03.Sep.2001
Jörg Strohmayer
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Filesystem: Smart Filesystem 1.192 BETA
Jörg Strohmayer released version 1.192 (Beta) of the Smart Filesystem. The following changes were made:
- "findextentbnode: findbnode() can't find key 4711!" bug in
defragmenter fixed.
- Added timeout to some requesters.
- Check for correct number of free blocks is now only done
in about 1 out of 25 initdisk()s instead of each one.
This is a beta version! Please report bugs and success-stories to Jörg Strohmayer.
Download: SFS.lha (40 KB) (ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Mailprogram: SimpleMail Alpha 0.9
Release of verison 0.9 alpha of SimpleMail. Changes:
- improved addressbook
- periodical maildownload
- needs the Popplaceholder Mui Custom Class
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new releases (until 02. Sept. 01)
Thanks to WHDLoad, you are able to install floppydisc based games onto your harddisc. The following packages were added:
- 02.09.01 new: Dizzy - Prince of the Yolkfolk (Code Masters) done by Bored Seal
- 02.09.01 new: Trivial Pursuit (Domark) done by CFOU!
- 02.09.01 new: Castle Warrior (Delphine Software) done by CFOU!
- 02.09.01 improved: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17) supports CD³² version too, automatically load/save highscore
- 02.09.01 improved: RanX (UBI-Soft) supports french version too
- 02.09.01 new: New York Warriors (Arcania Systems) done by Wepl
- 02.09.01 improved: Battle Isle (Blue Byte) program to display/merge highscores added
- 31.08.01 new: Victory Road (SNK/Imagine) done by Bored Seal
- 31.08.01 new: Paramax (KingSoft) done by CFOU!
- 31.08.01 new: La quête de l'oiseau du temps (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
- 31.08.01 new: Extase (Cryo/Virgin Losirs) done by CFOU!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Jazz_Rabbit (ANF)
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AmigaShell for Unix
"AmigaSHELL makes your boring gray on black colored
bash shell revive like in the old days. Just like on
Amiga(tm), blue, white, orange, black at its finest.
With a nice informational bar at the top."
Annotation by Jazz_Rabbit: HOT!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Amiga FFE-homepage back online
Michael Asse wrote:
The AmigaFFE-homepage is online.
I'll try to improve the side in the next days and integrate a joblist.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Jazz_Rabbit (ANF)
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Article: CNN ... Amiga isn't dead
CNN: "Surprise: The Amiga isn't dead... technically. Although Commodore
is defunct, an Australian company called Amiga Inc. is still updating the
Amiga operating system and has created specs in hopes of finding friendly
manufacturers to release the first new Amiga hardware in six years. A
small but loyal fan base of Amiga nuts is holding its breath."
An Austrialian Company?
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Robert Sterff (ANF)
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Event: Party: XzentriX 2001 - 7. - 9. September
Hello computer users,
There are only some days left until the 4th Xzentrix computer-party for
alternative computer systems in Seeshaupt.
Additional information is available at the title link.
Ciao
Robert Sterff
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03.Sep.2001
amiga.org
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MPEG: Frogger V1.66
Frogger can be downloaded from http://frogger.rules.pl or http://highantdev.de/frogger/.
Please note, that audio is disabled in 68k version, due
to bug I could not find. As soon as I've fixed it, version
with audio enabled will be released. MorphOS
version is also almost finished.
- Video layer 1/2 decoding.
- Audio layer I, II and III decoding. Now also with very fast decoder in 68k version (through mpega.library)
- AC3 Audio decoder.
- Fast video & audio playback.
- Intelligent frame skipping.
- Overlay support.
- Fast C2P for AGA.
- Direct CGFX video memory access routines.
- Asynchronous disk reading.
- Video scaling on both CGFX and AGA.
- Support for reading VideoCD disks.
- Support for PSX movies and audio.
Look here for all current known bugs and on the future-page for features to come up.
1.66 pre 1
- fixed deadlocks after seeking. (damn, seems like this bug is still there)
- optimized video decoder (up to 10%). on the other hand, there was some changes in demuxer,
which causes slowdown. overall result: 0%.
- added TRACKSELECTION option (shows gui to vcd track selection, default no gui - start
playing first track immediately).
- changed minimal window size. it is now calculated based on system gadget size.
- fixed bug in vcd code, which caused crash if specified device could not be opened.
- fixed problems with slider (small know size at beginning, and slider movement).
- changed mpeg-audio decoder. completly new routines, layerII is as fast as before, layerIII is 2x
faster. there is no FREQDIV 4 (if specified, 1:2 division is used, ie. FREQDIV=2).
- AUDIOQUALITY works with this decoder (previous versions supported AQ only in 68k
version). default is HIGH. LOW and MIDDLE are the same. This decoder fixes also some
problems with LayerIII decoding.
- new ac3 decoder. faster, more reliable.
- fixed problems with multiple tracks vcds (lost of synch when starting new track). the same bug
appears on movies joined with join or mpegjoin, seems to be cured also).
- If user tried to play finished movie from beginning (SPACE key) deadlock occured if audio was
enabled). fixed. Hoppefully this also fixed deadlock with LOOP when audio is enabled.
- Slider size/position was wrong, when movie was on VCD/CDI media. fixed.
