The new archive can be downloaded under the title link.

Now the details to the news

• New scaling engine with antialiasing. When playing the game you can switch between the scaling engines at any time.
• The program contains code for the MIDI-music. The MIDI-music starts playing as soon as AMidi will have been published for MorphOS.
• Support of the CD-ROM-audiotracks of Loom and Monkey Island. The MorphOS-version is the first one after the SDL-version which supports audiotracks. Because of that I have created a new CD-audio-library which is enclosed in the archive as a beta version and which can automaticly recognize CD-ROM-drives connected to the computer and if there is more than one CD-drive which can automaticly find the one with the "right" game-CD.
• Standard MorphOS command line (instead of the usual Unix like one).
• Start possible over pictprogram from the workbench or from the toolbar without having to write a script for this.
• Support for the video sequences of The Dig and Full Throttle.
• Manual with 26 pages in PDF-format and with detailed FAQ (requires Apdf).
• Archive contains colourful pictprograms for all supported games.
• Before publishing as usual all supported games have been tested that they are work like the Windows/Linux-versions.
• ... Many more minor improvements and bugfixes.

Intellectual property rights related to GoldED Studio, including source codes, documentation, distribution rights, the web site etc., are available for sale.

There are no plans to release the source code under the GPL or in a similar form or to make the software or its source code available free of charge.

What will happen to the BASIC interpreter?
Expect the source code to be made available under the GPL in the near future (in a nutshell, a GPL is a public domain license).

If you have a look at their Easter nest you'll find games like Rings of Medusa, Super Cars 1+2, Genetic Species Heimdall 2, Larry 1 Remake, Sherman M4, Pinball Magic and many others. Besides that many scene demos from the fantastic Mekka+Symposium 2002 demo party have been added, more music from the demoscene came online and the picture galleries are now containing some extremely colorful little eggs.

• HIGHWAY Production is on a roll
• Software Developer Kit is available
• VHI Studio is a solution for DigiCams
• TurboPrint printer driver
• Network module NORWAY (10MBit) is an option

The new board will be distributed in Europe by individual Computers, so it will be available from all our trade partners mentioned on the contact page.

From the Readme is to gather that those new versions should not be installed over the old 3.2 versions, because some subsystems are not compatible. Please read the readme files observant.

For which hardware will you go?

Possible answers:

• A1G3SE with AmigaOS 4.x
• A1G3SE with MorphOS
• Pegasos with MorphOS
• Pegasos with AmigaOS 4.x
• I´ll make my decision after sales start
• I am waiting for faster CPUs (>=G4) with AOS4
• I am waiting for faster CPUs (>=G4) with MOS
• I will change to an emulator
• I will still use my old hardware
• I wil change to another system

There was to ascertain that the Amiga-demos do not need to hide in any way for the superior PC-demos. At least they seemed more dynamic and more interesting. The most impressive was the 64k-demo "Planet Potion" of group "potion", this one was confirmed inside the hall with huge applause.

Furthermore there were beside the PC-demos some C64- and (sadly) any very few some Atari-demos. Shown were as well some demos for the Gameboy and for the TI83 calculator, which was very impressive.

Dale had injured a leg muscle in a skiing adventure, and he sat and took it easy while the others did most of the talking. Andy and Dave spoke about the early years, and about the Commodore bankruptcy. They spoke about their common work at PIOS on the Metabox set-top box. I can't recall who, but one of the three spoke about the 3DO system as the reinvention of Amiga OS, and another about the AmiJoe PPC-accelerator card. When asked about Amiga Inc.'s DE product, Dave said that it was "a good idea" and that someone named Gary had sent him two of the latest DE programs, but then accidentally let slip that the programs crashed on his Zaurus.

Overall the men seemed happy talking about their time at Amiga, and a bit wistful. Andy and Dave agreed that the single biggest mistake was wasted time and a failure to seize the moment when technological advances had been within the company's reach.

Upstairs in the large exhibit hall, a vendor with a mild speaking impediment ushered people over to try his Arcade in a Box. It is a sturdy joystick, button and trackball cabinet, which interfaces with MAME to play hundreds of arcade games with the feel of the real thing.

