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23.Jul.2001
Metalmoon-ML


Game-CD: neo's voyages
Patrick Henz wrote: neo's voyages includes the German versions of Whale's Voyage I+II, Fightin' Spirit, Spherical Worlds, Der Clou and Black Viper. Because of the licences this cd-rom can only be distributed for one year and only outside the UK. Price 2,50 Euro. If you have more questions, I will be glad to answer them.
Orders can be placed on the webpage you will find by following the title link. If you have any questions feel free to send a mail to Patrick Henz (fom@3pyramids.zzn.com). (sd) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Game: New screenshots of "Schlachtfeld"
There are some new screenshots of some units taken from the game. You will find them by following the link "Informationen zum Spiel". (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Joachim Schmid (ANF)


Matay: New Warp3D driver for graphic accelerators version 4.2
You can find a new version of the Warp3D graphic accelerator driver by Hyperion for the Voodoo3 2000/3000. This version (4.2) is the final version and fixes all bugs of the predecessor. The archive contains versions for PPC and 68k.

Download: Warp3D-42.lha (1,25 MB) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Scalos


Workbench replacement: Scalos 1.3 Beta (Version 40.6)
Beta version 40.6 of the extended Workbench replacement Scalos 1.3 was released. The changes made can be taken from the history. If you will happen to find bugs, please enter those to the bug report.

Download: ScalosBeta.lha (140 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Jul.2001
Massimo Tantingone


Massimo Tantingone: project page revised
Massimo Tantingone, well known due to a lot of Amiga-programs by him for example VisualPrefs, updated his project page. He made new versions of VisualPrefs (1.5j), WindowToFront (1.9), titlebar.image (40.15), and IconColors (44.1) avaialable for download.

An added section of his homepage now deals with his ideas of the graphical appearance of the upcoming AmigaOS 4/5. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)


H&P: New Wacom pages
During the last days we completely re-designed the Wacom section and now we are able to deliver almost all of the product line on short call. The professional graphic tablets by Wacom can be used with almost any kind of computer and operating system, like Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, Be, Linux, SGI, Solaris. We deliver any tablet in the Amiga version along with the PC drivers, special Amiga drivers, and Arteffect SE. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Jul.2001
CUCUG


CUCUG: Status Register Juli 2001
The "Status Register" is the monthly newsletter by the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. It deals with topical and important information concerning the Amiga, Macintosh, and the PC as well as news from the computer business. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Tom Parker


Browser: AWeb WarpOS Jpeg- and Gif-Plugin
Tom Parker already released some plugins for AWeb. Currently there are alpha-versions of the WarpOS Jpeg- and Gif-plugin available for download. Please be carefull when using this versions.

If you want to try them out, Tom Parker would be very pleased about any feedback. Further details and the download link can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
Morphos Homepage (ANF)


MorphOS: New version of the PC-Emulator "Bochs"
Nicholai Benalal released a new version of "Bochs", a PC-emulator for MorphOS. Some of the changes made:

  • Built-in preference editor
  • Improved control over error handling
  • New, and more interactive, disk image creator
  • Dual hard drive support
  • multiple processor emulation (SMP)
  • VNC remote viewer mode
  • Bugfixes
  • Since some people seem to have problems with BIOS-bochs-latest, I've included the old one as well. Use the one that works best for you!
Additional information and the download link are available here. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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23.Jul.2001
T.o.T.


Game: Tales of Tamar V0.36 R5
Tales of Tamar is an Internet based rounds strategy game by Eternity Entertainment Software for the Amiga, Atari, Java, Linux, and PC. The Amiga version v0.36 R5 now for the first time makes it possible to offer private (trade) agreements to other players. Agreement period, number of goods, and the price can be determined. In not bringing your goods to the official market you can establish an embargo against other players and make sure that own deliveries of amours and weapons are sent to certain players, only. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Jul.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


New feature of TCPScanner V0.40
Portscanning on the Amiga enters the next level, beside of UDP/TCP scanning the TCP-Scanner now is capable of identscan, also, hence can learn which user has started the service scanned. Additionally a rudimentary stealth technic was implemented to the scan operation, making it difficult for portscan detectors to find portscans.

If the upload will work the program will be for download on Aminet under /comm/tcp/, from tomorrow. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
UMTS-Report


Start-up: Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH (smac)
The Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH (smac) is a company newly founded by Siemens to promote mobile business companies. The company now settled in an office building in Oberhaching near Munich, Germany, offering 30 jobs for future start-up staffers.

The Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH wants to promote the worldwide most attractive business ideas of mobile business to fast and successful enter the market, and they want to be one of the top-players of acceleration business, soon.

To achieve this smac makes a wide range of services and infrastructure facilities available to the companies promoted, from professional management coaching, consulting in questions of strategy and law, help in employees recruitment, PR, marketing, and advertisement up to resourcing of office rooms and seed capital. Most of all important for the start-ups are the access to the latest technical innovations in the globals research compound of Siemens, which also enables extended test simulations. Additionally millions of customers can be reached via Siemens' worldwide distribution network.

