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29.Jun.2001
Eternity Hard and Software


Eternity: PC with preinstalled UAE with JIT
For some time, Eternity has offered the EternityOne, which is a PC with AMD Athlon processor which has the Amiga emulator UAE preinstalled.

From now on, the PC is shipped with only 1.2 GHz and a DVD-ROM. Further, WinUAE with JIT is installed automatically which results in two to four times faster speed than an Amiga with 060 processor. With the DVD-ROM and the very fast processor, you can for example watch DVD movies fullscreen on this computer. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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29.Jun.2001



Aminet Uploads until 29.06.2001
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UrlBase.lha          comm/www    70K+Universal file based Favorit Link List S
vzy-murderer.lha     demo/aga   2.5M+Monochrome Demo by Veezya
obligement27.lha     demo/mag   651K+Obligement #27 - The Famous FRENCH fanzi
vzy-emb02.lha        demo/sound 619K+Embrion #02 Chippack by Veezya
vzy-emb03.lha        demo/sound 594K+Embrion #03 Chippack by Veezya
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vzy-emb05.lha        demo/sound 806K+Embrion #05 Chippack by Veezya
xit-itf.lha          demo/sound 324K+Into The Flow by X-It
clockita.lha         dev/basic   74K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
Sashimi.lha          dev/debug   17K+Enhanced drop-in replacement for Sushi, 
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29.Jun.2001
Elbox (e-mail)


Elbox drivers: MediatorUP2.3
Elbox has updated the drivers for the PCI boards Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV. All Mediator system files and PCI drivers are now available in a new version.

The update archive MediatorUP2.3.lha contains the following drivers: pci.library 2.2 (NO_MMU) - pci.library 3.2 (MMU). Both variants are developed and supported. Here more details:

MMU drivers:
  • pci.library ver.3.2 NEW
  • Voodoo.card ver.2.3 NEW
  • Virge.card ver.1.2 NEW
  • MediatorNET.device ver.2.0

NO_MMU drivers:
  • pci.library ver.2.2 NEW
  • Voodoo.card ver.1.4 NEW
  • MediatorNET.device ver.1.2
(ps)

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29.Jun.2001
Merlancia Industries (ANF)


Merlancia: Open letter to the Amiga Community
Merlancia Press Release #MPR29062K1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

29th June 2001

Merlancia Industries
3516A West Cactus Road
Phoenix, AZ 85029 USA

1-877-53-AMIGA | ++1 602-789-0956
http://www.merlancia.com | merlancia@merlancia.com

Merlancia Open letter to the Amiga Community by Ryan E. A. Czerwinski, CEO of Merlancia Industries

Greetings to all. We are happy that the Amiga community is taking a deep and serious interest in our products and what we are working on in the background! We will be releasing some more critical information to answer your questions soon, however, we are currently gagged until some other contracts are completed.

I assure you all that welcomed good news is ahead...in fact, look forward to a feature article about us in an upcoming issue of Amiga Active Magazine, where we hope to answer many of your questions. We are currently looking for those that are interested in developing for our system(s). (As the Tsunami will only be the *first* system we are releasing.)

To answer some common questions that have been asked:

Re bPlan:
Yes, we are working with bPlan on the Tsunami design. The details of this partnership are due out soon. Let it be said that we are designing hardware, not just sitting idle and waiting for others to do our work for us. We have very talented people on staff, both software and hardware (not to mention press relations and marketing) and we are spending our $$$ wisely.

Release dates:
The Tsunami system is expected to be released in it's final consumer form in November to December 2001. We are working very hard to meet this deadline, though we cannot foresee any problems that may arise. The Pilot release will most likely be after the AmiWest conference, not at as we had hoped, as we are currently having a slight fault in the gfx display; We will have a demonstration system at the show. We plan to have a press conference as well as other 'events' at AmiWest, and we hope that there is a large amount of Amigans that think it wise to attend. ;)

We need your talents!:
We are looking for both software and hardware developers. A platform like this cannot succeed without a full range of software to run on it. Sure, the current software will run on our system, but we need a full library of up-to-date software, both multimedia and business applications, to be able to achieve our place in the market.

We have already received orders for developer systems from some very impressive firms and individuals. We hope to grab up as much talent as possible, as it makes sense to have PowerPC software for new PowerPC hardware. We are looking for both the absurdly simple (tiny games or utilities) to the fairly complex (graphics packages, office suites) software titles. An option will be available to have your software included with each unit sold, or special unit packages.

AmigaOS 4/5:
We are unfortunately unable to release details on this currently, however, we hope to do so shortly; most likely at the AmiWest conference.

Let it be said currently that our system both meets and exceeds the Zico specification, as do all of our 'in development' systems.

Our market:
We are designing our Torro systems to be a natural complete system solution upgrade path for current Amiga users (see examples of how/why below) but we are not limiting our products to the current Amiga market or community. We anticipate high sales volumes to the consumer and industrial multimedia markets; Our systems are designed to be as CHRP resembling as possible. We are pitting them against the big names like Apple and SGI.

Our partnership with Blittersoft was only the first step in this process - Working together on the iFusion project will allow us to migrate iFusion to our systems easily, allowing full Macintosh compatibility on our products, both under AmigaOS and stand-alone (later). We are also planning on offering other OS solutions as separate packages including QNX, Linux, Solaris, BeOS (hopefully), and others. We cannot provide MacOS ourselves, but the user will have the option of installing it, and we will also be working on an x86 emulator so that if the user desires he/she can use x86 operating systems including UNiX, Linux-x86, BeOs-x86, and (gasp!) even MS Windows (though we won't support it directly).

We are also working on a firmware OS (think what Exec is to Amiga) that allows not only selection of startup devices via an 'early startup' screen, but also setting up multiple machine states that can be launched with ease and switched between instantly. (Thus allowing multiple OSs to be run at once.) This may not be included with the first launch, but an updater will be available to patch the firmware, which is flash updateable. Speaking of which, your machine state setting will be able to be saved, as well as your other setting, including screen mode and startup volume (individual to each machine state), thus allowing you to start up with those options each time you reboot.

Why is it a natural upgrade path?:
Unlike other machines promised in the past, and other projects in the works, we are working on something that will be completely natural to the Amiga user of today. Features like the ability to read and write to floppy discs and other media in native Amiga formats (880k and 1760k on floppy discs) as well as simple things like the layout of the keyboard and the look and feel of the design of the system all around all total up to Amiga-like. We are trying to make a product that is impressive from the inside and out, not just another ëboxí. Not to say that all offerings that are currently being made are bad. in fact, I look forward to the EyeTech AmigaOne. I know I will buy one personally, and our retail division will carry them. (We have the worldís largest stock of A1200 NTSC systems; other dealers are now ordering them from us.)

The future and beyond:
What lies in store for us, the Amiga community? I canít say for sure, but I feel that the future is brighter than ever; due both to the commitment from Amiga ( a lively bunch of bright and intelligent individuals) as well as out commitment to you, the Amiga community. As always, you come first in our thinking and our product design. This product is designed for you; We wouldnít have bothered if it wasnít.

As always, best wishes to everyone. Thank you for being a customer, current, or future.

Cheers,
Ryan E. A. Czerwinski
CEO - Merlancia Industries (ps)

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29.Jun.2001
Merlancia Industries (ANF)


Merlancia announces strategic alliance with 'individual Computers'
Here the original press release by Merlancia on the strategic alliance with Individual Computers:

Merlancia - Press Release #MMC29062K1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

29th June 2001

Merlancia Industries
3516A West Cactus Road
Phoenix, AZ 85029 USA

1-877-53-AMIGA | ++1 602-789-0956
http://www.merlancia.com | merlancia@merlancia.com
--
individual Computers -Jens Schönfeld
http://www.jschoenfeld.de | jens@jschoenfeld.de

Merlancia Industries' Announces Startegic Alliance with 'individual Computers

Merlancia Industries is pleased to announce a strategic relationship with 'individual Computers'; to design a controller device that will be utilised on our Torro series systems.

