03.Dec.2000
Anton Rolls on REBOL-ML
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Hosts with REBOL Support
On the basis of reports on the REBOL mailing list Anton Rolls has listed hosts
supporting REBOL. There the language REBOL can be used for example for the
generating of websites via CGI. For the time being the list contains 8 entries.
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03.Dec.2000
TFA
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ASM-One v1.45 on December, 5th
The release of the version 1.45 of the assembler ASM-One was originally planned
for the 30. November 2000. This date postpones on the 5. December 2000. The
reason for this is that Boussh has begun implementing pasting to the clipboard.
As the clipboard support is a feature that is requested since long by many he
has decided to take some extra days to complete the clipboard support (copy to
clipboard). This time will additionally be used to improve the RTG version of
the package and to update the documentation. For the 5. December is the release
of the standard and the RTG version of ASM-One 1.45 planned.
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03.Dec.2000
IrseeSoft
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Exhibition prices for IrseeSoft's Products
At the fair 'World of Amiga', happening on the 9. and 10. December 2000 at
the Mediapark Cologne, products and updates of IrseeSoft will be available for
favorable exhibition prices at the booth of CoolBits.
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03.Dec.2000
David Gerber via eMail
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Genesis Rights Controversial
On 28. September 2000 Haage&Partner released a
note
in which the company announced to have obtained distribution and copyrights
for the TCP/IP-Stack 'Genesis' from Active Technologies (Chris Wiles). Through
this acquisition H&P received the possibility to integrate an own TCP/IP
stack into the new AmigaOS Version 3.9 without any complications.
Note: The Genesis package is continued development of the AmiTCP/IP
package by Network Solutions Development, Inc. (NSDi).
On 2. Dezember 2000 David Gerber, who is working by order of NSDi on AmiTCP,
released a press note by NSDi. According to this Active Technologies didn't
possess the rights for the AmiTCP part of Genesis and hence couldn't
sell these rights to H&P.
In this message NSDi among other things were written that they regard a distribution
of AmiTCP/IP without a direct contract with NSDi as an act of piracy.
To avoid misunderstandings with actual valid license contracts NSDi further
withdraws all for the time being valid licence contracts. Due to NSDi' own
representation this is possible as Chris Wiles (Active Technologies)
didn't observe his part of the license by not paying any licensing fees since
early 1999.
H&P is anxious to solving this problem friendly.
The exact wording of the press release of NSDi is available under the title link.
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03.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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playamiga.de: Review of 'Codename: Hellsquad' online
On 3. Dezember 2000 Juergen A. Theiner has released a comprehensive
test
of the action aventures 'Codename:Hellsquad' by Digital Dream Entertainment
on www.playamiga.de.
A work in progress report about "Payback" will follow soon.
A first update of the P"Payback" review has been already released.
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03.Dec.2000
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org: Tools for Headlines and AmigaDE Update
Since 27. November 2000 Amiga.org offers the possibility to show the headlines
of this website automatically on the own homepage or directly on the
AmigaDE-Desktop. For this programs for JavaScript, PHP and AmigaDE(ETick V0.8)
are available.
Besides the amiga.org headlines ETick can additionally show the actual date and
time, weather forecasts and the statistics of an own zAMilo webserver.
On the website
itself the actual uploads and top downloads of the AmigaDE archive of www.amigadev.net are now also shown.
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03.Dec.2000
Ricco Clemens on ANF
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Amiga--------easy-PRINT Release (with a small delay)
On the 04. Dezember 2000 appears the new issue of Amiga--------easy-PRINT which
may be delayed by 2-3 days because of illness.
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03.Dec.2000
ANN
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Amiga has Installed their own Online Shop
Amiga has installed their own online shop under the above title link.
As for software AmigaOS V3.9 and AmigaSDK V1.0 are available.
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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SecondSpin v2.12 beta
On 02. December 2000 Lauri Ahonen has released the beta version 2.12 of
"SecondSpin". This is a tool to convert normal audio CD tracks into MPEG audio
files (layers 1, 2 or 3). Additionally more formats like AIFF and WAV are
supported. A modified version of LAME v3.87+ is needed for MPEG encoding.
With this update several bugs were removed and the error handling has been
improved. This update is a very early beta version.
Download:
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Sound card "Martina"
Michal Kluczewski has released some information about the upcoming sound card
"Martina" with the permission of the developer. This card shall be released within
already this year, at first for the clock port of the A1200 and later in addition for
ZorroII (Amiga 3000/4000).
It offers two 16bit channels each for in- and output with maximum 96 kHz and
an expansion port which can be used for a MPEG decoder. The website for the card
shall go online soon.
Specifications:
- Input: 2 channels with 16 bit, maximum 96 kHz.
- Output: 2 channels with 16 bit, maximum 96 kHz.
- Full duplex.
- FIFO 512 bytes.
- Soundmixer, for example of Paula and CD-ROM output.
- Expansion port. This enables a MPEG decoder enhancement
(MP3, MPEG-1 in der Uhrenport-Version) that is in the testing phase.
- Card in clock port version block of this port.
- The card will be delivered with AHI drivers. These take over the function
of the audio.device.
- The MPEG decoder will be library compatible to the mpega.library.
- Version under ROM stand (it doesn't dash with BVision and FastATA)
will be 24 bits (making possible trouble-free decoding MPEG)
and full compatible with A4000 (and probably with A3000).
Contact:
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03.Dec.2000
UAE-JIT
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New UAE-JIT Version
Bernd Bernie Meyer has released a new version of UAE-JIT. This version with the
name "Ipswich Town" contains a pci.library emulation and several improvements
inclusive optimisations and bugfixes.
the PCI emulation enables the usage of the CGX3 Virge drivers of the Mediator
board under UAE. Besides that UAE-JIT may be compiled with some luck with other
compilers than the, this wasn't tested yet tested.
