26.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
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
UidlRem.lha comm/mail 5K+Automatic daily YAM .uidl file deleter :
MWI-SDV30.lha demo/mag 1.3M+SAVE DA VINYL #30 - packmag by Madwizard
SamplesMaster.lha dev/amos 92K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
ASweeperSrc106.lha dev/basic 24K+Source for AGA Workbench MineSweeper V1.
clockita.lha dev/basic 66K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
flstack.lha dev/c 11K+Fixed length stack ADT
select_gc.lha dev/gui 67K+BOOPSI pop-up, cycle and button gadget
titlebar_ic.lha dev/gui 24K+BOOPSI class of titlebar gadget images
amigatalk.lha dev/lang 464K+A GUI version of 'Little Smalltalk' (V1.
MCC_GLArea_Dev.lha dev/mui 408K+MUI Custom class for StormMesa rendering
MCC_GLArea_Usr.lha dev/mui 126K+MUI Custom class for StormMesa rendering
MCC_ImageDB.lha dev/mui 25K+MUI Custom class for loading images.
AutoMounter.lha disk/misc 15K+AutoMount tool for any changeable disk d
IoJazOS3.9.lha disk/misc 9K+Iomega Jaz 1GB DOS Drivers/Icons for Ami
FBlitGuideGR.lha docs/hyper 26K+Greek translation of FBlit.guide (v3.73)
stccg.lha docs/hyper 1.7M+AmigaGuide to Star Trek CCG from Deciphe
Amigo6_3.lha game/board 91K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
EgyptianWDC.lha game/data 19K+Egyptian landscape for Worms DC
Connect4.lha game/think 52K+Connect 4 game using MUI (with source)
FlashMandel.lha gfx/fract 4.1M+The best fractal rendering program for A
IOBlixUsr.lha hard/drivr 294K+V37.17, IOBlixZ2 and IOBlix1200 software
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 673K+V1.59 PSX MemoryCard Reader
breed_junk.lha mods/hardc 121K+A good acidcore DBM module by Breed
rno-r054.mpg mods/mpg 5.0M+Rno-records release no.54 by Earthstar (
breed_egg.lha mods/techn 232K+A minimal acid DBM module by Breed
3PMGUI_Skins1.lha mus/play 13K+8 Semi nice skins for 3PMGUI
OnePoWeRweek.jpg pix/misc 85K+ONE PoWeR WEEK Background by aMiGa=PoWeR
Blessings.lha pix/wfm 179K+Blessings; Artwork&Literature
alba.lha util/boot 56K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
WarpBMPdt.lha util/dtype 42K+Windows BMP datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 297K+Report+ 4.22: Multipurpose utility
coolCalc_sk.lha util/wb 48K+2 new skins for CoolCalc
mainprefs.lha util/wb 66K+OS 3.5,3.9 Preferences GUI
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26.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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WB2000 Images Update V1.5
Since the last archive about 90 new images for users of the startup tool
WB2000 were added - the archive now contains about 390 IFF images.
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26.Jan.2001
Markus Schmidt via eMail
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ICQ User List
The ICQ user list's sign-up form didn't work for some time. Sadly, this has
been noticed only just today because of a hint. The error was fixed immediately.
All those who have tried in vain to sign up, please try again.
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26.Jan.2001
Andreas Kuerzinger via eMail
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Andreas Kuerzinger HP Updated
Andreas Kuerzinger has made available version 1.1 of his
AKCatalogs (35 catalogs for various programs) on his homepage. Also the
Amiga links page was finished and many other pages updated.
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26.Jan.2001
Elbox via eMail
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Elbox: Version 1.2 MediatorNET.device
Elbox has released a new version 1.2 of the MediatorNet.device for Mediator PCI
for PCI ethernet network cards, today. Changes in the new version:
The new version of the driver enables simultaneous using of several PCI
Ethernet cards in Amiga fitted to 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).
You can find further details at the title link.
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26.Jan.2001
Reader on ANF
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nectarine * looking for host
A regular listener of the demo radio station 'nectarine *' wrote:
"Hi and hello, as regular listener I have sad news which could still be turned into a
story with happy end until end of February.
What is Nectarine? At nectarine.ojuice.net/index.htm
you'll find a very special internet radio. They broadcast music of game classics
and well-known sceners. Further, you can upload tracks as a small home producer.
This all results in an interesting music mix which clearly stands out from the
usual droning.
Well and now, where's the problem?
Nectarine needs a new HOST... here's the original message:
Why Nectarine can close at the end of February
- For now, Nectarine is friendly hosted by the company where i work
(http://www.poliris.com) as Orange Juice
webserver etc.. They help us a lot with hardware, technologie and prices for
LTP (remember the travel for Amiga competition at LTP IV). They paid every
month for an Easynet 12 mb/s ATM line but in March they will pay only for the
bandwith that the company needs. So, as nectarine isn't a company project i
can't ask them to pay for us. Maybe you noticed that they didn't ask for any
adverts at all.
- Nectarine needs a new host (best is in Paris) where i can put the 2 computers
of Nectarine Radio. The total amount of bandwith needed could be a very stable
1.5~2mb/S or more and we can find relays everywhere to reduce the total amount.
In exchange we can promote the company who host us with banners, jingles etc...
If you think that you can help us then just send an email to me.
Every emails will be answered.
For now, those peoples try to help us: Scene.org ! Audiorealm ! SonicBox ! and lot
of Nectarine lovers ! thx
ciao THOMAS SiEGEL aka d!RT!e (Organiser of mOOdS.2xs.de)"
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26.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: New TCP Trojan Found
A new 'TCP' Trojan was found in New Zealand. So far it isn't known what
installs the trojan, but Zbigniew Trzcionkowski, the programmer of Safe, has already updated
his virus detector so that the Trojan can be found in memory.
