11.May.2001
Jan Andersen
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VEPatch.Brain v1.34 and Safe V15.5
A new update of the 'VEPatch.Brain v1.34' for VirusExecutor and a new
update of 'Safe v15.5' have been released today, here is some info about
the two releases:
VEPatch.Brain v1.34:
- Name : VEPatchBrain v1.34
- Archive name : VEPatchBrain.lha
- Archive size: 22.469 bytes
- Release date: 10 May 2001
- Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
New in this update:
- FPPrefs v40.22
- HDOff v1.40
- AppChange v1.0
- WinSpeed v1.0
- MagicFrames v0.3
- FakeTopaz v1.18
- PatchRAM v1.11
- MuForce v40.27
- mmu.library v42.8
- MuGuardianAngel v40.41
- DefIcons v37.15
- One more entry of Snoopdos
- Four more entries of DynamicCache
- MathLibsPatch v1.2b (v1.33)
- CyberGuard v2.2 (v1.32)
Download: VEPatchBrain.lha - 18 KB,
Readme: VEPatchBrain.txt
Safe v15.5:
- Name: Safe v15.5
- Archive name : Safe.lha
- Archive size: 29.786 bytes
- Release date: 10 May 2001
- Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
- Requires: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
New in v15.4 - 7000
Finished parameter DIS/S. It is equal to SAVMEM/S, but saves disassembled block of memory
instead of binary block. This option requires disassembler.library by Thomas Richter.
Download: Safe.lha 29 KB,
Readme: Safe.txt
Safe informs about viruses in memory and removes them where possible. Safe can not
remove viruses from infected files on devices.
(mj)
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11.May.2001
MorphOS
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MorphOS News
AROS demos ported to MorphOS
Nicolas Sallin has achieved a masterpiece
porting the AROS demos to MorphOS. "Enjoy fast bump mapping, gouraud shading and
other nifty effects".
Download: AROSDemos.lha
The next version of MorphOS will contain an updated version of the graphics card
software CyberGraphX which will run the demos a bit faster due to the optimized
WriteLUTPixelArray().
More ports to MorphOS
xlhtml 0.2.8 PPC-MorphOS port by Fr3dY - converts Excel and Powerpoint files to HTML
files.
Download: xlhtml028-mos.lha
ncftp 3.0.3 PPC-MorphOS by Fr3dY - update of the port of the FTP program NCFTP
Download: ncftp303-mos.lha
lynx 2.8.4dev20 PPC-MorphOS - Fr3dY has ported the text-only browser 'Lynx' to MorphOS.
lynx284dev20-mos.lha
bladeenc 0.94.1 PPC-MorphOS - MorphOS Port by Fr3dY of the MP3 encoder bladeenc with
excellent quality and high bitrates.
Download: bladeenc0941-mos.lha
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10.May.2001
Scalos
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Scalos-Forum at amigaforums.org
A forum for questions about the Workbench replacement 'Scalos' was
created at amigaforums.org.
(ps)
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10.May.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P: PageStream Website Started
From today the new PageStream websites are available at
www.pagestream.de. The entire
content was reworked and a new navigation created. During the following weeks
H&P will extend that area. Most of all layout patterns and workshops shall
be offered. (ps)
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10.May.2001
SonicPulse
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SoundFX Version 4.1
SoundFX is an editor software for digitized audio data (samples). SFX
was modular built and has a comfortable GUI. With SFX you can edit and give samples
digital effects (which are unique on the Amiga). The program is shareware.
Today SoundFX v4.1 was released containing the following innovations:
- New design for (almost) all windows.
- Many dialouges were cleaned.
- Smaller improvment in some FX (e.g. AnalyseSpect2D) and a new FX (Distorsion).
- Batch processing.
- HTML based help.
(ps)
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10.May.2001
TEK Neoscientists
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MysticView for MorphOS
The picture viewing software MysticView by Timm S. Mueller was ported to MorphOS by
Sigbjørn Skjæret. The program requires MysticView fully installed, the current
version of the mysticview.library (v5), and guigfx.library (v19).
(ps)
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10.May.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark: Appeal
Virus Help Denmark wrote:
Hi all....
We have to try and stop the spreading of viruses, we know that it is almost impossible,
but we must do something. We will make a list of the internet providers that have virus
pages, and try to have them removed. Your name and email be kept a secret.