Compared to the previous version the following has been changed:
- Bugfix: the saving of the settings should work now.
- Bugfix: Many more bugfixes. Quark runs now perfectly.
- New: pci.library emulation. This allows the usage of the free CGX3 Virge
drivers (for the Mediator board) with UAE-JIT.
As bonus up to four 4 PCI cards may be used (Mediator offers one slot).
- New: Further FPU support and aliasing support for the FPU registers.
- Lazy cache flushing.
- Lazy FPU-flag-evaluation.
- Lazy Register Updates for adding of offsets.
- Change: Many optimisations and therefor speed increasements.
The performance is now clearly better then that of the Executor
68k-JIT-Compiler.
In the sourcecode the following has been changed:
- Complete overhaul of block book keeping code.
- Bugfix: decisive bugfixes in the noflags-code of cpuemu.c.
- New: support for the saving of registers goes beyond the calling of
JIT-compiled code.
- Change: removing of gcc specific code. The sour cecode should get compiled
with other C-compilers.
- New: The JIT-compiler supports now many more 68k-commands.
- Largely eliminated updates of regs.pc_p; Instead, there are now
direct block-to-block jumps.
- New: Optimisation of the cycle-handling in events.h.
- Much more.
This version is available as Linux/x86-binary for glibc V2.1 respectively glibc V2.0,
as complete source code and as source code patch against the UAE V0.8.15 source code.
Download:
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03.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
The Amiga Arena releases for the first time 'Bubble Stones2' in an own Design
Bubble Stones2 is a 'Bust a Move'-clone and is
now available in the 256-color version. This version has been exclusively developed
for the Amiga Arena. The field was created by the Amiga Arena and is probably
the first own development the Amiga Arena is involved in.
Amiga Arena - Schlachtfeld v2.16 world premiere
The Amiga Arena presents exclusively in cooperation with Peter Weigoldt
Schlachtfeld v2.16.
The version 2.16 is a registered Amiga Arena edition with map editor.
The map editor is exclusively contained in this archive and will not be
available on Aminet or on the homepage of Schlachtfeld for the time being.
Schlachtfeld 2 is a strategy game for 1 to 4 players. It is a mixture between
"BattleIsle" and "Battleforce" .
Here some "highlights":
- Max. 4 Teams can fight against or together
- Teams can be controlled by the computer
- Round and action based
- Many different fighting units
- More than 50 different weapon systems
- Victorious teams can continue fighting in the next battle
- Save game option
- From Schlachtfeld2 v2.1 on voice output
- From Schlachtfeld2 v2.1 on nullmodem game
Schlachtfeld is shareware (20 DM) and Olaf Koebnik
appeals to all users who play Schlachtfeld intensively
to get registered by Peter Weigoldt and/or give feedback.
Amiga Arena interview action
An interview with Peter Weigoldt (Schlachfeld) is in the section
'Actions' online.
Amiga Arena lottery
The deadline for the lottery is the 06.12.2000.
Amiga Arena special discount offerings
The Amiga Arena has the following limited special discount offers still
online:
FLM, GeoWorld, VisualPrefs, AmiATLAS, Siteway, Apano Sin, SHARKS AGA und
Multi.
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03.Dec.2000
Nikolaos Damilakis on ANF
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Greek RC5 Team
The Hellenic Amiga User Group has set up a webpage for the greek members of the
Amiga-RC5-team. This contains information about the greek competitors such as
the ranking and the numberof the blocks. The usergroup suggests to other
Amiga-groups to set up similar pages.
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Payback Status Report
On the 3. Dezember 2000 James Daniels from Apex Designs has released the 16th
status report about the game 'Payback' inclusive new
screenshots.
The game similar to GTA nears completion, so there were added many new levels
during the last month, besides that, the following has been done:
- Resolutions up to 1280x1024 are now supported.
- Graphic cards are now supported. On a 68060 a smooth animation is reached
using a resolution of 640x480.
- There is now support for different languages. The
Amiga Translation Organisation(ATO)
is at translating the game into the following languages: German, French,
Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Czech, Slovenian and Serbian. Besides that
English and Swedish are supported.
- PSX controllers are now supported. All buttons are used so that the
navigation can be done completely over the game pad. The keyboard will then only
be needed to enter the filename for saving the game and similar things.
- Various bugs were fixed, among others a long standing bug which allowed the
it to the player walking on the water.
- New screenshots
of the night level were released. The textures will be improved until the
completion of the game.
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Tales of Tamar v0.32r6
For alpha testers the version 0.32 r6 of the "Tales of Tamar"-client for Amiga
computers has been released on the 30. November 2000. This update contains many
bugfixes regarding the map.
Tales of Tamar is an internet-based round based game for Amiga and IBM
compatibles by Eternity Entertainment Software.
Download: (1,4M)
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Short review of fxScan3.0
On Fun Time World appeared on the 29. November 2000 a short review of
'fxScan3.0' by Innovative. The program offers among other things text
recognition (OCR).
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Server Problem at Amiga Resource
Because of a server problem the website "Amiga Resource" can't be accessed for
now. On request you can be informed via email (by using the title link) about
the time the site will be online again.
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02.Dec.2000
Danny Ramsey in REBOL-ML
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REBOL/Core User Guide V2.3 released as book
Until now, the user guide was only available as PDF-file at the size of 4,5 MB. You can
now buy the guide as book at REBOLpress. The book has got 574 pages
which are divided into 14 chapters and 3 appendixes which describe the elements of this programming language.
