12.Oct.2001
Don Cox (Open Amiga-ML)
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OSNews.com: Interview with Wouter van Oortmerssen on 'SHEEP'
On October 12th 2001 an English interview with Wouter van Oortmerssen
(Amiga E, SHEEP) on the programming language 'SHEEP' was published on
OSNews.com. He was interviewed by
Eugenia Loli-Queru.
Oortmerssen has implemented more
than 30 smaller and larger programming languages since 1987 with different focus.
Among those counts for example 'Amiga E'. Currently he's working for Amiga Inc. on
the language 'SHEEP'. In the
interview he talks about the abilities of this language.
(sd) (Translation: rh)
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12.Oct.2001
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.3
On October 10th 2001 Virus Help Denmark released version 17.3 of the virus detector
'Safe' by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' recognizes viruses in the computer's RAM
and removes them if this is possible. Compared to version 17.1 the following has
changed:
- small fixes
- added WatchDog 1.1 with very unknown bug fixed
and improved security.
- added new versions of CHECK and COMP, now they support
<CTRL>+C, so any wrong operation can be easily interrupted
- added warning:
'Safe' runs on AmigaOS V2.04 and above and requires the xvs.library.
Download: Safe.lha (25K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: rh)
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12.Oct.2001
amiga.org
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Prometheus: prm-rtl8029 V0.24, NetMeter V1.1
Version 0.24 of the ethernet Sana-II driver 'prm-rt18029' and version 1.1 of the
network monitor 'NetMeter' were released on the 'Prometheus support page'.
The new version of the prm-rtl8029 driver is a bit faster
(440 kB/s) and some small bugs were fixed.
NetMeter has tooltypes for the window position added and the 'Mediator protection'
removed.
This network monitor works with a broad range of SANA-II drivers including the
Amithlon NE2000 driver. With the Prometheus board version 0.24 of prm-rt18029
is required.
Prometheus is a Zorro III PCI bridge for Amiga computers which is produced by
Matay.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: rh)
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12.Oct.2001
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Workbench: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation V0.8
TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation is a pure
JavaScript simulation of the Amiga Workbench 3.x for Win32 Internet
Explorer 5 and higher. New in this version 0.8 are the following features:
- Moving of icons into and out of windows
- Scrolling of the visible window contents with the arrow symbols
- Language choice through preferences program
- English localization (is now the default)
- Workbench messages in the title bar, e.g. if you want to drag a
drawer into its own window
- Support of the menu items 'Last Message' and 'Open Parent'
- Simulation of the original cycle gadget (incl. shift-click)
for easier choice of pattern and language
- Smaller bugfixes and improvements here and there
(sd) (Translation: rh)
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11.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: Update of Schlachtfeld
Horst Diebel wrote:
At the Schlachtfeld area there are to see some units in 'TarnBlau' (masking blue)
by Edgar Leidig (under "Instruktionen"). This masking colour was already
determined for one party in Schlachtfeld Phase 2.
Moreover we would like to announce a graphics competition about the subject
Schlachtfeld. More to learn about after a few days.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
ANN
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BBS: DLG Pro BBS reminder site
Jeff Grimmett has put online on his DSL homepage a website DLG 'Memorial'
about the BBS system (mailbox) of same denominator. This site contains
the final DLG beta version including source code
from the time when development was stopped.
Before long additionally there will be available a commented source code as well as
- if there will be enough time - a postscript version of the manual.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
amiga.org
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AROS: IBM-PC/native on one disk from 10. Oct. 2001
On 10. October 2001 Matt Parsons has released a new version of AROS
for IBM compatible PCs. Interested people can download and test it and
report bugs and problems to
Matt Parsons.
This new version loads faster and contains many small demo programs
for testing and playing around with.
At the time there is no desktop, but is to come. Furthermore there will
be some utility disks with a bundle of Aminet programs for testing.
AROS is an open source project to implement a portable AmigaOS v3.1
compatible OS.
Download: AROS-ibmpc-bin.zip (800K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
Norman Thiel (ANF)
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Library: vapor_toolkit V15.11
On 7. October 2001 version 15.11 of the 'vapor_toolkit' library was released.
