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05.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News


AsimWare Continues to Offer Amiga Products
On 1. August 2000 CZech Amiga News already quoted Greg Scott, AsimWare Innovations Inc., who set clear that AsimWare continues to be in the Amiga trade. Just development of AsimCDFS has been stoped, but development of MasterISO will continue.

There is the http://amiga.asimware.com/ link especially for the Amiga area.

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


Bugfix: Amiga SDK with RedHat 6.2
Due to problems with the Ncurses packet Amiga SDK does not run on an unmodified RedHat 6.2 installation. Therefore a Ncurses fix done by Daniel Robbins is ready for download.

Simply unpack the archive amiga-ncurses.tar.gz under Linux using the following command:

cd /usr
tar xzvf amiga-ncurses.tar.gz

Now type in "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/amiga/lib" and then the Amiga SDK can be started with "intent_shell".

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05.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News


Voyager 3.3 Alpha as well as Spurious Offers
Oliver Wagner released an alpha version of Voyager V3.3 on August, 4th 2000. This version is presentating the new layout engine. This alpha version is not ought to replace a running browser, due to essential features are still missing such like FORMs (objects are created but have no function yet), FRAMES, IFRAMES and JavaScript (code is present but not active yet). Sending in bug reports, missing features or similar therefore is not necessary.

At shareit.com spurious entries of Vapor programs at immense prices were made. These entries were not made by Vapor and hence should be left ignored.

Vapor belongs to the MorphOS alpha testers and there might be a V-port, but at the time beeing there are no fixed plans of doing one. Concentration points on finishing the new version for AmigaOS.

Download: v_33_alpha24.lzx (204K)

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


Aminet-CD #38 Available
Aminet-CD #38 from August 2000 is available. It contains decrunched allmost one gigabyte of data. Since Aminet-CD #37 500MB of new data has been added. As special highlight a full version of Personal Paint 7.1b is included on the CD.

The news archive of amiga-news.de also is content of this CD (German and English) and can be viewed directly from the ReadMe using the browser comming with the Aminet-CD.

Content of Aminet-CD #38

Verzeichnis  Umfang       Archive    Inhalt

    biz           27 MB       37         Geschäftssoftware
    comm          30 MB       96         Kommunikationssoftware
    demo          45 MB       33         Demos
    dev           12 MB       62         Entwicklungssoftware
    disk           7 MB       15         Harddisk Tools
    docs          18 MB       61         Dokumente
    game          79 MB       90         Spiele
    gfx           23 MB       30         Grafiksoftware
    hard           3 MB       13         Rund um Hardware
    misc          36 MB       40         Verschiedenes
    mods         313 MB       125        Musikmodule
    mus            5 MB       30         Musik Software
    pix          156 MB       215        Bilder
    text          10 MB       23         Texte
    util          25 MB       121        Utilities


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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


AmiWest 2000 Report by Jim Szutowicz
Jim Szutowicz published his AmiWest 2000 Report and pictures at the titlelink.

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


BetaScanMustek V0.44 - 1.0.92
There is version 0.44 - 1.0.92 of the driver for Mustek scanners available at Aminet.

Download: BetaScanMustek.lha, readme

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


DocDatatypes V39.50
On 4th August 2000 Amarpreet Singh Munde released version 39.50 of the DocDatatypes. This update includes numerous enhancements. The following formats have been added: Psion Word, TextED and WindowsCE Pocket Word wherewith DocDatatypes supports more than 20 formats, yet.

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


EZHome-Demo Update
On 5th August 2000 a new demo version of the home automation software "EZHome" was released. This Update fixes the 060 processor problems.

Download: EZHomeDemo.lha

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


FPSE V0.08
Version V0.08 of the Playstation emulation ",FPSE" for Amiga computer is available for download. With this version display is not that dark as with the previeous one and via shell one can choose the options USA/Japan and Europe.

Currently no 3D hardware is supported, hence the emulations is not very fast. The emulation runs on PPC Amigas with 32MB of RAM, WarpOS V4+, and CGFX V3+. Additionally the PSX BIOS is required.

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


Haage&Partner - Raffle 666.666
The counter of the Haage&Partner-Website is running to 666.666. The winning is a software packet from H&P.

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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


Jobs in the BoXer Project
Anit-Gravity has job openings in the BoXer project and accepts application for an employment online with this form.