The device, a custom chip controller, named 'CLeo' will be available as an add-on kit for the Pilot release systems (to be included with all systems shipping after it's release, and to be sent to all developer systems sold before-hand).

The 'CLeo' custom device is based on technology first implemented in individual Computers' 'CatWeasel' disc controller, and will allow the reading and writing of Amiga native disc formats (880k and 1760k) on our Tsunami system as well as future directives. Other formats will be supported as well including PC-DOS, and Macintosh-HFS.

We expect to have a prototype of this design at AmiWest Conference (28th to 29th July 2001- Sacramento, CA; USA) as well as our prototype Pilot system.
(ps)

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29.Jun.2001
Amigan Software


Tool: Report+ version 4.7
Report+ by Amigan Software allows the easy creation of bug reports, Aminet readme files, autodocs and similar reports. The program is freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools.

Download: report.lha - 395 kB (ps)

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29.Jun.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


Individual Computers: strategic alliance with Merlancia Industries
Merlancia Industries (Phoenix, AZ), the creators of the Tsunami System, have licensed a controller from Individual Computers that was derived from the technology in the Catweasel and is able to read and write Amiga disks as well as a huge number of other disk formats.

The device called "CLeo" is an add-on for Tsunami and other Pegasos-based computers. A prototype of CLeo is expected to be shown at the Amiwest show on 28th and 29th July 2001 in Sacramento, CA. Individual Computers will not attend the show in Sacramento, though. (ps)

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28.Jun.2001
Frank Fenn


Music: Audiomaster 2000 Version 0.76
Version 0.76 of the sample editor Audiomaster 2000 was released. This program utilized MUI and supports any AHI device.

This program by Frank 'Fenny' Fenn is shareware; there is no saving possible in the demo version.

Download: audiomaster.lha - 352 kB (ps)

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28.Jun.2001
Olaf Koebnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Full Version
With permission of Michael Taupitz and Andreas Magerl the Amiga Arena enables the release of "Tautrix", which is a Tetris like puzzle game.

Short description:
Building blocks have to be put down sorted by colour and without gaps. If a cuboid was created (4x4), this one will vanish and make way. But since only the cuboid will vanish, it will not be that easy to handle overhanging parts. (ps)

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28.Jun.2001
Amiga.org / Jorge Pino (ANF)


Apple to buy PowerPC from Motorola?
It's sill just a rumour; according to The Register Apple will buy Motorola's PPC branch, next year. Following an extract from the article:

»Apple is set to wrest control of the PowerPC platform away from long-time partner Motorola through a clause in its agreement with the chip maker that allows it to buy Motorola's PowerPC assets for $500 million next year.«
Complete article under the title link. (ps)

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28.Jun.2001



amiga-news.de: of own concern
Now our English pages have the same extended features as the German part, even commenting/annotating of news messages is possible. On this account we would like to ask every webmaster of non-German websites, which contain amiga-news.de in their link lists, to change their link to amiga-news.de to the following:

amiga-news.de/en/

This will bring your readers to the proper version.

Please, change your bookmarks.
(ps)

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28.Jun.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)


Game: Frontier Elite II Sources? (Update)
Michael Asse wrote:
Again I sent an e-mail to Andrew Gillett of the Eliteclub and got a clear YES as answer to my question about the release of the sources of the Frontier Elite II Amiga version on Eliteclub. This would give interested people the opportunity to patch or extend the game or to learn from the "grown-up".

Editor's note: Michael, please tell us your e-mail address, too. We don't like to publish anonymous messages and moreover we have no chance to further inquire without an address given. (E-mail-address updated). (ps)

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28.Jun.2001
Da SixK Port Page


Webserver: Apache V1.3.20 + PHP V4.0.6
As already reported an update of the Amiga webserver 'Apache' was released on the ´SixK Port Page´. This Apache version still is 1.3.20. The script language module 'PHP' is available in version 4.0.6 as released on 23. June 2001. Now the entire debug code was removed and a test.php added for testing purposes.

This version should require less memory and run more stable.

The binary was compiled for the 68040 and for use with the official Amiga Apache archive on http://amiga-apache.home.pages.de/.

Download: apache1320_php406_040a.lzx (ps)

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28.Jun.2001
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Another two Top-Level-Domains activated
»The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) addresses a "historic milestone for the Internet community" in their statement about the activation of another two top level domains. This is about the domains .biz for companies and .info for offerers of information sites, which both are available technically from today, that is. The Department of Commerce, which still reserves to itself the superintendence of root servers of DNS, agreed with the adoption and root server entry of these two new domains, according to ICANN.«
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)

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27.Jun.2001
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)


Amiga.org online again
Because of some troubles with PHP-Nuke the English speaking news service Amiga.org had canceled the website to completely rework it. Because it takes much time to establish a new editing system Amiga.org is now online again with PHP-Nuke. (ps)

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27.Jun.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


New timeline for AmigaOne
Under the title link you can find the new timeline for the AmigaOne. According to it the selling start is at the beginning of October.

Probably at the "secret" meeting at the Benelux Amiga Show they reached an agreement on it explained Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) at the AmigaOne mailinglist.

With this delay AmigaOS 4.0 becomes more important. Still in this version there will be the PPC native TCP/IP stack which according to Fleecy Moss (Amiga) was developed by Olaf "Olsen" Barthel and which is being tested with a 68k version.

There will be the new filesystem "AmFS2" and the support of virtuel memory already in 4.0 as well as drivers for SCSI and Ethernet.

Besides this Picasso96 and Warp3D drivers will be delivered for Voodoo3 (PCI/AGP), Matrox G450 (PCI/AGP) and Matrox G550 (AGP).

Contrary to the original plans USB- and soundcard-support (with "Soundblaster Live") will be there already in the BoingBags of OS 4.0 and not on OS 4.2. (ps)

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27.Jun.2001
Frogger


MPEG-Player: Frogger 1.65rc7 for PowerPC
There is a new version 1.65rc7 of MPEG-animation-player 'Frogger' for Amiga PowerPC computers.

If the oiriginal Frogger-website (titlelink) is too slow then you can use the following mirrorsite for downloading. The program is shareware and you can directly register at the author Sebastian Jëdruszkiewicz in Poland. (ps)

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27.Jun.2001
Matay


Matay: New Voodoo3 graphicboard-driver available
In section 'Archives' (titlelink) you can find the new versions of the Voodoo3 2000/3000 graphicboard-driver for the PCI-board Prometheus.

The increase of the speed is the most important difference to the older versions. This is not a final version. This one is announced for Voodoo4 4500 graphicboards including the drivers and for networkcard-drivers for the NE2000 to the next week. (ps)

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27.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News


Webserver: Apache V1.3.20 + PHP V4.0.6
On 25th of June in 2001 on the 'SixK Port Page' another update of the webserver 'Apache' has been published for the Amiga. The Apache-version is still 1.3.20. On 23th of June in 2001 the script-language-modul 'PHP' has been published in version 4.0.6.

This version should run more stable and should need less memory.

The binary has been compiled on http://amiga-apache.home.pages.de/ for the 68040 and for the use with the official Amiga-Apache-archive.

Download: apache1320_php406_040.lzx (sd)

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27.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News


AmigaOS: French mirror of AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ
The official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ which is led by Greg Donner is also accessible in French under http://os39.amedia-software.com/os39faq.html.

The translation has been done by Thillot Lionel. During this week the update v1.5 will be published. Thus the mirror will be up-to-date. (sd)

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27.Jun.2001
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)


Elbox: Answers to questions of users
Elbox has issued a statement which answers many questions of the users concerning SharkPPC, sound- and tv-card-drivers as well as Warp3D support.

Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:22:13 +0200
From: ELBOX support@elbox.com

X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [pl] (WinNT; I)
Subject: ELBOX about SharkPPC, Sound and TV card drivers and Warp3D support

Below are the answers from Elbox to questions asked by Kay Are Ulvestad. 
The questions (asked in a message to Elbox) refer to SharkPPC cards, 
drivers to Mediator PCI for Sound, TV and other cards, Warp 3D support, etc.

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Kay Are Ulvestad wrote: 

> Hi! 
> I'm sorry to hassle, but you know how the Amiga market is. . . keep 
> public relations quiet for a while, and wild rumours start circulating. 
> Anyway, I was hoping you could provide this impatient user with some 
> info by answering some questions. With your permission, I will post 
> the info on the Amiga Mediator ML as well, hopefully calming some 
> people down. The questions may look kind of long, but I think 
> they're mostly easy to answer.  Ok, here I go: 

> 1. There recently was a claim (outside of Elbox), that the Shark 
> products were cancelled. Although I myself don't really believe 
> this on such a weak basis, the recent lack of information about 
> the products as well as the successful marketing of the AmigaONE 
> might lead to some users feeling they've invested in a "dead end" 
> expansion-wise. Perhaps you could tell me how the development 
> is going? Any estimated release date? 

As we have explained many times, we will start producing 
SharkPPC G3/G4 and ShakPPC+ cards when AmigaOS 4.0 is ready 
for releasing. 


> 2. When is the next driver release from you? What kind of drivers 
> can be expected, and how soon? 

Tomorrow we will make available the MediatorUP2.3 update, which 
is a simultaneous update for the users of Mediator PCI 1200 and 
Mediator PCI ZIV.  All the system files and the enclosed drivers 
have been optimized and adjusted to operation with Mediator PCI 1200 
and ZIV. In the pci.library, workaround has been made to avoid the 
incorrect recognition of 68LC060 processors by the LC060.library. 

The next drivers to be made available within the coming two weeks 
will be drivers for SoundBlaster 128 music cards. 

Drivers to TV cards, which were presented in WOA 2000 in Koln 
are ready and will be released in one package with drivers 
for SounBlaster 128 music cards.  

Further drivers, on which we are now working, are drivers for 
SoundBlaster Live! cards.  The work is advanced in ca. 80% on these 
drivers. 

Writing drivers is a very time-consuming work. Unlike drivers to 
the previous Amiga cards, like those in Zorro slots, writing drivers 
for PCI cards requires much more time. The reason is that drivers 
for Amiga cards were prepared usually for one specific series (mask) 
of chipsets around which they were produced.  For example, CyberVision 
64 3D cards were produced around the S3 ViRGE 86C325, chipset  but 
always only and solely for one series (mask) of these chipsets. 
Our drivers for S3 cards support various chipsets of the S3 ViRGE, 
but also have to run with all the series (masks) of these chipsets.  
This applies to other drivers written by us, as well.

In the recent several months , production of other PCI busboards 
for Amiga was announced. Probably many people believed that this 
would result in co-operation of companies for writing drivers 
for PCI cards.  We guess such co-operation would be beneficial for 
users of Amiga with PCI slots.

Elbox has written drivers for Voodoo3, Voodoo4, Voodoo5 and S3 
Virge graphic cards and Ethernet cards. 

We hoped that if a new busboard is to be introduced to the market, 
its authors will prepare drivers for these PCI cards, for which 
no Amiga support is available as yet. Then, by licensing, they 
would make available their drivers for working with Mediator, 
receiving in return licences for drivers  prepared by Elbox. 

Well, as we see , the trend is completely different: 

The only drivers which are made for other PCI busboards are drivers 
to these PCI cards, to which Elbox has already written drivers. 
Writing drivers to these PCI cards, to which drivers have been 
written and made available by Elbox, is like solving a difficult 
problem in physics, when you already have seen its solution...

Therefore, soon we will make available drivers for Mediator to 
such PCI cards, which due to technical reasons cannot work in PCI 
busboards other than Mediator. 

We also hope that external developers will write drivers for 
PCI cards.  SDK for Mediator is available free of charge after 
signing NDA.
However, prospective developers have to remember that: 
- They should approach appropriate companies about documentation 
  to PCI card chipsets, to which they want to write drivers. 
  Usually, such companies require signing an individual NDA. 
  Also, questions about operation of the PCI cards of interest 
  to them must be asked with these companies. 
- PCI specifications are property of PCI SIG and may be acquired 
  at http://www.pcisig.org.

> 3. Is there a solution within reach to the 4mb memory window problem 
> on early mediators with BlizzPPC cards? Or will AND have to wait 
> for the Shark? 

For users of BlizzPPC cards with Mediator PCI produced last year 
we are preparing a special offer for upgrading to the appropriate 
MACH chip.


> 4. It seems Hyperion has mostly completed the Warp3d drivers for 
> Voodoo3. How long until we can see the true power of Voodoo3 on the 
> Mediator? 

This question should be asked to Hyperion.

Elbox accepted financial conditions of the Hyperion company. 
However, the Hyperion company so far was not able to give any 
specific date when their Warp3D drivers to Voodoo3 for Mediator 1200 
could be released, despite numerous earlier assurances (since December 
2000) on the part of the Warp3D team that preparing such drivers is 
only a matter of a few weeks. 
As soon as Hyperion are able to give a definite date, there will 
be nothing to be an obstacle for signing the contract. 


> Well, that's all I can think of for now. Thanks in advance, 
> and keep up the good work for the Amiga market! 

June is a month of very intense work for us, as , apart from 
all the things I have already written above, we now begin 
production of three more Mediator busboards: 
 - Mediator PCI ZIV for the Z-IV busboards, 
 - Mediator PCI ZIII for any Amiga with Zorro III slots, 
 - Mediator PCI 4000 for controlling Elbox Zorro III/PCI (7xZIII, 
   5xPCI, 1xVideo) busboard of the E/BOX 4000 tower system (known 
   also as Power Tower 4000 or  Winner Tower 4000) for Amiga 4000D.
   
The two last models of Mediator are technologically the most 
advanced busboards in the Amiga market for Amiga 3000/4000 computers.
 
Mediator ZIII and Mediator 4000 busboards for Amiga 3/4000 computers,  
unlike other simplified bridges offered for Amiga with Zorro III slots, 
support the most advanced Zorro III  mechanisms like e.g. DMA between 
PCI cards and memory in the turbo card and other features omitted in 
these bridges, which are necessary for cards like SoundBlaster 128 
or SoundBlaster Live! to work properly. 

We are glad to be able to answer your questions. If you still have 
any doubts, please drop us a line.

Best regards,

Darek Dulian
ELBOX COMPUTER, Support Department
support@elbox.com
http://www.elbox.com
(ps)

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27.Jun.2001
Ben Yoris (E-Mail)


NO Voodoo3-drivers of Hyperion for Mediator?
With permission of Ben Yoris (pr-manager of Hyperion) we post an e-mail of the Amiga-Mediator mailing list. It says that Hyperion Entertainment could not agree about licencing of Voodoo 3 drivers with Elbox. That means that at least Hyperion will not produce drivers for the PCI-board Mediator.

Read now the full comment of Ben Hermans of Hyperion:

Response from Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment:

"Elbox and Hyperion did NOT come to an agreement about licensing Voodoo 3 drivers because Elbox insisted that the Mediator 1200 would be the very first PCI solution to be supported (of all PCI boards on the market regardless for which machine A1200 or A4000).

There never was discussion about delivery dates.

The fact of the matter was that Elbox wanted us to do something which was clearly impossible both practically and legally.

Practically: we can't "unsupport" the Matay Prometheus PCI solution. Drivers are shipping with the Prometheus for some time now and it's impossible to turn back the hands of time and allow the Mediator 1200 drivers to be shipped first.

