01.Jan.2001
CGrX
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Graphics Boards Page: 7th Anniversary
Congratulations! The graphics boards page where you can find informations
dealing with graphics boards for Amiga computers celebrates 7th anniversary.
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01.Jan.2001
AmiHoo
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AmiHoo Magazin No. 3
Issue number 3 of the AmiHoo magazine published.
This issue contains news, reviews and a contest.
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01.Jan.2001
Grasshopper LLC
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Grasshopper LLC
Grasshopper, publisher of 'Pagestream', wish you a happy new year and tells that
within the first week of the year phone calls will not be answered, but e-mails.
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01.Jan.2001
VaporWare
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AmIRC 3.5.6beta
Beta version 3.5.6 of AmIRC released for that v3.5.5 beta timed out on 1st of January.
Download: amirc_356.lzx
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01.Jan.2001
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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Some new URLs for amiNetGUI
I applied some new URLs for amiNetGUI:
http://aminet.x2.nu
http://aminet.cs.nu
http://aminet.cc.nu
http://aminet.wls.net
http://aminet.tiz.net
http://aminet.pc5.org
http://aminet.x15.org
http://aminet.0am.org
http://aminet.foren.org
http://aminet.home-page.nu
http://fly.to/aminet
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01.Jan.2001
Marcel Rohles on ANF
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New FreeCiv Beta Version
A new beta version of Freeciv, a 'Civilization II'-like multiplayer strategy game,
is available for download at the title link.
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01.Jan.2001
Jochen Rhein on ANF
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New Version of ICS Released
From ICS, the free AmigaOS Scanner Color Calibration Software is a
major new ICS upgrade V2.01 now available. Following new features have
been added to V2 of ICS:
- Now all ICS image reading and writing is done using the new IRW library
- ICSConvert can now write JPEG, IFF, and TIFF
- ICSConvert and ScanTarget now support 16 bit/channel image data
- ICSConvert can now read/write embeded ICC color and IPTC/NAA editorial
information
- Now includes tools to extract ICC and IPTC information from images (IFF,
TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- Spanish localization added
- ICSConvert can now be used as tool for image format conversion
- IRW does offer improved and localized error handling
- Error requesters now offer detailed information, hints and often also
a retry function
- Major speed improvement for loading certain files formats
- Also, memory requirement was reduced.
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01.Jan.2001
Allister Brimble via eMail
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Amiga Music Website
Allister Brimble published his own webside at mp3s.com. He is well
known for his work for Alienbreed, Project X, Bodyblows and Superfrog.
He is still working for the software industry and he is composing music for Driver,
Driver 2 and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Some songs he did are available at the title link.
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01.Jan.2001
Elbox via eMail
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Elbox Wish Happy New Year
Elbox sent in new year greetings which should not be taken too seriously according to what they stated.
The Not-So-Serious Inside Story Announcement
Crack-off, 31 December 2000
The pi-pi-Castro Task Force is proud to promote the latest technique
of advertising.
The pi-pi Castro Task Force hereby authorise everybody to read
the secrets of their latest technology of collecting money
in advertising and to disclose this secret to enyone on the way:
- We, the world-famous pi-pi Castro Task Force,
produced the world-famous graphic system
for the world-dominant computer platform of the Ah-miga.
Sure, we did some work. Nobody paid us for that :-(
- Then we saw some people get big in the Ah-miga world.
- We thought: "Why don't take money from them?"
- We noticed Err-box produced their hardware (el mediatore).
- Err-box produced their software (the pi-pi driver).
- We did not help them (why should we?)
- So we thought we could ask Err-box for money for using
our world-famous name of pi-pi 96
- Therefore we are world famous. Proved.
- Err-box did not want to pay us.
- We asked other friends to persuade Err-box.
- Franco Mariacchi managed to get computers
and Special-Delusion-Kit documents
from Err-box - FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
- Hi-period managed to get some hardware from Err-box
plus the same paperwork. FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
- We did not manage to get a single pfenig from Err-box.
And we need paper too.
- Franco Mariacchi and Hi-period are laughing at us.
- Therefore we are suckers.
And our friends are laughing at us. Proved.
- Aha. A painting family wants us to pay DM 6,000
for using the "Pi-pi-Castro" name.
- Therefore we wanted Err-box to pay it for us.
- As Err-box are discussing the issue behind the curtain,
and we need cash badly, we demand Ah-miga users
to register our pi-pi system immediately
and pay us for their being happy.
- If nobody pays us, we will cry out
that any other soap-ware worldwide is ill-egg-all.