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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


PhatEdit for AmigaOE
Richard Collier released PhatEdit, a text editor with GUI and all primary features for AmigaOE. PhatEdit is 2K in size.

Download: phatedit.lha

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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


REBOL for Elate (SDK)
A beta version of Rebol(V2.4beta) is now available for Elate/Intent, too. This version runs on the current Amiga SDK.

Download: core271.tar.gz

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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


REBOL: The Official Guide
The official guide for REBOL is available. It has 752 pages and comes with CD. The book was written by Elan Goldman and John Blanton and is a step-by-step introduction to the development of e-commerce applications using REBOL.

The table of content and one chapter of the book are available at the titlelink.

The book was publish by REBOL Press together with Osborne/McGraw-Hill. (ISBN 0-07-212279-X)

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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


wfmhcybergfx_r3d Open Source Now
The plugin library "wfmhcybergfx_r3d" for Real3D including source code was published on condition of a licence similar to BSD. With this the library is freeware, too (was shareware).

This library allows 24bit rendering inside of GUI windows.

Download: wfmhcybergfx_src.lha

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05.Aug.2000
Pulse Publishing via E-Mail


Amiga Pulse #15
Amiga Pulse issue 15 was finished and has gone to press. It will be released on August 15th with a coloured high glossy cover.

Since the release delayed this issue was updated continuously, hence there are twelfe additional pages including one special news and review page, as well as one double page with the index of the magazine for a better overview.

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05.Aug.2000
Richard H. Poser II via E-Mail


AmigAIM 0.9384 Beta
On 4th August 2000 Richard H. Poser released beta version 0.9384 of his AIM "AmigAIM". Since the last release there are the following changes:
  • New: Mail-Checking-System.
  • New "Mail-Check-Window" for sound and notifications.
  • The directory structure was slightly changed and should be readjusted at the first start of the software after the update.
  • At the first start one must select the user the program shall begin with, since this save format changed, too.
  • A Problem in the relogin system was fixed. The start window was send to sleep mode under many circumstanced, even if it realy should not do that.
  • There are still some CyberGuard/Enforcer hits, but those could only be reproduced random, so far.
  • The IO packet window now supports Cut'n Paste, so the last values bevore/after an error including all CyberGuard/Enforcer hits can be sent to the author.
  • Notice: In the case of Miami it is recommended to use at least Miami V2.1p, V3.2b or MiamiDX V1.0c - with those AIM was tested successfull.

AIM requires MUI V3.8 and serveral custom classes.

Download:


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05.Aug.2000
Oliver Roberts on ANF


Faster WarpJPEG and -PNG Datatypes
Oliver Roberts has released new versions of his Warp datatypes for JPEG (V44.12) and PNG (V44.7).

According to Roberts pictures now are decoded again 10% faster than before, wereby the Warp datatypes belong to the fastest JPEG and PNG datatypes.

These datatypes require an Amiga with PPC board and WarpOS.

Download:


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04.Aug.2000
Distributed.net


New RC5 Clients
New clients for RC5 are available for download at Distributed.net. There are versions for PPC/PowerUp, m68k and PPC/WarpOS. Current version number is V2.8010.463.

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04.Aug.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS News
A couple of days ago, the beta version of MorphOS was published. Now an online bugreport form is available. Please enter all found bugs with as many information as possible. All bugreports will be read, a reply will only be given if there are some questions regarding your report.

There is a AHI-Version by Martin Blom for MorphOS.

Download: ahipre4-morphos.lzh

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04.Aug.2000
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF


Coyote Flux Opens Temporary Website
Since the 68k->PPC assembly porter/language PPC680x0 was finished a little while ago, Coyote Flux has opened a temporary website at www.coyoteflux.tmfweb.nl

PPC680x0 will be released on Haage&Partner's StormC 4 CD appearing in October this year. Take a look at the website to find out more about PPC680x0, Burnin' Rubber 2000, Super Amicon and more...

PPC680x0 is an assembler program which is able to convert 680x0 sourcecode to PPC sourcecode. This could change all 68k programs easily to PPC. The programmers, by the way, are the guys who had to pose as a popular camera subject with their Amiga bobble hats on almost all fairs.

