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`02.Feb.2001` Alfred Sturm	New Aminet uploads TBol2DEMO.lha biz/demo 94K+V2.3.0 Material receipt program,(BOLLE M YahooGpScan1_1.lha comm/mail 5K+Strips YahooGroup adverts. V1.1 nc_update_beta.lha comm/news 182K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.3 WOC.lha demo/file 413K+World of Commodore (preview) MWI-Overview04.lha demo/slide 2.5M+OVERVIEW #04 - party slideshow by Madwiz MWI-Overview05.lha demo/slide 2.9M+OVERVIEW #05 - party slideshow by Madwiz up-ep005.lha demo/sound 909K+UP ROUGH "Lowtech EP" feat. Qwan up-ep006.lha demo/sound 1.2M+UP ROUGH "Technical Knockout EP" feat. E AmiReadMeGen.lha dev/misc 281K+A GUI for Generating Aminet ReadMe files RoboDocBuilder.lha dev/misc 213K+A GUI for the robodoc program. HowToReAction.lha dev/src 15K+ReAction GUI with ReActor TimedSerial.lha dev/src 14K+Serial I/O functions that time-out. Sour NotizieAmiga.lha docs/hyper 646K+ITALIAN ONLY comunicati NotizieAmiga 01/ cd32outside3.lha docs/mags 679K+CD32 Outside No.3 - German CD32 magazine mc0301.lha docs/mags 251K+German Metal Mag in HTML - March 2001 Is up-herth.lha docs/misc 240K+Up Rough "The Hermano Theory" ascii by S JP_Spider_1.2.lha game/board 173K+Solitaire Card Game, V1.20 A_Sweeper_NI4D.lha game/think 13K+Graphic set for A_Sweeper V1.05+ (NI4) FlashMandelPPC.lha gfx/fract 50K+The best fractal rendering program for A GVPIOPrefsFix.lha hard/drivr 11K+Fixes GVPSerial prefs for higher screen SSOpticalPatch.lha misc/emu 3K+ShapeShifter patch for optical drives SpaTra04.lha misc/misc 116K+Spanish Translations Pack 04 v0.7 up-crstl.lha mods/chip 3K+UP ROUGH "THX.crystal_cracktro" by Skope np_chemg.lha mods/misc 919K+Noyz Phaktah '002 - Chemical Graveyard b rno-r055.lha mods/misc 204K+Rno-records release no.55 by Lcr/Reason andimeanit.mpg mods/mpg 9.0M+Minimal/exp/ambient composition for elec wormhole.lha mods/techn 237K+Acid-Techno (OMSS) by Mippydi id3taglibgui.lha mus/edit 49K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor Base64.lha mus/misc 43K+Hot!! AmigaAmp 64Colored Original Base S Base64Skin.lha mus/misc 43K+Hot!! AmigaAmp 64Colored Original Base S Normalize.lha mus/misc 325K+Adjust volume of WAV files, v0.4 Skin64.lha mus/misc 43K+Hot!! AmigaAmp 64Colored Original Base S bluerobe.lha mus/play 65K+Blue Robe for Prayer 2.x (fixed version) sg-strip_4.lha pix/misc 47K+[ancor] strip 4 of StarGround sg-strip_5.lha pix/misc 42K+[ancor] strip 5 of StarGround stipe.mpg pix/mpg 16K+Mpeg anima 250x100x60 WtchngSnsets.lha pix/wfm 169K+Watching Sunsets; Artwork&Literature unpacker.lha util/arc 21K+GUI for CLI based unpackers (LHA...) BlazeWCP.lha util/boot 31K+ULTRA FAST 32bit C2P patch for OS chunky ToolsDaemon22.lha util/boot 5K+Patches for ToolsDaemon to work with OS MMULib.lha util/libs 579K+Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs MuMin.lha util/libs 53K+Minimal MuLib archive for redistribution zlib-library.lha util/libs 83K+Shared library for zlib-(de)compression ReportPlus.lha util/misc 299K+Report+ 4.23: Multipurpose utility SuperToto_New.lha util/misc 298K+Program TotoGol & TotoCalcio (only italy 68040Lib.lha util/sys 290K+A MuLib aware 68040.library, 68030.libra Safe.lha util/virus 20K+Safe v14.8 - virus dicovering system lastguru.lha util/wb 39K+Show requester with last logged guru mes VisualPrefs_DE.lha util/wb 59K+German catalog and guide forVisualPrefs [News message: 02. Feb. 2001, 20:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2001` Miscellaneous	Software News DirOpus 4.15g (beta) is available for download on Jacek Rzeuskis' DirOpus support site. Download: DOpus4beta.lzx - 320 kB At J.F. Fabre's homepage you'll find version 4.5c of his HD installer program 'JST', which makes many disk games startable from harddisk. Download: jst.lha Thomas Wenzel has updated his AmigaAMP FAQ. Microcode Solutions announces once more the completion of iFusion. [News message: 02. Feb. 2001, 18:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2001` Stefan Ossowski via eMail	Aminet 41 CD-ROM Available Since today, the new Aminet CD-ROM 41 is available from dealers. The Aminet CD 41 - February 2001 - contains more than 800 MB (uncompressed) of software in almost a thousand archives. Since Aminet CD 40, numerous MB of news have been added. As a special highlight, the Aminet 41 contains the full version of the beat'em up game Capital Punishment. [News message: 02. Feb. 2001, 18:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2001` Jens Larsson via eMail	Unmoderated News at boingworld.com This morning we activated the first test of our unmoderated news posting! This means ANYONE can post news directly to Boingworld for immediate display on the main page! The usual top left icon of the newsitem will though be an "Unmoderated Icon" and the news item will only be visible for the people that have chosen to activate this in their prefs. We (the editors) will of course delete or moderate the postings asap. [News message: 02. Feb. 2001, 14:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2001` Christoph Dietz	Interview with Patrick Roberts Christoph Dietz has done an interview with the programmer of 'zAMilo', the HTTP server which runs on test.amigadev.net: Amiga-News: Hello Patrick, can you describe yourself? Patrick Roberts: Age: 32, Born: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Profession: Digital Effects Supervisor. I'm currently freelance and start a film for Dreamworks in a few weeks. Amiga-News: What is your background whith Amiga? Patrick Roberts: I started in 1987 with a dorm-mate's A1000, then got my own A500 shortly after. As next came an A3000, and now the AmigaDE. Before Amiga, I had a C=64, Vic-20, and used to program on a PET at a local library. Amiga-News: I can't find a program from you on Aminet. Don't you released programs for the "classic" Amiga? Patrick Roberts: The only programs I released for the Classic were some Playstation utilities - but did so anonymously to avoid any problems with Sony. (wotizpsx, tmd2lwo, and psximgtls) Amiga-News: When and why did you start development for AmigaDE? Patrick Roberts: I think it was last August. Right after the SDK 1.0 was released for Linux. Amiga-News: We can see one of your products running on test.amigadev.net. It's the webserver. Did you use an existing webserver to port to AmigaDE or is this a complete new httpd? Patrick Roberts: "zAMilo" was written from scratch, but was inspired by a micro-http server released by Ericsson for their mobile phones. I wanted to create a very small HTTP server for the AmigaDE that could be used for configuring an embedded system with a web browser. I'd like to someday use a browser on my PC to serve my VCR, tell my coffee maker when to have a cup ready for me in the morning, etc... Amiga-News: What does "zAMIlo" stand for? Patrick Roberts: The Ericsson server is called 'zilo', so for proper respects I kept their name and added in the standard Amiga "AM". Amiga-News: What is the roadmap for this product? Patrick Roberts: As I get time I want to add basic CGI and SSI support. I'm not sure beyond that. Amiga-News: Is this your only project for AmigaDE? Patrick Roberts: No ;P And that's one of my problems... not enough time for all of them :) Here's a list of my projects that are available from the Amigadev.net FTP archive: Artix Nettext (toollib) Artix Systools (toollib) Etick (Graphical Ticker app) zAMilo (web server) forecast (world-wide weather reports) AmiFlag (Minesweeper type game) cnvtools (convert image and audio formats) Elate-Winease (GUI management C header library) memmon (Machine-languge monitor) Here's what's in the works: Artix Gfxtools (toollib) vIcons (Vector based icon toollib) madplay (port of MP3 player) Amiga-News: What do you miss most in the AmigaSDK? Patrick Roberts: Hmmm...hard question to answer since I know it will eventually exist, but: Hardware 3D graphics support Good text editor like nedit Amiga-News: Are you using the AmigaSDK for Linux or Windows? Patrick Roberts: I have both versions for testing, but I mainly use the Linux SDK. Amiga-News: Do you think that OS4.0 for the classic Amiga's is needed? Patrick Roberts: I don't have a classic any more (I own one, but have loaned it to a friend). I'm mainly looking forward to AmigaDE commercial release, but it would be nice if Amiga would continue to support all the classic users. Amiga-News: You know about the amiga community. How do you think about it? Patrick Roberts: I'm always amazed with the knowledge level of the Amiga community. I really happy to be a part of a community with so many geniuses that I can learn from. Amiga-News: Your "last words" to our readers? Patrick Roberts: All of us can make it happen! [News message: 02. Feb. 2001, 14:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2001` Fun Time World	Fore-Matt: New Amiga Magazine on CD-ROM The English software dealer 'Fore-Matt' has published a new Amiga magazine. It will be distributed on CD-ROM under the name '100% Amiga'. The CD-ROM will feature an own user interface to guide the reader through the magazine. The magazine will be published monthly. [News message: 02. Feb. 2001, 12:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2001` Oliver Roberts	WarpPNG.datatype version 44.11 Released Oliver Roberts' WarpPNG.datatype version 44.11 has been released on the 1st of February. The PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) is freeware. Download: WarpPNGdt.lha - 133 kB [News message: 02. Feb. 2001, 11:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2001` Gary Peake via eMail	Amiga is Looking For Developers for PDA Applications Gary Peake wrote: Hello, Several weeks ago, I promised you some exciting announcements. As the first of those, I would like to introduce Matt Fontenot, Amiga's Product Manager. Matt has been with us from the beginning and while you may not have met him yet, he has been working closely with many of our third party partners and has been busy creating many new products, as you will soon see. Now for the announcement: There is tremendous potential for distribution of your applications, games and other content for one of the world's largest manufacturers of PDA