(Apart from our pi-pi-castro, sure enough.) Proved.
Err-box Komm-puter was happy to find
the appropriate name for this
new method of advertising: the REVERSE ADVERTISING.
Danke mucho, err-boxie.
Please remember that you have to pay us DEM 5.00 or
USD 10.00 every time you use the word "advertising".
The Pi-Pi-Castro Task Force
Courtesy of Err-box Komm-puter
De-pression De-partition-ment
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There is a popular custom in Poland to make jokes
on colleagues and fellow people in the end of the year,
to summarise the most prevalent features
of their behaviour during the year.
Here is our summary of what has transpired
between the P96 team and ELBOX Computer during that time.
Please take it with a bit of reserve,
as we do not intend to offend anyone,
just to introduce a pinch of humour into the issue,
which seemed to be so tense and serious in the Amiga world.
Happy New Year!!!
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31.Dec.2000
Starmag-Team on ANF
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Jubilee-Starmag #25 is Online
Das Starmag-Team wrote:
Hello, dear people!
We wish the Amiga-News-team a happy new year and of course our
readers,too.
Issue #25 is out and ready for download and online reading on our
website.
Greetings,
Your Starmag-Team
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31.Dec.2000
Chris Hodges via eMail
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Graphics Tablet Driver: FormAldiHyd v1.3
On 31. December 2000 Chris Hodges has released the version 1.3
of the graphics tablet driver 'FormAldiHyd'. The driver supports the graphics
tablets Aldi/Medion/Tevion MD 9310. From the Readme
you can draw the changes against the older version. Among other things this
Millennium edition contains a fireworks demo.
Download: FormAldiHyd.lha (59 K),
Readme
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31.Dec.2000
ANN
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ANN Celebrates 4. Birthday
On 28. December 2000 the news service Amiga Network News
by Christian Kemp became 4 years old.
Under the title link Christian first lets the ANN year 2000 pass in review to
have a look into the future afterwards. Looking back he can reference to almost
2 millions registered page views this year with around 50 GB transferred files.
Against the year 1999 with 700 000 page views this is more than a doubling.
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31.Dec.2000
Andreas Wendorf on ANF
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Photos of 'The Party 2000'
Warp9 has put some photos of 'The Party 2000 / Denmark' into the web.
'The Party 2000' is a scene/demo party that attracts around 4,000 people every
year in Aars in northern Denmark.
Supplement: 01.01.2001:
Juergen Beck via eMail:
There were several new amazing Amiga demos and intros. Among them well done
demos of the demo groups Haujobb, and Ephidrena.
Download: demos
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31.Dec.2000
frost on ANF
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AOG-News with New Website
frost wrote:
The AOG site has been completely redesigned.
And we wish everybody a happy new year.
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31.Dec.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF
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News on the PlayGUI Website
Richard Kapp wrote:
As Rolf Roth has unfortunately no more time to attend the official PlayGUI site,
I (author of PlayGUI) have now taken over this task. The site shines now in a
complete new design and besides, there are again three new skins, a funny theme
and also other news. I wish you all a happy new year 2001!
(PlayGUI is a graphical interface for Hippoplayer, Play16, GMPlay
and MPEGA, that uses skins and themes. By this it is possible to play GUI, MODs,
MIDIs, MP2/3s and samples with one single (ex)changable GUI.)
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Payback Status Report #17
On 30. December 2000 James Daniels has released the status report #17 regarding
the game 'Payback'. The game now offers additionally a multiplayer deathmatch
mode for up to 4 players. To do this much had to be changed in the source code
and therefor much work had to be put into this mode as the game wasn't design
for supporting a multiplayer mode first. But the work was, according to James
Daniels, worth it. Screens of the multiplayer mode are released on the screenshots page.
The latest photos there also contain the improved textures.
Besides that the game now supports also the CD32 controller, and several bugs
have been fixed.
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Scalos: Iconsystem, Updates of WB3.9 Plugin and VolumeGauge Plugin
The new iconsystem for Scalos supports the normal and the AmigaOS 3.5 icons as
well as the NewIcons.
Regarding the WB3.9 plugin and VolumeGauge plugin of Scalos updates have been released
which fix bugs. The WB3.9 plugin allows under AmigaOS 3.5+ the use of newer
features like 'AmiDock'. The VolumeGauge plugin equips all root volume windows
with a fill gauge in the left window border in the AmigaOS v3.5 style. This
plugin runs on AmigaOS V3.0+.
The following bugs were fixed:
- VolumeGauge: on iconifying of windows problems appeared.
