12.Sep.2001
Ricco Clemens (E-Mail)
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Amig@lien: Our site will be offline until 18.09.2001
Ricco Clemens wrote:
Until 18.09.2001 our site will be offline to protest the attacks against
the USA and to commemorate the victims. Only our forum will be accessible.
We hope that many other sites will follow our suit.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Sep.2001
Marco Miljak (Horst Hug, via E-Mail) (ANF)
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SmartBoy with AmigaOS isn
Earlier this year announced the company Thendic GmbH the
SmartBoy, a new handheld
terminal that should be equipped with AmigaDE. Since then nothing had happened
and the company was silent. Today I got (finally) the answer from Horst Hug, who's
working for Thendic, via email in which he wrote about the SmartBoy as follows:
- The SmartBoy is indeed in development.
- Pictures of the device can be accessed from the company's website (title link)
under "Entwickler".
- In the B2B version (Business-to-Business) the SmartBoy will be equipped with
Windows CE 3.0.
- In the B2C version (Business-to-Consumer) the SmartBoy may be equipped with
the AmigaDE, at the moment we are testing the available software, at the end
of the year a decision will be made.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Andre Sommer (ANF)
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Amiga User Baden-Württemberg with new URL
The Amiga User Baden-Württemberg have a new homepage address and can be reached
from now on via http://www.amigauser-bw.de/. Please edit
your bookmarks.
The old address: http://amigafreak.webjump.com isn't valid anymore as webjump
has ceased their service. The page is still incomplete but will be finished in
the next days.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Bianka Burmester (ANF)
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Event: Only a few days more until the AmigaMeeting
The countdown's running...
On the 12.10. it's starting! Everybody still not being enroled has the
opportunity to do so using the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Michael Burkhardt (ANF)
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Lightwave update for Intel platform
The company Newtek offers a limited update for registered Amiga users to the
latest and just released full version of Lightwave 7.0.
This "Lightwave 7.0 (Win) upgrade special AmigaW is valid until the 30.09.01.
After that date this cheap update price will increase remarkable.
Everybody owning an old Lightwave version with dongle should take the chance.
The version number of the dongle is needed.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Hudson (ANF)
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Updates for the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Since today there are again several updates for the Big Book of Amiga
Hardware available. Among other things Ian Chapman is building up a
driver site!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
H&P
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H&P: AmigaOS XL announcement postponed because of the events in the USA
H&P wrote:
Since the beginning of the incredible events in the USA we are speechless
watching the pictures that are transferred by German TV stations. Our sympathy
goes to the victims and their relatives.
Due to these events we also cancelled the planned announcement of AmigaOS XL.
We will do this the next days. Thanks for your understanding.
Markus Nerding
Manager
(ps)
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12.Sep.2001
amiga.org
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clickBOOM: digital remake of "Defender of the Crown"
clickBOOM (title link) and Cinemaware
announce a digital remake of the Cinemaware game "Defender of
the Crown" for PC and Mac.
As already reported on
10.08.2001 Cinemaware has made the Amiga version available for free download.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)
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Emulator: AmiGenerator version 0.33
The Sega/Genesis emulator AmiGenerator is available in the version 0.33. More
information on Amidog's homepage.
Download: AmiGenerator033.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga makes statement about events in New York, U.S.A.
Today is indeed a difficult day for America and for the world.
We at Amiga lift up in prayer the families of those who were killed and injured in the attacks today.
It is truly a sad day for all of us, and our thoughts and prayers go out to our nation's leaders, as they must now deal with this situation.
God Bless us, and may we be ever mindful of our blessings.
Bill McEwen
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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AUG99 show their solidarity with the USA
We are shocked by the new terror wave in the USA, where thousands of innocent
people had to die. We like to show our solidarity and at the same time strongly
condemn this kind of force. Because of this our homepage won't be accessible for
one day. We ask for your understanding.
The AUG99 team
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Sep.2001
Michael/Cloanto (E-Mail)
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Event: Saku 2001 - pictures and report from Cloanto
You will find pictures of and a report about the Amiga show Saku 2001 under
the title link, which took place on 01. September 2001 in Helsinki, Finland.
Both pictures and report were put online by Cloanto.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Emulator: Screenshots of Akiko (CD32-Emulator)
Informations and screenshots of the new CD32 emulator Akiko
for Windows were just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
(http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/)
Akiko runs with the help of an adapted version of WinUAE. Owners
of the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM" can
download a first version now. This version already supports over
80% of the CD32 games including CD audio and joypad emulation.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Bjorn Lynne
Today, an interview with Bjorn Lynne was published on the Amiga Future
Homepage. Lynne might be known by most of the users by the name of
"Dr. Awesome" of the "Crusaders". He composed all of the music for the
Crusaders demos, Megademos, and EuroChart.