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04.Aug.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF


Release of SAS-C Denied
Marco Frischkorn queried a couple of days ago at SAS America whether there would be the possibility to release SAS-C for the Amiga freely. The query was denied after examination by the legal department.

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04.Aug.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Quarrel about Words: After Explorer and Samba now ASP
«After Explorer, Webspace and Samba now another popular EDP term became the object of trademark quarrels: the specialist book author Volker Jungbluth asked several companies in the last weeks to refrain from using his wordmark "ASP".»

«1998, Jungbluth registered the describing term "Site Promotion" as wordmark and then sent the internet consultor Andreas Roemer a warning plus a cashing up of 1895,21 D-Mark (about US$900) because of alleged trademark violation.»

«The German ASP consortium which represents more than 60 companies, has called upon Jungbluth to draw back the registered trademark. Jungbluth denied this, said consortium speaker Werner Grohmann: ",Now our lawyers become active; currently an expert's report is beeing made."»
For full article (in German) follow the titlelink.

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04.Aug.2000
Individual Computers


XSurf-IDE Drivers for Free!
Jens Schönfeld wrote: "Since today is my birthday, it's my treat today! As a big thank-you to all X-Surf customers, the XSurf-IDE driver is available in the support-area for a free download now (not only today!). This would not have been possible without my retail partners who gave me financial help for this gift:

Software Hut (USA, 15%)
Eyetech (England, 5%)
KDH Datentechnik (Germay, 15%)
Vesalia Computer (Germany, 15%)
Eternity (Germany, 5%)

Please think about one of these retailers if you buy something for your Amiga next time. Special thanks must go to Eyetech again for the friendly permission to include their Samba-install-CD with the X-Surf.

Happy birthday, Jens. May all your wishes come true. :-).

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03.Aug.2000
Aminet


New Aminet Uploads
Charon.lha           comm/net   159K+Download manager
Amster.lha           comm/tcp   472K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI
Apache_1.3.12.lha    comm/www   3.8M+AmigaApache/1.3.12 PHP/4.0.1pl2
SortCopy.lha         disk/bakup  28K+Copy or backup files,directories and lin
PurgeDelDir.lha      disk/misc   11K+Purge PFS .DelDir of useful file referen
AIOV37.lha           docs/mags  454K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 37 (July
Dwarf.lha            game/patch  63K+The Cheating Utility
RotateAnim.lha       gfx/edit     5K+PPaint script for creating animations
Splitmpeg.lha        gfx/misc    71K+MPEG splitter (030/040/PPC)
flamingo.lha         misc/emu   146K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.50, 68k & PPC
twig_guad.lha        mods/med   162K+Guadalope, a tune by DJTwiglet
twig_minc.lha        mods/med   441K+Mince, a tune by DJTwiglet
twig_mung.lha        mods/med   166K+Mungo, a tune by DJTwiglet
rno-r044.lha         mods/misc  746K+Rno-label release no.44 by matrixx (drum
SuperSansSerif.lha   text/bfont   9K+Light and clean ScreenText Amiga Font
JanoEditor.lha       text/edit   55K+TextEditor beta 10
remcmt.lha           util/cli     1K+Remove all comments in directory
HP2TeX.lha           util/conv   12K+Convert HP11C/12C output to TeX
lucyplay.lha         util/libs   14K+AHI Audio Player + Joystick Functions
MonitorTest.lha      util/misc   17K+* Monitor Test v0.7 *
MUISearch13_SI.lha   util/wb      1K+Slovenian catalog for MUISearch v1.3


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03.Aug.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Wave of dissuasions against Open Source Network Software Samba (Update)
«Offerors of support for the open source software Samba are effected by a wave of dissuasions. Several companies part of a list in the web recieved a letter demanding them no longer to offer, advertise for, distribute or utilize Samba for buissnes communiction. Samba is an application which allows to use Unix and Linux platforms for server and client in a Windows network. This free for download program belongs to the most popular successful projects of the open source software area. The name SaMBa comes from the SMB protocoll used in Windows networks.» Entire article at the titlelink (German).


