07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier
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Amigart: Earth2140 will be presented on the WOA in Cologne
According to Jason Hayman von Pagan Games
the full version of Earth 2140 Amiga PPC/68k will be presented on the
WoA 2000
in Cologne. The master CD is already on its way to production.
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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Simon The Sorcerer II is ready
Simon The Sorcerer II is ready and all who pre-ordered it at epic-interactive
will receive it from December, 14th. After many month of work and many problems
Paul Burkey and Peter Mulholland have made it, they have ported one of the best
cartoon adventures to the Amiga.
AGA or a gfx board is required. A 68030/50 with 8 MB RAM is minimal requirement.
The english game has subtitles in English, German, and Italian. It is delivered
in a DVD case with printed manual. You can preorder here.
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07.Dec.2000
Bill Borsari via eMail
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UGN-IRC from Cologne
The UGN is happy to announce the presentation of live internet chat with
some of the biggest names in the Amiga industry today. The conferences
will begin on Saturday 09.12.2000 at 12:00 CET (GMT +1h.) There will also
be a live webcam from the show at http://ugn.amiga.org/webcam. You can
join the conferences on the AmigaNet family of IRC servers on channel
#woa2000. Here is a list of servers and the port:
- Server (Port always 6667):
- whiterose.us.amiganet.org
- thule.no.amiganet.org
- kth.se.amiganet.org
- linux.us.amiganet.org
- spod.uk.amiganet.org
- fullcomp.au.amiganet.org
For more information about IRC please visit http://ugn.amiga.org/irc.
We have put together a perliminary schedule as a reference:
Participant Company Time
Darek Dulian. ELBOX 12:30:00 CET
Mick Tinker BoXer 13:00:00 CET
Ralph Schmidt MorphOs 14:00:00 CET
Allan M. Redhouse Eyetech 15:00:00 CET
Bill McEwan Amiga Inc 16:00:00 CET
Juergen Haage Haage & Partner 17:00:00 CET
Hope to see you there!
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07.Dec.2000
amiga.org
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News from Fleecy Moss
Fleecy Moss, Technical Director of Amiga, Inc. sends the message, that
Amiga, Inc. about to release in a few weeks the first part of the
AmigaDE technology.
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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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WayneCam is now online
Wayne Hunt of the Amiga.org team has installed a webcam on his working place.
If you want to watch him work you can do this here.
It is updated every 30 seconds.
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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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WebCam on WoA
Ruediger Engel of the Amiga-Club has installed a webcam on the
WoA2000
and shows the pictures on his homepage: WoA Webcam
or the picture directly.
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07.Dec.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail
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MEDIATOR PCI for Amiga 4000
MEDIATOR PCI 4000 features:
- PCI busboard for Amiga 4000D in: E-BOX (Power Tower,
Winner Tower) tower cases
- 5 PCI slots - PCI 2.1 compatible (DMA, Bus-mastering, etc.)
- 7 ZORRO III/II slots
- 1 Video slot
- The fastest possible PCI design for Amiga, 66 MHz, 32-bit
- Transfer rates between PCI cards up to 264 MB/s
- Ready to run with all the existing Amiga 4000: 68k and PPC
accelerator cards
- Ready to run with SharkPPC G3/G4 cards
MEDIATOR PCI 4000 is made up of two devices:
a) MEDIATOR 4000 core logic card
b) ELBOX A4000 ZORRO III/II PCI busboard
The PCI to Amiga bridge is a PCI 2.1-compliant implementation
for connecting PCI devices, thus allowing expansion of Amiga
with all kinds of industry standard hardware products.
DRIVERS for MEDIATOR 4000 add-on PCI cards:
- Graphic cards based on processors:
3dfx Voodoo3 16MB (ready)
3dfx Voodoo5 32MB (in development)
- Network cards:
Ethernet 10 Mb/s (ready)
Fast Ethernet 100/10 Mb/s (in development)
- Sound cards:
SB 128 (in development)
SB 1024 Live (in development)
- TV tuner (in development)
- MPEG-2 hardware decoder (in development)
- USB Controller (planned)
- ISDN cards (planned)
Availability:
ELBOX A4000 ZORRO III/II PCI will be sold as a complete set
with the E-BOX 4000 (Power Tower, Winner Tower), beginning
with 9 December 2000 (during the WOA 2000!).
The MEDIATOR 4000 core logic card will be available in January 2001.
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07.Dec.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment present on the Cologne Show
Also e.p.i.c interactive entertainment will be present on the Cologen Show. At the booth of
Falke Verlag Paul Burkey will present the finished Amiga version of "Simon The Sorcerer II". Thomas
Wuergler from Pagan Games, which ported the real-time strategy game "Earth 2140" by our order to
the Amiga, will present the final version exclusively at the Falke booth. Look forward to two
great PC ports, which you can play already this year.
Furthermore we will offer our games at special fair prices on the fair.
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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Wired: Forever Amigos with Amiga
Wired reported about Amiga Forever 4.0 by Cloanto.
You can find the article under the title link.
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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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G-Rex with 5 PCI Slots will be presented on WoA
According to DCE the board was completely new designed and the production
has already started. The board will be presented on the WoA in Cologne. Two new pictures of the board
were published at CyberGFX-homepage. You can also look at
a picture of CyberGraphX on a Voodoo 4-4500 there.
Besides this there are news of the P96 team:
On Saturday the programmer of Picasso96 probably will be present on the WoA2000. Tobias wrote:
"Hi! Alex and I will probably attend the WoA 2000 in Cologne
on Saturday. If you want to meet us (register Picasso96 or complain about
our greed) just look out for us. The pictures on the Picasso96 home page
should be good enough for that. :-) C ya! :-))" .....click on their pictures
for a better view:
picture 1
and picture 2.
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06.Dec.2000
Christian Sobotta on ANF
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ACSYS canceled
After a last telephone call with programmer it is now official that the development of ACSYS (Turrican-clone)
will be canceled. In our opinion for 86 interested people (result of a opinion poll) it is not
worthy continuing the development.
If the development will be continued by a third person the following applies:
The complete code will be released as open source. Only the engine will be given as an object file.
If a commercial publication is planned percentage share of the profit have to be given to us.
The level has to be negotiated with the developer. If the game is going to be published as freeware
we will waive the financial claims. PD,- shareware or something like that are not allowed.
The level of development is at fifty percent. If there are competent programmers we would continue
working on pictures if desired.
We regret this decision and hope you show understanding of it. If you want to write something
to this topic please mail to the programmer because
I have no influence on it no longer. The homepage will be online during the next time. I will complete
the list of interested people if I will get mails with this content.
For further questions we are at your disposal via eMail:
Code: Joerg Belger
Graphic: Christian Sobotta
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06.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
ET60DemoEnglis.lha biz/demo 2.5M+Multimedia language tutor - English ver.
ET60DemoGerman.lha biz/demo 2.4M+Multimedia language tutor - German ver.