There is an index
and a sample chapter of the
book on the site. The PDF-version of the guide can be downloaded at
REBOL .
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02.Dec.2000
Frank Fenn on ANF
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Palm Pilot - TealInfo Developer Kit
At the homepage of Frank Fenn the TealInfo Developer Kit for the Palm Pilot
Program 'TealInfo' by Tealpoint Software
is available for download from now on.
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02.Dec.2000
Michael Ufer on ANF
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Amiga-Christmas Calendar
Michael Ufer coded a Christmas calendar some time ago and now adapted it for the
year 2000. Each day a virtual door can be opened and there is a little
surprise behind it. Have fun and no cheating :-)
Download: AVK.lha - 2 MB
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02.Dec.2000
Stefan Instinske on ANF
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Alternative-Games.de now online
Today a new games site for Amiga and other alternative computer systems,
"Alternative-Games.de", went online. In the Amiga section current test reports
are awaiting you ("Bubble Heroes", "Virtual Ball Fighters", "Wipeout"), a
preview of the GTA clone "Payback", an interview with the leader, coordinator
and art director of the SOMS-Team "Secret of my Soul") and much more.
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02.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
F1GP-Theme.lha biz/dopus 1.7M+F1GP theme for Magellan II
Toolbar4YAM.lha comm/mail 201K+YAM replacement toolbar
YAMGenesis.lha comm/mail 17K+Start & stop Genesis from YAM2. V1.01
facts.lha comm/tcp 89K+V4.3 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
streamer.lha comm/www 24K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
dcs-tb31.lha demo/aga 39K+DCS: Tourbus 31 (1st at TRSAC'00.5)
SPO3-4KbIntro.lha demo/aga 17K+Spoletium3 Amiga 4Kb Intro compo entries
SPO3-64KbIntro.lha demo/aga 69K+Spoletium3 Amiga 64Kb Intro compo entrie
SPO3-Demo.lha demo/aga 2.2M+Spoletium3 Amiga Demo compo entries!
SPO3-Graphics.lha demo/aga 2.2M+Spoletium3 Graphics compo entries!
SPO3-Module.lha demo/aga 3.4M+Spoletium3 4Channels Module compo entrie
SPO3-Results.lha demo/aga 1K+Spoletium3 Results!
DKG-Shine.lha demo/intro 4K+Shine! 4Kb Intro by DARKAGE
BlitzLstOct00.lha dev/basic 64K+Blitz mailing list archives for October
libmpeg_src.lha dev/c 178K+Source for mpeg (video) link library
bonk.lha dev/lang 13K+New programming language
MCC_NListt_SP.lha dev/mui 6K+NListtree.mcp 18.2 spanish catalogs v1.0
HDWrenchTester.lha disk/salv 59K+Tester program for hdwrench.library
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/hyper 527K+ITALIAN ONLY comunicati NotizieAmiga 11/
AaktInt1100.lha docs/mags 268K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt1100GFX.lha docs/mags 473K+International infotainment magazine (gra
AIOV41.lha docs/mags 378K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 41 (Nove
Magazineindex.lha docs/mags 63K+TEXT indices of magazine articles
ALEM_0024.lha docs/rview 259K+ALEM's SilverSurfer Serial Card Doc (FR)
DC-EMBond15Lvl.lha game/data 376K+81 levels for Diamond Caves 1
GermanUnits.lha game/data 4K+German names of units for NAPALM
GoalBrasil2000.lha game/data 14K+Brazilian league update for GOAL
FormAldiHyd.lha hard/drivr 22K+Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/...
1571to1541.lha misc/emu 2K+1571 to 1541 v1.0
imdbDiff001117.lha misc/imdb 2.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
3DHome.lha misc/misc 333K+3D interface for X10 modules and EZHome.
aa2001.lha misc/misc 1.2M+Astrologic texts, german and HTML (DEMO)
Lotto_Upd.lha misc/misc 220K+Play Lotto! (V2.03, supports german Sa.-
AMP-Info.lha mus/misc 1.1M+(A)miga (M)usic (P)reservation infofile
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 120K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
EP_ImagesMusic.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Images Music System" extern
EP_SpeedyA1Sys.lha mus/play 6K+EaglePlayer "Speedy A1 System" external
Viereck.mpg pix/anim 15M+Animation made with Cinema 4D by MadMan/
NOW_1.lha pix/art 317K+"Now that's what I call Schming #1", Ne
fomb519.jpg pix/henz 244K+Heavy Narn Cruiser (Babylon 5)
fommisc01.jpg pix/henz 99K+Bridge
fommisc02.jpg pix/henz 444K+Mars Attacks!
fommisc03.jpg pix/henz 433K+Mars Attacks!
fomsw30.jpg pix/henz 258K+Sith Infiltrator (Star Wars - Eposode 1)
fomsw31.jpg pix/henz 88K+Skybus (Star Wars - The Return of the Je
fomsw32.jpg pix/henz 22K+Corellian YT-1300 (Star Wars)
fomsw33.jpg pix/henz 101K+Corellian YT-1300 (Star Wars)
veinepower.jpg pix/misc 156K+Amiga PoWeR Therapy. Keep the Fresh PoWe
Hyperion1.jpg pix/trace 62K+Hyperion (Babylon 5)
myvoodoo.jpg pix/wb 203K+Voodoo3 Grab -- Not OS3.9
warpvers07.lha util/misc 2K+Reports WarpOS/3D/Mesa libvers+env setti
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 156K+V1.41 - Graphics benchmark program
cdmp.lha util/rexx 22K+Encode CD to MP3 with Arexx (german)
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 19K+PatchBrain v1.24 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 252K+VirusExecutor v2.08
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02.Dec.2000
AmigActive
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AmigActive issue #15 Released
The december issue of the English print-magazine 'AmigActive' is available.