Legally: We entered into a legally binding contract with Matay for driver support. They paid us, Elbox didn't. We cannot legally delay release of the Prometheus drivers (which are already released anyway) just because Elbox wants us to. This is a clear breach of contract and runs contrary to the requirement of good faith which is a general principle of contract law.

In short, Elbox was trying to impose an impossible condition on us and as a result we failed to reach agreement about Voodoo 3 drivers.

I have e-mails from several staff members of Elbox to back up these claims.

Despite numerous attempts we could not convince Elbox that Mediator 1200 users really could care less about the fact that the Voodoo 3 drivers for an A4000 solution were shipping first.

The result is apparently that there won't be any 3D drivers for the Elbox products unless Elbox drops this ridiculous condition. Or somebody could invent a time-machine.

As anybody could see at the Benelux show, the Voodoo 3 drivers are quite ready and could be adapted to the Mediator 1200 in a relatively short time.

Mediator 1200 users interested in Voodoo 3 drivers should e-mail Elbox explaining that they don't care if an A4000 PCI busboard is supported first as long as they can finally get their Mediator 1200 drivers.

The ball is clearly in Elbox's court."
--
Ben Hermans
Managing partner Hyperion Entertainment
(ps)

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26.Jun.2001



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26.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Chip online: Rumour: Radeon 2 available from end of July
A programmable vertex- and pixelshader will be integrated in the Radeon 2 chip.
As the french hardware magazine "Puces3D" reports will gfx-boards with the 3D-chip Radeon 2 from ATI be available from end of July. Also it reports about some new features of the Radeon 2 chip. So there will be six instead of four rendering pipelines to do the job.
The pixel accelerator produced in 0.15 micrometer technology will have a clocktime of 350 MHz. Even the Dual-Monitor-functions as used by the Radeon VE gfx-boards will be integrated on the first boards with the Radeon 2 and offered together with the software HydraVision. For complete article follow the title link (german only). (ps)

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26.Jun.2001
eBund - Der Bund online


Exhibition: Control - Alt - Collect. Computer im Ruhestand
The exhibition "Contro-Alt-Collect. Computer im Ruhestand" (Computers in Retirement) has opened at June, 22nd 2001 in Bern, Switzerland at the Museum of Communication. Besides some computer rarities developed in Switzerland you can see computers from Commodore, Amiga, and Atari. You will find more details under the title link (german).

It is nice that you can see Amiga computers, too, but Amiga will not be in retirement so soon. :-) (jm)

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26.Jun.2001
DCE (ANF)


DCE News: WIN-TV runs under DMA at GREX Board
We are proud to announce to you that after an intensive developingtime we have finished the first beta version of the WIN-TV driver based upon the chipset BT878/BT879.

This driver supports the G-REX PCI DMA mode. You as G-REX users are able to display an overlay window in any size or depth with a minimum of CPU time. To get a first impression you can look at this: voodootv_grab.jpg - 391 kB

The release of the end-product is to be expected within in the next four weeks. (ps)

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26.Jun.2001
Amigan Software


Software: Worm Wars und Report+ updated
Version 6.7a of the game Worm Wars and version 4.7 beta of the tool Report+ released.

With Report+ you can easily create bugreports, Aminet readmes, documentations, and other reports. It is Freeware and based upon ReAction and GadTools.

Download:
wormwars.lha - 730 kB
4_7beta.lha - 403 kB
(ps)

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26.Jun.2001
T.o.T.


Game: Tales of Tamar Amiga-Version V0.36R3
Changes of the latest Amiga version 036R3 of "Tales Of Tamar", the round based online game:

  • Paula DMA sounds were not played correctly if the samples were too long. Fixed
  • FigurMenu could be drawn outside the screen. Fixed
  • A building that was build but not finished could not be build again, only if you reset the town. Fixed
  • All screens check now ChipRAM and if there is not enough availble leave out DMA samples.
  • Map has not freed all elements, the memory was fragmented. Fixed.
  • The Corn Store has not freed all memory. Fixed.
  • If you want to increase your army incl. armor the number of weapons and armor was not checked correctly. Fixed.
  • In armies like heavy and medium Infantry other / wrong units moved. Fixed.
Registered beta testers will find the update at the usual location. (ps)

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26.Jun.2001
AmigActive


Magazine: AmigActive preview of issue #22
In the latest version of the english magazine AmigActive you will find a review of Shogo:MAD, an article about the sound package SoundFX, an appraisal of the emulator WinUAE JIT, and basic knowledge information about Photogenics. (ps)

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26.Jun.2001
Hyperion Entertainment


Hyperion/DCE: Licence for Voodoo3-driver
DCE and Hyperion have made an agreement about the usage of the Warp 3D drivers for the G-REX PCI line Voodoo 3. Read the press release:

DCE licenses Voodoo 3 Warp 3D drivers for its G-REX line of PCI products

Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce that it has entered into a license agreement with DCE, producers of the G-REX line of PCI hardware for the Amiga.

Under the agreement Hyperion will support DCE's G-REX 1200 and G-REX 4000 products with fully featured Warp 3D Voodoo 3 drivers for both 68K and PPC.

« We're very pleased that DCE has decided to respond to demand by its customers for Warp3D drivers for Voodoo 3 », says Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment . « Amiga users currently have quite a number of PCI solutions to chose from and the manufacturers offering the widest range of drivers for their PCI solutions will clearly have a competitive advantage. From the large number of e-mails we have received, we can only conclude that the availability of 3D drivers is a key consideration for users when they make their decision to purchase a specific PCI solution. To avoid disappointment, we once again urge users interested in 3D graphics to investigate the availability of Warp3D drivers before purchasing a specific PCI solution. » (ps)

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26.Jun.2001
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)


CD: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES v1.1.1
The Kickstart Archives is a collection of actual and dead AMIGA related websites and more on CD. A list of the contained material you will find here.

Updates since the last issue:
  • Updated: LexSite from Alex Luptak (updated May, 3rd 2001), peripherie section
  • Added: The Art of James D. Sachs by himself and Jeff Palmer in the specials section Jim Sachs had drawn for example as Art Director for the game "Defender Of The Crown" and was responsible for the GUI of the Commodore CDTV.
  • Added: AS WE MAY THINK from Vannavar Bush in the hstory - Amiga patents section In this 1945 published article V. Bush mentiones may things that are realized decades later (Internet, GUI, ...) and that takes influence on the design of the workbench.
  • Added: reedBench - A Workbench emulation by Jaakko "Reed" Kaitaniemi in the specials section. A reproduction of booting with Kickstart/OS 1.3 and 3.1 (needs JavaScript)
  • Reworked: Index page for better Overview and navigation.
The changes since last update are marked. No Amiga browser is able to interprete the JavaScript file to generate the linklist.

You can get THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES for a special price of DM 18,- or US-$ 10,- (incl. p&p) till July, 31st 2001. (ps)

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25.Jun.2001
H&P


H&P: Pictures of the meeting at the Benelux Amiga Show
There was an internal talk about the AmigaONE at the Benelux Amiga Show. Participants in the talk were Alan Redhouse, Martin Schüler, Michael Rock, Fleecy Moss, Ben Hermans, Hans-Jörg & Thomas Frieden and Jürgen Haage. Unfortunately it is not allowed to unvail any details. But there are some pictures of the meeting at the titlelink. (ps)

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25.Jun.2001
Sinan Gurkan (E-Mail)


AmigArt: Return to the old URL
The newsservice 'AmigArt' can now be accessed again by using the old URL www.amigart.com (ps)

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25.Jun.2001
Gregor Galwas (E-Mail)


Game: dynAMIte Version 1.5
Version 1.5 of the networkgame 'dynAMIte', a Bomberman-clone, released. All the changes made can be found in changes.txt.