hardware. The projection is for more than 7 million units to be sold by the end of 2001 and there are already several million units on the market at this time. There will be specific requirements as far as style, type of applications, distribution rights and certification of content. Matt will have more details on this in the near future. If you are interested in developing PDA applications and games for a specific manufacturer who will use Amiga Inc. for content delivery, please contact Matt as soon as possible. This is a serious project for those with an interest in providing content and we will open a new mailing list for it - the particulars will be announced in a few days. This project is for both open source and commercial content providers, so no matter what your choice of development is, you are cordially invited to apply. To get further details, though, you must have a signed NDA on file with Amiga. You can get an NDA form from www.amigadev.net under the legal menu, right hand menu bar. Just fill it out and fax it to my attention at 425-396-5671. Then send an e-mail to projects@amiga.com that says "I am interested." You can also contact Gary at gary@amiga.com or Matt at matt@amiga.com Sincerely, Gary Peake Matt Fontenot Suplement: Amiga, Inc. asks you not to send the above mentioned e-mail to projects@amiga.com, but to add your e-mail address at the bottom of this original message and then to send it in using the "I am interested!" button. [News message: 02. Feb. 2001, 09:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2001` Thomas Wolf on ANF	New AmigaLinkPage Goes into Test Stage Amigakult.de goes into test stage. AmigaKult.de is a link page sorted by topics. Every Amiga homepage, no matter whether private or commercial, can be listed for free. The aim is to become one of the most comprehensive link pages for the Amiga. Please be patient if your page is listed some days after you submited it as all pages are verified. Thomas Wolf will appreciate your help. [News message: 02. Feb. 2001, 00:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2001` Harry 'Piru' Sintonen	New Exec V44.1 Public Beta2 and New MapROM Harry ´Piru´ Sintonen has made version 44.1 beta2 of Exec available for download as a public beta on his webpage. It is a non-official Exec version which is according to the author more optimized and faster than the official version. Use at your own risk. Also, Piru has released version 1.24beta6 of his MapROM tool ´BlizKick´ for phase5/DCE processor boards. Download: exec44_1_beta2.lha - 56 kB BlizKick.lha - 247 kB [News message: 02. Feb. 2001, 00:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2001` Ignatios Souvatzis via eMail	New NetBSD Amiga Drivers Drivers for Individual Computer's "ISDN Surfer" and Zeus Development's "ISDN Link". The NetBSD Amiga driver for the Siemens ISDN chip-set got support for two more cards for the Zorro-bus added. Individual Computer "ISDN Surfer", id 4626/5 Zeus Development "ISDN Link", id 2189/3 Up to now already supported: BSC ISDN Master 2092/64 ITH ISDN Master II 5000/1 VMC ISDN Blaster 5001/1 The interrupt level for the ISDN Surfer is software managed, other cards must be switched to IPL 2 by jumper setting. Closer information about the isdn4bsd configuration are to find inside of the included electronic manual pages (man isdnd) and here. Those drivers as well as the entire ISDN sub-system are content of NetBSD-current, the development part of NetBSD, and will occur in the NetBSD-1.6 release. External testers are asked to run a release of the 1.5 part until 1.6 has been published; for 1.5 the last released isdn4bsd-0.96_BETA is available as additional package (but without drivers for ISDN Surfer or ISDN Link). [News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 22:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2001` Jan Andersen via eMail	VirusHelp Denmark: Survey At VirusHelp Denmark a survey regarding your favourite anti-virus program is taking place. [News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 21:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2001`	The 600th wins Shortly we will have 600 entry's in our "Amiga Link Directory". For us it is a pleasure and the reason to give away one copy of the game "Simon the sorcerer II" to the person whomes website will make the 600th entry. Of course also for this reason our policy to become part of the ALD will be the same as ever. It's not possible to get an entry if you're simply having an Amiga at home. To make an entry in the ALD your website must concentrate on the Amiga subject, (too). E.g. presentation of programs, developments or your own Amiga computer. Telling us about your website will not automatically qualify for an entry. Until the winner was determined no new entered websites will be published in the ALD to prevent somebody from waiting for #599. [News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 19:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2001` Virtual Dimension	Virtual Dimension 10th Anniversary! Yesterday was a day to party for Virtual Dimension: their 10th anniversary! To duly celebrate this you will happen to see several things from VD during the year. At first there is the show-video from the World of Amiga in Cologne, which unfortunately took some more time to be finished this year due to technical problems - but meantime the time is right for VD to go to the studios for speech sampling. Congratulations to the Virtual Dimension team :-) [News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 18:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2001` Mark Wilson via eMail	AmiBench News Because of fresh server problems AmiBench isn't accessible at the used address. Currently you can visit AmiBench at this URL: http://amibench.shagged.org. The problem should be fixed during the next few days. [News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 17:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2001` AmigArt	Report+ Version 4.23 Released Report+ is one of those small but very useful programs to make user's life easier. With Report+ you can easily create bug reports, Aminet readmes, documentantions and similar reports. The program is freeware and basing on ReAction and GadTools. It is an enhanced, reverse-engineered, 100% byte-compatible replacement for the official Commodore bug reporting tool (40.2). It can generate Aminet-style readmes. It can administer the Amiga Certified Software Engineer 1.1 test. It can generate C-style autodocs. It can access the official manufacturer and product ID registries. It can access the official IFF FORM registry. It can convert between various end-of-line (EOL) formats, optionally also detabulating. It can show directory byte usage for any path. It can edit A3000/A4000-type battery-backed memory. It can check your OS3.1/3.5/3.9 installation for missing or surplus files. Download: report.lha [News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 13:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2001` AmigaSDK	AmigaSDK Survey At AmigaSDK.com the news all round the new Amiga source currently there is a survey regarding your favourite news page online. [News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 13:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2001` Eyetech Group Ltd	Eyetech Online Ordering now with SSL The British vendor Eyetech Group Ltd. as enlarged their online ordering system with SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to take care for the transfer of sensible data like credit card numbers. [News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 13:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2001` Albrecht Kinzkofer on ANF	PicassoIV / ZorroIII Survey Project Who has got a ZorroIII Amiga A3000(T) or A4000(T) and a PicassoIV graphics board and can use the PicassoIV only if it was "forced" to ZorroII mode via jumper setting (Zorro auto detect off)? Who has got an A4000 with DMA capable SCSI card or an A4000T and an elder PicassoIV with "bridge version $1" (see P4Info-Output), running the PicassoIV trouble-less in ZorroIII mode (WITHOUT the ZorroII jumper set)? Does one of the above apply to you? Then write to me! Contact address: Albrecht Kinzkofer. List as much details as possible about your Amiga hardware, even if it seems to be unimportant: Which model, when did you purchase it, which CPU board, which expansion boards, which modifications done, which RAM equipment, "Buster revision, P4Info-Output, etc. I have got such a ZorroIII problem and I'm working on a solution and looking for "companions in trouble". If I was able to solve this problem (assumedly by replacing two socket chips), I would try to help others concerned (e.g. by centralized buying). At the time being I'm doing some "basic research", hence write to me if one of the above terms apply to you. Thank you very much. Albrecht Kinzkofer [News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 11:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2001` Deftone on ANF	Future of SMSEngineerMUI? The program SMSEngineerMUI (SMS = Short Message Service) for sending short mails to cell phones is to be enhanced. On the BlitzEngineers website for this there currently is a survey online. In participating this survey you can co-decide about how the future of SMSEngineer would look like and what should be further implemented. The authors would be happy about every participant. [News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 10:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2001` SimonII	SimonII Update 5 Update 5 for Simon the Sorcerer II is available now and should fix the known sound and timig problems. But Paul Burkey urgently suggests to install the game new, cause update 4 might have smashed some of the data in the ´data/voices´ directory. Download: Simon2Upd5.lha - 525 kB [News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 03:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2001` Jan Andersen via eMail	Safe Version 14.8 Released VirusHelp Denmark announced the release of version 14.8 of the virus detector Safe. The detector finds viruses, but cannot remove these! Name: Safe v14.8 