- WB3.9: There are additional system checks so that the plugin runs now more
stable. Besides that the AmigaOS V3.5+ preferences are now loaded from workbench.prefs.
Download:
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Tales of Tamar: FAQ and Crincles of 55
Regarding the move based online strategy game 'Tales of Tamar' a German FAQ and the
chronicles of the year 55
were released. The FAQ answers the most important questions regarding the game
and gives a hint how to play 'Tales of Tamar' on the Amiga emulator 'UAE'.
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31.Dec.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Vote for the Game of the Year 2000
As in the past years you can vote for the game of the year at Amiga
Flame this year again. There are 12 games (adventures, real time strategy and
other genres) for voting.
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Auctions on Fun Time World
Since several days there's the possibility to purchase resp. to sell soft- and
hardware by auction on Fun Time World.
Directly on the homepage there's also a text box listing the up-to-date version
numbers of the latest software titles or updates for the Amiga.
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31.Dec.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF
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CD-ROM: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES
On 30. December 2000 Thomas Unger has released the CD-ROM
'THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES'. This CD contains plenty of texts taken from the WWW
that cover the history of the Amiga and give more information about the Amiga
in the areas persons (among others Jay Miner, RJ Mical),
official Amiga models, clones and emulators (among others ABox,
Draco, REC WonderTV A6000), Amiga operating systems,
accessories (Amiga Joyboard, The Big Book of Amiga Hardware),
support (among others The Dave Haynie Archives, Great Valley Products - M Inc.)
and specials (among others The Jay Miner Society, Amiga Juggler animation).
All informations regarding the content and the ordering of the CD can be found
on the homepage.
Thomas Unger thanks to all those who have made some contribution to the success
of the CD-ROM. Special thanks go to Gregor Franz who has finished his "DiCAS -
The Commodore/Amiga story" during the holidays.
And he wishes all readers and the makers of the Amiga News a happy and
successful year 2001.
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31.Dec.2000
Hans-Joerg Frieden in the Forum
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Warp3D and PCI Graphics Boards
Recently Hans-Jörg Frieden has expressed himself in our
forum regarding the topic driver
software for PCI graphics boards under Warp3D:
«Unfortunately the number of e-mails regarding Warp3D and PCI cards
accumulates for Thomas and me. Almost every time it is "I have purchased a card
of the brand XXX, when will you have 3D drivers ready?"...
Regarding this I want to say the following: Warp3D is and will continue to be a hobby project
that is cooking on smaller flame as for now, because of the time consumption
of Hyperion. If possible we'll write drivers. Nevertheless I will explicitly
point out, that the buying of a graphics card is no cogent reason for us to produce a
driver for it - as that takes quite some time. There will probably be no
driver for Voodoo 5 (V4 is questionable but more likely), none for GeForce, Riva TNT,
ATI Rage or whatever else, especially when there exists no chip documentation.
Neither we will attempt to recycle a Linux driver.
In the case that somebody could get some chip documentation (legal!) and make it
available for us the chances for a driver increase but this is no guarantee
either.»
Via email Hans-Joerg adds that this is no kind of arbitrariness but only a
hint that people shouldn't waste their money for graphics cards that can't be
supported simply because of the lack of time or documentation...
We are getting mails all the time from people asking for GeForce support or
Voodoo 5 but for those documentation isn't accessible. We have tried it even at
NVidia, without success, even not against NDA... :-(
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30.Dec.2000
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Happy new year from amiga-news.de!
© 2001 by Rolf Tingler (ps)
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30.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
MicroBase_500d.lha biz/dbase 830K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - GERMAN
MicroBase_500e.lha biz/dbase 439K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - ENGLISH
Videomat1.7.lha biz/dbase 56K+Video cassette management system
OS3.9NOupd.lha biz/misc 2K+Bugfix for Norwegian translation of Amig
yaec_fix.lha dev/e 0K+Fixes stupid archive error in yaec.lha (
Progr_Langs_v6.lha dev/misc 71K+Comparison of progr. langs
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
Mattonite.lha game/demo 234K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
Tankista_v0.3b.lha game/demo 105K+Buggy betaversion action game for 2 play
MicroPaint208.lha gfx/edit 492K+Paint program w. effects / BMP support
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 73K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
Keyswitch.lha hard/hack 13K+Automatic keyboard&mouse switch (German)
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 133K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 72K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ECat01.lha misc/misc 15K+Spanish Catalogs Pack 01
psY_srY.lha mods/blkha 87K+REvENgE - Nachfolger PT mod by blakkhar
BoingRays.jpg pix/back 152K+Boing Ball peeking out of dark clouds
AP12Recto.jpg pix/misc 128K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Recto
AP12Verso.jpg pix/misc 74K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Verso
dau-cdrom.jpg pix/misc 29K+How might a CD-ROM for dummies look like
titleshadow.lha util/boot 3K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
iFlush.lha util/cli 13K+Flushes UnUsed MemBlocks() Librarys() ,
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 289K+Report+ 4.21: 10-function utility
MicroRexx202.lha util/rexx 50K+ARexx Intuition extension
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30.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Advertising at Amiga Future
Exactly as in the last two issues of Amiga Future the editor of the magazine
proposes a "commercial" advertising for "non commercial" products in Amiga
Future (1/8 page b/w) for a special price of DM 20,- VTA included to shareware
developers, webmasters and so on. We would like to ask all the persons that
are interested in this offer to contact the editor of Amiga Future as soon as
possible.