The TCP Trojan replaces "c:mount" by a 7484 byte long file and creates a new file "c:f".
The new file c:mount is a clone of the Vaginitis virus.
More information on the new TCP Trojan:
Virus type: TCP Trojan
Trojan name: Explode
Trojan size: 7484 Bytes (c:mount) - 232 bytes (f)
Archive name: ? (still unknown)
Archive size: ? (still unknown)
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26.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: Safe V 14.7 Released
Version 14.7 of Safe has been released. Safe is a virus detector, the program can
only find, but not remove viruses.
Name: Safe v14.7
Archive name: safe.lha
Archive size: 20.853 Bytes
Date: January 26th, 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: Requires xvs.library v33.24
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26.Jan.2001
Greg Donner
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Greg Donner's OS3.9 FAQ Updated
The official OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), maintained by Greg Donner, was updated.
The sections 'undocumented features', 'internet applications', 'known bugs' and 'miscellaneous'
were made up-to-date.
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26.Jan.2001
amiga.dk
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Winter Amiga Congress '01 in Denmark
The Amiga party 'Amiga Congress '01' takes place from March 2nd to 4th, 2001
in Hvidovre, Denmark.
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26.Jan.2001
Ina Sielaff via eMail
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Motorola COLDFIRE® Processor News
As the manufacturer was criticized continuously by the current 68k users because the
currently available COLDFIRE® processor has neither FPU nor (sufficiently 68k compatible)
MMU, the engineering team has designed a new ColdFire (4e) which contains both FPU and
MMU and is supposed to replace the 68k generation.
Motorola wants to take this step to "untie" their current customers from the (apparently
still sold in huge amounts) 68k processors. The soon to be released, ABSOLUTELY 68k compatible
ColdFire 4e is supposed to take their place and replace the old processor family in future.
Here you'll find further details on the
COLDFIRE4® processor.
Suplement:
More links on this subjects:
Technical description Coldfire4e
Coldfire Roadmap
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26.Jan.2001
(cd)
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test.amigadev.net Runs on AmigaDE
The test page created by Amiga Inc. test.amigadev.net/
runs according to a http:// request issued by telnet on a server "AmigaDE zAMilo V0.098".
Looks like the FTP server would be running on wu-ftpd (it's possible that it may be ported
to AmigaDE).
The server reacts to "finger", but nobody was logged in. www.amigadev.net and test.amigadev.net
are at least hosted in entirely different nets, not on the same computer.
The test page currently shows a logo which poses the question: "Can you write multimedia apps
that run in a dozen host environments?" and answers it with the 'Artix logo and "zAMilo http server"
powered by Amiga Digital Environment'.
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25.Jan.2001
Mark Wilson via eMail
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AmiBench.org - Domain Problems
AmiBench.org might be not accessible under the used domain amibench.org during next days.
The reason why is the change of the domain register station.
These days you can use the following alternative URL's:
http://www.amibench.com
http://www.amibench.net
http://ami.bencher.org
It is not determined by now how long the change will take.
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25.Jan.2001
Individual Computers
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Individual Computers News
MiamiDX lisences arrived, Lyra under production
From now on the X-Surf ethernet / MiamiDX bundle again is available form
all of the trading partners. Who already owns a X-Surf card can purchase
MiamiDX at a special price by presenting his/her bill - simple ordering by
e-mail. At the time being MiamiDX is the only possibility to use T-DSL
(German Telekom) with the Amiga and wasn't available from German vendors
for a long time.
The keyboard adapter Lyra is now under production. The first adapters in versions
for A2000, A3000, and A4000 will be available from all of the trading partners in the first
week of February. The Eternity company already verified Lyra to be the only adapter that supports
simultaneous pressing of several keys. This allows playing games also with a PC-keyboard connected
to the Amiga.
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25.Jan.2001
CD32-Allianz on ANF
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CD32/CDTV User List Published
Kindly supported by Henning Schlautmann recently the first
own CD32/CDTV user list has been published at the CD32-Corner.
Now I would like to ask users owning a CD32/CDTV or being interested
in this to enlist. You can enlist online.
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25.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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GlowIcons Update V1.5
From now on the update of the MiniGlowicons v1.5 can be downloaded from
our homepage. Since last version about 90 icons for start-bars supporting
icon.library v44.x were added.
The archive now overall contains short to 430 icons.
Note: The identical archive for WB2000 user with all of the
new IFF pictures will be available from our homepage from January, 27th.
Icons missing? Do you have suggestions or icons which should be converted
to the mini-format? Write to
info@synotec-newmedia.
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25.Jan.2001
Richard de Rivaz on ANF
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INET DIAL v3.838 Update
INET DIAL v3.838 now includes support for OS3.9 Genesis TCP/IP stack
as well as remote email retrieval. INET DIAL is an integrated Internet
and remote computer connection facility which handles 'dial-in' and
'dial-out' connections.
Genesis is provided with a simple installation facility. INET DIAL now
includes support for reading e-mails remotely which had been previously
automatically downloaded by INET DIAL to your home base computer.
Download: inet_dial.lha
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25.Jan.2001
Dietmar Eilert
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Distributed BASIC
Distributed BASIC is a BASIC-Interpreter released in form of a shared library.
A beta version is available for download. More details under the title link.
Download: basic.lha - 234 kB
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25.Jan.2001
T.o.T.
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Tales of Tamar News
Development of the e-mail strategy game constantly precedes.
