09.Oct.2000
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga, Inc.: Executive Update
September 28, 2000
Executive Update
Greetings to one and all.
I know it has been a long time since I last had the chance to write to all
to all of you.
It has been very, very busy, and we have seen some great successes, and
some disappointments.
I have not been asleep, and to the contrary I have not been getting much
sleep of late. There is so much activity, and so little time that I have
been spending a great deal of time in other areas and not keeping everyone
up to date.
To my Friends in Italy, I apologize that I was not able to attend the
show. It was a real disappointment for me personally, as I wanted to
greet each and every one of you. The reason was not because we are broke,
or out of money as the rumors would state.
Simply, there were two companies in California that I have been
working with, and they requested a meeting that occurred over the same
period of time. With working with these OEM's we will be able to add
several million more Amigans, and the discussions went well and are
progressing quickly, these meetings were in addition to what is mentioned
in point 3 below.
Now with all the above fun stuff……
Here we go:
- The SDK for Amiga DE.
This has been very exciting, and we are really pleased with the number of
applications and the number developers using the product to create some
great products.
The next version of the Software Development Kit will be out in the next couple of
weeks. In
addition to the Linux version there is now a version available for
Windows. That's correct you are now able to develop for the new Amiga on
either Linux, or Windows.
It will feature a new raft of multimedia (Mesa, the SSEYO
Koan Audio
Engine, streaming) as well better development tools, a richer AVE and
enhanced performance.
- Amiga OS 3.5 and beyond
We are continuing taking a very hard look at the current Amiga and how we
can best move the platform forward. There are discussions on going for
some new opportunities and we will be able to share some announcements in
the very near future.
- Amiga DE business opportunities.
Wow, this is an area that is absolutely exploding. For developers this is
going to be great news. Not only will the applications you are working on
be used by your Amiga family members, but with the deals that are either
executed or in motion there will be millions more consumers joining the
Amiga family.
Now many of you began to speculate on the Meternet
announcement. Meternet
is offering a great product, and they are going to be making it available
to the Amiga community, but it is not the AmigaOne.
- The AmigaOne.
We have listened to a great many of you with comments, suggestions,
business ideas and technical ideas. Dean Brown has
been a
huge help,
especially that he is now here in Snoqualmie with the other members of the
team.
Because of this input we have begun negotiations for a brand new
design. Most of the details have been worked out, and I hope to have the
finished announcement ready by the middle of October. It is my firm
belief that you will all be very pleased and excited.
- Dealers/Distributors, and our friends in the Press:
The well of information for all of you has been too dry, and
inconsistent. To better provide information to each and every one of you.
Amiga has created two new mailing lists. Please go to:
http://www.amigadev.net/index.php?sid=&subpage=home&function=showmaillists
or to www.amigadev.com and select mailing lists on the right hand side of
the screen. Select either press or dealer, and fill out your
information. We will begin weekly feeds to these lists to better support
our press and dealers.
I know that many of you will read that this letter says nothing, and that
there is nothing happening, other than a new motorcycle for me.
Well you are very wrong. We are meeting directly with the heads of some
of the largest computer and consumer electronics companies in the world,
and not only do they see the value in what we are offering but they see
where the Amiga community, you, is the real value.
Now we still have a ways to go, but we are moving very fast, and I know
that you will all be very proud of Amiga as we continue to make things
happen.
The biggest challenge for Amiga right now is to stay focused on our core
strengths, and not make the mistakes of those who have walked before us.
The Amiga opportunity is huge, and sometimes overwhelming. There are so
many conflicting reports, and I have not done a very good job of being
able to communicate to all of you as well as I would like to.
We are getting much closer every day, and everyone of you are a major part
of the Amiga Family's success.
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team
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09.Oct.2000
Piotr Pawlowski
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"Exodus - The Last War" and Appeal regarding a New Game
At the moment there were four different versions of "Exodus - The Last War" released : a polish, a german,
an english, and a french one.
Soon the Czech version will be available for download.
APPEAL
There are plans for developing another game; code name "Husaria". In Polish this means a kind of heavy cavalry, soldiers
specialized for fast attacks, which were noted for their victories particulary during the 17th century. For example King
Jan III Sobieski who has supported Austria against Turkey in the battle near Vienna.
For this new project the programmers are looking for the following things:
- Maps of Europe from 16th and 17th century.
- Fotos of castles, palaces and buildings used for economic purposes of the above mentioned centuries.
- Fotos or pictures of armours and weapons of this time.
If possible, we need pictures of all 4 walls of the buildings,
because we need this for making 3d-models out of them. It would
be nice if you could tell us the name of the e.g. castle, and maybe send us a little map showing the location.
If you would like to help us, you can send your material via email to
darexodus@poczta.onet.pl.