As usual the English version can be found at the English section of the
site.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive: Status Update
Empire builder Knights and Merchants is in dublication and will be shipping
on september 19th. You can find more information on this real time strategy
game in the projects section.
RPG/strategy mix GORKY 17 is finally coming along nicely. Here is a longer
report on what is done and what still needs to be finished:
Conversion of the game data was among the toughest things with this project.
One reason for this was that a Little Endian engine was required; the other
was that the engine requires filemapping which is not available in Mac OS.
These problems are now fixed (only some minor endian problems in the Load
function need attention).
Gorkys 3D engine is running fine except for some colour problems as you can
see from the screenshots below. The Zoom function also has a couple of minor
problems. Porting of the engine was extremely difficult, because the
original developers used a lot of Intel ASM routines. The remaining problems
with the 3D engine are currently worked on and should be fixed within the
next couple of days. The speed of the game is great even at this stage. On a
350 Mhz G3 it ran at the same speed as the PC version on a 700 Mhz machine.
The game logic seems to be working fine, but intense beta testing on this
part is set to start this week. Sound and video playback is not yet
implemented. The other remaining problem is memory usuage. The game
currently requires a lot of memory, especially under MacOS 9 where you will
need about 200 MB to start the game . These problems do not exist with the
MacOS X version.
Below you will find the first public screenshots from the Macversion. Note
that they have been taken from the german version of the game. The first
public presentation of GORKY 17 will be at the Paris show later this month.
Another project that is in the final stages of development is an arcade fun
shooter. This is our first original release and it will come as a budget
title to MacOS, Windows and MorphOS. Expect more information on this title
in our projects section soon.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail Alpha 0.10
Version 0.10 of SimpleMail was released. Changes since last version:
- configurable headers in the reading window,
- Message/rfc822 content type support,
- encrypted mails can be read now (pgp 2.6.x),
- enhanced filter,
- automatic linefeed in the writing window,
- other smaller enhancements.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Event: Saku 2001 Displayed New Amiga Products
Saku 2001, the biggest Amiga event in Finland and organized by the Finnish Amiga Users Group, gathered about 300 visitors around Finland on September 1st. The venue was organized completely by volunteers and it proved that there is still a dedicated following of the Amiga in Finland.
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One of the highlights of Saku 2001 was the demonstration by Cloanto's Michael C. Battilana. He showed the latest JIT compiler version of Amiga Forever emulation software, which will be available as a free upgrade to all Amiga Forever users. Michael also hinted that Cloanto will soon release a completely new software to the Amiga emulation community.
AmigaDE Party Pack was demonstrated with three computers, two if which also ran the AmigaDE Player demo version, which was supplied for Saku 2001 by Amiga Inc. Other programme included an Amiga demo marathon in the auditorium, a Payback game competition, Mediator PCI demonstration and a popular Vaporware registration service. ImageFX, Aladdin 4D, Shogo and AmigaOS 3.9 were also available for testing. The event also generated interest among the media.
Finnish Amiga Users Group wishes to thank all the event contributors and visitors for joining Saku 2001 and making it a memorable event. A photo report and an IRC log will be published later this week. A webcam picture
collection will also be available soon.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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New design and status update "Amiga FFE - Project"
At last a reworked version of the homepage is online, from today.
This now (hopefully ,-) ) is more clear and more tidy than the last version.
Moreover the soundtrack can be downloaded in midi format (to have a try with Amidi) and
all of the sound effects in wave and 8SVX format.
A little late, but nevertheless the project definition now was determined, so the basic frame
of the project was set up.
As a next step now the IS analysis will come. For this anybody can send information about
FFE to me. To prevent a "Yes, but what information shall I send?", just have a look at
the (finally added) job list.
But many sections still are "under construction". Should there be any mistakes already now
(dead links, typing errors, etc.), just send an e-mail.
Short summary: The AmigaFFE-Project is an "everyone's invited" project which shall lead to
an Amiga port of the game Frontier First Encounters.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Ralph Ewers (ANF)
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Offtopic: World Trade Center and Pentagon target of terror attacks
Even though this is off topic:
I just heard from radio and TV that both towers of the World Trade Center in New York, USA,
tumbled down. At least two airplanes directly crashed into those. Also the Pentagon is on fire -
probably by a car bomb or even another airplane (crash). New York looks direful. Any transatlantic flights
to the USA have been stopped.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Sep.2001
Tao Group
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Tao Group: Tao Receives $18 Million Investment
»Tao Receives $18 Million Investment From Bowman Capital Partners, NEC,
Sharp & Sony
Bowman's Cameron to Join Tao Board of Directors
Reading, England, 10th September, 2001 -- Tao Group, Ltd. announced today
that it has received an equity investment of approximately $18 million
from a team of investors led by Bowman Capital Partners. Tao has developed
intent®, a binary portable, language independent, high performance,
multimedia platform that is now used by many of the world's leading OEMs
in their client products for home and mobile networks.