As for Tales fo Tamar the players send their moves in form of e-mails
via the Internet to the Eternity server. This method allows
turns from tow to three days and thus a more dense game atmosphere.
Additionally a sort of online chat will support the feeling of togetherness.
The players can directly log-in there and chat with other users or
players.
On 01-19.2001 the chronic of the year 60 were added and today a corrected
version of the German FAQ was put online.
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25.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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SoftCinema Version 0.11 Released
Version 0.11 of SoftCinema is available for download for registered users.
The following changes and enhancements were done for the movie- and animation player:
- QuicktimeVR Bugfix.
- New AVI Codec: DIVX.
- New QT Codec: 3ivX (will not work until the 3ivX codec has been released,
which should happen in a few days).
- Some problems with displaying of HAM8 fixed.
- Some problems with AVI color palette handling fixed.
- For option 'GRAY' now a FULLSCREEN is taken, to utilize 8bpp screen
- Other smaller changes for codecs speed enhancement regarding.
Download: SoftCinema.lha - 400 kB
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24.Jan.2001
Tumult
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New MUI-class: ImageDB.mcc
All new MUI-classes are collected and registered at TUMULT. Yesterday, Bodmer Stephan has registered his
new MUI-class 'ImageDB.mcc'. With the help of it images can be loaded into databases using guigfx.library.
Further details.
Besides this there is an update of the GLArea.mcc-class (v0.9).
Download page
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24.Jan.2001
Blittersoft
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Blittersoft Website with New Design
The website of Blittersoft was completely re-designed. There is a seperate Amiga sector in the shop.
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24.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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AmigaOne Website at Eyetech
You can find the new AmigaOne website of Eyetech under the title link which contains information to the
boards developed by Eyetech.
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24.Jan.2001
Amiga Impact
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muFS patch V45.10 beta
You can find a patch (betaversion 45.10) by Etienne Vogt for the multi-user-filesystem 'muFS' under AmigaOS 3.5
and higher under the title link. Please read the readme
for further details.
Download: muFS4510p.lha
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24.Jan.2001
AmigActive
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AmigActive goes Active Media
The English Amiga magazine 'AmigActive' has created a new online area called "Active Media". This area
will inform you about an outstanding selection of DVDs, CD-ROMs, books and other multimedia publications
and it is possible to buy them online. Besides this in "Active Media" there is an area in which you can read
former reviews.
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24.Jan.2001
AmigArt
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Nightlong Review from AmigArt
In the clickBOOM portal you can also find a 68k 1.2 beta version
which is to solve the RTG-Master problem. Registered users can download it there.
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24.Jan.2001
Xandiy on ANF
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Amiga-Community.net News
Amiga-Community.net is looking for at least one sponsor in order to be able to double the bonus for written opinion
and to increase the incentive for the readers. Interested parties may please mail to
xandiy@amiga-vip.de.
Meanwhile the offer of assessments has increased to about 70 products/websites/dealers.
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24.Jan.2001
CGrX
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New Graphics Board Information
You can find new information about current graphics boards on the website of CyberGraphX.
Among others it is reported there that G3/G4 Power PC-cards (Shark), which has been announced by Elbox
for this January, will not be released before late March/early April. Elbox decided to re-designing the
cards in order to make them AmigaDE compatible.
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24.Jan.2001
Andreas Kürzinger via eMail
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Homepage of Andreas Kuerzinger Online
Andreas Kuerzinger wrote:
"Currently only the "About me" and the Amiga-sites work (in German as well as in English) but the rest
will follow soon.
Among other things you can download my projects like AKIconz, AKBackPix, AKTaskiSMS, some German catalogs
for several programs and something more (ScreenTab-images, WB-Screenshots, etc.) from the Amiga-sites."
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24.Jan.2001
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amiga-news.de Now in Japanese, Too
From now on the messages which are relevant for Japan in amiga-news.de will be translated into Japanese by
AmigaNut which is a Japanese Amiga dealer.
Thank you very much AmigaNut.
[News message: 24. Jan. 2001, 17:09] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jan.2001
Newtek Germany on ANF
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AURA 2 for TVPaint User
Currently there is a special offer for former Amiga user of TVPaint. The original of Aura (PC) formerly was TVPaint.
More than 10.000 pieces has been sold of TVPaint in Europe (Amiga, Windows, SGI). All TVPaint user can
update to "AURA 2 for TVPaint user" to a special price.
Requirement: TVPaint serial number
This offer is valid till 31st of March 2001.
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24.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: Corel Will Keep Linux Branch as Seperate Company
Following two extracts from the Heise article:
«Except of the new Linux strategy the already for a long time announced company strategy of Corel contains
no big surprises.
...[snip]...
It remains Linux. Corel will not abandon the Linux business as speculated in the last weeks. They still
want to offer a complete Linux solution to the customers. To do so Corel intends to outsource the Linux distribution
into a seperate company, but to continue to work on Linux versions of WordPerfect Office Suite and CorelDRAW themselves.
But there is nothing about .NET for Linux.»
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23.Jan.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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New Details about the CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 NG
Due to great demand here a more detailed list of what has changed
in Install Kit v4.0:
- Install2001 supports RTG graphic mode for owner of graphics boards.
- There are both, a Gadtools and a MUI interface for the Install Kit.
- Many new games can be installed / emulated.
- Install2001 uses almost a half less memory, which especially enhances compatibility.
- Both interfaces were completely made over and now are much more user-friendly.
- There are more settings possible.
- CD-ROM support was enhanced substantially.
- The build-in emulator now supports more CD32 specific stuff.
