with a true write once run anywhere opportunity. Amiga
has both leveraged and expanded upon its rich 15-year history of industry
leadership in the development of what we know as multi-media.

MeterNet Corporation develops and markets broadband Internet devices,
turn-key services and tailored integrated programs. Past satisfied clients
include Ziff-Davis, America Online, Alta Vista, Shopping.com and IBM. Since
12/99 we have shipped our SimpleBox Entry Level wb6400 series worldwide.
Phase One SimpleBox wb8616JID production is limited to 10,000 units with
shipments to commence in early December.

For more SimpleBox JID program information and to place an email order
reservation visit: http://world.simplebox.com

All Trademarks are the Property of their Respective Owners.
All Rights Reserved. ##
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          A S   D O   A M I G A   A N D   H Y P E R I O N

Snoqualmie, WA. Aug 30, 2000

 Amiga Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment are pleased to announce a
long-term alliance to bring Hyperion's impressive list of award
winning games to the Amiverse.

 Hyperion's games are a testament to the high standard set by the
Amiga community. Much like the New Amiga, Hyperion has raised the bar
to a higher level. We are proud to include Hyperion in our future. We
are equally pleased to see such a steady stream of notable developers
validating our platform.'' Said Randy Hughes, Vice President Sales and
Strategic Alliances at Amiga Inc.

 The initial list of titles being developed for the Amiverse include:

 Heretic II: Already released for Classic Amiga PPC, Heretic II is a
gothic-style first-person shooter.

 Sin: A super realistic ego shooter in a not-too-distant future with
an intriguing plot to solve and many levels to "clean-up". Sin is due
in Q3 2000.

 Shogo: Fight with your Mobile Armor Division Mech through futuristic
cities and natural sites. Face a civil war in Mech mode or Soldier
mode in this award winning ego shooter, written with the famous
LithTech 3D Engine by Monolith. Shogo is also slated for Q3 2000.

 Freespace: Development has already begun and is to be completed in Q4
2000. Freespace offers many space flights combats and mission for this
space opera among stars and nebulas. A great simulation for a great
story of space war.

 Alien Nations: Development is just under way. In the style of Age of
Empires II, Alien Nations will allow you to lead your people to
survive attacks from your enemies. Live long and prosper in the levels
of this great Real Time Strategy game.

 Soldier of Fortune: The highly acclaimed ego shooter of the year will
come to the Amiga. Designed with the help of SEAL people, SOF is one
of the most realistic ego shooter. Experience fights against
terrorists and criminals, train to be better and always remember to
shoot first.

 "Hyperion will announce new games in the near future, as we negotiate
deals with new licensors including some of the industry's biggest
names. We want to bring the Amiga the hottest and most recent games,
as it was the case in the great Amiga gaming times. With the arrival
of new hardware such as faster graphics cards, the Amiga will enjoy a
new level of performance allowing the Amiga to keep up with bigger and
better games. Keep your Amiga updated, stay tuned and roll on the
Amiga One!" said Ben Yoris, PR Manager of Hyperion.

About Hyperion

 Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian company founded in
April of 1999. Hyperion aims to bring top-class entertainment software
to leading alternative platforms including Amiga. Hyperion
Entertainment has license agreements with many of the top names in the
industry including Interplay, Activision and Monolith with more deals
to be made public soon.

 Whilst Hyperion's primary expertise is in the field of 3D engines
(LithTech, Quake 2), the company has recently been working with its
publisher Titan (www.titan-computer.com) on expanding its line-up with
strategy and RTS games as well as RPG's and simulators. The results of
these efforts will be announced over the course of the next few
months. Hyperion Entertainment is also investigating the possibility
of applying its expertise in the field of 3D graphics to
non-entertainment related areas. For additional information, please
see www.hyperion-software.com .
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     C O N C E R N   O V E R   P E T R O   B U S I N E S S

 A recent posting on the Amiga-news.de website created a mini-uproar
in the Amiga community. The posting stated that Petro Tyschtschenko,
long time bastion of the Amiga community and head of Amiga
Deutschland, had founded a new company in partnership with a Frank
Basta. The company, called Power Service BmbH, appears to be a
supplier of tempory workers for software firms.
 A response  from Petro posted on the Czech Amiga News site indicated
no intent to leave the Amiga community or Amiga itself behind:

"Sorry but I have no plans to quit. I have only invested 50 % in Power
Service, which is a company I believe in. It is no Computer Company and no
competition... Power Service is a Job agency for IT Specialists. I will
continue with my beloved AMIGA. Best regards and thanks for your
mail...Petro"

 Several web sites carried the following quote from Amiga Inc's CEO
Bill McEwen at the time the original announcement was made:

 "I would be shocked and personally hurt to find out that Petro has
not been making Amiga his first priority, and that he has been using
his Amiga paid trips to India for his own personal gain. We pay him a
wonderful salary, we pay for his Mercedes, his cell phone, and his
beautiful offices. He has never spoken to me about any issues or
problems, and if he has truly been using our money and time to promote
his own company I will be extremely disappointed. I hope that
Amiga-News is wrong in their findings."
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       P L A N S   S T A R T   F O R   A M I G A   2 0 0 1

28 Aug 2000

Amiga Fans everywhere,

 Amigan-St. Louis is proud to announce that the next Gateway Computer
Show... Amiga2001, will be held on March 30, 31 and April 1, 2001.

 This exciting event, Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey, will be our best
yet. Due to the demise of the Henry VIII hotel, it's being torn down,
we had to move our venue to a new location.

 The good news is that this place has lots to offer. The show will be
hosted at the Sheraton Westport Plaza. This Sheraton has the same old
world charm that the Henry VIII did, but offers much more. It has
parking for over 3,000 cars. It's location, at West Port Plaza is
really terrific, as that puts it in the middle of entertainment,
restaurants, pubs, shopping, eateries, movie theaters, live theater, a
jazz club and much more. Under cover parking is available too.

 We'll be posting something on our web site by the end of September,
so keep an eye out. In the mean time, get your vacations lined up for
March 30 - April 1. Perhaps you'd like to come early or stay longer
and arrange a little fun in St. Louis. This is an exciting town, and
your family would be certain to enjoy it if you bring them.

             http://www.amiga-stl.com

           Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey

Sheraton at Westport, St. Louis, MO. USA
Friday March 30 thru Sunday April 1, 2001
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 F I N N I S H   U S E R S   G R O U P   A N N U A L   M E E T I N G

 ESPOO, FINLAND - September 21, 2000 - Finnish Amiga Users Group will
host its annual user group meeting on Saturday September 30th from
14:00 to 17:45 in Espoo, Finland. The event will start with a formal
meeting, and an informal part will follow after 15:30 o'clock.

 An Amiga dealer will be present with various Amiga items for sale.
The user group will also demonstrate the Amiga Software Development
Kit on Linux. Other highlights include various Amiga magazines for
reading, demonstration of licensed Amiga mobile phone covers and
plenty of good company. Admission is free of charge and free soft
drinks will be available.

 Please visit http://batman.jytol.fi/~saku/ or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/ for instructions on how to get there,
latest news, IRC coverage, webcam and more. E-mail inquiries may be
sent to Anu Seilonen (thoriel@sci.fi).

 About Finnish Amiga Users Group

 Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a
non-profit organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping
Amiga users in Finland. Also known as Saku, after its e-zine, the
group is trying to accomplish its goals by organizing meetings and by
publishing an e-zine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and its
predecessors have released over thirty issues of the magazine and held
several public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site
and Sakunet, a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related
bulletin board systems.
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         T E X A S   G R O U P   F L E A M A R K E T

18 August, 2000

Flea Market Extravaganza '00

Where: The Brookside Convention Center, Hurst, Texas
When: Saturday, October 14, 2000
Time: 12:00 to 4:00pm
Admission: Free

Background

 This year we are putting on our fourteenth annual computer Amiga
show. So come and join us and show your support for the Amiga.

Amiga Computer Flea Market

 Hardware and Software for Amiga computers, from members and
non-members, will be for sale. The flea market will be open to members
for a fee of 5% on items sold. A fee of 10% will be charged to
non-members on items sold.

 This year tables will be available to rent for the show to
individuals. The cost for one table will be $15.00 for members and
$20.00 for non-members. Please make arrangements in advance, space is
limited.

 o Sellers:

 Items for sale must be turned into a club representative. Prices are
set ahead of time and sales are handled by club representatives.
Arrangements MUST BE MADE IN ADVANCE. Items will NOT be accepted on
the day of the show. There will be no exceptions. For further details
please contact the club or one of the club's representatives. Items to
be sold at the flea market may be turned in at one of the chapter
meetings or you may make arrangements with one of these club
representatives:

Mark Stodola Cedar Hill (972) 299-6824
Ned Kelly Arlington (817) 277-5825
David Owens Fort Worth (817) 847-5486
Dan Stockelman Dallas (972) 985-8522


 o Buyers:

 Cash and checks accepted from members.
 Cash only accepted from non-members.

     Prices will be reduced at 3:00 pm.

Door Prizes

 A drawing will be held at the end of the day. You must be present to
win.

Amiga Computer Dealers

 Space is available to rent for dealers, companies or user groups.
Please inquire on rates.

MCCC Amiga Library

 The entire MCCC library of Amiga computer disks, over 2,000 disks,
will be available.

Special Membership Offer

 13 months for the price of 12. This offer is good for new or renewed
memberships.

Jay Miner Memorial Tape

 The MCCC will be offering a two hour VHS tape of highlights of past
METCOMs and a short club history. The centerpiece of the tape is Jay
Miner's speech and question and answer session at METCOM 89. The cost
will be $9.00 for members and $15.00 for non-members. A PAL version is
also available at a slightly higher price. A limited number will be
available at the show, but if the response is good orders will be
taken.

Directions & Parking:

 The Brookside Convention Center is located at 1244 Brookside Drive in
Hurst. To get to the Convention Center get to Highway 183/121 and take
the Precinct Line Road exit and drive south on Precinct Line Road.
After approximately 0.3 miles turn left (east), on Bedford Euless
Road. Drive 0.4 miles to Brookside Drive. The Convention Center is on
the southeast corner. There is plenty of parking space, and parking is
free.
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              A C E   I N   A U S T R A L I A

Alternative Computer Expo

Including:

Linux - ACE
Amiga Computer Expo
Apple Computer Expo
Acorn Computer Expo
Australian Connectivity Expo

 ACE is about Alternatives.
 ACE is about Connecting people.
 ACE is about Enhancing the user experience.

It's about using computers.
It's about solutions.
It's about the best operating systems.

When:

Saturday 21st October 9am - 6pm
Sunday 22nd October 9am - 5pm

Where:

 The Grand Prix Pits, Aughtie Drive Albert Park Lake, Albert Park (in
the middle of the park!).

 The show makes provision for families, children and those on lower
incomes.

Entry fees:

$10 General
$7 Students & concession
$20 Family
Children under 12 free

Globally the largest Amiga participation.

 While ACE 2000 is being well recieved by the computing public of many
platforms. It is particularly significant for the Amiga community. ACE
2000 is now expected to have the largest Amiga participation of any
show this year. This is easily larger than any Australian Amiga show
of recent times. All Australian dealers of Amiga products are planning
to attend! A number of overseas dealers are also in the process of
confirming.

Power Computing (UK) expected to attend.

ACE to host OS/2 install-fest!

Apple's new OS X to be on display.

Linux install-fest proposed for ACE.

Dozens of flavours of unix to feature at ACE!

 The Australian newspaper published a large article about the show in
their IT section.

IRC

 IRC conferences are planned at regular intervals. Keep an eye on this
site for times and dates. Paul Demark has offered to moderate the IRC
sessions. Email lanky@connect.net.au for more info.

http://www.ace2k.net/
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     N E W S   F R O M   C R Y S T A L   I N T E R A C T I V E

 19/09/00

 Crystal Interactive Software are please to announce that we have
chosen Blittersoft for world wide distribution of our Amiga game
software.

 Blittersoft being an established and well respected company within
the Amiga community will take on exclusive distribution of all Amiga
games we produce.

 Blittersoft can be contacted on +44 (0)1908 225454 or email
sales@blittersoft.com


13/09/00

 Crystal Interactive Software are please to announce our merger with
fellow Hertfordshire based games developers Clearwater Interactive.

 This merger expands Crystal and Clearwater game developments to
almost all computer and console platforms

More information on Clearwater can be found at www.cw-i.com
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             H A A G E   &   P A R T N E R   N E W S

14 September 2000

ArtEffect Workshop reworked

 Due to the development of ArtEffect there were some inconsistencies
in the old workshop, but those are settled now. We also redesigned the
complete website. In 12 chapters you experience the amazing functions
and effects of ArtEffect. Workshop

28 August 2000

Storm C Announcement

 The new version of the well-known development system will be a
quantum leap: Network capabilities, distributed Make, CVS, modified
GCC compiler with Amiga Hund format, global full text search, extended
editor, debugging of tasks and shared libraries and the new StormDOC.

06 September 2000

H&P increases personnel

 In October of the past year, we already hired a new programmer,
namely Markus Poellmann. He mainly cares for StormC, and also works on
AmigaWriter. At the beginning of 2000, a new co-worker was found, Ute
Gottschalk, who takes care of accounting and datatyping. Stefan Robl
has just finished a practical period for his computer studies, in
which he created a new and portable version of StormRexx. At the
beginning of September, Alexander Bramm and Simon Neumann brought two
new co-workers. Their main concern is support, and managing of new
projects.

06 September 2000

Further co-workers wanted

 For proof-reading of our website texts, press releases and manuals we
are looking for an additional English native speaker. A good knowledge
of English grammar etc. is essential. Surprisingly we already got
about 18 applications, but we only need one or two people to help on
this. Thank you very much.

www.haage-partner.com
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             E L B O X   A I R S   C O M P L A I N T

Elbox Computer
Krakow, 21 Sep 2000

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

 We, Elbox Computer company, the company involved with microcomputer
technology for over 18 years, the company with the principles of
reliability, honesty and care for our clients, feel obliged to release
this announcement to protect interests of Amiga users.

 For several weeks now, the Eyetech company has been involved in a
propaganda action against our breakthrough product for Amiga
computers: the MEDIATOR PCI. Eyetech publish and disseminate untrue
views on MEDIATOR, the exceptional busboard, and compare this high-end
product with their announced device.

 It is not our way to comment on others' activities, yet under the
current circumstances we feel obliged to explain this situation and
Eyetech's accusations to Amiga users and to comment on the idea
indicated by Eyetech (or any other company behind the Eyetech
nametag).

BLIZZARD PPC LOCAL BUS LIMITATIONS:

 Eyetech announced releasing a product they called competitive to our
MEDIATOR high-end card. Technical specification of this product has
been announced in such a way that Amiga users would have to misread
it.

 The idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to Blizzard PPC
cards gives worse performance than MEDIATOR because:

1. This solution is only for owners of Blizzard PPC accelerators.
   You have to stick with your Blizzard PPC 603e for ever.
   No change, no open structure, no versatility.

2. Practical average data transfers over the busboard connected
   directly to Blizzard PPC cards will not be higher than achieved
   with MEDIATOR - due to technical limitations of Blizzard PPC
   cards.

3. Connection of a busboard to the connector used for inserting
   a BVision card renders further use of the BVision card
   impossible.


MEDIATOR OPEN SOLUTION:

 The MEDIATOR high-end busboard is the best solution for Amiga
computers to offer high-speed support for PCI cards.

 The MEDIATOR busboard is a well-thought product, with long-standing
history of design development and a vision for its lasting evolution,
to give Amiga users power they have not had so far.

 Our basic idea is that MEDIATOR is an OPEN solution, capable of
hosting ANY turbo cards from the Amiga market. MEDIATOR is not reduced
to a Blizzard PPC-bound concept. MEDIATOR gives you the possibility to
have any turbo card you want.

 MEDIATOR has been designed specifically for all the available cards
and each and every turbo card works with MEDIATOR at the maximum speed
available for the given card.

 MEDIATOR PCI may offer transfer of data from/to any Amiga turbo card
at the maximum speed of up to 132 MB/s. The only practical limitation
lies in the design of the specific turbo card.

 MEDIATOR is expandable, even more: it is ready for any new Amiga
cards that will be available in the future - this gives you freedom
that you have never had before.

 You can use MEDIATOR with any turbo cards: Blizzard 1230, Blizzard
1240, Blizzard 1260, Blizzard PPC, Apollo 1230, Apollo 1240, Apollo
1260, Elbox 1230, MTec 1230, etc. and with any future concepts like
Amijoe and more...

MEDIATOR ADVANTAGES:

 MEDIATOR has been designed optimised for any turbo card type, so that
the maximum possible performance is obtained in the given hardware
configuration.

 MEDIATOR automatically recognises the turbo card type and executes
the best procedures to guarantee the highest performance possible in
this configuration. This is an unrivalled feature.

 This approach is much more time- and effort- and money-consuming than
the concept of supporting Blizzard PPC cards only.

 Besides, the idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to
Blizzard PPC cards does not give you, the Amiga user, any additional
speed gains when compared with MEDIATOR - you will only feel that
Eyetech's design is simpler and possibly definitely cheaper.

 We feel very sorry that Eyetech in this context is apparently
discrediting MEDIATOR's performance while being well aware of their
fallacy.