The vapor_toolkit.library is a library of support functions which
are used by most Vapor applications and thus can be shared to
reduce individual application code size. Changes since version 15.8:
- more error checking in the library initialization (Zapek)
- optimized memory usage for some functions (Zapek)
- added "html" as built-in file extension (Zapek)
- rewrote MIME handling functions. Much faster and more efficient (Zapek)
- fixed a potential crash from VAT's ARexx handler (Zapek)
- fixed the saving path of MIME entries not being always set :o) (Zapek)
- fixed the ARexx handler task crashing when the library was flushed then
reloaded again (Zapek)
- fixed MIME extensions list which would only add the first one of each
mimetype :o) (Zapek)
- fixed screwup in the class dir handling :o) (Zapek)
Download: vapor_toolkit_1511.lzx (54K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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Event: Amiga Inside News
Matthias Münch wrote:
The countdown was started for the three days 'Amiga Inside' party from 19th to
21st October in Hirsau (near Calw), Germany and some seats are still to take.
Thanks to the noble support by KDH Datentechnik we are now able to reduce the
admission charge to 5DM. Furthermore in all foresight VMC/Harald Frank will
attend the party and present the Amithlon project, which sure might be interesting
so many people. Unfortunately DCE did not agree with us firmly until now and thus
we don't expect current DCE products to be presented.
More information under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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Virus Alarm: CoolBall.lha
The file 'pix/back/CoolBall.lha' in Aminet was infected with the Bobek-2 virus in the
installer. This virus can be removed using
util/virus/VirusExecutor.lha.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
DCE (ANF)
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PCI: World premiere USB for GREX
DCE Computer Service and Vision Factory Development are proud to be able to
fulfil a long term wish of the Amiga users, at last.
Together with the GREX-PCI interface for the first time it is possible to
use USB devices with the Amiga.
On Saturday, 13th October for the first time we will present the functionality of the interface
in our demo machine to the visitors of the Amiga Meeting in Bad Bramstedt (Germany),
which will be a world premiere.
On our website regular we will keep you informed about other news. Moreover we will establish
a special USB page within the next days. You will be able to find this page under
www.dcecom.de and
www.vgr.com/g-rex.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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10.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Database: XBaze V7
On 7th of October 2001 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7 of the database 'XBaze'. The English documentation, some bugfixes and some minor improvements have been added. You can read the changes at the download-site.
The program offers an easy to use editor for the arrays of the data record and of the layout (drag&drop).
You can send bug reports and proposals to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl
Download: 2b_XBaze-7.lha
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
ANN
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Magazine: Amiga Power #XV
Issue 15 of the French Amiga-magazine called 'Amiga Power' has been published. This issue contains tests of iFusion, Prometheus and ScanFx 3.0. Besides this it also contains hints to the configuration of Shogo and much more.
You can order the magazine over the title link. The magazine is published by the French Amiga-association 'AFLE'.
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
William Bidgood (Open Amiga-ML)
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AmigaDE: Tutorial-Site of William Bidgood
William Bidgood has created a tutorial-site to the topic of AmigaDE. Presently it contains English tutorials to VP-assembler and Java. The VP-assembler tutorials give a basic introduction to the elements of the language. The Java tutorial contains hints to Java under AmigaDE.
All those who find mistakes or problems in the texts please contact William Bidgood.
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
Aaron Digulla (AROS-Announce-ML)
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AROS: Status report (MorphOS, Amithlon, H&P, Amiga)
On the 9th of October 2001 Aaron Digulla, AROS, has published the following status report of AROS (which is an open source project for implementing of a portable, AmigaOS-compatible operating system) on the AROS-announce-mailinglist:
«Hello,
A long time since the last update but I can proudly reply that I keep the web
site uptodate, now :-)
Here is a short roundup what has happened since the last update:
Parts of AROS are used in the MorphOS product. MorphOS gets some shared
libraries which they need and we get patches to make Amiga software work :-)
Two members of the MorphOS team, namely Nicholai Benalal and Emmanuel Lesueur
have CVS write access and they have started to submit patches. All in all, a
very good deal on both sides :-)
Amithlon (Harald Frank) has also asked if they can use our sources and we gave
them the same deal that MorphOS got. Still, no patches on this side. As I see
it, Harald and Bernie are drowning in work :-) Good luck to them !