Moreover of course there are many other enhancements as well as bugfixes done.
The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 is exclusively available on the
'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition' CD-ROM, which can be ordered from me.
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23.Jan.2001
Olaf Koebnik
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - UAC Design Bonus!
"The Hunting Games" by Frank Abbing ready for download. There are
the following games:
'Plakat schiessen', which works similar to the Moorhuhn game principle,
cause one should shoot as much signboards as possible within one minute, but of course
not the hunters!
In the case of 'Scheiben drehen' you shoot on plates until all of them
face into the same direction. A plate hit will always do one quarter rotation more
than the others. Who will make the best time?
Amiga Arena - UAC Design Updates!
There are several updates online for games Frank Abbing from UAC Design made available
to the Amiga Arena. The quiz game Awaking AGA/ECS is now there as executable version.
The game can be played directly from harddisk, no longer .adf format. Risiko v1.7 is now
there as the freeware version.
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23.Jan.2001
Timo Kloss via eMail
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Inutilis News about Ermentrud
Ermentrud is a new adventure game under development at Inutilis.
More information and screenshots are to find under the title link.
Timo Kloss, programmer of the game, wrote:
'Ermentrud (Amiga)' accidently now has got an interactive 'dialog system' using
the common multiple choice method. Since also the inventory system is finished the next demo version
will almost (almost (almost (...))) show a completed engine, already. Unfortunately this demo doesn't
exist for now, but arguably will do somewhere down the road....
Originally we would have liked to already take the 'tavern scenes of the movie' last weekend,
but we didn't....
This weekend (or even the following Mon/Tue) we are to proceed, really!
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23.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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SimpleMail Homepage Moved
The website of the new e-mail program SimpleMail by Sebastian Bauer and Hynek Schlawack
was completely made over and is now accessible under
http://simplemail.sourceforge.net/.
[News message: 23. Jan. 2001, 20:02] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
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
ddup-3.0.1.lha comm/net 21K+Dynamic DNS service client
ddup-3.0.1_src.lha comm/net 31K+Dynamic DNS service client
hserv.lha comm/tcp 286K+Hserv ARexx HTTP/1.1 c.c. server
rxsocket.lha comm/tcp 139K+Rxsocket.library - TCP/IP ARexx library
Cookie_Killer.lha comm/www 16K+AWeb cookie management (v1.1)
streamer.lha comm/www 43K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
A_SweeperSrc.lha dev/basic 24K+Source for AGA Workbench MineSweeper V1.
DTView.lha dev/e 3K+Simple MultiView clone (incl.source)
AmigaInfo.lha docs/hyper 334K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Gennaio 2000
amigazette_03.lha docs/mags 254K+AMIGAzette 3rd iusse (26.12.1999) (itali
amigazette_04.lha docs/mags 133K+AMIGAzette 4th iusse (23.02.2000) (itali
amigazette_05.lha docs/mags 285K+AMIGAzette 5th iusse (080.05.2000) (ital
ascene12.lha docs/mags 1.0M+AmigaScene 0x12 - 11/99 (amigascene.com)
JumpingAround.lha game/demo 277K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
Tintin.lha game/role 356K+Tintin++ MUD Client, v1.84
TinyFugue.lha game/role 350K+TinyFugue MUD Client, v4.0s1
skulpt_060.lha gfx/3d 1.0M+Sculpt3D clone (68060 + Warp3D)
skulpt_doc.lha gfx/3d 604K+Sculpt3D clone Documentation (68k + Warp
skulpt_loc.lha gfx/3d 20K+Sculpt3D clone (68060 + Warp3D)
skulpt_scn.lha gfx/3d 1.5M+Sculpt3D clone (68060 + Warp3D)
skulpt_src.lha gfx/3d 227K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k / PPC + Warp
imaged.lha gfx/misc 136K+Add your own description to images ! (v2
vPNG.lha gfx/show 10K+Fast 68k PNG pictures viewer
TestGear3.lha hard/hack 262K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 3.
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 136K+V0.78 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 75K+V0.78 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
imdbDiff010112.lha misc/imdb 2.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
3PMGUI.lha mus/play 161K+Skinnable MPEGA GUI-ideal for low CPUs!
ccalcskins.lha pix/back 184K+6 skins for coolcalc
jonty.jpg pix/irc 277K+JPEG of JoNty (JoNty-) from #AmigaIRC DA
TrooperFighte2.jpg pix/trace 40K+Trooper Fighter at Starship Trooper
WiederUnterwe2.jpg pix/trace 69K+Starship Enterprise-E in Space
BlssdWstlnd.lha pix/wfm 99K+Blessed Wasteland Art & Lit.
OFS041.jpg pix/wfm 461K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
ThBoundsfLv.lha pix/wfm 110K+The Bounds of Love Art & Lit.
Zoom.lha util/app 63K+The "do everything" appicon (FREEWARE)
LatinMap.lha util/cdity 20K+Special Character Input (FREEWARE)
Easyconvert.lha util/conv 23K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
vPNGdt.lha util/dtype 10K+Fast 68k PNG datatype
Calculator.lha util/misc 28K+Fully functional scientific calculator
WriteKickDisk.lha util/misc 11K+Makes Kickstart disk from ROM image
ral3p7.lha util/rexx 60K+RexxArpLib.library - open up some OS fun
ral3p7all.lha util/rexx 398K+RexxArpLib.library - open up some OS fun
rxmui.lha util/rexx 384K+RxMUI - MUI GUIs in ARexx macros
Easyreset.lha util/wb 12K+EasyReset - system reset utility
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
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23.Jan.2001
amiga-hardware.com
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'Big Book Of Hardware' Updated
'Big Book Of Hardware' is a really extended hardware reference website. Here you can find
a whole lot of information about almost any Amiga hardware. Yesterday many sections of the website
were updated.