Download:
dynAMIte_update.lha (only the update) - 182 kB
dynAMIte.lha (complete) - 1,9 MB (ps)

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25.Jun.2001
Martin Schueler (E-Mail)


AmigaOne Board: Status Report by Martin Schueler
As promised on the BAS2001 (see First report) Martin Schueler has sent us a summary of the lecture about the AmigaOne board and technical details.

Status

The lecture mainly was similar to the one already lectured on the WoA, but of course contained updated information regarding the time schedule. Important about this is that the beta test will close middle of September, which at the same time will mark the starting shot for the first line.

Moreover the new revision of the AmigaONE boards - plugged into an Eyetech tower - was shown. One was able to tangible ("forcibly") convince oneself of how sophisticated and solid even the mechanical solution was done, and that it is by no means some unstable kind of tinkering solution. But we deliberately used a board only quipped with PCI/AGP sockets, to prevent our electrostatic sensible testing boards from any possible damage.

Following the status report from which I took the answers on respective questions, on the show:

During production the first revision formed short cuts on several points of which some were irreparable. It was not possible to obviate the latter during production without knowing the problem in advance.

For the new revision we had changed the respective points, but also several other points, in a way that reduced production requirements. Furthermore we corrected mechanical reference measurements, which prevented the first revision from being precisely assembled inside the casing.

Also the non-technical problems were fixed and the testings efficiently proceed on schedule since June 8th. It is especially joyful that all of the testings (contrary to common expectations due to complexity) succeeded on the first go, which was finally a result of their carful preparation, too.

All significant testings on board level are already finished. The following testing work is limited to verification of the logic within WestBridge and NorthBridge and it's interaction with the standard components.

This is to talk about ca. 10% of those testings are done. But virtually this means that already 50% of the problematic and time critical points are covered. Nevertheless those succeeded on the first go. So schedule risks are more and more decreasing. Furthermore 100% of the problematic points are functional of which malfunction would mean total outage, in worst case.

I also added three pictures:


picture_1.jpg
(640 x 480)

picture_2.jpg
(640 x 480)

picture_3.jpg
(640 x 480)


The first one shows the rev2 board (equipped with PCI/AGP only) as it was presented on the show in Rotterdam. But the other one shows one of the equipped rev2 boards as these were used for the testings. All of the testings succeeded on the first go using the board in the picture. Third picture: The slots in this picture are simply put on, cause I think it looks much nicer if it is fully equipped :-).

For the rest the board will be tested as stand-alone for a very long time. The connection to the A1200 will be done at the very end.

Martin Schueler
(ps)

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25.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)


Events: More Pictures from the BAS 2001
Marvin Droogsma has sent us some more exclusive pictures of the BAS 2001. The photos were taken by Lejon Hamstra.


bruno&marvin.jpg
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alan.jpg
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lan.jpg
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martin2.jpg
(533 x 400)
 
(ps)

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25.Jun.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


Virus Help Denmark: VirusExecutor V 2.19 and virus-warning (Update)
Minor update of VirusExecutor (2.19) released. Details:

Name: VirusExecutor v2.19
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size: 265.021 Bytes
Release date: 25. June 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
Required: xvs.library (contained), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library, xadmaster.library

New in v2.19
  • Added MuMove4K right!
  • Removed library version check for xadmaster.library.
  • Added Amiga OS Update IDE_scsidisk right...
  • Removed all internal virus checking as they are added in xvs.library v33.26
  • Fixed bug when running on kickstart lower than 3.0 Thanks to Jan Andersen for telling me...


Virus-Warning
Yesterday, there was a warning at the VTH-mailinglist concerning a very dangerous virus. (ps)

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25.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Chip online: Graphic Chips: New Details about Kyro III
»David Harold, Press-Relation Manager of Imagination Technologies, gave a sight on the upcoming Kyro III - developed by the code name of STG 5000 - to the German game magazines PC Action. ST Microelectronic will integrate a freely programmable vertex- and pixle-hader along with the also integrated T&L unit into this pixle accelerator. This chip, which is manufactured in 0.13 µ technology, thus addresses Microsoft's DirextX-8-API (application programming interface), as like Nvidia's GeForce3. «
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)

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25.Jun.2001
Thomas Eichler (ANF)


E.T. Productions: Looking for graphics-designer
E.T. Productions is looking for graphic-designer for some time. If you are interested please have a look at our 'Free Amiga Jobs'-section. (ps)

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25.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)


Events: BAS 2001 - Report form the organizers
The Benelux Amiga Show 2001 has ended..., we tasted a lot of welding while organization, but it was worth it cause more than 400 visitor mean a brilliant result to us. Only as number 400 visitors are not much, but in case of an Amiga only show in the Netherlands this is an encouraging number. Amiga still exists!

A short report from our point of view:

Very early in the morning, at 8:00 am, we started to set up the show. With three overloaded cars full of hardware and software, posters, beamers, audio equipment, and somewhere in between all that even the drivers, we took the first stuff to the show. Bjorn Lynne was already there and had put up at table on the first floor.

At about 10:00 am a quite normal dancing school was converted to an Amiga building....

The first visitors contacted already at 9:00 am (with well dressed hair and gem chewing). One or the other way it was announced that the show would start already at 10:00 am. We would like to apologize for this misinformation and we hope that waiting was less hard, cause of the good weather.

This was our first time to organize such a show; hopefully this was not too clear to see.... Anyway, we learned some things to do it better next time (?). Nevertheless most of what we organized succeeded very well, as we think.

10:00 am: Petro Tyschtschenko arrives, as usual in a good temper, also after little sleep (he has sat with Juergen Haage until 4:00 am and has had a few beers too much).

10:30 am: The participants of the LAN party are let in and guided to the first floor. Very much people are waiting outside, now. Might it be that we unnecessarily were in doubt about enough visitors?

11:00 am: The show begins! There are plenty, plenty, PLENTY OF PEOPLE! A heavy burden is taken from us....

I won't talk about everything in detail, now. That was already done by other people (for which we say thank you). Just a few things which attracted us in especially.....

In our opinion the presentation of by Eyetech and Escena were a bit too technical and might have been done more attractive, some how. The slides could have been done more interesting than it was actually done. However the presentation gave a good sight of what is being done and why. After the presentation people had the opportunity to consult Alan Redhouse and Martin Schueler for more information.

Fleecy Moss impressed us. His jokes and his enthusiasm are really great. A good exponent of the Amiga Spirit. Unfortunately he could attend the show for a short time, only.

Bjorn Lynne presented his music and sold his CD's on the first floor. According to what he told us, he sold more CD's than he expected. He was very satisfied and did a lot autographs. But the Dutch beers were a little to small to him...., the British are used to something different.....

Did anybody notice that there was a not announced ´special guest´? Bill Buck of VIScorp. He talked to many of the Amiga VIP's. Could that be of any meaning? Who knows..... (http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/amiga/ar/ar407/feature6.HTML)

Mr. Does of Vesalia and his wife were on the show, too.

Matay showed a first class product; who missed it ..., what a pity, what a pity.

There was another premiere, too (more about this later on); the first game (Asteroids look-a-like) for the AmigaDE by an unknown SDK user (I could not find the name).

Some of the VIP's whispered some nice news to the print magazine 'AmigaScene', which we will publish in the next issue (in cooperation with amiga-news.de). For example there are good news regarding Amiga OS4.

One small anecdote: On his train journey to Rotterdam Fleecy really was in dire need of a toilet, but nobody informed him that he was floundering waiting in front of a strictly and all-the-time closed toilet for staffers only, for minutes.... Poor Fleecy.

There were visitors from Norway, Germany, Poland, Belgium, France, England, and Spain (20 hours by car....!).

An editor of a Dutch TV station talked to Petro, Juergen, Alan, Fleecy, and many of the visitors about the Amiga and it's cult status. She was very impressed and will - like already announced - do a broadcast about Amiga only, after summer. She will talk to even more Amiga personalities. It is planned to take more shots in Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.S.A..