For report virus site go here.
Kind regards......
Jan Andersen
Virus Help Denmark
E-mail
WWW
(ps)
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10.May.2001
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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NARR-Site: New URL and CoolCALC Skins
Richard Kapp wrote:
Since some time the NARR site is available under
http://narr.ohgo.com, so please, don't forget to change
your bookmarks. Moreover there are some new CoolCALC skins (four of those are not on Aminet).
A new version of CoolCALC is already planned.
(ps)
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10.May.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: HappyEnv Replacement V1.3b
Stephan Rupprecht has released ENV-Handler V1.3b to be a HappyEnv replacement.
Download: envhandler.lha - 12 kB
(ps)
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10.May.2001
BlitzEngineers
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BlitzEngineers Homepage Completely New Design
The online presence of BlitzEngineers (SMSEngineerMUI) was completely new and dynamically designed.
(ps)
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10.May.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Chip: Rumour: Matrox Introducing G550 Graphics Chip Next Week
»Alegedly Matrox will announce a new graphics chip, next week. This was announced by the
Internet magazine "The Register" on Thursday. The chip by the name of G550 will be the successor
of the current graphics processor G450 and is supposed to be brought to the market by June. «
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)
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10.May.2001
Amigan
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Tool: Report+ Version 4.6
With Report+ by Amigan Software you can easily create bug reports, Aminet readme files,
autodocs, and similar report files. The program is freeware and supports ReAction and
GadTools GUI systems.
Download: report.lha - 373 kB
(ps)
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10.May.2001
clickBOOM
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clickBOOM News
The AMIGA games factory clickBOOM is wanting graphic artists for new projects.
In their current so called S-File
#11 all of the clickBOOM games including Nightlong are offered at special prices.
(ps)
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10.May.2001
ANN
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Library: Amiga SDL V1.2.0
Gabriele Greco has released version 1.2.0 of the multimedia library
'Simple DirectMedia Layer' for AmigaOS/68k.
This library is available for many platforms as like for
BeOS, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows. It offers fast access to the graphics and
audio capabilities of the respective system. The library enables platform comprehensive
development of games and other multimedia products as like MPEG players and emulators.
One of the most popular SDL applications is the Linux game port of
"Civilization: Call To Power". Lists of more games, demos, and applications are to find
on the SDL website.
The current Amiga version is available as link library (SAS/C and GCC) for 68k Amiga's.
This version contains almost all features of SDL.
Versions for PowerUP (ppcemu compatible) MorphOS have been announced.
Download: AmigaSDL.lha - 1,2 MB,
Readme
(sd)
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10.May.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac - Homepage Back Again
The homepage of the astronomical program "Digital Almanac" is back again.
Due to a change in the redirect server the old URL has to changed a bit.
The changed URL is:
http://soft-ware.de/dalmanac
Alternative URL: http://members.tripod.de/achimste
(ps)
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09.May.2001
AmigArt
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AmigArt: Shogo Review
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09.May.2001
Stéphane Campan per E-Mail
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CyberGraphX4: G-Rex Update at Schatztruhe
There is a G-Rex update for the graphic board software CyberGraphX in the
section "free updates". The update is meant to be used by G-REX-owner who have
got a CyberGraphX4-CD (which is needed for installing). You have to extract the
archive into the RAM and to install it from it.
(ps)
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09.May.2001
Christian Effenberger
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SiteWay-modul "PicBase" Final Version Published
With PicBase you can easily generate HTML-catalogs-sites. The program
automatically makes complex and web-suitable picture catalogs of picture
directories. If needed recursive and with navigation and META-tags inclusive. It uses patterns for decorating (e.g. dia-frames) and navigating.
PicBase supports the following picture-types via DataTypes: BMP, GIF, IFF, JPG, PCX, PNG, PBM, PSD, SUN, TGA, TIF
The file archive contains 16 topics of decoration, 5 topics of buttons
and 92 patterns of backgrounds.
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09.May.2001
Blittersoft
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Mac-Emulator: iFusion Version 1.2
There are two different updates to version v1.2 for registered users of the
PPC-Mac-emulator 'iFusion' from Blittersoft which fixes some reported bugs.
You can find the download site under the title link in the section 'Updates'.