DOpusCFG.lha biz/dopus 60K+DOpus4.x configuration with many feature
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha comm/irc 764K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Dreamforge
iris.lha comm/mail 326K+Email client (SMTP/POP3) V2.3
IrisUpdate.lha comm/mail 36K+Update Iris V2.2 to V2.3
Haracz.lha comm/misc 350K+Calculate fee for internet provider
jl_update.lha comm/tcp 2K+Script for updating your ip at Justlinux
rxsocket.lha comm/tcp 139K+Rxsocket.library - TCP/IP ARexx library
streamer.lha comm/www 25K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
APX-ITBM.lha demo/aga 3.7M+I Want To Be Machine by Appendix,release
APX-MAYHEM.lha demo/aga 1.7M+Mayhem by Appendix, released at Satellit
ays-atyp.lha demo/aga 31K+"A-Type 32k Game by Dexter/Abyss!"
ays-crsn.lha demo/aga 36K+"Cruisin 40k Intro by Dexter/Abyss!"
ays-dis4.lha demo/aga 78K+DISISSID #4 by ABYSS (THX songs)
SPO3-Photos.lha demo/aga 232K+Official photos from Spoletium3 demopart
wpz-frozen39.lha demo/aga 430K+Frozen#39 - Spoletium Party Edition
WT_intros_1996.lha demo/intro 1.4M+Wanted Team cracktros from the year 1996
hla-ap14fix.lha demo/mag 24K+Amiga Positive no.14 FIX, new executable
modifile.lha dev/amos 67K+File modifier written by AMOSPro
SamplesMaster.lha dev/amos 107K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
blitzgtfix.lha dev/basic 45K+Blitz2 fix for many Gadtools problems
clockita.lha dev/basic 73K+Italian clock with alarm + source code
libiconv_src.lha dev/c 3.4M+Src for libiconv.a
xad_ar.lha dev/src 12K+Ar(1) xadmaster client
xad_bzip.lha dev/src 19K+Bzip xadmaster client
xad_CAB.lha dev/src 54K+Cabinet (CAB) xadmaster client
xad_COP.lha dev/src 12K+COP xadmaster client
xad_DImp.lha dev/src 13K+DImp xadmaster client
xad_MSA.lha dev/src 8K+Magic Shadow (MSA) xadmaster client
xad_RPM.lha dev/src 10K+RPM xadmaster client
xad_Wrapster.lha dev/src 9K+Wrapster xadmaster client
xad_ZAP.lha dev/src 13K+ZAP xadmaster client
splatch.lha disk/misc 20K+CLI command to split and join files
BB.lha docs/hyper 285K+The BLACK BIBLE (Russian version) in Ami
Aakt1200GFX.lha docs/mags 336K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1200GUIDE.lha docs/mags 79K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1200HTML.lha docs/mags 215K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
mc0101.lha docs/mags 234K+German Metal Mag in HTML - Januar Issue
JumpingAround.lha game/demo 158K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
Mattonite.lha game/demo 276K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
LOS_ED.lha game/hint 99K+Save Editor for game Legacy of Sorasil
AllTerrainRaci.lha game/patch 25K+HD-Installer for All Terrain Racing V1.0
AllTerrainXmas.lha game/patch 23K+HD-Installer for All Terrain Racing Xmas
BatmanReturns.lha game/patch 24K+HD-Installer for Batman Returns V1.0
ColonizationPL.lha game/patch 78K+Polish translation for game Colonization
Microbes.lha game/patch 31K+HD-Installer for Microbes V1.0
pab3d1_1.lha game/patch 56K+(1.1) A Patch for Alien Breed 3D.
PuttySquadDemo.lha game/patch 30K+HD-Installer for Putty Squad Demo V1.0
Quartz.lha game/patch 28K+HD-Installer for Quartz V1.1
Fate1.2.lha game/role 16K+Fate - Polish Version of Dice Simulator
stefadv2.lha game/text 68K+2nd little italian text adventure
Frogger.lha gfx/show 932K+Ultimate MPEG video player (MOS|PUP|WOS|
VideoMPEGA.lha gfx/show 343K+Fast Mpeg video play 1&2 + sound 68k/AGA
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 73K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
PrimaxCD9600.lha hard/drivr 56K+Primax Colorado Direct 9600 Scanner Driv
Mentat.lha misc/edu 223K+Mentat 0.6 english2english Longman dicti
stlist.lha misc/emu 25K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
imdbDiff001124.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Budzet2000.lha misc/math 431K+Budzet 2000. Calculates your expenses an
ALEM_0018.lha misc/misc 696K+ALEM's ScalaScript 'GeneaBook' Demo (FR)
divert12.lha mods/midi 37K+Divertimento12, GM song by Stefano Regat
divert3.lha mods/midi 59K+Divertimento3, GM song by Stefano Regatt
felicida.lha mods/midi 35K+Felicidad, GM song by Stefano Regattin
rno-r052.lha mods/misc 258K+Rno-records release no.52 by Tang (tekno
dzy-inafantasy.mpg mods/mpg 5.2M+MP3 Tune by Dazzy of Soundforce
win95crash.lha mods/smpl 91K+Windows95Crash.wav : very famous sample
ac3dec.lha mus/play 73K+AC3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoder. (68k
DeliDecrunch.lha mus/play 8K+XFD/XAD DeliTracker Decruncher v2.2
WOA-2000.jpg pix/art 14K+Made with fxPaint and Cinema4D
AVK.lha pix/misc 2.0M+X-Mas Calendar
Jack01.lha pix/trace 950K+7 trace-pictures of Ford Mustang by JACK
a500_wb2000.png pix/wb 203K+Amiga500-WB w/WB2000 in 724x566x4
Textloader.lha text/edit 738K+TextEd 8.2 german/english SuperED!!
adTOag.lha text/hyper 17K+AdTOag - Autodocs TO Amigaguide. V1.3
ascii2jascii.lha text/misc 35K+ASCII to Japanese ASCII (68k/ppc/wos)
eNote.lha text/misc 161K+Electronical notebook
UnLZX2.lha util/arc 95K+UnLZX with new args (68k/PPC/i486)
xadmaster000.lha util/arc 248K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68000)
xadmaster020.lha util/arc 250K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68020)
xadmaster060.lha util/arc 256K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68060)
xadmasterdev.lha util/arc 141K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (DEVEL)
alba.lha util/boot 50K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
ALeXcompare.lha util/cli 67K+Compare files/dirs/trees & display diffe
makedict.lha util/cli 39K+MakeDict - Creates dictionary from ANY (
SRename.lha util/cli 107K+Advanced rename/renumber CLI program.
EasyConvert.lha util/conv 23K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
ppclibemu.lha util/libs 229K+Ppc.library emulation under WarpOS
Calculator.lha util/misc 28K+Fully functional scientific calculator
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 83K+Report+ 4.11: 10-function utility
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 98K+V1.42 - Graphics benchmark program
AmiLogVis.lha util/moni 36K+RC5 Log Visualizer (for distributed.net
dofile52.lha util/rexx 43K+Nice datatype based processfile script
rmh.lha util/rexx 54K+Rmh.library - Rexx Must Have library
LSClock20.lha util/time 31K+SHAREWARE clock utility - New Release v2
Gurus2000_18_G.lha util/wb 178K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
Gurus2000_HTML.lha util/wb 642K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
TweakWB18.lha util/wb 117K+Workbench 3.5/3.9 commodity & icon conve
VisualPrefs.lha util/wb 458K+Configure the look of the Amiga GUI!