Archive name: Safe.lha Archive size: 20.878 Bytes Date: 31. Januar 2001 Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski Info: Needs xvs.library v33.24 [News message: 31. Jan. 2001, 20:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2001` Sven Droege on ANF	Update of the Stock Exchange Software Bonds Bonds is a financial software fitted for share management. The software is in especially fitted for the financial market of Germany and best handles shares traded within Germany. Another update of Bonds will be released on weekend. Several small enhancements have been implemented, again some bugs were fixed. New is a version check via the Internet. The import filters have been reworked, a new filter allows to import stock quotation data from www.stockwatch.de, where historic quotations for German shares are to find. Work on the depot manager proceeds, a finished version is expected for the next weeks. Also the manual in PDF format is about to take shape, so the users will have a properly manual at hand in the future. [News message: 31. Jan. 2001, 18:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2001` Ray McCarthy via eMail	KickSoft Established The Kickstart Amiga Group have established a seperate website under www.kicksoft.co.uk for sale of software. On this site users can purchase commercial high-quality shareware software using their credit card. At the opening there are 2 x DrawStudio2 for win in a contest. [News message: 31. Jan. 2001, 18:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2001` Achim Stegemann on ANF	Shared ZLib-Library for PPC At the Aminet there now is a shared library for the popular ZLib compression (gzip) running on 68k as well as under WarpOS! The archive can be downloaded from Aminet under util/libs/zlib-library.lha. The library is freeware, source code and developer stuff for the StormC compiler are included for interested people. I would be pleased if the library were supported by Xarc programmers and others. According to the PPC used speed can reach about 5 MB/s (unpacking) or 1 MB/s (!!, packing) at packing rates up to 75% (text)! The zlib.library also will be utilized in the new version of Digital Almanac III, cause this will give executables about 30kB smaller than before. [News message: 31. Jan. 2001, 13:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2001` Richard Kapp on ANF	GFX Lists Update Thanks to the help of many Amiga users the lists with Amiga games and demos supporting graphics boards could be enlarged with many entries. The layout of this site was enhanced and designed more predictable, too. Moreover there is a new list on the site (Amiga section) listing programs supporting multiple CPU's (on installation). Since one often doesn't remember which programs offer an optimized version e.g. for the 060 after the computer was accelerated this list might be helpful. [News message: 31. Jan. 2001, 13:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2001` Apex Designs	Payback in Progress In the current status report #18 Apex Designs announced that the new game 'Payback' will be in trade in about two weeks. At the same time a playable demo version will be made available for download. In an interview with the Amiga-Future the programmer James Daniels described Payback as follows: "The player takes the part of young driver on the run and tries to become a big gangsters' boss. The game is completely non-linear. To finish a level the player simply has to collect a certain amount of points. How to achieve this is up to him-/herself. You can act on the local Kingpins' advice, uncover secret missions or join a gunfight. There are a lot of hidden surprises to discover, so one must play the game several times to find all of the extras. The game was inspired by Grand Theft Auto, but I invested much effort into the game to make sure it will lick GTA in all respects." [News message: 31. Jan. 2001, 13:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2001` Christoph Meier on ANF	Heise: Met@box in the Deep Red »Sometimes things come more worse than expected: Recently in September last year the Met@box AG from Hildesheim, Germany, announced to incur a loss of around 15 Mio DM in the business year, instead of realizing profit. Now the manufacturer of set-top boxes notified a loss of about 19 Mio DM. According to preliminary calculations volume of sales was at 50 Mio DM the company disclosed on this Tuesday.« More details under the title link (German). [News message: 31. Jan. 2001, 11:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2001` Christoph Meier on ANF	Golem: Sega Knells the End of Dreamcast »After rumours around the end of the Dreamcast console looped the loop during last days Sega now puts an end to speculations. In the context of a corporate reorganisation the former Japanese video game giant wants to focus on video games contents in the future.« More details under the title link (German). [News message: 31. Jan. 2001, 11:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Alfred Sturm	New Aminet Uploads DataM_II.lha biz/dbase 1.1M+Spreadsheet using MUI (German docs only! FSCP_Txt.lha biz/dbase 61K+Farscape StarBase-Text (51) tummy_020.lha biz/dbase 872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00 tummy_040.lha biz/dbase 872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00 tummy_060.lha biz/dbase 872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00 TCom2DEMO.lha biz/demo 96K+V2.8.0 Amiga order program,(COMMESSE ITA TMagDEMO.lha biz/demo 153K+V1.2.1 Amiga storage program,(MAGAZZINO TProspEd.lha biz/demo 84K+V1.3.0 Form Editor For TurboFat (ITALIAN TProspEd2.lha biz/demo 81K+V2.0.1alpha Form Editor For TurboFat2 (I DOpus58_SP.lha biz/dopus 29K+DOpus v5.8x spanish catalogs. Update 2.2 AW2.20-Patch.lha biz/haage 1.0M+AmigaWriter Patch 2.x -> 2.20 WW5spCatalog.lha biz/misc 10K+Wordworth5 spanish catalogs. 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Safe.lha util/virus 20K+Safe v14.7 - virus dicovering system choowin.lha util/wb 17K+Window activation utility coolCalc_sk.lha util/wb 48K+2 new skins for CoolCalc Easyreset.lha util/wb 12K+EasyReset - system reset utility FinalExe_NO.lha util/wb 3K+Norwegian catalog for FinalExecute 1.2 Image2Icon.lha util/wb 58K+Creates thumbnail icons 68k+WOS (1.13a) mainprefs.lha util/wb 66K+OS 3.5,3.9 Preferences GUI RxTD.lha util/wb 32K+V1.2, WB 3.9 ToolsDaemon prefs converter VisualPrefs_PL.lha util/wb 10K+VisualPrefs: Polish catalog [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 22:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Steffen Haeuser on ANF	Descent 2 Port for Amiga Some time ago I've started a Descent 2 port for the Amiga (WarpUP and 68k version). Unfortunately I'm not able to finish this port due to lack of time, cause among other things I'm working on commercial games for the Amiga :-). (And these are yet more important than porting an old game). An interested programmer who would like to finish this port may contact me at any time and receive the current source code. Current stage: Crashes on leaving (and sometimes also on leaving a level, I guess memory freed twice) Warp3D support comes miscoloured (but software renderer works) Network support doesn't work In case of the "Bobbing Movement" I'm not sure, if it looks like it should do. Still a lot of debug output inside of the source Cockpit isn't displayed correctly The code was compiled with StromC-gcc or gcc-WarpOS. Contact: Steffen Haeuser SteffenH@hyperion-software.de [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 21:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Amiga Impact	Aliendesign with New URL The website of Aliendesign (MCP, Scalos, and Repulse sound card) is accessible under http://www.aliendesign-gbr.de/ from now on. [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 19:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` CGX	CGX News This site is a must if you would like to be informed about news all around graphics boards. There is a small poll at the time being about which graphics boards Mediator should support. Steffen Haeuser is cited from a news group posting: "Due to missing documentations there will not be any 3D hardware driver or Voodoo5." Elbox renewed the driver archive with MediatorUP 1.6, cause there was a mistake in the old one. [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 19:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Amiga Fire	Amiga Fire Looking for Editors The Amiga online magazine 'Amiga Fire' is looking for support by people wanting to write news, previews, and reviews about Amiga games for the magazine. If you are interested, contact rune.keller@amigafire.com. [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 18:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Heise [Newsticker]	Heise: Forbidden to Despair ;-) »Who wants to vent one's displeasure by the emoticon :-( risks a draconian punishment. Wrongdoers have to write a thousand times: ":-( is a registered trademark of Despair, Inc.". Albeit the punishment claimed already indicates the satiric character of this action – reality beggars all presiflage. The Despair company really has booked the trademark ":-(" – in dependence on the smiley ":-)" pronounced as frowny – at the US patent office in 1998. And the office in point of fact granted this application in May 2000.