Hazel Cameron, general partner at Bowman and who heads up the firm's
European operations, will serve on Tao's board of directors.«
The complete press release is available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packages
WHDLoad lets you install floppy-based games to your harddisc.
The following packages were changed or added:
- 10.09.01 new: Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom (Lucasfilm/Atari Games/Mindscape) done by JOTD
- 10.09.01 improved: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) supports another version
- 10.09.01 new: Aaargh! (Arcadia Systems) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 new: Drakkhen (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 improved: Volfied (Empire) supports NTSC version too
- 09.09.01 new: Ooops Up (Demoware) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 new: Black Sect (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 fixed: RanX (UBI-Soft) wrong slave in archive fixed
- 09.09.01 fixed: IK+ (Archer MacLean) highscores and demo fixed
- 09.09.01 new: Vector Exterminator (Shining) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
- 09.09.01 new: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) done by Galahad
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Stephan Rupprecht: Software Updates
Stephan Rupprecht released the following updates on his homepage:
envhandler.lha - 14K - 09-08-01 - a happyenv replacement (1.12a)
prtman39.lha - 195K - 09-08-01 - Printmanager for AmigaOS3 (39.33a)
Image2Icon.lha - 67K - 09-08-01 - creates thumbnail icons 68k+WOS (1.19a)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Amigan Software
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Game: Worm Wars Version 6.8
Version 6.8 of Worm Wars released. OS2.4+, PAL/DblPAL and MC68020+ are assumed. There are a new creature (a bird), support for a CD32-gamepad, animations, turbo mode, and some bugfixes.
Download: wormwars.lha (734 KB)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
ANN
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ANN: new scripts
Christian Kemp, maintainer of Amiga Network News, is working on some new scripts for the page. He plans to use PHP and MySQL and to integrate old archives. Due to this reason the full service of ANN will not be available for some days. Christian Kemp will inform on the homepage about the actual progress of the transformation.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
AmigArt
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Event: ITExpo/COMDEX Show Report
Tony Mulvihill summarized his impressions of the ITExpo/Comdex,
in Melbourn, and published this show report at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Felix Schwarz (Innovative)
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
One the few active developers in the commercial software market is
Felix Schwarz of Innovative, known by fxPaint, fxScan, and VHI Studio.
Amiga Arena asked Felix Schwarz about the current development status of
is products and their future.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Sep.2001
Mikey C (ANF)
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World of Amiga south east
Only two spaces remain and the entire exhibitor's area will be sold out for this year's show!
If you are an Amiga dealer and would like to take the opportunity to retail at one of the worlds largest Amiga shows, please send an email to exhibitors@worldofamiga.com
Due to a cancellation, both spaces can be purchased for £50.00 ukp.
Note to Attending dealers, your information packs will be sent out this week. Please act upon receipt and return as soon as possible.
Tickets for this year's event are £3.50 (ukp) and are limited. To avoid disappointment please contact our exclusive telephone/mail order dealer, Fore-Matt Home Computing, on +44 (0)8700 11 22 34. Don't forget if you order more than 5 tickets you only pay £3.00 (ukp) for each ticket.
All this plus the WOASE discussion forums from www.worldofamiga.com
World of Amiga southeast is sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Event: Amiga Fleamarket Extravaganza '01
The 15th computershow, organized by the Amiga Metroplex Commodore
Computer Club (AmigaMCCC), will be held on the 20.10.2001 at the
Brookside Convention Center , Hurst, Texas (Dallas/Forth Worth Area).
Further details are available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
H. Ogino, Amiga Nut, Inc. (ANF)
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JAPAN AMIGA USER GROUP organized
On September 8th, 2001 JAPAN AMIGA USER GROUP (JAUG) was organized by
H. Ogino, owner of the only Amiga dealer in Japan named "Amiga Nut, Inc.
(formerly namded: Systcom Limited and then after Tokio Trading Co., Ltd.)
since 1990, JAUG hope overseas' Amiga users and developers to know that
many powerful Amiga users are still existing in Japan and waiting for
Amiga's new computer to be out soon.