First of all please check your version of iFusion which is on your CD before
you then download the corresponding update for 1.0.0 or 1.0.1. You can find
further details under the title link.
(ps)
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09.May.2001
Amiga Extreme
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Freespace Screenshots at Amiga Extreme
Hyperion Software has sent some
screenshots of the game 'Descent: Freespace' which is still in development to
Amiga Extreme where you can see how
Freespace runs on an Amiga with Voodoo3 graphics board.
(ps)
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09.May.2001
Fun Time World
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Burning Software: MakeCD3.2d - beta 7
It has been published version beta 7 of the CD burning-software MakeCD 3.2d.
Some bugs in the graphical layout and the SCSI3_ATAPI-drivers have been
fixed.
Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_7.lha
(ps)
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09.May.2001
Dennis Lohr (Psyria)
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Turrican 2-Song as Ringing Sound for Cell Phones
Who does not know this? You sit on the train and suddenly a cell phone is ringing.
The ringing sound often is a simple sound or some usual song. Dennis Lohr of
Psyria has got the permission of
Chris Huelsbeck to convert the title
melody of Turrican 2 to cell phones. Each one who has got a cell phone with a notes
editor can type the melody of Turrican 2. Dennis has kindly provided the required notation
to us.
(ps)
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09.May.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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GFX-Base: Interview with Jakub Brzezniak
GFX-Base has interviewed Jakub Brzezniak (Magic Software) where he talks about
his last projects (MagicNumbers, Commander and his useful utilities.library).
Besides this a new section has been created which introduces the best
Aminet-software of the week. And last but not least there is GFX-Base wallpaper
for download or simply to look at of the online magazine.
(ps)
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08.May.2001
Timo Kloss via E-Mail
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Inutilis Graphics Adventure Developerkit "Inga" Nearly Finished
Inga is an engine to develop graphics adventure like Monkey Island 3. With this developer
kit you can comfortably create games by yourself. The programs of the developer
kit are nearly finished. They are fully functional and support the locale-library.
The release date is earlier than planned, only the manual is missing, first it will be
available in German, later in English, too.
(ps)
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08.May.2001
GameSpy (ANF)
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Interview with Cinemaware
On GameSpy you can find is an interesting interview with Lars Fuhrken-Batista of
Cinemaware. The company, well known to any Amiga fan, was revived a few months ago
after its death in 1991 and is now working on a remake of the classic "Defender of
the Crown" - only for Windows-PCs. But also for Amigans there are some interesting
views in the history of Cinemaware and its games. Also said in the interview that
the next remake might be "Rocket Ranger".
(ps)
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08.May.2001
Patrick Beerhorst (ANF)
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MiniGlowIcons V1.6 - 400 Icons
The latest version of the MiniGlowIcons with more than 400 icons for Amiga OS
3.5/3.9 desktop and start menus (like DirOpusII) you can find on our homepage.
Added since the last version are for example the new icons for the Boinbag of
OS 3.9. Also you can find desktop themes for your workbench. The archive for
WB200 users (toolbar) will be updated in the next days.
(ps)
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08.May.2001
Chris Green (ANF)
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K4 Kickstart Amiga Show
The Kickstart Amiga User Group in association
with EYETECH and ANALOGIC
is pleased to announce the final exhibitor line-up for K4 - The Kickstart Amiga Show.
Further information can be found on the show web site.
- The Date: Saturday May 26th 2001
- The Place: Banstead Youth Centre, The Horseshoe, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 2BQ
- The Time: 12pm-5pm
- Admission: £2
HOT NEWS
Come see the first public demonstration in the UK of iFUSION, the long awaited
PowerPC Mac emulator from Microcode and Blittersoft.
EXHIBITORS
USERGROUPS
DIRECTIONS TO THE SHOW
From the M25: Exit at Junction 8 of the M25. Follow the A217 (Brighton Road)
northbound into Banstead, then take the A2022 (Winkworth Road) and take the
first right. Follow this street until you pass a school then turn right into
'The Horseshoe' to find Banstead Youth Centre. Ample free parking is available
at the venue. This route will be fully signposted on the day.
CONTACTS
For show enquiries and stand bookings please contact Ray McCarthy (Show Promoter)
at ray@kickstart-amiga.co.uk or
call (01737) 215432.