People from a Dutch radio station were also on the show and on the following Saturday a special broadcast about the show and anything to see there will be put to air.

Petro acted as a fairy of fortune at 4:00 pm and drew the winners of the lottery in which any visitor could take part. He twice drew visitors from Germany but which unfortunately already had left the show. Those missed among other things an Amiga poster with Bill McEwen's autograph on it, a number of Amiga CD's, a music CD by Bjorn Lynne, and a VIP diner.

Between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm we closed the show. The show was followed by the VIP diner with 27 guests. These guests had the opportunity to talk to each other about the show and Amiga subjects, without ruffle or excitement in an easeful atmosphere. The VIP's were very excited about the multitude of visitors. This encourages them to go on developing.

About 11:00 pm it all was over. Petro and Juergen were picked with a long Mercedes and taken to the hotel, like super-stars. Then the rest of the people went home, too.

Still many pictures will follow by us - from the set-up to the after-party - and Juergen Haage promised to send us pictures from the secret VIP meeting at 11:00 am.

We would like to use this opportunity to heartily thank all of the visitors of the show. You really showed that the Amiga is alive and has good chances to return strong. We thank amiga-news.de for reporting; the way Petra Struck supported us really rules!

More information, pictures, and links to other reports can be found at amiga-news.de and of course on the BAS 2001 website.

A lot of greetings to the Amiga community
The organizers of the Benelux Amiga Show 2001
(ps)

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25.Jun.2001
Amiga Future


AmiSectorOne: New members, games, demos, and covers
Probably you remember my news posting of 12 June which was called "New staff members are required". Finally I have made my choice and here are the new team members (sorted by the time they joined):
  • Marcos Alves from Portugal
  • Keith Michaels from the USA
  • Tony Whent from Australia
  • Holger Herrmann from Germany
The new team members will be responsible for different parts here on AMI Sector One. Also I am just working with a kind contributor called Gustavo to improve our scripts. Some other projects are in preparation too... More about this in the next weeks. You can read some notes about the new members in the staff section.

Now the games update:
Patricia Curtis (formerly project manager and assistant programmer at Apache Software) as well as Mark Page (formerly programmer at Apache Software) allowed us to upload the Amiga game Super Methane Bros. (a game similar to Bubble Bobble, but with better graphics and sounds). You can download different versions of this game: There is a CD32-HD version (does not run on emulators) and an ADF version. Like so often I would like to stress that this game is NOT freeware. P. Curtis and M. Page are still the copyright owners and they granted a permission which is ONLY valid for this site.

Btw: I am looking for the game "Murder makes strange Deadfollows CDTV" by Tiger Media. Is there somebody of you who has it? Please get in contact with me (Bernd)...

And here are the high quality Public Domain games of this update:
  • Jouster 3 (the arcade classic Joust for the Amiga)
  • Kamakazi Killers (good Galaga game)
  • Rattlesnake (street fighting game)


New AGA demos are:
  • Repugnance
  • Roswell
  • Response
  • Tear down the Wall
  • Some Justice
Also a disk with the results of the Amega Party - Gfx Competiton was uploaded.

Here are some new cover- and box scans:
  • A320 Airbus (the game itself will soon be available here)
  • Big 6- Dizzy Collection CD32
  • Case of the Cautious Condor CDTV
  • Chinese Karate
  • Euro Soccer '88
  • Fallen Angel
  • Hard Drivin'
And here is a last minute update:

You can now download ALL 18 LSD Sprint Docs Disks (Sprint Docs provide cheats, solutions, freezer addresses etc). Of course every Sprint Disk has got its own HTML and screenshots. Thanks to the new member Marcos who made it possible. I hope you enjoyed this update. In the future the updates will be bigger since the staff has grown. Also you can expect more updates during the week. (sd)

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24.Jun.2001
Amiga Future


Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets
WHDLoad makes it possible to install floppy-disk-only games to harddisk. The following packets have been added or updated since 18. June 2001:
  • 24. June 01 new: Dick Tracy (Titus) done by Mr.Larmer
  • 24. June 01 new: Pucman (F1 Licenceware) done by Jeff
  • 23. June 01 new: Linus (Palace) done by Codetapper
  • 23. June 01 new: The Blues Brothers (Titus) done by Mr.Larmer
  • 22. June 01 new: Mortal Kombat (Acclaim) done by Codetapper
  • 22. June 01 new: Black Tiger (Capcom/U.S.Gold) done by Jeff
  • 21. June 01 improved: Puzznic (Ocean) several enhancements
  • 21. June 01 improved: Alien Bash 2 (Glen Cumming/Myles Jeffery) speedup
  • 19. June 01 new: Fernandez Must Die (Mirrorsoft/Imageworks) done by Jeff
  • 18. June 01 fixed: Hard Drivin' (Domark) file loading corrected
  • 18. June 01 new: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) done by John Girvin
To download follow the title link. (sd)

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24.Jun.2001
René Stelljes (E-Mail)


AmigaHelpGuide + Amiga-User-Liste (Update)
René Stelljes wrote:
After Stefan Martens decided not to continue the Amiga-User-List (AUL) due to lack of time, I took over this task.

From today the AmigaHelpGuid and AUL are pooled together. The list is available at http://www.8ung.at/ahg/ only, at this time.

Since I want to keep the Amiga-User-List up-to-date, I ask all of the users already registered to get in contact with me to update their data, if needed. More information are to take from the guide.

Supplement 24 June 2001: Due to great demand a Commodore demo is available for download on René Stelljes' homepage under the 'Sonstiges' link. (sd)

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24.Jun.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Full Version
With permission of Carsten Magerkurth and Andreas Magerl the Amiga Arena enables the release of 'Colours Professional'.

This is another version of the puzzle game 'Offensive Colours'. 'Colours Pro' is an exciting composition of Tetris and Breakout. (sd)

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24.Jun.2001
Timo Kloss


Inutilis: Moonlight-CD
Timo Kloss wrote:
A short announcement first: the short filmlets video was finished now, too.

The Moonlight-CD is available from now on. Since there is no official distribution path, it only is available directly from Inutilis. Order from the online shop, per post or phone.

If somebody knows about some possibilities for distribution or sale (or even can offer such), please tell me about. On the Moonlight website among other things the original CD cover is online, now.

Great parts of this CD were created using an Amiga and Camouflage. The printed matters also were designed using ArtEffect.

Price: 18 DM (directly from Inutilis)
Time: ca. 73 minutes
10 songs + 5 spacers or intros
Description: Mostly silent, experimental, electronic music in "moonlight" mood, so to speak.
(sd)

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24.Jun.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


Virus Help: xvs.library V33.26
The xvs.library (External Virus Support Library) has been updated today.

Here is some info about the release:

Name : xvs.library v33.26
Archive name : xvslibrary.lha
Archive size : 55.988 bytes
Release date : 24 June 2001
Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
Email : virusexecutor@c2i.net

News for 33.26:
  • Added Bobek2 Link virus
    Thanks to Jan Andersen for the files.
    Thanks to Zeeball for the memory removal routines.
  • Added Expl0de Trojan Link virus
  • Added Expl0de Trigger File virus
    Thanks to Jan Andersen for the files.
  • Renamed 8x8 Link to Motaba-3
Still to do:
  • Add a new link virus...
    This virus is brand new, so if you got this requester:
    "POWYÚSZA INFORMACJA MA NA CELU ZAZNAJOMIENE
    I OSTRZEÚEME CIË PRZED NIEZWYKLE
    NIEBEZPIECZNYM WIRUSEM!"
    "OSTRZEÚME"

    in english:
    "This information is just for telling you
    and warn you about extremely
    dangerous virus!"