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23.Jan.2001
DOpus Support Page
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New DirOpus4 Beta Version 4.15f by Jacek Rzeuski
Jacek Rzeuski is working on DOpus4 again and has made available for download a new beta version
4.15f of DirOpus4 on his website.
DirOpus is a file manager programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry from
GP Software. In 1999 the source code of the program was
released under GNU Public License rules. Jacek Rzeuski then started to revise and enhance the
program.
Due to lack of time Jacek then wasn't able to work on it that intensive anymore, and
Paul Huxham published new beta versions. Now Paul decided not to cooperate with Jacek in
the running project, but has started his own DirOpus4 project. Paul's homepage is to find
here.
DOpus4beta.lzx -
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23.Jan.2001
The Spirit of AMIGA
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Quake Deathmatch by "The Spirit of AMIGA"
On Friday 26th, 2001, 'The Spirit of AMIGA' will organize their first
Quake deathmatch. This match will take place on an official server to see how the
response will be. 'The Spirit of AMIGA' wants to bring together AMIGA online players
and possibly later on to found a clan and/or open an own server. Everybody who would like
to participate is heartily welcome to this match. No special software is needed for this
server. Details on how and when you will find under the title link (German website).
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23.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz
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Interview with Bill McEwen
Christoph Dietz did an extended interview with Bill McEwen, president and CEO of AMIGA, Inc:
Bill McEwen
Amiga-News: In your latest Executive Update you announce that the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) would be a great fun for the Amiga community. But how would this be a great fun if Amiga Inc. is not a exhibitor there?
Bill McEwen: We were there. We had two companies showing Amiga enabled devices at the show. These meetings were private, but we were there :-)
Amiga-News: Can you tell us details about this devices and the companies behind?
Bill McEwen: No. We are under NDA with each of them. Announcements will follow soon.
Amiga-News: In an interview with Corinna Cohn you told the community that Amiga Inc. is low on money and our readers are now wondering if this means that Amiga Inc. is closing down. So why are you low on money?
Bill McEwen: We are far from closing down. It takes money to run this business, and we planned to raise money in summer of last year. Our timing was off, and the market had a big downturn. As of the time of the discussion we had not secured more funding.
Amiga-News: So I can assume that there is no financial shortness anymore?
Bill McEwen: We will continue to watch every dime very carefully, this is not a market to be crazy with your money.
Amiga-News: Can you tell us the names of Amiga Inc.'s investors?
Bill McEwen: The "Invisible Hand Corporation, LLC", and "Net Ventures, BV".
Amiga-News: What do these investors expect from Amiga?
Bill McEwen: To make money.
Amiga-News: They are not interested in the Amiga products to use in their own products?
Bill McEwen: They are investors not OEM's.
Amiga-News: Is going public an option for Amiga Inc.? Can we expect to buy stock options in the near future?
Bill McEwen: Public offering is not possible at this time. But you can expect to have opportunities to invest in the future with Amiga.
Amiga-News: Francis Charig told me (as published on amiga-news.de) that the AmigaDE will be ready in the first half of this year. Are you agreeing with this?
Bill McEwen: Yes. This is the plan.
Amiga-News: How and then (more exact) will AmigaDE hit the marked?
Bill McEwen: Initially in some OEM hardware platforms, and then it will get more functionality and be out in other hardware with software following.
Amiga-News: According to MeterNet they are only waiting for AmigaDE to release their Set-Top box. When do they get AmigaDE and will this version be the same as planned for release in the OEM hardware?
Bill McEwen: Yes, the initial release is for this type of hardware OEM.
Amiga-News: Also Francis spoke about memory protection and why TAO is not planning to implement MP into the operating system. But you already announced that Amiga Inc. is going to implement MP into AmigaDE. Is this plan up to date?
Bill McEwen: Tao is not, and they never were going to. This is consistent to what we have said since the beginning. Amiga is handling the MP. So the plan is the same that we have said since the beginning.
Amiga-News: Can we expect MP to be in the first versions of AmigaDE?
Bill McEwen: No, not in the first version. It has been planned for later.
Amiga-News: Why do you think MP is needed?
Bill McEwen: I personally think that this is better suited for the desktop and server market.
Amiga-News: What can AmigaDE developers expect to be added into the next SDK update?
Bill McEwen: Sound, 3d, and numerous other new tools and enhancements.
Amiga-News: When can they expect the next update?
Bill McEwen: Targeted for end of February - middle of March.
Amiga-News: More than 15.000 copies of SDK are sold. How many developers are registered? And how many of them are contributing software?
Bill McEwen: A little over 2,000 busy working.
Amiga-News: This means that at least 13.000 people only bought the SDK to support Amiga Inc. with some money or for to add the SDK to their treasury?
Bill McEwen: You asked how many are registered. We have thousands who are working and have not registered.
Amiga-News: Do you know a reason why they didn't register?
Bill McEwen: No. It is really up to them. We have also located two sites that have created SDK's that are pirated. I believe that we have shut them down now, but we know that several copies were downloaded before we stopped them.
Amiga-News: Which is the most amazing software contributed right now?
Bill McEwen: There are so many, I do not know where to begin. I would encourage people to look at the developer section of the web site to see many of the titles that are being worked on.
Amiga-News: While the "World of Amiga 2000" in Cologne Fleecy announced that about 1.5 Mio units of AmigaDE are already sold. What is the market and when will the AmigaDE based products show up?