ABOUT ELBOX:

We have been developing and producing electronic equipment since 1982.
Our superb Amiga designs include:
* E-BOX tower systems and ZORRO busboards for A1200 and A4000
 (also known as Power Tower in the UK and Winner Tower in Germany);
* Elbox FastATA controllers for A1200 and A4000 (known also under the
  name of Power Flyer in the UK and Winner HighSpeed Controller in
  Germany);
* Memory expansion cards for all types of Amiga computers and many
  other minor accessories, e.g. PC Mouse interfaces (Mroocheck,
  Punchinello), others.
Elbox is also the owner of Twin Spark Soft, a company producing
software for Amiga computers (in the Polish language only).
Besides Amiga devices, we design and produce industrial controllers
(e.g. for injection moulding machines) and many other high-end
devices in the fields of radio- and telecommunications (e.g. call
systems, pagers, speech coding devices).

NEW:

Please look for our further releases about ELBOX products for Amiga
computers to be on sale by the end of this year:

1. MEDIATOR evolution line (A4000 and A3000);
2. The TOTALLY NEW breakthrough turbo cards for Amiga computers
   (A4000, A3000, A1200).

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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          I N N O V A T I V E   M O V E S   O N   . . .

11.9.2000 Innovative announces future plans

 Innovative, known as the developers of popular AMIGA®-titles such as
fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio and Ultraconv today announced the future
plans of the enterprise.

 fxSCAN 3.0 with intelligent OCR-engine (OCR = Optical Character
Recognition) fxSCAN will soon be available in version 3.0. It will
be a major update including the following new features:

  · intelligent OCR-engine
  · Support for free BetaScan-drivers
  · comfortable Copymachine-function
  · reworked user-interface
  · JPEG-files are now loaded via PPC
  · many small improvements

 The price for V3.0 will be at 69.- DM/35 EURO/35 US$. An update from
V1.0/V2.0 will cost 59.- DM/30 EUROR/30 US$. We won't offer updates
from V1.0 SE (ScanQuix-special edition). fxSCAN 3.0 can already be
ordered from Innovative's online-shop (http://www.innovative-web.de/)
and will be delivered as soon as the final product becomes available.
A completly new fxSCAN-website will be online at the time the new
version is introduced.


The present

 Innovative regards the AMIGA®-market as too small to further exist
only from revenues of this market. The enterprise doesn't see any
tendencies towards improvement, as key-enterprises have either left
the AMIGA®-market or went out of bussiness and important hardware-
products are only available as long as they are still in stock.
Faster, more up-to-date or completly new hardware doesn't seem to be
within reach and major improvements of the current Classic-AmigaOS®
are not to be expected in near future. The AMIGA® SDK is a highlight,
but it is not a garantor for the future existance and maintenance of
the new AMIGA®-Operating-/Computersystems.

The current situation forces Innovative to look for new markets and
to no more _exclusivly_ work in the AMIGA®-market.


The future

 After the availability of fxSCAN V3.0, Innovative will intensify work
on a new technology (details are not available due to reasons of
protecting Innovative's intellectual property). Programs developed
with the aid of this new technology (Codename "InNT") will be more
comfortable to use and will have an even more spectacular optic.
Furthermore programs developed with it will be highly portable to
other platforms and CPUs. Indeed porting an application is expected to
take only a few days, cutting down both the amount of development-time
and -money that has to be spent for that task. As soon as the first
version of this new technology is finished we will start porting
already known Innovative-titles to the new technology and a variety of
different platforms. Besides the AMIGA®-market, the Windows®- and
Linux®-market will be target of the developments of the company. It's
also planned to hand out licences for this new technology, but this
still has to be decided. The result of the decision will be announced
in a later, seperate press release.


The AMIGA®-conversions

 We regret to say that our new technology will most probably not be
able to run on 68K-PPC-Dual-CPU-Systems as it is currently used in
some AMIGA®s, as a seperation of the GUI and the program will be hard
to perform and a 68060 definatly seems to be too slow for fluid and
comfortable work. Once the development of the first version of the new
technology is finished, Innovative will evaluate the possibilities of
a portation to MorphOS and APUS Linux and is currently planning a
portation to these platforms. The Tao® Elate®-based new AmigaOS® will
be supported by Innovative as far as it is available. This way,
AMIGA®-users will be able to continue enjoying the high-quality and
highly innovative software by Innovative.


The current products

 It can't be denied that future plans are in conflict with the further
development of the current product-line for AMIGA®-computers.
Nevertheless the currently existing products will be developed further
and updates will be available at a regular basis though not as often
as in the past. As soon as the versions developed with the new
technology are available, users get an update-offer. So everybody
buying an Innovative-product today, buys a product that will be
developed further in future and that he will be able to use even after
switching to other OSes like Windows®, Linux® or "Amiga® NG" as well.


The webservices

 We will stop offering webservices, as the amount of time and money
spent can in no way be justified with the resulting revenues. Existing
contracts will continue to exist for a yet undefined time whereas we
won't do any new contracts. Of course we will continue to offer
special solutions for companies in the future and we'll also keep
updating the "Amiga Link Directory".


Frequently asked questions

Question:

 So you'll stop development for the AMIGA ?

Answer:

 No. Please read the paragraphs "The AMIGA-conversions" and "The
          current products" carefully.

Question:

 You're always talking about a new technology, what is it ?

Answer:

 Our intellectual property. Therefore no information on this will be
 made available to the public on request (please don't send us EMail,
 letters, call or fax us) but exclusivly on our own initative via our
 website. Any information not found on our website isn't true.

Question:

When   will   you   have  finished  works  on  the  new  technology  ?

Answer:

 As we don't want to put us under pressure with this strategically
 important development, we won't release any time-table in near
future.

Question:

Which products do you plan ?

Answer:

 Our information policy doesn't foresee the announcement of new
products
 at this time.

Question:

 I'd like to license this new technology. How much is it for a license
?

Answer:

 We think about handing out licenses at a later time, but we haven't
come
 to a decision on this yet and therefore can't give you prices..

Question:

 I'd like to betatest. Simply send me a beta!

Answer:

 We won't send out betas.

 Disclaimer: AMIGA® is a registered trademark of Amiga, Inc. Windows®
is a registered trademark of Microsoft. Linux® is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds. Elate® is a registered trademark of the
Tao Group. All informations are subject to change without notice. You
can not derive demands/rights from this piece of information.

2.7.2000 VHI Studio reads from Sony® Memorysticks

 Thanks to a new VHI-driver (sony_msac_sr1.vhi), AMIGA®-users finally
can access Sony® Memorysticks®. The driver uses the "Sony®
MSAC-SR1"-reader for the serial port, that is shipped with most
Sony®-cameras. If you want to see Memorysticks® and
Compactflash®-cards compared regarding their size, visit our website
and click on "Press release" below to see some pictures.

EMail: info@innovative-web.de
WWW:   http://www.innovative-web.de/
Phone: +(0)049 (0)9132/735163
Fax:   +(0)049 (0)69/791247970
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   . . .   A S   D O E S   E P I C   M A R K E T I N G

12 September, 2000

 Epic Marketing Germany waves goodbye after 4 years on the Amiga
market, our company is set to close on septembre 30. But this is no
reason for despair. After October 1 there will not be one but two new
Epic companies in the market.

 Epic Interacticve Entertainment software will primarily focus on the
development and distribution of top notch games for the Apple
Macintosh market. The Amiga One and the Atari Milan computers will be
supported once they see the light of day.

 Epic Multimedia will enter the market in October too. You will find
information on their products, which will include games, infotainment
and edutainment for various computer systems (Apple Mac, Windows,
Linux, Amiga One, Milan) on our webpage from mid octobre.

 For the Classic Amiga Epic Interactive will develop and distribute
the titles "Simon The Sorcerer 2", "Earth 2140" and Dafel: Bloodline".

 Whether they continue to support the platform in the future is
heavily dependant on the success of these titles. "Earth 2140" can now
be preordered for DM 89.95 until October 15th. After that it will cost
99.95.
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             . . .   A N D   A S I M W A R E   ?

 {The following item was found on the Czech Amiga News site, a
resource which can be counted among the most reliable. Brad}

22.9.2k Asimware discontinues Amiga Support

 Len Carsner: "After recently purchasing MasterISO 2.6, I emailed
Asimware with a question concerning a problem I was having. I received
a form letter which stated "Effective September 6th, 2000 all
production, development, and support for Amiga products is
discontinued. Sales of MasterISO will still be available through
Software Hut. Our Amiga products will NOT be released to the public
domain. Thank You for eight great years." At the end was a statement
promoting their PC software."

Len Carsner via ANN
ExiE
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           M R .   M Y S Z A   M O U S E   A D A P T E R

3 September, 2000

 Merlancia Industries is pleased to announce the upcoming release of
the Mr. Mysza PS/2 Mouse adapter. Finally! After all this time, all
Amigans can now share in the world of PS/2 devices made for IBM/PC
compatible systems! From the super-cool Crystal Trackball to the
Kensington optical mouse, you now have a full range of up-to-date,
current, mice and mice alternatives.

Specs:

 The Mr. Mysza also supports up to four buttons and the scroll mouse
(utility drivers included) for additional ease of use. The Mr. Mysza
is fully "plug and play". Just plug in the Mr. Mysza, and your choice
of literally thousands of PS/2 devices and you are set to go! All you
need is the adapter and a PS/2 mouse device to get up and going. There
is no need for additional software to use Mr. Mysza! (Except to use
features such as the scroller on scroll mice.)

Price:

 The Mr. Mysza will be be at about the $25 mark, much less then the
current serial mouse converters. There will also be bundles of Mr.
Mysza and the Crystal Trackball available for about the $50 mark.

Availability:

 The Mr. Mysza will be available in about 7 to 14 days. The first
batch of Mr. Myszas is almost complete...

What is included?:

 Included in the package is the Mr. Mysza adapter, a disc containing
the software to use the scroller on scroll mice and additional buttons
on 3+ button mice, and a manual.

 Also upcoming is the RedBoard adapter, and infa-red keyboard adapter
for Amiga computers. A separate press release will follow with
information about the RedBoard.
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         T H E   P R E D A T O R   F R O M   E Y E T E C H

3 September, 2000

From The Eyetech Group Ltd

 The Predator: 3xPCI + 1xAGP + SDRAM expansion with direct PPC
processor interface for the A4000 desktop and towered A1200

 As part of our ongoing discussions with top end games developers, one
of their major concerns is how to get sufficiently fast graphics cards
on the installed base of A1200 / A4000 PPC machines. The Permedia 2
chipset, although still the best graphics solution currently available
on the A1200, is now quite dated in its 3-D performance. The Elbox
Mediator is a partial solution, but is severely hampered because all
A1200 accelerators - including the Blizzard PPC - only bring 24
address lines out to the edge connector meaning that all data transfer
has to be carried out within the 8MB Zorro2 address window. For modern
graphics cards this will inevitably involve 4 fold or greater
multiplexing thus crippling the transfer rate between processor and
graphics card. In addition, PCI graphics cards themselves are now
increasingly hard to obtain and will be obsolete in a few months time.

 So what are we doing about it?

 The Predator expansion bus will come in separate versions for the
A1200 and A4000 desktop (an A4000 tower version will be produced later
if there is sufficient demand). Each will come equipped with 3xPCI
slots and 1xAGP (graphics card) slot (with an additional regular A4000
video slot in the A4000 version). In addition there will be a single
SDRAM (PC100 DIMM) socket for up to 256MB. As the bus is fully PCI 2.1
compliant, including bus mastering and DMA facilities, this SDRAM can
be used directly by either or both of the PPC CPU and the AGP graphics
card.

 By directly connecting to the expansion connector on the BlizzardPPC
and CyberstormPPC the expansion bus has the full 4GB of address space
of the PPC CPU without the penalties of any existing Zorro 2 conflicts
or address space multiplexing. The bus itself runs at 66MHz x 4 bytes
wide for unprecedented transfer rates (for a classic Amiga) both
between cards (using bus mastering and DMA) and - more importantly -
between the AGP connector and the PPC CPU.

 The board has been designed as a full multilayer PCB with 2 ground
planes and signal path length equalisation. Work on porting the
Voodoo-5 3D drivers (to be shipped with the board) is already
underway. And the best news of all is that this state-of-the-art
expansion bus will be available ub late September / early October at a
target price of just £169.95 including VAT.
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DocDatatypes V39.60
A new version of the DocDatatypes by Amarpreet Singh Munde were released on 09-22-2000. A new datatype for Mac Write-files were added. The MS-Word-datatype were updated and supports now older Word-fileformats (before version 6) better then the former version. A new feature is the now included Filefinder supporting searches by name, size, date and filetype.

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25.Sep.2000
Haage&Partner


H&P: Telephone Line Damaged
The damage were caused by some works in the Haage&Partner-building. Because of this they had no connection to the internet since thursday last week and they were not able to receive Emails and could only offer a limited telephone support. H&P hope that the Deutsche Telekom will solve the problems until tuesday or wendsday.

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25.Sep.2000
CUCUG


The Status Register - September 2000
The Status Register issue 09/2000 by CUCUG is available online now. It contains some Amiga related news and a SEAL-O-RAMA-report by Gary Storm.