The whole editing team of Amiga Future wish a happy new year 2001 to all of
you.
APC&TCP wish a happy new year 2001
to all of the Amiga users. You can look forward to next year because APC&TCP
is planning to release a whole lot of new Amiga products next year.
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30.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail
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COOLbits Newsticker
We wish a happy new year to all of our customers!
Our shop will be closed until 07.01.2001.
Martin Strobl writes:
I have build the Elbox-Mediator PCI Board into my showroom tower and I am very
pleased with the VooDoo 3000/16MB graphicsboard I also build in, since this
duo is faster than my private CybervisionPPC.
(showroom tower: Blizzard 1260, Private: CyberstormPPC 233/060/50).
A question concerning this subject: Is there interest to buy the Mediator-PCI
Board/ PCI graphics board directly with a licensed version of the Picasso96
drivers? If you are interested please send an email to
martin@coolbits.de. If there is enough
interest I will contact the makers of the drivers to ask for the price of such
a deal.
By the way, here is a tip for all those who own EXODUS in combination with a
CybervsionPPC (maybe also other graphics boards:
The game ran extremely slow on my computer until I removed the program
"PREPAREMUL" of Shapeshifter from my startup-sequence.
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30.Dec.2000
Stefan Falke in ANF
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EZP@gerNG Classic Edition V1.6 Released
This millennium's final release of the classic edition of EZP@gerNG has
now also been released. It is as always available in the download section.
The changes of this release are similar to those of the full version 1.3 of
EZP@gerNG, as far as the CE-version supports the different features. All the
changes of
this release.
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30.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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playamiga Closing it's Doors...
Juergen A. Theiner wrote:
On 01.01.2001 I will close playamiga.de. But only to be back for you (at the
latest) in February. And then with a lot of new features:
- New layout
- More tests and previews
- Release list
- The possibility to order games directly on the site.
- Monthly column about the Amiga and its world
- Charts and, and, and ...
If you want to continue to participate actively in the creation of the page, I
would like to ask you to send me the names of your favourite games so I can
create the charts (eispirat@home.ivm.de).
Important: The Payback Work in Progress
Report will stay online and will be renewed soon.
Happy new year!
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30.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino in ANF
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News from Infomedia Network
Fun Time World wrote:
"The homepage of Amiga's partner has been completely reworked. There aren't a
lot of news, but the first pictures of the Set-Top-Bow TVision based on Amiga
technology have been released."
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30.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena - Special Price Deal
The special price deal of PhotoAlbum/Cybershow will be maintained until the
31.01.2001.
I wish everybody a happy new year and success for 2001!
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30.Dec.2000
AmiDog
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AMP2 Version 2.00 Released
Version 2.00 of the movie player AMP2 has been released. In this version there
are a lot of new features. The author tried to make this version as stable and
bugfree as possible. However if you have MPEG movies that don't work or make
AMP 2 crash, the author would be happy to receive a message from you by
eMail.
Download: AMP200.lha
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30.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF
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Amiga Sound Standards and How to Destroy Them (Part 1)
Joern Plewka wrote:
In the past Katodev had to fight the fact that internally there wasn't enough
menpower available. That's why it was impossible for us to participate in
certain discussions. The things that head towards us now (criticism about
AMPlifier) is from our point of view hard and "generated".
Katodev and others are trying to support all of the existing standards those
usable from concept. We'd like to point out that the mpeg.device has been
released 1993 by Commodore (picture and sound). All cards with hardware
MPEG-support that were released after that have used this driver. CD32-FMV,
Peggy+, Melody-Z2, Melody1200 series and also the Delfina series.