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09.Oct.2000
Michael Pfeiffer via eMail
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VWP News
AudioCutter Cinema V 0.91 for PPC-Linux
After versions for x86-linux and Windows a preview version of the AudioCutter Cinema for
PowerPC-Linux was released. This version contains bug fixes and some minor changes. The important
new feature is a function for 2-dimensional and spectral sample analysis.
The preview-version can be downloaded here.
For further informations have a look at AudioCutter.de.
AudioCutter needs Java. We recommend for PPC-Linux the Java Virtual Machine by
blackdown.org.
Unfortunately it is not very fast, but it runs very stable.
AudioCutter Cinema for PPC-Linux on Amiga
The PPC-Linux version were even tested on an Amiga and runs very well on it.
The only thing is that you need is a kernel with audio support (Amiga-DMA sound).
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09.Oct.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
There are new interviews with Christian Steiner (Sharks) and Roman Schaub (Ancor).
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09.Oct.2000
AmigaImpact
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Plans for a Central Amiga-Faq-Page by French Amiga Users
The French Amiga site 'Universe' plan to install a central page for Amiga-FAQs.
Because they would like to offer these pages in English too, hence they are looking for translators.
Further informations are available at the title link.
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09.Oct.2000
Michael Lange on ANF
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AWeb 3.4 Internet Browser with New Features
Michael Lange wrote:
An article published at the AWeb-mailinglist unveils some new features of AWeb 3.4:
- Enhanced JavaScript (supports some JavaScript v1.2 commands)
- Support for AmiSSL
- Option to disable banner-ads
- Designed SELECT-objects appear now as a popup-menu
- Context menus are using now the same palette as the system-menus
- Better navigation by support for wheel mice
- Function for displaying "tool tips" ('ALT' tags)
- Support for "FONT FACES" including the possibility of using different fonts in the same HTML-document
This is just a short overview of the whole article by AmigActive. The
new issue contains screen shots of the upcoming version 3.4.
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09.Oct.2000
Telepolis Online Magazin
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Inventor of the World Wide Web Contra Censorship
«Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the WWW ten years ago, speaks contra the content control in the internet.»
In a longer article Tim Bernes-Lee notes why he is speaking contra control by law in the internet, and shows his point of
view of the media internet as well as of it's evaluation. The talk between Tim Bernes-Lee and the Observer-News are to find
here.
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09.Oct.2000
Truetype for Amiga
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Fonts: New ttf.library V0.8.3
Version 0.8.3 of the Truetype-Font-Library were released.
The ttf.library adds the possibility of using TrueType compatible fonts.
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09.Oct.2000
Richard H. Poser via eMail
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AmigAIM Beta version 0.9395
The new betaversion 0.9395 of the chat client for the AOL network "AmigAIM" is available for download now.
The changes:
- Fixed problems with showing of Auto Responses from an Away Buddy, as well as
now sending a real Auto Response message when supposed to when Away and one
is set (Was sending as normal message, automatically)
- Away window now shows nicks and number of messages received while being away,
as well as time of last message.
Download:
AmigAIM_BETA.lha - Complete archive
AmigAIM.lha - Update
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09.Oct.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF
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New interview with Hyperion Entertainment
There is an new interview with Hyperion available.
This time we spoke with Ben Hermans, the head of the entire group.
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09.Oct.2000
Piotr Pawlowski
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Exodus - The Last War
As we reported in september, the polish group "Zloty Skarabeusz"
will publish there game "Exodus - The Last War" very soon.
Now there is a demo version (14mb) available. The demo was split into 3 files.
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09.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank at ANF
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Update of the VMC Technical Library
The public informations in the Technical Library
were reworked, and links to our manufactores used were added.
Beside many smaller corrections some additional information on the products has been added. Furthermore
direct links to available data sheets of the components use by us were enclosed. All data sheets are
available as PDF files (Adobe AcrobatReader) and by this can be freely used by any interested person.
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08.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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SpeedCOM A1200 and PARalizer
The SpeedCOM 1200 is a serial interface board designed for use with the clock
port and can transfer up to 460 kbs. As the board address can be changed, it is
possible to use two of these boards simultaneously. It has been developed by Artur Gadawski.
Currently he's working on the PARalizer, a board with a parallel interface.
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08.Oct.2000
Thomas Wenzel on ANF
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AmigaAMP Homepage Moves
Thomas Wenzel wrote:
Since amiga-software.com understandably will close their current design soon, Marc
has kindly made it possible for me to continue my supply at amigaamp.de.
The mailing list will continue at amiga-software.com for the time being.
Unfortunately my CyberStormPPC presently is broken, so that I
cannot continue to work on AmigaAMP. Incoming e-mails can also be answered in a
limited way, because it's only half the fun without YAM :-)
As soon as my Amiga works again I'll attend to v2.8 final of AmigaAMP. Please,
be patient...