« Complete article under the title link (German). [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 13:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Crystal Interactive Software	Poll by Chrystal Interactive Software Crystal Interactive Software is a marketing company for games software (e.g. Bubble Heroes). To be able to better estimate which genre is in demand a poll has been started in which you can participate under the title link. JavaScript[TM] must be enabled. [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 12:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Jan Devos via eMail	3ivx, Ready for Global Television! The video compression format '3ivX' is now officially implemented in MooVId and SoftCinema. At the request of a reader here a link to a 3ivX test-movies page. Following the complete press release: January 29, 2001- Happy Machines releases the second preview of their next generation video compression technology called 3ivx. Small file size and high quality video is one part of the 3ivx advantages, the other one is the truly multi-platform nature. This is great for video conferencing, video-on-demand, broadband content providing, interactive television but also for UMTS (or G3 mobile phones) implementations. True mutli-platform support means that it is available for Windows: Windows Media Player plug-in or QuickTime plug-in MacOS: QuickTime plug-in Linux (x86, PPC) & Solaris: XAnim BeOS: Media Player plug-in Amiga: WarpUP (MooVId for 68k & PPC) and PowerUP (SoftCinema) The decoder is available on the site right now. For the moment, however, the encoder is reserved for 3ivx partners. "Quality and multi-platform is one thing, but particularly important for the movie studios is encryption, watermarking and Digital Rights Management" said Jan Devos, President of Happy Machines. "That's why we made sure our 3ivx codec is standard compatible with most of the encryption and DRM systems available" "I was amazed by the quality" explained Mr. Alan Redhouse, Chairman of the Eyetech Group. "That's why we are bundling this codec with our next generation AmigaOne hardware". The current release is 5 to 20% better than the most efficient codecs out there. In comparison with MPEG-2 that means a ratio of 1:12 while near DVD quality. This indicates that the 3ivx video codec, while still in development, is already one of the best. There is a lot of interest in such a high performance codec. The 3 million page views on the 3ivx.com web-site after the first preview release in December show that very well. Happy Machines also referred to as the Think-Tank is a small Belgian company representing an extremely creative team and a large international network of inventors, software and hardware developers, designers in various fields such as imaging, satellite communications, artificial intelligence, machinery etc., which has contacts with top-manufacturers worldwide. The company is also member of the MPEG-group and is an Inmarsat partner. It is orientated on project development and related intellectual properties. Press Contact: Happy Machines +32-3-2816858 pr@3ivx.com http://www.3ivx.com/pr/ © 2001 Happy Machines n.v. 3ivx is an international trademark Jan Devos - Happy Machines n.v. - ICQ:4477062 [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 12:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Christoph Dietz	More Details on zAMilo As already reported, "AmigaDE zAMilo V0.098" is running as http server on a test server at Amiga, Inc.. Christoph Dietz has asked Gary Peake and Götz Ohnesorge for more information about the http server 'zaMilo' utilized on test.amigadev.net: Amiga-News: Hello Gary and Götz! It came to our attention that the webserver on test.amigadev.net is running an zAMilo. The testpage tells that the server is installed since november. Did you install it? Gary Peake: Yes, we installed it here at Amiga Inc. on our Linux based servers running the Amiga SDK. Amiga-News: On which OS is the system running? AmigaDE isn't running native, is it? Gary Peake: We run Red Hat on the servers. AmigaSDK is being hosted there. zAMilo runs on AmigaSDK. Amiga-News: What does "zAMilo" stand for? Is it a mixed up akronym for "Mozila" (with an "l" missing.) Götz Ohnesorge: "zAMilo" is a http server written by Patrick Roberts from Atrix. You can find more about it in the programs readme: "zAMilo is a mini-http server. The compiled lite binary is less that 4k and is very fast. It was inspired by zilo by Stefan Hellkvist which was created by Ericsson to run on their mobile phones. zAMilo serves simple http GET requests, which is enough for most sites. It also has the ability to serve the stdout of any other tool as an html document. In this way it emulates rsh via http." Amiga-News: The server was down on friday. Did it crash because of the attention it got? Or was it only deactivated for maintenence? Gary Peake: We are doing a lot of changing to our servers at the moment and had to take it down for a bit. It will be up and down for the next week or two as we shift some things around. Amiga-News: Thank you Gary and Götz for this informations! Contact Information Amiga Inc. World Headquarter AMIGA, Inc. 34935 SE Douglas Street Suite 210 Snoqualmie, WA 98065 (USA) Phone +1-425-396-5660 Fax. +1-425-396-5671 email: gary@amiga.com WWW: Amiga Inc. [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 11:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Richard Kapp on ANF	GFX Lists On my homepage there are two lists showing an overview of Amiga games ad scene demos running on graphics boards. I would be happy to be able to continue the lists with support of the Amiga users. Moreover there are 12 new skins for CoolCALC on my homepage and some news on programs planned. [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 11:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Christoph Meier on ANF	Heise: Head of Gateway Resigns After Gateway beeing in the deep red in 4Q/2000 Jeff Weitzen, chairman of the board of management of the PC manufacturer, resigns. Ted Waitt, president of management, who founded Gateway in 1985, will line up for succession. More details are to find under title link in the official press release from Gateway. [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 11:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Christoph Meier on ANF	Chip: Napster to be Subscription Service in Summer »The Bertelsmann e-commerce group (BeCG) wants to attach fees for the use of the music exchange Napster from June or July, according to what the head of Bertelsmann, Thomas Middelhoff, said.« More details under the title link (German). [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 11:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Goetz Ohnesorge via eMail	New Amiga Emulation Mailing List Since a couple of days there is a new mailing list 'Amiga-Emulation' on Gary Peake's OWLNET.net-Server. Who wants to subscirbe may send a mail to majordomo@owlnet.net with subscribe emulation in the body of the mail (text field). The mailing lists 'Team Amiga Mailing List', 'Sofa-list', 'STRICQ-list', and 'Arexx-list' are also hosted there. More information are to find in the Mailing Lists section under the title link. [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 07:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Juergen Theiner on ANF	Play!Amiga Needs Your Help Soon the reworked version of Play!Amiga shall go online. There are some data from Amiga users still missing! Please, send the titles of three of your favourit games as soon as possible to Juergen Theiner for creating a chart list. Very important: a ',Fist Aid Database' with tips and trick all around installation and running of games is to be created. If you have a hint such as, "to insall the game XY first you have to manually set the assign 'XY'", please sent it quick. Thank you very much for your help. [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 07:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2001` Mikael 'XtaL' Fors on ANF	GameSpy Interview with Bill McEwen James Hill from Gamespy, Inc., the popular game portal, has done an interview with Bill McEwen. Read this interview under the title link. [News message: 30. Jan. 2001, 07:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2001` Horst Diebel on ANF	Big Book of Amiga Hardware updated 'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' was updated. There are 20 more or less big changes and additions. To be up-to-date Ian is always looking for new pictures and informations! It would be grate if some of you could mail new material to Ian (german or english). [News message: 29. Jan. 2001, 15:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2001` Brad Webb via eMail	Amiga Update - January 2001 Newsletter ====================================================================== ________ _________ ____ _\|__ __ __\|_______ _________ __\ _____ \\\\ \_ _/ //___// _____//______\ _____ \\ // \\\\ /. \\\\__ \/ __// \\ \\____. /// \\\\ /. \\ \\___\¯ /___///___\ /___\ \\_________//\\___\¯ /___// ¯ \/ ¯ ¯ \/. \|¯ ¯\|z!o ¯ ¯ \/ ¯ A M I G A \|#010128 \| U P D A T E \|________\| "SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW" ====================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A L T . W O A I N H U D D E R S F I E L D U K A M I G A 2 0 0 1 I N S T . L O U I S U S A C S & E L A T E S T P U B L I C A T I O N N E W S M A K E T O O L S D A E M O N W O R K W I T H 3 . 9 A M I G A Z O N E L O G O G O O D S N E W M E D I A T O R N E T . D E V I C E R E L E A S E D P U R E B A S I C 2 . 0 0 F R O M F A N T A I S I E N E W S K U L P T V E R S I O N A V A I L A B L E S E R V I C E M A N A G E R F O R F R E E N E W S T O R M C D E V E L O P E R S ' P A C K A G E V A P O R W A R E ' S M F T P I I 1 . 