For the later even the source code is available on Aminet. Those who are
now still not capable of writing a correct driver for their hardware should
simply ask for help or make their hardware layout available for everyone!
AMPlifier supports this standard. Those who create a driver for their hardware
can use this software unlicensed. AMPlifier is part of OS3.9 or available on
our homepage (unrestricted shareware) in Rev. 2.21. Those who don't like the
software should write their own, but please support the standards!
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30.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF
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Silversurfer does NOT Work with Melody1200
Joern Plewka wrote:
Since the Cologne fair previous to this year's fair the Silversurfer in it's
original state doesn't work correctly with Melody1200 since the complete
clockport is blocked, which is in contradiction with what the manufacturer
states at his homepage. This information isn't even available to users when
they ask for support. Katodev is fed up with fixing Silversurfers without
complaining, by now. Currently it seems that even the software does NOT work
with Melody1200 anymore.
If Silversurfer and Melody1200 can't work together simultaneoulsy it means
that Melody can die from bus-collisions, sooner or later. Please get a guaranty
on purchase that Silversurfer does the things you require or use Twister1200.
This makes you preventing a lot of anger, port and time for you and us.
We have reconstructed the layout of the Silversurfer now. This shows that the
IRQ runs over a diode. Those having problems due to this "trick" should
replace the diode by a transistor (e.g. BS170).
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29.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: New Informationen on New Trojan
I have received some new info about the new trojan that was found
on the 27'th of December. It is spread in an archive with the name
"dcs-4k.lha". But the demo group have nothing to do with this new
trojan. We have also been told that it is a guy from England and
that he also made the "dkg-blum.lha" trojan, his name and address is
known to Virus Help Denmmark. Thanks to Mikko for the new info.
Here once more the full information on the new archive (we had posted
these on 12/27/2000 already):
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will delete your
"sys:" if you run the program. At this time non of the anti-virus
programs can detect this trojan, but in the next update they will
be known.
The cure right now (If you have lost your SYS: to bad......), then
you will have to try and get the files back with eg. DiskSalv,
AB-Tools or VT-Schutz.
Here is some info about the infected archive:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan name....: 4KIntro.exe
Trojan size....: 4096 bytes (packed with StoneCracker 4.04)
: 6072 bytes (un-packed)
Archive name.. : dcs-4k.lha
Archive size.. : ? (Not known yet)
This archive has been send to all the antivirus programers.....
Thanx to Ryben Kozlak for the info and sending the archive to us..
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29.Dec.2000
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Visitor #2,000,000 on amiga-news.de
Last night, the 2,000,000th visitor came to our website. Joe has sent us a
screenshot of the 'event'. A proud number for 27 months. This
turns out about 74,074 visitors per month, with rising tendency.
Currently, between 6,000 and 8,000 readers visit us per day!
This is the opportunity to thank you for this great acceptance. We are
very happy, especially about the fact that more and more programmers,
developers, and readers take the chance to enter news in our
Amiga News Forum (ANF) themselves.
As you certainly know, we are a team of Amiga users
who invest a large amount of their spare time in this project. That's exactly
why we are happy about your feedback and of course most of all about every support, as without all your
help, amiga-news.de wouldn't have emerged to what it is today: one of the best news services
for the Amiga :).
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29.Dec.2000
ANN
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Jay Miner Millennial Memories Video
A new video from Kermit Woodall is available for download at Nova Design.
Download: jayminermm.mpg - 23,4 MB
Also, there's a 30 second video extract at Nova Design, which was produced from a video for
Bob Scharp's Bounce Back Videos.
The idea behind the 'Bounce Back Videos' is to give Amiga user groups the
opportunity to convey background knowledge on several projects to the users.
Download: novacomm.mpg - 6 MB
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29.Dec.2000
Richard H. Poser II via eMail
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AmigAIM BETA version 0.9406 released
A new beta version 0.9406 of AmigaAIM, the client for Amiga to participate
in the AOL Instant Messenger Service, was released. It's available for download at the usual places.
Extract from History of AmigAIM since Public Release...
AmigAIM 0.9406 Beta (28 Dec 2000)
- Fixed problem with ARexx command "login", was supposed to use last logged in
name if user is not specified. Now acts as originally planned.
- Added Notes section for each buddy for user to keep private data about buddies,
accessed via Contextmenu (Edit Notes) in "Online" as well as Chat Menu in
Chat Window.
Download: AmigaAIM_BETA.lha
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29.Dec.2000
Lars Maschmann on ANF
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New AmBoS-Support-Homepage
A new support homepage is available for the Amiga mailbox program "AmBoS".