For all other enquiries, please contact Chris Green (PR Co-ordinator) at
chris@kickstart-amiga.co.uk or
call (07971) 273850.
More information will be posted regularly to the
show web site.
PLEASE NOTE:
All software sold by anyone at the show must be original and proof of
ownership may be required from vendors before entrance to the sale is
permitted. The Kickstart Amiga User Group reserves the right to refuse
entrance to any person, regardless of a booking. The Kickstart Amiga User
Group cannot accept responsibility for any goods purchased at the show.
Entry to the show is at your own risk. Kickstart reserve the right to
add or remove events from the show without notice. (ps)
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08.May.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Fotos: Prometheus PCI-Board von Matay
Matay presents in combination with technical specifications some pictures of its
PCI-board Prometheus (in this case placed in an A4000 Escom tower. Shipping date
was delayed about two weeks because of lacking some parts from Taiwan.
(ps)
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08.May.2001
John Chandler / Suite101.com
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John Chandler: May Update
John Chandler writes monthly an issue about Amiga on Suite101.com. The latest
issue deals with the announcements of Amiga, Inc. at the St. Louis Show and the
after-effects.
(ps)
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08.May.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via E-Mail
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CD32 Games Install Kit v4.3NG
A new update of the CD32 Games Install Kit for owners of the The
Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM was just released
on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. The version 4.3 NG of the
Install Kit supports now many more games (177 in total !!). Additionally
there were some optimizations made and also a small bug was
fixed.Version 4.3 can be downloaded now from the protected
area of the Airsoft Softwair homepage that can only be accessed
by owners of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM.
(ps)
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08.May.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VHT: VirusExecutor V2.18
- Name: VirusExecutor v2.18
- Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
- Archive size: 265.367 Bytes
- Release date: 8. Mai 2001
- Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
- Requires: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library, xadmaster.library
(ps)
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07.May.2001
Amiga Update
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Amiga Update - Newsletter by Brad Webb
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07.May.2001
Amiga Impact
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WarpSNES: Survey
WarpSNES emulators, a Super Nintendo Entertainment System on PowerAmiga.
Currently there is a survey by the programmers about the interest in
a new version. The new version would contain a improved sound-emulation
but this would cause a slowdown of the whole program. You find the survey
on the title link in the 'News'-section.
(ps)
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07.May.2001
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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New Beta Version of AmigaAMP v2.9 Available
Thomas Wenzel wrote:
I have made a very early version of the new beta of AmigaAMP v2.9 available
for download. Due to some serious problems with my own Amiga I am currently
not able to spend much time on developing the new version.
(ps)
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07.May.2001
Eternity/T.o.T.
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Tales of Tamar News and New FAQ
Tales of Tamar is an internet based strategy game for Amiga, Atari, Linux and
PC by Eternity Entertainment Software. Version 0.35R2 is now available for registered testers.
This new version introduces middle and heavy infantry. Furthermore there are
improvements of the map and some requesters.
(ps)
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07.May.2001
WHDLoad Support Page
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Installer: WHDLoad V14.2
Version 14.2 of the harddisk-install-tool WHDLoad released. WHDLoad enables you
to install many floppy based games onto your harddisk.
Download: WHDLoad_14.2_usr.lzx - 119 kB
(ps)
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07.May.2001
amiga.org
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GameSpy: Interview with Andy Kellett
There is an interview by GameSpy with Andy Kellett of F1 Software.
(ps)
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07.May.2001
Virtual Dimension
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Virtual Dimension: Exhibition Video
Virtual Dimension published a video, filmed at the 'World of Amiga 2000', on their webpage.
There are two different versions available. One MPEG-version for Amiga-player and a
DivX-version for other systems.
(ps)
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07.May.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register April 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter by the Champaign-Urbana
Computer User Group. It deals with news about Amiga, Macintosh and PC.
(ps)
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07.May.2001
Apex Designs
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Game: New Maps for Payback
There are some new extra-maps
for the game »Payback« by Apex. A PPC-version of this game will be available by June or July. (ps)
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07.May.2001
Exotica Team (ANF)
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Exotica: New Pictures in Gallery
We added 38 new scans of old games to the 'Games Gallery'.