In the first business year the company has 20 millions Euro available for promoting.

After the location in Munich another location in Europe is planned for Stockholm. Offices in Asia and the U.S.A. are to follow as a next step. It is planned to admit up to ten start-ups per region every year, all in all 30 per year. At the time being five start-ups are part of the last shortlist.

Interested start-ups will receive more information from the Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH by phone: +49 (0)89 636-29141. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
slashdot.org (ANF)


PPC Machine: The Yellow briQ Node
'The Yellow briQ Node' is a compact PPC machine of size of a CD-ROM drive (5,74 x 1,625 x 8,9 Inches) with G3 or G4 CPU and Linux. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News


AGDB: overview of Amiga-Adventures by Sierra
Seppo Typpö and Joachim Froholt have published a detailed article about the Amiga adventure games by Sierra (Kings Quest, Police Quest, Larry, etc.) on 'The Amiga Games Database' site. This article contains information about the formation of Sierra, the adventure interpret used, as well as an analysis of the single games.

Moreover tests of the following games are new on the site: Testament, Skidmarks, Colonial Conquest V1.0, Mig-29M Superfulcrum, and Earth 2140. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
Amiga Future


Security: AmiSSL V1.1
Version 1.1 of the 'amissl.library' is available for download. This version fixes a bug. The archive contains the installation script.

AmiSSL is an Amiga port of OpenSSL. This library allows secure data transfer in the WWW.

Note: Version 1.x of the library does not work with IBrowse v2.2. AmiSSL v2.0 would have come along with IBrowse v2.3.

Beside of the main archive a variety of encryption modules are required, like Blowfish, DES, IDEA, RC5, etc. Those are available for download on the homepage.

Download: AmiSSLInstall.lha (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News


Matay: Special offer for computer clubs
Matay has a special offer for Amiga user groups located in countries without a Prometheus distributor. Members of such groups can centralized order the PCI board at a reduced price directly from Matay. Closer information can be received via e-mail from Filip Dab-Mirowski (filipdm@matay.pl), or via phone at: +48 603 78 51 00 or +48 812 94 32. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)


File Manager: DiskMaster2 V2.5b11
On 20. July 2001 Rudolph Riedel released version 2.5b11 of the file manager 'DiskMaster', as well as 'DM2.guide' v1.96, and 'DM2_deutsch.guide', v1.96 on his homepage.

The most important innovations:
  • Bugfix: 'Swap' runs again
  • Bugfix: the Startup.DM buffer wasn't always initialized correctly.
  • Changed: 'AddCmd' now also accepts hex-numbers for the colour pen number.
  • Bugfix: the colours set by 'Color' are now marked as used under OS3.9+, too.
  • New: 'SetX' has got a new parameter: 'UserColors'.
  • Changed: only screens with at least 4 colours are opened.
  • Changed: the command button colours are swapped now, instead of inverting the colour pen number, as done before.
  • Bugfix: up to 200 GB should be viewed correctly, now.

Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News


AmigaDE: AmigaDE test
An AmigaDE test was published on amigarticles.tripod.com.

This test discribes the history of the AmigaDE and in short addresses 'RealTime Test', 'Interaction', 'Font Analysis', 'Windows Sizing', 'New Amiga Shell', and 'Java Speed'.

This test is available as HTML and PDF document. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
ANN


Audio: 'REPULSE' sound card test
On 20. July 2001 Brent Santin published a detailed test of the 'REPULSE' sound card by Alien Design on Aminet.

The 'REPULSE' is a 24/16 bit sound card for Amigas with Zorro-II slots. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001