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Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha     biz/dbase  116K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.4)
StarBase_CLI.lha     biz/dbase  104K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v3.7b)
StarBase_SCR.lha     biz/dbase  109K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v2.1b)
xtm-twirl.lha        biz/dkg     71K+Additional texture for Extreme
Dopus4Manual.lha     biz/dopus   98K+Official Directory Opus 4 manual
OpusMIAll.lha        biz/dopus  1.3M+OpusMI and OpusMIupd in one Archive
XADopus.lha          biz/dopus   14K+XADopus.module 1.0 - browse XAD archives
CandyPro103b.lha     biz/patch  747K+Update CandyFactoryPro V1.03b (15.12.99)
MCP_v1.33_fix.lha    biz/patch    2K+MCP v1.33 install fix
DalWatch.lha         comm/irc     3K+Interface to Server-side Notify on Dalne
attall.lha           comm/mail   23K+Infos about attachment in yam e-mail
attinfo.lha          comm/mail   24K+Creates a logfile from selected mail
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YAT.lha              comm/mail  510K+Yet Another collection of Taglines for Y
amigalog.lha         comm/misc   51K+Simple Amateur Radio Logbook 
lcr-i.lha            comm/misc  109K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
lcr.lha              comm/misc  112K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
AmFTP191.lha         comm/tcp   335K+AmFTP - ftp/Archie/ADT/ADT-Find Client, 
NullTCP.lha          comm/tcp     6K+Amiga<->Win9x TCP/IP using null-modem.Up
T-Rexx.lha           comm/tcp   105K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
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Lynx.lha             comm/www   790K+WWW Browser,v.284dev9 (works with m68k)
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BuffyHTML.lha        docs/hyper 393K+Buffy Guide (HTML) v2.1 <FIXED> (79)
gadget45.lha         docs/mags  429K+German Freeware Magazine
Starmag23_HT.lha     docs/mags  424K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
EuroChamp.lha        docs/misc   33K+Statistics of soccer Euro Champs '60-'00
F1Champ.lha          docs/misc   59K+Statistics of Formula One '50-'00
jaaug00.lha          docs/misc   78K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of 
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AtomicTetris.lzh     game/2play 198K+AtomicTetris PC clone
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (11 Sept
JB_HellRaiser.lha    game/data  2.0M+Hellraiser total conversion for James Bo
SWOSpl_11.lha        game/data   16K+SWOS - Polish League AND some advertisin
xfirelevels.lha      game/data  272K+Alternative levels for the game Crossfir
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  216K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
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bauer.lha            game/misc   85K+Farm simulation (German necessary)
KC.lha               game/role   93K+Create your hero for RPG Krysztaly Czasu
LordIII.lha          game/role  2.4M+Lord of Alcandria - chapter III
PureBrain.lha        game/think 162K+Put back the symbols in the right order.
SameGame.lha         game/think  15K+Addictive puzzle game with coloured ball
simplepac.lha        game/wb     74K+Version 1.2 of the simple WB Pacman Game
WBArmy.lha           game/wb    211K+Like Scorched Tanks, but in WB window.
vlab_macro.lha       gfx/conv    52K+VLab-Macro V 1.1 Convert YUV + VLAB to I
PfPaint_ENG.lha      gfx/edit    29K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha      gfx/edit    32K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
PfPaint_V22.lha      gfx/edit   900K+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
PhotoMI.lha          gfx/edit    21K+GlowIcons toolbar for Photogenics
cnetdevice.lha       hard/drivr 134K+PCMCIA Network Card driver. V1.4
pcmser.lha           hard/drivr  14K+PCMCIA modem driver. V0.15. PD w/ src.
Mentat.lha           misc/edu   199K+Mentat 0.5.2 english2english Longman dic
Mentat_data.lha      misc/edu   842K+Mentat 0.5.2 english2english Longman dic
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GBE.lha              misc/emu    79K+GameBoy/GameBoy Color emulator for WarpU
Nostalgia.lha        misc/emu   201K+THE Multi-Emulation system (1.8)
cutquotes.lha        misc/imdb    9K+Cuts 'quotes.list' entries down to Movie
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lotto-v8.lha         misc/misc   94K+UK National Lottery Database v8 inc. 
ArtiAmiga.lha        misc/sci   693K+Artificial Intelligence simulator
DA3Demo.lha          misc/sci   2.6M+Demo of Digital Almanac III
rno-r045.lha         mods/misc  562K+Rno-label release no.45 by kure&stefan (
Eldorado.mpg         mods/mpg   5.1M+Eldorado County by Vincent & McGahey
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tek_pnoia.lha        mods/techn 227K+Paranoia - psycho intelligent drum
tek_vacum.lha        mods/techn  58K+Vacuum - minimalistic move
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rsss.lha             mus/misc    75K+Realtime Sound Synthesis System (preview
EP_MFP.lha           mus/play    10K+EaglePlayer "Magnetic Fields Packer" ext
PlayGUI.lha          mus/play   574K+GUI for HIPPO,MPEGA,PLAY16 AND GMPLAY!
Granade.mpg          pix/3dani  6.1M+Animation of a hand granade
shoot.lha            pix/anim   2.3M+Working on our latest film.
tek_aos35.lha        pix/boot   516K+AmigaOS 35 - rainboot2 config (upd2nd)
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tek_rwb85.lha        pix/boot   1.4M+Workbench 85 - rainboot2 config (upd2nd)
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crazyGranny.lha      pix/mpg    529K+Mpeg anim of my granny playing football
scene3.lha           pix/mpg    2.1M+Scene from the set of an upcoming film.
SarajevoNight.jpg    pix/views   54K+768x512, Sarajevo at night (2000)
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Kill0D.lha           text/misc    2K+Remove PC CR+LF End-Of-Lines and replace
DSLT02.lha           text/print  20K+DrawStudio's Templates for labels 02 v1.
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PPS.lha              util/boot   48K+Password Protection for your WB / No mor
Rainboot3.lha        util/boot  864K+Multimedia Has Got A Name v3.0
RandomScenery.lha    util/boot   15K+More than just workbench backdrops
TurboVal.lha         util/boot   17K+The best validator for FFS (v1.9)
Scheduler.lha        util/cdity  33K+Schedule manager and viewer, v1.8
DiskLED1.2.lha       util/cli    15K+DiskLED V1.2 + Source(asm), Moves the LE
HexShow.lha          util/cli     4K+Shows files as Hex
InitPPCLib.lha       util/cli     2K+InitPPCLib: brings ppc.library back
SED.lha              util/cli    13K+Amiga stream editor
ilbmdt44.lha         util/dtype   8K+Improved ilbmdt (44.21)
RGFX-DT.lha          util/dtype 126K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (43.14)
RGFX-DT35.lha        util/dtype  51K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (44.2)
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WarpPNGdt.lha        util/dtype 131K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) 
muitoolkit_src.lha   util/libs   48K+V1.1 - The MUI Toolkit library SRC (FREE
Resistor.lha         util/misc   50K+Code&Decode the color rings at resistors
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   28K+Identifies your Amiga
arc2arc27.lha        util/rexx    4K+Convert any archive format easily
cdmp.lha             util/rexx   22K+Helps to create mp3 from CD's (german)
Dev-Handler.lha      util/sys    22K+Un*x like raw device access handler plus
StringSnip.lha       util/sys    12K+Much better editing features in string g
TransPrefs171.lha    util/sys    15K+Translator Prefs (German) 
simpleclock.lha      util/time   17K+Version 1.5 of the analog clock (OS3.5)
Safe.lha             util/virus  18K+Safe v14.2 - virus dicovering system
vht-vg31.lha         util/virus  85K+VirusWarning.Guide v3.1 (VHT-DK)
BosnianLocale.lha    util/wb     27K+Bosnian AmigaOS 3.1 localization v2
CopyIcon44.lha       util/wb      6K+CopyNewIcon clone for os3.5 (44.3)
DefIcons44.lha       util/wb     64K+DefIcons clone for os3.5 (44.6a)
Dynamite.lha         util/wb     57K+Start button and explorer in one. Fast.
Ico2Info.lha         util/wb      5K+Converts .ICO to .info (44.5)
IconLink.lha         util/wb     23K+Creates Links to icons (OS 3.5 only!)
Image2Icon.lha       util/wb     19K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.8
tv-prog.lha          util/wb    306K+(PL/CZ) TV programe on computer! [v0.80]


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25.Sep.2000
Tom Duin at ANF


BindAssigns Released
BindAssigns is a little shell-program that can replace the MakeDir and Assign entries in the Startup-Sequence. Furthermore it can replace the MUI-assign entries in the User-Startup.

Download: BindAssigns.lha

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25.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


VirusExecutor V2.05
Jan Erik Olausen released version 2.05 of "VirusExecutor" on September 23rd, 2000. It is easy to use. It analyzes unknown bootblocks automaticly and checks the memory, executables and LHA-, LZX- and ZIP-archives for viruses.

The program runs on all Amigas using AmigaOS 2.04 or higher, reqtools.library V38.11, xvs.library V33.13, and xfdmaster.library V38.6.

Download: VirusExecutor.lha (223 114 Bytes)

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25.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


ARexx.com is Looking for Scripts
ARexx.com is about ARexx. For their Script-library they are looking for Arexx-scripts. You can send them to scripts@arexx.com. The sections available at the moment are Stricq, Final writer, Voyager, Yam, Cloanto Personal Paint, and misc.

Additional they want to offer tutorials, and to establish a projects-page.

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24.Sep.2000
Timm S. Mueller on ANF


www.neoscientists.org Online again
The website of Neoscientists is online again.

In the section "binary distillery" there are freeware tools and libraries ready for download. Among others the latest versions of render.library, guigfx.library, mysticview.library and neuralnet.library. Smaller updates exists for the picture viewer Mysticview (1.04) and the mosaic renderer Flickwerk (0.0.4).

The group is now developing more intensively for the new operating system and has established a subsection where first downloads, announcements and developer support is offered.

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24.Sep.2000
ANN


AIO Issue 39 Released
On September, 23rd 2000 issue 39 of Amiga Information Online has been released.

Download: AIOV39.LHA

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24.Sep.2000
ANN


Amihoo Magazine #2 Released
On September, 23rd 2000 the second issue of the Amihoo-Magazine has been released. It covers the following topics:
  • Review: Bubble Heroes from Crystal Interactive Software.
  • Report: SEALORAMA Show Report.
  • Editorial "Half of Amiga Owners are tight fisted misers"
  • Ross Vumbaca. (Australian Correspondant) Talks about the forthcoming ACE 2k Show in Australia
  • Talkback Let off Steam about the anything Amiga. We want your views! Win £20 for it too!

In addition to this there's a poll regarding the subject "Are the Majority of Amiga Owners tight fisted Misers?".

Amihoo is a link directory especially for the Amiga.

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24.Sep.2000
David Connolly via email


Amiga Survivor Update
There appeared technical problems for the Amiga Survivor Magazine:

Amiga Survivor update

Unfortunately the delicate machinery which hosts Amiga Survivor was severely damaged in transit when it was on its way to our layout artist. The result of that is an unavoidable delay while the A4000 that hosts Amiga Survivor is patched up. We are trying to arrange the layout files to be sent to our experienced graphic designer as soon as possible, and two issues are ready to go out when the machinery is repaired. They are Issue 9 (scheduled for August 10th) and Issue 10 (October 10th issue). We are also working on a Christmas special at the moment.

I am happy to have Amiga Survivor on the books and I'm looking forward to producing many fine issues. As soon as is humanly possible we will begin to release issues of AS.

To help the Amiga games scene I am pleased to announce Amiga Survivor will be carrying a coverdisk every issue with a free copy of a recent hit, all for the same price of £3.99 UK, £4.99 Europe or £5.99 Rest of World. We hope to help the existing Amiga games market by working with current publishers and offering them a good income when sales through the conventional routes may have dried up. As a former Amiga games publisher CS&E will offer Max Rally with Issue 9 and the previously unseen Cosmo's Fun Class with Issue 10. Single issues of Amiga Survivor will be available from all good Amiga dealers, while subscriptions are exclusively available directly from CS&E.

Kind Regards,

David Connolly
Publisher, Amiga Survivor.
http://welcome.to/amigasurvivor
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum, Oxford Business Park, Oxford, OX4 2JZ, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 481 421
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 481 482

http://www.CSandE.co.uk

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24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


AmigaWatchDog now at Amiga Realm
AmigaWatchDog is now part of Amiga Realm. AmigaWatchDog makes it possible for users to rate retailers, so it is easier to find a good retailer using the collected data. AmigaWatchDog was founded by Daniel Hutchinson.

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24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


BlueBlackSolution is Looking for Speakers
BlueBlack Solution is looking for speakers for their real time strategy game "Operation Counterstrike". In detail the following voices are needed:
  • man: russian accent, english and/or german language
  • man: english/american accent, english language
  • woman: english/american accent, english language


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24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


New Amiga Games Site
Epic Direct Ltd., not to mix up with Epic Marketing, offers on www.amigagames.co.uk games news which are also sent via mailing list, a data base including a search function with a multitude of games and more than 500 games on disc and 250+ games on CD for sale.

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24.Sep.2000
Olaf Koenig via email


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Interviews!
New interviews with Peter Arman (Legend of the Elves) and Elmar Plischke (Klotz) online!

Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
The following shareware programs can be obtained for a special bargain at the moment.

The special bargain is valid until 30.09.2000
Software: JST
Developer: Jean-Francois Fabre
Price: 10 DM

The special bargain is valid until 31.10.2000
Software: PhotoAlbum/Cybershow Paket
Developer: Helmut Hoffmann
Price: 35 DM

The special bargain is valid until 28.02.2001
Software: AmiATLAS
Price: 79 DM

The special bargain is valid unlimited!
Software: SHARKS AGA and Multi
Developer: Christian Steiner
Price: 5 DM

Software: SHARKS CD32 Version
Price: 20 DM

The special bargain is valid unlimited!
Software: Boulderdäsh
Developer: Guido Meresmann
Price: 10 DM

The Amiga Arena doesn't gain any fee from the developers etc.
Only for You - Amiga Arena NON Profit Shareware Support!

New actions to follow!

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24.Sep.2000
Manfred Rauer on ANF


The AccM Asks for Your Help
Manfred Rauer wrote:
The AccM is not only a simple computer club where technic enthusiastic computer freaks meet to talk about games. We rather make an effort to develope useful software (and games) and to put them to everybody's disposal.

The club has only one small big problem. They don't have enough capacities in the areas of programming, music, graphics & animations, and 3D modeling.

Therefor we're searching all the time for capable people, who want to support us. But we also want to offer something for this. Everybody who has an idea regarding a project may register it here. It will be presented here, and others not involved have the possibility to take part in it. It shall be a kind of a meetin-place where as many as possible shall take part. It's free and nobody is forced to aquire a membership.

It would be sad and also a big loss for us if nobody could be won over this cool idea. This would mean "Say good bye" to this plan, and again a good thing and a main part of our base idea of which our club is the result would disappear from the scene.

Everbody with questions may write to the POI (Manfred Rauer) and ask for more informations.

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24.Sep.2000
The BaYona on ANF


Meternet - Press Release from Amiga
Regarding the Simplebox by Meternet there's a longer press release from Amiga Inc.

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24.Sep.2000
Stefan Martens at ANF


Official HBMonopoly Online Gaming at #AmigaFun
Stefan Martens wrote:
On #AmigaFun IRC channel a HBMonopoly online gaming is taking place on Oktober, 1st. The programmer himself will be online too, and he's very interested in your ideas.

Everybody interested in taking part in the game should get by on Sunday evening at around 18:00 h. Please download the latest verion of HBMonopoly from http://hbmonopoly.home.pages.de. It may well be that V2.5 will be released in the next few days. This one is a must then to take part. And you should also already have a look at HBMonopoly and possibly play it OFFLINE against the computer. All further things we'll tell you on Sunday on #AmigaFun! #AmigaFun is to find at:
  • irc.germany.net
  • #AmigaFun
  • Port 6667


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24.Sep.2000
Paplo on ANF


TaskiSMS V2.0
A new version of TaskiSMS has been released. Many new functions are added in version 2.0. Now the program can send SMS to 826 cellular telephone networks in 120 countries worldwide thanks to new plugins.

Download: TaskiSMS.lha, readme

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24.Sep.2000
David Cross on ANF


Amiga auctions: AmiBid Version 2.0 online |
AmiBid is an auction platform free of charge specially for the Amiga and now online in version 2.0 - the first version made some problems and some features were missing.

The following has been changed:
  • improved layout.
  • improved cathegories.
  • improved information concerning the pieces on auction.
  • improved forum.

With this update the URL has also been changed. AmiBid can now be accessed at http://server2039.virtualave.net/amibid/cgi-bin/auction.cgi and should be accessible with every browser.

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24.Sep.2000
Sylvio K. on ANF


Manga@Amiga-Page with New Layout
The Manga@Amiga-Page is engaged in Manga connected with the Amiga. So there are not only graphics and wallpapers ready for download but there's among others a list with Amiga games within the bounds of Manga.

Now this site has got a complete new layout and is accessible via a new domain. It's: http://amiga.2xs.net/. Because of the move there may be some empty links caused by the server. Because of this Sylvio asks to inform him about such links.

To suppress advertising windows Sylvio suggests switching off Javascript.

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23.Sep.2000
Deflone on ANF


SMSEngineerMUI is now E-Mailware
SMSEngineerMUI 1.0.2 has just been uploaded to the Aminet. We have decided to let people register our software for free, because we believe that coding should be fun, now shouldn't it? The same is true for SMSEngineerMUI :), it is fun; and why should anybody have to pay to have some fun.

We are still looking for translators for our software, so please contact us. Comments and ideas for improvement are welcome of course.

Download: smsengineermui.lha

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23.Sep.2000
Schatztruhe


Aminet CD39 - 10/2000 to be Available soon
Aminet CD 39 - Oktober 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (unpacked) of software in thousands of archives. Since Aminet CD 38 over 500 MB of new files have been added. As a special highlight, Aminet 39 contains the fantastic pinballs Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions. The three pinballs can be run from CD or harddrive.

News since release 33 and once more updated: The popular News-Archive amiga-news.de by Petra Struck is now part of every Aminet-CD (in german and english) and may be directly viewed from the readme-file with the included browser. We thank all of their participants for their great informational work for the Amiga-Users worldwide.

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23.Sep.2000
Amiga Impact


A-Zone CD magazine Nº 1 to be Available soon
The first CD-magazine of our french partner-site Amiga Impact will be available for end of september. A complete overview of the contents, which is full of french news, reviews, workshops, demos and much more can be found at the titellink.

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23.Sep.2000
Blittersoft


Bubble Heroes was Finished
Bubble Heroes, a game distributed by Crystal Interactive Software was finished and is available at the stores.

What is this game all about?

Once upon a time... The magical world of Radya is in serious danger. The peacefullness and the joy of this realm is threatened by a dark, evil knight named Gonzul and his bunglers, arrived on floating islands from unknown parts of the universe. Gonzul's aim is to conquer and enslave the world: to gain this objective he abducted the four Nimphs, sources of power and pillars of peace and richness, bleeding their energy and life. The Queen of these Nimphs, Adora, during her kidnapping had spread by her mental powers a message to all the heroes of Radya: to rescue the Nimphs.

All together, the four Nimphs can unite their forces in order to activate a magical weapon, which is the only hope to destroy Gonzul and his floating realm saving the entire world from his evil shadow. Will you be able to follow the heroes in this desperate mission?

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23.Sep.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS News
There are new archives available for MorphOS, an emulation for Amigas equipped with PPC. In detail:
  • Update: ixemul-dev.tgz
  • New release: dvidvi-1.1-bin.tgz, wget-1.5.2-bin.tgz, unixtex-6.1b-bin.tgz, texinfo-3.11-bin.tgz
  • IXEmul Tools and Programs: IXEmul Directory. Make sure to read the IMPORTANT.README file!! NOTE: This section is PPC only files. You must read the IMPORTANT.README file.


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23.Sep.2000
Ron Goertz


FWCalendar Update Version 4.05
Ron Goertz has overworked his Arexx-scripts for creating calendars with FinalWriter.

Download: FWCalendar.lzx and also Installation tips.

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23.Sep.2000
Richard H. Poser by eMail


AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9391 Available
The new betaversion 0.9391 of AmigaAIM, the AOL Instant Messanger for Amiga, is available for download. Changes are listed in the following list:
  • Added Menu Item for starting another copy of AmigAIM
  • Modified Mail Window for Context Menu to select Individual or Several Addresses to be checked or cleared.
  • Mail window can now be set to not open and/or pop to front while Away
  • Added Script capability for Mail checked with Mail on Server
  • Removed problem with receiving one Mac AIM version's Instant Messages
  • Removed bug with ScreenName prefs, should modify on first start after upgrade
  • Added Prefs item to keep Buddy List on top, if open and a Requester isn't opened (Buddy List on top would prevent the Requester from ever being seen)
  • Removed bug with receiving IM from Buddy not on Buddy List, shouldn't crash now.
  • Removed bug with the Idling prefs being totally unused.


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22.Sep.2000
CIS


Crystal Interactive Software announces Partnership with Blittersoft
Crystal Interactive Software announces that Blittersoft will take over the worldwide distribution of their software.