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02.Sep.2001
CyberGFX
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PCI: Grzegorz Kraszewski about the Prometheus bus
Grzegorz Kraszewski, Matay, talked about the status of the Prometheus bus on
the Prometheus mailing list. The current firmware is unidirectional, meaning
that the Prometheus can act as PCI master and Zorro-III slave, only.
After a firmware update the bus can be bidirectional. Then the master PCI board
can access the Amiga hardware. That means that the Amiga hardware acts like
a PCI board for a G4 PPC card.
Follow the title link for the original text.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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02.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: The Crypt #19
Issue #19 of The Crypt magazine contains topical news about Amiga Inc. including
an interview with Gary Peake, Amiga. Craig Daines deals with the subject
'port attacks and online protection' in his article. Dr. Greg Perry was asked
about Directory Opus and more in an interview. There are articles about
'how to back-up your PC' and 'how to properly re-install Windows OS' at the
IBM compatibles section of the magazine. Moreover there are many more articles
and graphics about fun and stories and more.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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02.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Newsletter: Amiga Update #010831 by Brad Webb
Monthly Brad Webb releases his English newsletter 'Amiga Update' reporting
about the most important ongoings all about the Amiga. Read the current
newsletter under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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02.Sep.2001
MorphOS
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MorphOS: Installation, MorphVNC Client
In the Italian online magazine
Amigazette an Italian
installations guide
for MorphOS was released.
On 31. August 2001 Mark Olsen released the VNC client 'MorphVNC' for MorphOS supporting encodings like
raw, copyrect, RRE, and CoRRE.
VNC means
'Virtual Network Computing'. VNC allows to control one computer from another via the Internet
by transfering the GUI of one machine to the other, not constrained by the systems used.
Download: MorphVNC.lha
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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02.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.32
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. There was a big
bug in the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 virus removal
Info about the new update of xvs.library:
Name: xvs.library v33.32
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 58.666 bytes
Release date: 2 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
News is v33.31:
Argh... Fixed major bug in Hitch-Hiker 5.00 removal.
The virus was removed, but the file was not fixed.
Thanks to Jean Holzammer for reporting this bug.
Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you
must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....
Download: xvslibrary.lha (57K)
Readme
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02.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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AMI Sector One: DOpus 4, OctaMED 1.0, Adventures through Time, Covers...
AMI Sector One was extended with tools, games, demos, and cover scans.
With permission of GP Software now 'Directory Opus 4' is online on 'AMI Sector One'.
Information about newer versions and version 6 for PC are to find on the
GP Software website.
Many users asked for more tools on 'AMI Sector One', so there is new content for this
section: 'OctaMED Soundstudio 1.0' is a tracker for the Amiga. Note: This is about a
commercial product now being freeware according to the publisher.
With 'F.R.A.C' a program to create fantasy and role games was added.
'Absolute Adventurer' is a floppy disk containing walkthrus for adventure games.
'The Bible' consists of 4 disks and contains both the old and the new testament.
Keith Golden and Laurent Arditi allowed 'AMI Sectore One' to offer their games for download at
games area:
'Adventures through Time' was one fo the first point'n click adventures for the Amiga.
'Skweek' and 'Super Skweek' are about two Arcade / puzzle games with cute characters by Laurent Arditi.
'Cyber Man' is a very joyful 3D Pacman clone.
'Giddy 2' is Phillip Ruston's prior 'dizzy licenceware game' 'Giddy 3' for IBM-PC compatible, released on
his site.
'Grand Prix Simulator' is a realistic Formula-1 manager.
At the demo section with 'Ripped Gems' only one music disk was added, this time.
The following cover scans were added: Accordion 1.1, Arcade Pool,
Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh, The Art of Chess, Atomino, Ballistix, Calculation 1.1, Distant
Armies, Eye of the Beholder, Eye of the Beholder II - The Legend of Darkmoon, Fantasy World Dizzy,
Flight Path 737, Hoyle's Book of Games - Volume 1, Hoyle's Book of Games - Volume 3,
Inertia Drive, Las Vegas, Lemmings 2 - The Tribes, Magicland Dizzy, Mouse Trap, Obliterator,
PP Hammer and his Pneumatic Weapon, Project X - Special Edition, Protector, Seahaven Towers,
Skweek, Super Skweek, and Turn It.
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02.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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Printer-Spooler: PrintManager V39.32
PrintManager v39 is a so called printer-spooler, it intercepts all printer. device calls to the
parallel-/serial.device and saves the printer specific raw data to a file. This way, programs sending data to the printer
don't have to wait for the slow printer to continue. PrintManager also gives you some control over the data sent to the
printer. You can even print files directly from inside PrintManager using the datatypes-system.
'PrintManager' also can be configured to make the spooler catch printing commands
directly sent to the parallel or serial device.
Changes:
when changing the screenmode or screenfont of the workbench screen, PrtMan closes and
reopens its window, now. This feature requires OS3.9.
Features:
- caches only printer.device calls
- can cache all calls to parallel-/serial.devices
- allows to exclude certain tasks from spooling
- nice gui which works with proportional fonts
- files can be printed from inside Printmanager (uses datatypes.lib)
- works with datatypes.library v45 (v45 recommend, not required!)
