• fxSCAN Update 4.04
  This update fixes some smaller bugs concerning the co-operation with Turboprint and improves the OCR-engine considerably.

• IOUSB System Update (to 2.1)
  'Portleak'-bug of iousb.library, causing problems for example with Epson Perfection 1650 scanners, fixed.

• VHI Studio 5.71
  Improved handling of ftp-servers that do not acting according to the standard.

• Bugfix: 'Swap' did not initialise empty dirs. Thanks for reporting to: Richard Mattsson!
• Bugfix: 'Swap' did not update the gadgets properly.
• Added a trailing "/" to "%d" - at least LHA seem to need it. Thanks for reporting to Jean Marie Boucher!
• Bugfix: the arrow gadgets did not do anything. Thanks for reporting to: Richard Mattsson!

• The Citadel - 3D shooter
• Erben der Erde - CD32 adventure
• Fears - CD32 3D shooter
• Testament - A1200 3D shooter

• Power Play 9/93 - 3D0 introduction
• ASM 3/92 - Mega Drive CD-ROM introduction. Suitably a review of Sol-Feace for MD-CDROM.

• MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
• MP2/MP3 audio streams
• AC3 streams
• (S)VCD, CD-i and DVD

What:             Metroplex Commodore Computer
Clubs 16th annual show
and Flea Market
Where:            Brookside Convention Center,
Hurst, Texas
When:             Saturday, October 19, 2002
Time:             1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Admission:        Free
Club web address: www.AmigaMCCC.org
Contact person:   Ned Kelly,
email: nedkelly@ticnet.com

1. Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 - Barry Leitch 4:26
2. Lionheart - Matthias Steinwachs 5:08
3. Final Countdown - Torsten Gellrich 3:06
4. SWIV "Decimation" - Andrew Barnabas 5:41
5. Body Blows - Allister Brimble 3:59
6. Carcharodon - Torsten Gellrich 3:27
7. Jim Power - Chris Hülsbeck 4:36
8. Z-Out "Level One" - Rudolf Stember 4:22
9. Shadow of the Beast 3 - Tim Wright 5:54
10. James Pond 2 - Richard Joseph 3:58
11. X-Out - Chris Hülsbeck 4:07
12. Battle Squardron - Ron Klaren 8:28
13. Lethal Xcess - Jochen Hippel 7:05
14. Hero Quest "Ingame" - Barry Leitch 3:04
15. Bonus Track: Rain - Jan Zottmann 4:31

              Regarding so-called "AmithlonXL"
              ================================

* I have absolutely no knowledge of this "product" beyond that which is
  publicly available on Amiga news sites.

* I am not in any way involved with this "product".

* At the current time, it is unclear (to me at least) whether this is
  supposed to be an add-on for existing Amithlon users (akin to the
  Elbox "Multimedia CD", simply offering a collection of new drivers),
  or whether it is meant to be something including emulator executable
  and ROM files.

* If it is just a collection of drivers, I have no problem with it.
  About bloody time, I'd say.

* If, however, someone is planning to distribute my IP (as contained in the
  emulator executable), I'd strongly advise to reconsider, as neither
  Harald Frank nor Haage&Partner have any license to do so. Furthermore,
  to the best of my knowledge, neither of those parties have a license
  from Amiga Inc for the distribution of kickstart images. 

* The announcements on www.amiga-news.de and www.ann.lu also talked about
  the demo machine being equipped with a Dual Head Matrox card. I sincerely
  hope that this is not an indication that my multi-head capable
  gfx driver for Amithlon is considered or presented as part of
  "AmithlonXL", as the license attached to that driver quite clearly
  prohibits it.

* Let me also reiterate that of the contents of the amithlon_contrib*
  packages released by me, ONLY the parts under the GPL are available
  for inclusion with any Harald Frank or H&P product, and that inclusion
  of those parts would require the strict adherence to the licensing
  terms of the GPL.
  
* Obviously, I won't be supporting an "AmithlonXL" which violates my
  intellectual property rights in any way. This would certainly include making
  sure that the proprietary parts of any further contrib packages I release 
  for the users of the original Amithlon would not work with such an
  "AmithlonXL". Personally, I despise crap like that, but what can I do?

* I would finally like to ask everyone to recognize that at the current
  time, to the best of my knowledge "AmithlonXL" is purely a Harald
  Frank idea --- I have yet to see a single word about it from Haage&Partner.
  So please don't abuse H&P over something they, for all I know, might not 
  even know about.


       Bernd Meyer, 

       Main Amithlon programmer                                                  

• Four external and one internal USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports
• Compatible with both USB 2.0 (480 Mbps) and USB 1.1 (12 Mbps) devices
• Compliant with EHCI, OHCI and PCI 2.2 standards
• All ports can handle high-speed, full-speed and low-speed transaction
• Supports up to 127 downstream USB devices
• Supplies 500 mA power to each USB port
• Supports PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
• Hot Plug Capability

• One free PCI slot
• Mediator Multimedia CD

• Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card
• Mediator OHCI USB drivers for the Poseidon stack
• Unregistered, time-limited version of the Poseidon USB stack

• external programs, for example Apdf, can be started from Next
• improved support for wheel mouses
• text blocks are not limited by complete lines (a block can be less than one line)
• the copying of blocks in the clipboard works better
• a bug was removed, which previously led to a crash during the unpacking of archives

• hi-res graphics
• 3-D raytraced visuals
• animated scene transitions
• sampled sounds
• simple point and click control
• save and load at any point in the game
• a bunch of interaction
• first person perspective
• screen-mode requester
• multi-tasking
• AGA and RTG compatibility
• AHI-Sound
• UAE compatibility

• Gerald Carda (bPlan)
• Ralph Schmidt (bPlan)
• Rakesh Raghoebardayal (Thendic)
• Sharwin Raghoebardayal (Thendic)
• Teemu Suikki (Finnish MorphOS Core Developer)
• Harry Sintonen (Finnish MorphOS Core Developer)

• austria (these three will be joined to one "austria")
• austria_plus (map with highest capacity, choosable with)
• austria_special (the travelguide and a map of europe)
• belgium (included in the new BeNeLux)
• D_CH_A (old stuff...)
• germany (now only "germany_special" is supported,)
• germany_global (same conditions as austria and switzerland)
• germany_small (dito)
• netherlands (included in the new BeNeLux)
• switzerland (these three will be joined to one "switzerland")
• switzerland_special (map with highest capacity, choosable with)
• switzerland_standard (the travelguide and a map of europe)

• FastEthernet.device
• sb128.audio
• tv.library
• Voodoo.card

• pci.library
• MediatorNET.device
• Voodoo.card

• USB-support (digital cameras, webcams)
• new, integrated FTP-client for the webcam-functionality
• completly newly written .mov-animationexport
• automatic framerate-recognition
• an ARexx-port has been added
• heavily advanced webcam- and timelapse-functionality
• example-webcamfiles with elegant design in the archive
• extended PPC-support (e.g. JPEG-decoding)
• now uses fxWARP 9 technology
• native CPU-modules for PPC (PowerUP, WarpUP, MorphOS) and x86 (Amithlon)