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22.Sep.2000
AmigArt


Workbench2000 Version 1.6 Released
Workbench2000 is a taskbar which you can use to start programs as you know it from Windows.

Download: WB2000.lha

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22.Sep.2000
Sebastian Bauer


FreeCiv Developer Version 1.13 Released
Freeciv is a round-based multiple player strategty game, released under the GNU General Public License. You can compare it to Civilization II® by Microprose®.

Download: freeciv_devel.lzx - 821 KB

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22.Sep.2000
Thomas Dellert via eMail


Press release G-Rex-PCI
We from DCE, leading manufacturer of accelerator boards and accessories in the Amiga market, are glad to announce to the Amiga community that we can satisfy the want for faster graphics boards, good and cheap sound cards, as well as PCI ethernet network cards.

For the entire (German) press release, click on the titlelink.

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22.Sep.2000
Norman on ANF


One more PCI Board for AMIGA?
On the main page of the DCE website is a so far mysterious product announcement. As it appears, G-REX is a PCI board for AMIGA and probably compatible to the Voodoo 3 card. For those interested, there's a PDF file for download. Link see below.

Stay tuned for some BLACK MAGIC...
Voodoo 3 hits the Amiga!
Prepare for G-Rex, the new PCI board from DCE -
and be ready for Voodoo 3 magic on your Amiga!
Curious? Want to learn more? Have a look at our
VOODOO TEASER (PDF)!

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22.Sep.2000
Amiga Realm via eMail


AmigaWatchDog now at Amiga Realm
AmigaWatchDog, the website designed by Daniel Hutchinson, where readers can voice their experiences with Amiga companies and get tips where they can buy their products cheap, is now at Amiga Realm, the Amiga web directory and will be continued there.

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21.Sep.2000
DirOpus 4


Directory Opus 4 Version 4.15a (Beta) Released
Jake Rzeuski has continously developed the free source code of GP Software and has now released a new beta version 4.15a of the file-manager for download. In this version NewIcons and GlowIcons are 100% supported and the size informations of files are listed in KB/MB/GB in listers.

Download: DOpus415JRbin.lha - 334 KB

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21.Sep.2000
Lambda


Development of Lambda "Pauses"
The status of development of the freetime project "Lambda", a high quality 3D spacegame development, was set on "pause".

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21.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


The End of ImageEngineer
Czech Amiga News has asked Marko Seppaenen, developer of ImageEngineer, a gfx-package for Amiga, why he leaves the Amiga Community. In his answer Marko said it would be easy to declare software piracy and bad sells as reasons for this step or he could tell a long story about the reasons, but he will not, because he do not want to offend the Amiga Community.

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21.Sep.2000
AmiDog


AMP 2 version V2pre4 Released
A pre-version of the MPEG-Player AMP 2 was released, in which the problem of not functioning slides was fixed. The AC3 decoder can now be used for listening AC3Streams in DVD clips.

Download: AMP2pre4.lha

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21.Sep.2000
BoingWorld


Fnurr2000 Released
With Fnurr2000, an old, funny and very simple game was released. In this new programmed game you have to let small pixels explode. (Avoid homing pixels)

Download:fnurr2000.lha - 140 kb

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21.Sep.2000
Anu Seilonen on ANF


Finnish Amiga User Group Announces User Group Meeting
ESPOO, FINLAND - September 21, 2000 - Finnish Amiga Users Group will host its annual user group meeting on Saturday, September 30th from 14:00 h to 17:45 h in Espoo, Finland. The event will start with a formal meeting, and an informal part will follow after 15:30 o'clock.

An Amiga dealer will be present with various Amiga items for sale. The user group will also demonstrate the Amiga Software Development Kit on Linux. Other highlights include various Amiga magazines for reading, demonstration of licensed Amiga mobile phone covers and plenty of good company. Admission is free of charge and free soft drinks will be available.

Please visit the titlelink or our mirror site http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/ for instructions on how to get there, latest news, IRC coverage, webcam and more. E-mail inquiries may be sent to Anu Seilonen.

About the Finnish Amiga User Group:
Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in Finland. Also known as Saku. After its e-zine the group is trying to accomplish its goals by organizing meetings and by publishing an e-zine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga User Group and its predecessors have released over thirty issues of the magazine and held several public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet, a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.

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21.Sep.2000
The BaYona on ANF


MeterNet SimpleBox & TAO Press Release
New, Easy-to-Use, Solid State Internet Device Products Powered By Next Generation Amiga Technologies include Java® and Media Streaming Support. Snoqualmie, WA - Reno, NV-September 20, 2000 - Business Wire - Targeting the millions of computerless and offline consumers worldwide who will soon be broadband enabled, Amiga and MeterNet have teamed to develop and deliver a series of broadband SimpleBox Internet Devices powered by the next generation Amiga.

Tao Group: intentTM Official Support Centre to open in Japan

September 19, 2000 - Berkshire-based Tao Group Limited and Fujitsu Aichi Engineering Limited (Fujitsu AEL) have agreed to open an intent Official Support Centre in Japan, to provide technical support services for Japanese corporate users of Tao's intent, an extremely high performance multimedia JavaTM execution environment.
The JavaTM language is becoming increasingly popular in the Japanese consumer market, particularly in PDAs, set-top boxes and mobile Internet devices, and Tao's intent is making inroads due to its minimal memory footprint. intent is also proving successful because of its system-level binary portability across software and hardware platforms - a fundamental factor in the embedded market where there are so many different CPUs and operating systems.

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21.Sep.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail


Official Annoucement from Elbox
Contents of this pressrelease is a technical presentation (pro Mediator) vs. the Predator PCI busboard from Eyetech.

Because none of both PCI busboards is available at present we can not figure out the truth of this comparison.

Experience reports of users are welcome.

Elbox Computer
Krakow, 21 Sep 2000

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

We, Elbox Computer company, the company involved with microcomputer technology for over 18 years, the company with the principles of reliability, honesty and care for our clients, feel obliged to release this announcement to protect interests of Amiga users.

For several weeks now, the Eyetech company has been involved in a propaganda action against our breakthrough product for Amiga computers: the MEDIATOR PCI. Eyetech publish and disseminate untrue views on MEDIATOR, the exceptional busboard, and compare this high-end product with their announced device.

It is not our way to comment on others' activities, yet under the current circumstances we feel obliged to explain this situation and Eyetech's accusations to Amiga users and to comment on the idea indicated by Eyetech (or any other company behind the Eyetech nametag).

BLIZZARD PPC LOCAL BUS LIMITATIONS:

Eyetech announced releasing a product they called competitive to our MEDIATOR high-end card. Technical specification of this product has been announced in such a way that Amiga users would have to misread it.

The idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to Blizzard PPC cards gives worse performance than MEDIATOR because:
  1. This solution is only for owners of Blizzard PPC accelerators. You have to stick with your Blizzard PPC 603e for ever. No change, no open structure, no versatility.
  2. Practical average data transfers over the busboard connected directly to Blizzard PPC cards will not be higher than achieved with MEDIATOR - due to technical limitations of Blizzard PPC cards.
  3. Connection of a busboard to the connector used for inserting a BVision card renders further use of the BVision card impossible.

MEDIATOR OPEN SOLUTION:

The MEDIATOR high-end busboard is the best solution for Amiga computers to offer high-speed support for PCI cards.

The MEDIATOR busboard is a well-thought product, with long-standing history of design development and a vision for its lasting evolution, to give Amiga users power they have not had so far.

Our basic idea is that MEDIATOR is an OPEN solution, capable of hosting ANY turbo cards from the Amiga market. MEDIATOR is not reduced to a Blizzard PPC-bound concept. MEDIATOR gives you the possibility to have any turbo card you want.

MEDIATOR has been designed specifically for all the available cards and each and every turbo card works with MEDIATOR at the maximum speed available for the given card.

MEDIATOR PCI may offer transfer of data from/to any Amiga turbo card at the maximum speed of up to 132 MB/s. The only practical limitation lies in the design of the specific turbo card.

MEDIATOR is expandable, even more: it is ready for any new Amiga cards that will be available in the future - this gives you freedom that you have never had before.

You can use MEDIATOR with any turbo cards: Blizzard 1230, Blizzard 1240, Blizzard 1260, Blizzard PPC, Apollo 1230, Apollo 1240, Apollo 1260, Elbox 1230, MTec 1230, etc. and with any future concepts like Amijoe and more...

MEDIATOR ADVANTAGES:

MEDIATOR has been designed optimised for any turbo card type, so that the maximum possible performance is obtained in the given hardware configuration.

MEDIATOR automatically recognises the turbo card type and executes the best procedures to guarantee the highest performance possible in this configuration. This is an unrivalled feature.

This approach is much more time- and effort- and money-consuming than the concept of supporting Blizzard PPC cards only.

Besides, the idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to Blizzard PPC cards does not give you, the Amiga user, any additional speed gains when compared with MEDIATOR - you will only feel that Eyetech's design is simpler and possibly definitely cheaper.

We feel very sorry that Eyetech in this context is apparently discrediting MEDIATOR's performance while being well aware of their fallacy.

ABOUT ELBOX:

We have been developing and producing electronic equipment since 1982. Our superb Amiga designs include:
  • E-BOX tower systems and ZORRO busboards for A1200 and A4000 (also known as Power Tower in the UK and Winner Tower in Germany);
  • Elbox FastATA controllers for A1200 and A4000 (known also under the name of Power Flyer in the UK and Winner HighSpeed Controller in Germany);
  • Memory expansion cards for all types of Amiga computers and many other minor accessories, e.g. PC Mouse interfaces (Mroocheck, Punchinello), others.

Elbox is also the owner of Twin Spark Soft, a company producing software for Amiga computers (in the Polish language only). Besides Amiga devices, we design and produce industrial controllers (e.g. for injection moulding machines) and many other high-end devices in the fields of radio- and telecommunications (e.g. call systems, pagers, speech coding devices).

NEW:

Please look for our further releases about ELBOX products for Amiga computers to be on sale by the end of this year:
  1. MEDIATOR evolution line (A4000 and A3000);
  2. The TOTALLY NEW breakthrough turbo cards for Amiga computers (A4000, A3000, A1200).

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department

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20.Sep.2000
Vincent Perkins on ANF


AmigaNG.com Back Online!
AmigaNG is now back online after a long hollyday away. So please visit the Number 1 web site for info on the next generation of Amiga!

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20.Sep.2000
Marco Dittmann on ANF


Future of Warpgate in the Air
As the webmaster Andreas Wendorf told during an IRC interview yesterday, the future of Warpgate is in the air. He found fault both, the programmers and software companies acceptance, who only support the Warp9 team with news in an inadequate way.

The English news site all around the subjects of WarpOS and Warp3D, which was put online in March 1999 was already stopped once, and then was restarted again in February 2000 after numerous user requests.

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20.Sep.2000
Darkage Software


Darkage Software will Attend the Pianeta Amiga 2000
Darkage Software, the creators of games like "Tales from Heaven", "Powerball", "Extreme", and "Supreme" will attend the Amiga show "Pianeta Amiga 2000 expo", which will be held in Empoli, Itali, 30th September 30th to 1st October. Darkage will present previews of Powerball, and Supreme and also will introduce projects under development.

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20.Sep.2000
Apex Designs


New Payback Status Report
In this new status report the author James Daniels tells that the game now supports two CD playback modes, he mainly dealt with development of new levels, and new vehicles, and some bugs were fixed. Furthermore the game engine was optimized to make it faster, and a lot of graphics were redrawn, professionally.

James Daniels asks, if a support of PSX controllers is of interest, and he would like to get to know your opinion via eMail.

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20.Sep.2000
AmigaAMP


AmigaAMP 2.8 BETA-8 Released
Version 2.8 Beta-8 for the MPEG audio player "AmigaAMP" for Amiga was released. The author Thomas Wenzel notes that this update was done very fast, due to his Amiga needs to be repaired urgently, and it might take him one or two weeks to reply on e-mails.

A new config editor by Daniel Westernberg is available.

Download: AmigaAMP28b8.lha - 560 KB


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20.Sep.2000
Sebastian Bauer


SimplePac Version 1.2
A new version for the Workbench game SimplePac was released. New is the resizeable game window and a hiscore list. Furthermore own sounds, keyboard, and joystick are supported, now.

Download: simplepac.lzx - 73 KB

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20.Sep.2000
clickBOOM


Nightlong at the Duplicators now
In the so called S-File of clickBOOM Sofia announces Nightlong to be at the duplicators now, and the game to be available soon. Furthermore a movie (7 MB) of the toughest Amiga devotee is available for download.

Download: tattoo1.avi - 7 MB - The Toughest Amigan Movie

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20.Sep.2000
Michael Luense via eMail


New Addon for YAM
Michael Luense has finished a new addon for YAM. This is a little Arexx program which opens several requesters for e-mail editing or viewing and saving of attachments. The archive comes with both, an English and a German version.

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20.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Explorer Dissuasiveness: Trial and Net Demonstration
«At the county court Duesseldorf, Germany, today from 10 o'Clock the case Stefan Muenz vs Symicron company will be tried orally. Symicron claims him to have violated brand law by putting a link to FTP-Explorer. Muenz is the author of the widely spread online manual SELFHTML

«Financial support for Muenz comes from Freedom for Links (FFL). This society build from an internet intiative has already collected 50,000 DM of donations, which shall make possible a sample case against Symicron and their lawyer Guenter Freiherr von Gravenreuth through all instances. "Furthermore the FFL organised together with Muenz a net demonstraion. Website carriers are asked to displace their homepages with a ready made Demo-Site on Wednesday, adverting the case", said Uschi Hering, speaker of FFL, during a talk with c't. "There is vast reception. We have the impression that this is the first demonstration in the net working."»
Entire article at the titlelink (German).

Currently there are a number of 428 websites registered to participate. We will report on the case during this day.

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20.Sep.2000
Freedom for Links


Stefan Muenz Wins a Hop
Stefan Muenz was able to win a hop in the oral trial this morning at the county court Duesseldorf, Germany. The case is Stefan Muenz vs the Symicron company who charged Stefan Munez to have violated brand law by putting a link to FTP-Explorer into his Self-HTML. For details see the previous message on this subject.

The chief judge Dr. Fudickar: "We are tending not to presume a possibility of mistake in name between Explorer and FTP-Explorer."

Dr. Hans-Jochen Krieger: "So we would like to enforce your opinion."


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19.Sep.2000
Andreas Steup on ANF


ParaGlide News
According to an e-mail I recieved from Villagetronic, the Amiga section has been placed into competent hands:

"The Paraglide will be finished and produced by the developers themselves. (...) For more detailed information please ask burkert@sophisticated-development.de.

So perhaps something will happen within this year for the 3D hardware accelerator for the PicassoIV. Blittersoft already accepts preorders for the card.

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19.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


WarpGIF-Datatype Bugfixes
There is a major bugfix for WarpGIF-DT (v40.2), which fixes most of the known bugs.
  • corrupted pictures resulted in a crash due to a bug in the program
  • transparency now supported, IBrowse displays the correct pictures
  • the first frame should be loaded and displayed for most GIF anims
  • Only the global color palette is loaded right now, the local color palette is skipped
  • the OM_UPDATE method might return an undefined value occassionally, but this doesn't cause troubles until now


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19.Sep.2000
Thomas-Peter Klug on ANF


WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1
Download:

WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Win9x/2k (DirectX 5):
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.2_build_1_directx5.zip

WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Windows NT (DirectX 3):
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.2_build_1_directx3.zip

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18.Sep.2000
Martin Merz at ANF


MI-News: AppMI - 2. Update
AppMI is a collection of images and animations for toolbars that uses the GlowIcons-design.

The second update is completed, now.

The archive contains 64 new or reworked images and 4 new animations.

As an special feature we added the toolbar images for Photogenics. The archive will be released at the Aminet, too.

Registered users will get the archive via E-Mail.

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18.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Web Survey: Windows Way Ahead
As an exception we are citing the entire article from Heise.

«With the survey on the best operating system at MSNBX things turned in a wonderfull way. On Friday morning Linux still was ahead with 28% of 18,500 votes, as reported, and now the percentage of votes for the free operating system decreased to 3% of 384,848 votes, untill Sunday evening.

This survey took a curious way: Linux had its grand level at about 03:00 AM with 39%, of the up to that time given 29,100 votes a number of 11,350 belonged to the free operating system. Within the following 20 hours 126,500 votes more were given, of which only 800 voted for Linux (0.6%), stunningly. By that the percentage of votes for Windows 95/98/ME, as well as for NT/2000 was dubbled. Now some are getting suspicious that there must have happened some manipulation. Don't trust any statistics you didn't faked yourself.... »

Supplement 09-19-2000: Andreas Mixich via eMail
Microsoft accepted that the survey was manipulated and in the meantime it was removed leaving the following note:

EDITOR'S NOTE:
Sept. 18 MSNBC has removed the Live Vote originally published with this story due to what appeared to be electronic ballot stuffing. The Live Vote, which asked readers which personal computer operating system they think is the best, received a large influx of votes in the past few days, skewing the results. MSNBC has removed the Vote in light of this. MSNBC Live Votes are not scientifically valid surveys.