Aminet Uploads until 22.07.2001
mSQL-Admin.lha       biz/dbase   73K+MSQL-Database Administration Tool (with 
PrintMail.lha        comm/mail   12K+YAM ARexx script prints header & page
TruncateMail.lha     comm/mail   11K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
YAM_GR.lha           comm/mail    7K+Greek locale catalog for YAM
YAT.lha              comm/mail  574K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
nc_update_beta.lha   comm/news  154K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.4
newscoaster_b.lha    comm/news  376K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.4
smbfs.lha            comm/tcp   121K+SMB file system client; complements Samb
Aweb_GR.lha          comm/www     8K+Greek locale catalogs for Aweb and Awebc
ABF.lha              dev/basic   35K+[HACK] Modify on-the-fly the version
AntyDresiarz0s.lha   dev/basic  694K+AntyDresiarz Issue #0, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz1s.lha   dev/basic  1.4M+AntyDresiarz Issue #1, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz2s.lha   dev/basic  3.5M+AntyDresiarz Issue #2, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz3s.lha   dev/basic  5.4M+AntyDresiarz Issue #3, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz4s.lha   dev/basic  5.4M+AntyDresiarz Issue #4, Blitz2 source cod
clockita.lha         dev/basic   89K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
yaec.lha             dev/e      404K+Yaec - Yet Another E Compiler [1.8a]. Th
FoxEd.lha            dev/gui    152K+Screen Editor.  Creates code for FoxGUI
FoxGuiLibs.lha       dev/gui    186K+Free Gui Library V5.1
FoxGuiSource.lha     dev/gui    169K+FoxGUI Library V5.1 Source Code
titlebar_ic.lha      dev/gui     24K+BOOPSI class of titlebar gadget images
RDBrecov.lha         disk/salv   24K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
IBrowse2.2PL.lha     docs/help   14K+Polish Locale for IBrowse2.2 v.1.4
SCSI-help.txt        docs/help    1K+Help for SCSI and ultra SCSI
Visor-Amiga.txt      docs/help    1K+How to connect a Visor (Palm) PDA  with 
MyRepulse.txt        docs/rview  18K+Review of the REPULSE audio card
F1GP_2001.lha        game/data   10K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (15 July
WHD_UridiumII.lha    game/patch  18K+HD Installer for Uridium II
Emerald.lha          game/wb    872K+Graphical effects and games
vcdimager_077.lha    gfx/conv   472K+VCDImager 0.7.7 Beta (WarpUP and 68k Sup
SvIV-1.lha           gfx/misc   355K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 1/8
SvIV-2.lha           gfx/misc   220K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 2/8
SvIV-3a.lha          gfx/misc   142K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 3a/8
SvIV-3b.lha          gfx/misc   226K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 3b/8
SvIV-4.lha           gfx/misc    43K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 4/8
SvIV-5.lha           gfx/misc    60K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 5/8
SvIV-6.lha           gfx/misc   120K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 6/8 (op
SvIV-7.lha           gfx/misc   127K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 7/8 (op
SvIV-8.lha           gfx/misc   222K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 8/8 (op
PicShow.lha          gfx/show    10K+Datatype picture viewer for directory to
ScanQuixSP.lha       hard/drivr  14K+ScanQuix 5.x spanish catalogs v1.1.0
imdbDiff010713.lha   misc/imdb  2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
bird.lha             misc/sci    31K+Small program of flocking birds
fuzzcontr2.lha       misc/sci    42K+PID/Fuzzy Control Simulator
LiFun.lha            misc/sci   332K+Ant/flee simulation, with a warlike plot
boorang.mpg          mods/mpg   6.6M+Dubmusic for the dancefloor 7`12``
False.mpg            mods/mpg   4.3M+False - I didn`t knew Aphex Twin at the 
Sow.mpg              mods/mpg   6.6M+Symphonie of wetness - talkdrum trance b
SpaceDock.jpg        pix/trace   52K+Space Dock Star Trek
SpaceDockW.jpg       pix/trace   95K+Space Dock Wireframe Star Trek
NoweeBnB.lha         pix/wb     507K+Brown Workbench Look by Nowee for Visual
Screen_Pa.jpg        pix/wb     247K+Snapshot of Amiga (Voodoo3) Workbench Sc
StemFont.lha         text/font    9K+V2 Nice 12-point bitmap font for high-re
alba.lha             util/boot   64K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
WinToFront19.lha     util/cdity  43K+Replaces ClickToFront, with more options
tail.lha             util/cli     3K+Tail - shows x lines from end of ascii f
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype 134K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.21 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
PdaLink.lha          util/libs  131K+Connect Amiga with Palm PDA (V2.0)
AslToRT.lha          util/misc   23K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
Anno1.21.lha         util/time   23K+Reminder and calendar utility
666PntrEyes.lha      util/wb      8K+BNSMWB-palette image file for PointerEye
HitMenu.lha          util/wb     83K+Small "software manager" + screeshot
LaunchV3.53.lha      util/wb     82K+Nice Scrolling Program Launcher
VisualPrefs.lha      util/wb    464K+Configure the look of the Amiga GUI!
(as) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
NSM-Page


Midi: camd.library V40, CamdBnp-Tools
The camd library v40 as well as the CamdBnp tools for BarsnPipes were released on the NSM page.

'camd' is a shared library for midi, which is part of the AmigaOS. Due to several problems with the original one and because there was no camd.library for AROS, this library was completely new programmed. This one should work like the original one and was successfully tested with 'BarsnPipes' 'Radium', and the 'CAMD' toolkit.

An additional driver 'mmp' and a special camd midi driver for WinUAE are available for download for this library.

The 'camdbnp.lha.zip' archive contains 64 tools for BarsnPipes, which should simplify the communication with other programs. The 'camd library' is used for this communication.

'camd40.lha' and 'mmp.lha' contains both binary and source code (APL, AROS Public License). The includes are part of the AROS source code and also available via e-mail.

Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Jul.2001
Vapor


Messenger: AmIRC 3.5.17beta
On 20. July 2001 Oliver Wagner released beta version 3.5.17 of the IRC client 'AmIRC'.

This version contains several smaller extensions, bugfixes, and DCC support for IP-NAT gateways without internal DCC support.

Download: amirc_3517beta.lzx (300K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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21.Jul.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: full version and comment
Amiga Arena Full Version
In co-operation with Denis Unger the Amiga Arena makes the release of "Foreign Language Master V2.3" possible! FLM is a program for foreign languages that can be used as a dictionary for text translation and to learning of vocabularies.

FLM contains some English-German dictionaries (all in all about 8 MB with about 175,000 entries). Denis Unger continues developing "FLM". For a new version of "FLM" Denis Unger would be pleased to receive concrete suggestions for improving the software and to receive feedback! Further information and data bases for use with "FLM" can be found here, contact: flmdic@gmx.de.

Amiga Arena - comment
I use "FLM" almost daily myself and don't want to miss it anymore! My call to you - with a short mail to Denis U. everybody would contribute to further supporting and improving this tool. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Jul.2001
Andreas Günther (ANF)


Spanish catalog files for ScanQuix 5
From now on there are Spanish program texts for ScanQuix 5 available. The texts were translated by Dámaso D. Estévez and made available on Aminet under "hard/drivr/ScanQuixSP.lha". Alternatively the archive can be downloaded using the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Jul.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)


GFX-BASE: poll results and font tutorial
On the GFX-BASE you can now find the results of our latest poll. We had 331 votes regarding our question which graphics board you use/own. Have a look yourself to see which one got the most votes.

Additionally we have a new (English) tutorial. It's all about fonts. We explain the use of different fonts and font tools as well as the conversion of different font types that you can use on the Amiga. We also deal with webfonts and the use of fonts in word processors.

And then we have received again some more entries of games and scene demos that support graphics cards. More to follow soon. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Jul.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla


AROS News
As announced, the aros.org domain is temporarily down. I'll announce it when the routine problems have been solved. Until then, the mailing lists can be reached on lists.hepe.com and the CVS server is at sbb.hepe.com (use updatecvspath in AROS/scripts/ to change it). Party on :-) (ps)

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21.Jul.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (E-Mail)


Genetic Species on 100%AMIGA
100%AMIGA and Marble Eyes are proud to announce that the Amiga's best ever first person shooter, Genetic Species, will be on the August edition of the premier Amiga CD magazine. Subscribers getting issue 15 of 100%AMIGA will get a special 2CD set including the full commercial release of Genetic Species FREE. 100%AMIGA - 100%BIGGER and 100%BETTER than any other Amiga magazine. Issue 15 will be available from 5th August. Subscribe Now!

http://www.100PercentAmiga.org
http://www.marble-eyes.dk (ps)

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21.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Amiga Society says thank you!
97% of the poll participiants want the Amiga-Society to stay alive! For this we want to thank you very much, as well as we thank all the people who offered us their help and to whom we will surely come back in the next time.

The site is now available in a light version. The two central points 'Schlachtfeld' and the 'BBoAH' are still online. By the way, there's a poll running whether a software page (in German) shall be created on the basis of the Big Book of Amiga hardware. The full functionality will be reached again until September, but till then it will have changed in content in quite some ways! (ps)

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20.Jul.2001
Tommy Tamsen (ANF)


JVC announce OCPA coorperation
At the URL JVC announce the "Open Contents Platform Association to be Established".

There are many interesting companies listed, e.g. Sega and Taito, to create content for the intent (Tao) based computers, cell phones etc., but Amiga Inc. are not mentioned anywhere... (ps) (Translation: rh)

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20.Jul.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)


H&P: Toolbars for AmigaWriter and ArtEffect
The team Thomas Peterseim, Heinz Andreolla, Marco Schärfchen and Oliver Tacke has provided Haage&Partner with new toolbars for AmigaWriter and ArtEffect.

Download:
AE-Toolbars.lha - AW220-Toolbars.lha (ps) (Translation: rh)

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20.Jul.2001
Amarpreet Singh Munde (ANF)


Datatype: New version of DocDatatypes (v40.20)
I have just released a new version of DocDatatypes. New for this version (40.20) is the support of writing Compressed Palm Docs and the fixing of the Mac Write descriptor. Also all datatypes have had some speed improvements and memory optimisations.

DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. The list of supported formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc(pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write, Mac TeachText and Mac Text.

There is also a new version of FindFile in the archive. A new fast, easy to use file finder application that offers search by name, size, date, and even file type.

Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes.