WB2000_17.lha util/wb 386K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)
WB2000_17_NO.lha util/wb 5K+Norwegian catalog for WorkBench2000 1.7
yStart.lha util/wb 19K+Start menu for standard WB icons (v1.2)
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06.Dec.2000
Alfred Knoetig via eMail
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Digital Albums
Alf's Corner present "Digital Albums" for Amiga. Digital - Albums are photo CDs of Brasilia, Mexico
Argentina and Toscana. Each of the above mentioned CDs contain several hundreds of pictures of
landscapes in high quality. Everybody can start dreaming here.
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06.Dec.2000
Guvenc Kaplan via eMail
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AmigArt: AmigaOS 4.0 petition
AmigaArt wants to submit a petition with their wishes to AmigaOS 4.0 to Amiga Inc. It is an opinion poll
where you can express your opinion concerning the development of the Amiga Classic OS to a PPC-native-OS.
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06.Dec.2000
Paer Boberg via eMail
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List of famous use of Amiga updated
Paer Boberg has updated his list of famous use of Amiga available now in version 1.6.
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06.Dec.2000
Falk Lueke via eMail
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Eternity News regarding Cologne Show
Eternity will present at the "World of Amiga 2000" which takes place this weekend in Cologne the
following products:
*! EASys will be available in new version !*
- Important features of OS 3.9 are supported...
- Tom Neidhardt has added an important complementing which lacks in the modern operating system of OS 3.9.
- Converting of ToolsDemon-Prefs -> OS 3.9-menu added
- Adapting of the toolbar. Pre-configured for vertical and horizontal positions...
- Starting improved ans fastened...
- Choice between big ans small WB-menu...
- Menu itself was improved.
- Scripts of converting of icons do no longer need OS 3.x-CD...
- DEF-icon-fixing via point&click.
- Genisis connection improved...
You can buy the update as CD for 15,- DM at the fair. After the fair the update can be downloaded
from the internet for free...
*! MAS-Player goes AmigaAmp !*
As already promised during the last weeks we have worked on getting as many as possible software support
for MAS-player. A first step has taken now:
- The MAS-player will be supported right from the fair by AmigaAmp. Thanks a lot to Dirk Conrad, Thomas Wenzel und Paul Quershi.
Therefore MAS-player is the most effective, compatible and favourable MP3-player on the Amiga...
- The current version of AmigaAmp at our booth will be presented with internet-radio support for the first time.
*! Eternity presents Eternity-One !*
As a real alternative to the current Amiga-computer-systems we offer a computer with Amiga-emulation
for the first time. There are the following advantages:
- You can chose each Amiga!
- OS 3.x compatible
- OCS, ECS AGA and graphics board compatible
- Save protection in Amiga-box
- Speed as Amiga-Exorzist with 68040/68060 processor
- Access to Amiga-disks possible
- Amiga-sytem with 128 MB RAM
- 100% compatible to Windows-systems and all Windows-programs
- All Amiga & PC-games playable
- Network between Workbench and Windows
- Network to other Amigas over TCP-IP possible
- Cheap because of standard-pc-hardware
- MAc-emulation usable
- Linux usable
- Independent of Amiga-level
- Independent of Amiga Inc.
- Amigs-SDK usable und compatible for the future
- All Amiga 68k programs usable
- Kickstart 1.3-3.1
- Period of guarantee of hardware-producer longer
- No unnecessary long repairing time
- Compatible to OS 3.9
- Convince yourself of this system. It offers a good solution concerning the current Amiga-problems.
We point out that this computer is a starting system.
*! Tales of Tamar !*
We also present Tales of Tamar in the current beta-version at the fair. Convince yourself of the
progress and have a look at the things approaching you.
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06.Dec.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail
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Aminet CD 40 available
Aminet CD 40 - December 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (unpacked) of software in nearly thousand
archives. The very special highlight on this CD is the full version of TurboCalc 4.0 with a attractively priced
possibility of updating to TurboCalc 5.0.
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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Haage & Partner publishes new functions and pictures of OS 3.9
You can find the complete list here: OS 3.9 features.
Here you can find some pictures of the new programs and of the preferences: OS 3.9 screens.
Who has made OS 3.9? Here you can find the list of the involved poeple: OS 3.9 Who did it.
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06.Dec.2000
Xandiy on ANF
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Getting to Cologne
Everybody who wants to visit also the fair and needs a
driving possibility, please join here.
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05.Dec.2000
Sylvio K. on ANF
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News about DeepSilence - The Secret of my Soul
The DeepSilence team is looking for a gifted story writer to cooperate
in case of the game's story and actions. Good knowledge of orthography
is recommended. Contact:
sylvio.kurze@oberland.or.at.
At the time being the SOMS homepage only is accessible at
http://suse.unixcity.de/mangapic/index.html
due to a failture of redirection. Moreover the DeepSilence team would like to mention
alternative-games.de
where a poll is up about which game you are most of all looking forward to. Everybody looking
forward to SOMS, please click DeepSilence-SOMS.
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05.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software
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Trogsoft Awards 2001
Trogladite Software will overall place five awards in categories application, games,
hardware, developer, and website. Trogladite Software spend a lot of time to simplify
the procedure of voting compared to last year.
If your favourite website for one of the categroies isn't on the list, you have the
possibility to nominate this website.
amiga-news.de is nominated for the category "website". If you would like to vote for us,
please click the following link:
Vote for amiga-news.de in the TS Awards 2001
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05.Dec.2000
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amiga-news.de present at the WoA 2000, too
Of course also the amiga-news.de team will not miss the this year's Amiga show
WoA 2000
in Cologne's Mediapark, which will take place this weekend. As usual we will
inform you about the novelties presented at the fair by extended reports and pictures, and
we are already looking forward to meet our readers in person.
As already traditional our graphics artist, the airbrush artist
Rolf Tingler, will decorate your hardware
live as wanted. He will also bring along the popular mobile phone shells with Amiga design, among others
for the brand-new Nokia 3310, too.
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05.Dec.2000
Andreas Weyrauch via eMail
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IRC-Logfile (revised version)
Andreas Weyrauch, who organized the Jochen Becher chat, has revised the log file and removed
all 'join', and 'left'. You will find the result (mixed, German and English) at
the title link.
Furthermore he says thank you to all of the attendants for the good replies, which encourage him to
go on.
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05.Dec.2000
Peter Merfeld on ANF
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G-REX driver for Voodoo 4-4500 finished
Peter Merfeld, PR manager at DCE Computer Service GmbH, wrote:
DCE Computer is excited to be able to announce that Vision Factory have finished
the CyberGraphx beta drivers for Voodoo 4-4500 boards. The technical data of the
Voodoo 4 are really impressing. With an impressing filling rate of 333 megapixles per
second, and 32 MB of graphics memory the Voodoo4 4500 will bring your PPC Amiga near
to industrial workstations.
Here are the technical data of the fastest graphics board ever used in an Amiga:
- 32 MB Graphics Memory 128-bit Interface
- 166 Mhz Core Clock
- 350 Mhz RAMDAC
- 60Hz-160Hz Vertical Refresh
- 32-bit Color Rendering
- 32-bit Texture rendering pipeline
- 24-bit floating point depth buffer
- 8-bit stencil buffer
- 2048*2048 Texture Support
- Full 128-bit 2D engine
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05.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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It's done: Payback-Work in Progress starts!