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18.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha     biz/dbase  116K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.4)
StarBase_CLI.lha     biz/dbase  104K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v3.7b)
StarBase_SCR.lha     biz/dbase  109K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v2.1b)
DalWatch.lha         comm/irc     3K+Interface to Server-side Notify on Dalne
lcr-i.lha            comm/misc  109K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
lcr.lha              comm/misc  112K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
Emperor.lha          dev/c      491K+Object-oriented programming language
checkstack.lha       dev/debug   33K+CheckStack tool for WarpUP including Sou
FD2Pragma.lha        dev/misc   126K+V2.112 creates pragma, inline, ... files
xad_ar.lha           dev/src      9K+Ar(1) xadmaster client
xad_bzip.lha         dev/src     14K+Bzip xadmaster client
xad_CAB.lha          dev/src     43K+Cabinet (CAB) xadmaster client
xad_DImp.lha         dev/src     11K+DImp xadmaster client
xad_MSA.lha          dev/src      7K+Magic Shadow (MSA) xadmaster client
xad_ZAP.lha          dev/src      9K+ZAP xadmaster client
reindeer.txt         docs/anno    1K+A distributed rendering project
SameGame.lha         game/think  15K+Addictive puzzle game with coloured ball
WBArmy.lha           game/wb    211K+Like Scorched Tanks, but in WB window.
Nostalgia.lha        misc/emu   201K+THE Multi-Emulation system (1.8)
cutquotes.lha        misc/imdb    9K+Cuts 'quotes.list' entries down to Movie
imdbDiff000908.lha   misc/imdb  2.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
DA3Demo.lha          misc/sci   2.6M+Demo of Digital Almanac III
RandomScenery.lha    util/boot   15K+More than just workbench backdrops
TurboVal.lha         util/boot   17K+The best validator for FFS (v1.9)
Resistor.lha         util/misc   50K+Code&Decode the color rings at resistors
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   28K+Identifies your Amiga
Safe.lha             util/virus  18K+Safe v14.2 - virus dicovering system
Dynamite.lha         util/wb     57K+Start button and explorer in one. Fast.


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18.Sep.2000
Amitrix


AWeb-II News
For a longer time there were no news about AWeb-II, a browser by Yvon Rozijn, distributed by Amitrix Development. Today there are some.

Michael Lange informed us about some reports about a AWeb 3.4 betaversion at the AWeb-mailinglist. But he has no informations about new features.

You can find a new norwegian version of the AWeb-II localization catalogues and updateted versions of some plugins. Furthermore they have now an extra page for the AWeb-Mailinglist.

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18.Sep.2000
GoldED


GoldED Studio 6: Extended Distribution
The following distibutors will offer GoldED Studio:


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18.Sep.2000
Bright Light Software


Audiomaster2k and AmiMDC800 Updates
At the software area you find updates of Audiomaster2K, a sample editor. The software is shareware and with the alphaversion 0.52a available for download you will not be able to save your work.

AmiMDC-800 were updated, too. The new release has the version number 1.73. You can use this program to control your Mustek MDC-800 and transfer pictures to your computer. Because the software is a commercial product you, will not be able to transfer pictures with the downloadable version.

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18.Sep.2000
MakeCD Support


MakeCD 3.2d Beta 3 Released
The new public betaversion 3.2d Beta 3 for MakeCD, a CD burning program for Amiga, is available now. The archive contains only the new binaries. That's why you need version 3.2c for installaling the new version (have a look at the History).

Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_3.lha

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18.Sep.2000
Olaf Köbnik


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
Amiga Arena presents MusicMan III as a special Amiga Arena version. Together with Andreas Mair we made a free registration possible (MusicMan III is shareware. 30 DM is the normal price.) MusicMan III is a software for managing your LP-, CD-, MC- and single collection.

Amiga Arena - E.N.D. Part II
Marko Seppaenen, developer of ImageEngineer, leaves the Amiga ! So, once again we are loosing a developer!

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18.Sep.2000
Harald Frank on ANF


ISDN-Mon V4 Available
At the time being Dirk Tietke is not able to maintain his homepage and to fix the known problems with broken links. Furthermore it is not possible to say when he will be able to access his webserver with his Amiga computer again, and to provide new updates.

That's the reason why we made the archive available at our own downloadside.

This leads to the download site

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18.Sep.2000
Manfred Rauer on ANF


COMA, Is That a Virus?
NO! COMA is the name of the new clubmagazin (German) of the "Allgemeiner ComputerClub Magdeburg" (AccM). Presumably it will be published on the 7th of october 2000 at our homepage. The first issue will feature a report about the exhibition in Neuss, a HTML-Tutorial and much more. But it should not be a AccM-Magazin only, everyone who wants to write something is invited to write articles. The articles could be about new hardware, commentaries about up-to-date problems, jokes, comicstrips or what ever you would like to write about.

And because we are a general computer club you do not have to write about Amiga the articles can even be about PC or MAC or any other computer or OS. The last date for articles for issue number 2 is the 1st october 2000. But we are still looking for authors for the upcoming issues.

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17.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


Pinball Fantasies AGA and advertising games
Among other things you can download original Amiga games at Amiga Land for which an appropriate license is given.

Newly added ist the pinball game Pinball Fantasies AGA and the following advertising games:
Bifi-Snack Zone, Bifi 2-Actionin Hollywood
HelicopterMission
Tony and his friends
Tricky Quicky
Sony Game
Karamalz Cup.

Regarding the emulators the up-to-date versions of WinUAE and WinFellow Alpha 0.4.1 have been added.

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17.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


WarpGIF-Datatype
The first GIF datatype for WarpOS is now freely available for all PPC-Amigas.

After datatypes for JPEG and PNG under WarpOS (done by Oliver Roberts and Andreas Kleinert) this datatype now closes the gap for the widely spread GIF format.

According to Achim Stegemann this GIF datatype is speedwise around twice as fast as the original Gif-DT of the OS 3.5.

At the moment only OS 3.1 and 3.5 are supported. OS 3.0 follows later on.

For further information (and download) see titlelink.

Download: WarpGIF-DT.lha

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17.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


Impressions of the d'Amiga
At Fun Time World Robbie Schaefer has published his impressions of the Amiga developer computer d'Amiga. The report (German) describes the given hard- and softwarecomponents.

Fun Time World is pleased about sendings of further experience reports

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17.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


GBE V0.4.8b
On 17 September 2000 Mathias Roslund has published the version 0.4.8b of his port of the Gameboy emulator GBE for PPC-Amigas. The emulator itself is developed by Chuck Mason and Steven Fuller.

In this version the memory problem has been solved and triple buffering has been added.

The emulator supports all Z80-Opcodes and the Gameboy Color. It runs on PPC-Amigas with WarpUp V4.0+, 8 MB RAM and AGA or CGfX.

Download:


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17.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


Report about SEAL-O-RAMA
Gary Storm of SEAL has published an extensive report about the SEAL-O-RAMA, in which among other things he talks about the individual exhibitors. All together around 190 people have visited the show. This number exceeded the desired number of visitors.

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17.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


PLANET online again
After a break of four months, due to technical problems, the french Amiga magazin "PLANET" is online again.

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17.Sep.2000
Bernd Gmeiner ANF


AMI Sector One Updated
Bernd Gmeineder writes:

This time we have got permission from the companies "Talking Birds" (known for football manager games) and "Polarware" (once specialised in adventure games) to offer their Amiga game on our site for download. Some of the games of these firms, like "Oo Topos (Adventure, already released in 1986 in the USA) and "Der Trainer" (german football manager with very good reviews in "Amiga Joker" and "Amiga Games") are now ready for download.

Further on other games, for example "Dungeon Krampfer", "Thromulus" and others, have been added.

Besides these credits concerning around 200 more Amigagames were integrated in the searchable database. The music section was updated with new soundtracks of Amiga games like "Lethal XCess", and more.

Around 60 hires cover scans of classic Amiga games are finishing this update.

The URL for all this is: http://www.emucamp.com/amiga/.

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17.Sep.2000
SEAL


Clubbed issue #6 out
On 16 September 2000 SEAL has released issue #6 of their own club magazin.

With 48 pages it is teh biggest issue, yet. It contains among other things a feature about accelerator cards, reviews of PageStream 4 and Heretic II and a new hints part.

For details regarding the magazin including where to get follow the titlelink.

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17.Sep.2000
Codepoet on ANF


WinUAE V0.8.14 R3
On 16. September 2000 version 0.8.14 Release 3 of the Windows port of the Amiga emulator UAE was released. Compared with the last version the following things have been changed:
  • FIXED: Stupid bug with GUI (F12) when in full-screen mode.
  • FIXED: Stupid Picasso96 slow-down in Release 2
  • FIXED: Stupid Picasso96 bug with menu painting in Release 2
  • ADDED: French GUI DLL to installer

Download: WinUAE0814R3.exe

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17.Sep.2000
Fabio Trotta on AFN


New Screenshots and Arcadia Interview Translation
Fabio Trotta wrote:
On the pages of No Risc No Fun you can find new screenshots of various games. The German translation of the English spoken Arcadia interview is also online. And a small surprise is waiting for you, too.

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17.Sep.2000
HArald Frank on ANF


VMC's Technical Library is Online
Harald Frank wrote:
Since today our hardware dictionnary is online at last, where every in our products technical interested user or programmer may find everything what is needed to write drivers for Linux, NetBSD or other operating systems which exist for Amiga.

Should there be a lack of important information or you have some ideas and suggestions concerning these sites, then please write an email to support@vmc.de

If you know a Linux or NetBSD programmer who is capable of porting drivers to one of these systems or, even better, has already written successfully own drivers, then inform him kindly about our new dictionnary pages with the request for a port of the missing drivers. We'll give as much technical help as is possible to everybody who wants to do this.

I think, with your support we'll be able to point all waiting users to new drivers for Linux and NetBSD.

This leads you to the Technical Library.

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17.Sep.2000
Tomás J. Cantó


Spanish Version of amiga-news.de reworked
The spanish version of amiga-news.de will now be regularly updated, again.

The first collected experiences when doing the translation showed that the first system chosen to do the work with was not the best suited to keep the messages regularly up to date. So a new and more dynamic Website was developed.

This can be reached at the known URL: http://www.amiga.es.org/amiganewsde.html. For its use a browser with IFRAME-support is needed.

For the creating of this page help is looked for. Everybody with interest in anticipating on this site can mail to Tomás J. Cantó.

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17.Sep.2000
CD32-Allianz via Email


AmigaNG Programs Overview Updated
The CD32 Alliance wrote:

And again the AmigaNG programs overview was updated (dated: 17.9.2000) and contains now all programs that were released since the appearing of the AmigaSDK.

Since the last update 3 programs were added, so that now 70 NG programs are registered.

From now on the AmigaNG programs overview will be updated every sunday. I ask you to consider this.

Urgently german owners of the AmigaSDK are wanted to write reviews about some of the already released NG programs or to introduce NG programs.

Furthermore we search owners of the new d'AMIGA to introduce this also with a detailed review.

To speed up the development of programs for the AmigaNG programmers are wanted who can create a comprehensive workshop about the programming using the new AmigaSDK.

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17.Sep.2000
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


Safe V14.2
The virus scanner Safe now exists as version 14.2 and can be downloaded. The documentation is now in HTML. The following has changed:
  • fixed again REBOOT for 040 - I hope for the last time :-P
  • selfname detecting system fixed a little bit,

Name : Safe V14.2
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archice size : 17.927 bytes
Release date : 17 September 2000
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info : Needs xvs.library V33.23

Download: Safe.lha
readme

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17.Sep.2000
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


VirusWarning-Guide V3.1
The VirusWarning-Guide can now be downloaded as version 3.1. New are all virus warnings of the recent time. Besides that some new things were added.

Name : VirusWarning.Guide V3.1
Archive name : vht-vg31.lha
Archive size : 86.531 bytes
Release date : 17 September 2000
Programmer : Virus Help Denmark

Download: vht-vg31.lha

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17.Sep.2000
AmigaFlame


Puzzle Adventure 'BUBBLE HEROES' Out!
A new game for the AMIGA - this has become a very rare event nowadays.

The more pleasant is this message from the british WebZine AmigaFlame: a puzzle adventure in the style of 'BubbleBobble' was presented by CrystalInteractiveSoft at this year's SealORama.

Informations about the gameplay, a short summary of the game and some impressive screenshots of 'BubbleHeroes' are to find at the titltelink.

To everybody who wants to buy the game this page also offers an email link to the distributor.

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16.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


New Amiga Designs
At the titlelink, some inofficial design references for new Amiga products by Zenon Olenski are available.

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16.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


Java Developer Tools released by Espial
Espial, a partner of Amiga, releases some developer tools for Java. This should push software development for mobile systems. Devicetop.com is meant as portal for developers of Java based applications, especially for mobile systems. Users can exchange experiences in several forums, for Amiga too.

The following programs have been released:
  • Espial Architect v.3.0 is a visual development environment for Java that enables users to rapidly develop graphically rich applications for smart devices
  • Espial Espresso v.3.2 is a rich suite of GUI components targeted for use in the development of smart device application services and user interfaces
  • Espial Escape v.4.5 is a small footprint full-featured web browser for smart devices that supports all the latest web standards
  • Espial Devicetop v.2.0 is a smart device service platform that leverages the Java language into a powerful service platform

The tools are available for several platforms, and can be downloaded from Devicetop.com: Tools.

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16.Sep.2000
Dirk Baeyens on ANF


Belgium Amiga Newsletter
There is a new version of the newsletter from the "Amiga Club Genk" in Belgium. It is the acgmail nr. 85 and is in Flemish/Dutch.

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16.Sep.2000
AmigActive


AmigActive - online is Back
"We must apologise for not updating the web site or announcing anything on our announcement mailing list recently. We have been extremely busy producing Amiga Active over the last couple of months, and our on-line presence has had to take a back seat for the time being."

"Our new web site is taking shape - but again, work on this has had to take a back seat recently - and you can expect to see it before the end of September. We hope so."

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16.Sep.2000
Olaf Köbnik via e-mail


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - E.N.D.! (Evil Never Dies)
It's more than sad that the few Amiga users still have to face pirate copies, fake keys etc. taking away the fun! Every pirate copy does it's share in further developments being cancelled! It's a nuisance that you have (are forced to) face this problem on the Amiga. This doesn't really improve motivation! Who Cares? :-(

Matrix Hunter - Amiga Arena Version!
In cooperation with Christian Steiner, the registered version of Matrix Hunter is available for download. Matrix Hunter is a shooter and one of the first games by Christian Steiner, author of Sharks!

Amiga Arena - Burning Business
The special price for PhotoAlbum / Cybershow has been extended to October 31st, 2000!

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15.Sep.2000
Mick via eMail


OpusGIBar with own Domain
OpusGIBar now also has an own domain and is accessible at http://opusgibar.free.fr/, from now.

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15.Sep.2000
Stefan Ossowski


Aminet Games CD-ROM Released
The Aminet Games includes almost 1 GB (decrunched) of the best games from Aminet inside of more than 1500 archives. Almost every game can be run directly by a simple click, and do not need to installed further!

In addition and as further highlight there are 70 commercial games on the CD: Gloom 3, Max Rally, XTreme Racing, and Gamer's Delight 2. enthalten: Gloom 3, Max Rally, XTreme Racing und Gamer's Delight 2.

On this sepcial CD of the Aminet series every enthusiastic gamer can find what his heart desires. An exclusive selection of the best games of all times, of all genres.