- own FAST parallel.device (registered version only)
- localized
- after reset/crash unfinished printings are recovered
- delayed printing
- print count function
- allows to redirect printing to another device
- upto 10 devices can be spooled
Download: prtman39.lha (192K),
Readme
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02.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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File Manager: DirOpus V4.16 Beta 4
This is the latest beta release of DirOpus4. This
archive contains only the files that changed since
the last public release, so you have to install the
latest public release before installing the beta
version.
Watch out for serial debug data. Use Sushi/Sashimi
to redirect it from serial port to WB window.
Changes:
- Supports "Copy archive bit too" option from ConfigOpus.
- Filesize column in lister has auto-calculated width.
- Fixed some display bugs in listers.
- Fixed few Enforced hits introduced in 4.16b3.
- ConfigOpus: "Copy archive bit too" option in Operation/Copy to fully control A bit.
- Dopus_Print: fixed directory printing introduced in DirOpus4.16b3.
Download: DOpus416b4.lzx (330K),
History
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02.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: Tool - memprof V1.0
On 01. September 2001 Fleecy Moss released version 1.0 of the memory profiler
'memprof' for the AmigaDE SDK.
This tool does some crude but useful memory profiling. It works only for VP
apps at the moment and only profiles application memory (i.e. memory that a
developer asks for and frees). It does not cover system memory such as
pixmaps, etc.
Download: dev/vp/memprof_1.zip (5K),
Readme
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02.Sep.2001
Jochen Terstiege (ANF)
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Game: ADOM V1.0.0 for Amiga
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) Version 1.0.0 is available for the Amiga, now.
Download:
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02.Sep.2001
Halvadjian Georges (ANF)
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Graphics: PerfectPaint V2.7
PerfectPaint V2.7 is available
What's new:
- New Script (Arexx Box): Carve,Coral, OilPaint, FastPaint, OldMosaic, PatchWork, Pointillisme.
- New Arexx command
- At least PfPaint is Localised, Include the french catalog (98% made)
- Can be found in the Catalogs drawer
- PerfectPaint.cd
- PerfectPaint.ct
- PerfectPaint_Start.cd
- PerfectPaint_Start.ct
- New catalogs are welcome.
- Change the name of the Xen.font to PfPaint.font (Many users ask me for that)
this font is now in Perfectpaint:FONTS, add a new size '7', for the progress indicator.
You have to copy this font in your Workbench:FONTS directory.
- Zoom Window now have Realtime scrolling when you use scrollbar.
- Improve gradient effect with Wheel and linear options.
- New Keyboard shortcuts
- F6 - Pointer can be changed with Precise pointer (Prefs/Cursors or F6)
Precise pointer never show current brush or pen.
- F7 - Will open prefs of the current effect.
- F10 - Will close the toolbox window.
- Progress indicator for arexx script
- Improve control animation window:
- Asynchron
- New gui
- New option: Direct disc (PfPaint try to playback animation
directly from the disc, if you choose to store your animation on disc)
- Fast tools button.
- Improve buffers requester
- Always open at startup
- Color indication of the current buffer.
- When PfPaint Quit, it will save on disc some prefs like
position of some windows, current save format, state of the buffer window...
- New Painting effect: Median, Maximum, Minimum.
- Improve Brushes requester: Add color indication of the current brush.
- Move opaque window is much faster.
- Improve 'clone anim': mush faster.
- New 'Brush Tools': Convert to Picture, Reset Transparency.
- New Picture effect: Clone Picture, Scroll, Convert to Brush, Polar Coordinates
- New Color effect: Scroll RGB, Swap RGB.
- Improve some window.
- Improve Window detection (again)
- New processing tools option: Fade (RMB on icon).
- Improve gradient editor: Add Opacity, Increase number of gradient color to 10
Requirements
- Minimum 68030 + FPU
- Minimum OS 3.0
- Graphics card (Cybergraphx min cgxv41 r71 or Picasso96)
- Render.library
- Jpeg.library
- XPKmaster.library
- AsyncIO.library
Download: PfPaint_V27.lha (1,7M) (sd)
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02.Sep.2001
Vapor Amirc Mailing list (ANF)
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Instant-Messenger: AmIRC V3.5.19 Beta
Beta version 3.5.19 of the IRC client 'AmIRC' was released on 01. September 2001.
Download: amirc_3519beta.lzx (171K),
Readme
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02.Sep.2001
AmigArt / Frank Gutschow (ANF)
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Game: Earth 2140 Update
"Some people reported problems running the game from CDROMs connected to
their BlizzardPPC/CyberStormPPC SCSI controllers, getting "phase mismatch"
errors. This version fixes the CDDA code to support those controllers too.
In addition to that we have fixed some problems regarding the speed
setting within the game. So if the game is too slow now, just move the
speed gadget up again - it's better than the other way around, as before."
Download: E2140_English_020401.lha
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02.Sep.2001
(ANF)
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Swiss local store AMIGALAND closing down
Marianne E. Vokinger wrote:
For health reasons I, Marianne E. Vokinger, holder of AMIGALAND in Switzerland,
unfortunately have to finally close down the local store AMIGALAND after 9½ years
of business.