The people who produce the X1200 (which is an emulator-running PC in a compact A1200ish case) were there demonstrating that unusual product, which is rather spiffy in appearance. The X1200 is a pretty good idea. It runs Amithlon, which seemed to be selling very well at the show. Amithlon was getting positive comments all around. Amiga Inc.'s DE was a non-issue. Nobody is into that, from what I saw. There was a lot of anti-Microsoft sentiment. People resent having to use products by that company, because the Windows monopoly is such a fact of life and the consumer does not have much of a choice.

An example of the vendors present at the show was Compuquick who were very knowledgeable and had a good variety of stuff including A1200s and the oldish Phase5 PPC accelerators which can run MorphOS.

MorphOS felt a bit like a taboo subject. The MorphOS/4.0 question is the most politicized issue ever for followers of this platform. Some of the vendors were taking preorders for AmigaOne/4.0. Ben Hermans from Hyperion was reached on cellphone and was interviewed for at least 15 or 20 minutes. Ben must be given credit for putting himself out there and being a salesman.

I liked the fact that this convention doubled as an "alternative computers" convention, however this good idea has not been realized. There wasn't much representation from alternative computing systems. No Linux people, and I don't think anyone from QNX appeared either. And of course it would have great to see a MorphOS stand.

In Eric Schwartz Puzzles, the object of the game is to piece together beautiful images in as few moves as possible. This addictive game features never before seen images from Eric, free style and challenge play modes, 7 difficulty modes, unlock pictures, saved scores, help, and much more.

The good news is that I have uploaded an updated kernel image (based on linux 2.4.19pre4) and a bunch of patches; You can grab that stuff from http://www.amithlon.net/en/amithlon_updates.shtml.

I hope it comes in useful for someone.

I know this is going to cause a great deal of discussion and speculation. I would like to ask everyone to please be reasonable, and stick to the known facts, as well as to polite forms of discourse. The situation is bad enough as it is, nothing at all can be gained from aggravating anyone involved.

It's TEMPORARY home is at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~yttrium/amiga/ Please note that the current layout is very much not going to be the final look of the page. I've got it how it is so that I can easily and quickly add pages and information without the need to work on the nitty-gritty of looks - I'm no website designer but please don't send ideas for how you think I can make it look better, I'll come to that when I've got enough information to warrant having a page in the first place. What I'd like to request is that anyone who feels they can contribute, please do so by emailling me information and pages to include. This is not intended as a news site so I don't want information about upcoming events and that sort of thing, just straight info. I'd appreciate it if you send me whole pages to just slot in where appropriate that you design them with no javascript, frames, or scripting of any kind - just straight and plain HTML with links - also if you could keep images to an absolute minimum as I only have 10MB webspace with my ISP and don't intend on moving it to a real server until it's complete enough to be the kind of place I'd be happy to point people for more information. My 10MB should be plenty if we can keep it to being pure text and key images only. If you take a look at what I've got there at the moment, you'll see the general kind of things I want. My AmigaOne page is probably about the most complete at the moment, but I could very much do with more technical information linked off the AmigaOne specs (most of those links I've written about one or two lines only at present).

The general idea is that anyone of any level can look at the site. People click on the AmigaOne link and see basic information. Techie types say, I want to know more about xxx, and click on that link for more tech info. Any information that is implied or suggested but not directly stated anywhere by someone "official" should be marked as such. I know you might mean well, but unsubstantiated rumors are NOT the intended goal of the site. I'm going to be putting a lot of my personal time and effort into maintaining the information and keeping it all as up to date as possible and I'd appreciate not having to wade through mountains of rumor and misinformation. Information regarding anything to do with Amiga is welcomed, but no "this is better than that" without hard fact to back it up. Presently I'm mostly interested in information on AmigaOne, AmigaOS4, Classic Amiga (history), Amithlon and AmigaDE (Anywhere), however if someone wants to write something about MorphOS, UAE, Pegasos, Merlancia, pOS, Classic Amiga expansions, software issues or anything else relevant, I won't reject it (if it's factual, unbiased and contains useful information of course).

Also, obviously, if anyone sees anything on the page that they think is incorrect, let me know and I'll investigate it further.

• Lit-Word!
• Discovering The forgotten DRAW dialect (PART #1)
• More than one way to... (Skinning, Effects)
• Bigger than a pixel - working with sections of an image!
• Bits & Pieces
  • How can I change the title text of a window?
  • Did you know?
• Pick of the List - Everything is a Value
• Get-Word! (Send in the contributions)

You can download it from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html. Maybe some1 on this list can try to port the server program to the AmigaDE??