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15.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
xtm-twirl.lha        biz/dkg     71K+Additional texture for Extreme
CandyPro103b.lha     biz/patch  747K+Update CandyFactoryPro V1.03b (15.12.99)
MCP_v1.33_fix.lha    biz/patch    2K+MCP v1.33 install fix
TruncateMail.lha     comm/mail    9K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
YAT.lha              comm/mail  510K+Yet Another collection of Taglines for Y
NullTCP.lha          comm/tcp     6K+Amiga<->Win9x TCP/IP using null-modem.Up
T-Rexx.lha           comm/tcp   105K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
GuiSGML.lha          comm/www    79K+SGML/HTML Templating Tool, Graphical Mar
Lynx.lha             comm/www   790K+WWW Browser,v.284dev9 (works with m68k)
qtz-SMOS.lha         demo/intro   2K+Quartz-Sensible Moon Of Soccer cracktro
DLL.lha              dev/basic   42K+Dynamic Linked List Sources for Blitz
65816_20.lzh         dev/cross  189K+65816 (SNES) assembler & disassembler
audio_in_e.lha       dev/e       17K+Audio examples using audio and ahi devic
mpega_in_e.lha       dev/e        5K+Example how to use mpega.library with Am
ColorWheel.lha       dev/gui     27K+Hi-/truecolor colorwheel.gadget (44.7)
GradientSlider.lha   dev/gui      7K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.5)
mrq_library.lha      dev/src     79K+Fast C2P + CGX procedures for games, dem
gadget45.lha         docs/mags  429K+German Freeware Magazine
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (11 Sept
SWOSpl_11.lha        game/data   16K+SWOS - Polish League AND some advertisin
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  216K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
KC.lha               game/role   93K+Create your hero for RPG Krysztaly Czasu
PureBrain.lha        game/think 162K+Put back the symbols in the right order.
PfPaint_ENG.lha      gfx/edit    29K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha      gfx/edit    32K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
PfPaint_V22.lha      gfx/edit   900K+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
Mentat.lha           misc/edu   199K+Mentat 0.5.2 english2english Longman dic
ChipEm.lha           misc/emu    71K+Chip 8 v0.4 Emulator by Balrog Soft
GBE.lha              misc/emu    78K+GameBoy/GameBoy Color emulator for WarpU
lotto-v8.lha         misc/misc   94K+UK National Lottery Database v8 inc. 
rno-r045.lha         mods/misc  562K+Rno-label release no.45 by kure&stefan (
Eldorado.mpg         mods/mpg   5.1M+Eldorado County by Vincent & McGahey
rno-r046.mpg         mods/mpg   3.3M+Rno-label release no.46 by FarFar (Chill
tek_mtone.lha        mods/techn  57K+Monotone - minimalistic stomper
Pegase.lha           mus/misc   203K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
rsss.lha             mus/misc    75K+Realtime Sound Synthesis System (preview
EP_MFP.lha           mus/play    10K+EaglePlayer "Magnetic Fields Packer" ext
PlayGUI.lha          mus/play   574K+GUI for HIPPO,MPEGA,PLAY16 AND GMPLAY!
Granade.mpg          pix/3dani  6.1M+Animation of a hand granade
shoot.lha            pix/anim   2.3M+Working on our latest film.
crazyGranny.lha      pix/mpg    529K+Mpeg anim of my granny playing football
scene3.lha           pix/mpg    2.1M+Scene from the set of an upcoming film.
SarajevoNight.jpg    pix/views   54K+768x512, Sarajevo at night (2000)
Zagreb.jpg           pix/views   71K+768x512, Zagreb (2000)
FreeEd.lha           text/edit  190K+This is a simple text editor. (It has a 
ascii2jascii.lha     text/misc   17K+Converts ASCII to Japanese ASCII
Kill0D.lha           text/misc    2K+Remove PC CR+LF End-Of-Lines and replace
DSLT02.lha           text/print  20K+DrawStudio's Templates for labels 02 v1.
HexShow.lha          util/cli     4K+Shows files as Hex
muitoolkit_src.lha   util/libs   48K+V1.1 - The MUI Toolkit library SRC (FREE
arc2arc27.lha        util/rexx    4K+Convert any archive format easily
cdmp.lha             util/rexx   22K+Helps to create mp3 from CD's (german)
BosnianLocale.lha    util/wb     27K+Bosnian AmigaOS 3.1 localization v2
CopyIcon44.lha       util/wb      6K+CopyNewIcon clone for os3.5 (44.3)
DefIcons44.lha       util/wb     64K+DefIcons clone for os3.5 (44.6a)
Image2Icon.lha       util/wb     19K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.8


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15.Sep.2000
Harald Frank on ANF


HyperCOM Magic Update with IOBlix Emulation
Beta-test HyperCOM 2.96B1 Magic-Update
With the new HypeCOM update we are making a lot of new functions official at once, hence there is a big chance for problems to occur which we did not realise up to now.

As substitute for the old SilverSurfer software we are now officially offering a support via the hyperCOM1.device from version v2.96B1, which has been enhanced or made faster in all parts compared to the old silversurfer.device.

On of the most important new functions now is an implemented IOBlix software emulation, which allows some programs and drivers to be used with the extremely compatible HyperCOM boards, at last.

Here are some examples on what already works:
  • ScanQuix5 parallel Scanner-Support
  • Camouflage 8x parallel Midi-Interface
  • RBM AmStrong USV
  • IOBlix ioblixzip.device for IO-Mega parallel ZIP-Drives

Within the next days the technical part of the emulation will be enhanced further, so that surely even more applications and drivers can be used with the HyperCOM boards.

ATTENTION!
In order to be able to use the IOBlix software emulation the vmcresource.library must be loaded by one of our drivers (hyperCOMx.device oder hyperPAR.device)!

Download page

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15.Sep.2000
Amidog


New AMP2-PreRelease
New pre-version for the MPEG-player AMP2 with enhanced search function.

Download: AMP2pre3.lha - 125 KB

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15.Sep.2000
Amiga Future


New Beta-Version for AmiTradeCenter
A new beta-version for ATC now allows also to save the position of every window. Furthermore some bugs have been fixed. The titlelink points directly to the download (280 KB).

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15.Sep.2000
AROS-ML


AROS - Status
AROS (Amiga Research OS), the system independent open source new implementation of the AmigaOS is now bootable as the native version, and one can already do mouse moving on the screen. Since there still is no filesystem no programs can be executed. Currently it is being tried to get the source code of SFS; the author was positive about this idea, but first wants to fix some bugs.

More details, e.g. the trial to port AROS to UAE using JIT, you can find at the titlelink.

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14.Sep.2000
HellCoder of HellHound


Fighter Model for Virtual Fighting finished
The fighter basic model for the Game "Virtual Fighting" is ready for beta testing. The fighting game runs on Workbench and needs a PPC, as well as a graphics board with CyberGraphX. At the titlelink there is also a snapshot of the model.

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14.Sep.2000
BTTR-Team via eMail


Back to the Roots Amiga-News
With the today update at "Back to the Roots" we are proving that this site is something for everybody worldwide, no matter which land you are from or which language you are speaking - there is something for everybody who is interested in Amiga, Amiga emulations or the demo scene!

We are able to present both of the Spanish adventure games, "La Aventura Original" and "La Diosa de Cozumel" from Aventuras AD. From Denmark comes the funny Troll "Hugo" who might especially please kids, while the French company Lankhor provides us with both, the German and English version of the classic "Mortville Manor", and with "Black Sect" they even gave an absolut rarity in addition. And as a special surprise there now is even the CD32 version of the classic adventure "Beneath a Stell Sky" for free and legal download. And as always, we only told about some of the new games.

Of course, as absolute demo freaks we never would forget the demo scene with our updates. Therefor there are among others two brand-new demos from Scoopex and Spaceballs for the - you listen and are astonished - Amiga500 for download! Furthermore many classic demos and newer demos for ECS+AGA Amigas/emulators were added.

For the friends of music among us there is a big Jesper Kyd Special - the well known musician of the group "The Silents". From Hannes Seifert (Whale's Voyage) or Matthias Stenzhorn (Brainman) comes music from computer games. We even were able to find a remix of the popular music from Monkey Island 2. And the graphisc fetishists should have a look at the marvelous pictures by scene artists like Flood, Nomad or Acryl.

That's all for today. Have a lot of fun with the new "food".

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14.Sep.2000
Soren Ladegaard on ANF


CommodoreBillboard.com is launched!
The internet's largest collection of Commodore adverts, brochures and TV-commercials has been launched yesterday. The intention is to preserve this valuable material from the early days of Commodore computing, before the originals get lost. High quality, full screen scans only. Great TV-ads and promotional videos. Material in both English, Italian and Danish.

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14.Sep.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


Last Chance to vote for Jay Miner for the Hall of Fame
As amiga-news.de already reported, Jay Miner was nominated for the Computer Hall of Fame. Unfortunatly he was fallen back to position 16. That would mean that he dropped out! Please, vote for him before it is too late!

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14.Sep.2000
Eyetech Group Ltd on ANF


Predator PCI / AGP / SDRAM / G3 / G4 expansion board update
We (Eyetech) have released news regarding our Predator board, featuring PCI, AGP, SDRAM, and a G3 / G4 version. Full details are available on our website (see titlelink).

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14.Sep.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF


Zophar.Net Poll Finished
The survey on the emulator site Zophar.net was finished. The wish to get information about emulators for Amiga with 13% of votes came to rank 3. Here the "official" final results:
  • Which new area would you like to see at ZD?
  • 13% (661 votes) Emulators for Amiga
  • 10% (525 votes) Emulators for Palm Pilot
  • 11% (551 votes) Computer Hardware Reviews
  • 12% (600 votes) Other Music Files (SID, etc.)
  • 26% (1297 votes) I would add all of the above!
  • 25% (1231 votes) I don't need anything of this, ZD shall reside as it is.
  • Votes over all: 4865

The chances are good to get all of the areas added, in future.

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14.Sep.2000
Haage & Partner


ArtEffect Workshop overworked
Due to further development of ArtEffect there were some little discrepancies in the old workshop, which now have been fixed. Furthermore the layout was changed completely. 12 chapters are introducing both, interesting functions and effects of ArtEffect: Workshop.

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14.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


European Parlament are giving a favourable opinion on Software-Patents
«The board of directors of the european parlament (EPA) have given a favourable opinion on an unrestricted possibility to patent software. According to the Handelsblatt the authority recommends to withdraw the stipulation that computer applications "as such" are not possible to patent from the European Patent Agreement. .»

«Programmers of free software, as well as smaller software companies are against software patents, cause potential danger of patent suits by big companies would make their work practically impossible. These a days big American companies are already saving a lot of patents on partly trivial developments - they are doing so also to resist against other companies upbraiding patent violation. But free developers and small companies are not in funds to use such a strategy. Thus they have started an Allianz against Software-Patents

I realy recommend everybody, who is interested in that also small software companies can continue to work without allways being afraid of patent suits, to participate in the Petition against Software-Patents by voting. Up to now there have been 38,478 votes! (ps)

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13.Sep.2000
Multiuser Homepage


New and Cleaned Patch for muFS
Multiuser is the progress of Multiuser Filesystem (muFS). Sensitive data can be saved from foreign access or from deleting. This patch requires AmigaOS3.5 and Multiuser v1.8.

Download:


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13.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


Aminet Uploads
attall.lha           comm/mail   23K+Infos about attachment in yam e-mail
attinfo.lha          comm/mail   24K+Creates a logfile from selected mail
amigalog.lha         comm/misc   51K+Simple Amateur Radio Logbook 
TcpSpeed.lha         comm/tcp    23K+Measure the TCP throughput of a TCP chan
wpz-frozen32.lha     demo/aga   616K+Frozen#32 - Fuck Ya Party Edition
wpz-frozen35.lha     demo/aga   941K+Frozen#35 - LTP4 Party Edition
znn_lowb.lha         demo/aga   123K+Short intro by khaos of zenon
ltx-intros.lha       demo/intro 245K+Bugfixed intros from Latex (a must for C
PureBasic.lha        dev/basic  572K+V1.60 - Brand new powerful programming l
PureBasic_Upd.lha    dev/basic  523K+V1.60 - Update for registered users (fro
EuroChamp.lha        docs/misc   33K+Statistics of soccer Euro Champs '60-'00
F1Champ.lha          docs/misc   59K+Statistics of Formula One '50-'00
WorldCup.lha         docs/misc  115K+Statistics of soccer World Cups '30-'98
AtomicTetris.lzh     game/2play 198K+AtomicTetris PC clone
bauer.lha            game/misc   85K+Farm simulation (German necessary)
vlab_macro.lha       gfx/conv    52K+VLab-Macro V 1.1 Convert YUV + VLAB to I
cnetdevice.lha       hard/drivr 134K+PCMCIA Network Card driver. V1.4
imdbDiff000901.lha   misc/imdb  4.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
tek_pnoia.lha        mods/techn 227K+Paranoia - psycho intelligent drum
tek_vacum.lha        mods/techn  58K+Vacuum - minimalistic move
Pegase.lha           mus/misc   204K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
tek_aos35.lha        pix/boot   516K+AmigaOS 35 - rainboot2 config (upd2nd)
tek_aos35_prv.jpg    pix/boot    33K+Amigaos 35 - rainboot2 pview (upd2nd)
tek_rwb85.lha        pix/boot   1.4M+Workbench 85 - rainboot2 config (upd2nd)
tek_rwb85_prv.jpg    pix/boot    90K+Workbench 85 - rainboot2 pview (upd2nd)
AntiBlanker.lha      util/blank   9K+A tool that disables your screen blanker
PPS.lha              util/boot   48K+Password Protection for your WB / No mor
Rainboot3.lha        util/boot  864K+Multimedia Has Got A Name v3.0
Scheduler.lha        util/cdity  33K+Schedule manager and viewer, v1.8
DiskLED1.2.lha       util/cli    15K+DiskLED V1.2 + Source(asm), Moves the LE
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) 
WarpPNGdt.lha        util/dtype 131K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) 
TransPrefs171.lha    util/sys    15K+Translator Prefs (German) 
simpleclock.lha      util/time   17K+Version 1.5 of the analog clock (OS3.5)
tv-prog.lha          util/wb    306K+(PL/CZ) TV programe on computer! [v0.80]


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13.Sep.2000
Kickstart


Pics from the SealORama 2000
The SealORama 2000 - after Neuss, Germany, the second important AMIGA Event this year.

The KICKSTART-UserGroup was there on September, 9th; see some atmospheric photographs from this hard and software show at which a demo version for the new adventure game 'Gilbert Goodmate' was presented.

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13.Sep.2000
Halvadjian Georges on ANF


PerfectPaint V2.2
The update for PerfectPaint V2.2 is available at the titlelink. With PerfectPaint you can draw, and edit your pictures (1-24Bit) and animations.

New with this version:
  • Works well with VisualPrefs and MagicMenu
  • Improve ToolBox with Fast color selection and Fast brush selection.
  • Little bug corrected with the arexx command: pp_Plot
  • Bug corrected when sending picture to TurboPrint
  • pp_StencilStat
  • pp_StencilOn
  • pp_StencilOff
  • New Box Arexx Scripts: MotionBlur,RotateBlur,ZoomBlur,Puzzle
  • Improve Box Arexx Script: Neon, Ectachrome and Fresco.
  • Effect Under/Spare works well with CMAP picture
  • Fixed a bug whith perspective when (rotx or roty)=90 or -90
  • New function: Fix Brush
  • Fixed a small bug with FloodFill
  • CMAP Deep Brush is load correctly
  • Bug fixed when you use brush+Effect in CMAP mode
  • Load and Save: Raw 24bits, Sculpt 24bits or Grey
  • Better window detection (more system friendly)
  • Improve cloud effect: Range color can be use to create clouds
  • New effect: Liquid
  • New tools: Rubber stamp, finger, RealTime paint, Sponge, Burn.


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13.Sep.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF


S/P-DIF (Digital-Out) for Melody: That's the Way it Works
Only eight low priced components you can purchase e.g. at Reichelt are keeping the Melody1200 from having digital output (Melody-Z2, CDTV and CD32 would be possible, too).. This is a slightly changed article from C't 18/2000 (German computer magazine).

At first exclusive for amiga-news: Manual on how to get the Melody digital output (German).

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13.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail


Earth 2140
epic interactive announces portation to the Amiga of the successful realtime strategy game "Earth 2140". epic has got the license from Topware Interactive AG to port one of the most popular realtime strategy game for Windows to Mac and Amiga. The Amiga version is currently at an early beta state and release is estimated for early November.

Since Earth runs in 16Bit it requires high level hardware: at least an Amiga with 68040 processor, graphics board and 16MB of RAM. But recommended is an Amiga PPC with graphics board and 32MB of RAM.

Earth plays in the year 2140. The earth is controlled by two competing forces, the Eurasian Dynasty (ED) and the United Civilised States (UCS). Both are at war with each other fighting for the last remaining raw materials on earth.... The Amiga version comes with different localisations, including German.

Screenshots:

earth01.jpg (45627 bytes)

earth09.jpg (38713 bytes)

earth11.jpg (42769 bytes)

earthmenu.jpg (53326 bytes)

Features:
  • 50 Thrilling Missions
  • 640x480 or 800x600 with 65.000 Colours
  • 70 Different Units and Buildings
  • Multiplayer Mode
  • Stereo Soundtrack with CD Quality
  • 7 Minutes Intro, Breathtaking Inter-Sequences

Up to Oktober, 15th Earth 2140 can be preordered from us. At Amiga Fire from next week you will find regular status reports on the beta state of Earth 2140.

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13.Sep.2000
AmigaImpact


Adventure-Game 'Gilbert Goodmate'
Our French sister-site AmigaImpact announced on September, 10th the presentation of the adventure 'GILBERT GOODMATE' by Crystal Interactive Software at the 'SealORama' - unfortunatly only a PC version will be presented.

But the distributor endeavours to being able to publish the Amiga version (PPC) within this year. To observe this plans an additional developer is needed. People who are interested can get in contact with andy@crystal-software.com.

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13.Sep.2000
AmiDog


Update for the Gameboy-Emulator GBE at AmiDog
A new version for the Gameboy-Emulator GBE for PPC Amigas was released at "AmiDog's Emulation Corner". This one supports emulation of sound, and compatibility was enhanced.

GBE.lha

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13.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


Digital Almanac III News
Due to some putative bug reports on the DA III pages one page with "Tips and Tricks" has been added, which makes using DA III more easy.

Because of several problems no demo version for DA III could be placed at Aminet up to now, but this will be done once more during next days.

With the next issue of Amiga Aktuell (10/2000) a full version of DA III will be offered as raffle price.

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13.Sep.2000
IrseeSoft


TurboPrint 7.13beta with Enhanced Drivers
At IrseeSoft a new version for TurboPrint with enhanced printer drivers was released. This version 7.13 still is beta and only available in English.

New with version 7.13:
  • Enhanced Driver for Epson Stylus Photo, Photo700, PhotoEX (1440dpi)
  • Enhanced Driver for HP DeskJet 890 and 895 (also working with DJ 810, 830, 840, 880)
  • Better Duplex Support for HP DeskJet 970

For download see title link.

