In the interview with Amiga Arena Jah talks about future versions, which OS he will support, and how he sees the future.

In order to be able to give an overview of the current user number to the developers of DigiboosterPro, we started an inquiry. This inquiry is extremely important for the future of Digibooster Professional! Please participate, and contribute you also to the fact that the development continues!

Update:
Due to the fact that some users had questions about DBPro, here some hints:

• Digibooster Professional is one of the best tracker programs for Amiga.
• DBPro and an additional AddOn-CD can be purchased from ACP&TCP. ACP&TCP is the wordwide distributor.
• For any question about DBPro please contact the Community in our own forum.

• Changed the GUI Resize options for INPUT / OUTPUT Gadget
• added LOG option
• added extensive debug system
• changed IO routines
• changed datatype routines.. faster and better
• added QUIT Message option!

Name: VirusZ III v0.9a
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 58.365
Date : 20 May 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires: AmigaOS 2.04 or better, util/libs/ReqToolsUsr.lha, util/virus/xvslibrary.lha, util/pack/xfdmaster.lha, util/arc/xadmaster.lha (recommended), util/libs/DisLib.lha (optional),

News is VirusZ III v0.9a:
TODO  Until final release version 1.00:
 - Implement file and sector scanning inside
   all types of disk- and
   filearchives that xadmaster.library supports.
 - Add device-based sector scanning.
 - Add useful commands to ARexx port.

 0.9a  Changes/Additions since 0.99:
 - Totally redesigned the file check. Now all
   selected files/dirs are always scanned
   without user interaction (exception: encoded
   files) and just the important results get
   listed. These can be reviewed at any time
   to finally decide what to do with malicious
   files.
   The new concept has the following advantages:
   (a) it's much faster (my SYS: partition gets
       scanned in 2:16 min, the old scanner
       needed 9:20 min; that's over 4 times
       faster!);
   (b) the Job Monitor (that's the name of the
       new check-window) is fully prepared for
       archive and sector checking, all this will
       happen in just one window (NOT IMPLEMENTED
       YET);
   (c) less information that's not interesting
       for the average user, just important things
       get reported now (if you want to analyse
       the files on your harddisk, just use a tool
       like CheckX!);
   (d) even disinfects damaged or encoded files as
       far as possible;
   (e) looks much better :-)
 - Added a whole bunch of perfectly commented
   snapshots sent by Todd A. Oberly. Thanks a lot!
 - Added more snapshots sent by Michel Bagmeijer
   and Ian Chapman. Again thanks!

The magazine is available from:

Download: FSwatcher.lzx

History:
--------
Version 1.4 (19.05.02):
CHG: Changed the gauge format a little bit
("bps: xxx" to "xxx b/s"

NEW: Extended the both time values to display
also the hours (noticed while downloading
the pegasos video with wget;-)

CHG: Removed shell arg KB=ShowKilobytes/T,
its replaced by 'SizeMode'

NEW: New shell arg SM=SizeMode
It can be set to "KB" or "MB", to display
the current size and the filesize in Kilobytes
(divided by 1024!) or MegaBytes (divided by
1024*1024, with 3 numbers after the comma).
If its set to a different string, "bytes"
are used.

NEW: New shell arg Com=Command
This command will be executed if you press
the "!" button!          You can use it f.e.
to play the currently downloading mp3 song!
Default is "s:FSwatcher.bat".
The 's' and/or 'x' bit have to be set, if
the command is a shell-script!

NEW: New shell arg ComCon=CommandConsole
This is used to specify a console window
where the output of the command is send to.
Default: CON:210/400/500/120/FSwatcher
action command/CLOSE. If you don't want a
window, use "ComCon = NIL:" w/o the quotes.

CHG: Removed the initialPattern (#?.mp3) from the
asl-req, cause every file could be downloaded,
not just .mp3s.

• Fixed stereo output.
• Updated liba52.
• Minor cleanup.

• Seven Seas/Andromeda
• Never Liked UNO/Lego
• Artcore/Scoopex

• HP_Deskjet900C.lha (24K)
• HPDJ900Src.lha

• cgxv42_rc5.lha (Mirror 1) (529K), Readme
• cgxv42_rc5.lha (Mirror 2) (529K)

New on 18th of May 2002: The second collection of new and enhanced patches is now here available. Please ensure that you have read the (unfortunately only in English available) README.

Download: amithlon_contrib2.lha

Please use the following e-mail address for all requests etc.: as-webshop@t-online.de.

Tales of Tamar has been ported to gcc. Unfortunately not everything works fine as it should after it has been started to optimate. Each help is welcome!

You can also find there detailed FAQs to the AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9 (just updated with hints and remarks by Martin Steigerwald) and reviews as well as detailed information about several hardware components.