Jürgen A. Theiner of playamiga.de wrote:
From now on I will report about the current status of Payback
development irregulary. Because the programmer himself supports me in doing so, I think by now that there may
be many interesting news. It starts with the update to beta 8, which I already released on November, 30th.
The reports will not stop after the final release of the game, but later changes will be reported
(Mission Disks, Updates, Payback 2...), too. So, have a lot of fun on the other side of the law.
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05.Dec.2000
Stefan Sommerfeld via eMail
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Repulse News
Who would like to see this board live - BTW: which is available at reduced price - can come to
Individual Computer's booth on the World Of Amiga in Cologne, which will take place in the
Mediapark this weekend. We still need some preorders to be able to start production of the
board.
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04.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Amiga Future started webring
Amiga Future started a new webring today. Every webmaster is invited to join the ring.
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04.Dec.2000
Elbox via eMail
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Voodoo3 Graphics accelerator-review
Elboy made a new Voodoo3 graphics accelerator review online available.
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04.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier at ANF
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MPEG 4 available for Amiga soon
Let me inform you about our new MPEG-4-based codec called 3ivx. You probably heard of DivX ;-)
as a movie compression format. And indeed it's great. But we (the whole 3ivx.com team, under
the supervising eye of Mr. Stux who has created the DivX ;-) Player for Mac) want to go a bit
further. Our goal is to optimize compression so that the file size is smaller, of a higher
quality and fully streamable. Moreover the codec will be supported on all platforms (Windows,
Macintosh, BeOS, *nix (inlcuding Linux), Amiga ...). To accomplish this the code of the player
will become an open source.
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04.Dec.2000
KDH Messe-News at ANF
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KDH releases X-Surf/Miami-DeLuxe Bundle at WOA
KDH will offer a bundle that contains the netwotkadapter X-Surf and Miami-DeLuxe.
Miami-DeLuxe will only be available in this bundle (at the WoA).
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04.Dec.2000
KDH Messe-News at ANF
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KDH will make a short glimpse on the future of the Amiga
Andreas Küssner of WK-Artworks will demonstrate Taifun on Saturday.
Taifun is the successor of 'Wildfire' and it's being developed for the new OS 'Amiga DE'.
'Wildfire-for-Movieshop' will be available, too.
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04.Dec.2000
Carsten Schröder via eMail
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AMIGA aktuell 12/00 Published
The new issue contains Amiga news, software reviews and a summary of the latest
issue of »Amiga World« by Amiga Inc. Additional you find informations
about the »World of Amiga« in Cologne next weekend.
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04.Dec.2000
André Beer at ANF
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GeoWorld - Update 12 released
We, Beer Productions, are proud to announce the release of an other GeoWorld update.
The main feature of the new version are the revised history data. The data now reserve 50 times more space (400kb).
The update is available at our homepage and from the Aminet (misc/edu). A new demo will be available soon.
I would like to put you attention on the Amiga-Arena special offer.
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04.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail
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COOLbits at WoA2000
The exhibition-page of COOLbits is online. Apart from a new version of FX-Scan they will
present EaSys and Tales of Tamar at the exhibition. For all video-freaks there will be a
stand-alone video-editiong-system CASABLANCA AVIO.
We agreed with Irseesoft to sell there products at our booth. These products are Turboprint7.x
and Picture Manager5.5. If you bring your old Turboprint discs with you you can update to version 7.16.
The MAS Hardware MP3 Player will be demonstrated too.
We will present the new Eternity-One computer. It is a PC with installed Amiga-emulator.
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04.Dec.2000
Michael Lange at ANF
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CyberGraphX V4.2 'pre8'
A CyberGraphX V4.2 'pre8' - update is available at the title link.
Especially the MorphOS-Support was improved.
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04.Dec.2000
Ricco Clemens at ANF
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Server Problems
Because our server is overloaded we would like to please you to use the following addresses:
http://buerger.metropolis.de/riccoclemens oder
http://www.ev.2xt.de
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04.Dec.2000
Jürgen Haage via eMail
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Vesalia Computer will attend WoA 2000
Vesalia Computer short-term decided to attend the WOA 2000. A new stall-plan is available at the WoA-pages of
Haage&Partner.
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04.Dec.2000
Jürgen Haage via eMail
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Haage&Partner: There are no problems with Genesis
This morning a report comes up that blamed us for not having a valid license for
shipping Genesis with the new AmigaOS.
We strictly reject this charge. We have all rights that are needed to sell Genesis.
We bought these rights from the manufacturer Active Technologies this August. We
announced all of this 4 weeks later. We are very surprised about the campaign just
one week before the start of the shipping of AmigaOS3.9.
As planed, Amiga Inc. will start shipping it next Saturday. Bill McEwen will attend
the exhibition at Cologne. I hope you will be there.
Jürgen Haage
Geschäftsführer - HAAGE&PARTNER Computer GmbH
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03.Dec.2000
Anton Rolls on REBOL-ML
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Hosts with REBOL Support
On the basis of reports on the REBOL mailing list Anton Rolls has listed hosts
supporting REBOL. There the language REBOL can be used for example for the
generating of websites via CGI. For the time being the list contains 8 entries.
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03.Dec.2000
TFA
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ASM-One v1.45 on December, 5th
The release of the version 1.45 of the assembler ASM-One was originally planned
for the 30. November 2000. This date postpones on the 5. December 2000. The
reason for this is that Boussh has begun implementing pasting to the clipboard.
As the clipboard support is a feature that is requested since long by many he
has decided to take some extra days to complete the clipboard support (copy to
clipboard). This time will additionally be used to improve the RTG version of
the package and to update the documentation. For the 5. December is the release
of the standard and the RTG version of ASM-One 1.45 planned.
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03.Dec.2000
IrseeSoft
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Exhibition prices for IrseeSoft's Products
At the fair 'World of Amiga', happening on the 9. and 10. December 2000 at
the Mediapark Cologne, products and updates of IrseeSoft will be available for
favorable exhibition prices at the booth of CoolBits.
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03.Dec.2000
David Gerber via eMail
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Genesis Rights Controversial
On 28. September 2000 Haage&Partner released a
note
in which the company announced to have obtained distribution and copyrights
for the TCP/IP-Stack 'Genesis' from Active Technologies (Chris Wiles). Through
this acquisition H&P received the possibility to integrate an own TCP/IP
stack into the new AmigaOS Version 3.9 without any complications.
Note: The Genesis package is continued development of the AmiTCP/IP
package by Network Solutions Development, Inc. (NSDi).
On 2. Dezember 2000 David Gerber, who is working by order of NSDi on AmiTCP,
released a press note by NSDi. According to this Active Technologies didn't
possess the rights for the AmiTCP part of Genesis and hence couldn't
sell these rights to H&P.
In this message NSDi among other things were written that they regard a distribution
of AmiTCP/IP without a direct contract with NSDi as an act of piracy.
To avoid misunderstandings with actual valid license contracts NSDi further
withdraws all for the time being valid licence contracts. Due to NSDi' own
representation this is possible as Chris Wiles (Active Technologies)
didn't observe his part of the license by not paying any licensing fees since
early 1999.