Neither H&P nor Amiga have asked to use our source in any of their products. I
expect them to know what they do. The times when I tried to "enlighten" others
are in the past :-) Good luck to them, also.
On the AROS side, I can say that we have achieved a lot ! At the time of
writing, the AROS CVS repository is 66MB and the contributed sources are 90MB.
Commits are very frequent (in the last few weeks, there was almost no day when
no one committed some of their work), so AROS is more healthy than ever.
And the range of software which we have is also quite impressive: We have
ported the version of DOpus which you can find on Aminet (yeah, that's old). We
have Radium (http://www.notam.uio.no/~kjetism/radium/),
a note editor which can
also play the songs you edit with it. We have a CDROM driver, the editor XDME
(which was written by me) was ported last Sunday in about 8h of work (mostly
fixing ghastly code which DICE did compile for reasons unbeknownst to me ;-)
and Python (http://www.python.org/),
the first programming language for AROS.
We also have a couple of prefs programs (Font, Locale, ReqTools, Serial) now.
While AROS still lacks a lot of things and a lot of code is, well, doing only a
fraction of what the original AmigaOS can do, it's still impressive to see how
far we did get and that gives me a very good feeling what I look into the
future. AROS Native/x86 is getting more and more stable and when a bug in the
trackdisk.device is fixed (it's *very* slow) and a feature is implemented (it
doesn't support the diskchange signal, yet, so you cannot run the demos on the
contrib floppy disks), you won't only be able to boot into an AmigaOS-like
system on your PC but you will at least be able to edit some prefs, save them
to disk and write some texts with XDME.
Our now home might lack fancy colors and designer chairs but it certainly
begins to feel like Amiga :-)
Have fun !» (sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
Lionel Thillot (ANF)
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Event: French website to AMIGA 2001
For people who speak the French language and who are going to attend the AMIGA 2001 which will take place on the 17th and 18th of November in 2001 a website has been created.
This site offers the possibility of contacting each other in order to meet at the fair.
You can get further information under http://www.woa.amedia-software.com/.
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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amiNET.GUI also accessable under www.aminet-gui.net
From today on you can access amiNET.GUI under the url www.aminet-gui.net, too.
This url already refers to the new (beta-) version of amiNET.GUI.
Shortly the url www.aminet-gui.de will also refer to the new version.
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
Martin Bertelsmann in dcsau (ANF)
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A600/A1200: PCMCIA - Compatibility list
Martin Bertelsmann guides an AmigaOS-/Linux-/NetBSD-compatibility list of the PCMCIA-cards in Amiga 600 / Amiga 1200 under the title link.
He asks for further test reports.
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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09.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Game: Test of Payback (PPC) at Amiga Extreme
Amiga Extreme have already reviewed Payback, but they thought it was
appropriate to post a short review
for the PPC and Warp3D version of Payback.
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09.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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AROS: Floppies (FAQ), XDME, Python, FPU-Bug
Aron Digulla extended the AROS-FAQ with entries about the use of
floppy drives
in UAE and AROS as well information about the
IRC channell for AROS.
Furthermore he has started to port the editor 'XDME' which was almost
finished. 'XDME' gets compiled and linked successfully - but crashes after
it was launched. This would be fixed soon.
Thanks to Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen Radium is now playing.
Adam Chodorowski corrected the installation of Python (programming language).
The runtime modules were not copied.
Georg Steger corrected the long existing FPU bug. The FPU wasn't initialized correctly
and task switching between FPU and non-FPU tasks could crash AROS. There also was a certain
error in the routine for removing a task. Steger added the missing character modes in graphics.hidd.
The private field 'initialfont' of the IntWindow structure was removed (that's what IFont in the Window
structure is for). Notification between slider and list-view gadget is more secure now.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD Update V1.05
Elbox Computer has made available
the MM CD 1.05 update for registered Mediator Multimedia CD users.
The update includes:
THE NEW DRIVER: FastEthernet.device
It is the first time when Amiga users may use the driver, which enables
using 100Mb/s network cards.