Under the title link you will find a complete index of issue #15. Highlights of
the current issue are, among others, an article about the future of the
Amiga, an article about Nightlong, and AmigActive takes a close look at the
games list for the AmigaOne.
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02.Dec.2000
MorphOS
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MagicMenuPPC 2.30beta for MorphOS/PPC
MagicMenu has been ported to MorphOS. Version 2.30beta of MagicMenuPPC is
available for download.
MagicMenuPPC230.lha - (147 KB)
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02.Dec.2000
Scalos
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Scalos News
The website of Scalos, a Workbench replacement, can be reached at own
domain scalos.com from now on.
Mick Carter is currently busy creating a Online-Help for Scalos.
SnapDesktop BETA has been released. The program memorizes the status
of Workbench windows at shutdown and reopens them again after a reboot.
Scalos Developer Kit Version 3 has been released. The archive contains updated
includes and supports Amiga E.
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02.Dec.2000
Matthias Henze on ANF
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New Alpha Version (V.45.00 alpha 4) of stormamiga.lib for SAS/C
There is once more an alpha version (V.45.00 alpha 4) of stormamiga.lib
V.45.00 for SAS/C. In this version some functions have been added, some
functions have been reworked, and some bugs removed. This version is for beta testers only.
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01.Dec.2000
Elbox via eMail
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Elbox PR: Total Graphic Mania
Elbox announces in their new press release that the developers of the Elbox
development department have implemented a new version of Voodoo3 drivers for
the Mediator PCI bus board.
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01.Dec.2000
Alex Kazik via eMail
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Version 2.0 of cmp (ALeXcompare) Released
cmp is a program which compares files in two directories (or trees).
That can be very useful, e.g. to examine in a backup, which files have
been changed / are new. AmigaOS 2.1 is required.
Download: ALeXcompare.lha -
ALeXcompare.readme
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01.Dec.2000
Gary Peake on Team Amiga-ML
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AmigaOne Discussion Board Remains Open
On November 24th, amiga-news.de reported that Amiga Inc.'s AmigaOne discussion
board will be closed on December 1st. The reason was a huge number of insults
which were published there.
On November 28th, Gary Peake of Amiga Inc. has announced in the Team Amiga
mailing list that the AmigaOne discussions won't be closed. He doesn't know
where the remark originated from, at least it didn't come from Amiga.
So the discussion board can still be
accessed,
but now only for registered users, which wasn't explicitly mentioned by
Gary Peake.
If anyone asks, we are NOT closing the AmigaOne forums on
www.amiga.com
Somebody must have been playing on their Momma's computer and got
loose and posted that remark.
It did NOT come from us. [...] (Gary Peake)
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01.Dec.2000
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AmigaOS 3.9 - a well done surprise?
In fact we would have liked to write an article about the new AmigaOS 3.9 on our own, but found the
article by Martin Steigerwald in the AMIGA Magazin 01/2001
so much perfect that we asked Joern-Erik Burkert, member of the editorial staff at Amiga Magazin,
to allow us publising it on amiga-news.de in both, German and English. Thank you very much for consent.
AmigaOS 3.9 - A well done surprise?
© AMIGA Magazin - Author: Martin Steigerwald
Translation by Martina Jacobs
This article in German
The announcement of the AmigaOS 3.9 came by accident for many people. Only a few dared to
think of having a new version of the AmigaOS in their hands within this year, already.
Nevertheless Haage&Partner together with many partners developed the new OS. Read
in this initial overview which new features it offers, and come to your own
conclusion whether or not this surprise was well done.
AmigeOS 3.9 is shipped on CD-ROM. Who is not satisfied by the operating system's online
help might order a printed version (German) from Haage&Partner, which is a tips&tricks
book describing what's new in AmigaOS 3.9 in a comprehensive way.
AmigaOS 3.9 contains big and completely new implemented features, e.g. the dock program
»AmiDock«, as well as many enhancements in detail and bugfixes, too. Additionally
proved third party tools are integrated: features formerly only available as patches, such as
like the FontCache or the configuration of asl file requesters, now are firmly integrated into
the OS, tools like »RAWBInfo«, and »ViNCEd« simplify the daily work.
The description of new features in this article does not claim to be complete and bases on
a pre-version of AmigaOS 3.9. But the features described here are already implemented and
supposed to be for sure.
Simplified Installation
Compared to AmigaOS 3.5 installation has been simplified distinctly. It is no longer
necessary to install AmigaOS 3.1, at first. Also there is no need to restart the system, any
more. There are two kinds of installation: the update installation updates an existing AmigaOS 3.5,
and only copies icons which are new since OS 3.5. The full installation installs AmigaOS 3.9 -
including all of the necessary files of AmigaOS 3.5, and AmigaOS 3.1 - including all of the GlowIcons.
Full installation also allows a fast new installation of the system, if booted from a before created
emergency disk. This way AmigaOS 3.9 can be re-installed easy and fast even in case of a complete harddisk
failture. As with AmigaOS 3.5 the emergency disk also supports RTG systems and AGA 31KHz screenmodes.
Due to this also in case of emergency no 15KHz monitor is needed, any more.
Well Docked?
»AmiDock« simplifies working with the Workbench in a enormous way. To start programs
usually one has to click down to the related directory and then double click the program's icon. But
with »AmiDock« you are able to easily create button strips, which allow to open programs and
directories by one single mouse click.