Bill McEwen: Products will begin showing up in March of this year.
Amiga-News: A press release from Thendic Electronic Components just crossed the wire that tells that "in September 2001 Thendric will release a modified Handheld-PC for the consumer market under the label 'Amiga(TM)'." Are they only licensing the Name "Amiga"? Or will they use AmigaDE?
Bill McEwen: There is only ONE owner of the Amiga name and Trademarks, Amiga Inc. We own the worldwide exclusive rights to all of the Amiga properties, that were once in the hands of Gateway. Thendic has licensed AmigaDE for their devices. We were not supposed to say anything for another month, but since they have announced, then it is true they are one of many new licensors of AmigaDE.
Amiga-News: And are there other products?
Bill McEwen: Several in the works and all over the office.
Amiga-News: How many copies of AmigaOS3.9 are sold? How close are we to an PPC-Version of AmigaOS 4.0?
Bill McEwen: OS 3.9 I do not know right now. We had several thousand out by before Christmas, and I have not seen the reports of the sales since that time. We should have some numbers up on the site soon. As far as meeting the sales requirements for the OS 4.0 PPC version, we are not even close. We are still evaluating the market need for this product, and I hope that we can show that there is a true market and business for 4.0, and even other versions in the future.
Amiga-News: When can we expect that the decision is made?
Bill McEwen: Working on it now.
Amiga-News: What are the improvements in the classic AmigaOS to legitimate the version jump to 4.x?
Bill McEwen: Once the decision has been made, then you will see a targeted feature list and then we will all know.
Amiga-News: Do you know about the status of development at Eyetech and bPlan?
Bill McEwen: I have been focused on other funding issues, and Fleecy has been working more closely with these developments.
Amiga-News: Will the AmigaOne be available in Q3/2001?
Bill McEwen: That is the plan.
Amiga-News: How can the Amiga community support Amiga Inc. at best?
Bill McEwen: The best way to directly help is the purchase of SDK's and other products. And the more people creating product for Amiga the better. We have recently received several new games for AmigaDE and they are great. It is really encouraging to see all of the development efforts underway, and the more people that we have developing the better.
Amiga-News: Are these games only converted from other platforms or are they completely new? Are they cutting edge in graphics, sound and idea?
Bill McEwen: All of the above.
Amiga-News: Bill, thank you for this interview!
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: bill@amiga.com
WWW: Amiga Inc.
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22.Jan.2001
Oliver Roberts
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WarpBMP.datatype Version 44.2 Released
Today Oliver Roberts released WarpBMP.datatype version 44.2. The datatype is
freeware and is available for different processors (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS).
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22.Jan.2001
AmigArt
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Earth 2140 Review by AmigArt
AmigaArt published a review of the new game Earth 2140.
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22.Jan.2001
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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Earth 2140 Update
There is an update for Earth 2140 for Amiga users available at the download page
of Epic-Interactive. This update adds support for Voodoo3 graphic accelerators.
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22.Jan.2001
Innovative on ANF
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VHI Studio in "Kodak Third Party Solutions Catalog"
Not only more and more Amiga users belong to the people convinced of our software's quality, but
recently also Kodak, who now included VHI Studio to the "Kodak Third Party Solutions Catalog".
Here you can find the entry in the
Kodak Third Party Solutions Catalog.
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22.Jan.2001
Innovative on ANF
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Ultraconv NG now Available form Innovative Again
RBM Digitaltechnik handed the international sales-rights back to Innovative.
That's why Ultraconv NG 4.0 is now again available directly from Innovative.
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22.Jan.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis via eMail
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ISDN now included in NetBSD/Amiga
The Zorro-bus connection for Siemens-chips (isic) are now included in NetBSD-current.
The subsystem is able to communicate with DSS1 (Euro-ISDN) mediate-stations. There are drivers for many PCI, PCMCIA,
ISA, ISAPNP, and Zorro-bus - ISDN devices.
At the moment there are drivers for the following Zorro-bus-devices available:
ISDN Master, ISDN Master II, ISDN Blaster.
We are still working on drivers for the ISDN Surfer and on tests with PCMCIA-devices for the A1200.
The subsystem will be available with release 1.6 of NetBSD. Additional help for configuration is available in
the documentation and from the manual
pages for isdn and isdnd.rc.
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22.Jan.2001
László Török
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MooVId Screenshot with 3ivX
László Török published a
screenshot of his AVI/MOV players MooVId showing
that the new format 3ivX is playable with MoVId. He didn't said when
a new version will be released.
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22.Jan.2001
Amiga Future [News]
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MainPrefs Version 2.05 Released
MainPrefs by
Martin Elsner is a program to configurate your Amiga under OS3.5. With the program
you can manage your assigns, edit the User-Startup, set environment variables, and
start the preferences programs. In v2.05 some bugs have been fixed, new tools and
Spanish, French and Turkey catalogs have been added.
Download: mainprefs.lha - 67 KB
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21.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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Workbench 3.5 Guide by Peter Hutchison
On 20. January 2001 Peter Hutchison has released his
"Workbench 3.5 Guide" in Englisch language.
The guide covers the subject:
Reaction, preferences, Workbench, CacheCDFS, Internet, FastFileSystem,
ROM patches, printer drivers, PowerPC support, colour icons
and third party utilities.
Besides the online version (title link) there's an AmigaGuide version available
for download.
Download: AmigaOS35.lha
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21.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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Auction tool: AmiBud for eBay
On their homepage F1
Software announces an eBay client for the Amiga. There are currently no details
released, but a screenshot.
Everybody who has questions or comments regarding the software might mail to
amigastuff@onemain.com.