The FastEthernet driver enables using Fast Ethernet 100/10Mbps cards
based on RTL8139 chipsets in MEDIATOR PCI busboards.
Driver updates:
- TV tuner drivers ver.1.2
- Voodoo 4/5 drivers ver.4.8
- pci.library ver.4.2
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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09.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)
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Elbox: Mediator Update V2.5 und Warp3D
Elbox Computer is happy to announce
release of the long-awaited Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator PCI
busboards.
The Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator support both modes of
pci.library operation: MMU and NO_MMU.
In the NO_MMU mode, Warp3D supports the PPC and 68k processors.
In the MMU mode, Warp3D supports only the 68k processor.
The Warp3D drawer contains full release of the Warp3D
V4 for Mediator excluding the DEMO drawer. The DEMO
drawer is enclosed in the Mediator Multimedia CD and
at: http://www.elbox.com/download/Warp3D_V4_demo.lha
The following files, apart from the Warp3D, are included in
MediatorUP25.lha:
- pci.library ver.4.2 NEW
- Voodoo.card ver.2.7 NEW
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
contact: press@elbox.com
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09.Oct.2001
Amiga.org (ANF)
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OS-News.com: Tao-Interview
At OSNews.com an interesting interview about Amiga's role in their
partnership with Tao can be found.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS project update
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project Update
Users of AmiATLAS version 5 owning at least five additional maps will receive
version 6 at the special price of 79DM (+ shipping and handling), if they send in
the original disks and Key disk.
AmiATLAS6 is estimated to be shipping from 15. November 2001.
The preoder form can be found at the 'Aktionen' section.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Oct.2001
Zoltan Hunt (Amiga Open-ML)
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Amiga: Interview about rumours with Bill McEwen
On 8. October 2001 at 'Temple of Technology' an interview by Vidar with
Bill McEwen, Amiga Inc., was published. McEween talks about several rumours.
A short overview of what he said:
«We have more money today, than we had 6 months
ago, and we will have more money by the end of the month,
than we had since we started the company.»
The romours about and end of AmigaOS 4 are false.
The AmigaDE update is being tested and will be released soon.
The original interview is available under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Oct.2001
Richard de Rivaz (ANF)
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Home-Server: INET DIAL V3.847
Version 3.847 of the home server 'INET DIAL' was released. This version
now supports Voyager v3.3.177, AWeb, and IBrowse.
INET DIAL is a home server for the AmigaOS. It supports X-10-Control,
automatic upload, and automatic e-mail download, access to your own
computer via network as well as login in to distend machines
using 'direct dial' or the Internet.
More information and screenshots are available under the title link.
Download: inet_dial.lha
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Oct.2001
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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Utility: Magic Menu V2.31 Beta
On 9. October 2001 beta version 2.31 of 'Magic Menu' was released.
This might be the last version by Olaf Barthel who continued Martin Korndöfer's project
and now is wanting a successor.
This archiv only contains the most required stuff: binaries and the guide.
Download: MagicMenu_beta.lha (115K),
Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)
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08.Oct.2001
CAPS-Team (ANF)
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CAPS - The 'Classic Amiga Preservation Society'
There is a new project to collect original disks of Amiga games called
CAPS. These disks will be copied, including
the copy protection, to a new memory device. It can also be used to
restore destroyed original disks.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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08.Oct.2001
Petra Struck
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Holidays: 09. - 16. October 2001 (update)
Due to the fact that I will be on holidays for the next week I please you to mail your news to Sven Drieling
sd@amiga-news.de or insert them directly into the
ANF. News mailed to me will not be published during my holidays.
Update 11. October 2001:
The e-mail address sd@amiga-news.de
dosn't work properly a the time being. An alternative address to
contact Sven Drieling is indy@olis.north.de.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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08.Oct.2001
DCE
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DCE: GRex 4000 D production started
The production of the GRex 4000D devices has started. DCE updated
theire website and published a small picture series.
Furthermore many details were added to the product description.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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08.Oct.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register September 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana
Computer User Group. It deals with topical and important news about Amiga, Macintosh, the PC and the whole
computer-industry.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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08.Oct.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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News about the Sharp SL-5000 PDA
There is an article at the title link about the new Sharp-PDA.