It can be found at http://ambos.regiodata.de
and contains information and downloads (current updates and a complete demo archive).
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29.Dec.2000
Carlos on ANF
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PalmBackup 1.9 Released
PalmBackup is the Amiga software for PalmPilot/Visor/ThinkPad (and derivatives)
users that allows backup/restore of databases held on your handheld computer,
new software installation, and advanced database management. Since 1.9 PalmBackup
was released as free software (the full source code is also available). The
project has a new homepage at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/palmbackup
where the latest news, and releases can be found.
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29.Dec.2000
S&R Raghoebardayal on ANF
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CoyoteSound: Early Beta Released as Freeware
An early beta-version of CoyoteSound has been released as freeware.
This version is still very limited but since development has continued
a little while ago, it might change very soon.
If you want to see more development on this program, please contact the
authors (coyoteflux@chello.nl) and tell
them why. CoyoteSound will remain freeware.
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29.Dec.2000
Rafal Kwasny on ANF
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New 16 Bit Amiga Sound Card under Development
A new 16 bit sound card called 'Martina' for the Amiga is under development.
Specifications:
- 1x stereo out 16bit, max 96kHz
- 2x stereo in 16bit, max 96kHz (sampler)
- expansion port for MPEG modules (MP3 layer decoding, MPEG-1 for clock port
version)
- no pass through (card is blocking clock port)
- AHI drivers, audio.device overtake function, MPEG decoder handling possible
in the future by mpga.library,
- mixing audio from Paula and CD-ROM devices
- 24bit, MPEG-2 ROM-mounted version (for BVision and FastAta users),
compatible with a4000 (a3000 possible)
More information and a screenshot of the prototype are to find at the title link.
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28.Dec.2000
Sebastian Beloch on ANF
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StrICQ v0.1734 Released
On the StrICQ support page v0.1734 has been released which should fix
some bugs in version v0.1733.
Download: stricq.lha - 222 KB
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28.Dec.2000
Tobias Abt via eMail
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Picasso96 Driver for Mediator
Sufficient demand for Picasso96 drivers for Mediator provided, that is about 300 registered
users (specify Mediator for purpose when registering), in case of need we will purchase
a complete developer- and test-system with our own funds, and then create own drivers
for diverse PCI graphics boards. This drivers will then be of quality known form
us.
But Elbox mentioned to us that they already would have shipped two systems to Germany for other
driver development (CGX). Well, it would be in our terms to provide us one of these. To charge
UPS with delivery cannot cost the world.....
Another problem would be accessing the API of the Mediator system's pci.library. Elbox provides
this only for NDA, though they don't feel themselves to be bound to such concinnities, see their
unauthorized Voodoo3-P96 driver...
If they would refuse us to access this, of course this would raise a certain problem which could
lead to slightly delays.
Supplement 12-29-2000:
Tobias Abt via eMail:
Afterwards we got the information that this developer system provided to the CGX team was
distributed by Vesalia, but financed by Elbox.
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28.Dec.2000
Amiga Club Steinfurt
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New SiteWay-Modul: EasyAccess
EasyAccess is a helpful tool in creating and editing CGI scripts. Using this local
server one can test his sites offline (incl. CGI and SSI). EasyAccess is part of
the SiteWay project.
Download: EasyAccess.lha - 405 KB
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28.Dec.2000
Martin R. Elsner
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MainPrefs Version 2.02 Released
Who wants to change environment variables, handily edit configuration files as like s:startup-sequence or
start OS preferences tools in a predictable way can do that using MainPrefs V2.02, now. The program
requires OS3.5 because of its Reaction-GUI.
Download: mainprefs.lha - 65 KB
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28.Dec.2000
B. van der Meer on ANF
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Amiga-news Now Also At AmigaScene.nl
We have integrated amiga-news.de in Dutch on our website, now. Our thanks to Dirk Baeyens and Petra Struck.
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28.Dec.2000
Matthias Muench
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DCE with New Homepage
DCE has got a new homepage. There are also to find a few new information on G-REX for Amiga 4000.
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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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VaporWare 2000: Winners Published
The US magazine Wired again has published the award winners for announced but not released
computer products. Hundreds of voters again participated. This year award seems to hit
Apple (a hard year for Apple since Steve Jobs had to concede profit caution and errors).
Another link on this subject:
Heise: Vaporware 2000: Die Gewinner (German)
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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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New Roadmap for Mozilla
ProLinux wrote:
"Plans for future versions of Mozilla up to v1.2 has been published on the Mozilla project's
website".