About 80% of all participants have shown their interests in the AmigaOne and Pegasos board. But most of them want to wait how the market will develop before they decide to buy one of the boards.

AmiDynDNS is now a CLI/Commodity hybrid program. So you can use it as before from the CLI and from the workbench with a little GUI.

The Commodity mode is interesting for server users who must know the latest host. AmiDynDNS is running in the background after startup and checks in free chooseable intervall the stated host and updates if necessary.

Also two options are added, you can choose paths for log- and configfile.

Name: VirusZ III v0.99
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 57.211
Date : 1 April 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 in VirusZ III v0.99:

• Improved window calculation code to avoid rendering bugs when you have installed sysihack-like programs. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the bug report and screenshot.
• Splitted the single 'About' request in a 'Technical Info' request and a new 'About' request and added some more information to them.
• Fixed bug: 72 bytes of memory disappeared during every program startup, this seems to be a problem with special CreateNewProc() tags. After two nights of debugging I still couldn't locate the bug exactly, so I did some workaround instead, now there are at least no more memory losses.
• Added the first vector snapshots sent by David Oakes, Ian Chapman, Fulvio Peruggi and Harry Sintonen. Thanks guys!
• Fixed minor rendering problem with VirusZ's main window. This one only appeared if you have modified the top_border size with tools like MCP. Thanks to Luca Longone for the report/screenshot and sorry for my angry email :-)
• Added full support for NSD-64-bit devices. Now the bootblocks of partitions located higher than the old 4GB-border will finally be accessed correctly.
• Improved disassembler output in the bootblock lab. The first three longwords now always get displayed as 'dc.l' lines and disassembly starts at offset $000c, the real entry point of a bootblock. This avoids strange interpretations of the bootblock's checksum and the two other fields.
• Added some more vector snapshots sent by Dariusz Krzempek. Thanks!

The most important new features in this release are:
The argument NOQUIT has been added to tell YGM not to quit an already running instance of YGM if it is started again. Modified the places where YGM looks for different files to better support running YGM from the WBStartup drawer. Mailbox login now supports APOP for transmitting username and password more safely. REPEAT values may now be specified in seconds too.

• DBase (db.lha) (251K)
• AmigaArenaDBaseSource.lzx (211K)

Some interesting snippets of information, posted by SlimJim:

• Screenshots of Amiga OS 4.0 will be published in the first part of April.

• Magic Menu and Birdie (among others) will be seamlessly integrated into the OS 4.0 interface.

• The new OS 4.0 GUI will look quite different (i.e it will not just look like a fast OS 3.9).

• Opus Magellan 2 has been licensed for OS 4.0 (details unknown).

• For the moment, the new printer system is not due to arrive until Boingbag/OS 4.1.

• The _latest_ MUI source code will be used (there was a question about this)

• IBrowse2.3 will be quite some beast. It will be enhanced for OS4.0. Not just some Aminet update. It will still miss some features of Netscape/IE though. There is not time to fix all to OS4.0. Flash is planned to be implemented. IB will be _much_ more stable than it is now.

• The guy that did the Warp-datatypes seems to be doing the new PPC-datatypes.

• The datatype system as a whole is to get a complete overhaul later. There is not enough time to do that to initial release.

• An office suit (Open office if I remember correctly) is being worked on. This is a 'high priority' for inclusion. (although it was not clear to me if it would be shipped initially)

• The development of software -independent of company size- is difficult to predict. But Mr. Hermans seems quite confident of an end-user release in May.

Next, I will re-write the chapter about "Patches for Amithlon".

Olivier Fabre
Olivier Fabre has released Matrix version 1.9 for 68k/MOS. Matrix is s screenblanker.
Download: Matrix_1.9.lzx - Readme

Tales of Tamar - Amiga version 0.42 R4
With Version V0.42 R4 the artillerie is introduced. there are light, middel and heavy artillerie made of 4 different siege engines: small and big ballista, catapult and warcatapult. The siege engines are thebest weapons to conquer cities and castles.

EvenMore Version 0.60
The textviewer EvenMore was released in version 0.60. With this new version the preferences were changed this means that new settings are required.
Download: EvenMore.lha

Different to former "successors", which were in truth only common 486 pcs with an C64 emulation, this one will be a completley new design, as most as possible compatible to the C64. Interesting is that, different than the Aone, this will use custonchips again.