18.Apr.2001
Sven Ottemann via E-Mail
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Amiga Port of LhA1.14i for Unix
There are new versions of the Amigaport of LHA1.14i for Unix for
download. There are versions for 68000, 68020+ and PPC (WarpOS).
The following bugs have been fixed:
- Wrong data when compressing and extracting
- Rename across devices (This error results in failing of making
archives on other drives than RAM:.
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18.Apr.2001
Christian Effenberger on ANF
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Web-Tool: New SiteWay-Module Published
PicBase (beta v0.98) is a complex tool to library pictures
for the Web. The program completely automatically generates web-suitable catalogue
sites, navigation inclusive. It uses patterns for decorating (e.g.
for slide-frames) and navigating and has a completely new GUI-system,
preview-engine inclusive.
Currently the following datatypes are being supported: BMP, GIF, IFF, JPG, PCX, PNG, PBM, PSD, SUN, TGA, TIF.
Download:
PicBase.lha - 1,5 MB
Screenshot - 80 kB
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18.Apr.2001
Voyager Mailinglist
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Aminet: Flash-Update for PPC-Cards a Fake
The flush-update of PPC-cards (flashupdates.lha, size 940kbyte) which
was uploaded on April 17th, 2001 is a fake which was not written by Ralph
'Laire' Schmidt being the author of PPC-software as he confirmed.
Ralf: "No..i haven't uploaded it. I notified the aminet admins to remove it."
Matthias Scheler, who is the co-admin of the Aminet, confirmed to amiga-news.de
that the supposed ppc-update has been removed.
Each user who downloaded and installed the flash update is advised to remove it
and to control the integrity of the software by using a current anti-virus-software
because it is possible that it is a virus or a Trojan.
Ralph Schmidt furthermore confirmed that he would never upload PPC-updates to the Aminet.
The only sources for his Flash-Updates are:
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18.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena News: KidHTML Full Version
In co-operation with Marcio Esper Amiga Arena makes possible the unlimited
use of the full version 1.26 of KidHTML. With KidHTML you can create
HTML-documents without having a lot of experiences.
KidHTML stays being shareware and can be registered over
Fun Time World
which is the partner of Amiga Arena. This modus has been chosen so that many users
do not have to send smaller amounts to the author to Brasilia but a total amount can
be sent. Amiga Arena wants to support foreign authors with it and appeal to the
honesty of the users. You can find further information in the download area under
"Vollversionen".
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18.Apr.2001
Amiga Fire
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Amiga Fire: AmigaGames top 20
Amiga Fire regularly makes an opinion poll concerning the most
favourite Amiga-games.
The results of March/April has been established. The list is being
led by Quake, Napalm and Payback as expected.
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18.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun on ANF
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POING: Killer of Tediousness at NoRiscNoFun
On our site you can find a test of the fantastic breakout-clone POING. This
version provides some really extraordinary features. The results of the opinion
poll of the 30th of March are also available. Of course there are two new opinion
polls concerning "What do you like of Amiga/What do you hate of Amiga". Please
participate on it. And last but not least a shot has been added to the WB gallery.
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18.Apr.2001
Martin R. Elsner via E-Mail
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Tools: Choowin V1.1 Available
There is a an improved version v1.1 of Choowin. The design of the menus has been
reworked and sub-menus have been added to the start-menu. Other characteristics can
be now configured above all the background pattern and the aligment of the text.
Download: choowin.lha - 32 kB
Choowin is a small help program starting programs and putting windows to the foreground
and activating them. It is comparable with a task-manager. You simply push one of the
buttons in a corner of the Workbench-window and then choose either the program or the
window title in the appearing list.
With the tooltypes you can define the position of Choowin and the size of the appearing
window and can decide which windows are to be displayed. The programs in the start-menu
are also defined with tooltypes. Choowin is freeware and requires at least AmigaOS 3.5.