    "WARNING!"

    you have been infected...
  • Add Neurotic Death 1 - 5. These five link viruses are polymorphic, but crash on my system if I try to infect some test files. It seems that they haven't been spread to the public, I received them anonymously from the author. So it's not that BIG danger at the moment.
  • Try to get and add GlobVec link virus. The only one who has it is Heiner Schneegold (author of VT-Schutz) and VTC Hamburg, but Heiner doesn't give his permission to the VTC to send me the virus :(
Download: xvslibrary.lha (55K), Readme (sd)

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24.Jun.2001
MorphOS


MorphOS: gcc 2.95.3 68k-Crosscompiler updated
Sigbjørn 'CISC-o-rama' Skjæret released a new version of his gcc 68k cross-compiler. This means you can compile 68k programs using the speed of the PPC processor. Also the fsin/fsos -ffast-math inline won't be applied for 040 and 060 processors anymore.

Download: m68k-amigaos-gcc2.95.3.tar.bz2 (sd)

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24.Jun.2001
Designburo.nl (ANF)


Benelux Amiga Show: More Pictures
Under the title link more pictures of the Benelux Amiga Show were published. (sd)

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24.Jun.2001
Celso (ANF)


Events: AmiWest 2001 - News
From 27th to 29th July, 2001 the AmiWest 2001 show will take place in Sacramento, U.S.A.. According to the latest announcements there will be the following highlights:
  1. Presentation of the working AmigaOne with AmigaOS V4.0.
  2. Presentation of the current version of the AmigaDE, running on the Sharp Zaurus. Sharp Zaurus.
  3. Dr. Alan Havemose (formerly employee of Commodore, and Gateway) and Bill McEwen speak about: "Gateway and Amiga - what really happened".
Furthermore the press release reads, that the AmigaOne 1200 would be in progress from the end of July and available from the middle of August. But this remains subjunctive, since it will be official news only when Amiga Inc. or Eyetech do an announcement about. (sd)

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24.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News


Games: Shogo Test
Seppo Typpö has published a Shogo test on the 'The Amiga Games Database' website. This test among other things is about the game-play and level design.

Tests of 'King's Quest I - III' and 'Kick Off' were added, too. (sd)

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24.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News


Amiga Flame with new URL
The commercial Amiga Flame web server account will be closing down as a result of problems with the new company who have taken over. Since the original company went out of the business there has been some serious problems, which have made it difficult to make Amiga Flame up and running under the new company. With it unlikely that their service will improve, the decision was made to move Amiga Flame.

Amiga Flame has moved to Demon, a long established company who tend to provide an efficient and effective service. It is vital that readers update their bookmarks and make themselves aware of the new web address of Amiga Flame: http://www.amigaflame.demon.co.uk (title link). (sd)

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24.Jun.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)


Elbox: Poster "Mediator - Now PCI in all Amigas" (Update)
Elbox have published a new poster for the PCI board Mediator. Title: "MEDIATOR - Now PCI In All Amigas". This is also available as .pdf file (3.7 MB) and can be downloaded at the 'News' section from the press stuff.

Title link corrected. (ps)

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24.Jun.2001
Virus Help Denmark


Virus Help: Team Netherlands back
The Virus Help Team Netherlands is back online with updated homepage. The website was not accessible for six months. Now the team is fully active again. Visit their website under the title link. (ps)

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24.Jun.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)


NARR-Site: New Voyager Theme and Update
Again I did a new fresh and sunny theme named 'SummerTheme' for the Amiga web-browser Voyager. The archive contains the usual buttons represented by exotic fruits and with matching background pic, this time. The images a are quite big, so higher screen resolutions are advised.

Screenshot Link - 328 kB
Download: summertheme.lha - 174 kB

Additionally I have completely reworked the NARR website. Most of all the Amiga section now is more clear sorted by categories, to make you more easily finding what you are looking for. There are new downloads, too, e.g. a small icons set, and catalogs. The admin section was enhanced, too: there are new screenshots of my cartoon anims, which are currently available for free, and the biggest animation (Hr. Apfel) now is available as MPEG version, also. Also new is the 'Personal Amiga' section. Have fun while rummaging. :)
(ps)

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24.Jun.2001
Otto Dette (E-Mail)


Benelux Amiga Show: Report and Pictures by the AUC-HB
The Amiga User Club Bremen, AUC-HB, has send us an extended report and these nice pictures from the BAS 2001.

Report about the Benelux Amiga Show 2001 in Rotterdam, Netherlands

In the morning at 3:00 h four members from Nordenham, Leer, Langwedel, Bremen of the Amiga User Club Bremen met to travel to the show. After four hours of traveling by car we arrived in the Hammerstraat in northern Rotterdam.

We were hungry and wanted something to eat in a moment (Mc´D or some bakery). But unfortunately we had to realize, that hairdressers open their shops before the bread shops; not to talk about Mc´D, cause they open not before 9:00 am. After we finally found a baker, who pleased us with a marvelous breakfast, we went to the show which was supposed to begin on 10:00 am.

On 9:30 am Juergen Haage and Petry Tyschtschenko arrived by taxi. Since we know Mr. Haage and Petro in person we had a short talk. Mr. Haage and Petro then disappeared to join a meeting with Fleecy Moss, Alan Redhouse, and Ben Hermans.

On 11:00 am, one hour later than announced, the inlet started. The admission charge for visitors from outside was at the promised DM5. Our impression was that the organizers really took pain to build up the show. The show was arranged on two floors. There were enough seats and room for discussions.

At one booth we could have a look at an Amiga 4000D with the Prometheus PCI board by Matay, equipped with a Voodoo 3000 and running the game Heretic II. We were glowing by the display by this graphics board.

At the booth beside of this booth a PC with the AmigaSDK installed was running. We were impressed by this presentation, too. Moreover several Amigas from club-members were networked and a LAN party took place.

Petro opened the Amiga museum with a speech and then was helpful and councillor and his assistance was heavily enlisted; he handed out stickers and pins.

The show was attended very well and from 2:00 pm it was really filled, since the Scala presentation of the AmigaONE took place, done via screen by Alan Redhouse and Martin Schueler. They had a good projector and sound was well, so everyone could get it.

The strategy for AmigaONE and AmigaOS 4 to 5 was put across, but which was already known by us. During the break we had the opportunity to have a look at the AmigaONE board plugged into a V-Tower. We don't want to address the information we got from Martin Schueler, now. The board was shown working, but we can imagine it to able to be presented working, soon.

During the discussion with Fleecy Moss, Juergen Haage, Alan Redhouse, Ben Hermans, and Martin Schueler queries regarding the AmigaONE AND AmigaOS 4 - 5 could be done. This was richly done, and as we learned the organizer of the show is about to put those questions and answers online.

We took a lot of pictures on the show, but to edit all of them will take some time. We handed out to amiga-news.de a first selection. Our video specialist Ralf has done a video of the show for our members.


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AMIGAS~1.JPG
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AMIGAS~2.JPG
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BLICKI~1.JPG
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COMMOD~1.JPG
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COMODO~1.JPG
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DERVER~1.JPG
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FADOES~1.JPG
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PROMET~1.JPG
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PROMET~2.JPG
(493 x 373)


We met Mrs. and Mr. Does (Vesalia, German Amiga vendor) and Jens Schoenfeld (Individual Computer) and intensively talked. The show was a clear success to us not comparable with the last years' shows in Cologne and Neuss, since that was an Amiga only show. We felt to be part of a big community. From Mr. Haage we got the latest BoingBag for OS3.9 on a bank card sized CD. At 4:00 pm we went on our journey back home to Bremen.

Thanks to the organizers of the Benelux Amiga Show 2001 !!!