I will appeal to keep existing contacts and to go on working for the dispatch. But until
the entire liquidation was done and I'm of somehow stable health again it quite sure will
be October 2001 for me to able to be active again. I'm very sorry to not having another
option and I'm often remembering the 'GOOD OLD TIMES', these days.
I would like to thank all of my customers both at home and abroad for they have been faithful
for many years, as well as my distributors! Also a special thank to you, Petra, for you
already let me off the hook on the Neuss show :))
Who knows, maybe we will meet again on some show :-)
I wish you much success further on.
Marianne E. Vokinger / AMIGALAND
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01.Sep.2001
Andreas Kleinert (e-mail)
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Image processor SViewIV: New ImageFX loader/saver modules
Andreas Kleinert writes:
There's a new version of the SViewIV ImageFX loader/saver
available for download on my WWW site.
It now allows to save images as well (previously only worked
as loader), the loading process is much more efficient and
less memory consuming and support for saving of paletted
(imagefx-rendered) images has been added.
This module requires a SViewIV keyfile to work.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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31.Aug.2001
Amiga Active
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Print magazine: Amiga Active issue 24 available today
Since today the September issue of the English print magazine 'Amiga Active'
is at the newsstands.
This issue contains the following topics:
- Loading Nextgen...
The Amiga's future is deserving of more attention. Here's why.
- Repulse
New Amiga soundcard from Alien Designs reviewed and rated.
- Customise Your Amiga
It's not just Apple who can make attractive desktop computers. You can too! We show you how.
- MathEngineering
Making games come to life is a tricky task, but one that Oxford-based MathEngine have risen to.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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31.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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Errorwear plans Guru Meditation (Amiga) t-shirt
'Errorwear' manufactures t-shirts with computer error messages. Now there are plans to
offer a t-shirt with the guru meditation.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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31.Aug.2001
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Oliver Wagner reconsiders support of Amiga OS 4.0 and Amithlon
Oliver informs in his "plan" of 30th August 2001 that a new version of
V (Voyager) is to be expected in the next few days. He also says that he
won't develop V not exclusively for MorphOS, but considers AmigaOS 4.0
and Amithlon (the latter with x86-native code) for future versions.
More at the title link.
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31.Aug.2001
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Haage & Partner announces another Amiga emulator
The German Amiga print magazine AMIGAplus reports in their current
issue (09/2001) that Haage & Partner GmbH will release an Amiga emulator
based on QNX. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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31.Aug.2001
Ralph Torchia (ANF)
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Palm Desktop for Amiga: Spitfire² version 1.8
Version 1.8 of Spitfire² is now available and corrects problems with the HotSync
Manager and the installation script. Please see the
history
file for more details.
Spitfire² is a Palm desktop for AmigaOS. The software allows connection
to a Palm computer by 3Com or compatibles. The program among other things
offers HotSync functions between the Amiga and Palm.
More information on the program's features can be located at the
homepage.
Download: Spitfire2.lha (844 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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31.Aug.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Webcam and IRC channel at Saku 2001
Finnish Amiga Users Group's Saku 2001 Web Site at
http://saku.amigafin.org/saku2001
will host two webcams from the happening, and you can also chat with the
people attending the show on our IRC channel #saku2001 (IRCnet).
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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31.Aug.2001
The Register
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The Register: Amiga flogs Win, Linux Amiga DE player for $20
Tony Smith has written a critial, partly unobjective, article for ´The Register´
on the AmigaDE Player which is offered in the AmigaDE Shop
for $20.
Here an excerpt:
»If Sun couldn't make it happen with Java on the basis of allowing
anyone to write JVMs and give them away for free, we can't help but think
Amiga's plan to make people pay for this stuff has even less chance of
success.
Doubly so when this allegedly advanced technology can only be used to
knock up half a dozen puzzle games of the kind we haven't seen since we
won an Atari Lynx in 1989.«
Full article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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30.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.31
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. In this new
update the xvs.library should detect 99.9% of all 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00 virus".
The programmer Jan Erik Olausen, has been working very hard for the last
10 days to get the recog. right for this very tricky virus.
Info about the new update of xvs.library:
Name: xvs.library v33.31
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 58.874 bytes
Release date: 30 August 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
News is v33.31:
- Improved the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Link virus.
Should be able to detect 99.9% of this virus now...
Thanks to Jan Andersen and Treveur BRETAUDIERE for the files
- Fixed bug in recog for Bastard Installer 1 File virus
- Added recog for 'EICAR STANDARD AV-TEST FILE'.
This is not a virus, but a testfile that can be found on
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm.
The purpose of this test file is to check that your favourite
anti virus program really finds it! Deep inside arhcives etc...
PS! This is a data file, so you might turn on the
'data file checking' in your virus killer.
Thanks to Sami Rautiainen for telling me about this file.
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/xvs/xvs.htm
Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you
must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....