(ps)
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07.May.2001
Alexander Fritsch, Selco (ANF)
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New Version of jpeg2avi
New version of jpeg2avi released. The new version works faster as its predecessor. jpeg2avi
lets you join JPEG-files and AIFF-files into one AVI-file.
You do not need any additional library.
Download: jpeg2avi.lha
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07.May.2001
Thomas Wolf (ANF)
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Picture Gallery at amigakult.de
Thomas Wolf wrote:
72,55% of our visitors voted for a picture gallery. You can visit our new gallery by following the title link.
(ps)
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06.May.2001
amiga.org
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CDTV Information Center
The website of 'The Commodore CDTV Information Center' is available
under http://www.cdtv.org.uk/, now.
Additionally information were extended and a new forum was created.
The site contains huge information and help on the CDTV by Commodore;
things worth knowing about the CDTV history, pictures of the CDTV CR prototype,
FAQ's, and easter eggs.
(sd)
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06.May.2001
Amiga-VIP.net im ANF
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Amiga-VIP.net Available again
Amiga-VIP.net gives you the opportunity to express your opinion about hardware and
software products, websites, and dealers. After a little face lifting now the page is
available, again.
Now it is possible to suggest products you are interested in or which stem from yourself.
At the time being more than 120 products, websites, and dealers are listed. Also relevant links can
be added to the lists (e.g. a workshop for a product on your homepage).
For further questions a FAQ was created.
(sd)
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06.May.2001
amiga.org
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amiga.org Moving
amiga.org will move to another server within the next days.
This might lead to problems, but after moving amiga.org will
have better possibilities to offer their services; topical and
commentable messages from the Amiga sector, as well as different
discussion boards.
amiga.org apologize for trouble that might happen due to their move.
(sd)
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06.May.2001
ANN
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Amiga Network News more Comfortable
Christian Kemp did a technical extension of the Amiga Network News website (ANN),
re-activated the notify service, and changed the HTML code.
Now the page optionally supports cookies. If cookies are active the current
settings, own name, and e-mail address is saved to cookies. This facilitates entering of comments.
The notify service was re-activated, so subscribers are automatically informed about updates, again.
The layout was reset to the previous version and all of the MS Internet Explorer specific changes
has been removed, since it seemed to be impossible to request all of the Amiga browser variants,
which indeed announce themselves as CSS2 capable browsers via spoofing, but do not support every
CSS2 feature.
Amiga Network News offers commentable topical messages from the Amiga sector.
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06.May.2001
Fun Time World
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New Entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
The 'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' was updated. These are the changes:
- New: entry - DigiLab (thanks to Robert Maruszak)
- New: pictures - A600 Motherboards (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
- New: pictures - Personality Module + HD (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
- New: entry + picture - Kickswitch (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
- New: entry + picture - Pro-Agnus SS2 (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
- New: entry + picture - H530 StormBringer (thanks to Frank Ciesiewicz)
- New: picture - A1011 Floppy Drive (thanks to Richard Wagenfuehrer)
The ´Big Book Of Hardware´ is an extended hardware reference website with
information about many Amiga hardware products.
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[News message: 06. May. 2001, 18:32] [Comments: 0]
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06.May.2001
Achim Stegemann
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Digital Almanac: Homepage Not Available
The homepage of the astronomic program "Digital Almanac" is not available
under the known address www.soft-ware.de/dalmanac indefinitely, due to a server problem not located, yet.
In any case you can use
http://members.tripod.de/achimste/ (title link) which is
generally an alternative URL.
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[News message: 06. May. 2001, 15:29] [Comments: 0]
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06.May.2001
Andreas Magerl
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DAD: Interview mit Laszlo Torok (MooVId)
Digital Amiga Dream had published an interview with Laszlo Torok,
developer of the video player
'MooVId'.
Laszlo Torok answered questions about him in person and about his work in
the Amiga sector. Furthermore he talked about his Amiga collection and
future plans.
Under the title link you can find the interview in
English and
Slowene.
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[News message: 06. May. 2001, 15:29] [Comments: 0]
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06.May.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel
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CD³²: MP3 Track of the Start Sound
The CD³² console by Commodore plays a sound on start up. This start sound
is available for download as MP3 file at the CD³²/CDTV-Corner of the CD³²-Allianz, now.