JAUG also hope to contribute Amiga community in a way. All activities of
JAUG now or later would be uploaded as JAUG news on amgia-news.de,
JAUG's homepage with online magazine and a lot of other tips would be
available soon in English and Japanese (The title link's URL is
temporarily adopted). It is our hope that all the Amiga users and
developers would support us accordingly.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Ralf Himmel (E-Mail)
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Event: Pictures of the Sharp exhibiton at the IFA-Berlin
Ralf Himmel visited the IFA and made a small movie. Due to the fact that this movie has a size of 15mb he extracted some pictures and wrote some lines about what is depicted.
The special thing about the AmigaDE seems to be that the whole control panel fly into the visible screen area from the left
picture 1 (48 KB).
The controls of a game are looking realy cool. Picture 2 (64 KB) shows a megaball version. The blue background and the board came from the left side of the screen.
A program can be started by touching on a graphic of the controlpanel. Picture 3 (73 KB) shows a tetris clone. Apart from the costs it could become one of the most beautiful gameboys ever.
Picture 4 (82 KB) depicts the device running a 'normal' application that needs more power of the cpu then the AmigaDE (at least in my oppinion). This picture also shows that the display is still readable even if your point of view is not vertical above the device. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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09.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: memory_profiler_0colon2
On 5. September 2001 Fleecy Moss released an update for the memory profiler
for the AmigaDE SDK.
In this version the macros were moved to '/ami/sys/inc/', since the '/ami' directory
was supposed to contain anything regarding Amiga, including programs and files coming
from Amiga, third-party developers, and users. '/ami/sys/' will be the basic directory
for any Amiga in-house development.
Tao extended the ami_get_tmem macro with the possibility to determine the array.
Download: dev/vp/memory_profiler_0colon2.zip (5K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: shapes - Sprites with C++
On 7. September 2001 David White released the sprite example 'shapes' for
the AmigaDE SDK, which was written in C++.
This example opens a window with 50 sprites using the three pix-maps - one
for the sprite, one for the background, and one for a copy of the background in order
to restore the overwritten area.
Download: demo/ave/shapes.lha (31K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
tamar.net
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Tales of Tamar: LARP meeting, Amiga and Atari update
From 21. to 23. September 2001 the first medieval 'Tales of Tamar' meeting
will take place near Kassel,
Germany.
On that weekend a LARP-Con (a mixture of adventure, entertainment, fun, and suspense)
will take place in a comfortable and romantic ambient. LARP means LiveAdventureRolePlaying
and gives the Tales of Tamar players the chance to put their game character from the game
into reality. Everything will be of medieval style. The players will have to wear proper clothing,
they will talk medieval, there will be fights between the Draks and some players and in the
evening they will discuss the current political situation on Tamar and drink Met
(medieval honey wine).
Among others a medieval band will be there and even the radio station EinsLive ! This radio
station has several millions listeners each day and they want to do an one-hour broadcast about
the Con and Tales of Tamar.
Since the Amiga show planned for that date was canceled especially Amiga users are
heartily invited to attend that meeting. Detailed information about the LARP-Con are to
find here.
A new race was put to the world of Tamar in the AMIGA version V0.37 - the Orks.
So the ancient war between Orks and humans is blazing again. The Orks are a non-human race
and controlled by the ToT-server, only. Usually they come from the mountains and try to
create their own realms. They strictly start to fight against human players and will leave
nothing undone to displace the humans from Tamar, again.
Now it's the players' turn. They might have to put aside their quarrels in order to be able
to have the armies available required to fight the Orks.
Time will show if they will succeed.
The following was entirely ported from the Amiga version to the ATARI version V0.24:
the town, the tavern, the online chat, the mail editor, rune stone, the rain, the green triangles (vacation mode).
This makes the Atari version becoming more and more interesting. Also for that section still testers are wanted.
The Tales of Tamar team welcomes Atari users.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazin: MicroMart regulary with news about the Amiga
The British magazine 'MicroMart' now has a section regulary containing news about the Amiga.
The magazine is published every Thursday.
Issue #660 from 23. August 2001 already contained an
article about the
AmigaOne, which now can be read
online, too.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V16.7, Encyclopedia extended
Safe v16.7
A new update of Safe v16.7 has been released today. Safe is a small
CLI command to detect linkviruses in Your system. readme
- added possibility to change name of safe on installation.
It was necessary - new viruses like HH50 and SMEG2b
refuse to infect Safe file. This trend will surely remain,
so now Safe gives the user the easy way avoid that.
Big thanks for Antonio Noguera, who did this improvement!
This is piece of good work - even better I expected!
- removed some outdated info from html documentation
Note that the most useful information is here and in NewShit.guide.