In the meanwhile I have a notion that dissuasions are mutating into a marketing strategy and are no longer ought to enforce rights, but only to serve the purpose to arrest attention. The senders of these dissuasions can be sure of the entire press to jump at this subject. The advertising effect is invaluable, cause even negative advertising is in fact advertising, as already well known. That often very enthusiastic people who worked hard and often without any payment for their project are driven to economic ruin by this, is just the fly shit falling through the grid. :-(

Supplement 04 Aug 2000:
CMG statement on SAMBA
«In the meanwhile emerged the responsibility of name for open source software belongs to an Australian internet company. CMG will contact this company and try to achieve an agreement, so that the in Germany incidentally same name can no longer lead to any misconceptions.

At the same time CMG will stop the dissuasiveness procedure against the contacted companies, which just offer support for the open source software. Also no further dissuasivenesses are planned. After all it is not CMG's intention to harm the buisness of open source offerors or to handicap distribution or use of these products.»


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03.Aug.2000
Oliver Gantert on ANF


UnLZX 2.12 (68k/PPC/486)
On my homepage there is a new version of the LZX decruncher UnLZX available for download. Every bug of the old version has been fixed now. There are versions for 68000/020/040, PPC[TM] PowerUp[TM]/WarpOS and Windows 95[TM] comming with the archive.

Download: UnLZX2.lha

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03.Aug.2000
Carsten Scholling on ANF


NListtree.mcc Bugfix (V18.3)
After the response on NListree more than expected and (unfortunatly) some bugs have been recoverd though, now the update. The following problems have been resolved:
  • MUA_NListtree_Quiet does not work as expected. Fixed!
  • User defined compare- and findname-hooks crashed! Fixed!
  • Now, NListtree is really quiet if MUIA_NListtree_Quiet is set!
  • Reactivation of copied, moved and exchanged entries works better now.
  • AutoScroll when opening nodes now works as expected.
  • Added new config item "Open scroll".

Send bug reports, infos, queries a.s.o. to my address above, as usual.
Download: MCC_NListtree.lha

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02.Aug.2000
Haage & Partner


H&P: New Overview and Search Site
The service of H&P is improving more and more and therefore it is difficult to find the wanted sites. H&P now has created an overview and search site.

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02.Aug.2000
clickBOOM


clickBOOM S-File #5 Online
Nightlong (68k und PPC-version) is near to be finished. The covers are printed, the final tests are about to be done and as soon as Nightlong was enabled the master-CD can be created and the production can be started.

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02.Aug.2000
Olaf Köbnik via eMail


Amiga Arena news
Amiga Arena CD Rom Update!
For those who have got the Amiga Arena CD-ROM edition there is a keyfile for Imperium Terranum 2 for download. With the keyfile which is registered to "Amiga Arena User" the demoversion on the cd can be changed into a full version of IT2.

Hint:
The keyfile version of IT2 is not freeware. Forwarding of the IT2 keyfile version is not allowed. It is just allowed to forward the IT2 archive which is free for download. The Amiga Arena CD-ROM version is available with the next edition.

Amiga Arena interview campaign!
New interviews with Pascal G. (TextLoader) and Thomas W. (AmigaAMP) online!

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02.Aug.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Amiga Future interview with Epic germany
Right in this moment on the homepage of Amiga Future in the "Aktion" section an interview with Epic Marketing Deutschland was published (German). Among other things in this interview Epic is talking about estimated release dates of thier current projects (Simon the Sorcerer 2 within this month, Dafel Bloodline and Earth 2140 not before October) and about their point of view on Amiga. Epic is comlaining about the big amount of piracy copies, too.

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02.Aug.2000
Amity


DelfInit Version 2.1 Released
The utility for initiating the Delfina soundcard was updated and was now released as version 2.1. New: The program recognizes the Delfina Plus which formerly was done as Delfina Lite+, instead of the intern memory it is now shown the extern one.

Download: DelfInit.lha - 40 KB

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02.Aug.2000
Moo Bunny Forum


Moo Bunny Forum: AmiWest Reports
In the forum of Moo Bunny some users have posted several interesting AmiWest 2000 show reports.

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02.Aug.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF


Set Up of SDK and AmigaOne Webcircle
Marco Frischkorn is thinking about to set up a link collection/webcircle for the Amiga SDK and AmigaOne. Those of you who have news, reports, tutorials, webpages etc. on this topic at hand would send this matter via email to Marco. Existing webpages will be linked by Webring, if needed all other things will get hosted. Why all this? Did you ever tried to get informtion about SDK?