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08.Oct.2000
AmiSpaTra
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8. Internet Amiga F1GP Championship
On 15. October 2000 starts the 8. internet championship with the racing game
"Formula One Grand Prix" (F1GP) by Microprose. Here you have, thanks to the
internet, the possibility to prove your skills worldwide in competition with
the other participants.
The conditions for participation, the rankings of the past years, and further
informations can be accessed via the title link.
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08.Oct.2000
Amiga Active
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Amiga Active #13
Already on 28. September 2000 the 13. issue of the British Amiga magazine "Amiga
Active" has been released. With this issue the magazine celebrates the first
anniversary. Additionally the website is online with new design since October 1st.
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08.Oct.2000
Olaf Koebnik via email
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Amiga Arena News: AudioCutter demo
AudioCutterDemo - World premiere!
(LinuxPPC version 0.91)
The Amiga Arena is proud to worldwide exclusively present
in cooperation with Virtual Worlds Productions
to all Amiga/LinuxPPC users the demo version
v.0.9.1 of the audio software "AudioCutter - Linux PPC" for download.
(The link is exclusively placed in the Amiga Arena!)
Furthermore a special price offer regarding AudioCutter will be made possible to
all Amiga Arena visitors.
Hint for the demo version: It's not possible to save with the demo version!
AudioCutter Informationen:
The AudioCutter Cinema is not an "ordinary" audio software, but integrates extensive
functions which make synthesizing, manipulating, converting and editing of
sounds possible. Additional to the editing and cutting functions there is an extensive
support for surround sound offered.
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08.Oct.2000
ANN
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AmiHoo Online Again
The Amiga specific web directory AmiHoo again is accessible at the known URL.
(http://www.amihoo.com/).
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08.Oct.2000
ANN
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ACE 2000 - The Alternative Computer Expo
On October 21st - 22nd, 2000 the Alternative Computer Expo will take place in Melbourne,
Australia. This exhibition deals with all current alternative operating systems
like Linux, AmigaOS, MacOS, UNIX, OS/2, BeOS, RiscOS, QNX and more.
Among others Amiga International, Red Hat, Vaporware, REBOL Forces, Amiga Technology Australia, and
some Amiga user groups belong to the exhibitors.
A preview
regarding the fair was released in the I.T. The Amiga is also mentioned in this
article.
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08.Oct.2000
Amiga Future
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The World Foundry No Longer Responsible for Maim & Mangle
The World Foundry LLC (TWF) don't have the rights for developing the
announced Amiga games "Explorer 2260", "Maim & Mangle", and the
"Collins Encyclopedia Galactica" (CEG, part of Explorer 2260), anymore. The developer
Chris Page now is responsible and continues to develope the games.
The website of TWF
is empty. Some quite obsolete information regarding "Explorer2260" can be
found here.
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08.Oct.2000
Andi Brandmair on ANF
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Comparade 8. - Amiga & Commodore Scene User Party
The Comparade is the Amiga and Commodore Party in southern Germany. It will take place from
October 27th - 29th at Emmering/FFB, near Munich. Entrance fee at 30 DM for all of the three days.
There will be an Amiga demo competition, and a C64 demo competition performed, and network,
internet, and many more things are to happen. More information and map are to find at the title link.
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07.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
OpusGIFlags.lha biz/dopus 171K++200 Flags NewIcons in OpusGIBar's forma
WW5spCatalog.lha biz/misc 10K+Wordworth5 spanish catalogs. Update 2
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
MuYaReq.lha comm/mail 31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
PSMail.lha comm/mail 93K+Prints YAM mails using GhostScript.
YerYamLogo.lha comm/mail 3K+YerYamLogo, quick and Fun Yam Logo
EZPagerNG_CE.lha comm/misc 357K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
StreAmi.lha comm/misc 23K+Shoutcast/Icecast Amiga client
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 431K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
Lynx.lha comm/www 785K+Great WWW Browser,version 284dev10
SPO3-Invtro.lha demo/aga 115K+Invitation intro for SPO ! (Amiga-only d
UP-EP004.lha demo/sound 1.8M+UP ROUGH "Mixagrip EP" feat. Mortimer Tw
Emperor.lha dev/c 498K+Object-oriented programming language
advlite20b8.lha dev/misc 276K+Powerfull & neat AutodocViewer v2.0 BETA
MusicBox-2.1bi.lha disk/cdrom 421K+Most powerful CDDA player and CD manager
NoDirCache.lha disk/misc 33K+Reset DirCache partitions to FFS or FFS
StarTrekCONN.lha game/misc 570K+Play in the StarTrek:TNG Universe
ADoomPPC.lha game/shoot 551K+Amiga PPC port of ADoom v1.5
ADoomPPC_src.lha game/shoot 532K+Source code of Amiga PPC port of DOOM v1
WBPacman.lha game/wb 49K+V1.10 BETA - Small workbench Pacman
RivaAudio.lha gfx/show 4K+Real Fast Mpeg video 1 Player with sound
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 71K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
likdamind_II.lha mods/blkha 330K+Digibooster mod by blakkhar with DSP-Ech
positron.mpg mods/elbie 3.0M+Positronic Robotique [Synth] by ElbiE^t1
rno-r048.lha mods/misc 300K+Rno-records release no.48 by Roz (Funkyh
Phm_Rmsc.lha mods/pro 141K+014: "Reminiscenes" [Dance]
XGToolset7.lha mus/midi 184K+Version 1.7 of the XGToolset for Bars&Pi
XGToolset7_src.lha mus/midi 303K+Source of the XGToolset7 for Bars&Pipes
DelfScope.lha mus/misc 51K+Oscilloscope/analyzer for Delfina DSP
MpegAnalys-r.lha mus/misc 41K+Checks Mpeg audio files for errors
EP_MikeDavies.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Mike Davies" external repla
EP_PSA.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Professional Sound Artists"
PobreJoaquim.lha pix/anim 991K+The famous Joaquim anim. Now with sound!