Amiga User Club Bremen (ps)

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23.Jun.2001
Carl Sassenrath (REBOL-ML)


REBOL: REBOL/View V1.2.1
REBOL/View 1.2.1 has been released on June 22, 2001. It is recommended that you upgrade your copy of REBOL/View and View/Pro to this new version. Among other things has a security bug been fixed in this version. This release also introduces REBOL/View for the Macintosh. This is a significant accomplishment. The following has been changed compared with the previous version:
  • Bugfix: Icon DRAW evaluation bug that allowed foreign code to be executed at the desktop level. That problem has been eliminated. (Note that this bug did NOT compromise REBOL's built-in sandbox file protection, as that protection still remained in effect at the REBOL/View root directory level. Files outside of REBOL's directory tree were safe.) DRAW is no longer allowed within desktop icons.
  • Bugfix: The HTTP POST operation has been fixed to properly ignore line termination in the transfer. You no longer need to pad out your HTTP uploads. (This is for read/custom http://... [post "data"]).
  • Bugfix: Bugs that caused load/markup and debase to crash in rare cases have also been fixed.
The current version for different systems can be found in the download area of rebol.com. (sd)

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23.Jun.2001
ANN


Magazine: .mag Boing issue #2 released
Issue #2 of the Swedish online magazine .mag Boing has been released today. (ps)

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23.Jun.2001
Paul Nolan


Image processing: Photogenics for PocketPC
Paul Nolan, known for his image processing software Photogenics for several operating systems, has renamed his company to Idruna Software. Besides that Nolan introduces today his new product Photogenics for PocketPC.

With this image processing becomes possible even on pocket computers. On the product page you can find the technical details and further information. (ps)

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23.Jun.2001
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)


Game: 'Genetic Species' full version on Aminet
The Aminet recent-upload-list of today contains the action game Genetic Species as full version, splitted into 19 archives with around 180 MB in size altogether.

This game is a development by Marble-Eyes Development. It was distributed by Vulcan Software Limited.

Download: Uploads of the 23.06.2001, and there is GS-FullGame01.lha - GS-FullGame19.lha for download. (ps)

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23.Jun.2001



Aminet Uploads until 23.06.2001
DOpusCFG.lha         biz/dopus   85K+DOpus4.x configuration V2.25, biggest co
DalHelper.lha        comm/irc    40K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
ML_Support_Tur.lha   comm/mail    5K+ML-Support Turkish Catalog
YAMMiami.lha         comm/mail   32K+YAM-->Miami-->Yam2NN, united. V1.01
SMS2D2.lha           comm/misc   14K+Send sms to german D2 via modem or ISDN
adt_ixemul.lha       comm/tcp    78K+Aminet Download Tool 2.6, AmigaOS
AmiDiction.lha       comm/tcp    26K+Online Dictionary
CManMI.lha           comm/www     3K+GlowIcons Toolbar for CManager
IBrowseMI.lha        comm/www     7K+GlowIcons Toolbar for IBrowse
mFTPMI.lha           comm/www     7K+GlowIcons Toolbar for mFTP-II
NRogMI.lha           comm/www    21K+GlowIcons Toolbar for NewsRog
dkg-wtow2.lha        demo/aga   638K+Welcome To Our World 2
dkg-boozenow.lha     demo/intro   4K+Booze Now - Breeze Now Remix
dkg-trip98inv.lha    demo/intro 133K+Trip `98 - The Invitation
BlitzLstMay01.lha    dev/basic  133K+Blitz mailing list archives for May 2001
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SettingsWin_Fr.lha   dev/mui      9K+French Catalog for Settingswindow_mcc
ChunkyStartup2.lha   dev/src     89K+Chunkystartup.asm CGX/AGA/PICASSO useful
RKM2_ASM.lha         dev/src    427K+R.K.M codes - Translated into Assembly.
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FindChanges.lha      disk/misc   97K+Finds changes made to disk
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GS-FullGame02.lha    game/actio 8.0M+Genetic Species The Full Game (02/19)
GS-FullGame03.lha    game/actio 7.7M+Genetic Species The Full Game (03/19)
GS-FullGame04.lha    game/actio 7.1M+Genetic Species The Full Game (04/19)
GS-FullGame05.lha    game/actio 7.0M+Genetic Species The Full Game (05/19)
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GS-FullGame07.lha    game/actio 7.8M+Genetic Species The Full Game (07/19)
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GS-FullGame19.lha    game/actio 4.1M+Genetic Species The Full Game (19/19)
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Ant.lha              misc/sci    76K+Another cellular automata
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AmiTiMiDiTy.lha      mus/midi    14M+Timidity68k/PPC GUS patches - Plays MIDI
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23.Jun.2001



Benelux Amiga Show: first report (update 3)
Otis from the Amiga User Club Bremen has just given us first details about the show by phone. First of all it has to be said that the dance school where the event is taking place is overcrowded as many, many visitors have come. For the promoters of the show in any case a big success.

The event is taking place on two floors with the exhibitors being downstairs and the LAN party happening upstairs.

During the call I had the opportunity to talk to Martin Schüler from ESCENA who's working on the design of the AmigaOne board by Eyetech. The AmigaOne board is presented as prototype in second revision. The board isn't working yet. For now they continue step by step and every step done until now has worked without any problems. He'll try to give us more technical information during the day via email.

Supplement:
I just had again the chance to talk to Thomas from the AUC-HB, who gave us more impressions via telephone about the show. Those will be posted here as short notes as there'll be a full report done by the AUCB following tomorrow:

Petro Tyschtschenko hold the opening speech.

Interesting was the presentation of the PCI board Prometheus by Matay on which a Voodoo3000 graphics board was running. A version of the game ´Heretic II´ running on this board was shown so everyone could convince himself of the board's quality.

Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. presented the SDK (Software Developer Kit) and was at disposal to answer questions. On this occasion the AmigaOS 5.0 planned for the year 2003 was mentioned.

On a Q&A round Fleecy Moss, Alan Redhouse, Martin Schüler and Jürgen Haage answered to the questions of the visitors.

Supplement 2:
At Fun Time World you find some photos of the show, and a comprehensive report will follow.

Supplement 3:
Here's the full report of Fun Time World. (ps)

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23.Jun.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena special discount campaign
In co-operation with Andre Beer the Amiga Arena makes a special price for GeoWorld possible. GeoWorld is the only geography program for the Amiga that is still in development. Please visit for further information the GeoWorld homepage.

Amiga Arena - GeoWorld call
GeoWorld is one of the very few programs that stand out against the usual Amiga software. The developers have collected a huge amount of information and data to make GeoWorld as comprehensive as possible. Despite this such a program "lives" of its up-to-date data.

To make faster updates possible and offer furtheron an allround program the developers need your help. The following tasks are available:

  • Continuing the recollection of the nature data of the countries.
  • A co-operation on the information data of GeoWorld would therefore need an intellectual reception of the source texts made available (scanned encyclopedia pages, html/text files taken from the internet, partly in English) and put them into corresponding texts (e.g. description of a country's nature).
A free full version will of course be made available. Further fees - participation in sales returns - for appropriate extensive co-operation are possible but don't expect any wonders. People with interest may please mail to: Andre Beer.

Amiga Arena remark by Olaf Köbnik
Surely many of you wonder why this all? Sources for information are offered by the internet, and many programs for the PC do so, too. But I belong to the little number of Amiga users who are "Amiga only", and I personally think it is very valuable that such programs will be developed on the Amiga in the future. Additionally it is much more fun for me to use information sources on the Amiga. I can only ask you to support programs like AmiAtlas and Geoworld with feedback etc.! (ps)

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23.Jun.2001
Merlancia Industries (ANF)


Merlancia announces Tsunami Designs
Merlancia Industries has released some concept images of the Tsunami setup, showing a complete "Merlancia MMC Tsunami Setup", the "Merlancia Touchsmart Keyboard" and the "Merlancia Tsunami Tower":


Please see also http://www.gotboing.com and MISEL Engineering-TORRO/MCC for further information.

Update: (14.01.2017, 21:00, cg)

Pictures added to the news item. (ps)

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