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18.Apr.2001
Marvin Droogsma - AmigaScene on ANF
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Amiga Show Benelux Planned
We are looking for exhibitors, clubs, Amiga-freaks and so on for a planned AmigaDE show in
Rotterdam - Netherlands, which is supposed to take place in June 2001. If you have
something to exhibit then please mail to:
m.droogsma@wxs.nl.
It will become a great show with a lot of new hardware and software, demos, VIPs and fun.
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18.Apr.2001
Ruben Monteiro on ANF
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Software producer for the AmigaDE
cyberoxygen is a new AmigaDE software creator. Projects include java APIs,
PDA/desktop games and the "Sounds Cool" sound editor/player/converter.
cyberoxygen aims to create a variety of software for AmigaDE enabled devices.
Please visit the website for more information, and subscribe to the newsletter,
so you can be up to date with the news. We have more projects in the
pipeline which will be announced soon. Also distributing "Immortal" -
The Amiga game music CD.
Ruben Monteiro
www.cyberoxygen.com
Software for a digital world
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18.Apr.2001
Joecard.com
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Met@box Stops Producing PC-Card-Projects
As you could already assume on March 30th in 2001 the announcement of
Met@box giving up "non-strategical-parts" results
in consequences in the fields of PC-card-development.
(We have already reported (German)).
On the website joecard.com which is specially made for PC-cards by Met@box you can now
officially read what this have to mean:
»In the procedure of restructuring of Met@box AG to a producer of Set-Top-Boxes the
departments of Macintosh and Amiga has been closed down with effect from March 30st in
2001. All developments has been closed down.«
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18.Apr.2001
Jan Devos via E-Mail
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3ivx News
In future licence fees will be charged for using 3ivx as the following press release
supposes. Private users pay 10$, commercial users pay 400$. 3ivx is a
video-compression-format for MPEG4 which is used by some Amiga-programs as SoftCinema and MooVId.
Press Release: 3ivx, solving the streaming video problem
Truly multi-platform MPEG-4 video means encode anywhere, play everywhere
April 17, 2001 - Happy Machines releases its third preview version of
the 3ivx codec. 3ivx takes video compression to a higher level. This
is the first release which includes a free personal test encoder as
well as a version for MacOS X.
<http://www.3ivx.com/>
<http://www.hollywood.org/3ivx/>
"Streaming video is very important for our customers," says Marcel
Bor of On The Road, an Equant Service Provider "That's why I am
extremely pleased with the quality of 3ivx movies, even better than
Real 8!"
This release includes a lot of enhancements resulting in improved
video playback while maintaining small file sizes and low bit-rates.
Technically this translates into:
- Scheduled Asynchronous Decompression
- Advanced frame queue management
- FrameCache and Flextime Frame management
- Hardware Accelerated YUV Output
The encoder and the decoder are available on the site for immediate
download. There are 3 versions of the codec available, a free test
codec, a $10 version for personal use and a $400 version for
commercial use.
3ivx is a natural video compression system that is compliant with
MPEG-4v3. The strengths lay in its open architecture, multi-platform
approach (Windows, MacOS, Linux/Unix, BeOS and Amiga) and it's high
compression ratio which compresses video's and moving images to one
thirteenth (1:13) of the size of a DVD or MPEG-2 movie while
maintaining approximately the same quality.
Happy Machines is a Belgian company that represents a creative team
and a large international network of inventors, software and hardware
developers, designers in various fields such as imaging, satellite
communications, artificial intelligence, machinery etc., which has
contacts with top-manufacturers worldwide. The company is also member
of the MPEG-group and is an Inmarsat partner. It is orientated on
project development and related intellectual properties.
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17.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VEPatch.brain for VirusExecutor V1.31
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.31
Archive name : VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 22.469 Bytes
Release date: 17. April 2001
Coder: Jan Erik Olausen
Changes since last update:
WB2Fast v1.0
PowerWB v0.8
PrintManager 39.31
CleverWin 37.9
RAWBInfo 1.24
RAWBInfo 1.28
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17.Apr.2001
AROS-ML Aaron Digulla
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AROS Website with New Layout
The website of AROS was completely reworked and has now added an easy navigation,
so all informations ca be found fast and easy.