Anabolic_Koala.lha pix/art 65K+Anabolic Koala
OS3.5-HQ-icons.lha pix/icon 263K+High quality OS3.5 icons for games P1
OS35InputImg.lha pix/misc 110K+OS3.5 Input Prefs remplacememt images
OS35LocaleImg.lha pix/misc 78K+OS3.5 Locale Prefs remplacememt images
Silver_Gate.jpg pix/vehic 96K+M/S Silver Gate
ttf2pfb.lha text/font 70K+Convert TrueType to Postscript Type1 fon
ttfr.lha text/font 16K+Rename true type fonts file correctly
DPMSManager.lha util/blank 13K+CyberGfx/P96 DPMS energy saving manager
AHelp_NO.lha util/cdity 2K+Norwegian catalog for AHelp v1.5
WbOpen1_11.lha util/cli 15K+Open WB-drawers/files using CLI/Asl-requ
RC5Control.lha util/misc 11K+Automated RC5 client control (FREEWARE)
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 39K+V1.15 - Test and identify wb-program
XPKPatch18.lha util/pack 22K+Unpacks XPK, PP & CrM files "on the fly"
y2four.lha util/sys 1K+Year showing with four digits for list-
DRemind_HU.lha util/time 9K+Hungarian catalogs for DRemind 1.55
Safe.lha util/virus 19K+Safe v14.5 - virus dicovering system
bc-machines.lha util/wb 390K+Stylish set for VisualPrefs and Birdie
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07.Oct.2000
AmigArt
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Amiga Inc. Looking for Developer
Amiga Inc. would like to employ a software developer for the Interface-Team.
Conditions for an application are experience with Ave, the SDK and
interface programming. People who have those experiences, and who would like to know more
about the job may contact Fleecy Moss
directly.
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07.Oct.2000
Allen K. on REBOL-ML
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REBOL: Article about Huffman-Compression
Ole Friis has released an article about compression with Huffman-Encoding in
REBOL on the REBOL Forces.
Thus he starts a series of articles about compression algorithms which are
coded in REOL.
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07.Oct.2000
Carl Sassenrath on REBOL-ML
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REBOL/Core 2.3 Manual
REBOL has released an obviously reworked documentation about REBOL/Core 2.3.
It has been restructured, former chapters were reworked, new chapters, and new
examples were added, as well as some diagrams that should illustrate the concept of
the series.
The manual is currently available for download as PDF file. A HTML version
should follow soon.
Download: core.pdf (4,5 MB)
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07.Oct.2000
diff.org
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Report about the Pianeta Amiga 2000
The highlight of the report (Italian) by Andrea Vallinotto is the presentation of the
new Mediator PCI-Board by Elbox, which is illustrated with different
pictures on a second page.
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07.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amihoo.com Server Problem
The Webmaster of amihoo.com, Michael Carrillo, announced that Amihoo only is available at
the alternative address http://www.amihoo.u-net.com/ (titellink) due to server problem which he
hasn't any bearing on. He hopes that the problem can be solved as soon as possible.
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07.Oct.2000
Amiga Future [News]
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"Das Schlachtfeld" Update V2.15
"Das Schlachtfeld" (The Battlefield) is a strategy game for 1 to 4 players.
It is a mix of "BattleIsle" and "Battleforce" and has been written in AMOS
(The Creator) by Peter Weigoldt. You may download the updated archives at the
download area on the support page.
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07.Oct.2000
AmigaSDK.com
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AmigaSDK.com with New Layout
The layout of AmigaSDK.com, the website which provides you with information
about the new AmigaSDK, has been improved. The navigation is clear,
and the new look of AmigaSDK.com is well done.