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30.Aug.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packets (until 28.8.01)
Thanks to WHDLoad floppy disk only games can be installed to harddisk. The following
packets have been added or updated:
- 28.08.01 new: Advantage Tennis (Infogrames) done by Jeff (ReadMe)
- 28.08.01 improved: Obliterator (Psygnosis) various changes (ReadMe)
- 28.08.01 updated: Deuteros (Ian Bird) uses kickemu now (ReadMe)
- 27.08.01 new: Biplane Duel (Peter Mason) done by Codetapper (ReadMe)
- 26.08.01 improved: Project X (Team 17) supports another version (ReadMe)
- 26.08.01 new: Phobia (Mirrorsoft/Imageworks) done by Codetapper (ReadMe)
- 23.08.01 improved: Uridium 2 (Graftgold) misc improvements (ReadMe)
- 23.08.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) better installation process (ReadMe)
- 23.08.01 improved: Rockstar Ate My Hamster! (Colin Jones/Codemasters) supports another version (ReadMe)
- 23.08.01 new: No Excuses (Arcana) done by John Girvin (ReadMe)
- 23.08.01 new: International 3D Tennis (Sensible Software/Palace) done by Codetapper (ReadMe)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 16.5
A new update of "Safe" has been released today. Also the programmer
of Safe has very big problem with the new 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' virus. But
we are working to make recog. for the virus in xvs.library. I have included
the test of 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' at the button.
Info about the new update of Safe:
Name: Safe v16.5
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 35.456 bytes
Release date: 30 August 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
News is v16.5:
- added possibility to change name of safe on installation.
It was necessary - new viruses like HH50 and SMEG2b
refuse to infect Safe file. This trend will surely remain,
so now Safe gives the user the easy way avoid that.
Big thanks for Antonio Noguera, who did this improvement!
This is piece of good work - even better I expected!
- removed some outdated info from html documentation
Note that the most useful information is here and in NewShit.guide.
Thanks to Michael Hendren for paying attention.
- removed SMEG2/PENETRATOR removals as xvs.library recognizes them now
- added analyze of HitchHiker5.00 the most advanced polymorphic bastard
in the Amiga universe
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/safe/safe.htm
=== Start of HitchHiker 5.00 Virus ===
Entry: HitchHiker 5.00
Alias(es): -
Virus Strain: Smeg2
Virus detected when: August 2001
where: Aminet
Classification: Linkvirus,memory-resident, not reset-resident
Length of Virus: 1. Length on storage medium: c.a. 3720 Bytes
Has most advanced metamorphic decoders seen
for Amiga and uses slow polymorphism!
2. Length in RAM: 8588 Bytes
--- Preconditions ---
Operating System(s): AMIGA-DOS Version/Release.....: 2.04+
Computer model(s): all models/processors (MC68000-MC68060)
--- Attributes ---
Easy Identification: -
Type of infection:
- Self-identification method in files:
- via unused bits visible in dos flags
- Self-identification method in memory:
- checks for 'HH5' process
- System infection:
- A new process entitled 'HH5' will be created
and this is the only visible change in the system.
That process infects files using the known
Smeg code, but the way of getting targets is new.
- The virus patches return address from Wait()
call of device's tasks. This is very clever idea which lets
the virus patch devices which's code is placed even in ROM.
The LOCATE_OBJECT and EXAMINE_NEXT packets will be stolen.
- Infection preconditions:
- HUNK_CODE is found
- device is validated
- at least 6 free blocks
- filename does not start with "vir" and "saf"
(case independant check)
- file is bigger than 4190 bytes
- file is smaller than 100377 bytes
Infection Trigger:
- The infection is based on the packet handling
of AMIGA OS. Every started or listed file can be
infected.
Storage media affected:
Interrupts hooked:
Damage:
- Permanent damage: - none
- Transient damage: - none
Damage Trigger:
- Permanent damage: - none
- Transient damage:
- none
Particularities:
- Uses slow polymorphism! Only this little fact
mislooked by Jan Erik Olausen (and Jan Andersen)
made filedetection in xvs.library the biggest AV
joke seen for Amiga computers ever!
At the moment xvs.library detects 3 variants
of virus from several millions possible!
- The stack patches are done very clever and the
code is flexible enough to handle differences
between OS versions (including newer than 3.1).
Most of code is equal to first SMEG virus.
If the accessed file starts with the string "VIR"
or "SAF" (case independant), the file will
be not infected.
Similarities:
- It could be seen as third kind of SMEG2, but the
polyengine made it one of the most advanced viruses
for Amiga.
Stealth:
- None. The virus does not put infected file
length like BOBEK viruses to ExNext's FIB,
so it is likely that under controll of virus
user will cut files. Salvage will be never
possible as it was for HH4.11 which's files
several times appeared in truncated form
due to it's stealth... :-)
Armouring:
- Uses so called HAVOC polyengine. This is the
best such engine in Amiga virus at the moment.
The decoders are placed after the decoder block,
and the loop could contain very much logical stuff.
The decoders are made metamorphically and are built
of various jumps backward and forward.
Such decoders can be detected only in alghorythmic
way. Detection of this virus is impossible with
technics like breaking the cryptings (lot of stuff)
and tracing (entry point!).
The decoder is generated on virus startup,
so after reboot files are infected always
with new decoders.
Comments:
- The virus contains text: HAVOC
I have been working with one copy of HH5.0.
Even there really exist clones of HH5.0 I think that if the polyengine
detection will be working for one, will be good for others.
--- Acknowledgement ---
Location: Pawlowice, Poland
Classification by: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Documentation by: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Date: August 2001
Information Source: virus disassembly, SMEG1 source code
Copyright: This document is public domain.