Download: CD32Start.mp3 (155K)
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[News message: 06. May. 2001, 15:29] [Comments: 0]
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06.May.2001
AmiSource on ANF
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dynAMIte CD Version News
The recently started dynAMIte CD project is progressing in some way, but unfortunately not
as fast as we had hoped. We are on a good way to it, but still need some pre-orders to
achieve a minimum of 100. We got some questions about the content of the CD:
- dynAMIte (the game itself will stay freeware!)
- New dynAMIte Gfx-Styles
- New dynAMIte Sample sets
- At least 100 new levels
- Extended manual in any imaginable language
- Big Intro
- CD sound track
- and some more surprises which we hopefully will be able announce, soon.
We are looking forward to more pre-orders!
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[News message: 06. May. 2001, 14:18] [Comments: 0]
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06.May.2001
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: Partners
A bit late (due to A-level examination), but topical: the graphical comment
on Amiga/SHARP partnership.
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[News message: 06. May. 2001, 01:11] [Comments: 0]
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05.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena: Special Price for VideoEasel
In co-operation with Thomas Richter Amiga Arena makes VideoEasel available at a
special price. The special price is valid until the 31.06.2001. You can find the
special price campaign in the section "Aktionen"!
About VideoEasel:
It is tricky to describe this program, it's best described as a "mathematical
toy", entertainment on the highest level.
Maybe Conway's "Game of Life" is known, a cellular automaton that can be used to
imitate "biological looking" processes. At its time this "game" went through the
press, with its variations. Indeed VE can deal yet more; things like the kinetic
gas theory, oscillating chemical reactions, simulated circuits, diffusion
processes and more can be simulated. Own automatons can be developed, VE is
programmable.
The idea is simple: the screen is divided in cells (the screen pixels),
the condition of a grid pixel at the time t+1 then depends on the condition of
the cell itself and their neighborhood at the time t via a simple (programmable)
rule. You can here already simulate very complex processes with very simple
rules, and the results aren't always easily predictable. some of the automatons
have serious applications and are used as models in the statical physics ( grid
gas, Ising model of the ferromagnetism), partly it's just an interesting toy
(Game of Life, Brian's Brain, many more).
VE comes with a manual that contains several dozens experiments next to example
data starting points. Just test out the demo version.
Further information can be found at
Thor Software.
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05.May.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News (Update)
QuickNote v1.5 - beta2
At OnyxSoft is version 1.5 (Beta2)
of QuickNote by Stephan Blixth being published. This program is, as the name
already suggests, a virtual notepad.
Download:
quicknote15b0501.lha
Report+ 4.6 beta 2
With Report+
by Amigan Software bugreports, Aminet readme files, autodocs and similar reports
can be created in an easy way. The programm is freeware and supports the GUI
systems ReAction and GadTools.
Download: 4_6beta2.lha - 382 kB
Sysmon V1.16
Etienne Vogt has made
version 1.16 of his system monitor available for download.
Download: Sysmon116.lha - 140 kB
WinFellow alpha v0.4.3 build 1
Of the Amiga emulator
WinFellow
has version alpha v0.4.3 build 1 for Win9x/2k (DirectX 5) and Windows NT (DirectX 3)
been released.
Download:
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.3_build_1_directx5.zip
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.3_build_1_directx3.zip
New libraries for MorphOS
Timm S. Müller of binary
distillery has ported the guigfx.library and mysticview.library to
MorphOS. Both libraries simplify graphical operations.
Download:
guigfxlib.lha - 245 kB
mysticlib.lha - 125 kB
ENVHandler
Stephan Rupprecht has released the
version 1.3 of his HappyEnv replacements 'ENVHandler'.
Download: envhandler.lha - 7 kB
SecondSpin v2.17 beta
Beta version 2.17 of
SecondSpin
is available. This is a tool to convert audio CDs to MPEG audio 1, 2 or 3.
Additionally further formats like AIFF and WAV are suppported. For the MPEG
encoding you need a modified version of LAME.
SecondSpin_Install.lha
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[News message: 05. May. 2001, 16:22] [Comments: 0]
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05.May.2001
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III - Update and News
There's again an update of the astronomical program ´Digital Almanac
III´ with new features and improvements. The new version is numbered 3.3.
Highlights this time are:
- Calculation of "Killer asteroids" (so called PHAs). Who comes nearest to the
earth?