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13.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


Amster News
At the Amster homepage the new IP addresses of the Napster server were published. An Arexx script matched to these, MakeServerList.rexx, is available for download. With Amster you have the possibility to access many MP3 files.

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13.Sep.2000
Mark Wilson


AmiBench News
From now AmiBench is accessible at several domains:

http://www.AmiBench.com
http://www.AmiBench.net
http://www.AmiBench.org
http://Ami.Bencher.org

All of theses domains are online and working, you can choose. By this we say thank you to Tudo Davies for his support.

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13.Sep.2000
Marvin Droogsma


Petro's Aspect of the Story...
AmigaScene from the Netherlands has asked Petro Tyschtschenko on the start of his company and put his answers on ANF to notify:

«First of all many greetings from AmigScene and AGGF from the Netherlands!
We stumbled upon the story of your new company and the relating comment from Bill McEwen. We sure just could publish this, but befor doing so we want to have your story on this. Also if you cannot say anything about it, we ask you for reply. Regards from your dutch followers! Marvin Droogsma»

Petro Tyschtschenko's reply:

«I do not intent to leave my beloved Amiga and to flee from the community by this. It is right that I have taken a 50% share in the Power Service GMBH as an inactive partner to spend my evening of life in financial independence, as I hope so at least. After all I am already 57 years old and so one have to think of this. Still my entire strength belongs to the Amiga and I have not done anything unlawful at the expense of Amiga, at all. It is no crime to take a financial share in a company in whose targets I believe, isn't it. In this sense, your Petro»

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12.Sep.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF


Mirror of the Frogger MPEG Player homepage online
Due to problems with routing the domain to Germany, Marco Frischkorn offered the programmers of Frogger webspace, so the site and downloads are more easily available; think of this as a mirror.

Fact is: the page is now also available at www.highantdev.de/frogger/.

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12.Sep.2000
Jean-Marc Mossu on ANF


L'Amiga? une passion, c'est tout...
For our French readers this hint to a French Amiga site:
Venez voir ce site, si vous êtes Amigaïstes. traductions, articles, news... En français..

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12.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding via e-mail


Epic Marketing Germany is restructuring
On 30. September 2000, Epic Marketing Germany will say good-bye after four years in the Amiga market, and will start two new companies on 1. October 2000. Due to this, the homepage is reworked and will be reposted in early October.

The company will be split into two areas on 1. October 2000:

epic interactive will turn towards the gaming market, and primarily port and develop games for the Apple MacIntosh. Support for the systems Milan and Amiga One is targeted as soon as those are available on the market.

Informations on our upcoming Mac titles "Gorky 17", "Earth 2140", "Simon The Sorcerer 2", "Dafel: Bloodline" and all other titles will be available soon on www.epic-interactive.com.

For the Classic Amiga, we will soon present the games Simon The Sorcerer 2, Earth 2140 and Dafel: Bloodline. If this platform will be continuously supported depends on the success of these three products, "Earth 2140", which is in beta phase, can be preordered until 15. October 2000 at a special price.

epic multimedia will be about the distribution of games, info- and edutainment titles for different platforms (Mac, Win, Linux etc.).

As a goodbye from Epic Marketing Germany, numerous of our Amiga titles are available at special prices until 30. September 2000.

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12.Sep.2000
AmigArt


AmigArt Looking for Editors
AmigArt is looking for honorary editors willing to write news articles about Amiga. The news will be edited in the web, and posted to the homepage directly. If you think you can write news about games, software, business, websites etc. concerning Amiga, contact the webmaster with a short e-mail. New editors will recieve a free e-mail acount and will be listed on the masthead.

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12.Sep.2000
MorphOS Home Page


IXEmul/Tools update
On the MorphOS homepage updates are available for many IXEmul programs and PPC tools.

More details at the titlelink.

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12.Sep.2000



Amiga Link Directory with Special Aminet Search Function
In recent months, the Amiga Link Directory became one of the most favourite search engines and AMIGA directories thanks to its unique features. Now we add yet more!

Starting immediately, you can search the Aminet for WWW adresses and files. Enter the name of a program whose homepage you are looking for, and just cannot find in the ALD. ALD will scan all files on Aminet matching the search string, and look in the .readme files for WWW adresses. The result of this scan will be listed in a table. To get you results quickly, every link will only be listed once, even if given in several .readme files.

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12.Sep.2000



Petro Tyschtschenko Starts a New Company
We found an interesting new entry in the German Central Register of Companies. According to this entry, Petro Tyschtschenko, Vice President of Amiga Inc., Germany, has founded together with Frank Basta a new company named "Power Service GmbH". Here's the entry (Translator: Rüdiger Engel):

Federal legal gazette Item 0161, Date: 20000826
Zentralhandelsregister-Beilage
51 Handelsregister


Power Service GmbH

Street:Wittelsbacher Allee 58
City:Frankfurt am Main
Company-Nr.:60256HRB50102
District Court:60256 Frankfurt am Main
References:HRB 50 102 - 08. 08. 2000
Kind of entry:20 new entry
Date of entry:20000808
Year of entry:2000
Text:HRB 50 102 -- 08. 08. 2000: Power Service
GmbH , Frankfurt am Main (Wittelsbacher Allee
58, 60385 Frankfurt).

Subject of the enterprise is: Mediation of foreign and native persons at companies within the area of software development, the care of these persons (accomodation, food supply) in conjunction with the mediation etc. as a so-called "all-in-one-service"-offer. Capital stock: 25,000,- EUR. Managing director: Petro Tyschtschenko, born 16.04.1943, Roedermark; Frank Basta, born 23.11.1969, Frankfurt/Main. Limited Company (so-called "GmbH" in Germany). The articles of association were finalized on May, 30th, 2000. The managing directors Petro Tyschtschenko and Frank Basta have sole agency right. They are justified, with itself in the name or as representant of third, to finalize legal transactions with the company. (§ 181 BGB).

Not entered: Proclamations of the company are only stated in the federal legal gazette.


Supplement:
Bill McEwen, CEO Amiga, Inc. made the following statement to the above:

"I would be shocked and personally hurt to find out that Petro has not been making Amiga his first priority, and that he has been using his Amiga paid trips to India for his own personal gain. We pay him a wonderful salary, we pay for his Mercedes, his cell phone, and his beautiful offices. He has never spoken to me about any issues or problems, and if he has truly been using our money and time to promote his own company I will be extremely disappointed. I hope that Amiga-News is wrong in their findings."

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12.Sep.2000
Thomas Hoppe on ANF


New UAE JIT Patch Available
"Just a quick note --- there is a new "bleeding edge" patch for UAE-JIT for Linux. It fixes some minor problems, and adds some important changes to the JIT compiler. If you had stability problems in the past, you might want to try this one. I have made a source patch and a few pre-built binaries available. Please understand that this is more or less a snapshot of work in progress, not a full "release" (can't have a release --- the Premier League had last weekend off due to an international ;-), and as such requires you to know what you are doing.

I am fairly confident that the source compiles, and that the binaries are actually built for what they claim to be built form, but that is about as far as I'll go.... ;-)

If you haven't used UAE-JIT before, and plan to download one of the new binaries, PLEASE also download the "patch against pristine sources" from the Derby County release. You don't want the patch, but you *definitely* want the documentation that comes with the same archive!

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12.Sep.2000
Thomas Hoppe on ANF


WinUAE 0.8.14 Release 2 Available
At the title link, release 2 of the WinUAE version 0.8.14 is available. With WinUAE, you can emulate an Amiga on your PC.

New in release 2:
  • FIXED: Picasso96 screen-modes weren't being drawn/updated correctly.
  • FIXED: Sound-buffer slider gets disabled when no audio output is selected.
  • FIXED: German GUI DLL is accurate now. (Thanks Georg)
  • ADDED: Flicker-free Amiga screen updates when full-screen. Doesn't affect Picasso96 screens, though.
  • CHANGED: Sound output tweaked again, should be "slightly" better.



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11.Sep.2000
2IDs on ANF


Domains for SoundFX and SymphoniePro
From now on you find SymphonyPro at http://www.SymphoniePro.de/

The SoundFX-Support pages were redesigned, too. You find them at http://www.2IDs.de/Support/SoundFX/. We will upload additional presets in the near future. If you got soundpresets feel free to email them to us.

Another news is a own domain for the 2IDs iNETstore. The domain is http://www.Planet2IDs.de. We worked on it and now it should be easier to order. Furthermore there are some new CDs.

Presumeably in October 2000 we will launch at www.DigitalArtGrafix.de a very special Galerie. It will be a exhibition for grafixworker from around the world. Exclusive Artworx, extravagant design and many more.

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11.Sep.2000
Alexander Fritsch on ANF


New SSTV-Software for Radio Amateurs
At the link comm/misc/af_mksstv.lha a test version of a program for sending pictures through SSTV (narrow band television) is for download. At the moment you only can send pictures by using the modus Martin M1. No special hardware is required. The output is realized over the audio output of the Amiga - you will hear a 114 seconds long whistle. The recommended hardware is a A1200 with OS3.0, but a faster one would be better.

User comments, bug reports and suggestions are welcomed. A further development depends on the user respond.

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11.Sep.2000
Atéo Concepts


SCSI-Controller for AteoBus
SCSI-controler for the AteoBus released. The add-on board offers an external (SUB-D25) and an internal SCSI-connector (50 Pin). The controler is useable e.g. for connecting CD-ROM, CD-writer, ZIP drive or a scanner.

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11.Sep.2000
Felix Schwarz via eMail


Innovative reveals Plans for the Future
This press release contains an announcement of Innovative fxSCAN V3.0 with text recognition and deals with the future of the AMIGA-development and the exciting plans of the company for the future with a new technology (InNT) !

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11.Sep.2000
AmigArt


LinuxPPC2000 Installer
The LinuxPPC2000 installer enables you to install LinuxPPC2000 on a PPC Amiga. Download at the titlelink.

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10.Sep.2000
MorphOS


Frogger 1.62 beta 1
A new beta version of the fast MPEG Video player is available for differnet Amiga-systems (68k, PPC and MorphOS).

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10.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


Fun Time World results of Mediator-Poll
Fun Time World asked if you will buy the Mediator PCI board and received 676 answers. 120 will buy one, 136 are not interested, 144 are not sure, and 276 are only interested in the A4000-version.

The new poll is named "What do you do with your Amiga?"

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10.Sep.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


New Screen shots, Polls and Webcam at NoRiscNoFun
The Screenshots-section at NoRiscNoFun has been enlarged. Now shots of the following games are online: Battalion, Foundation GOLD, Genetic Species, GLQuark, Heretic II, Myst and Wipe Out 2097. Shots of more games are announced for the next days.

Two new polls named "Which price do you find acceptable for games?" and "What kind of Computer do you want to own in the future?" are available.

You can also see NoRiscNoFun at work via webcam, since now.

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10.Sep.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail


Rainboot 3
Rainboot3 has been released at the Airsoft Softwair homepage. It's an extremely expanded Rainboot2-version. Rainboot3 has now many features, that Rainboot-Users dreamed of for a long time: Unlimited anims, modules, cycles, user controls can be used, there are new fade-options, screens can be scrolled in, and much more.

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10.Sep.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF


Test of Virtual Ball Fighters
There is a test on www.playamiga.de of the Tetris-clone "Virtual Ball Fighters". The game got an evaluation of 89%.

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10.Sep.2000
Amiga Fire


Amiga Fire Online Again
After a server-crash on September 8 2000 Amiga Fire is back online. All data on the server has been deleted. Most of it has been restored, thanks to backups, but part of the news-section is lost.

Amiga Fire offers news, pre- and reviews of Amiga-games.

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10.Sep.2000
AmiDog


AMP V2pre2
On September 8 2000 Mathias Roslund released a second preversion of the movieplayer AMP2. Also added were support for AHI and triple buffering (only CGX at the moment). The Shell-interface has been cleaned up and unuseful options have been removed.

Download: AMP2pre2.lha

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10.Sep.2000



Driver-Poll for Mediator
There's a poll at the titlelink for the Mediator-board. It is asked which drivers you want to have. There are the categories graphics, sound, ethernet, video, SCSI and ISDN.

The poll wants to help developers to find out which drivers are needed.

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10.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


Amiga RC5 Team needs help
This week the dutch team "Dutch Power Cows" overtook the Amiga-Team and will also overtake the OS/2-Team soon. Czech Amiga News bids for support from the users side, who can also use their PCs. The Amiga-Team is now in the RC5-contest for three years. The award is 10 000 Dollars.

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10.Sep.2000



ALD with Extra Functions
Today only good news from Amig Link Directory. In addition to extended search-functions there is a daily randomly choosen website shown at the main site as "Site Of The Day".
An entry is useful because this site could awake the interest of users.

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10.Sep.2000
Thomas Hoppe on ANF


Official WinUAE V0.8.14R1
Brian King released the officail version 0.8.14R1 of WinUAE. He also informs that Toni Wien, up to now responsible for AGA and NTSC/PAL has overtaken the further developement.

Download:
Help files are available in nine languages, only the links for german and englich are listed here.


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10.Sep.2000
Marcel Rohles on ANF


Pegase V1.8d
Marcel Rohles writes:
Didier Levet released four updates of the MPEG-Layer-2-encoders Pegase between 31.08.2000 and 09.09.2000. In addition to bugfixes and little changes, the audio-model has been improved. Now there is nearly no difference between original and copy with a 160 kbit coded AIFF.

Unfortunately there were no responses during the last weeks, so he thinks that noone uses Pegas e anymore or there is no interest in further versions.

Especially on pure 68k-Amigas there is in my opinion no alternative to Pegase - MP§-encoding without PPC takes too much time.

Pegase offers compression-times of 2:1 on my Cyberstorm MK I (50 MHz) and a really good quality of the encoded songs, often even better than free MP3-encoders.

Download: Pegase.lha

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10.Sep.2000



Amiga Link Directory
Bad news: While uploading new functions the database has accidentially been overwritten with an older version. Six entries since August 26 2000 are lost. Only the last three entries could be restored from the browser-cache. Please just add your website again.

We are thinking of a better backup-method so that such things can't happen in the future again.

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09.Sep.2000
AmigArt


AmigArt with New Layout
The Turkisch news-site in English "AmigaArt" has got a new and pleasing layout. Many parts of this website has been rearranged without loss of the already good navigation. Every important link is to reach from the main page.

If would have to mark it, this would be a B+ :-)

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09.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


LinuxPPC 2000 - Installer Available
The LinuxAPUS team announces the LinuxPPC 2000 installer to be available. Please click inside the title bar of the Linux-Apus site on "Install" to download the files. This archive contains the most recent 000815 kernel image. Amiga PPC users with this will get an alternative OS that runs superb on their hardware.

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09.Sep.2000
amiga.org


Remembering AMIGA's Glory Days
Time for nostalgia? Well, then read this article about the younger days of AMIGA (1992) by Wayne Martin.

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09.Sep.2000
Harald Frank


The fastest Driver for ISDN-boards ever!
Harald Frank wrote:
Many did not thought it to be possible, any more. After 1 1/2 years there is a new update for the ISDN-boards driver software VMC-ISDN for any Amiga ISDN-board. Due to the partly loss of source code, and some small technical problems we could not release a new version for the ISDN driver over a long period of time. Some customers even suggested that we would have stopped working on it...., but once again we are able to offer to you a masterly achievement of Amiga software, which is only to describe using the words better, faster and turbo.

Please, prove us that did not spend so many month full of work for this costly software for nothing, and if you know another one owning an Amiga ISDN-board, so tell him of the new driver, cause we depend on every support from you. It would be a pitty, if would not be able to finace this software any more in default of interest. So, come on and register for the new beta test, now.

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09.Sep.2000
Jeppe Nielsen on ANF


HomeLand Demo Version 3.0
A new demo version (3.0) for the realtime strategy game "HomeLand" was released. This version has many new features. At the titlelink you can find screen shots, and more details. Blittersoft will be distributor of the game.

Download: HomeLand.lzx - 1,06 MB
At the download area of the website (titlelink) there is a music section at first, where several music can be downloaded.

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09.Sep.2000
Sebastian Bauer's Homepage


SimpleClock (1.5) by Sebastian Bauer
Most recent version for the configurable analog clock (OS3.5) by S. Bauer. Special feature of SimpleClock: The transparent clock face (optional).

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09.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
Amiga-C-Aug00.lha    dev/c      117K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Augu
Aakt0900HTML.lha     docs/mags  276K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
WarpUp-Aug00.lha     docs/misc   86K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in A
DiamondBOX.lha       gfx/edit   356K+Layer based 24 bit image editing V1.04
chippendale.lha      mods/chip    7K+DBM 4ch mod by Tripper^Stx^Moods
years_ago.lha        pix/misc    71K+[ancor] Sandra and Sarah young V1.1


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09.Sep.2000
individual Computers


Take Part in the Developement of Lyra!
Lyra is the joungest child of individual Computers. This is an adapter to use Windows-Keyboards with the Amiga. Though some thing like this alreay exists, but none of the up to now introduced interfaces fulfilled our personel needs. Either some of the key were not used, or others had absolutely insane seizures, and again other had problems when more then one key were pressed at the same time. This interface for the "Bigbox" Amigas (2000, 3000, 4000 and tower-case) easy gets pluged between keyboard and computer. In the case of A1200 it gets impressed to the keyboard processor, which is to find on the A1200 main board.
We have spent as much effort as possible to get the seizures very similar to the original Amiga keyboards, and to give reasonable seizures to additional keys. Though, we want to hear the opinions about the seizures of as many users as possible befor we cannot change anything, any more. So, take your time to have close look at the key seizures, and mail us your opinion. The best suggestion will be honoured with some little surprise! Release is planned for the end of October.