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07.Oct.2000
The JOTD Patch & HD Installer Page
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HD-Installer JST Version 4.1 Released
With JST by J.F. Faber you may now also install pure floppy-disk games to your
hard drive and start these from there. The current version 4.1 includes many
updated "Loaders".
Download: jst.lha
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07.Oct.2000
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: Who's next?
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07.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF
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Apple: Decreasig Market Value
Financial Time Germany: "Apple: Different problems than the rest of the PC branch"
«From surprised to outraged was the reaction of financial analysts on the reduced profit forecast
of the US computer manufacturer Apple. Several influential banks changed their bargain recommendation for
Apple shares into warnings on weekend. Admittedly some of the banks mentioned Apple's problems not to
be typical for the branch.
Surprisingly Apple reduced their profit forecast for all business units on Thursday. The Apple market lost
52% of value, almost 9 milliards USD of market value were lost.»
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06.Oct.2000
Kamil Barczynski on ANF
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The Biggest (literally) Freeware Football Management Game
"PSV Manager" is a football management game extravaganza. Giant and
very playable program full of humor. After success of Polish version,
we have prepared the English edition. Why You should check out this
game? Because:
- only here You'll find 9 real/fantasy leagues and 40 generated,
- You can choose any of 46 teams in each league,
- You'll be playing in league and domestic cup competitions,
- all European cups are simulated (including Intertoto Cup and Cup Winners Cup),
- there are at least 10 ways to buy or loan player from one of approximately
1000 teams (maybe more),
- summer and winter breakes are full of options to choose from
(for example indoor-football tournaments, trips to foreign camps,
friendly matches, transfers, vacations, etc.),
- many options, statistics, hidden chances (or traps) gives that game
an unforgetable atmosphere thanks to funny samples commenting Your actual situation.
AND ALL OF THIS YOU CAN HAVE FOR FREE !!!
System requirements: any Amiga, 2 MB Chip, 4 MB Fast, HDD: about 300 MB of free
space for full version; about 48 MB of free space for basic version
(without samples).
IMPORTANT: We are looking for some ftp/web site, which could distribute our
game (about 200MB of free space is needed).
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06.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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Shoutcast/Icecast Client Released for the Amiga
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has written a Shoutcast/Icecast Client for the Amiga
and called it "StreAmi". There are two very popular audio streaming systems called
Icecast and Shoutcast which are able to send MPG audio compressed audio data
through the net. StrAmi allows you to fetch these audio files from any server
and listen to them in real time.
This way, you can very easily listen to radio via internet. The program has a
MUI interface and requires nothing more than a TCP/IP stack like Miami or AmiTCP
and of course a fast internet access. You'll find lists of servers at
www.shoutcast.com and
www.icecast.org.
Download: StreAmi.lha -
StreAmi.readme
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06.Oct.2000
Amiga Impact
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Image Engineer Online Again
After Marko Seppaenen, author of Image Engineer, has left the
Amiga market in the middle of September and taken the website off the net,
the website is now available again at the titlelink.
At Czech Amiga News, we found
a statement
of Marko Seppaenen.
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06.Oct.2000
Amiga Realm
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Amiga Realm with New Layout
In time for its first birthday, the Amiga Web Directory service "Amiga Realm"
has completely redesigned the layout of their website and improved the
clarity. The navigation was improved and the categories rethought.
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06.Oct.2000
amiga.org
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Amiga.info - Developer meeting
On October 18th, Wonder Computers will present the new Amiga developer machine
"d'AMIGA" with the SDK software at a developer meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Those interested will find more details at the titlelink.
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06.Oct.2000
Grasshopper LLC
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PageStream 4.0.8c for Amiga and Windows Released
Grasshopper LLC, the new distributor of Pagestream, has made an update to
Pagestream (Version 4.0.8c) available for download in the secure downloads
area.
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06.Oct.2000
Amiga Impact [News]
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DS Home Page with New URL
The DS Home Page
Denis Spach's DS Home Page, known for programs like VNC Viewer, VNC Server and
X11 Server for Amiga, can now be reached at http://dspach.free.fr (title link).
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06.Oct.2000
Amiga Impact [News]
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Amiga Impact Cooperates with Planet
Online magazines increasingly cooperate with print magazines. The French
online and news magazine "Amiga Impact" announces to cooperate in future
with the print magazine "Planet".
amiga-news.de for example cooperates with the German
Amiga Magazin.
These partnerships are very positive for both sides as resource sharing means
that the print magazines can concentrate on the editing of the news without
having to spend considerable time to look for news.
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06.Oct.2000
Welcome to Frogger
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AC3Decoder Version 0.8 for Frogger
The AC3Decoder (Dolby Digital Decoder) for Frogger is available in version 0.8
for Amigas with PPC and PowerUP. Frogger is a fast MPEG video player for Amigas
with 68040/60 CPUs or PowerPC and supports the MPEG-2 layer.