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17.Apr.2001
Andre Jansen on ANF
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Software for Studying Languages for the AMIGA
At the title link you will find software to learn: Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Russian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish with the AMIGA (CD-ROM)
This software is not new, it is more like a sales out, but there is no such
software then so it is worth to mention. I have bought this software and like it.
This is a training for vocabulary and speaking (with digitalized voices), and for
Asian and Russian languages with the special letters.
The vocabulary is presented by pictures, the computer prints on a click on a
thing the respective word (with translation if wanted) and plays a sample of the
word. A training/quiz is available, too.
Also there is a short summary of the most important rules of grammar (in English).
For the version to learn Japanese you can download a demo version from the website.
The programme is available in different versions for OS1.x and OS 2.x and higher,
but even this is some years old, so it will open on PAL or NTSC screen. You can
promote it without any problem to any screen mode you like, it runs even on a 68060
and with OS 3.9 and MagicMenu.
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17.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Scalos News
For the Workbench substitute Scalos is a DefIcon-plugin as replacement for
the FileType-plugIn for download available. The "Persistant_Window"-plugin was updated.
Download:
Scalos-Plugin_DefIcons.lha - 12 kB
Scalos-Plugin_Persist.lha - 19 kB
MAS mpeg.device Version 1.2
Chris Hodges has released the version 1.2 of his MAS MPegDevice.
It is a standard device for the MAS-Player of Dirk Conrad
Download: MASMPegDevice.lha - 129 kB
GameIcons.info
At AmigaGames.com you can find a new archive with 100 game icons in
NewIcons style on the GameIcons.info-page. All icons
are made in the standard size 120*96 pixel and contain a second icon that appears if you click on it.
Download page.
New style for Dynamite
You can play "Dynamite" in different styles. At Amisource the new style bdynamite for
the Online-Bombermann/Dynablaster clone is available.
Download: BDynamite.lha - 522 kB
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17.Apr.2001
Boingworld
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Mekka-Symposium 2k+1 Results
The team of Boingworld has been in Fallingbostel, Germany and has taken part
in the Mekka-Symposium 2001, the Amiga-Scene-Demo-Party at the last weekend. The
crew, very happy but really tired, has returned to Sweden and promises to write
a complete report after getting some sleep. Most impressed was the team about
the 20 shown Amiga-demos. The winner of the demo contest is the group Black Lotus
(TBL) with its demo "Perfect Circle". An overview on the results you will find
here.
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16.Apr.2001
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New amiga-news.de main page
You sure realized by coming here today, we implemented our English news page to the same
PHP-system already used for our German page, since some time.
Now you are able to chose your preferred and private settings for displaying the start page.
There are several possibilities you can chose from the buttons above. You can determine if the page
should be displayed showing complete news messages (standard button) or with a compact version of
each message on it (compact button). You can also determine the number of messages shown or if you
rather want a titles only version (titles only button), and all that for a certain number of days.
Just play around with the buttons and press 'Show' to find out what meets your needs, best. Default
setting is 'Per page 3 days - titles only'. Furthermore you can chose if you only want messages
regarding Amiga to be displayed or if you want to see other messages, too. Just tag/untag the
respective check-box.
Once you found your preferred settings you can update your bookmark to have this available all the time.
You can also use the cookies function to have a cookie saved with your settings (check-box).
If you prefer the prior display use
amiga-news.de/en/news/standard/ for
your bookmark.
One more feature is the possibility for you to comment news messages. To do so click on the "Comments:" link
below any news message or on the number below the comments item to the right of the respective message
in the title only version.
We hope you like the new possibilities. Have fun!
Supplement 03 June 2001
Sorry, the system doesn't work properly, by now. For example it is not possible to change settings.