H&P is anxious to solving this problem friendly.
The exact wording of the press release of NSDi is available under the title link.
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03.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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playamiga.de: Review of 'Codename: Hellsquad' online
On 3. Dezember 2000 Juergen A. Theiner has released a comprehensive
test
of the action aventures 'Codename:Hellsquad' by Digital Dream Entertainment
on www.playamiga.de.
A work in progress report about "Payback" will follow soon.
A first update of the P"Payback" review has been already released.
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03.Dec.2000
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org: Tools for Headlines and AmigaDE Update
Since 27. November 2000 Amiga.org offers the possibility to show the headlines
of this website automatically on the own homepage or directly on the
AmigaDE-Desktop. For this programs for JavaScript, PHP and AmigaDE(ETick V0.8)
are available.
Besides the amiga.org headlines ETick can additionally show the actual date and
time, weather forecasts and the statistics of an own zAMilo webserver.
On the website
itself the actual uploads and top downloads of the AmigaDE archive of www.amigadev.net are now also shown.
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03.Dec.2000
Ricco Clemens on ANF
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Amiga--------easy-PRINT Release (with a small delay)
On the 04. Dezember 2000 appears the new issue of Amiga--------easy-PRINT which
may be delayed by 2-3 days because of illness.
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03.Dec.2000
ANN
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Amiga has Installed their own Online Shop
Amiga has installed their own online shop under the above title link.
As for software AmigaOS V3.9 and AmigaSDK V1.0 are available.
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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SecondSpin v2.12 beta
On 02. December 2000 Lauri Ahonen has released the beta version 2.12 of
"SecondSpin". This is a tool to convert normal audio CD tracks into MPEG audio
files (layers 1, 2 or 3). Additionally more formats like AIFF and WAV are
supported. A modified version of LAME v3.87+ is needed for MPEG encoding.
With this update several bugs were removed and the error handling has been
improved. This update is a very early beta version.
Download:
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Sound card "Martina"
Michal Kluczewski has released some information about the upcoming sound card
"Martina" with the permission of the developer. This card shall be released within
already this year, at first for the clock port of the A1200 and later in addition for
ZorroII (Amiga 3000/4000).
It offers two 16bit channels each for in- and output with maximum 96 kHz and
an expansion port which can be used for a MPEG decoder. The website for the card
shall go online soon.
Specifications:
- Input: 2 channels with 16 bit, maximum 96 kHz.
- Output: 2 channels with 16 bit, maximum 96 kHz.
- Full duplex.
- FIFO 512 bytes.
- Soundmixer, for example of Paula and CD-ROM output.
- Expansion port. This enables a MPEG decoder enhancement
(MP3, MPEG-1 in der Uhrenport-Version) that is in the testing phase.
- Card in clock port version block of this port.
- The card will be delivered with AHI drivers. These take over the function
of the audio.device.
- The MPEG decoder will be library compatible to the mpega.library.
- Version under ROM stand (it doesn't dash with BVision and FastATA)
will be 24 bits (making possible trouble-free decoding MPEG)
and full compatible with A4000 (and probably with A3000).
Contact:
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03.Dec.2000
UAE-JIT
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New UAE-JIT Version
Bernd Bernie Meyer has released a new version of UAE-JIT. This version with the
name "Ipswich Town" contains a pci.library emulation and several improvements
inclusive optimisations and bugfixes.
the PCI emulation enables the usage of the CGX3 Virge drivers of the Mediator
board under UAE. Besides that UAE-JIT may be compiled with some luck with other
compilers than the, this wasn't tested yet tested.
Compared to the previous version the following has been changed:
- Bugfix: the saving of the settings should work now.
- Bugfix: Many more bugfixes. Quark runs now perfectly.
- New: pci.library emulation. This allows the usage of the free CGX3 Virge
drivers (for the Mediator board) with UAE-JIT.
As bonus up to four 4 PCI cards may be used (Mediator offers one slot).
- New: Further FPU support and aliasing support for the FPU registers.
- Lazy cache flushing.
- Lazy FPU-flag-evaluation.
- Lazy Register Updates for adding of offsets.
- Change: Many optimisations and therefor speed increasements.
The performance is now clearly better then that of the Executor
68k-JIT-Compiler.
In the sourcecode the following has been changed:
- Complete overhaul of block book keeping code.
- Bugfix: decisive bugfixes in the noflags-code of cpuemu.c.
- New: support for the saving of registers goes beyond the calling of
JIT-compiled code.
- Change: removing of gcc specific code. The sour cecode should get compiled
with other C-compilers.
- New: The JIT-compiler supports now many more 68k-commands.
- Largely eliminated updates of regs.pc_p; Instead, there are now
direct block-to-block jumps.
- New: Optimisation of the cycle-handling in events.h.
- Much more.
This version is available as Linux/x86-binary for glibc V2.1 respectively glibc V2.0,
as complete source code and as source code patch against the UAE V0.8.15 source code.
Download:
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03.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
The Amiga Arena releases for the first time 'Bubble Stones2' in an own Design
Bubble Stones2 is a 'Bust a Move'-clone and is
now available in the 256-color version. This version has been exclusively developed
for the Amiga Arena. The field was created by the Amiga Arena and is probably
the first own development the Amiga Arena is involved in.
Amiga Arena - Schlachtfeld v2.16 world premiere
The Amiga Arena presents exclusively in cooperation with Peter Weigoldt
Schlachtfeld v2.16.
The version 2.16 is a registered Amiga Arena edition with map editor.
The map editor is exclusively contained in this archive and will not be
available on Aminet or on the homepage of Schlachtfeld for the time being.
Schlachtfeld 2 is a strategy game for 1 to 4 players. It is a mixture between
"BattleIsle" and "Battleforce" .
Here some "highlights":
- Max. 4 Teams can fight against or together
- Teams can be controlled by the computer
- Round and action based
- Many different fighting units
- More than 50 different weapon systems
- Victorious teams can continue fighting in the next battle
- Save game option
- From Schlachtfeld2 v2.1 on voice output
- From Schlachtfeld2 v2.1 on nullmodem game
Schlachtfeld is shareware (20 DM) and Olaf Koebnik
appeals to all users who play Schlachtfeld intensively
to get registered by Peter Weigoldt and/or give feedback.
Amiga Arena interview action
An interview with Peter Weigoldt (Schlachfeld) is in the section
'Actions' online.
Amiga Arena lottery
The deadline for the lottery is the 06.12.2000.
Amiga Arena special discount offerings
The Amiga Arena has the following limited special discount offers still
online:
FLM, GeoWorld, VisualPrefs, AmiATLAS, Siteway, Apano Sin, SHARKS AGA und
Multi.
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03.Dec.2000
Nikolaos Damilakis on ANF
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Greek RC5 Team
The Hellenic Amiga User Group has set up a webpage for the greek members of the
Amiga-RC5-team. This contains information about the greek competitors such as
the ranking and the numberof the blocks. The usergroup suggests to other
Amiga-groups to set up similar pages.
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Payback Status Report
On the 3. Dezember 2000 James Daniels from Apex Designs has released the 16th
status report about the game 'Payback' inclusive new
screenshots.