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21.Jan.2001
ANN
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Finish user group 'Saku' with New URL
The WWW address of the "Finish Amiga Users Group", also known as 'Saku' which is the name
of their magazine, has changed. The address is now:
http://batman.jypoly.fi/~saku/english/.
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21.Jan.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Review of the PC Version of Realsoft 3D v4
In the beginning of December 2000 Hyperion und Realsoft had
announced the port
of the 3D software package "Realsoft3D V4" for the Amiga
On 9. January 2001 a
review of the
PC version of Realsoft 3D V4 was released on
Planet3DArt that gives an impression
of the software.
(Real3D was originally developed for the Amiga. There was no update
since a longer period of time.)
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21.Jan.2001
Michael Haider on ANF
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News about Linux-APUS/LinuxPPC
Michael Heider wrote:
As reported at Heise some days ago new kernels in version 2.4.0 are ready for
download at linux-apus.sourceforge.net
As this server might probably be permanently overloaded, I will also make the
precompiled kernel available for download on my homepage.
New to report after reading the .config file is that the driver for the
Cyberstorm MK III controller is included in this kernel.
Furthermore, there are again new programs to be found in the download area that
I have shifted to LinuxPPC.
Among others UAE in the version 0.8.15 (new: 68040 cpu emulation) and
Quanta+, a very good HTML page editor with own preview function.
Besides, there will be new and shifted programs regularly appearing on my homepage,
taken from the Linux user magazine, .
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20.Jan.2001
gamespy.com
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Interview with Ben Hermans
James Hill of gamespy.com had an interesting interview with Ben Hermans of
Hyperion Entertainments
about their Linux ports.
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20.Jan.2001
Bernd Gmeineder on ANF
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Fire & Ice - Now Legal and Free at AMI Sector One
AMI Sector One has the following interesting news:
First of all the company 'Jester Interactive' which owns the copyrights of many older Amiga games,
has granted us permission to post many of the games from the cult company 'Graftgold' for free download on our site:
The first free game that is available is 'Fire & Ice' which should ring a bell to every Amiga-Fan.
Furthermore more commercial games and PD classics like 'Magic Forest 2', 'Seek & Destroy', 'Mayhem', and many more
have been made available. The first version of the new 'Amiga Applications Compendium' has been put online. This allows the
user to search for more than 300 Amiga applications, companies and developers.
Nostalgic disk magazines and cheat disks put a nice finish to this year's first update.
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20.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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'The Best Of The Amiga Scene CD' for Free at mp3.com
Fredrik, also known as ORG* of X-TRADE ^ BoB, and two friends compiled an Audio CD containing the best
Amiga Songs ever five years ago. The CD sold well but now there are only two left and so it was decided
to make the songs available for free download at MP3.
Not all songs are already available, but they will be as fast as possible. Enjoy!
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20.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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Looking for AmigaDE-Developers
#Developer needs YOU! If you are a AmigaDE developer come to the IRC channel #Developer on
Amiganet (see title link). If you are sick of off-topic news in mailing lists, but like to
share your knowledge about coding, #Developer is the place to be. More information about IRC and
Amiganet can be found here.
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20.Jan.2001
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Top 10 of the Games 2000 Determined
Every year the online gaming magazine 'Amiga Flame' starts a poll to determine the best games of the
year and then compiles a top 10 hit-list. The results of 2000 are now computed. Here now the games in
reversed order:
- 10. Virtual Ball Fighters by Xteam Software Solution
- 09. Tales From Heaven by Darkage Software
- 08. Code Name Squad by Digital Dreams Entertainment
- 07. Foundation: Gold Edition by Paul Burkey (Epic Interactive)
- 06. Exodus: The Last War by Blittersoft
- 05. Bubble Heoes by Arcadia Developments (Crystal Interactive Software)
- 04. Simon The Sorcerer II by Adventure Soft (Epic Interactive)
- 03. Earth 2140 by Topware (Epic Interactive)
- 02. Nightlong by Trecision (clickBOOM)
- 01. Heretic II by Hyperion (Titan Computer)
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20.Jan.2001
Extraterrestrial developers via eMail
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New Crusader-Clone in Development - Demo Available
The team arround 'Extraterrestrial Developing' is currently working on a Crusader clone.
The first demo version 0.2b of the game called 'Silencer' is ready for download.
The game runs on a 640x480 screen with 256 colors and needs 16MB RAM and 15MB on the harddrive.
The team is still looking for a distributor.
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20.Jan.2001
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
'Weltendaemmerung' a new strategy game by UAC Design is online. In the game the user plays a character
called Robert Ungar. He must try to stand against the creatures of Dr.Coypu. To achieve this he must
gain control over a army of mutants...
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20.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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WB 2000 Preferences Pics / PlayAmiga Design
On the occasion of the release of WB2000 Images for applications and tools with more than
350 pictures, we have now posted the current archive for preferences with 40 images on our site.
Furthermore there is a preview screenshot in the gallery on our news page of the new design of
Play! Amiga.de.
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20.Jan.2001
Friedbert Baer on ANF
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Another Interview with MeterNet
Greg Wible, CEO of MeterNet held an interview with amiga.topcool. There he talks about
his collaboration with Amiga, amongst others.
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20.Jan.2001
MindIt on ANF
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New Firmware (v1.08) for Plextor PX-R820T
There is a new firmware version 1.08 for the Plextor CD-ROM 'PX - R820T'. Here are the changes in detail:
Added:
- Reading of over-burned Audio discs
Improvements:
- Read of CD TEXT data (Error detection added)
- Initialisation of CD-Extra discs
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20.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz
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Interview with Greg Wible of MeterNet
Christoph Dietz had an interesting interview with Greg Wible, the founder and CEO of
MeterNet Corp.. MeterNet is the company that delivers, amongst others, the
'SimpleBox'
Greg Wible |
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Amiga-News: Where are you born?