2 I S O U T Editor's Thoughts and Introduction: Over on Amiga.org, there's a lot of talk the last day or two about a new "Coldfire" processor model from Motorola. Pegged at 100% 68060 compatible and running at 300Mhz, it's generating a lot of excitement from Classic Amiga users. As nearly as we can tell, this isn't all that new news, seeming to go back originally to an article that appeared in "EE Times" on October 17 last. Whatever the case, does it really matter? We don't think so. The future of the Amiga is the new DE. The old 68K market is almost dead. All you need do is look at "Amiga Update". We've cut back to monthly, and the issues are smaller, because there just isn't much Amiga news any longer (we could run more articles by reporting on announced plans to develop software, or alpha releases, but we prefer to wait until there's a reasonably finished product). Until the DE is really established and growing, that's the way it will be. Even if there's somebody left to make boards for the new chip, all it will run is the older software. It might be handy for compatibility as an add-on board for new DE based machines, but we really doubt that's going to happen. Now, if there'd been a fast, truly compatible Coldfire chip a couple of years ago ... Other Amigans are justifiably concerned about the persistent rumors of money problems at Amiga Inc. We've been concerned as well. However, we're not ready to panic and write them off. The collapse of the .com investment market has made coming up with cash difficult for all startups. But, as MooBunny reported recently after talking with Bill McEwen, Amiga claims it's not failing to meet obligations and has products ready to go, unlike the .coms which died. That may make all the difference in the world, as long as Amiga can promote them and sell some. The fact that they apparently can't afford to attend key trade shows is quite worrisome, but doesn't necessarily signal the end of the world. As we've said often, time will tell. Meanwhile, there is still news in the Amiga community, as you can see below. It's mostly positive news, and we hope you enjoy it. Brad Webb, Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail to the E-ditor: 26 Dec 2000 If possible, in a future newsletter, I'd like to see any info that might be available concerning someo of the great Amiga software products which seem to have dropped off the "Radar" during the last few years. Products such as the SuperBase database (Still the best database I've ever used), Final Writer from Softwood (Again, the Best word processor I've ever used), etc. Are these products going to be part of the New Amiga? What happened to them? For instance, I read a report somewhere that the person who owned SuperBAse had died and that his widow now owns the rights, but is Not in a position, either financially or professionally, to do anything with those rights. True? False? Is there a "White Knight" software firm which could bring the product back?? Thanks for a great newsletter. Jerry ~~~~~~ Jerry, We'd love to run such information, and will if we get any stories or press releases that cover these products. SuperBase - most recently SBase 4 Pro or Personal - is still the database manager I use when I want to get real work done. At last year's Amiga show in St. Louis, it was possible to pick up an update disk from the current owner of the software rights. Since then, I've not heard a word. Brad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A L T . W O A I N H U D D E R S F I E L D U K This forthcoming Amiga show will be held on Saturday 24th February 2001 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Doors open at 12.00 noon and the show closes at 5.00pm The show is presented by the Huddersfield Amiga User Group (HAUG), co-sponsored by Eyetech and in conjunction with Wirenet The venue for alt.WoA is The Old Cornmill on the outskirts of Huddersfield. This location is less than one minutes drive from Junction 25 of the M62 Motorway. There is an onsite large free Car Park and the Hotel boasts both Restaurant and Bar Facilities. There is public transport access by Rail to Dewsbury then taking a bus from Dewsbury Bus Station for Brighouse (via Clifton.). Buses run every half an hour on the day of the show. For those interested in accomodation for the Saturday night, pay a visit to the website of CreativeTown.com for details of hotels and guest houses in the area. Exhibitors o Eyetech Group o Wirenet o Classic Amiga o Cartridge Club UK o Forematt Computing o Ram Jam Consultants o Weird Science o Epic Direct o Trogladite Software A number of Amiga User Groups are attending the show:- o Huddersfield Amiga Users Group o SEAL o The Amibench Team o Kickstart Amiga Users Group o Amiga North Thames o Glasgow Amiga User Group http://www.alt-woa.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A 2 0 0 1 I N S T . L O U I S U S A 26 January, 2001 Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey - Friday March 30 through Sunday April 1, 2001 Sheraton at West Port-Chalet, St. Louis, MO. USA Here are the latest highlights of the US's largest Amiga show. Cloanto is coming! They've never appeared at the Amiga show here before - making this a first! They will be exhibiting their latest release of Amiga Forever: The Amiga emulator for Windows and Macintosh. This cool piece of software allows you to actually run most Amiga software titles on Windows or Macintosh computers. Our friends at individual computers will be coming over from Europe and will exhibiting and selling their unique lines of expansion hardware for the Amiga. Eric Schwartz, highly regarded Amiga artist and luminary will be exhibiting and showing his wares at the Ami-Tech Dayton Amiga Users Group booth. Eric is the creator of Amy the Squirrel, the cartoon mascot of the Amiga, and the online comic Sabrina. We're also excited to announce that Charles Marks, the well known and noted artist of Claw Marks Productions is coming from Jonesboro Arkansas. He will exhibit and sell lithographs of St. Louis and is helping design the special Amiga 2001 show shirt that will be available for sale at the show. Confirmed exhibitors and name guests include: Amiga, FWD Computing, Merlancia Industries, CompuQuick Media Center, Dan's Deals, Cloanto, individual computers, Gateway Amiga Club Inc., Bounce-back Videos, Amigan-St. Louis, G & G Publishing, Mr. Hardware, Jurgen Haage of Haage and Partner, PC Journal, Brewster Productions, AmiTech Dayton Amiga Users Group, AmigActive Magazine, Nova Design, Northwest Amiga Group, Charles Marks, More exhibitors are being added each week, so check the web site. We also plan to have several exciting surprises - so don't miss out on this show! Specially priced tickets are available in advance by mail. Two day admission tickets.....$17. One day admission ticket......$12. If you elect to purchase tickets at the door, the prices are as follows: Two day ticket at the door....$20 One day ticket at the door... $15 Persons holding advance tickets will have a special line to reduce waiting. No check(s) should be mailed later than March 10th or there is a chance that they will not arrive at our office by the 17th, in time for processing for the show and return to you by first class mail. Please note that we will accept one check for Admission and Banquet tickets. Banquet price is $35 per person. Seminars are free. First come, first serve. No reservations on seminars. Only classes are ticketed. Make your check or money order payable to "Amigan-St. Louis" Send checks for admission and banquet* tickets to: Amigan St. Louis c/o Amiga 2K P.O. Box 672 Bridgeton, MO 63044 http://www.amiga-stl.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C S & E L A T E S T P U B L I C A T I O N N E W S 27 January, 2001 CS&E Media is a not for profit division of Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd, set up to provide a street publication for Oxford and raise money for the homeless and underprivileged. With the lack of advertising opportunities in the Amiga market, and our decision to leave games publishing on this format, we are also pleased to be supporting the Amiga and its companies with the first mass market English language publication since Amiga Format. As fans of the format we are offering our time for free and also hope to raise some money for charity at the same time. Currently European Amiga companies are starved of professional advertising opportunities. Not only can we offer the highest quality (as you can see from the attached previews), but also the best value due to offering free distribution, using an international printer, and of course being a not for profit organisation. Amiga Survivor offers a captive audience of buyers, not browsers, with English language copies being distributed for free across Europe to customers who spend money either on the coverdisk or with one of our distributors. Our distributors include Eyetech and Power who take 6,000 alone, but distribution is spread across Europe via the likes of GTI and Amiga Future also. There are over 30 user groups and smaller companies who are also distributors. A coverdisk at 3.99 a month will see the likes of Max Rally, Cosmo's Fun Class, Quake and Capital Punishment. You can order a subscription directly from CS&E at http://www.pc-software.com/store.html . We are currently operating a special offer whereby you can claim a free trial by credit card over the Internet or for 1 pound by cheque. Go to http://www.pc-software.com/store.html and enter your details as usual on the secure server, but you will not be billed and one issue will be sent out with a note asking for your decision. This store is specially set up not to charge the card, but of course regular subscriptions will shortly be available at http://www.amigasurvivor.com . Contact csande@csande.com if you have any questions or want to provide your details by e-mail. Due to the ever growing circulation figures, which now includes wide arrangements in Germany in particular, we will be putting the advertising rates up from Issue 10. These only reflect the costs of printing all the new issues. Special offers still apply if you book from Issue 9 which is coming out next week. You can find the old advertising rates which still apply for a few days at http://www.amigasurvivor.com . Look out for a website update very shortly. Due to the high entry costs to the market, Crystal Software and Electronics has made a strategic retreat from retail publishing and is now looking to work with more established publishers in this field, at least for the time being. Development is coming along well with many developers benefiting from our input into adding 'marketability' to their creativity, and securing successful distribution deals. Work is continuing on the http://www.pc-software.com website where we will offer flexible pricing models such as pay-per-play and rent-to-own on all titles. Several rent-to-own games and the pc-software.com website will be included with each retail product. David Connolly Managing Director Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd 7200 The Quorum Oxford Business Park Oxford OX4 2JZ http://www.csande.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- M A K E T O O L S D A E M O N W O R K W I T H 3 . 