Thanks to Michael Hendren for paying attention.
- removed SMEG2/PENETRATOR removals as xvs.library recognizes them now
- added analyze of HitchHiker5.00 the most advanced polymorphic bastard
in the Amiga universe
Download: Safe.lha,
Readme
Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
New virus translations added to the Amiga Virus Encyclopedia.
(sd)
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08.Sep.2001
Irseesoft
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Printer driver: Turboprint version 7.20
Turboprint 7.20 with Canon S600/800 and other Canon- and Epson drivers
was released yesterday. This version contains many new printer drivers:
- Canon BJC 1000, 2000, 4400
- Canon BJC 3000, 6000, 6100, 6200, 7100, 8200 with full support for photo
cartridge
- Canon S 400, 450, 600, 800, 4500 with full support for photo cartridge
- Epson Stylus Color 460, 660, 670, 760, 860,880, 900, 980
- Epson Stylus Photo 750, 790, 870, 890, 1200, 1270, 1290 with full photo
ink support
- HP DeskJet 810, 812, 815, 830, 832, 840, 882, 930, 950, 970, 98x, 99x
Irseesoft asks for your understanding that the new drivers cannot be made
available as a free upgrade.
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08.Sep.2001
Marco Frischkorn (ANF)
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German SoftCinema mirror
From now on a mirror for the product 'SoftCinema'
(movie/anim player) is available. The server has a high-speed connection to the Internet
and should please users who had a slow connection to the original server.
The mirror can be reached at http://www.highantdev.de/softcinema/.
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08.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (e-mail)
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Amiga Arena news
Amiga Arena - special price offer
In cooperation with Ronny Schütz the Amiga Arena makes a special price for XTrace
possible. XTrace is an image processing program which allows to trace pictures in
bitmap format and save them in a vector format.
This is very useful for the use of pictures in DTP programs. Some basic knowledge
on desktop publishing, especially technical terms, are required to make full use of
the possibilities of XTrace.
The pictures can be processed before and after tracing in a variety of ways to achieve
as good results as possible. Some features of XTrace:
- change of color
- digital filter sequences
- support of color curves
- internal list of about 400 colors with own names
- histogram view, stretching and equalization
- conversion between different color types
- powerful palette editor
- aspect / DPI change
- rotation (three-dimensional)
- full transparency support
- full clipboard and XPK support
- CyberGraphX/Picasso96 support
- fullscreen and font sensitive user interface
You'll find more information at the
XTrace-Website.
With this special price offer you have the chance to show the developer
Ronny Schütz that there's
still interest in XTrace. He'd be happy about feedback and suggestions.
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08.Sep.2001
amorel (ANF)
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Amoralplayer v1.6 now also plays Sid songs
This is a multiformat songplayer which now supports C=64 Sid songs. Other
than that it will play Octamed SoundStudio, Octamed 8 ch., Meds, Mods and
Digibooster songs, plus 8 bit iff samples. Also it features playing
playlists (also randomly) and can unpack xpk and powerpack files. This
program has regular development and updates.
It is fully functional, but shareware. Costing only $5,- Donations are
very welcome :-)
Download it
here
and check the readme
for details.
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08.Sep.2001
Boing! International
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Event: Pictures from ITExpo/COMDEX in Melbourne
Currently the ITExpo/COMDEX
is held in Melbourne, Australia. Australian Amiga usergroups participate
with their own booth. At the title link you'll find pictures of the
third day of the show.
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08.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)
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Tool: PlayMOD v1.8 released
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
PlayMOD was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
PlayMOD plays, as the name says, Protracker and Noisetracker
modules however with a slight difference from all the other
players: PlayMOD is primarily meant for playing MODs by double-clicking
the icon of the file. So it's useful for CD-ROMs
with a lot of MODs with icons which have PlayMOD as the default
tool. PlayMOD was also used on the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair
Gold Edition" CD-ROM.
Additionally it plays IFF-8SVX files of any size. PlayMOD is
a small, system-friendly program and runs either with or without
a GUI (user-configurable!). PlayMOD is Freeware and can be
downloaded from the Airsoft Softwair homepage (title link).
(ps)
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08.Sep.2001
DCE
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DCE: First pictures of GRex 4000 T
The first pictures of the GREX 4000T are now online. The board has three
DMA-capable PCI slots and is suitable for the A4000T with Cyberstorm PPC.
The board is available from Vesalia Computer from 20th September 2001.
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08.Sep.2001
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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WarpSNES V7.0 released
Steffen Häuser writes:
I have released WarpSNES V7.0 today. The archive will appear on Aminet
and hopefully soon on the WarpSNES homepage at
http://raistg4.free.fr/warpsnes.