=== End of HitchHiker 5.00 Virus ===
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30.Aug.2001
bplan / Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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bplan: Pegasos meets MorphOS
«In observance of the development schedule, the Pegasos system officially
offers as of today a second operating system platform. In addition to Linux
( since this years` second quarter ), MorphOS now also supports the development
systems in its full functional range.»
Read the complete press release under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Aug.2001
Alexander Fritsch (ANF)
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Tool: ScreamerII Version 0.84 for Amiga-Lightwave
Alexander Fritsch wrote:
Ray Darrah III released a new version of his ScreamerNet controller
"ScreamerII". ScreamerII allows shared computing of Lightwave scenes
on several machines.
ScreamerII but is essentially more flexible than the built-in ScreamerNet controller
of Lightwave. For example one computer can render a picture while simultaneously another project
gets edited in layout .
Furthermore other computers dynamic can be added to or removed from ScreamerNet.
All machines can be reseted, computing will then be continued from the proper point ( no
new starting picture must be defined in the project).
Additionally the single RenderNodes can have their own names, instead of CPU1, CPU2 like
usual. The new version 0.84 fixes a small bug with the computer names display. A. Fritsch:
"I've tested the program for several days and I'm excited!"
Download: ScreamerII.lha
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30.Aug.2001
kdh news (ANF)
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Sound card Repulse available from KDH
A remake of the Repulse sound card (for Zorro slots) is available from KDH, from
now on. This new Repulse version fixes the initial quality problems. All newly
delivered cards now have gold-plated Zorro contacts. Moreover the CD, manual, and
drivers were reworked. There will be a new Toccata emulation, which will be the only
one on the market working with MovieShop for the VLab-Motion. This will make the
Repulse sound card the only full Toccata replacement.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Aug.2001
Spitfire²
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Palm Desktop for Amiga: Spitfire² Version 1.7
Spitfire² by Ralph Torchia is a Palm desktop for AmigaOS, which was released
in version 1.7, yesterday. This shareware software allows connection to a Palm computer
by 3Com or compatibles. The program among other things offers HotSync functions between the Amiga and Palm.
All of the program's features are listed on the homepage. Beside of
the main archive additionally are the ClockSync plugin (v1.2), and
the YAMSync plugin (beta 2) are available for registered users there.
Download: Spitfire2.lha (844 KB) (ps)
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30.Aug.2001
Oliver Wagner (E-Mail)
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Net information tool: NetInfo II Version 2.9
NetInfo II was released in version 2.9. This program is to get net information
and offers functions like TRACEROUTE, PING, WHOIS, and FINGER.
Features
- "quick traceroute": Sends a series of packet in quick
succession to get a route overview very fast, then
does accurate timings for the individual hops
- "ping": Sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO packets to a host
to measure network latency and stability.
- graphical display of hop min/last/max timings
- integrated smart WHOIS function: double-click on
a IP, Host or Network column to automatically receive
WHOIS information for the given object. NetInfo
determines the WHOIS host to query.
- automatically retrieves WHOIS network information
for hosts
- automatically scans destination host for Web (HTTP) and FTP
server versions
- history for all queried hosts
- integrated FINGER client
- integrated "classical" WHOIS client with on-disk cache
- ARexx port
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Aug.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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GFX-BASE: New section, enhanced search engine, and survey
Richard Kapp wrote:
Again there are a lot of innovations to our online magazine GFX-Base:
A new section 'Customize' was created where you can find patches, hacks,
and tools to make your WB look better. We also enhanced our search engine to
make it even more easy to find e.g. all PPC scene demos or games supporting
graphics boards. Now our news archive can be searched in a comfortable way, too.
Furthermore we have started a new survey to learn which GFX-BASE area is most
important to you. As usual there are new entries with graphics board supporting
games and scene demos.
(ps)
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29.Aug.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Installer: Version 4.5 of CD32 Games Install Kit
Version 4.5 of CD32 Games Install Kit has been just published. For the
first time with this version it is now possible to play Simon the
Sorcerer with a perfect voice output which has seemed to be impossible
with an emulator until now. The current version can be downloaded by all
owners of 'The Best
Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM' in the protected download
section.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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New Exhibitor and Vaporware Registration Service at Saku 2001
Finnish Amiga Users Group offers a Vaporware product registration
service for visitors at Saku 2001. The group collects payments and
registration forms at the venue and forwards them to Vaporware,
who delivers registration keys directly to registrants via email
or regular post. Service is open for everyone, membership of the
user group is not required. More information about Vaporware
programs can be found on their web site at
http://www.vapor.com.
Also, Broadline Oy, a long time supporter of Saku and a well-known
Finnish Amiga retailer has decided to join the fun. Broadline Oy
will be selling their stock at Saku 2001.
Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science
Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00
and end at 18:00. Admission will be free of charge. For further
information, visit Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site at
http://saku.amigafin.org or
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/.
E-mail inquiries may be sent to Terho Henriksson
(terho.henriksson@kopteri.net).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
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amiga-news.de: Torsten Dudai stops drawing caricatures
Since July of 1999 Torsten Dudai has supported amiga-news.de by drawing of outstanding caricatures. But some time ago Torsten made him self-employed in the section of webdesign. As anyone knows at the beginning of a self-employment you have to bale all your power to lead the firm to a succesful way.