Informations about the new PDA by Sharp is also available here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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08.Oct.2001
NetBSD (ANF)
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Unix-command (NetBSD) "file" recognizes Amiga pictograms
The NetBSD version (NetBSD-current) of the Unix-command 'file' is now able to recognize Workbench-pictograms (.info-files).
This feature is available for all platforms supported by NetBSD. Furthermore the maintainer of the file-distribution for
Unix Christos Zoulas was informed. That means that this feature will soon be available for other Unix-versions, too.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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08.Oct.2001
Amiga.org
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GUI for MP3-Player: mp3Play Version 2.0
Carl Svensson wrote a simple GUI for the MPEGA-library.
Download. mp3Play.lha (13 KB) -
Readme
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Oct.2001
V3Portal
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WWW-Browser: Voyager V3.3.117 beta
Vapor released beta version 3.3.117 of the WWW browser 'Voyager' for
AmigaOS (68k) and MorphOS (PPC) this time being a full archive including
all required modules, libraries, and the installer script.
If you're running MorphOS the AmigaOS version must be installed first.
Then the MorphOS archive can be installed. The MorphOS contains a
description of this.
This beta version will run in demo mode without a keyfile.
All changes since version 3.3.104 can be taken from the
readme file.
Download:
Also there are several mirrors at the
V³-Portal.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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07.Oct.2001
Stefan Blixth (ANF)
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www.OnyxSoft.nu not available for some time
Due to a problem with the Internet provider the normal domain
'www.onyxsoft.nu' of
OnyxSoft (Cathedral) will not be accessible for some time.
To fix this problem a site mirror was established available at
http://onyxsoft.dhs.org/.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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07.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik
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Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS, Bonds
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project
In cooperation with the AmiATLAS development team the Amiga Arena make possible
a special price for AmiATLAS 6.
Until and including 20. October 2001 you can preorder AmiATLAS 6 at the special price
of only 99,- DM stead of 109,- DM at the Amiga Arena.
Registering via the Amiga Arena can be done by filling in the survey form at the 'Aktionen' area .
Note: Owners of AmiATLAS 5 might have even cheaper update possibilities since negotiations
were not finished, yet.
AmiATLAS - The Story continues
When the Amiga Arena made possible version 2.0 to be released for free further development of
AmiATLAS was not really sure to be done.
Thanks to good cooperation of Adreas R. (Innovative Software Solutions) and the Amiga Arena
it was possible to find Gerd F. to take the task of further development of AmiATLAS
The more I'm happy about the AmiATLAS development team to able to present version 6
before long.
By this I would like to make you aware that WE (developers, users meaning Amiga users!)
with a bit personal initiative are able to move many a things.
Feedback of any kind is very important to all developers. This issue should not be
underestimated.
The Amiga Arena wishes the AmiATLAs development team much success and hopes that
the users will take this project.
Olaf K. - Amiga Arena
Amiga Arena - Special Price
The special price for Bonds is still valid thru 31. October 2001.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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07.Oct.2001
AmigaArt
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bplan: Pegasos - 1Q02
Sinan Gurkan, of AmigaArt collected information from the
'"party on:-)" (R.S.)'-thread
at ann:
- Q1 2002 is the planned release date for Pegasos EndUser
boards.
- MorphOS Team has a contract from Amiga Inc. since May
2001, but they don`t want to sign it at the moment.
- MorphOS Team thinks that "AmigaXL/Amithlon for x86,
AROS, MorphOS for PPC" are the choices for 2002 and beyond.
There are more interesting postings in this
thread with
more than 180 comments (ca. 330K).
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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07.Oct.2001
Fun Time World
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MP3: AMPlifier V2.33
On 6. October 2001 kato has released version
2.33 of the MP3 player 'AMPlifier'.
Now the player also can be used under AmigaOS3.0/3.1 with the new functions, again.
Instead of the ReAction classes AMPlifier 2.33 requires the current
ClassAct library to run under
AmigaOS3.0/3.1.
Download: amplifier233.lha
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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07.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: Little Book of Amiga Software, Schlachtfeld
The pages of the Amiga-Society were updated.
- Several updates to the Little Book of Amiga Software.