- IFF ANIM compression now also in the PPC mode. For animations and pictures
only the actual star map is saved, not the whole screen anymore.
- Extended toolbar with buttons in the GlowIcon style by Martin Merz.
- The DA III screen has now a name, so that some commodities (for example MCP)
can access it. With a new menu item you can now fade in the screen bar with
depth gadget.
Bugfixes:
- The ways of several small bodies was drawn wrong because of a false Perihel
calculation.
- The printout was unfortunately distorted since several versions.
This error was unfortunately discovered just now.
As usual, the update will be sent to all registered users via email.
Remarks to WinUAE and MorphOS:
DA III runs perfectly under the new WinUAE JIT version in the 020/FPU mode.
Under older UAE versions (for example: Cloanto's latest version in the AmigaForever
v4) DA III is only usable with the non-FPU version in the pure 020 mode, as the
FPU emulation here is still buggy. DA III in all versions does not run under
MorphOS. It seems that not all FPU instructions are correctly emulated. Only the
020 version runs with restrictions. A special MorphOS version will definitely
not happen. When the WarpOS version of DA III runs stable under MorphOS, a
special MorphOS version becomes unnecessary.
PC port?
DA III won't be ported to Windows, Linux or another OS. Previous requests for
such a port had unfortunately to be refused. DA III is and
keeps an Amiga program. Especially under Windows there's a big number of similar
programs of high value. (ps)
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05.May.2001
KATO Development Group
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AMPlifier V2.26
AMPlifier is in the first line a comfortable player program for MP3
(MPEG) audio, but can also play different 16-bit sound formats (AIFF,
MAUD, WAV, RAW). AMPlifier supports hardware based MPEG audio decoder as much as
software decoding via MPEGA.library.
The graphical design can be fit to everybody's own likings via so called 'skins'.
As the same system as in WinAMP is used there are several thousands ready skins
available.
Now AMPlifier is available in a new version with several new functions.
- Shoutcast/Icecast MP3 streaming ('.m3u' and '.pls')
- ID3v2 tag support
- new AREXX instructions
- 8-bit WAV support
Download: amplifier226.lha
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[News message: 05. May. 2001, 15:02] [Comments: 0]
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05.May.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VHT: Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
Virus Help Denmark has opened the worldwide first
reference-book
for Amiga viruses.Four weeks have VHT worked on the creation of the site
that will be regularly updated in the future and enhanced with further ideas.
For now there's a problem with the search function, but that will be solved,
soon.
(ps)
[News message: 05. May. 2001, 14:28] [Comments: 0]
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05.May.2001
Leser on ANF
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c't issue 10/2001: Amiga-Comeback?
On page 32 of the latest c't (German computer print magazine), the following can be read:
»Amiga Comeback?
Despite otherwise read rumors Sharp's for
the end of the year announced Zaurus PDA will not run with a new developed Amiga
OS. Instead of this a specially adapted version of RedHat-Linux will be used.
Amiga Incorporated, the remainder of the same
named computer manufacturer with rich traditions, will indeed develop numerous
Java applications for the organizer, so that the GUI may indeed remind of old
Amiga times. (dal)« (ps)
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05.May.2001
amiga.org
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AmigaDE on OEM Basis
Bill McEwen on the occasion of the Photogenics/CE thread at amiga.org:
"AmigaDE runs and it is for the time being available for PocketPC, WinCE, Win98,
Win2000, WinNT, Epoc, iTron, Linux, Zaurus, and others. AmigaDE is right now
available on an OEM basis, the first devices will be delivered from May 30th."
(ps)
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05.May.2001
Dennis Lohr via E-Mail
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Psyria: New Piece of Music
Psyria produces its music exclusively on the Amiga. Two days ago Psyria has
released a new megamix which is ready for download only for a short time!
"Psyria in the Mix" is an almost 30 minutes long megamix out of 6 songs. It
contains also still unreleased music pieces which will be found on the coming
album (presumably summer 2001).
To give not only DSL and cable users the possibility for downloading the whole
thing comes in two versions. Once in high quality (around 33 MB in size)
and once as low quality (around 20 MB in size). All those who want to gather more
information about the project Psyria can subscribe to the newsletter or simply
send an e-mail.
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