The game similar to GTA nears completion, so there were added many new levels
during the last month, besides that, the following has been done:
- Resolutions up to 1280x1024 are now supported.
- Graphic cards are now supported. On a 68060 a smooth animation is reached
using a resolution of 640x480.
- There is now support for different languages. The
Amiga Translation Organisation(ATO)
is at translating the game into the following languages: German, French,
Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Czech, Slovenian and Serbian. Besides that
English and Swedish are supported.
- PSX controllers are now supported. All buttons are used so that the
navigation can be done completely over the game pad. The keyboard will then only
be needed to enter the filename for saving the game and similar things.
- Various bugs were fixed, among others a long standing bug which allowed the
it to the player walking on the water.
- New screenshots
of the night level were released. The textures will be improved until the
completion of the game.
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Tales of Tamar v0.32r6
For alpha testers the version 0.32 r6 of the "Tales of Tamar"-client for Amiga
computers has been released on the 30. November 2000. This update contains many
bugfixes regarding the map.
Tales of Tamar is an internet-based round based game for Amiga and IBM
compatibles by Eternity Entertainment Software.
Download: (1,4M)
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Short review of fxScan3.0
On Fun Time World appeared on the 29. November 2000 a short review of
'fxScan3.0' by Innovative. The program offers among other things text
recognition (OCR).
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Server Problem at Amiga Resource
Because of a server problem the website "Amiga Resource" can't be accessed for
now. On request you can be informed via email (by using the title link) about
the time the site will be online again.
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02.Dec.2000
Danny Ramsey in REBOL-ML
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REBOL/Core User Guide V2.3 released as book
Until now, the user guide was only available as PDF-file at the size of 4,5 MB. You can
now buy the guide as book at REBOLpress. The book has got 574 pages
which are divided into 14 chapters and 3 appendixes which describe the elements of this programming language.
There is an index
and a sample chapter of the
book on the site. The PDF-version of the guide can be downloaded at
REBOL .
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02.Dec.2000
Frank Fenn on ANF
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Palm Pilot - TealInfo Developer Kit
At the homepage of Frank Fenn the TealInfo Developer Kit for the Palm Pilot
Program 'TealInfo' by Tealpoint Software
is available for download from now on.
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02.Dec.2000
Michael Ufer on ANF
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Amiga-Christmas Calendar
Michael Ufer coded a Christmas calendar some time ago and now adapted it for the
year 2000. Each day a virtual door can be opened and there is a little
surprise behind it. Have fun and no cheating :-)
Download: AVK.lha - 2 MB
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02.Dec.2000
Stefan Instinske on ANF
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Alternative-Games.de now online
Today a new games site for Amiga and other alternative computer systems,
"Alternative-Games.de", went online. In the Amiga section current test reports
are awaiting you ("Bubble Heroes", "Virtual Ball Fighters", "Wipeout"), a
preview of the GTA clone "Payback", an interview with the leader, coordinator
and art director of the SOMS-Team "Secret of my Soul") and much more.
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02.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
F1GP-Theme.lha biz/dopus 1.7M+F1GP theme for Magellan II
Toolbar4YAM.lha comm/mail 201K+YAM replacement toolbar
YAMGenesis.lha comm/mail 17K+Start & stop Genesis from YAM2. V1.01
facts.lha comm/tcp 89K+V4.3 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
streamer.lha comm/www 24K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
dcs-tb31.lha demo/aga 39K+DCS: Tourbus 31 (1st at TRSAC'00.5)
SPO3-4KbIntro.lha demo/aga 17K+Spoletium3 Amiga 4Kb Intro compo entries
SPO3-64KbIntro.lha demo/aga 69K+Spoletium3 Amiga 64Kb Intro compo entrie
SPO3-Demo.lha demo/aga 2.2M+Spoletium3 Amiga Demo compo entries!
SPO3-Graphics.lha demo/aga 2.2M+Spoletium3 Graphics compo entries!
SPO3-Module.lha demo/aga 3.4M+Spoletium3 4Channels Module compo entrie
SPO3-Results.lha demo/aga 1K+Spoletium3 Results!
DKG-Shine.lha demo/intro 4K+Shine! 4Kb Intro by DARKAGE
BlitzLstOct00.lha dev/basic 64K+Blitz mailing list archives for October
libmpeg_src.lha dev/c 178K+Source for mpeg (video) link library
bonk.lha dev/lang 13K+New programming language
MCC_NListt_SP.lha dev/mui 6K+NListtree.mcp 18.2 spanish catalogs v1.0
HDWrenchTester.lha disk/salv 59K+Tester program for hdwrench.library
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/hyper 527K+ITALIAN ONLY comunicati NotizieAmiga 11/
AaktInt1100.lha docs/mags 268K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt1100GFX.lha docs/mags 473K+International infotainment magazine (gra
AIOV41.lha docs/mags 378K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 41 (Nove
Magazineindex.lha docs/mags 63K+TEXT indices of magazine articles
ALEM_0024.lha docs/rview 259K+ALEM's SilverSurfer Serial Card Doc (FR)
DC-EMBond15Lvl.lha game/data 376K+81 levels for Diamond Caves 1
GermanUnits.lha game/data 4K+German names of units for NAPALM
GoalBrasil2000.lha game/data 14K+Brazilian league update for GOAL
FormAldiHyd.lha hard/drivr 22K+Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/...
1571to1541.lha misc/emu 2K+1571 to 1541 v1.0
imdbDiff001117.lha misc/imdb 2.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
3DHome.lha misc/misc 333K+3D interface for X10 modules and EZHome.
aa2001.lha misc/misc 1.2M+Astrologic texts, german and HTML (DEMO)
Lotto_Upd.lha misc/misc 220K+Play Lotto! (V2.03, supports german Sa.-
AMP-Info.lha mus/misc 1.1M+(A)miga (M)usic (P)reservation infofile
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 120K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
EP_ImagesMusic.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Images Music System" extern
EP_SpeedyA1Sys.lha mus/play 6K+EaglePlayer "Speedy A1 System" external
Viereck.mpg pix/anim 15M+Animation made with Cinema 4D by MadMan/
NOW_1.lha pix/art 317K+"Now that's what I call Schming #1", Ne
fomb519.jpg pix/henz 244K+Heavy Narn Cruiser (Babylon 5)
fommisc01.jpg pix/henz 99K+Bridge
fommisc02.jpg pix/henz 444K+Mars Attacks!
fommisc03.jpg pix/henz 433K+Mars Attacks!
fomsw30.jpg pix/henz 258K+Sith Infiltrator (Star Wars - Eposode 1)
fomsw31.jpg pix/henz 88K+Skybus (Star Wars - The Return of the Je
fomsw32.jpg pix/henz 22K+Corellian YT-1300 (Star Wars)
fomsw33.jpg pix/henz 101K+Corellian YT-1300 (Star Wars)
veinepower.jpg pix/misc 156K+Amiga PoWeR Therapy. Keep the Fresh PoWe
Hyperion1.jpg pix/trace 62K+Hyperion (Babylon 5)
myvoodoo.jpg pix/wb 203K+Voodoo3 Grab -- Not OS3.9
warpvers07.lha util/misc 2K+Reports WarpOS/3D/Mesa libvers+env setti
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 156K+V1.41 - Graphics benchmark program
cdmp.lha util/rexx 22K+Encode CD to MP3 with Arexx (german)
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 19K+PatchBrain v1.24 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 252K+VirusExecutor v2.08
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02.Dec.2000
AmigActive
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AmigActive issue #15 Released
The december issue of the English print-magazine 'AmigActive' is available.