New in this version:
- Adaption to SNES9x 1.37c, the newest SNES9x source, a lot of games run much better with it
- auto frameskip implemented
- sound code completely reworked (thanks to Peter Annuss for the
faster sound code :) )
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07.Sep.2001
Idruna Software
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Photogenics nominated as "Best Graphics Software"
Photogenics was nominated by 'Pocket PC Magazine' in the category
"Best Graphics Design/Drawing Software". If you want to participate,
you can vote here.
More information at the title link.
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07.Sep.2001
PerfectPaint
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Image processing: ARexx script for PerfectPaint 2.7
Georges Halvadjian has made a little ARexx script available on his Perfect Paint
website for inserting pictures in Perfect Paint 2.7.
Download: insertpict.lzx (1 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Sep.2001
AROS
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AROS news
AROS is an open source project to implement a portable version of
AmigaOS V3.1. Read here how the project advances:
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla has updated the
credits.
Still not everyone is mentioned but it's better than before :-)
He also fixed the URLs which were broken by the new web site
scripts.
Georg Steger fixed the strange keyboard problems (holding the right
Win key down for a while would suddenly print /'s on the screen).
He also added some printer- and datatype-specific header files.
They are needed
in the DataTypes.class. And he fixed a bug in the EOF handling of
the console.handler.
Fabio Alemagna improved flushing of Output() and
Error(). The shell will now print the boot and other
messages only when needed. PIPEFS: supports AbortIO()
now. He also added <Ctrl-C>-Handling to a lot of DOS functions
so that they will abort a pending IO if the task receives a signal
while waiting for the IO to complete.
Stefan Berger fixed two bugs in layers and intuition. Child windows
can now be moved with opaque running. He also implemented a helper
function which checks if a layer is the frontmost among the
layers that have the same relationship to the root layer and another
one which checks if a layer is hidden by any other visible (or invisible)
sibling with the same priority. And he fixed typos in rand48-functions
in c.lib. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Sep.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (e-mail)
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Tool: SRename V3.0.0 beta 2
Constantinos Nicolakakis has made available another public beta version of
his program 'SRename'. It is a 'Rename' for AmigaOS 3.0+ with extended
functionality. Please send possible bug reports to
cnicol@ath.forthnet.gr.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Sep.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (e-mail)
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World of Amiga tickets and group discount
FORE-MATT Home Computing have been appointed exclusive reseller for
telephone/mail order sales of World Of Amiga South East tickets. Tickets
cost £3.50 each or a special group booking price of £3.00 per ticket is
available for groups of 5 or more people. Tickets for the show are limited,
so call now and order using a Visa or MasterCard on 08700 11 22 34. Full
contact details are available on our website at
www.forematt.free-online.co.uk (title link) or
www.worldofamiga.com.
FORE-MATT Home Computing (Dept e)
PO Box 835
Wootton Bassett
Swindon
SN4 8RX
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07.Sep.2001
Mikey C (ANF)
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The Future Draws Near
Mikey C. writes:
We are proud to unveil the opening of the new World of Amiga southeast Discussion Forums.
- General - for discussions about the forthcoming show.
- Wanted - After a particular bit hardware/software? Want to buy it at the show and save postage?
Then log on and post your requirements. If an attending dealer has it, they will reply to you on the forum.
- Travel. Need further information on getting there by road/public transport?
What about overnight accommodation? Are you willing to Car share? Then post here!
- Games Arena. The forum for discussing any aspect of the gaming arena which is sponsored by Hyperion Entertainment.
The World of Amiga Southeast show is sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine, taking place on Saturday 3rd November 2001 in Brentwood Essex.
Visit http://www.worldofamiga.com today!
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07.Sep.2001
Ingo Bowe (ANF)
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New Amiga link page planned
Ingo Bowe writes:
I'm in the process of building a new Amiga link page, but sadly I'm currently
lacking time and money to search for Amiga pages in a search engine. That's
why I ask you, dear Amiga community, to get a link collection as large as possible.
If you know a couple of good pages or your bookmarks spill over, simply send me
your personal link collection by e-mail
I will systematically categorize them. You'll find a small preview at the title link,
but the page is still under construction!
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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06.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Tool: LaunchHTML v1.0
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:
LaunchHTML was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
With LaunchHTML HTML files can be displayed by just double
clicking their icon on the Workbench. LaunchHTML opens then
the system's default browser and displays the file. The system's
browser is determined by the OpenURL library which LaunchHTML
uses. LaunchHTML is extremely useful for use on CD-ROM.