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02.Aug.2000
Martina Jacobs on ANF


Amster version 0.7a Released
The Amiga Napster client "Amster" as version 0.7a is now available at Aminet. Napster is a project for sharing MP3 files using a special client with special features such like chatting, searching, download, newsletter and more. Among other this client version for Amiga offers multithreaded downloads with the opportunity of selecting priorities. The application requires AmigaOS3.x, MUI 3.8+, MCC_NListtree 19.97+ and MCC_Lamp 11.1+.

Download: Amster.lha - 472 KB - Amster.readme

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02.Aug.2000
Torsten Dudai


New cartoon: Sweet dreams




Bill McEwens's announcement of Amiga going public next year gave Torsten the inspiration for this new caricature. By the way, our opinion poll concerning the cartoons is still going on because we want to recognize your wishes in a better way.

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02.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga news


AmiBench Moving
Caused by a switchin to another server AmiBench currently is reachable at http://amibench.nop.org.uk/. The usual URL http://www.amibench.org/ is accessible after changing the Domain Name Server in the next days.

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02.Aug.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS Starts with Public Betatests
In order to participate on the public betatests, fill out the form at the titlelink, download the MorphOS archive, install it and studiously write us bugreports, if you find any bugs. Requirements: Reading the documentation and the following system equipment:

System Requirements:
  • OS3.1
  • 32 MB RAM
  • A1200 / A3000(T) / A4000(T)
  • CyberStorm PPC or Blizzard PPC

Recommended:
  • 64 MB RAM (more won't hurt)
  • CyberVision/BlizzardVision PPC with CGX4 installed for maximum performance
  • Fast PPC since 680x0 companion CPU does not have any impact on system performance
(ps)

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01.Aug.2000
Charon Page


Charon Version 1.4 Released
Version 1.4 of the download manager "Charon" is ready for download. Charon is shareware an can get registered online at the titlelink.

Download: Charon.lha

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01.Aug.2000
AROS-ML


AROS Status Update
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:00:20 +0200
To: AROS Announce mailto:aros-announce@aros.org
Reply-To: aros-announce@lists.hepe.com
Subject: [AROS-Announce] Status update

BGUI has been completely ported to AROS, now. This means that the library
can be compiled and that all demos run. Cudos go to Stefan Berger.

Michael Schulz is working on making mice work on AROS Native/i386.
This includes work on a PCI.HIDD, an IRQ.HIDD, the VGA.HIDD and the
Serial.HIDD plus an IDE driver. Trackdisk is there, too, so the
next thing is to find a filesystem to use. We try to get SFS because
it seems one of the best filesystems for the Amiga at this time.
The SFS developers seem to be very positive to this, we'll see what
comes from it.

As for the Sowatec AG hiring
developers for AROS, all I can say at this time is that we had several
job interviews and things look quite good. The only thing that might
break it at this time (as I see it) is that we get not enough people.
We figured that we need four developers and last I looked, we had three
and one interview still open. Don't hold your breath but press your
thumbs :-)

Nils Henrik Lorentzen has begun to write a framebuffer.HIDD which
uses Linux' framebuffer for rendering. Right now, it's mostly for
debugging (it's a synchronous interface instead of X11s' asynchronous
one) but maybe, there will be a AROS Native/linux-i386, ie. a
version of AROS that will boot with the help of a Linux kernel
but without the need to install a complete Linux system. We'll
see what can be done here.

And I'm diving into the depths of Ami, the SDK for the next Amiga
by Amiga Inc.. As it looks, the
SDK is a bit disappointing because it's very rough and has lots of
holes but on the positive side, Amiga's crew is very helpful and
the developer support is just great. *sigh* Had we just had such
a support in the old C= days. Many thanks for their effort go to
Ray A. Akey and Gary Peake and all the members of the
Tao and Amiga
support staff that I'm bombing with EMails ;-) If they can keep this
attitude, then I have no doubt that in five or ten years, people
will name Ami in the same breath as Windows, EPOC and Linux.
Something really to look forward to.