Under the title link you will find a complete index of issue #15. Highlights of
the current issue are, among others, an article about the future of the
Amiga, an article about Nightlong, and AmigActive takes a close look at the
games list for the AmigaOne.
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02.Dec.2000
MorphOS
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MagicMenuPPC 2.30beta for MorphOS/PPC
MagicMenu has been ported to MorphOS. Version 2.30beta of MagicMenuPPC is
available for download.
MagicMenuPPC230.lha - (147 KB)
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02.Dec.2000
Scalos
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Scalos News
The website of Scalos, a Workbench replacement, can be reached at own
domain scalos.com from now on.
Mick Carter is currently busy creating a Online-Help for Scalos.
SnapDesktop BETA has been released. The program memorizes the status
of Workbench windows at shutdown and reopens them again after a reboot.
Scalos Developer Kit Version 3 has been released. The archive contains updated
includes and supports Amiga E.
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02.Dec.2000
Matthias Henze on ANF
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New Alpha Version (V.45.00 alpha 4) of stormamiga.lib for SAS/C
There is once more an alpha version (V.45.00 alpha 4) of stormamiga.lib
V.45.00 for SAS/C. In this version some functions have been added, some
functions have been reworked, and some bugs removed. This version is for beta testers only.
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01.Dec.2000
Elbox via eMail
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Elbox PR: Total Graphic Mania
Elbox announces in their new press release that the developers of the Elbox
development department have implemented a new version of Voodoo3 drivers for
the Mediator PCI bus board.
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01.Dec.2000
Alex Kazik via eMail
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Version 2.0 of cmp (ALeXcompare) Released
cmp is a program which compares files in two directories (or trees).
That can be very useful, e.g. to examine in a backup, which files have
been changed / are new. AmigaOS 2.1 is required.
Download: ALeXcompare.lha -
ALeXcompare.readme
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01.Dec.2000
Gary Peake on Team Amiga-ML
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AmigaOne Discussion Board Remains Open
On November 24th, amiga-news.de reported that Amiga Inc.'s AmigaOne discussion
board will be closed on December 1st. The reason was a huge number of insults
which were published there.
On November 28th, Gary Peake of Amiga Inc. has announced in the Team Amiga
mailing list that the AmigaOne discussions won't be closed. He doesn't know
where the remark originated from, at least it didn't come from Amiga.
So the discussion board can still be
accessed,
but now only for registered users, which wasn't explicitly mentioned by
Gary Peake.
If anyone asks, we are NOT closing the AmigaOne forums on
www.amiga.com
Somebody must have been playing on their Momma's computer and got
loose and posted that remark.
It did NOT come from us. [...] (Gary Peake)
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01.Dec.2000
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AmigaOS 3.9 - a well done surprise?
In fact we would have liked to write an article about the new AmigaOS 3.9 on our own, but found the
article by Martin Steigerwald in the AMIGA Magazin 01/2001
so much perfect that we asked Joern-Erik Burkert, member of the editorial staff at Amiga Magazin,
to allow us publising it on amiga-news.de in both, German and English. Thank you very much for consent.
AmigaOS 3.9 - A well done surprise?
© AMIGA Magazin - Author: Martin Steigerwald
Translation by Martina Jacobs
This article in German
The announcement of the AmigaOS 3.9 came by accident for many people. Only a few dared to
think of having a new version of the AmigaOS in their hands within this year, already.
Nevertheless Haage&Partner together with many partners developed the new OS. Read
in this initial overview which new features it offers, and come to your own
conclusion whether or not this surprise was well done.
AmigeOS 3.9 is shipped on CD-ROM. Who is not satisfied by the operating system's online
help might order a printed version (German) from Haage&Partner, which is a tips&tricks
book describing what's new in AmigaOS 3.9 in a comprehensive way.
AmigaOS 3.9 contains big and completely new implemented features, e.g. the dock program
»AmiDock«, as well as many enhancements in detail and bugfixes, too. Additionally
proved third party tools are integrated: features formerly only available as patches, such as
like the FontCache or the configuration of asl file requesters, now are firmly integrated into
the OS, tools like »RAWBInfo«, and »ViNCEd« simplify the daily work.
The description of new features in this article does not claim to be complete and bases on
a pre-version of AmigaOS 3.9. But the features described here are already implemented and
supposed to be for sure.
Simplified Installation
Compared to AmigaOS 3.5 installation has been simplified distinctly. It is no longer
necessary to install AmigaOS 3.1, at first. Also there is no need to restart the system, any
more. There are two kinds of installation: the update installation updates an existing AmigaOS 3.5,
and only copies icons which are new since OS 3.5. The full installation installs AmigaOS 3.9 -
including all of the necessary files of AmigaOS 3.5, and AmigaOS 3.1 - including all of the GlowIcons.
Full installation also allows a fast new installation of the system, if booted from a before created
emergency disk. This way AmigaOS 3.9 can be re-installed easy and fast even in case of a complete harddisk
failture. As with AmigaOS 3.5 the emergency disk also supports RTG systems and AGA 31KHz screenmodes.
Due to this also in case of emergency no 15KHz monitor is needed, any more.
Well Docked?
»AmiDock« simplifies working with the Workbench in a enormous way. To start programs
usually one has to click down to the related directory and then double click the program's icon. But
with »AmiDock« you are able to easily create button strips, which allow to open programs and
directories by one single mouse click.
Contrary to most of the other tools like this AmiDock fully supports the new coloured icons. And - maybe
the most important feature - it is extremely easy and fast to use. If you would have to open a
configuration window for other programs, with »AmiDock« you just drag the icon of the
desired directories and programs into a dock. If you drop the icon, it will automatically be included.
This way docks can be created as fast as the wind, cause you don't have to configure each single
switch. Moreover this, there are default configurations for certain directories: e.g. AmiDock just
reads the »Prefs« and displays all of the preferences in one dock.
Also the adjustment of the dock's size is conceivable intuitive. Instead of being forced to declare
the number of lines and columns inside a configuration window, you just drag the dock to the desired
size. Then the dock will be fixed at the related width and height. AmiDock shows this by a small
handle bar. By clicking on this the size will be released, again. Or you just drag the dock to a new
size.
Beside of calling programs AmiDock also supports opening directories on the Workbench, as well as
calling programs using arguments: so e.g. you may drag'n drop a text on the switch which for example
will start the editor »EditPad«, and just lets EditPad insert this text.
More comfortable Workbench
Also in other parts working with the Workbench became more comfortable: many new assistants are
supporting the daily work. »RAWBInfo« offers a Workbench information window with a nice
ReAction GUI which really has got many features. E.g. you even can give an icon a different
picture which is loaded via datatypes.
To make the Workbench deal with files which don't have an icon in a reasonable way there is
»DefIcons«. This program gives files without an own icon a default icon according to
the file type. This way pictures and texts without an icon can easily be started via double click.