Also SpitFire, the Palm Desktop by Ralph Torchia becomes the first application to support Native File Format Loading and Saving via DocDatatypes. Now convert any supported format and use it on your Palm. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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20.Jul.2001
MorphOS


MorphOS: Developer Support Page opened
A support area for developers was opened on the MorphOS website. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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20.Jul.2001
AudioLabs


AudioLabs: Special offer for ProStationAudio
The Millennium version of the music editor 'ProStationAudio' is currently being offered by AudioLabs for special conditions.

  • ProStationAudio Millennium V4, 16 track / 32 channel non linear editor for AmigaOS
  • all the realtime ALPS plugins for ProStationAudio included
  • AudioLab16 processing software for AmigaOS
  • unlimited tech support for ProStationAudio
Prices and more details at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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20.Jul.2001
Frank Fenn


Music: Audiomaster 2000 version 0.77
Version 0.77 of Audiomaster 2000, the sample editor, has been released. The program uses MUI and supports all AHI devices.

The program by Frank 'Fenny' Fenn is shareware, the demo version does not allow saving.

Download: audiomaster2k.lha (354 KB) (ps) (Translation: rh)

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20.Jul.2001
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)


Role-playing game: Exult 0.93alpha4
Rüdiger Hanke writes:
My Exult port for Amiga is available for download on my homepage. Exult is a role-playing game engine which can interpret Ultima 7 datafiles. Ultima 7 still captivates after many years with an epic storyline, a vast world and many details. You can find some screenshots on my webpage.

The story: 200 years have passed in Britannia since your last visit as the Avatar. Driven by the mockery of a demonic creature calling itself "The Guardian", you travel once more to Britannia and arrive in Trinsic on a scene of gruesome murder. Maybe the new organization "The Fellowship", which is gaining more and more influence in the lands, is involved in it? Or maybe this is just the beginning of a larger plan that might endanger all Britannia?

Required is an Amiga with FPU and graphics card as well as the original PC game by Origin. Please note that the files on the disk version are usually packed and have to be installed on an MS-DOS system to get the required files. Alternately, the uncompressed game is contained on the "Ultima Collection" CD-ROM. As a small goodie for the Amiga I have included a preferences program with which you can change all game options with a graphical interface on OS3.5 and above.

An interesting tidbit: While porting the game, I found a sourcecode to read IFF files. Indeed, some of the Ultima 7 files are in IFF format. Even the chunk lengths are in Motorola and not Intel byteorder ... (ps) (Translation: rh)

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19.Jul.2001
Stephan Rupprecht (E-Mail)


Tool: SGrab with PNG format to save
Stephan Rupprecht wrote:
I just released SGrab v1.16 on my homepage. This now offers the possibility to save screenshots as PNG files.

Download: sgrab.lha - (99 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


e.p.i.c. interactive: Feeble Ubdate
Thomas Steiding of e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH wrote:

Update & FAQs about The Feeble Files

As announced last week we require at least 400 pre-orders to enable an Amiga port of the cartoon adventure The Feeble Files. Including today's entries we received 232 pre-orders and we are hoping, that the following days will bring the rest. The game can be pre-orders from us (order@epic-interactive.com) or from any stockist.

With the enclosed FAQ we hope to be able to answers some frequently asked questions regarding the announcement.

Q: What is The Feeble Files about?

A: The Feeble Files is the official sequel to Simon The Sorcerer II by the British Adventuresoft company. Feeble is a little green alien having the task to make circles in grain fields on earth. He lives in a world restrictively ruled by the Omnibrain and he is an honest citizen never violating the group's big catalog of rules. But one day this kind hearted gawky stumbles into a full-grown conspiracy against the Omnibrain. As one can see from the screenshots on our homepage, the characters of this game are fully rendered. The game comes along with complete German or English spoken samples. The German games magazine PC-Games rated the title at 80%, then. The German vocals came for example from the German movie voices of Brad Pitt, Whoopi Goldberg, and Roseanne. More information and topical Mac screenshot are to find on our homepage.

Q: What Amiga do I need for The Feeble Files?

A: The Feeble Files requires an Amiga equipped with a 4 MB graphics board and 32 MB of memory. Furthermore a 68060 OR a PPC CPU is required. Theoretically the game would run on a 68040/40, but sure would be very very slow on this configuration.

Q: When will the game be out?

A: As soon as we have received 400 pre-orders (no matter if those were directly ordered from us or from a vendor - who forwards the orders to us), we will start to port the game to the Amiga. Due to the porting engine of our leader of development, Paul Burkey, the game then should be shipping for the Amiga within 6 weeks!!

Q: Will there be more Amiga games from e.p.i.c. interactive?