Might become a subject for the future AmigaDE.
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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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Amiga.com opens User Group Database
One can register for the database on the developer site of Amiga.com (see link).
Amiga dazu:
«We will also have a UBB message board, a searchable User Group database,
and mailing lists so that User Groups world wide may communicate
together. All of this will be available from links off this main page.
If you are a User Group member and have other suggestions, please send
feedback to: support@amiga.com».
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27.Dec.2000
Martin McKenzie on ANF
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CAD Technologies Website Update
Website redesigned with a fresher look.
Added a large number of links to the tutorial section.
Added renders to the gallery pages.
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27.Dec.2000
Ralph Debusmann
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EasyPlayer Version 1.04 Released
Version 1.04 for the music player 'EasyPlayer' by Ralph Debusmann has been released.
Download: EasyPlayer.lha.bin - 92 KB
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27.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
ksmED.lha comm/irc 55K+Edit/Create Kuang11 '.ksm' files for /sa
StreAmi.lha comm/misc 38K+Shoutcast/Icecast Amiga client (v1.24)
samba_2.0.7.lha comm/tcp 6.3M+Port of the free SMB client and server
streamer.lha comm/www 27K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
APL-JOIN.lha demo/euro 25K+"Jointro" by Apollo - December 1995
APT-A500.lha demo/euro 4K+"A500 Gourad" - A 4K Intro From Apathy (
APT-BYO.lha demo/euro 8K+"The Byoot" - A 4K Intro By Apathy
APT-GRO.lha demo/euro 78K+"Groovey" - A 64K Intro From Apathy (The
APT-OFF.lha demo/euro 36K+"Offshore#1" - Messagebox by Apathy (Aut
APT-SBS.lha demo/euro 72K+SBS by APATHY - Released at The Gatherin
APT-ZEE.lha demo/euro 4K+Zeebeeking (4K) By Apathy At Kindergarde
ITC-REW.lha demo/euro 11K+"Rewired" - Winner 10K Intro From Kinder
ITC-SWP.lha demo/euro 54K+Swappers Paradise - Old Swaptro By Insti
SPT-BUB.lha demo/euro 126K+"Bubble" - An intro by Specter from Dece
VOD-VOY.lha demo/euro 224K+Voy-Voy - Demo By Void For Kindergarden
FuriousReply.lha demo/slide 982K+An unreleased manga slideshow by BoyzOut
SFSTools.lha disk/optim 34K+Some tools for optimizing SFS file syste
AIOV42.lha docs/mags 327K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 42 (Dece
BigSouthNP.pdf docs/misc 311K+Fantasy novel in pdf format
FormAldiHyd.lha hard/drivr 41K+Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/...
imdbDiff001215.lha misc/imdb 2.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
aa2001.lha misc/misc 1.6M+Astrologic texts, german and HTML (DEMO)
rEvENge.lha mods/blkha 147K+REvENgE PT mod by blakkhar
LifeSinus.lha mods/misc 1.1M+XM Acid Jazz by Mr.Lou / Dewfall Product
Protector.lha mods/misc 31K+Custom module from "Protector"
TheFight.mpg mods/misc 4.9M+MP3 Dance by Mr.Lou / Dewfall Production
NMS_BXmas.lha mods/pro 82K+Black Christmas - By Nemesis/Zenon
bo-102.lha mods/techn 497K+#102 bOhema release - SPEKTRA (mod).
bo-103.lha mods/techn 533K+#103 bOhema release - TZX (mod).
bo-104.lha mods/techn 251K+#104 bOhema release - KLINTON (xm).