As for stats, I'm proud that we made 40k hits on our web page and
this year has also been very productive from the EMail side: Last
year, there were about 300KB mails/month in the developer list.
This year, we have 1MB mails/month ! Thanks go to all those
members of the development team that have not been mentioned here
but who do important stuff, nonetheless (in no order): Henning
Kiel and Lars Bischoff for reporting bugs, Georg Steger for
cleaning up after the other developers have raged through the
code and calling me back to earth when necessary, Jaime Dias for
asking "stupid" questions that make us think what we're doing,
Manuel Lemos for trusting us with BGUI, Requin Frederic for
helping Michael Schulz, Tobias Seiler for continuing the NetBSD
port, Bernardo Innocenti for bugging people to allow us to port
their software to AROS and last but not least all those people
who I forgot :-) Thanks to you all; it's your
work that makes this possible.

And at the end, a short note to all those people who started own
ports of the AmigaOS: Good luck to you all. I think you will find
out soon enough why AROS took soo long. The AROS team is still
willing to share their knowledge and code with everyone out
there. And we can do this because of the MPL, the only true Open
Source license :-)

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01.Aug.2000
Grabbe via eMail


ANN: Amiga Laptop
According to Joe Torre, the BoXeR development team is also working on a laptop Classic Amiga (about time we got one of those!).

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VMC


VMC: 5D+ Internet Mouse shipping at last!
From today the long hoped for 5D+ Internet Mouse is sent to all the people who preordered and to the vendors. This new model is consequently custom-made enhanced version of the popular 4D+ Internet Mouse.

Since we are able to distribute any desired number of units of this model, at last we are in the position to provide specialized trade with it, too. With this we apologize to every Haage & Partner customer, as well as KDH customer who was forced to wait for a longer period of time.

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Initial Testing and Preview: RedHat 7.0 Beta
After the release of the new RedHat 7.0 beta we took a lot at this and report on the first installation and give a perspective on the new features. The report is to finde at the report section (German). More informatin at the titlelink.

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01.Aug.2000
amiga.org


Tech Extreme: Matrox & Amiga in the Shack
Another interesting article in a non-amiga media. By the way, we are collecting such articles centrally for you on our special site External Articles, so you are able to recover interesting articles even after a longer period of time without problems. This link otherwise is to find at "Special Pages".

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01.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News


ACE 2000 - The Alternative Computer Expo
At Albert Parkt in Melbourne, Australia, the ACE 2000 (The Alternative Computer Expo) will take place on 21./22. October 2000. The website on this event is online, now.

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01.Aug.2000
Frank "Morn" Grochut on ANF


StrICQ 0.1731 Released
The latest version of the Amiga ICQ client is online for free download.
  • Re-Compiled for 68020/+ processors
  • Removed Debug option so the executable is only 521ko (200ko gain)
  • Updated the version numbers (nomore "1600 series")
  • Enabled cut and paste in Chat and History
  • StrICQ now uses it's own icon (PROGDIR:STRICQ) as app-icon and no longer Env:sys/Def_STRICQ
  • A lot of fonts are now FIXED so that cut/paste work with MCP
  • Re-worked prefs window: now resizable
  • Updated a lot of borders to ReadList type instead of String to give a closer AmIRC look for chat and list, it is also more MUI styled now and you can configure their look without messing up the input field borders.
  • Improved the look of some frames

Download: stricq1731.lha

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Heise [Newsticker]


"Publius" - The Web against Internet Censorship beeing Tested
«"Share and rule" - the classic formula to ensure one's power now apparently is turning against the governing people. Initiated by computer scientists from AT&T and the New York University a two month lastig experiment of a "censorship resident" publication system starts. On Tuesday 02. August 2000 the distribution of the proxy server shall start up, on 7. August 2000 the testing of the client software will begin.

The Publius named system ensures the promulgation of web releases similar to FreeNet by putting them on numerous servers using the peer-to-peer technique, and under some circumstances this will be done by splitting the files. Hence it becomes harder for potential or existing censorship offices to close documents in this system by carrier liabilities. More over that Publius relies on multible endcoding: It is only possible to decode the pages after all the splitted framents has been put together again. For the carrier of a server those pages are unreadble. For this reason the carrier cannot be hold responsible for content he/she is not able to know.»
The entire article at the titlelink. (German)

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01.Aug.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Mojo Nation: Another new System for File Sharing
«While Napster and Scour (after music the movies) are fighting for their future and one of the atlernative share servers, CuteMX, had closed for the time beeing waiting for the smoke to disapear, which came from the injunction against Napster, which was suspended again in the meantime, Mojo Nation started their test run and touts for users with an amount of features most of the competitors could not offer, yet. E.g. the software even supports it's own micropayment feature, as no other does by now.»