A: Theoretically it would be possible to port to the Amiga more games currently available for the Apple Macintosh. But since license fees for other games, e.g. like in case of the Settlers clone Knights&Merchants or the RPG-mix Gorky 17, are much more expensive (and hence the number of sales to be expected for an Amiga version must be higher), it is clear: If The Feeble Files port will not become reality, we don't need to start thinking about more games. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
Andre Geisler (ANF)


GRex4000T available from August
Andre Geisler wrote:
This moring I called DCE on the phone. From this call I learned, that definite there will be a PCI expansion for the Amiga4000T (and A4000D built into a case), which will be connected to the PPC board's bus, as usual. This would be available from the end of August, the latest on the Cologne show. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
infinity (ANF)


Elbox Computer announce mutual consent with Hyperion
After a long time of both official and private discussions Elbox announced on the Mediator mailing list to sign Hyperion's contract for the Warp3D drivers. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)


Start of the AmigaFFE project
Michael Asse wrote:
Today I would like to announce the official start of the AmigaFFE project in which I would like to tackle the port of the 'Frontier First Encounters' game to the Amiga with help of other interested people.

As a first step I defined preliminary project aims to which you can, may and shall send me suggestions and tips, etc., since this is my first project and I don't have the specialised knowledge to do this perfectly.

Please, don't send me any "What should that gain...?" mails. I would not reply.

The provisional time limit to send suggestions for the project aims was set to 31. August 2001. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)


PowerPC ATX Board
Matthias Muench wrote:
I just happend to find an interesting article on the IBM site, which is about a new PowerPC ATX board. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
T.o.T.


Game: Tales of Tamar News
Tales of Tamar is an Internet based rounds game by Eternity Entertainment for the Amiga, Atari, Linux, and PC. Since a few days the first Java version is available, which later will be available for settop boxes, handheld, and all other computers not supported native.

New Atari version v0.21
The option screen was ported to the Atari version v0.21, enabling sound, Internet, and modem settings. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
Marco Miljak, c't 14/2001 (ANF)


AltairBASIC source code by Bill Gates
Under the mentioned URL one can find a very interesting analysis of the AltairBASIC once programmed by Bill Gates. The British computer scientist Reuben Harris disassembled and elaborately described it on his website. There also is an AltairBASIC simulation basing on Java applets. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
Stephan Rupprecht


Library: WBStartEmu V45.2 / Datatype: Icon-Datatype V44.3
Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.2 of his WBStartEmu (wbstart.library) for OS3.9. The icon datatype for OS3.5+ was updated and now is available as v44.3.

Download:
WBStartEmu.lha (5 KB)
IconDT44.lha (8 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
Sven Zander (ANF)


Kult is coming home - News at "com!online" 08/2001
The current issue 08/2001 of the German print magazine com!online mentions the Amiga in the news on page #20 reading that the Amiga boss Bill McEwen announced the cult-brand soon to come back. The new One PPC 1200 would be under development specially for this purpose. If this computer will attract enough customers the company would found new agencies, yet.

The following interesting wording was used for the Amiga: "In the long run this box cannot be killed", and, "....for the scuffproofed veteran...". (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)


AROS News
As already reported there were hardware problems with the server hosting the AROS website. Some good and bad news about that: the good news is, that the hardware will be replaced, the bad news is, that the machine will be connected to a new network and thus the page temporary might not be available, again, due to DNS conversion.

Here the original message with more details:
As you might have noticed, we had a lot of hardware failures in the last months. Now there are good and bad news. The good one is that the hardware will be replaced. The bad one is that the machine is moved to a different network and this means that we'll have DNS hell all over again ! The "real" name of the machine on which AROS is hosted is "sebigbos.hepe.com". This name should work when aros.org doesn't. So when CVS doesn't like you anymore, check AROS/scripts/updatecvspath to fix the host name until I have fixed the DNS server (usually takes only several weeks...hrm :-). The mailing list runs on lists.hepe.com. The only thing which will not be reachable for the time being is the web and the ftp site.

Sorry for any inconvenience.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Game: New Schlachtfeld survey
The previously announced Schlachtfeld survey is online.

This survey is about how to differ the units:
  • Units in red/green/blue/yellow.
  • Units with tactical field signs.
  • Units with different textures.
  • Units with different textures and tactical field signs.
  • Different textures with certain primary colours (red/green/blue/yellow)
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
No Risc No Fun (ANF)


nrnf: Interview with Matay
There is an interview (English) with Filip Dab-Mirowski of Matay online on 'no risc no fun'. Learn about the future of the Prometheus. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)


Stardate-Mailbox back to the Internet
One week after a flashlight caused damage to the DSL connection the Stardate-Mailbox is available via Internet (http/telnet), again: stardate.2y.net (title link). Also the Dynamite server of same denominator is running, again.

Background:
While a thunderbolt in Muenster (Germany) and the surrounding area a flashlight hit the telephone switch and put off my DSL connection. The (German) Telekom repaired it, now. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Jul.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)


Upload function for the Aminet on www.aminet-gui.de
Soon there will be an upload function available on the AminetGUI. Thus it will be possible to upload files of up to 5 MB of size to the Aminet, without any FTP knowledge. The current script still is beta and is being reworked. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Jul.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel (E-Mail)


RealAudio/Media-Support page updated (Update)
A few days ago Sigbjørn Skjæret released version 2 of his RealAudio/Media player "RAPlay". New is among other things the support of the RealMedia format, which could not be played up to now.