Download: ac3dec_pup.lha - 48 Kb
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05.Oct.2000
Dietmar Knoll via eMail
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AFD-Copyright News
Hello Amigans!
The "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note"(TM).
or shorter "AFD-COPYRIGHT"(TM) has been released for the fifth time
this year.
This Copyright Note is an offer for all Amiga developers who want to
release FD-Software, be it as Freeware, Giftware, Shareware or
whatever.
AFD-COPYRIGHT is now available in eighteen (18!!!) languages -
all in two formats, as plain text and as HTML-file.
After the releases of the Czech, Russian, Catalan and Brazilian
Portuguese translations the latest addition is the Hungarian
translation by Álmos Rajnai and Péter Kovács (again, from the ATO).
The files can now be downloaded from the Official Support Site
for AFD-COPYRIGHT. The address is: http://AFD.home.pages.de/
And of course, news sites are allowed to spread this message. Thanks
for your attention, interest and support!
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05.Oct.2000
Darkage Software
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Spoletium3 Demo-Party
Bella Italia - Felice AMIGA - is not the official slogan of the AMIGA only demo party in
Spoleto (middle Italy), but might it be!
The arrangers of the party are promising: a scenic place for the event, interesting contacts,
valuable prices...
Who wants to try this, and maybe would like to put a short leave in Italy through this demo party which
will take place on November 4th, 2000: all the necessary information (also a detailed way description)
is to find at the titlelink. You can also download an invitation intro there (about 200 KB / AGA).
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05.Oct.2000
Marc Albrecht on ANF
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A.C.T. Stops Amiga Sponsoring
From the end of October 2000 A.C.T. and the co-operating ISP will stop all sponsoring actions
for the Amiga area. This will also concern every sites hosted at "amiga-software.com".
Single developers or groups who are sponsored up to now have already been contacted via e-mail, but
many of the addresses don't seem to work any more or the people are no longer interested in
Amiga.
Hence A.C.T. asks all web admins whose sites are sponsored or hosted by A.C.T. to move these sites to another
provider by the end of October 2000.
For some of the sites - among them amigasystem.org - the web admins are looking for successors, because otherwise
these sites would be canceled outright. Also concerned by the sponsoring stop is the hardware and software
sponsoring: from now on A.C.T. will not deliver hardware or software products for free to "up-coming projects" or similar.
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05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF
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First Details of the Matrox G800
By and by the first details of the new 3D graphics chip by Matrox are trickling though the net.
The G800 should be capable of an internal clock rate of 200 MHz, and was said to address the
DDR memory at 400 MHz. Three rendering pipelines should leverage performance of the by Matrox
introduced environmental bump mapping. Filling was said to range at 600 millions of pixels/sec or
20 to 30 millions of polygones/sec. Matrox is expected to introduce initial boards with G800 at
the CeBit in spring next year.
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05.Oct.2000
Trogladite Software
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Sender's First Module!
Sender's First module has been released today. It is for OS3.5
users only, and allows you to drag files, dirs and drives on to
the Sender appicon, and it will create "shortcuts" to these
files, dirs or drawers. Sender is a small freeware program to
move or copy any file to any directory from the Workbench.
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05.Oct.2000
Directory Opus 4 Support Page
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Directory Opus 4 Version 4.15b (Beta) Released
Jacek Rzeusik is permanently developing the source code of DirectoryOpus 4, which was enabled
by GP Software. A new beta version is ready for download.
Download: DOpus4beta.lzx - 242 KB
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05.Oct.2000
Christoph Kirsch via eMail
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DataM II 0.9 beta Released
On the homepage of the Amiga Club Steinfurt (Germany, titlelink) and at Aminet (/biz/dbase)
Christoph Kirsch has released a new beta version of the spread sheet program DataM II.
Beside numerous bug fixes this time in particular the possibility of viewing external files (via Datatypes) has
been implemented.
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05.Oct.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF
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NRNF: Pure Nostalgia ! Old Advertising, Show Flyers....
On the No Risc No Fun site now a nostalgia area has been created. On this page from now on you will find
Commodore/AMIGA advertising, show flyers, old articles, and many more, and more to come.
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05.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF
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New and IMPORTANT HyperCOM 2.96B4 Update
With this update smaller problems of being unable to print via HyperCOM parallel port under certain
circumstances are fixed. Additionally little changes has been made necessary to use our current VMC-ISDN software
along with the current HyperCOM drivers.
Download site
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05.Oct.2000
Marc Albrecht on ANF
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ACT: FAQ on Sponsoring Stop
- The domain names will not be canceled for the time being, but either will be released exempt from charges to the
sponsoring receivers or will be sold in early/middle 2001.