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09.Sep.2000
Aminet Games


Aminet Games
Schatztruhe released "Aminet Games", a special-CD of the Aminet series. Within more than 1500 archives there are the best of Aminet games. Almost every game can be started from CD and do not need to be installed. Furthermore on "Aminet Games" there are more than 70 commercial games, e.g. "Gloom3", "Max Rally", "XTreme Racing" & "Gamer's Delight 2".

Information on other content to find at the titlelink.

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08.Sep.2000
APT Rolf Tingler


New Amiga Design for Nokia 3210 Mobile Phone
Rolf Tingler has already created designs with Amiga look in airbrush for several mobile phone models. Now there's also a shell available for the Nokia 3210. For the Nokia model 8210, a new Amiga design is in the works. The design is a bit complicated as this phone is really small and thus there's only very little space for the design.

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08.Sep.2000
B. van der Meer by eMail


New issue "AMIGA SCENE"
The September/October issue of the Dutch/Flemish print magazine "AMIGA SCENE" has a huge article on the Macintosh emulator "Fusion".

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08.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


AddOn-Programming for PageStream
Grasshopper LLC, the distributor of PageStream, published the documentation of IFF and links to the Application Library SDK on their pages. The release allows third parties to write plug-ins for PageStream. Interested developers can find more information here.

Supplement, 09-09-2000 by Ruediger Hanke:
There is a problem unfortunatly mentioned nowhere as it is. The SDK at the time beeing works solely with SAS/C! If one tries to compile the includes using StormC, he will get a lot of error messages and an endless loop in the compiler, if lucky.

The includes also are not the only wattle, the enclosed linker-libraries are too SAS/C specific, too. Fortunatly Deron is very helpful, he promised me to send me the sources of these linker-libraries, so that I can port them to StormC.

This is not mentioned on the website. At the end one might take the effort (quite a few) to adapt the includes, just to finde out at the end that the needed linker-library doesn't match. If Deron sends me the sources, and I would manage to get them running with StormC, I will make up a SDK version for StromC programmers.

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08.Sep.2000
SonicPulse


SoundFX 4.1 Preview at the BAUD Meeting
At the BAUD meeting in Bielefeld, Germany, an exclusive preview of SoundFX 4.1 will be presented. The new version contains many bugfixes and improvements in the user interface. Another new feature is the new batch processor.

For more information and a first test version, follow the title link (German).

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08.Sep.2000
Oliver Roberts


New Warp-Datatypes
Oliver Roberts released new versions of his WarpPNG and WarpJPEG datatypes. The WarpPNG.datatype is now available also for 68k Amigas and there's also a native MorphOS version, now.

The new version of WarpJPEG.datatype has some bugs fixed and a 4% speed-up for the 68k version. An extensive feature list can be found at the title link.

Download:
WarpPNG.dt.lha
WarpJPEGdt.lha

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08.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


REBOL/View pre-beta 5 Released
An experimental pre-beta of version 5 of REBOL/View was released. There are especially new features in the VID (visual user interface) and the network functions. Download here.

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08.Sep.2000
playamiga.de


"Middle City" preview and interview
Juergen A. Theiner of Playamiga.de has talked with the Italian programmers of the new adventure "Middle City" and created a preview with many screenshots. Here a small excerpt:
"Middle City is a classical adventure in the vein of Monkey Island. The setting is a remote village. The goal is to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Linda Patton whose arm was found in the river. Main character is the (not really intelligent) FBI agent Cox who has to work closely with the good-looking Ellen Dow from the local police. All characters are very excentric and thus suspicious. The end will be a huge suprise."

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08.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail


Epic News
After a long time, there's some news from Epic:

Virtual Ball Fighters, the action game for the Amiga is finally available. VBF requires an Amiga with AGA or graphics card, a 030 CPU and 8 MByte RAM. PPC and soundcards are supported.

The successor to MooVID Pro is coming soon: MooVID Pro 2 will be shipped from September 18th on. Beside many optimizations, MooVID now supports the PPC (WarpUP and Power Up). Owners of the previous version get a cheaper update from epic.

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08.Sep.2000
Thomas Frieden on ANF


Hyperion News
Follow the title link for a new progress report on Shogo, including some screenshots of the OpenGL version.

Hyperion has from now on a support mailing list:
EMail subscription: hyperion-support-subscribe@egroups.com
or on the web at eGroups

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08.Sep.2000
Christian Busse


Transcript of the Coyote Interview with Bill McEwen
Christian Busse has taken the efforts of creating a transcript from the 2.1 MB MP3 file of the Coyote Flux interview with Bill McEwen:

Bill McEwen: Here's Bill!

Coyote Flux: Well, good day Mr McEwen, you're speaking with Sharwin - I'm from Coyote Flux, an Amiga only software team and I would like to ask you a few public questions - is that possible?

Bill McEwen: Certainly.

Coyote Flux: OK, thank you - first of all: I heard a rumour from some magazines that the German office is about to close after the inventory sales of the Amiga 1200 - is this true?

Bill McEwen: No...?

Coyote Flux: No - OK, thank you. What could you tell me about the AmigaOne?

Bill McEwen: Well, nothing publicly at this time - other than this is a new desktop replacement machine.

Coyote Flux: OK. Then there was another question: Since half a year the Amiga market has started to shrink a little bit in comparison to what it was before, especially because there are a lot of companies and sceners that rather stay with the original Amigas - we spoke to you at the show in Neuss, the World of Alternatives, about porting the current Amiga OS to PPC, we will have to add the following question: You asked for the business proposal at the show...

Bill McEwen: Yes?

Coyote Flux: ... and we would like to know: We want to do the Amiga OS PPC port together with a few others at our own cost together, and we would like to know if that is possible as we think that the Amiga makes a bigger chance of surviving when the older machines get a chance as well.

Bill McEwen: Yeah, no, again, if you send me the information we're happy to take a look at it - we've been in conversations with Haage & Partner about this, we have received their timing, their proposal how long they think it will take...

Coyote Flux: Yes

Bill McEwen: ... we've been looking at market trends and designs, so I'm happy to take a look at what you have - we've not made a final decision on that

Coyote Flux: OK, so there hasn't been a final decision yet about if an Amiga OS PPC port can or will be made?

Bill McEwen: Correct.

Coyote Flux: OK, what do you think about the Boxer?

Bill McEwen: I don't think it will ever ship.

Coyote Flux: And if it WILL be shipped, would you be supporting it?

Bill McEwen: Oh, we already have, publicly!

Coyote Flux: OK, so it won't ever be a problem, the Classic Amiga range will proceed, and the Amiga will, like, go two seperate ways or something?

Bill McEwen: No, I don't see that, because you'll be able to run your Amiga Classic on the new system!

Coyote Flux: Aha, I see, but surely the speed will not be as fast as an original chipset...

Bill McEwen: Actually it will be FASTER with what we're doing - we're not doing it through emulation.

Coyote Flux: OK, cause now it's with the Virtual Processor I suppose?

Bill McEwen: U-huh

Coyote Flux: Cause I have a copy of the SDK at home, but, taking a look at modern CPUs, taking a look at all the parallel processing units and the caching and memory management, I have the feeling that the Virtual Processor will not be running at the speed it SHOULD be...

Bill McEwen: Actually since it's not... the Virtual Processor, since it translates it into native code...

Coyote Flux: Yes...

Bill McEwen: ... and the overhead is to a minimum, there is, what, a two percent performance hit

Coyote Flux: Yes, I understand, but by using a lot of registers that should be emulated or mapped in memory before they can be used, I suppose...

Bill McEwen: Exactly translated on the fly.

Coyote Flux: It's translated on the fly - but where are the registers taken from if I may ask?

Bill McEwen: I'm sorry I didn't hear you.

Coyote Flux: Where are the registers taken from if I may ask? Are they taken from memory, or are they taken from hardware registers?

Bill McEwen: It depends on the implementation...

Coyote Flux: Yes

Bill McEwen: ... if there is hardware available, we will utilize the hardware directly...

Coyote Flux: Yes

Bill McEwen: ... and if we can catch it that way, otherwise if it's not available we will do it in software.

Coyote Flux: OK, I see - but that will slow down, I suppose?

Bill McEwen: Depending on the application - in a desktop environment in most cases you'll have the proper hardware to utilize it, but in a handheld device you might not have the hardware, so we'll have to do it in software.

Coyote Flux: OK, I see, thank you - finally I had a question concerning the SDK: Is it a big success?

Bill McEwen: Yes, actually the sales are ahead of schedule and as of this week Red Hat will begin selling it also.

Coyote Flux: OK, and how many approximately sold in the time it has been on market?

Bill McEwen: Well, we shipped fifteen thousand so far.

Coyote Flux: Fifteen thousand.

Bill McEwen: Yep.

Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much! That's actually all I wanted to know!

Bill McEwen: Great!

Coyote Flux: OK, thank you...

Bill McEwen: Yeah, I look forward - in fact I was speaking to someone about you in Sacramento...

Coyote Flux: Oh!

Bill McEwen: .. that it looked like you might be the team that might have the best opportunity for us, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much...

Bill McEwen: OK?

Coyote Flux: I will contact you then in the near future, supplying you with the information you might need about how we can port the Amiga OS to PPC, and...

Bill McEwen: OK.

Coyote Flux: ... yes, please keep up the good work then.

Bill McEwen: I thank you very much for your call.

Coyote Flux: OK, thank you as well - bye!

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07.Sep.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF


Public-Opinion Poll at www.zophar.net
At www.zophar.net, supposed to be the biggest emulators-site online, there is currently a public-opinion poll to find at the top of the right menue board, on what useres would wish to see on the page in future. Among other things there is also the possibility to vote for "Emulators for the Amiga". If you are interested in this, you should set your vote there, cause there are only about 10% of votes for Amiga at the moment.

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07.Sep.2000
Rudolph Riedel via eMail


New DiskMaster Beta Version 2.5b8 Available
For the known filer DiskMaster there is the next Beta Version 2.5b8 available, after some problems.
New with this version:
  • 2.5b8 (00-09-07) 68744 Bytes
  • "Parent" still did not work correctly with assigns
  • "LoadConfig" released it's buffer too early
  • Uppercase/lowercase is no longer discerned when Auto-Commands compare contents


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07.Sep.2000
Olaf Koebnik


Amiga Arena News
JST V4.0 at half price.
JST V4.0, the game installer by Jean-Francois Fabre is available at half price at the Arena. JST makes it possible to start almost every game from HD, and to save scores.

Amiga Arena Interview Project
New interviews with Damir Ahr (Ballmaster) and Felix Schwarz (fxPaint) online.

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07.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: The Mac inside the PC - for nothing
«Anybody who always wanted to check out if Mac OS indeed makes less problems than Windows now can test this directly on the PC: Emulators Inc. offers the Macintosh emulator Fusion PC for free download, from now on. Emulators too over this sofware, which only runs under DOS (Window's DOS-Box does not fit), last month. Next month they want to release the entire source-code, due to their own statements. This shall become content of a tutorial on emulator programming.»
For full article, see titlelink (German).

As already reported here on 05-24-00, Microcode Solutions gave Fusion PC license to Emulators, Inc. to have more free developer recources, and more fund available.

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07.Sep.2000
Amiga, Inc.


Wildfire at First - and now Taifun
As already reported, Taifun is the successor product to the award-winning video and animation special effects software Wildfire7\PPC. The new software product is currently being developed using the Amiga Software Development Kit (SDK) and is making great progress. Read the press release of Amiga, Inc. at the titlelink.



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07.Sep.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF


Linux Format Reports on AmigaSDK
In the new September issue of the 'Linux Format' magazine there is to find an article on both, the Amiga SDK and Elate. Among other things the multimedia platform 'intent', and functionality of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is suggested. Nick Veitch reminds his readers on the Amiga SDK even inside the editorial.

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07.Sep.2000
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF


Coyote Flux interviews Bill McEwen
At the titlelink you will find an interview with Bill McEwen done by Coyote Flux. This intervies is provided as a MP3-file at the size of 2.1MB to find for download at the download-area of the temporary website of CF.

Further on there is a new example for PPC680x0 available: The freeware program "The Guru" was ported to PPC using PPC680x0 within less than 30 minutes.

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07.Sep.2000
Ingo Musquinier on ANF


New AmiTradeCenter Beta Available
Once again it happend, a new beta version for the FTP-client AmiTradeCenter was released.

05.09.2000 public beta
  • Added a "t" to one of the "direcory" strings which was missing. [ExoBuZz]
  • Fixed a bug when pressing the local "parent" button while connecting which caused garbage in the local string gadget. [ExoBuZz]
  • After a transfer the transferred file, bytes, filelength and the cps are now displayed in the ftplog. [Roland "Ronni" Hopfer]
  • Double entries in the .batchtmp are now filtered, so the list won't replicate itself several times after several crashes. [Roland "Ronni" Hopfer]
  • Reselection of files when revisitting a directory is now done by comparing the filenames with the list instead of just selecting the files by numbers, which could have led to wrong selected entries, when a directory was reloaded after an upload. [Roland "Ronni" Hopfer]
  • The trader now won't try to reconnect to a server, when the servermanager is quitted and therefore also all traders (depends on "auto reconnect" and "closemethod of servermanager" settings).
  • Loginwindow which is opened if neither the username or the password is given didn't work. Fixed. [Ingo Musquinier]

Download: ATC_beta_05092000.lha

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07.Sep.2000
Sven Dröge on ANF


BondsV1.78 on Aminet, at last
After some upload problems now the most recent archive with the stock-market software is available for downlaod at Aminet, at last.

New with this version:
  • Group editor for creating object lists after your fancy
  • New conception of the depot manager
  • Extension of the default objects, many new shares, subscription warrants, as well as European indizes (thanks to Wolfgang Bauer, too!)
  • Complete adaptation to the "GlowIcons" style (thanks to Martin Merz!)
  • Many bug-fixes

Known bugs:
  • The DEPOTMANAGER is not ready yet, but one can already "play around" with it a little bit.
  • The group editor was newly implemented; there still might occure errors while using it.

Download: BondsV178.lha

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07.Sep.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail


VirusHelp Denmark: Safe Version 14.0 Released
Name: Safe v14.0
Archivname: Safe.lha
Archivgröße: 20.665 Bytes
Releasedatum: 7. September 2000
Programmierer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: Braucht xvs.library v33.23

New with v14.0 :
v13.4 - 7000, RENRAM parameter renames Ram disk: to Ram: now (requested by Oscar Hdez)

NOTE THAT SAFE IS VIRUS DETECTOR - NOT FILE CHECKER OR CLEANER! IT ONLY INFORMS ABOUT ATTACK AND REMOVES VIRUS FROM MEMORY IF POSSIBLE!

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07.Sep.2000
Andreas R. Kleinert via eMail


TWinIFF Version 1.03 Released
TWinIFF 1.03 for AmigaOS, Win9x/NT/2k and Linux/x86 is available, now.

Download: twiff103.zip

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07.Sep.2000
Markus Nerding via eMail


Haage & Partner News
H&P increases personnel

In October of the past year, we already hired a new programmer, namely Markus Poellmann. He mainly cares for StormC, and also works on AmigaWriter. At the beginning of 2000, a new co-worker was found, Ute Gottschalk, who takes care of accounting and datatyping. Stefan Robel has just finished a practical period for his computer studies, in which he created a new and portable version of StormRexx. At the beginning of September, Alexander Bramm and Simon Neumann brought two new co-workers. Their main concern is support, and managing of new projects.

Further co-workers wanted.

For proof-reading of our website texts, press releases and manuals we are looking for an additional English native speaker. A good knowledge of English grammer etc. is essential.

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07.Sep.2000
Andreas R. Kleinert


Computer-Zeitung: Politicians supporting Linux in the fight against patents
The German Computerzeitung issue 36 from 09-07-00 is carrying the subject of software patents:

They are titeling (small): "Software Inventions"
(big) "Politicians are supporting Linux with the fight against patents"

This all is to find big and not ot overlook pivotal on the front page citing Joerg Tauss, MdB (member of the Bundestag) contra, and Dai Rees pro SWPAT.

Additional a big picture along with the subtitle "The [EPA] in Munich denys any private financial interest [...]"

At the left another contra SWPAT comment (German) of an editor, and at the lower right the Intel/Broadcom quarrel is suggested. So, about half of the front page today only on the subject of patents.

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07.Sep.2000
Stefan Robl via eMail


AmigaMPEG-Player 1.02 and writepixel 1.05
For all SDK users:
AmigaMPEGPlayer is now up to 25% faster (!) than the initial version, and has got a file-requestor in addition, too.

writepixel was completely overworked, is now definite faster than previeous versions, and has got a scalable window. Furthermore the colour fade now changes corresponding to mouse position and time.

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