On the one hand this change but on the other hand also the fact that in the Amiga sector the amount of news reduces of which you could create a caricature were the reasons why Torsten decided to stop drawing caricatures.
We are very sad about this decision but we can understand it, too. We really enjoyed the caricatures many times. The caricatures reflected very precisly the respective situation.
Torsten, we know that you will become a very great webdesigner and wish you all the best for your future!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: ENVHandler V 1.11
Stephan Rupprecht has published version 1.11 of his Env replacement called 'ENVHandler'.
Download: envhandler.lha (14 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: IDF: Arapahoe to bury PCI and AGP
The Arapahoe Working Group (Compaq, Dell, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and PCI-SIG)
announced at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose that 22 companies, including
3Com, Nvidia, AMD, Adaptec, and Texas Instruments, will support the development
of the designated PCI successor by the internal code names of "Arapahoe" and "3GIO".
See title link for the Heise article (German).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Invitation intro for Trsac Party published!
The danish scenegroup Loonies which participated on the production of the commercial game called 'Earth 2140' has published an invitation intro for the Trsac party. This one will take place in Kopenhagen from the 12.-14. of October. The intro and the english written invitation text are on the official Trsac party homepage and soon in the Aminet, too.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: Corel sells its Linux-section
As Heise reported Corel will sell its Linux-section this week according to US news agencies. The buyer is supposed to be a firm called Xandros which was just founded. The offer for sale for the Linux-section is supposed to be two million US-Dollar.
Heise article see title link.
Another link to this topic:
Golem: Corel sells its Linux-distribution
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: Gateway dismisses people
As we have already reported several times Gateway Inc. is going to rearrange and to dismiss employees in Europe. Heise now reports that a lot of people will be dismissed.
Heise-article see title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: Metabox saved
According to Heise a not mentioned private man has given a credit over 2 million Mark to the settop-boxes-producer Metabox and with it has saved the company right before the end.
Heise-article see title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
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amiga-news.de celebrates third anniversary :-)
For three years our team delivers messages
of the Amiga-sector and topics which are generally important for computer
and Internet to you. The last year was espacially exciting for us because
the new scripts and with it the possibilities to post comments have been
a freshening aspect. Although sometimes the ´freshening aspect´
was rather a ´ half-hearted breath of air´. Nevertheless the
comments have become an important part of amiga-news.de. Since the
introduction in January of 2001 over 16,000 comments have been given
to our messages.
Interesting because it is still always exciting to see how the market
develops - or how it does not. In the present time it is quite difficult
to understand what will happen - or what will not. Sometimes it is really
hard to find the truth between promises, announcements, exaggerations,
rumors and disputes. But just this is the attraction - to see how
comparatively small groups of enthusiasts can finally start great
projects. This is a goad for us make us hopeful.
In our history read how amiga-news.de has
developed in the past three years, who collaborates and spends his free
time for our team gratuitously.
I personally want to thank all the helpful hands because without
work of each single one amiga-news.de would not be that what it is today.
I want to thank all the readers, authors, developers and programmers which
deliver all the messages. I espacially want to thank our advertising
partners which help us to finance our website with its banner
advertisement. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Ina Sielaff (ANF)
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Mexikon: Cactuses-lexicon in Amiga-guide-format
Under the title link you can find software for Amiga. One is called 'Mexikon' which is a lexicon about cactuses with many hints and suggestions. It also contains maps of Mexico and pictures of over 650 cactuses. Besides this there is the program 'AMIGA Workbench - Tuning'.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Game: Earth 2140 mailing list
Pagan Games has created an English-spoken mailing list for Earth 2140.
E2140-player can discuss about strategies, the game, updates and new
levels (mission packs) there. The developers of the Amiga version of
Earth 2140 are also on the list and will try to answer your questions.
Subscribe: pagan-e2140-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: pagan-e2140-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Post message: pagan-e2140@yahoogroups.com
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Hugi Online (PC Demo-Szene Magazin) (ANF)
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Max Payne developer are (active!) Amiga-freaks
Silvio Senger writes:
Maybe the following message does not really fit to the news but I think
that it is interesting for most of the Amiga-fans:
For some weeks there is a new action hero in the PC-world called MAX
PAYNE. It lasts nearly five years to develop the game and it certainly
is one of the hits of this year, at least in the PC-fan-community. It is
known that some Amiga-Fans developed this game.
On the this year's ASSEMBLY in Finland (with nearly 5000 visitors one of
the biggest demo/LAN-parties;
www.assembly.org) where the best
freaks also compete in a "demo-competition" PC- and Amiga-demos have been
shown together in one competition. It was amazing to see that a team which
made its demo on a Amiga was the winner.
(as amiga-news.de reported).
And that is remarkable: The members of the group ´MatureFurk´
behind this demo all work at Mad Onion (known by its benchmark program
3DMark2001). The graphic artist mainly participates on Max Payne.
And there is another curious thing: Exactly the same group won on the last ASSEMBLY the PC-demo competition. The demo has the same name as the AMIGA winner demo on the ASSEMBLY 2001.