- I beg you to refrain from offering adoption of certain sites to me via e-mail. Contact persons are the web masters.
Since the domains will not be canceled, the web space could be hosted "anywhere". I would like to care for DNS changes.
- Our partners, and ourselves of course will continue to host sites at our usual conditions, if desired by the web masters.
It just doesn't match our future business plans to operate this special area for free.
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05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF
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New Mailing List for Amiga Vendors
Amiga has started a new built-up mailing list especially for Amiga vendors. Vendors can register to this list on this
site.
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05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF
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Pro Linux: Linux World Conference & Expo Starts
«The conference schedule makes reading like the "who is who" of the branch.
Beside popular speakers like Bob Young, Dirk Hohndel, and Arthur Tyde Jon "maddog" Hall from Linux International
will perform as keynote speaker. Exclusively for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
Linus Torvalds will be guest at the event. This trade fair which will take place from October 5th to October 7th 2000 will be
the first business-to-business event focusing the Linux operating system, and Open Solutions in Europe.
About 10,000 visitors, and more than 100 attending companies on over 9,000 m2 exhibition space are expected for the
premiere.»
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04.Oct.2000
Adrian Siemieniak on ANF
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New Mentat 0.5.2 (english2english Longman dictionary)
There is a new version 0.5.2 of Mentat - english2english dictionary,
based on Longman Natural English dictionary. New in this release - search
options for single/group of words, localization, 2 languages guide and
plenty of fixes.
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04.Oct.2000
Michael Lange on ANF
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FUBAR - New War Simulation
The new game "FUBAR" by Rosande Ltd. is distributed by Blittersoft and will probably be released in November 2000.
But it can be ordered in advance in the shops from now on!
At Q-Lab you can buy a cd with musics of FUBAR.
FUBAR is a war simulation. The scenario of the game shows you what happens if a war begins, and forces you
as the player to take all necessary steps to finish the war. The conception of the game is to rule the
whole world, all countries, and all people. To be successful you can slip into different roles, because
ruling the world is not an easy task.
You will be the general of thousands of armies, the president of the whole mankind, but in addition the
leading scientist, manager, diplomat, and banker. Each of this roles is in touch with the military, civilians,
research, financial world, and has got connections to other competitors who are striking for the same goal as you do.
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04.Oct.2000
Michael Jurisch on ANF
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John-Sinclair-Encyclopedia-CD-ROM
The very extensive John-Sinclair-Encyclopedia by Bastei dealing with the most successful series of horror stories
of the world can be ordered on CD-ROM. Because this encyclopedia is fully based on HTML (optimised for IE, but can be
viewed using any other browser) AMIGA-Users are able to use this, too.
In addition the CD-ROM offers the radio-book "Daemonenhochzeit" for listening as mp3 file, a composed version of the JS-Comic,
short texts for each novel, pictures of the title of the magazins, and of the paperbacks, and much much more.
You can order the CD-ROM at the title link in the seperate Online-Shop.
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04.Oct.2000
Piotr Pawlowski
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Exodus - The Last War
As already reported on 26th of September the polish group "Zloty Skarabeusz" will publish their new
game "Exodus - The Last War", soon. You can look at some first screenshots at the titlelink.
The game is in the process of making and supposed to be finished within one week.
The company "SLAND MEDIA" is the publisher, which is directly connected to the group. Which company will
be responsible for sales in Europe has not been decided, yet.
For further information have a look at the provisional site.
This site is still completely written in polish. An own domain and English sites are likely to follow.
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04.Oct.2000
Jarmo Laakkonen
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Version 1.5 of ADoomPPC Released
Jarmo Laakkonen has published version 1.5 of ADoomPPC. The WarpOS version now supports Tooltypes,
too. Saving is now compatible to version 1.3 while it is no longer possible to use savings of version 1.4.
In order to increase the speed it was added a new option (nojoy), meaning without joystick.
Download: ADoomPPC.lha - 551 Kb
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04.Oct.2000
AudioLabs
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ProStationAudio V4.00 Finished
The new version of ProStationAudio V4.00 was finished. V4.00 now supports two CPUs (split interface on two
graphics boards and two monitors). There are two different versions for choice: Millenium
und Remix.
Download site
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04.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Initiative Bill against Internet-Patents in the USA
Howard Berman and Rick Boucher, two congressmen of the democrats, have introduced an initiative bill which
is supposed to restrict the possibility to patent business methods in the USA.
Above all the Business Method Patent Improvement Act addresses the rapidly increasing use of
patents for business methods.
Crucial point of the act is the declarative statement, that implementation of so called "Real-World"-business processes
on computers does not worthy being patented.
In addition the representatives want to establish the possibility of raising an objection against patents without being
forced to bring such action at law. See titlelink for full article (German).