«Those seven cypherpunks believe that they have created the next "killer application" for the internet whith their sophisticated system. "We are a mixture of Napster and eBay", blew Jim McCoy, CEO of Autnomous Zone Industries, his big role models to Wired News.»
Entire article at the titlelink. (German)

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01.Aug.2000
ATC


ATC: Official Beta Available
An official beta of the ftp program AmitTradeCenter is available for download. For this version a lot of little bugs have been fixed and enhancements have been added. Please, get details from this text.

Download: ATC_beta_31072000.lha - 266 KB

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01.Aug.2000
DOpus4 Support Page


Official Directory Opus 4 Manual Available
Dr. Greg Perry from GP Software granted to make the official Directory Opus 4 Manual as AmigaGuide available for donwnload.

Download: DopusManual.lha - 100 KB

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31.Jul.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail


RegNet-Registration
RegNet informed me, that they'd be releasing a new site and that the transfer should be smoothly - however due to an obvious IP address change, http://www.regnet.net currently points to some completely different site (after first only containing an error message and then being down for a while). I would expect, that the DNS server entries get updated soon and would be be glad, if people that have not been able to register since 26th/27th of July would try again in a few days.

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31.Jul.2000
Olaf Köbnik via eMail


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena presents: BallMaster Keyfile Special !
The keyfile for the puzzle game "BallMaster" (AGA, ECS) is now online available. Attention: The keyfile is registered to "AMIGA ARENA VISITOR" and therefor determined just for Amiga Arena visitors ! You are not allowed to distribute this file in any way ! We wish you much fun with BallMaster, Damir A. (Developer) and Olaf K. (Amiga Arena) !

Amiga Arena Interview Special!
There are new interviews with Achim Stegemann (Digital Almanac) and Guido Mersmann (Boulderdash) online available.

Imperium Terranum 2
With the permission of Michael Pfeiffer (VWP) we offer you a free download of the archievs IT2 and Star Trek.

Imperium Terranum 3
If you are interrested in developing IT3 you can contact Michael P.

Amiga Arena CD-ROM Edition!
An other review of the Amiga Arena CD-ROM is published in the actuall issue of Amiga Times.

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31.Jul.2000
Aminet Recent


New Aminet Uploads
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Igor Sereda on ANF


Concerns to all Voyager 3.2.12 beta Users
On the 1st August you won't be aible to launch the Voyager (3.2.12) beta. I discovered this by surprise because I had set the system time wrong.

We contacted Oliver Wagner and he assured that he will offer a download to switch the timeout off.

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31.Jul.2000
Jürgen A. Theiner on ANF


playamiga.de is back !
Caused by a harddiskcrash www.playamiga.de was not updated the last two weeks. Now I am back again to supply you with new game information. ACTUAL: The time to enrol for the SWOS tournament ends in the last days of august.

PS: Due to the harddiskcrash I lost all of my online-datas. If you wait for a reply on your mail, please send this mail once more.

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31.Jul.2000
Michael Carrillo on ANF


Epic (UK) supports Amihoo.com
Epic UK have teamed up with Amihoo.com to give away a £10 pound voucher, for the best letter submitted to Amihoo's Talkback section, on a monthly base. To win, write about anything Amiga related. Best letter published in Issue 2 wins the £10 (ukp) Epic Voucher.

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31.Jul.2000
TFA


ASM-One V1.44 will be released in August
Nothing changed during the last weeks on the webside. Now the author announced that he will release version 1.44 of the well known Amiga Macro-Assembler.

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31.Jul.2000
Amiga Inc.


Paul Nolan Joins Amiga
As you may know Amiga Inc. is forming a new developer department at the time beeing. The first step will be to bring together first class designers and developers. Amiga Inc. is excited to announce now to have Paul Nolan, developer of Photogenics, on board, too.

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31.Jul.2000
Sinan Gurkan via eMail


AmigArt Online
After some server problems and a move caused by this, AmigaArt is now back at the well known address http://www.amiga-art.com.