Be sure, we are working on it.
And sorry for the wrong date of this message, too. We are also working on that problem. We ask you for
your understanding.
Supplement 03 June 2001
Everything seems to work now, incl. changing settings for the start page. There's just this date thing left, but
only for this message. I'm currently not able to post messages for the English page, only. This might change
in the future. If you encounter any problem using the new start page, please mail me or post
a comment to this message.
Update 01.05.2002:
Accepting cookies new and updated messages will be presented in bold stamp.
Update 04.01.2003:
Here you will find more changes.
Update 25.03.2004: voluntary registry in the comment area
More details see in the following messages: 09.03.2004,
19.03.2004 and
24.03.2004.
Please, tell us what do you think about the new features!
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16.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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New Reviews by GFX-GAMES-DATABASE
This time we examined the new Workbench-game MagicNumbers and we made MacOSX-like imageset available.
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16.Apr.2001
AROS-ML - Aaron Digulla
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AROS News
Since there has been some confusion, here are some reliable
infos about the relationship between AROS and MorphOS.
MorphOS wants to provide an Amiga clone and they need some
code to fill gaps in their emulation (for example, parts of
Intuition). They asked us if they could use our work and,
being an open source project, we "allowed" them to port
parts of AROS to MorphOS.
This is exactly the same what we did when Haage&Partner
approached us whether they can use our Colorwheel gadget
in OS 3.9 which we "allowed", too.
I say "allowed" because that is essentially what we want
them to do :-) AROS is meant as a test laboratory to develop
new technologies which might prove useful for the next
versions of the AmigaOS. We do this independently of
Amiga Inc, MorphOS and H&P but always with the goal to
provide them with something useful as well as providing
adventurous Amiga users with something that feels quite
familiar.
So AROS and MorphOS have not "joined forces" or become
one project. MorphOS just uses part of our work which
is what our work is meant for.
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16.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 96K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.6-full
EZPagerNG_CE.lha comm/misc 412K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 19K+V1.5, YAM2-like Toolbars for TaskiSMS 2.
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 33K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
MWI-SDV31.lha demo/mag 1.1M+SAVE DA VINYL #31 - packmag by Madwizard
BlitzLstMar01.lha dev/basic 35K+Blitz mailing list archives for March 20
JMildred_ScrMd.lha dev/basic 140K+How to use Mildred+BBasic with GFXCards
d65.lha dev/cross 51K+A symbolic 65xx disassembler
Comal.v3.4.lha dev/lang 521K+Comal v3.40
m2latex.lha dev/m2 65K+LaTeX files from Modula-2 and Pascal sou
VCDGear.lha disk/cdrom 132K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
BlackIRC1.1PL.lha docs/help 11K+Polish Locale for BlackIRC1.1
Lupe1.9PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish Locale for Lupe1.9
saku36.lha docs/mags 1.7M+Saku #36 (2/2001). Finnish e-zine.
Spy3dgame.lha game/2play 133K+3D game beta for WB (Balrog Soft)
GS650-68k.lha gfx/conv 816K+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50r2 68k binary
GS650-Data.lha gfx/conv 1.9M+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 data archive
GS650-Fonts.lha gfx/conv 2.6M+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 fonts archive
GS650-PPC.lha gfx/conv 905K+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50r2 WarpOS binary
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 90K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 723K+V1.60 PSX MemoryCard Reader
Dictionar.lha misc/edu 207K+Vocabulary trainer for Your data
DIGIOchmann09.lha misc/edu 127K+Versatile and user friendly vocabulary d
HexCon.lha misc/math 16K+Simple Hex <-> Dec <-> Bin converter
sprawl.mpg mods/elbie 5.3M+Sprawl Pneumatique [electro] by ElbiE^t1
TheX0XPackage1.lha mus/edit 44K+A set of editors for the TR-X0X & TB303
mattaki.lha pix/misc 214K+[ancor] just a practise
BlazeWCP.lha util/boot 31K+Very fast Replacement for the OS chunky
fblit.lha util/boot 171K+V3.73a Use CPU in place of the blitter.
killAGA2.5.lha util/misc 4K Run old demos on A1200/4000 hard drives.