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03.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Microsoft Aquires 25 Percent of Corel
«By a 135 million USD investment, Microsoft supports the stumbling Canadian
software manufacturer Corel. As Corel announced on Monday, the
software giant from Redmond purchased 24 million non-voting shares at
5.625 USD each. Those can be converted into fully voting shares;
holding almost 25 percent of the entire capital stock would make Microsoft one
of the largest shareholder of Corel.»
Full article (German) at the titlelink.
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03.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
DataM_II.lha biz/dbase 777K+Spreadsheet using MUI (German only!)
MuYaReq.lha comm/mail 31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
uprc.lha comm/misc 80K+Generates Aminet upload readme files
speak_freely.lha comm/net 1.3M+Internet Phone application with source
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 297K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.3 - *
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 424K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
TRSI-DEAD.lha demo/aga 420K+Our 4th and final intro for TRSI
ExtrasLib.lha dev/c 366K+Link library
tox.lha dev/c 13K+Tokenizer for XML
GradientSlider.lha dev/gui 7K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.6)
MultiDesktop.lha dev/gui 416K+An incomplete *Open Source* GUI library
MusicBox-2.1os.lha disk/cdrom 264K+Most powerful CDDA player and CD manager
VCDGear.lha disk/cdrom 79K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
DVD-RAM.lha disk/misc 62K+DVD-RAM FFS/SFS/CrossDOS/FAT95/Allegro D
RDBrecov.lha disk/salv 16K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
Aakt1000GFX.lha docs/mags 264K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1000GUIDE.lha docs/mags 84K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1000HTML.lha docs/mags 211K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
alem_0027.lha docs/rview 4K+ALEM's 1084 monitor guide v1.0 (FR)
TV-Logo.lha gfx/misc 73K+Small but capable logotype display
ATUtilities.lha misc/emu 919K+ATUtilities 4.0 - Replacement for the CB
TTU.lha misc/emu 5K+Create TAP images with Amiga
imdbDiff000922.lha misc/imdb 1.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
pie_dprs.lha mods/hardc 687K+Speedcore By Dj Pie / Lunatic 2k
Pegase.lha mus/misc 202K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
ltools13_demo.lha text/misc 76K+Dictionary and Document Translator
ltools_engwrd.lha text/misc 507K+Basic english word collection
ModeProSrc.lha util/cdity 691K+Source code to the Screenmode Promotion
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 38K+Test and identify wb-program
RAWBInfo_SI.lha util/sys 2K+Slovenian catalog for RAWBInfo v1.18
aafont.lha util/wb 3K+Antialiased fonts on wb (1.0)
DirScanner.lha util/wb 74K+V2.12: Small but powerful filefinder. (M
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 27K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.1
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03.Oct.2000
Thomas Wuergler on ANF
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Earth 2140 Work-In-Progress Report
At AmigaFire, the new Online Game Magazine, you will find a detailed status report
about Earth 2140, the real-time strategy game for 68k and PPC Amigas, which is being
ported by Pagan Games and will be
distributed by Epic Interactive.
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03.Oct.2000
Dirk Schneider on ANF
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IFusion Soon with Screenshots
The homepage of Microcode Solutions has changed again. IFusion seems to be finished
shortly.
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03.Oct.2000
Pawel Filipczak on ANF
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TaskiSMS Update
Version 2.01 of TaskiSMS has been released. Some bugs have been fixed, and the
sending sub-routine was reworked and updated.
Download from Aminet: TaskiSMS.lha
or directly from the Taski FTP server (titlelink).
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03.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF
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VMC-ISDN Configurator To Come Soon, First Screenshot Online
The VMC-ISDN product site was a little bit reworked, currently a first screenshot
of the VMC-ISDN Configurator software has been added, which is currently being
worked upon.
Please write us if you have ideas or suggestions of what to add to this
configurator GUI, or to add to the product site.
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03.Oct.2000
Individual Computers
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Modification of Hypercom 3plus Module (Goldsurfer) for IOBlix Emulation Mode
The new Hypercom software (v2.96+) can emulate the IOBlix parallel ports, so parallel-port
scanners and ZIP-drives can be used with the Hypercom. The Hypercom Zorro cards are already
primed for this, however the modules for the A1200, Buddha, Catweasel and the X-Surf
(also sold as "Goldsurfer) need a minor technical modification. At the title link,
you will find a detailed technical description including pictures.
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03.Oct.2000
Jan Andersen via e-mail
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VirusExecutor Version 2.06 Released
Name: VirusExecutor v2.06
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Author: Jan Erik Olausen
Archive size: 223.630 bytes
Info: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
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03.Oct.2000
John Chandler at Suite101
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Of Set Top Boxes and Internet Devices
Once a month, John Chandler posts an article on subjects concerning Amiga at Suite101.
For October, he had a look at the current announcements concerning new hardware.
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