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31.Jul.2000
AIO


AIO Issue #37 Published
Issue #37 of "Amiga Information Online" is now for download.

Download: AIOV37.LHA

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31.Jul.2000
ICS


ICS Version 1.10 Released
With the scanner color adjustment software ICS by Wolf Faust you can reach a nearly professional colormanagement for your scanner.

Download: ICS.lha - 1,7 MB -
ICS.readme

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31.Jul.2000
Michael Pfeiffer via eMail


IT2 - Star Trek Edition
After IT2 the Star Trek version is now freeware and Open Source, too. You can download the update by following the titlelink

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30.Jul.2000
amiga.org


Aliens Vs Predator Sourcecode
Foxinteractive released on July 27th 2000 the sourcecode of the 3D-shooter 'Alien vs. Predator' for IBM compatible computers. At the server you can find screenshots of the game.

Unfortunately the downloadlink points back to the newspage.

Supplement 31.07.2000 (ps):
The downloadlink were deleted because there shortly will be an optimized version of the sourcecode.

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30.Jul.2000
Amiga.org


Screenshot of UAE for SDK
Deryk Robosson published a screenshot showing an UAE-version for the SDK on the AmiOpen-ML.

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30.Jul.2000
Amiga.org


Interview with Moss and Ewen
Daniel Robbins took an interview with Fleecy Moss and Bill McEwen (Amiga) that has been published at IBM in the section "developerWorks:Linux overview:Library - papers".

The interview starts with the Amiga Classic and brings out very positively what it really is. Next, the technology of the new system is beeing explained. Most of this should be known already.

Bill McEwens statement the SDK was sold out after 15 minutes at Neuss, is, as already said by Sebastian Brylka at Fun Time World, wrong. It was available there for a lowered price on the second day, too.

Daniel Robbins is president/CEO of Gentoo Technologies.

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30.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Interview with Ablaze Entertainment
On the homepage of the Amiga Future there is an actual interview again. This time with Ablaze Entertainment. Ablaze has been founded in 1996 and curently works together with ClickBoom.

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30.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


New Blittersoft-Website
Blittersoft has reworked their website.

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30.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Java-MP3 added to SDK-report
Stefan Zivkovic has updated his report of the Amiga-SDK. It now contains benchmarks of Java-MP3, too.

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30.Jul.2000



Pictures from AmiWest
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Dirk Baeyens
amiwest-1999-Fleecy/index.html
amiwest-2000-Bill/index.html
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15 Jahre Amiga.jpg

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30.Jul.2000
Dirk Conrad at ANF


MAS-Player 1.21 (Update)
Dirk Conrad wrote:
A little update for the Amiga MAS-Player has been released. The Playlist-function has been reworked.

In addition there is a tool from Nick Clover available on my homepage that manages the playlists.

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30.Jul.2000
ANN


News from AmiWest
Teemu I. Yliselä has listened to the UGN live audio stream of Bill McEwen and basing on his notes (he did not record the stream himself) he summarized the following on ANN.

The target term for the release of the AmigaOne presently is December 2000. AmigaOne will base on Amiga's own motherboard design including not off the shelve components.

Amiga founded their own hardware department leaded by Dean Brown. This department is ought to design custom hardware for various devices, which then will be offered to third party manufacturers for production.

The SDK is selling better than expected. Amiga is in contact with a large number of big consumer electronics and software companies including every important game smithy. Many of them already purchased the SDK. After Bill McEwen's recent two TV gigs the companies' interest increased.

A SDK version for Windows will be available from next month.

From next week Read Hat will distribute the SDK. Sun started to utilize Amiga's software to present Java, too.

It is beeing planed to release beta versions of the OE.

Amiga plans to go public

Paul Nolan will take care of jobs under contract for Amiga.

Licences: No software developer will be forced to pay sums to Amiga. Instead of this there will be the possibility to take part in an unsolicited certification project. This project will offer the opportunity to put the Amiga lable on your own product, and the chance of your product beeing marketed directly by Amiga. This will cost 1,50$ US per sold unit.

Amiga will offer low cost promotion and merchandising products to the users.

At the show Amiga presented a touchscreen basing on the ARM and running with the new OE. The design came form Mick Tinker.

Back compatibility to the Classic Amiga will be carryed into effect by the OE using something which will not be an emulation.

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