It was
also used on the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition"
CD-ROM to display the HTML files. LaunchHTML is freeware and
can be downloaded from the Airsoft Softwair homepage (title link).
(ps)
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06.Sep.2001
Tao Group
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Tao and Terraplay Announce Partnership to Advance Real-Time Entertainment
»Reading, United Kingdom, September 6th, Tao Group, a leading
multimedia software and open platform provider for home and mobile networks,
today announces a strategic partnership with Terraplay, leading specialists
in enhancing the quality and performance of network-based applications.
The combination of Tao's intent® media platform and Terraplay's networking
system will provide a fast, accessible, and reliable solution for
real-time entertainment.
The partnership will enable unique end-to-end solutions in such areas as
networked gaming, entertainment and multimedia.«
Complete press release see title link. (db)
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06.Sep.2001
AudioLabs
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AudioLabs: Update pack for ALPS realtime plugins
There are new plugins for ProstationAudio. Read the original message:
Apparently some graphic board models don't handle masked images correctly.
A update pack for ALPS plugins is now available to fix display problems
with images placed on plugins' front panels. It uses a different masking
method, now working with any model. Updating is as
simple as decompressing the archive to the plugins drawer and rebooting.
ALPS is the name of a well-known European chain of mountains, situated
not far from here. ALPS is also the acronym for AudioLabs Plugin System,
a data exchange protocol for software DSP modules designed to let
ProStationAudio users expand their systems without limits.
Download: ALPSPatches120.lha
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06.Sep.2001
Finanzial Times Deutschland / Volker Grabbe (ANF)
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FTD: US government contra divestiture of Microsoft
The US government no longer wants the world biggest software group to be split. No new law suite
shall be started.
Complete article see title link (German).
More links on this subject (German all):
Heise: US-Regierung verzichtet auf Microsoft-Zerschlagung
Golem: US-Justizministerium will keine Aufspaltung Microsofts
ZDNet: US-Justiz verwirft Aufteilung Microsofts
Spiegel: US-Regierung verzichtet offiziell auf Microsoft-Zerschlagung
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06.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.34 and VirusExecutor v22.21
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. The code for removal of the
virus "Hitch-Hiker 5.00" should be there now. We got a helping hand from a former
antivirus programmer (Georg Hoermann, known from VirusZ & xvs.library).
We know that there have been a lot of updates of the xvs.library in the last 14 days, but
the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 virus was very tricky, and Georg Hoermann wrote this to me:
> - Quote start
It's never nice to see such ugly viruses, and the polymorphic code was
definitely the "finest" I have seen so far. With the knowledge of several
years, you can handle such a beast much easier, but Jan Erik will certainly
learn a lot about those things when he continues with xvs.library.
> - Quote end
And I was the one that 'draged' the programming of the xvs.library over Jan Erik's
head, when Alex van Niel did not have the time to update anymore. VHT-DK
needed a programmer they could trust 100% with viruses, and there was only one,
so I used all my 'charm' to talk Jan Erik into it. And I'm happy that we have Jan Erik
to update the xvs.library....
Info about the new update of xvs.library:
Name: xvs.library v33.34
chive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 58.341 byteses
Release date: 6 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
News for v33.33:
- Replaced the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 detection/removal code.
Thanks to Georg Hörmann for writing a better code ;)
- Cleaned up some code. Got some tips from Georg.
So the library is a bit smaller now...
- For developers: Added XVSLIST_DATAVIRUSES to xvsCreateVirusList()
so that you can view data viruses as well.
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/xvs/xvs.htm
Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you
must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....
Also a new update of VirusExecutor, here is the news:
Name : VirusExecutor v22.21
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size : 285.082 bytes
Date: 6 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
News in v2.21:
- Fixed font problem in the memory monitor.
- Fixed some gfx out of range when using VE on a Workbench screen
with a display width < 645.
- Starting to write a disassemble function in the memory monitor.
It don't know all the commands yet, but it will ;)
- You can now use the arrow keys or the numeric key pad to scroll
in the monitor window.
- Added 'Show data virus' to the menu. Requires xvs.library v33.34+
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/ve/ve.htm
(ps)
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06.Sep.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)
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New Linux_m68k kernel and programs for Linux APUS
Michael Heider wrote:
Under the title link a new kernel for Linux_m68k as well as a new kernel and
programs for Linux APUS are available for download. The programs are about a script
to configure sound under Linux APUS in case of sound drivers generated as kernel modules.
Most kernels downloaded from the developers page have such.
On my homepage you can download kernels up to version 2.4.8 each as both IDE and SCSI versions.
On this occasion I would like to thank Mario Frenzel for his effort.