More information e.g. about installation as well as download possibilities are to find under the title link. Of course there also is a PPC version.

Update 19. July 2001:
Thorsten Schoelzel wrote:
As I just was told by Sigbjørn Skjæret, RealMedia is not supported, yet. But there is a better RealAudio 1 & 2 support. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


Tom's Hardware Guide: Corel takes over Micrografx
The Canadian software manufacturer Corel according to Tom's Hardware Guide is about to take over their American graphics software competitor Micrografx. This fusion will be established by exchange of shares. Some 32 Millions USD were mentioned for the price. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Big Book of Amiga Hardware Update
On the 5th of July in 2001 Big Book of Amiga Hardware has been updated. From today the updates are also available at the German mirror. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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18.Jul.2001
Diverse


Apple: Quarterly results Q3/2001
After Apple has published its quarterly profits- and loss results there are some articles in various media. At Macworld Expo which currently takes place in New York some new models are supposed to be showed.

Apple: Apple Reports Third Quarter Profit of $61 Million
Golem: Apple looks optimisticly in the future
Heise: Apple gains hope
Macnews.de: Detailed quarterly results q3/2001 of Apple
Spiegel: Apple: Anxious in the autumn
Stern: Apple finally is profitable again
ZDNet: Apple got profits
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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18.Jul.2001
Scalos


Workbench replacement: New autodocs for Scalos
In the section 'Developers' of the website you can find new autodocs for Scalos. Autodocs are developer-documentations which were made in a standardized way. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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18.Jul.2001
Oliver Roberts


Datatypes: WarpJPEG.datatype version 44.21
With the help of so called datatypes various datatypes can be showed with different programs. Oliver Roberts has published version 44.21 of his 24-bit JPEG-datatype which is available for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS.

Some bugs has been fixed and the support for some webcam-pictures has been added. Besides this the memory management has been optimized and the PowerPC-version was newly compiled with VBCC 0.8.

Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (134 KB) (ps) (Translation: dr)

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18.Jul.2001
Haage&Partner


H&P: StormC student version (Update)
Because of the immense request Haage&Partner offers a student version of the developer system 'StormC'. It is a cheap full version without any restrictions. It is available for schoolboys and schoolgirls as well as students who send H&P an officially recognized evidence of their school or their university with the order.

Postscript:
If you can prove a valid training contract trainee can order the student version, too. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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18.Jul.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


Virus Help Denmark: Safe version 16.2
With the virus scanner 'Safe' you can detect virus but you can not eleminate them. It follows the details to version 16.2 which has been published today:

Name: Safe v16.2
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 37.500 bytes
Release date: 17. Juli 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Required: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)

NOTE THAT SAFE IS VIRUS DETECTOR - NOT FILE CHECKER OR CLEANER! IT ONLY INFORMS ABOUT ATTACK AND REMOVES VIRUS FROM MEMORY IF POSSIBLE!

New in v16.2
  • Added XFD slave to detect and remove PENETRATOR and two SMEG2 clones from files. Please use xfdDecrunch to perform cleaning or VirusZ to see the infected files.
  • Added to Safe memory removal for SMEG2 viruses. Added generic memory removal for PENETRATOR and other SMEG1 kind infectors.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jul.2001
Joerg Rebenstorf, CEO ALiENDESiGN (ANF)


New web-design at ALiENDESIGN
The web-design of the ALiENDESiGN company was completely reworked. We think that our web-designer FoX did a very good job, again, as he previously did with the product pages, and so we would be happy, if you would drop by.

The Repulse sound card still is available from our online shop and the online shop now is fully integrated to the web-offer. Suggestions are welcome, contact sales@aliendesign-gbr.de.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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17.Jul.2001