crs_qwe.lha mods/techn 706K+CRS00057: speaker for the dead - qwe
vdo_alt2.lha mods/vdo 380K+Alternative auto 2 [xm 10ch]
MMV8_Disk_2.lha mus/edit 425K+MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0
AmigaAMP.lha mus/play 577K+MPEG audio player with GUI (68k/PPC)
EasyPlayer.lha mus/play 90K+The alternative music player, v1.03, Xma
EP_ChipTracker.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "ChipTracker" external repla
EP_DSS.lha mus/play 6K+EaglePlayer "Digital Sound Studio" exter
WB13Icons.lha pix/icon 43K+Some old icons for 640x256 screens
woa2k-walk.mpg pix/mpg 4.6M+MPEG-Video of the walkaround at WoA 2000
woa2k-webcam.mpg pix/mpg 4.9M+MPEG-Video of the *AC#-Webcam at WoA 200
Impact.jpg pix/wfm 272K+Impact
InTheClover.jpg pix/wfm 351K+In The Clover
LghtnngStrk.jpg pix/wfm 306K+Lightning Strikes
OFS018.jpg pix/wfm 744K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS019.jpg pix/wfm 653K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS020.jpg pix/wfm 552K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS021.jpg pix/wfm 403K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS022.jpg pix/wfm 566K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS023.jpg pix/wfm 546K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS024.jpg pix/wfm 502K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS025.jpg pix/wfm 259K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS026.jpg pix/wfm 446K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS027.jpg pix/wfm 453K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
MirrorCopy.lha util/cli 21K+Create/maintain exact copy of dir (V1.6)
TransPrefs21.lha util/sys 41K+TranslatorPrefs V2.1 (bugfixt)
Ver.lha util/sys 14K+Bugfixed replacement for c:version 40.1
VisualPrefs_HU.lha util/wb 10K+VisualPrefs: Hungarian Catalog file
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27.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: New Trojan Found
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will delete your
"sys:" if you run the program. At this time non of the anti-virus
programs can detect this trojan, but in the next update they will
be known.
The cure right now (If you have lost your SYS: to bad......), then
you will have to try and get the files back with eg. DiskSalv,
AB-Tools or VT-Schutz.
Here is some info about the infected archive:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan name....: 4KIntro.exe
Trojan size....: 4096 bytes (packed with StoneCracker 4.04)
: 6072 bytes (un-packed)
Archive name.. : ? (Not known yet)
Archive size.. : ? (Not known yet)
This archive has been send to all the antivirus programmers.....
Thanx to Ryben Kozlak for the info and sending the archive to us..
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27.Dec.2000
Piotr Pawlowski
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New Distributor in Poland
Quedex is a new Amiga distributor in Poland authorized by Amiga Inc.
The Polish Amiga market emerges well.
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27.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena - Free Games
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Frank Abbing enables all of the shareware / freeware
games developed for Amiga by UAC Design to be offered for download! These games are
not available from Aminet!
Olaf Koebnik is especially exited about the full version of board game port "Risiko"
to be available for the first time at Amiga Arena. Appropriate to the quiz fever
the game "Awaking" makes the opening! Awaking is a quiz game such as 'Jeopardy&180;,
'Riskant' or 'Der grosse Preis'.
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27.Dec.2000
ANN
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Scalos: Compatibility to OS3.9
Since the release of AmigaOS 3.9 some OS tool are using new functions not available in Scalos.
With a new plugin for Scalos of Juergen Lachmann these
new functions are now available enabling you to make use of tools of OS3.9 like "AmiDock".
Download: Scalos-Plugin_WB39.
For further information
please have a look at the link.
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27.Dec.2000
AmiSectorOne
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New Games and More at AmiSectorOne
There again are new classic games at AmiSectorOne. Among others you can download A-Train, Ambermoon, Amberstar
and Sim City 2000 (English and German) there. Furthermore the demo area was
completely re-established. Therefore most demos are accessible again and you can also find
some new pieces of music in the areas of "Game Music" and "Scene Music".
AmiSectorOne thank all of the visitors for their support.
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27.Dec.2000
tpec.u-net.com
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FBlit v3.73xms
It was published a new test version of FBlit v3.73xms on 22nd of December 2000. FBlit patches some
OS functions normally using the blitter, such that these can use the
CPU and don't have to operate inside chip-mem.
The patched functions are also faster and non-interleaved data will suffer less from
colour flickering .
Additionally non-displayalbe bitmaps can be put
in fastram for named tasks. The new version contains various minor changes to v3.69b.
Download: fblit373xms.lzx.
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27.Dec.2000
Stefan Martens on ANF
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New (final) Amiga User List Published
Right now the new AUL went online and is also on the homepage for download. Soon on Aminet, too.
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27.Dec.2000
Thomas Heyer on ANF
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And Max Rally does Work..... ;)
Do you also have the game Max Rally from Aminet Games, Aminet Set 10 or Aminet 36, and
it just doesn't work? Here is the solution: On the above mentioned CD-Roms explode.library
is missing! This can be downloaded e.g. from Aminet (util/libs/explode-7.lha) and unpacked
to your own libs directory. Good playing.
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26.Dec.2000
Jan Hendrik Mangold on ANF
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AWeb 3.4 Update for Registered Users
From now for registered users of the browser AWeb v3.x an update for the
latest version v3.4 is available. Amitrix wish merry Christmas.
Download: aweb3x34.pch.lha
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