The following links are interesting:
Detailed interview with the graphic artist of the DEMO, which participates on Max Payne
Download of AMIGA DEMOS (requires 68060 + AGA + 16 MB memory!)
Download of the Amiga-Demo in MPEG format (13.3 MB)
PC-DEMO of the ASSEMBLY 2000 (same team)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Darkage offers trip to the past!
Fans of old crackintros from the beginning of the 90ies might be delighted about Stingray's new 100% fix! In the download section of Scenet you can find two crackintro packs and the 100% fix of Equinox'
Musicdisk Sonial Fantasia! We wish you a good time journey!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo group: 'Pic Saint Loop' publishes KissMyJazz Musicdisk
Last night the Polish demo group 'Pic Saint Loup' published the long
expected Musicdisk 'KISS MY JAZZ'. It has been advertised with an
intro on the MekkaSymposium for it. To this time the musican Jazzcat
was not sure if he would really ever publish his demo.
But now it is done. Have a look at the download section at Scenet.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scenet issue 37 released!
Issue 37 of the scene oriented database SCENET recently was released. There you can
nuzzle to the top of your bent for e-mail addresses, hotlinks, FTP servers, Telnet
mail boxes, ICQs, newsgroups, etc. in 522 KB of text!
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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28.Aug.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Byte Magazin: He Who Controls the Bootloader
You can find an article from Scot Hacker about the license policy of Microsoft
in the American computer magazine Byte.
Hacker tries to explain with the examples BeOS and Linux why it is so hard to
establish an alternative operating system on the x86 market.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr (E-Mail)
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Music: Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr produced song for amiga-news.de
It is a great honour! The musician Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr has composed and produced
a very nice song for amiga-news.de in his spare time. You can find the song at the
download area (title link) at "Amiga-News Theme" (about 7 MB, saved in high quality) or right here:
AmigaNewsTheme2001.mp3
As I listened to the song I had the idea it would be nice if a demo coder could
create an intro for this. Really would be if someone has an idea for lyrics for this
song. If you are interested send an eMail to ps@amiga-news.de
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New Mediator Drivers 'MediatorUP 2.4'
We are happy to announce the first release of the shared
MMU & NO_MMU version of Mediator drivers.
The new pci.library 4.1 can currently work in both modes.
Along with the new pci.library we release new versions of all
the drivers released so far.
All the new drivers have been re-written to co-operate with our
newest software: drivers for PCI Sound and PCI TV cards released
in the Mediator Multimedia CD.
More details: http://www.elbox.com/news_16-08-01.html
The following files are included in MediatorUP2.4.lha:
pci.library ver. 4.1 NEW
The way how the pci.library and all the drivers are working
(MMU / NO_MMU) can be switched over by the contents of
the MMU file located in the Envarc:/Mediator drawer.
Manuals:
ReadMe
UserManual
VoodooGuide
VirgeGuide
MediatorNET
Copyright
Software:
Mediator_Install
PciInfo ver.1.2
Drivers:
Voodoo.card ver.2.5 NEW
Virge.card ver.1.3 NEW
MediatorNET.device ver.2.1 NEW
Prefs files:
MMU
VoodooMem
VodooInt
VirgeMem
VirgeInt
For the newest Vendors.txt file, see:
http://www.yourvote.com/pci/vendors.txt
Please copy appropriate files to drawers:
pci.library to Libs:
MediatorNET.device to Devs:Networks
Vendors.txt to S:
MMU to Envarc:Mediator
VoodooMem to Envarc:Mediator
VoodooInt to Envarc:Mediator
VirgeMem to Envarc:Mediator
VirgeInt to Envarc:Mediator
Voodoo.card to Libs:Picasso96
Virge.card to Libs:Picasso96
Please read VoodooGuide before installing your Voodoo card.
Please read VirgeGuide before installing your S3 Virge card.
Please check CGX pages:
http://www.vgr.com/mediator
for the newest version of CGX drivers.
Note: CyberGraphXV3 S3 ViRGE driver does not work with pci.library 4.1.
If you want to use it still you should use pci.library 2.2
(enclosed in Archive drawer).
More information about the latest drivers, see:
http://www.elbox.com/news_arch.html
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28.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #50
Issue #50 of 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' was released at August, 25th. This
issue contains e.g. an exclusive interview with Hyperion Entertainment.
AIO uses its own viewer that runs with AmigaOS.
At the AIO website you will find an additional picture, that shows a
two-paged article about the AmigaOne. This feature is taken from issue #660
(Aug, 23th 2001) of the british magazine 'MicroMart'.
Download: docs/mags/AIOV50.lha,
Readme
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28.Aug.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Saku 2001 brochure available in PDF format
The four-page brochure on the Finnish Amiga Users Group's Saku 2001 event
is now available for download in PDF format from the official web site at
http://saku.amigafin.org/saku2001/ (see title link).
Visitors are also able to sell their second-hand Amiga goods at Saku 2001.
The service is free of charge and available for all private persons,
membership of the user group is not required. A couple of the latest
Amiga games are also available for testing at the venue: both Payback
and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division are demonstrated.
Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science Centre
Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00 and end at
18:00. Admission will be free of charge. For further information, visit
Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site at http://saku.amigafin.org
or http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/.
E-mail inquiries may be sent to Terho Henriksson
(terho.henriksson@kopteri.net).
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