DefIcons can be configured via it's own preferences program.
Who - a bit envious of Apple or Windows - always was wishing a trashcan directly on the Workbench,
will get this feature in OS 3.9. With »BenchTrash« this is no problem. This program
either just will delete files dropped on the trash or will move them to a certain directory. But that's
not all of it: who always wanted to eject a CD-Rom like it is done on the Mac can do that now. Just
drag'n drop the CD's icon on the trash, and there you go! Also handy is the feature to clean up the
trash regularly and to delete every file older than a certain amount of days.
It has also been cared for a new clock. »WBClock« displays itself as an animated AppIcon
on the Workbench. It even is optionally transparent, which looks very good sometimes.
Also very handy is the search function of the Workbench. This is done by a external program called
»Find« which can be started via the Workbench menu »Window/Search« or as a single
task. According to how it was started and configured it allows to search in the current Workbench
directory or in one or more harddisk partitions. It cannot only be searched for file names, but
also for contents (e.g. keywords). Double clicking on a file found tries to start a reasonable action
on it: this way e.g. a seldom used file can be searched and started directly from Find.
LhA, LZX, but also archive files of other formats (see »Features«) can be unpacked
by a simple double click, thanks to the implementation of »xad« in AmigaOS 3.9. »xad«
supports many formats. This way the user only seldom will happen to meet an archive which cannot be
unpacked, if any. Related programming knowledge assumed one can write an own unpacking routine.
»xad« can also be addressed via shell commands.
More Multimedia
But also some has happened in the case of multimedia. PlayCD, the somehow bare appearing CD player from
AmigaOS 3.5 has been started up thoroughly: the program now supports skins. Another advancement: PlayCD
as a rule doesn't need to be configured any more, but itself looks for a suitable CD-Rom drive,
if necessary.
»ACTION« plays Quicktime and AVI movies optionally on an own screen or inside a window on the
Workbench.In doing this it's very fast. Even on not that good equipped Amigas acceptable results are
to accomplish. Control buttons allow to start and stop the movie, to adjust volume, as well as to
well directed »skim through« the movie using a scroll bar.
»Amplifier« beside MPEG-3 music files also plays AIFF and WAV files. It has got play lists which
can be both, loaded and saved. The program as well supports skins and is capable of playing music either
via the Amiga sound chip Paula or via a sound card. With this the standards AHI and X-Audio are supported.
A X-Audio driver for the Paula sound chip is included. On the Workbench music files can easily be drag'n
dropped into the play list to add them to this.
»AWeb SE 3.3« which came with AmigaOS 3.5 has been updated to the new version of »AWeb«.
This version now also supports »FONT FACES«. So you can let it display websites nicer and
more true to original with suitable fonts. Support of JavaScript has been enhanced, too, and much more.
And to be able to start surfing immediate AmigaOS 3.9 contains the full version of »Genesis« with
ReAction GUI. Only the Genesis preferences program could not be transposed to ReAction in time, because
of it's scope. Who has MUI installed can use it however - otherwise MUI must get installed. But
the enhanced Genesis Wizard compensates for that, which makes it very easy to configure an internet
account on the basis of the provider database.
Powerful Console
Beside of the extensions to the Workbench and the players also shell enthusiasts will not miss out with
the new update: as console handler for shell windows now the powerful »ViNCEd« is used.
From now on all of the console windows are having scrollbars to re-display text which scrolled out of
the window. But it also has been thought of the shell users which don't like typing in: using the TAB key
incomplete file or directory names can be completed now. With this »ViNCEd«, according to it's
settings, not only searches for suitable entries inside the current directory, but e.g. also inside the
assign list or inside the command search path. If »ViNCEd« finds only one entry the string
immediately gets completed, otherwise an asl requester will open to choose from the suitable entries
found. Handily the completion also works multileveled: if needed the given string gets completed up to
the first char from which multiple entries are possible. By entering a character or pressing the TAB key
and selecting an entry the procedure can be continued. »ViNCEd« is very versatile configurable and
offers many other features.
- complete ANSI emulation
- supports graphics boards
- Macros - with these e.g. it is possible to use the F keys for often used commands and functions.
- configurable keyboard control
- Job control, as known form Unix shells
And what else?
Moreover there is a nice set of interesting and useful features: so the new »diskfont.library«
with integrated FontCache cares for faster display of font requesters. This features has been implemented
completely transparent for applications, but also can be disabled for single directories. New installed or
deleted fonts are automatically recognized and the cache file gets updated accordingly.
Also »asl« has been extended. Using the preferences program position, size, and sorting order of
asl requesters can be set. Also this is not a patch any more, but is »officially« controlled
by the new »asl.library«, and the new »IPrefs«. The »text.datatype« now
supports searching inside of the text, as well as marking parts of the text. Marked parts handily
are automatically copied to the clipboard. Also the »string.gadget« has been extended: so now you
can mark char by char or undo the last change inside of every text input field.
The new »test« function of the screenmode preferences program is a nice detail, too.
You no longer have to tapper in the dark and maybe reboot, if the newly chosen mode accidently cannot be
displayed contrary to what you've expected.
New Features
- AmiDock: completely new written and extremely easy to use dock program. The fast way to easy
start programs or to open certain directories.
- Integration of Workbench extensions: »RAWBInfo« offers a nice done and rich of functions
Workbench information window, »DefIcons« a default icon system
- More compatibility: »newiconemu« allows to edit the new coloured icons
(»V44-GlowIcons«) with NewIcon capable programs, too.
- New Tools: »BenchTrash«, the free configurable trashcan on the Workbench; »WBClock«
, the clock being an icon; as well as »IoMegaTools«,
the tool for ZIP and JAZ drives.
- Extended PowerPC support: WarpOS V5 is included, new »picture.datatype« supports PPC
- More multimedia: new versions of »PlayCD« with skin support and many bugfixes;
QuickTime and AVI movie player »ACTION«; player for MPEG3, AIFF, and WAV »Amplifier«
- Genesis: the TCP/IP stack for local area networks and internet connection - already widely with ReAction GUI.
- xad: the archive unpacking system. unpack archives from the Workbench by just double clicking it. Supports
LhA, LZX, ZIP, RAR, ARJ, DMS, and many other formats.
- ViNCEd: new console handler with scrollbar, file name completer, ANSI emulation, and many other handy
features.
- AWeb 3.4 SE: the in AmigaOS 3.5 included browser has been updated.
»FONT FACE« support, enhanced Javascript support, and much more.
- Find: allows searching for file names or file content on multiple partitions. Can be called directly from
the Workbench menu.
- Asl requester: there is also a preferences program for setting the size of, and the sorting order inside of
requesters.
- text.datatype: now allows searching inside of the text, and copying of marked text parts into the clipboard.
- New gadgets: the colour wheel (»colorwheel.gadget«), and the gradient slider (»gradientslider.gadget«)
now support screens with 65000 or 16 millions of colours; the new »string.gadget«
offers marking char by char, undo, and much more.
- New FontCache: faster display of font requesters.
- rexxmathlib.library: new math functions for ARexx.
- Many bugfixes: new mathe libraries with important bugfixes, bugfixes in ReAction, Workbench, and many other.
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