9 {One of the few real complaints about Amiga OS 3.9 is the failure of the very popular program ToolsDaemon to work with it. ToolsDaemon is among the best of the third party utilities available to add items to the Workbench's pulldown menus. This freeware utility fixes the problem and is simple to install. We've used it here and wouldn't be without it. You can find it on Aminet. Brad} Short: V1.0, WB 3.9 ToolsDaemon prefs converter Author: johnallan@forceofnature.f9.co.uk (John Nelson) Uploader: johnallan@forceofnature.f9.co.uk (John Nelson) Version: 1.0 Type: util/wb Requires: OS3.9 (V45+), ToolsPrefs (From ToolsDaemon) OVERVIEW Converts ToolsDaemon prefs file into an Arexx script to add the menus to os3.9 in a system legal way. As a new legal version of a ToolsDaemon-type util (with pretty prefs:)) is being worked on I don`t think this collection of scripts will be developed much b4 they are replaced by an all in one solution. FEATURES · Uses the nice simple ToolsPrefs · Multiple selected files (including 'leftout' files) · Multiple commands · Hotkeys (set in ToolsPrefs... so it must have a menu item) CHANGES v1.0 - 11 January 2001 First public release v0.4 - Last tested beta, this and the ones b4 are documented in the guide ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A Z O N E L O G O G O O D S 19 Jan 2001 {Perhaps our shortest press release ever, from the irascible Harv Laser, long time Amiga GoodGuy and founder of the AmigaZone. Brad} NEW! Buy Official AmigaZone Logo goods at: http://www.cafepress.com/amigazone ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N E W M E D I A T O R N E T . D E V I C E R E L E A S E D 26 January 2001 Elbox Computer has released today a new version (1.2) of MediatorNET.device for Mediator PCI for PCI Ethernet network cards. The new version of the driver enables simultaneous using of several PCI Ethernet cards in Amiga fitted with the Mediator PCI busboard. Support of New Style Device (NSD) has been added and operation procedures have been optimised in order to reach the maximum transfer performance. MediatorNET.device is a Sana-2 standard driver. This driver is compatible with all the Amiga TCP/IP software packages which can access a Sana-2 driver (e.g. Miami, MiamiDx, Genesis and AmiTCP). PCI Ethernet network cards installed in Mediator PCI are the fastest and the most cost-effective network cards for Amiga computers at the moment. Elbox Computer is offering PCI Ethernet cards with the following parameters: * RTL8029AS PCI local bus 32-bit single-chip Ethernet controller * 16K byte SRAM built in * Compliance with PCI V2.1 * Compliance with Ethernet II and IEEE802.3 10Base5, 10Base2, 10BaseT * Support for the Full-Duplex function to double channel bandwidth (20Mbps) * Support for Flow Control (802.3x) to improve network performance in the full-duplex mode * Built-in data prefetch function to improve performance * Built-in 10BaseT transceiver * Auto-detect capability between the integrated 10BaseT transceiver and AUI * BNC and RJ-45 wiring connectors * One LED on bracket providing LINK indicators Suggested street price for PCI Ethernet card: EUR 25.00 Why do you need a network card in Amiga? The ethernet card enables connecting Amiga with other computers. With such a connection you may have access to the Internet with a modem (regular modem, ISDN, SDI or commuted access) installed in another computer. With the SAMBA package (www.amigasamba.org), you may use resources (files, printers, etc.) of computers working under Windows 9x, Windows NT, DOS, OS/2 or UNIX connected in one network. When you install 2 network cards in your computer and use support for multiple interfaces available in the MiamiDx package (www.nordicglobal.com), you may use a PPP dial-up line and an Ethernet network connection at the same time; also, you may exchange data between different networks. MiamiDx is also offering the opportunity of protection networks by way of a built-in firewall. Unofficial e-group on MEDIATOR: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amiga-Mediator For subscribe mailto:Amiga-Mediator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P U R E B A S I C 2 . 0 0 F R O M F A N T A I S I E 20 January, 2001 PureBasic is a new "high level" programming language based on established BASIC rules. It is compatible with any other BASIC compiler, whether its for the Amiga or PC format. Learning PureBasic is very easy! PureBasic has been created for beginner and expert alike. Compilation time is really fast. We have put a lot of effort into its realization to produce a fast, reliable and system friendly language. The syntax is easy and the possibilities are huge with the "advanced" functions that have been added to this language like pointers, structures, procedures, dynamically linked lists and much more. For the experienced coder there are no problems gaining access to any of the legal OS structures or API objects. PureBasic is a portable programming langage which currently work on AmigaOS (680x0 and PowerPC) and Windows computer systems. This means than a same code can be compiled natively for the both OS and use the full power of each. There is no bottlenecks like a virtual machine or a code translator, the generated code is an producing an optimized executable. The external libraries are fully written in hand optimized assembler, which produce very fast commands often much faster than C/C++ equivalent. The main features of PureBasic: - Built-in arrays, dynamically linked lists, complex structures, pointers and variable definitions - Supported types: Byte (8 bits), Word (16 bits), Long (32 bits), Float (32 bits) and also user defined (structures) - Built-in string types (characters) - Constants, binary and hexadecimal numbers supported - Expression reducer by grouping constants and numeric numbers together - Standard arithmetic support in respect of sign priority and parenthesis: +, -, /, , and, or, lsl, asl, lsr, asr - Very fast compilation - Procedure support for structured programming with local and global variables - All Standard BASIC keywords: If-Else-EndIf, Repeat-Until, etc - External library support to manipulate objects like BMP pictures, windows, gadgets, DirectX, etc - External libraries are fully written in hand optimized assembler for maximum speed and compactness - The Win32 and AmigaOS API are fully supported as if they were BASIC keywords - Assembler Inline - Precompiled structures with constants files for extra fast compilation - Configurable CLI compiler - System friendly, easy to install and to use For 2.00: About the compiler: Completely rewritten ! * Now, it's 4 to 7 times faster to compile * Faster procedure handling * Multi-dimensionned arrays are now supported * Residents are now saved/loaded in one file * PowerPC code have been removed (nobody want it ?) * Some bugs have been fixed * The switch MC68020 have been added to the command line About the PureLibraries: * Rewritten the Sprite library (50% faster) and added several commands: SaveSprites(), LoadSprites(), RemoveCookie(), FlushSprite(), SpriteHandle(), CopySprite(), GrabSprite() * Added 'DisableDebugger' and 'EnableDebugger' to disable the debugger for some part within a program. * Added the debugger support for Sprite, Joypad, Chunky and Sound libraries. * Added the following commands: Processor(), MMU(), FPU(), RectsHit(), Hex(), Bin(). * Fixed some commands: ListIndex(), FontID(), DrawingFont() About the editor: * Added a keyboard shortcut to close the error window. Misc (Full version only): * SpriteGrabber (Allows to get sprites from a picture) * OpenPureBasic (C/C++ -> PureBasic convertor) http://www.purebasic.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N E W S K U L P T V E R S I O N A V A I L A B L E 20 January, 2001 New version of sKulpt released sKulpt is the successor of legendary 3D software "Sculpt Animate 3D/4D" by Eric Graham and Byte By Byte. The raytracing program used to have many fans for years, because it was easy to use, good value for money and efficiency. In amateur and professional circles many pictures have been created with this software. The successor sKulpt wird will be completely develloped by CdBSSoftware, and already supports PPC boards and Warp3D. At the moment, sKulpt is a project in development, yet supporting : o RTG support (any screen compatible with Warp3D drivers) o 060 and PPC versions (both compiled with StormC v3, waiting for StormC v4 w/GCC to have a good optimization). PPC version requiring WarpOS. o use of 3D hardware (works well with both CyberVision 64/3D and B\|CVisionPPC) o use of textures (any image file format supported by your installed Datatypes). Around 60 percent of its features are implemented and available. You can find more interesting details on the CdBSSoftware hompage. Requirements To run sKulpt, you need : o An Amiga (2000, 1200, 3000, 4000) with either a CyberVision 64/3D or a BlizzardVision PPC or a CyberVision PPC (the only Amiga graphics boards providing hardware 3D acceleration at the moment, respectively with the S3 Virge and the 3Dlabs Permedia2 chips), running at least OS3.0, o A minimum of 8 megs of free memory o Warp3D v3 installed and properly working with the provided test samples (WarpTest and Engine), either the 68K or the PPC version. o A shell window to launch sKulpt, in which you will have set the stack to around 120 Kbyte ("stack 120000") before launching sKulpt. It will look in the "gfx" and "textures" subdirectories for files (gfx sub directory contents should not be modified otherwise sKulpt may not work). http://cdbssoftware.net/english/skulpt.