Aminet Uploads until 17.07.2001
IBrowseMI.lha        comm/www    26K+GlowIcons Toolbar for IBrowse
IBrowseSP.lha        comm/www    19K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.2.0
MD2MI.lha            comm/www    25K+GlowIcons Toolbar for MicroDOT 2
simplehtml.lha       comm/www    38K+V0.17 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
lns-hst.lha          demo/aga   2.6M+Hotstyle Takeover by Loonies (MS2001 2nd
PhxAss.lha           dev/asm    151K+PhxAss V4.40 68xxx Macro Assembler
uncat.lha            dev/misc     8K+Create .cd file from running program
PFS3ud.lha           disk/misc  124K+PFS3 undelete 
qformat.lha          disk/misc    6K+Quick format for FFS disks
SyQuest270-ML.lha    disk/misc   17K+Mountlist for SyQuest 270MB Drives
f1me.lha             docs/anno    1K+FreeCD: Formula 1 Manager enhanced
paranoia.lha         docs/anno    1K+FreeCD: Paranoia Vol.1
psv.lha              docs/anno    1K+FreeCD: PSV Football manager
revolution.lha       docs/anno    1K+FreeCD: Classic Revolution
scorpius.lha         docs/anno    1K+FreeCD: Scorpius 
toons.lha            docs/anno    1K+FreeCD: Amiga Toons Vol.1
vt2.lha              docs/anno    1K+FreeCD: VideoTracker 2.0
PSX-BlackCheat.lha   docs/mags  177K+PSX-CheatBook HTML-Only
CircusLinux.lha      game/actio 744K+SDL game compiled for Amiga
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  484K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
FoundationMan.lha    game/misc  256K+Foundation Manual (PDF version)
IChing.lha           game/misc  100K+V2.0 of a GUI I-Ching fortune telling pr
PicShow.lha          gfx/show     9K+Datatype picture viewer for directory to
DickTracy.lha        mods/misc   32K+Custom module from "Dick Tracy"
rno-r063.lha         mods/misc  190K+Rno-records release no.63 by tang (triph
NeuralAss.lha        mods/pro   100K+Two Protracker mod's from the demo 'Neur
ClassMI.lha          pix/gicon   33K+A GlowIconsSet for ClassAction
eNoteMI.lha          pix/gicon    9K+A GlowIconsSet for eNote
PlayMI.lha           pix/gicon   38K+A GlowIconsSet for PlayGUI
FF9_icons.lha        pix/nicon   29K+Great set of FF9 Newicons
HP_Deskjet400C.lha   text/print  24K+Deskjet 400C/L Driver for WB 40.10
HP_Deskjet600C.lha   text/print  26K+Deskjet 600C Driver for WB V40.12
CheckX.lha           util/arc    28K+V1.85 Check for Archive/Packer/Virus
alba.lha             util/boot   61K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
JPEG-DT.lha          util/dtype 433K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (43.5)
JPEG-DT35.lha        util/dtype 357K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (46.3a)
JoinReplace.lha      util/sys    17K+V1.20 powerful Join replacement
Easyreset.lha        util/wb     18K+EasyReset - system reset utility
Memicon.lha          util/wb     17K+Memory/Screen/OS display for OS3.5/OS3.9
(as) (Translation: mj)

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17.Jul.2001
Da SixK Port Page


Tool: Webalizer 2.01-06 for MorphOS
With this tool HTML statistics can be created from Apache log-files. This version is for MorphOS and is faster than the 68k version (1.8 seconds contrary to 11 seconds, determined using the same Apache log-file).

Download: webalizer-2.01-06_mos.lzx (ps) (Translation: mj)

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17.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Game: New Schlachtfeld pictures
In spite of the turbulences around the Amiga-Society of course development of the Game Schlachtfeld is being continued.

Edgar Leiding rendered some units for the game's board, again. Thus now there are nine unit previews available - there will be some changes, of course. There will be a survey regarding the camouflage: the question is, if the enemies should use different colours (red, blue, ...) or should differ by different textures and/or tactical field signs. You can also post your opinion about that in the forum of the Schlachtfeld website. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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17.Jul.2001
I. Souvatzis (ANF)


NetBSD-1.5.1 released
NetBSD-1.5.1 is a patch release for the Unix like open source operating system from now available via FTP.

Since NetBSD-1.5 mainly some enhancements regarding system security were added. VLAN's (viruel LAN's) support is one of the new features.

Closer information can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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17.Jul.2001
Christian Effenberger (ANF)


mSQL database administration program
Who ever dealt with SQL database systems soon realized that in fact only mSQL comes into question for working offline.

mSQL is the most compact and resource sparing SQL-DBMS for the Amiga. One example to point this up:

The mSQL daemon requires less than 10% of the resources the MySQL daemon needs and even can react 4-times faster on client requests via mUSD (unix socks daemon).

The biggest disadvantage of all SQL systems for the Amiga is the lack of any GUI software for administration and database care.

That's why I wrote a program named mSQL-Administrator, which contains the operation of the following executables of the "mSQL.bin" directory:

msql, msql2d, msqladmin, msqldump, msqlexport, msqlimport, relshow, and mUSD. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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17.Jul.2001
Richard Körber (ANF)


Palmiga is now called amiga-pda
The Palmiga Project is a project for all Amiga users that own a PalmOS-PDA to use with their Amigas.

Palm Inc. wrote to me that the name is violating their trademark, combined with the request to change it.

Due to this the mailinglist can from now on be reached via "amiga-pda": http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amiga-pda. Assigned members should post to amiga-pda@yahoogroups.com.

The Pamiga website will be redesigned in the near future available at the URL http://amigapda.shredzone.de.

I want to let you know they have send their request in a very polite way against the trend without announcing any lawyers. :) (ps) (Translation: gf)

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