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 253K+VirusExecutor v2.10
freakbar.lha util/wb 2K+Toolbar. V1.2.
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16.Apr.2001
V³ Portal
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V³ Beta Image Decoder Version 18.1
Oliver Wagner released a new betaversion of the image-decoder for Voyager 3.3.
The decoder is available for
AmigaOS and
MorphOS.
Attention: This release is only works with Voyager 3.3 (not 3.2 or 3.2.13 !!!).
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16.Apr.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback Update 3 Released
Apex Designs released the third update for the game
Payback.
The update is available here.
The current demoversion can be found here.
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16.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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URL of PlayGUI Changed
The PlayGUI-support page is now available at http://playgui.tsx.org.
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15.Apr.2001
ANN
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Finnish Amiga Users Group has a New URL
The website of the 'Finnish Amiga Users Group', which is also known as online-magazine
'Saku', is now available under this more easy to remember URL
http://saku.amigafin.org/english/.
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15.Apr.2001
ANN
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Interview with Hans-Joerg Frieden
An interview with Hans-Jörg Frieden (Hyperion) has been released at Digital
Dream Arena. The interview contains information about several areas. At the beginning
Hans-Joerg Frieden describes how he started put with programming and then how he made his way
to learn 3D programming. The following paragraph talks about the creation of Hyperion and the
port of Heretic II and Shogo for the Amiga, which is close to finishing now.
At the end, the interview describes the motivation to develop Warp3D and MiniGL for the Amiga as
well as a statement about AmigaOS V4.x and AmigaDE.
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15.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VirusExecutor V2.12
On April 15th 2001, Jan Erik Olausen released version 2.12 of the virus killer
'VirusExecutor'. Compared to former versions, the following changes have been
made:
- The'Bastard'-Link virus can now be recognized and removed.
(Thanks to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski for analysing this virus.)
- The 'TeamMOS TCP'-Trojan has been renamed to 'Zakahackandpatch'.
Furthermore a small error in the decrypting code has been removed.
Name : VirusExecutor v2.12
Archive name : VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size : 262.139 bytes
Release date : 15 April 2001
Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
Requires : xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
Download: VirusExecutor.lha (256K),
Readme
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15.Apr.2001
Timo Kloss via E-Mail
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Graphic Adventure Engine 'INGA'
The graphic-adventure-engine 'INGA' now has got a homepage at
Inutilis which contains technical information as well
as the current development status.
'INGA' is an engine for graphic-adventures (Amiga) like Monkey Island 3, which has been
developed for graphic boards. There is already a game which is being developed using this system,
Ermentrud,
and more are planned.
The engine includes also a comfortable developer-package which is also presented at the homepage.
This will allow everyone to design their own adventures.
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15.Apr.2001
CyberGFX
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Warp3D: Voodoo3 Status
Thomas Frieden(Warp3D, Hyperion) has posted information about the status of the Voodoo3-driver
for Warp3D to the
Amiga-Mediator-Mailinglist.
The driver is now stable - even after 3 hours of continuous graphics output it didn't crash.
The command-FIFO does not work yet, so the speed is still bad.
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15.Apr.2001
Fun Time World
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New Entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
On April 14th, 2001 the 'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' has been
expanded.
Following new entries have been added:
- ISDN Surfer
- Amigo Ethernet
- Amigo Serial
- Shuffleboard
In addition to this there are different, smaller updates, new pictures and
correction of a link. The complete list of changes can be found
here
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15.Apr.2001
Fun Time World
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Spitfire²: YAMSync V1.0
Version 1.0 of the YAMSync-Plugin for the Palm-Desktop 'Spitfire²' by Ralph Torchia has
been released. This version is only available for registered users. Additionally, the
whole website has been reworked.