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S E R V I C E M A N A G E R F O R F R E E 31 December, 2000 {The following item was found on the Czech Amiga News site. Brad} Colin Wenzel: "I am just dropping a note around the net to let everyone know that my 'Service Manager' program has now been released as Freeware. It's a small business (appliance repair orientated style) control program that I run my business & about 12 others around here on... I have been keeping it under wrapps since I wrote it but I have decided to release it (classic version) to the Amiga community in anticipation of the new DE. So if you're interested, you may download the install archive from this URL: http://www.hotkey.net.au/~colstv/csm_dload/. There is also a mailing list setup at egroups Amiga-CSM the URL is at the bottom of the download page... Enjoy... Happy new year from Australia." Colin Wenzel, Col's Home Page ExiE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N E W S T O R M C D E V E L O P E R S ' P A C K A G E Dolgesheim, den 28.8.2000. Last Sunday, in the sub-division of the company HAAGE&PARTNER Computer GmbH in Dolgesheim, the new StormC developers package was presented for the first time in a select circle. During the yearly summer festival, a lot was discussed about the past and the future. Among the many guests were employees of the company Hyperion (Heretic II, ...) and ESCENA (PowerPC-Boards), who showed enthusiasm after the presentation The most important feature of the new developers system is the step forwards towards the new AmigaOS. At the moment everything still runs on the Classic Amiga, and that is how it will be presented, but everything was developed anew with easy portability in mind. A big step towards more up-to-date system has been made through the decision to support the GNU-Compiler in a modified version. The current Storm-Compiler is not less professional, but not easy to port to other systems. The new StormGCC is very compatible to the StormC compiler, supports known preprocessor symbols (for instance __FUNC__), writes in 68K as well as in PPC the Amiga Hunk-Format in object files and creates the same debug file format as StormC. The PowerPC version of StormGCC supports the PowerOpen/WarpOS conventions. In the new StormC the network capabilities are of very high importance. StormC now can be used by a programming team working on one project, without problems. An important utility in this respect is CVS Concurrent Versions System. With the aid of CVS multiple developers can work on one project or source code at the same time, and link their changes in a controlled fashion. StormC shows in the project version number and status of the files, and color marks files that might give problems. The network capabilities are rounded off by the now distributed Make. In a network, multiple computers can be used simultaneously to compile a project. StormC finds free computers automatically, and moves compiling jobs to those. A Make Logfile keeps track of various compiler commands, error messages, and allows for an exact error diagnosis in complex projects. Further novelties can be found in the project management and the editor. With the aid of the global search the entire project or all projects, including hierarchical projects can be searched with full text search including AmigaDOS patterns. It is possible, by double clicking the search result, to go directly to the relevant position in the source code. The user can now create his own sections, and decide what kind of files should be put there, and how they should be edited, shown or compiled. Sections can be sorted alphabetically and colored in different colors A helpmeet gives extensive Online Help to StormC, GCC, AmigaOS Includes and Autodocs. A bubble-help provides basic help when required. The new editor now also colorizes CVS-conflicts, installer- and AmigaGuide-commands according to new dictionaries. When typing the name of known system functions, the appropriate prototype is shown, which makes further input of parameters for these functions much easier. The double-click on a file path (for instance in an include command) loads the file in a new . Furthermore the keyboard layout is freely configurable. A new addition is a program for documentation. With StormDOC one creates ToDo-lists, bug reports, and program documentation. It keeps track of all actions of the user, knows the various destination groups and circumstances of the list, who can all also be configured as search criteria. The new debugger cooperates on 68K- and PPC WarpOS programs with the StormCompiler and StormGCC. The debugging is now no longer limited to one program - Tasks and Shared Libraries can now also be edited step by step. When Enforcer-hits occur, the debugger immediately shows the position of the source of evil in the source code. All in all, StormC 4 is fully revamped and greatly enhanced tool, that will once again speed up software-development on the Amiga, and will create it more professionally. The news of version 4 in an overview Network capabilities / shared Make modified GCC Compiler for 68k and PPC CVS Concurrent Versions System enhanced Editor (Shows Prototypes of Functions) StormDOC to manage ToDo-lists, bug reports and so on. enhanced debugger (for GCC also) debugging of Tasks and Shared Libraries global full text search comprehensive Online-Help Opinions Steffen Häuser of Hyperion, responsible for the conversion of Sxx for the Amiga, said about the new compiler: "The combination of the gcc code generator with StormC's advantages of the debugger, the comfortable IDE, the MixedBinaries and the possibility to create Shared Libraries in an easy way looks like a very nice compiler system. The distributed-make facility to reduce compilation time and the integration of CVS into the IDE are very welcome. We are looking forward to employing the new StormC in future projects. Adaptions of a first project from gcc to the new StormC worked flawlessly. Support for Elate VP Code in a future version will also be very interesting to us." Availability The price of StormC 4 is 498,- DM. Customers of older versions of StormC can get an update for the price of only 198,- DM. The first presentation was at WOA 2000 in December last year. StormC 4 is available right away. www.haage-partner.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- V A P O R W A R E ' S M F T P I I 1 . 2 I S O U T 13 January, 2001 mFTP-II is a File Transfer Protocol client that allows the transferring of files from one computer to another. Some sites may be restricted, requiring the use of an assigned user name and password, while most sites (such as business and corporations) allow anonymous FTP, in which you will usually give your email address as the password. mFTP-II also allows you to upload files to any remote computer. This is an ideal way to maintain your web page, uploading files and pages. You can even open two FTP connections and then transfer files between those sites! Please remember, mFTP-II is shareware. If you use it, please register the software and help support Amiga software development. Requirements o Workbench 2.x o MUI 3.x o TCP/IP compatible stack Genesis, Miami, AmiTCP, .. Features o Multithreaded and object oriented design o Connect to multiple FTP sites at once o Site-to-Site transfer (via you) o High speed async. transfers o Batch download facility o Resume partially received files o Optional Contact Manager 'Phonebook' as GUI o Download, DirTool and ADT GUI Layouts, per host o ADT Support and filter feature o Drag & drop GUI functionality o ADT-Find search for Aminet servers o AmFTP profiles import o CHMOD support http://www.vapor.com/mftp/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amiga Update on the net: All back issues available at: http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html Stop by and check out our archive! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2000 by Brad Webb. 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`29.Jan.2001` Stefan Popp via eMail	Source Code of Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force Holomatch v1.10 As reported in issue 02/2001 of c't (page 176), the source code of 'Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force Holomatch v1.10' is available at 3D Downloads. Ravensoft published the source code to make the development of add-ons easier. The "Source Code Release" is only some kind of "Add-on-Source-Code". That means that this release does not contain the 3d engine, but only parts of the game-logic to make the programming of add-ons easier. To use these add-ons you need the windows or linux full version of the game. These sources cannot be used to port the game to the Amiga. [News message: 29. Jan. 2001, 09:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2001` Dietmar Knoll via eMail	GAUHPIL Millennium Info GAUPHIL is the biggest Amiga user-list available at the internet. Since 1994 Dietmar Knoll is collecting the names of Amiga-users all over the world. He publishes these names at his homepage. Today the list contains 995 users from 38 countries. If you want to be a member of the list mail your personal informations to dknoll@myokay.net [News message: 29. Jan. 2001, 08:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2001` Markus Lück on ANF	New Background Pictures for AmigaOS 3.9 Markus Lück wrote: First of all I would like to say thank you for the positive reactions that followed the release of os39wallp.lha (Aminet). Today the second archive is available at the aminet (os39wallp2.lha). Will there be a third archive? This depends on the quality of RealSoft3D and if I have the money to by it. The raytracers I am using at the moment are old and not very fast and especially Cinema4D has many bugs. Download: os39wallp2.lha - 1,6 MB [News message: 29. Jan. 2001, 07:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2001` Rene Stelljes via eMail	AmigaHelpGuide News AmigaHelpGuide is a list of active Amiga users. A HTML version is now available at the title link. [News message: 29. Jan. 2001, 07:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2001` Chris Hodges via eMail	MAS MPeg Device v1.0 Since today, Chris Hodges offers an MAS MPeg Device on his homepage for the MAS3507D player by Dirk Conrad (which is connected to the parallel port). This finally enables people to use all software which uses the standard commodore mpeg.device, such as AMPlifier, Frogger or MPegMovie. Download: MASMPegDevice.lha (6K), Readme [News message: 28. Jan. 2001, 23:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2001` Chris Hodges via eMail	FormAldiHyd v2.0 Beta with WacomIV Support On 1st of January Chris Hodges has updated his tablet driver software for the Aldi/Tevion/Medion and AipTek/HyperPen tablets and included an experimental WacomIV mode. As he does not own such a WacomIV tablet himself and had no time to continue