Contrary to most of the other tools like this AmiDock fully supports the new coloured icons. And - maybe
the most important feature - it is extremely easy and fast to use. If you would have to open a
configuration window for other programs, with »AmiDock« you just drag the icon of the
desired directories and programs into a dock. If you drop the icon, it will automatically be included.
This way docks can be created as fast as the wind, cause you don't have to configure each single
switch. Moreover this, there are default configurations for certain directories: e.g. AmiDock just
reads the »Prefs« and displays all of the preferences in one dock.
Also the adjustment of the dock's size is conceivable intuitive. Instead of being forced to declare
the number of lines and columns inside a configuration window, you just drag the dock to the desired
size. Then the dock will be fixed at the related width and height. AmiDock shows this by a small
handle bar. By clicking on this the size will be released, again. Or you just drag the dock to a new
size.
Beside of calling programs AmiDock also supports opening directories on the Workbench, as well as
calling programs using arguments: so e.g. you may drag'n drop a text on the switch which for example
will start the editor »EditPad«, and just lets EditPad insert this text.
More comfortable Workbench
Also in other parts working with the Workbench became more comfortable: many new assistants are
supporting the daily work. »RAWBInfo« offers a Workbench information window with a nice
ReAction GUI which really has got many features. E.g. you even can give an icon a different
picture which is loaded via datatypes.
To make the Workbench deal with files which don't have an icon in a reasonable way there is
»DefIcons«. This program gives files without an own icon a default icon according to
the file type. This way pictures and texts without an icon can easily be started via double click.
DefIcons can be configured via it's own preferences program.
Who - a bit envious of Apple or Windows - always was wishing a trashcan directly on the Workbench,
will get this feature in OS 3.9. With »BenchTrash« this is no problem. This program
either just will delete files dropped on the trash or will move them to a certain directory. But that's
not all of it: who always wanted to eject a CD-Rom like it is done on the Mac can do that now. Just
drag'n drop the CD's icon on the trash, and there you go! Also handy is the feature to clean up the
trash regularly and to delete every file older than a certain amount of days.
It has also been cared for a new clock. »WBClock« displays itself as an animated AppIcon
on the Workbench. It even is optionally transparent, which looks very good sometimes.
Also very handy is the search function of the Workbench. This is done by a external program called
»Find« which can be started via the Workbench menu »Window/Search« or as a single
task. According to how it was started and configured it allows to search in the current Workbench
directory or in one or more harddisk partitions. It cannot only be searched for file names, but
also for contents (e.g. keywords). Double clicking on a file found tries to start a reasonable action
on it: this way e.g. a seldom used file can be searched and started directly from Find.
LhA, LZX, but also archive files of other formats (see »Features«) can be unpacked
by a simple double click, thanks to the implementation of »xad« in AmigaOS 3.9. »xad«
supports many formats. This way the user only seldom will happen to meet an archive which cannot be
unpacked, if any. Related programming knowledge assumed one can write an own unpacking routine.
»xad« can also be addressed via shell commands.
More Multimedia
But also some has happened in the case of multimedia. PlayCD, the somehow bare appearing CD player from
AmigaOS 3.5 has been started up thoroughly: the program now supports skins. Another advancement: PlayCD
as a rule doesn't need to be configured any more, but itself looks for a suitable CD-Rom drive,
if necessary.
»ACTION« plays Quicktime and AVI movies optionally on an own screen or inside a window on the
Workbench.In doing this it's very fast. Even on not that good equipped Amigas acceptable results are
to accomplish. Control buttons allow to start and stop the movie, to adjust volume, as well as to
well directed »skim through« the movie using a scroll bar.
»Amplifier« beside MPEG-3 music files also plays AIFF and WAV files. It has got play lists which
can be both, loaded and saved. The program as well supports skins and is capable of playing music either
via the Amiga sound chip Paula or via a sound card. With this the standards AHI and X-Audio are supported.
A X-Audio driver for the Paula sound chip is included. On the Workbench music files can easily be drag'n
dropped into the play list to add them to this.
»AWeb SE 3.3« which came with AmigaOS 3.5 has been updated to the new version of »AWeb«.
This version now also supports »FONT FACES«. So you can let it display websites nicer and
more true to original with suitable fonts. Support of JavaScript has been enhanced, too, and much more.
And to be able to start surfing immediate AmigaOS 3.9 contains the full version of »Genesis« with
ReAction GUI. Only the Genesis preferences program could not be transposed to ReAction in time, because
of it's scope. Who has MUI installed can use it however - otherwise MUI must get installed. But
the enhanced Genesis Wizard compensates for that, which makes it very easy to configure an internet
account on the basis of the provider database.
Powerful Console
Beside of the extensions to the Workbench and the players also shell enthusiasts will not miss out with
the new update: as console handler for shell windows now the powerful »ViNCEd« is used.
From now on all of the console windows are having scrollbars to re-display text which scrolled out of
the window. But it also has been thought of the shell users which don't like typing in: using the TAB key
incomplete file or directory names can be completed now. With this »ViNCEd«, according to it's
settings, not only searches for suitable entries inside the current directory, but e.g. also inside the
assign list or inside the command search path. If »ViNCEd« finds only one entry the string
immediately gets completed, otherwise an asl requester will open to choose from the suitable entries
found. Handily the completion also works multileveled: if needed the given string gets completed up to
the first char from which multiple entries are possible. By entering a character or pressing the TAB key
and selecting an entry the procedure can be continued. »ViNCEd« is very versatile configurable and
offers many other features.
- complete ANSI emulation
- supports graphics boards
- Macros - with these e.g. it is possible to use the F keys for often used commands and functions.
- configurable keyboard control
- Job control, as known form Unix shells
And what else?