- Schlachtfeld: Casino established (with password only); third alpha version.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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07.Oct.2001
Geoff Milnes (E-Mail)
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Alt-WoA 2001: Report about the Amithlon presentation
Geoff Milnes published a
report about the
Amithlon presentation by Bill Hoggett on 1. October 2001 in Blackpool, UK.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Oct.2001
Carsten Schröder (ANF)
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Magazine: AMIGA aktuell 10/2001 released
The October issue of AMIGA aktuell contains among other things
- an up-to-the-minute interview with AMIGA president Bill McEwen,
- many information regarding the Amiga emulators AmigaXL and Amithlon,
including a preview and several comments,
- a final word titled »Is the PowerPC nearing its end?«,
- a review of the IDE-SCSI adapter »HighPerTEC SCSIDE-BR2«,
- the first part of a workshop about shared filesystems,
- a preview of the space game »Descent: Freespace«,
and much more. AMIGA aktuell 10/2001 can be read online on our website or be
downloaded in HTMl or AmigaGuide format. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Oct.2001
Dirk Baeyens
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Event: Amiga 2001 - website now online
The website of the Amiga 2001, that will be held on 17. and 18. November 2001 in Cologne in
the Mediapark 6 (KOMED), is now online under amiga-messe.de (title link). The complete exhibitors list will follow soon.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (email)
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Elbox: Warp3D running on Voodoo3, 4 and 5 in Mediator
Elbox Computer is humbly informing all the Amiga fans
that Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator PCI busboards
are on the release now.
Warp3D drivers prepared by Hyperion Entertainment for
Mediator PCI busboards work flawlessly on PPC & 68k
processors with the following graphic cards:
- Voodoo3 2000/3000,
- Voodoo4 4500,
- Voodoo5 5500.
Warp3D Voodoo drivers are now included in the software
package bundled with all the Mediator PCI busboards.
For all the registered users of Mediator PCI busboards
Warp3D Voodoo drivers are available free of charge
directly and exclusively from Elbox Computer.
Update:
Because of the different comments we have contacted Hyperion and asked for an
official statement that was sent to us just now by
Hans-Jörg Frieden
via email.
Here the official comment of the Warp3D team:
First some facts:
- No member of the Warp3D team owns a Voodoo 4/5.
- We don't have any documentation about it.
- There were never talks about support for Voodoo 4/5. The drivers in their
current form, no matter whether for Prometheus, G-REX or Mediator, was
designed for a Voodoo3/Avenger and are functionally identical.
In general it can't be excluded that the Avenger driver works with other chips
of the Voodoo family. This includes the Banshee as well as the Napalm (VSA-100
of the V4/5). But it is out of question to take on support or guarantee for the
operation in any way. Should it really work (that couldn't be tested by now)
then it is pure chance. And it doesn't need to work with all existing boards or
revisions of the chips.
Should it come out that the drivers really work with the Napalm chips it
will probably count the same for the Prometheus as well as the G-REX busboards.
But: neither Hyperion Entertainment nor the Warp3D team can guarantee in any way
the operating of the drivers with any Napalm based graphics board. As far as we
are concerned we do only deliver support for Voodoo 3.
Ciao,
Hans-Joerg Frieden
Senior Software Developer, Hyperion Entertainment
Mail: Hans-JoergF@hyperion-software.de
Web: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com
(ps)
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06.Oct.2001
Michael Burkhard (email)
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Michael Burkhardt: Farewell to Hof
Michael Burkhardt, known to many Amiga users by his company IOM Messefilme
and the Amiga controlled video wall on exhibitions, wrote:
»
Dear friends,
now it is official: I change from my lackluster
autonomy to an employment.
Already on Monday I'll move to Berlin 300 km from here,
take a furnished apartment and work for the D.A.V.I.D. GmbH from
Tuesday on.
This decision was a hard step for me and required a great effort.
Especially the last months when a management consultant was helpfully by my
side showed that it would be much better to live and work in a real Media town.
But to move my company would never have been to put through. I never would have
taken this enormous risk. The more happy I was to have found a job now in
the media industry.