One short note:
I ask the users to access the homepage using my old URL
http://home.germany.net/101-109037/index.html,
since there are some problems with the domain offeror at this time.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Idruna Software
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Job: US Channel Sales Manager for Idruna Software (Photogenics) wanted
Idruna Software is wanting an experienced sales manager on commission basis for the
US market to distribute Photogenics there. Interested people may please contact Paul Nolan
via e-mail.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Stefan Sommerfeld (ANF)
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New Repulse sound card drivers
From now on new Repulse sound card drivers are available for download. These
contain also the initial beta version of the new Toccata emulation. This new
emulation for the first time allows to use MovieShop (software for VLabMotion).
Furthermore an update for SoundFX is available for download enabling unlimited use
of this software with the Repulse sound card.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Boing! International / Harald Frank tel.
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Event: First pictures from the ITExpo/COMDEX in Melbourne
ITExpo/COMDEX is taking
place in Melbourne, Australia, where also Australian Amiga user groups are present with
their own booth. Bernie Meyer, co-author of the 'Amithlon' emulation, really is excited
about the great interest and the wondering eyes of the visitors while they have been
presenting Amithlon.
You will find first picture taken by Boing! under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
AmiLIVE
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Event: AmiLIVE! IV in Sao Paulo on 16. September 2001
The Brazilian Amiga user group AmiLIVE will organize a meeting on 16. September 2001
on which among other things the Amiga 4000 Toaster Flyer and miscellaneous Amiga computers
running OS3.5, OS3.9, MorphOS, and iFusion will be shown active. Take a look at some
pictures from the
last meeting on 17. June 2001 for some impressions.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org Demo Competition'01
The news service Amiga.org organize a demo competition for AmigaDE with categories
for 64k and 4k demos. Conditions of participation and more information are available
under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tools: Printmanager V39.33 and EnvHandler V1.12
Stephan Rupprecht updated two of his tools. Printmanager, a printer spooler for
AmigaOS3, is available for download in version 39.33 and his ENV-Handler in version
1.12.
Download:
prtman39.lha - Readme (195 KB)
envhandler.lha - Readme (14 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
amiga.org
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Editor: EDWord Version 6.01 now freeware
Martin Reddy has released the full version of his editor for Amiga computers EdWord
version 6.01 as freeware and is about to make available the source code, too. More
information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Golem - IT-News for Professionals
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Golem: Free PowerVR SDK for Kyro and Kyro II available
»PowerVR Technologies published new documentations and development demos
PowerVR Technologies now also offers free available developer information at
www.pvrdev.com intended to support the Kyro and Kyro-II graphics chips
manufactures by STMicroelectronics. Programming examples, documentation, and drivers are offered.«
Complete article see title link (German).
Another message about this subject (German):
Chip: Hercules: Neue Kyro- und Kyro-II-Grafikkarten (cm) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
AmiBench
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AmiBench will be four years old soon
Press release:
Did you know that AmiBench will be 4 soon?
Alot's happened over the last 4 years.....
I still remember the day that AmiBench went live, September the 26'th 1997. I remember very vividly on christmas day of the same year, clicking on the refresh button in Ibrowse and seeing new adverts everytime I hit it.
I couldnt even begin to re-count how many emails I've had from well wisher's over the year's and how many friends I've made for life through AmiBench being what it is.
I guess there's alot to be said for the Amiga Community. I am sure that some of you know that I've not used a real Amiga in about a year (I just kept blowing them up..), Even through I dont have an Amiga, I'm still here... AmiBench still goes on, and I live in somekind of vain hope that maybe this year We'll be able to release version 2 of AmiBench...
I've long since given up guessing on when (if?) AmiBench 2 will go live, I don't know. All I do know is that We try our best, but not having the resources that we need to dedicate ourselves to making it happen in 3 weeks means it takes ages to finish. All I can say is sorry guys!, it'll happen one day...
Ugh, this little post sounds really depressing... Sorry :(
Anyway, We usually celebrate AmiBench's birthday by holding somekind of Quiz. This year I've sadly not had time to approach anyone and arrange anything. Is anyone interested in giving away some gifts for us to use as birthday prizes?
If so please do drop me a mail as soon as possible!
--
Mark 'tecno' Wilson : Team Member of AmiBench
Web: http://www.AmiBench.org
Email: mark@amibench.org
ICQ Number: 39814816
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06.Sep.2001
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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French User List: Annuaire Amiga Francophone
Sébastien Jeudy updated his user list 'Annuaire Amiga Francophone'.
At this time there are 563 users from France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Quebec
on the list. You should register to the list, too, and come in contact with
users near you.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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