Moreover there is a nice set of interesting and useful features: so the new »diskfont.library«
with integrated FontCache cares for faster display of font requesters. This features has been implemented
completely transparent for applications, but also can be disabled for single directories. New installed or
deleted fonts are automatically recognized and the cache file gets updated accordingly.
Also »asl« has been extended. Using the preferences program position, size, and sorting order of
asl requesters can be set. Also this is not a patch any more, but is »officially« controlled
by the new »asl.library«, and the new »IPrefs«. The »text.datatype« now
supports searching inside of the text, as well as marking parts of the text. Marked parts handily
are automatically copied to the clipboard. Also the »string.gadget« has been extended: so now you
can mark char by char or undo the last change inside of every text input field.
The new »test« function of the screenmode preferences program is a nice detail, too.
You no longer have to tapper in the dark and maybe reboot, if the newly chosen mode accidently cannot be
displayed contrary to what you've expected.
New Features
- AmiDock: completely new written and extremely easy to use dock program. The fast way to easy
start programs or to open certain directories.
- Integration of Workbench extensions: »RAWBInfo« offers a nice done and rich of functions
Workbench information window, »DefIcons« a default icon system
- More compatibility: »newiconemu« allows to edit the new coloured icons
(»V44-GlowIcons«) with NewIcon capable programs, too.
- New Tools: »BenchTrash«, the free configurable trashcan on the Workbench; »WBClock«
, the clock being an icon; as well as »IoMegaTools«,
the tool for ZIP and JAZ drives.
- Extended PowerPC support: WarpOS V5 is included, new »picture.datatype« supports PPC
- More multimedia: new versions of »PlayCD« with skin support and many bugfixes;
QuickTime and AVI movie player »ACTION«; player for MPEG3, AIFF, and WAV »Amplifier«
- Genesis: the TCP/IP stack for local area networks and internet connection - already widely with ReAction GUI.
- xad: the archive unpacking system. unpack archives from the Workbench by just double clicking it. Supports
LhA, LZX, ZIP, RAR, ARJ, DMS, and many other formats.
- ViNCEd: new console handler with scrollbar, file name completer, ANSI emulation, and many other handy
features.
- AWeb 3.4 SE: the in AmigaOS 3.5 included browser has been updated.
»FONT FACE« support, enhanced Javascript support, and much more.
- Find: allows searching for file names or file content on multiple partitions. Can be called directly from
the Workbench menu.
- Asl requester: there is also a preferences program for setting the size of, and the sorting order inside of
requesters.
- text.datatype: now allows searching inside of the text, and copying of marked text parts into the clipboard.
- New gadgets: the colour wheel (»colorwheel.gadget«), and the gradient slider (»gradientslider.gadget«)
now support screens with 65000 or 16 millions of colours; the new »string.gadget«
offers marking char by char, undo, and much more.
- New FontCache: faster display of font requesters.
- rexxmathlib.library: new math functions for ARexx.
- Many bugfixes: new mathe libraries with important bugfixes, bugfixes in ReAction, Workbench, and many other.
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30.Nov.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF
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Elbox Interview at No Risc No Fun
At NoRiscNoFun you can find an interview
with Mariusz Wloczysiak from ELBOX. Find out all about the drivers and by MEDIATOR PCI board supported cards.
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30.Nov.2000
Warp9 Editorial Staff on ANF
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wARPgATE to be in German only
Due to editorial reasons wARPgATe is to be continued in German only from 01. Dec. 2000.
Background: Because of rather low response in spite of much efforts, and recently number of vistors per day
on the WarpOS news pages decreased to 300, unfortunately our editor left the wARPgATe project. Also the
future of WarpOS rather is unsettled with view on the change to a new Amiga era whith the AmigaOne. Not to
completely shock the users we decided to continue the site as it is from 01. Dec. 2000, and to expand it
as the case may be. But we are only able to do that in German, so the site will not be continued in
English after it's 21 month lasting existence. We ask you for your understanding.
Warp9 Editorial Staff
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30.Nov.2000
Oliver Gantert on ANF
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UnLZX 2.16 Released
UnLZX 2.16 (68k/PPC/x86) is available for download on my homepage.
A percentage display, and some more speed has been added.
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30.Nov.2000
Ben Yoris via eMail
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Hyperion on WoA 2000, too
Also Hyperion Entertainment will be present with their own booth at the WoA 2000, which
will happen on 9th and 10th of December 2000 in Cologne's Mediapark 6 and 7. Hyperion will
not only place some fantastic announcements, but even will present Heretic 2 in a way never
seen on an Amiga computer.
The games 'Shogo:MAD', and 'Freespace: The Great War' will be presented at
Hyperion's booth. The Hyperion team will be available for any kind of questions, and they will
accept pre-orders of Shogo, and they are hoping to meet you in Cologne within less than two weeks!
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30.Nov.2000
BTTR-Team via eMail
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Back to the Roots Amiga-News
Back to the Roots worte:
It's not necessary to mention that we are making more scene demos available for
download, but it is to mention that our legal and free available Amiga software
mission now also is supported by Acid Software. With Skidmarks we are able to
offer a real highlight. Furthermore there are four adventure rarities by Infocom, and
a lot of other games for download.
We are happy to be able to provide a review on the music CD "Merregnon", a truly astonishing CD
offering a sound experience of special kind thanks to musicians like
Chris Huelsbeck (Turrican), Allister Brimble (Superfrog), oder Markus Holler (Tales of Tamar).
Moreover there is an interview with the Amiga demo group Reason expressing their misgivings on
how the demo scene might look like on AmigaOne.