Just for GFX-BASE Nikolaj has written an English spoken Q&A for the new version. There you will learn all important news of DiamondBOX and much more. You can also download the new version from our site.

Download: FSwatcher.lzx

Version 1.3 (16/17.05.02):

• FIX: Fixed the automatically closing of the finished requester
• NEW: You can now set the env-var 'FSwatcher' to your default args. It will be parsed before the commandline is parsed. Therefore all /S shell args are now /T args, if you want to set a /T arg you have to put a "ON" or "YES" after it, and if you want to unset it, you have to use "OFF" or "NO"!
• NEW: New shell arg QUIET/T [suggested by jah] Should ALL error requesters be suppressed? Well the "Dos.ReadArgs() failed!" isn't suppressed;-)
• NEW: New shell arg BPSBar/T Should a small gauge showing the current bps relative to the max bps be displayed?
• NEW: New shell arg TimeOut/N If a transfer is stalled (-> the "---" display) AND AUTOEXIT/T is used, the window will close after 'TimeOut' seconds. Defaults to 10. You can use values from 0 to 30. 0 means, no timeout.
• NEW: New shell arg Delay=UpdateDelay/N Update the display every x seconds. Defaults to 2. You can use values from 1 to 10.
• NEW: New shell arg KB=ShowKBytes/T If the current size and the filesize should be displayed in "kb", then you should set this argument to ON or YES,
• NEW: the window doesn't gets activated when its opened

The Federal Safety Bureau for Child-endangering Publications has decided against a ban of the game Counter-Strike. The chairperson of BPjS, Mrs. Monnsen-Engberding, clarified that although she was uncertain, she was in personally ready to be against the ban, in light of modern times.

Click on the title link for the complete article (German).

The Club Guide has been brought to an up-to-date state and refined somewhat. The IRC lists were removed, because there was not too much interest in that. At this time there are 36 clubs with 847 members registered in the guide.

http://www.amidog.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.pl

Please adjust your bookmarks accordingly. For all programs from AmiDog discussion boards have been put up, to wit:

• General Board
• Test
• AmiDog's Movie Player
• TrueReality
• AmiGenerator
• DarcNES/Amiga
• Handy
• GBE
• Frodo
• SOPE
• MAME
• MESS
• FPSE

To make this easy you'll find a workshop specially covering the topic at the CD-32 Allianz homepage, a workshop that leads you through the steps to make such a bootable photo CD: the LISTFILES, the startup-sequence, as well as how to burn the recordable CD-ROM.

But not only the webpage has changed:

1) Our search to replace to loss of our designer has come to an end, and we'd like to welcome Sue to our team. Sue will be drawing the characters of our game. 4 examples of Sue's work may be viewed in the screenshot area.

2) The battle routine has been changed to a new design, and now runs completely with 16 bit graphics. Two new screenshots show the new interface, which is now offered during battle.

• 15.05.02 fixed: Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision) slave was missing
• 15.05.02 new: Gainforce (Infernal Byte System) done by Bored Seal
• 14.05.02 new: Tetris (MirrorSoft) done by Psygore
• 14.05.02 improved: Marble Madness (Atari/Electronic Arts) install script and keyboard fixed
• 14.05.02 improved: Elvira 2 - The Jaws of Cerberus (Horrorsoft/Accolade) protection removed

Changes since 5.5:
Bug report editor, ACSE test: converted to ReAction.

And I am still looking for a coder that can continue on development and fixing some bugs.

neues - das Computer- und Telekommunikationsmagazin auf 3sat

One subject of the show will be the Pegasos Hardware Platform developed by bplan GmbH in conjunction with MorphOS.

During this period there won't be any news and translations, the commentary function and the ANF (possibility to post news online) will be disabled. The forum will be kept enabled. We will announce a talk master who will be responsible for its content.

We discussed this issue thoroughly and controversial if, and if so in which kind, we could/should realize such a summer break. A short break will not result in any recovery and a longer break comprises the risk to lose readers. A stopgap for urgend news seemed to be possible but difficult, who wants to be responsible to decide wether a news item is urgent or not? Further more this wouldn't be a real recovery, say nothing half, nothing whole. We trust in the hope that our readers will not have forgotten us after such a long break :).

However we will go back to work after the summer break with a whole new motivation. We ask for your understanding and therefore announce this break that early.

Among others, new features are a strongly enhanced and accelerated OCR-engine (based on gocr 0.3.5, now also PPC-native and with the ability to export embedded pictures and HTML), the all-new PDF-export, an enhanced copying function with preview and correction features, support for Turboprint® and an all-new documentation (in German and English) with many illustrations in HTML- and PDF-versions.

A detailed list of all new features, first screenshots, a list of supported scanners and much more can be found on the fxSCAN 4.0 site.