development due to lack of time, he depends on the response and feedback of users with WacomIV tablets who test the new driver and tell him what works and what doesn't. Contact address: chrisly@platon42.de Download: FormAldiHyd20beta.lha (48K), Readme [News message: 28. Jan. 2001, 23:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2001` amiga.org	Amiga: New Forums On www.amigadev.net are now different new forums for AmigaDE users and developers online. [News message: 28. Jan. 2001, 21:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2001` Kymon Zonias on ANF	iFusion Tests go Into Final Lap According to amiga.org Blittersoft has received the latest beta of iFusion from Microcode Solutions. According to Blittersoft iFusion has been successfully tested on 060/PPC systems. Now just the 040/PPC combination (BlizzardPPC) is undergoing some tests. [News message: 28. Jan. 2001, 18:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2001` F1 Software	F1: eBay Client and 2 New Games F1 Software has released detailed information about their announced eBay client 'AmiBud'. This runs on AmigaOS 2+ and faciliates the use of eBay. Additionally two new games are announced. These will be developed in C++ and shall come out for Windows, Amiga, MacIntosh and possibly for AmigaDE. Further details regarding these games do not exist yet. [News message: 28. Jan. 2001, 18:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2001` JST	JST v4.5b On 28. January 2001 the version 4.5b of JST has been released. JST makes the installation of games on harddisc possible and offers patches that improve the compatibility of games in relation to more up-to-date Amiga systems. In this version was a bug fixed with regard to the Phase5 68060 libs and the Silkworm loader updated (OS 3.5 icon and other things). Download: jst.lha [News message: 28. Jan. 2001, 18:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2001` eisblock on ANF	AmigaOnlineGames Update On 28. January 2001 three more games were added to the AmigaOnlimeGames site and therefore the site comes to a number of 34 games that can be played on the Amiga via different networks. Hints to further games and information can be sent to AmigaOG@web.de. [News message: 28. Jan. 2001, 17:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2001` CD32 Allianz on ANF	Searching for Retailers of CD32/CDTV Hard- & Software The CD32 Allianz wrote: As it becomes more and more difficult to get hard- & software for the CD32 & CDTV I'd like to ask those retailers who still have articles for these systems in their stocks to contact me so I can let the users know it in the CD32 corner. Contact address: CD32-Allianz@gmx.de [News message: 28. Jan. 2001, 17:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2001` Matthias Henze on ANF	New Version (V.44.50 beta 7) of the HSMathLibs Again there is a new version of the HSMathLibs for MC68040 and MC68060 for registered users. Many bugs were fixed and some smaller optimisations were done. The most significant enhancements in this version for sure are full compatibility with OS3.9 and support of (hopefully) all special cases of the math-libraries. [News message: 27. Jan. 2001, 19:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2001` CUCUG	CUCUG: Status Register January 2001 The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. It handels current and important information regarding Amiga, Macintosh and PC, as well as the computer industry. [News message: 27. Jan. 2001, 17:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2001` AMIOPEN-ML/Jorge Pino on ANF	Specifications for Handheld Software under SDK Amiga Inc. released the specifications for developers to create software for Palm/Handheld/PDA computers on the official AmigaSDK developer list [AMIOPEN-ML]. Following the data: QVGA (240320 Pixel) 16 Bit Color 16 Bit Stereo (audio available form SDK-Version 1.1) Controls via 2 buttons (a+b) and one Game Boy typ Directional Device Shall be smaller than 2 MB. Suggestions for game genres: scramble/defender types space invaders/galaxians types platformers puzzle games sports stuff To make this possible create a standard AVE window and add a 16 bit 240320 pixmap. Gary Peake thinks this also to be another way to get more experience with the AmigaSDK. [News message: 27. Jan. 2001, 16:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2001` AIO	AIO Issue 43 Released Issue #43 of the online magazine 'AIO' (Amiga Information Online) has been released. Still more authors of articles and reviews are wanted. Download: AIOV43.LHA [News message: 27. Jan. 2001, 15:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2001` Hyperion Software	Hyperion: Shogo: Progress Report Thomas Frieden wrote in the status report that Shogo now officially has entered beta test stage. This means that everything has been integrated to the game and the only task left is to find possible bugs. Read the entire report under the title link. [News message: 27. Jan. 2001, 15:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2001` Christian Bauer	ShapeShifter V3.11 Released Christian Bauer has updated his Mac emulator 'ShapeShifter' and made version 3.11 available for download. Download: ShapeShifter3_11.lha - 281 kB [News message: 27. Jan. 2001, 15:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2001` Fun Time World	SoftCinema and How to Get New Codecs Sebastian Brylka from Fun Time World did a summary of a Polish article (see title link) which we review here by his agreement. «Jacek Cybularczyk, author of SoftCinema, released an article about the origin of new codecs for the video player on Amiga.com.pl. This article was written in Polish, thus here only the most important details. Meantime the program SoftCinema can read the two formats OpenDivX and soon 3ivX, too. Still missing e.g. is MPEG-4 support and several other not quite legal codecs. The problem about those is that sources of the formats are not free available. But there are some possibilities to fix this problem, too. Though there are codecs for MPEG-4 and DivX on Macintosh, but due to missing documentations of the Macintosh resources and extensions this all might be difficult, somehow. The authors also don't seem to have a PowerMac for disassembling. In case of the second possibility the author wrote that many might think this to be moronic, but the thing works. You take the Windows dll's for help. Work started about two month ago. The technic used is called "binary translation". First the x86 code gets prepared for the C preprocessor in form of a macro instruction. Much of the work takes the program TX86 which can read the dll's (comparable to Amiga libraries) and convert them to C code. This isn't done total automatically, so you still have to correct much yourself. The this way created code is compiled and can be executed under a Windows emulated environment called WIN32ENV. In this a part of Win32 and some important libraries are emulated. This all works on a PowerPC native only. Though all possible codecs run, but speed is at flabby 1 FPS. To get things somehow faster the code, which contains about 17,000 lines of macro instructions, must get optimized. Unfortunately without optimization 72 MB are not enough to compile, thus the rest of the work were done under APUS with a 200 MB SWAP file. For an optimized compilation a 1 GB SWAP file was needed. The procedure took about 13 hours. But the effort was worth while, meantime everything runs much faster. Next the dll's will be converted to assembler to gain even better speed. This is possible after analysing the C codes and using what GCC has generated. Later on everything will get optimized once more. After profiling often used program parts either will be re-written or more heavy optimized. [News message: 27. Jan. 2001, 14:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2001` Xandiy on ANF	Amiga-Community.net: Writing Race... Since one might have to offer more than one Euro for 4 opinions Amiga-Community.net decided to organize a small competition. Who will write the most opinions until Thursday, 12:00 am MET will win a price: 1. price - Amiga OS 3.9 CD 2. price - Fondation Gold Ed. CD 3. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy 4. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy 5. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy Important: For the form item "Member" fill in your e-mail address. But this is only applys to non-members! Members will fill in their membership number, cause by this their points will be double credited. Some days after the competition expired winners will be announced on the site and informed by e-mail. Opinions will be rated in my discretion, so don't write only 10 words. For more questions ask: xandiy@amiga-vip.de. [News message: 27. Jan. 2001, 13:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2001` Jan Andersen via eMail	VirusHelp Denmark with New Mailing List VirusHelp Denmark has created a new mailing list at YahooGroups, which will replace the old ML at eGroups. The new mailing list will be public, so everybody will be able to read it. Postings will only be accepted by VHT themselves. All members of the old mailing list at eGroups were already subscribed to the new mailing list at Yahoo and should trouble-less receive the announcements via e-mail, as usual. Though it's advisable to subscribe again at Yahoo to be able to take part in e.g. polls. More information on how to subscribe/unsubscribe can be found under the title link. [News message: 27. Jan. 2001, 13:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2001` Andy Holzher via eMail	New Exec V44.1 public beta 1 and New MapROM Harry "Piru" Sintonen has made available for download version 44.1 of Exec as official beta version on his website. This is about a non-official Exec version optimized and faster than the official one, according to himself. Use at your own risk. Furthermore Piru published version 1.24beta5 of his MapROM tool 'BlizKick' for phase5/DCE acceleration boards. Download: exec44_1_beta1.lha - 56 kB BlizKick.lha - 245 kB [News message: 27. Jan. 2001, 13:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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