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30.Nov.2000
Markus Lunk via eMail
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IRC-Log Jochen Becher - 73 KB
Markus Lunk has sent us a log file of the chat with Jochen Becher. You can download
it using the title link (mixed, German and English).
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30.Nov.2000
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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aminetGUI Not Available at www.aminet.de at this time!
Alexander Kurtz wrote:
Because of technical problems at my domain provider aminetGUI unfortunately is not
available at www.aminet.de. At this time it is only accessible via
http://www.amiga-gateway.de/aminetgui.
I will look for a new and reliable hoster, to make such and other problems belonging to
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29.Nov.2000
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ALD Problems Solved
Today we accidently noticed that Amiga Link Directory worked, but it was not possible to make new
entries. Caused by the move the rights have still not been set completely right. We have corrected
this error, and now we are hoping for many new entries.
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29.Nov.2000
Haage & Partner
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WoA 2000 News
Haage & Partner, which is the organizer of this year's WoA 2000 taking place on 9th and 10th
of December 2000 in Cologne's Mediapark six and seven, has made a special
news site
with all fair highlights.
Hendrik Höner informed us that he is doing to prepare
a IRC-conference for UGN again. The IRC-conference will take place on Saturday the 9th December of 2000
between 1 pm and 6 pm. Here the provisional speakers list:
| Participant | Company | Time |
|---|
| Mick Tinker | BoXer | 13:00:00 CET |
| Ralph Schmidt | MorphOS | 14:00:00 CET |
| Alan M. Redhouse | Eyetech | 15:00:00 CET |
| Bill McEwen | Amiga Inc. | 16:00:00 CET |
| Jürgen Haage | Haage & Partner | 17:00:00 CET |
The channel will probably be #WoA2000 on AmigaNet. You can find further information and changes at
http://ugn.amiga.org, soon.
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29.Nov.2000
Amster
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Amster V0.8 for MorphOS Available
Guerer Oezen has ported Amster to MorphOS.
Download: Amster-MorphOS.lha
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29.Nov.2000
BlueBlack Solution
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Work on Operation: Counterstrike in Progress
You can read on the new designed website of BlueBlack Solution that the first unplayable and not
official demo version of Operation: Counterstrike will be ready to be given to the press, soon.
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29.Nov.2000
Amiga Inc.
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November issue of Amiga World Published
November issue of the magazine Amiga World of Amiga Inc. has been published. In this issue you can find
a summary of first impressions of the AmigaSDK.
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29.Nov.2000
Raymund on ANF
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Metabox: Big order from UK
ZDMet: "Metabox International, which is a subsidiary of the company Metabox in Hildesheim, will deliver
at least 100,000 set-top-boxes to UK from May 2001. It is planned that the devices will be placed
at british household's disposal for the use of a T-Commerce-platform from the third quarter of 2001, said
the company. The partner to the contract was not mentioned by the company."
See title link for full article (German).
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29.Nov.2000
ANN
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osOpinion Article about Amiga
osOpinion have posted an article about Amiga which you can find under the title link. The title is
called: "Wanted: A Modern-Day Amiga".
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29.Nov.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail
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Schatztruhe GmbH on the "World of Amiga" in Cologne
In this year Schatztruhe GmbH also will be represented at the wintry fair event in Cologne from 9th
to 10th of December. As known from former fairs we will offer interesting products again and will offer
them at our low fair prices.
We will have the fresh burned Aminet 40 which you can buy directly at our booth. Until this time
the new OS3.9 also will be available, and you will be able to buy it at our booth.
It will really be worth visiting the fair, because Bill McEwen will be present and will inform us about
the future of Amiga, as the management of the fair said.
The fair will take place from 9th to 10th of December from 10 am to 6 pm on each day. Location is the
MediaPark six and seven in Cologne (not the fair halls in Cologne!). For more information, please
have a look here.
You can also find detailed information on how to go there (also by public means of transport) there.
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29.Nov.2000
AmCluSt
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TX-ButtonEd Version 1.1 Released
The programm by Christian Effenberger helps to make (antialiased) text-buttons in Jpeg-format via "jpegtool".
TX-ButtonED is part of the project SiteWay. TX-ButtonEd is now able to use the full Workbench palette
instead of merely using the fixed pen-entries. In addition to this there is an own outline colour and
the possibility of reflecting the pictures around the horizontal and vertical axis. Requirement: cando.libary
and jpegtool.
Download: TX-ButtonEd.lha - 99 Kb
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29.Nov.2000
AudioLabs
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ProStationAudio T8 Released
T8 includes all the features of Millennium in an 8-stereo-track/16-channels layout.
Support for dual CPU, dual monitor, dual graphics cards,
realtime multitrack disk-streaming and DSP processing (multiple plugins
on multiple tracks), mixing automation, faders control from external
MIDI mixers and hundreds of other features.
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29.Nov.2000
Sebastian Eichholz on ANF
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Big update at www.kultpower.de
In the last weeks many extensions happened at www.kultpower.de. Meanwhile there are 52 PowerPlay-Covers,
26 ASM-Covers, and 14 VideoGames-Covers online. Presently in the PowerPlay-data base you can recall 229 test
results, find 30 scanned test reports, as well as 35 advertising announcements of games from old Powerplay issues.
Who is looking for a certain test report of a game can use the search function. Who participated in the golden Powerplay- and
ASM-times will be interested in the new opinion polls. Have fun!
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29.Nov.2000
Adrian (Sauron) Siemieniak on ANF
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Longman dictionary Mentat 0.6 - New Version
There is new version of english2english Longman dictionary for
Amiga called Mentat 0.6.