Greg Wible: I was born in Medina, Ohio - a small town in between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. I graduated from University of Cincinnati and moved to Southern California in 1980. BTW, I understand that one primary ancestor Frederick Wible (aka "Weibel") sailed from his home in Rhine Province through Rotterdam in 1751 to relocate and start a new life in Western Pennsylvania in the US... so my family roots can be traced back to your country, Germany.
Amiga-News: How old are you?
Greg Wible: 43...but most days I feel about 28!
Amiga-News: When and where was MeterNet founded?
Greg Wible: Founded in May, 1996 with registered office in Reno, Nevada and sales office in Long Beach, California (near Los Angeles). More company info found at http://meternet.com/mtabout2.htm.
Amiga-News: Your position at MeterNet?
Greg Wible: Founder and President.
Amiga-News: How many employees are working for MeterNet and in which department the most?
Greg Wible: A total worldwide team of 12, evenly divided in sales/admin & development. We also use contract programmers from US and abroad.
Amiga-News: This seems not to be much. How large is the army of contract programmers?
Greg Wible: We are a small company. at any time we use from 0 to 6 contract programmers.
Amiga-News: Is MeterNet a public company?
Greg Wible: Currently private, although in the last two weeks we have received an offer sheet from a public company to acquire MeterNet. If/when this acquisition happens, we will make official news release.
Amiga-News: Can you tell us about investors?
Greg Wible: These are private citizens.
Amiga-News: You just introduced the "SimpleBox wb7500" with "EnReachTV2". What is this EnReachTV2?
Greg Wible: We use the SimpleBox brand throughout our product line covering both entry level and mid-class devices: wb6400, wb7500 and wb8600. Specs for the entire line are found at http://info.simplebox.com. Our MeterNet "mid-class' SimpleBox wb8600 series will be powered by AmigaDE on an x86 platform designed for broadband connection. Our 'entry level' SimpleBox wb6400 series have been shipping since 1999. Its a basic browser device using analog modem on a PA-RISC processor platform from Winbond and a tailored browser SDK from Access in Japan. We are extending our entry level category with the new wb7500 series which is powered by a tailored version of the TV2 browser from Enreach running on a Luxsonor RISC platform with soft modem. Enreach is a Chinese company that has long experience in VCD and is also working hard to promote PVR technology for their next generation TV4. But we are using their proven TV2 solution for the 'entry level' segment. We have no current plans for PVR or other 'bleeding edge' features.
Amiga-News: Do you focus an using AmigaDE in the next future for the SimpleBox?
Greg Wible: Absolutely! Initially in the wb8600 series, plus on a new Internet Radio device slated to be released in late 2001. Bill, Randy, Fleecy, Dean and the entire Amiga team are very long term alliance partners that are crucial for the continued growth of MeterNet. We anticipate mutual success utilizing AmigaDE in our SimpleBox devices.
Amiga-News: When can we expect the SimpleBox with AmigaDE to hit the market and what is the business plan for the SimpleBox?
Greg Wible: Our overall plan is to always offer a series of devices to our US vertical and export markets. We hope to begin shipments of wb8616 in US market by late February, but this depends our DSL partners and on the v1.0 software being ready. In the US we will ship the wb8616 bundled with DSL service as part of the offering. However, our current DSL partner just announced a major reorganization and have pushed back our timeline. We are still studying the best bundle and channel strategy to market in Germany, Europe and other export markets. When we do we ship, all wb8600 series will ship with online update capability, so as the AmigaDE solution continues its development progress we will offer the ability to upgrade to latest version.
Amiga-News: So the consumer only can get the SimpleBox in a bundle with provider? Or can the Set-top box be available without a provider chosen to connect through a self chosen one to the internet?
Greg Wible: In US, it will only be bundled with one provider and user cannot change (like a mobile telephone). As mentioned, we are still studying best strategy for outside US.
Amiga-News: Do you know about the existing Amiga community?
Greg Wible: We continue to learn more and more about the worldwide Amiga community, which is really quite amazing and unique.
Amiga-News: Why do you think the Amiga community is amazing and unique?
Greg Wible: Active/durable/committed/some borderline raging fanatics... and much larger than we ever imagined--especially in Germany & Europe.
Amiga-News: Do you need the Amiga community? If yes, which part of the community is important?
Greg Wible: We recognize that a portion, but not all, of the Amiga user community will be interested in our wb8600 series bundled with broadband service. But we are also targeting other market segments who, while possibly familiar with the Amiga brand and long history, are not active Amiga users. Long term, we expect to offer external hard drive / CD-ROM drive via USB for wb8616 that will come preloaded with some of the rich Amiga content including apps and games. We hope this will appeal to more of the Amiga community, both users and developers.
Amiga-News: Your "last words" to our readers?
Greg Wible: Keep the faith...but never forget the only thing permanent is change.
Amiga-News: Greg, thank you for this interview!
Contact Information MeterNet Corp.
MeterNet Registered Office
100 West Grove Street #360
Reno, Nevada 89509
email: MeterNet Corp.
Long Beach
Telephone: (562) 989-8976
Fax: (562) 424-4964
Reception: 3633 Long Beach Blvd. Suite #207
Correspondence: 4450 California Place PMB#344
Long Beach, CA 90807
email: sales@meternet.com
WWW: MeterNet
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