At the D.A.V.I.D. GmbH I'll ensure as project engineer planning, technical
support, and network installations for radio stations. This software house is
specialized in applications for radio broadcasting. More details about the company can be
found at www.david-gmbh.de.
I would like to thank all those who have helped me in my period of
autonomy. Of course the company IOM will continue to exist, but I
personally won't have the chance to deal with the management as
my new job requires 100% of my time.
Particularly during the beginning it will become very stressful and it likely will be
hard to contact me. Of course my e-mail address, my mobile phone number
(0171-3296371), and my ICQ will remain the same, but surely I won't be able to answer
immediately in the beginning, however.
In any case thanks to all people who always supported me in continuing
my company. Of course I'm at your disposal for questions during this weekend.
Best regards,
Michael Burkhardt
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Medientechnik
IOM Film- und Videoproduktion, Hof/Germany
D-95030 Hof/Saale * Kornhausacker 56
Phone Contact: +49-9281-767102
Fax Contact: +49-9281-767103
Web Contact: http://www.messefilme.de
Email: info@messefilme.de
ICQ: 40465741« (ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Oct.2001
Cyborg (ANF)
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Instant Messenger: CIM Update for IP-NAT Version 1.04ext
CIM now also works when using an IP-NAT router. Besides that many GUI improvements
had been done. Data transfer is now possible.
CIM is a messaging utility developed by Marius 'Cyborg' Schwarz on the basis of
the small ICMP demo on the
ASP
(Amiga Security Page). PGP is already integrated.
MrMarco (www.highantdev.de) has
kindly made 'Traffic' available on his server. With this everything for a
network similar to ICQ is given. Everybody who wants can log in. The program has
been tested on several Amigas and runs stable. The installation is extremly
easy, so no installation script is needed.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Oct.2001
Chip
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Chip: Exclusive: Radeon 8500 beats GeForce3 Ti/500
»ATI's Radeon 8500 is the high end competitor to Nvidia's
GeForce3 Titanium 500. With a chip clock of 275 MHz and a memory clock of
effective 550 MHz it offers powerful arguments.«
Full article (German) see title link. (cm) (Translation: wk)
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06.Oct.2001
Andre Geisler (ANF)
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Game: Payback PPC/W3D available
Payback PPC and the Warp3D version for 68k and PPC is available at Apex Designs
since today. In Payback the player is taking over the role of a young fleeing
driver and is trying to become a big gangster boss.
A new 68k version has been released, too. The following new features have been
added:
- PowerPC support
- Warp3D support
- Gouraud shading
- Rotating 3D mode
- You can now add custom textures to user maps
- Map preview added to rampage and multiplayer setup screens
- Fonts and in-game images are automatically scaled up at resolutions of
640x400 and above
- Finnish and Dutch language support
- Lots of minor bug fixes
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Oct.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Mailbox: Stardate-bbs temporarily not accessible via Internet
Because of massive DSL problems is the Stardate bbs (Amiga mailbox for
more than 10 years) for the time being not accessible via Internet.
All Pollboxes/Points may please move over to the modem/ISDN dial in.
The Telekom is working on the problem.
The popular Dynamite server stardate.2y.net is affected by this, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Oct.2001
Jürgen A. Theiner (ANF)
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playamiga.de: new column
The October is here. As in every new month we have a new column, "Quo Vadis,
Amiga?". In the charts there have been not many changes as the participation
last month was relatively weak. Please participate as you have in the beginning.
THANK YOU.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Oct.2001
Kilian Servais (ANF)
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Disk magazine: NoCover issue 91 released
As already announced last month many changes had taken place at APC & TCP. So is
the NC, that of course continues to be issued at the beginning of the month,
from now on available free of charge and the membership at the APC & TCP is
now free of charge, too. People who want to get the NC sent on a regular
basis via email just send an email to kilian@apc-tcp.de. Of course will the NC
from now on be uploaded onto the Aminet (docs/mags), so that the interested
ones can download the latest issue from there, too.
At the moment we're looking for users who want to collaborate on the NC - we're
always pleased about articles that can be submitted not only via email but also
via snailmail (Kilian Servais, Feldkampstr.78, 44625 Herne). The NC #92 will, by
the way, be released on the Aminet within the next 48 hours resp. can be ordered
via email. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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