New in this release:
- ARexx interface (4 commands)
- ARexx scripts to connect Mentat with CygnusED, AWeb, IBrowse
- Printing
- Spanish and Czech localization
- Visual improvements
- some tiny opimizations
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28.Nov.2000
Stéphane Campan via eMail
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AmigaImpact: Interview with Ralph Schmidt
Our French partner site Amiga Impact made an interview with Ralph Schmidt,
which is available at the title link in English, and
here in French.
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28.Nov.2000
Dirk Baeyens
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AmigaOS 3.9
The Amiga Inc. website now has a subpage dedicated to the new AmigaOS 3.9.
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28.Nov.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusExecutor v2.08
Update v2.08 of VirusExecutor has been released:
Name: Virus Executor v2.08
Archive name:
VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size: 258.161 bytes
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
Date: November 26th, 2000
Info: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
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28.Nov.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF
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New Updates to narr.tsx.org
There are two minor updates to my projects 'ShowGUI' and 'WorkON'. Installation
of ShowGUI requires the ShowGUI v1.0 archive.
ShowGUI is a picture viewer (with database) utilizing datatypes, which can be
configured to use existing external viewers. New in v1.1:
- bugfix (config file)
- bug with too large fonts fixed
- required fonts included in update
WorkON is a small System Enhancer. New in v0.5:
- bug with too large fonts fixed
- minor code bug fixed
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28.Nov.2000
CamX Audio / Video
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Camd-Player Update
Martin Endress has reworked his OPL3 Camd-Player for PicassoIV, since sound
playback with OPL4 was buggy. The new version Opl3 player v1.2 is available
for download.
Download: opl3_12.lha
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28.Nov.2000
SEAL
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SEAL Meeting Report
A pictured report of the SEAL meeting on November 23rd, 2000, is available at the SEAL website.
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28.Nov.2000
CCC-ML
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17th Chaos Communication Congress - 27.-29.12.2000
For the 17th time, the Chaos Communication Congress will take place. Hosting
the event, as in the last two years, is the "Haus Am Koellnischen Park" in
Berlin. Date is, as always, December 27th to 29th.
All Congress information is available in two languages this time. The website
uses your preset language - if you want to switch, there are buttons on the page
which you'll find intuitively. The website
has everything you have to know, and will be successively extended in the weeks till
the Congress. For spreading the news by mail and news, again there is a detailed
HOWTO/FAQ in ISO-ASCII.
The Congress has some entertaining on schedule again, which is summarized in this
event overview. If you are planning
to participate in the Hackcenter this year, you should have a look at the changed
requirements. Moreover, a registration is necessary.
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27.Nov.2000
Darkage
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Darkage News
The webpage of Darkage were completely redesigned. There are 3 new photos of the Pianeta Amiga 2000 online.
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27.Nov.2000
Stefan Instinske on ANF
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Alternative-Games.de will start on December 1st, 2000
Lately there were an increasing number of cooperations and joint-ventures of firms that only
released for one of the alternative computer systems until now. We want to support the activities
of these firms by establishing a portal for users of every alternative system. This portal will
contain news, reviews and much more.
From the start there will be an Amiga and a Macintosh section. For additional sections we are
missing people who are willing to help us to make the project a success. We are looking for
section managers for Linux, BeOS and Milan (Atari). But we still need some persons for the
Amiga and Mac sections. If you would like to help us with reviews and reports, please mail
to info@alternative-games.de.
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27.Nov.2000
Gunter Hinrichsen via eMail
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New YAM-extension: HTMLread
YAM is not able to handle mails written in HTML-code. It is very difficult to read
these mails with all the tags.
HTMLread fixes this problem. It automatically recognizes such mails and sends them to the
HTML-viewer of your choice. Every HTML-viewer is supported. You can choose from a predefined
list or make you own one. The predefined list contains: MultiView (mit HTMLdatatype),
SimpleView, HTMLview (Demo), OpenUrl, Voyager, IBrowse, AWebSE (OS3.5) and AWeb.
HTMLread will easily be installed using the installer.
HTMLread is freeware.
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27.Nov.2000
2IDs at ANF
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DigitalArGrafix - The GayArt Galery
From now on there is a GayArt Galery available at the title link. Pictures, paintings,
drawings or DigitalVideoArt are welcomed. We are focusing on "the men as an object of the art".
Please mail your contributions for the gallery to INFO@2IDs.de.
The copyright of the exhibited art remains with the artist.
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27.Nov.2000
Ignatios Souvatzis on ANF
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NetBSD-1.4.3 Released
The NetBSD-project announced the release of NetBSD-1.4.3.
This release fixes problems known from former versions, increases stability
and adds support for additional hardware.
NetBSD-1.4.3 is a patch release of the NetBSD-1.4-branch. The new 1.5-branch
will be released as a main release soon. The 1.4 release contains some new features
imported from the NetBSD-development branch:
- Support for Lucent Wavelan (Orinoco) IEEE 802.11 radio-ethernet-card.
- A potential "CPU-Hog"-problem concerning big input-output operations were fixed. Look at SA #2000-005.
- The danger of a denial-of-service-attack were removed. Look at SA #2000-004
- A problem with /etc/ftpchroot were fixed. Look at SA #2000-006.
- A problem with the reserving of semaphor-resources were fixed. Look at SA #2000-006.
- The DHCP-software were updated (ISC 2.0pl3).
Many more bugs were fixed - altogether about 70 problems.
A complete list of the changes from NetBSD-1.4.2 to -1.4.3 is available at:
CHANGES-1.4.3.
Please read the INSTALL-guide for your system; there you can find out more about
the supported hardware, installation, and known problems with this release.
Further informations are available at:
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