Spitfire² offers different possibilities to communicate with Palm-PDAs from 3Com, including
data-synchronisation with the Amiga.
Download:
YAMSync.lha (44K)
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15.Apr.2001
amiga.org
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Interview with Peter Molyneux (Populous, Black&White)
In MeriStation-Magazine an interview with Peter Molyneux has been released in Spanish.
Peter Molyneux is the game designer of Populous, Black&White and other successful games.
During the interview, Commodore and Amiga are named.
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15.Apr.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: Obligement #26
The current issue of the french Amiga-Online-Magazine 'Obligement' is available
for download.
Issue #26 contains amongst others a report about the fair in St. Louis, interviews
with Fleecy Moss, Oliver Roberts and Georges Halvadjian(Author of Perfect Paint), tests of
Earth 2140 as well as Payback and much more.
Download:
obligement26.lha (804K)
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15.Apr.2001
Martin McKenzie via E-Mail
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Imagine 3D Support-Website with New URL
The support-website of Imagine 3D will be available from now on under the following, newly
registered domain http://www.cadtechnologies.co.uk
.
This is why the E-Mail adresses have changed too. Please use the following from now on:
sales@cadtechnologies.co.uk
support@cadtechnologies.co.uk
comments@cadtechnologies.co.uk
webmaster@cadtechnologies.co.uk
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15.Apr.2001
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Happy Easter Holidays!
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15.Apr.2001
#AmigaZeux in EuIRC on ANF
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dynAMIte CD-Edition Needs Pre-Orders
When we distributed 150 preview disks at the World of Amiga 2000 in Cologne,
we didn't know how the Amiga community would accept the then still very young
project of a TCP/IP-Dynablaster. During March 2001 we have made dynAMIte available
for free download after a long beta test stage. Our website recorded 8000 visitors
since December and there are 326 players recorded in the general database, which
have played several 10.000 games on different servers.
The success of dynAMIte has encouraged us to improve the game even more : A cd-version
with many special features, especially for fans of the explosive rods and a very
affordable price is in preparation.
However we have a small problem with the realisation at the moment:
dynAMIte is Freeware and it will remain freeware - however we can't offer the CD-Version
and its extras for free. Since the project includes a financial risk for us, we would be
very happy to receive binding pre-orders - the price will be approximately 30,- DM (15 Euro)
including shipping with prepayment. To be able to realize the project we need 100
pre-orders from private customers.
Those who are interested to give us their money in exchange of a fancy silver disk with even
more distinguished contents, can report this here.
You can however only report your general interest there.
Retailers can bindingly order the game exclusively at AMISOURCE and will obtain a discount,
there is no retail at GTI (as long as they don't order at our place themselves).
Retailers please use this form!
We thank all the persons that supported us
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14.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Golem: Apple brings Darwin to x86 CPUs, too
»Foundation of MacOS X now also as a x86 Version
With version 1.3.1 Apple now puts a new version of Darwin online,
the MacOS X core. With this for the first time an official ISO image
for x86 systems exists. The Darwin core bases on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0
technologies and offers "protected memory" and "pre-emptive multitasking".
Darwin runs on PowerPC based Macintosh machines as well as on x86 compatibles.
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Complete article (German) under the title link.
Apparently Apple has recognized that almost everybody has an x86 at home and
offer their OS for them.
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14.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: IBM brings PowerPC for Internet Appliances
»The days of 'one-size-fits-all' for PC micro processor are gone", claimed
Scottie Ginn, Vize President of "Pervasive Technology" at IBM
Microelectronics. Reason for this wholehearted announcement: the presentation
of a system-on-a-chip solution for Internet appliances such as Web-Pads or
Surf-Terminals. The so called PowerPC Internet Appliance Platform (IAP) builds
on a PowerPC CPU and implements memory, LCD interfaces, as well as an Touch-Screen
interface together in that chip. According to IBM the chip is considered to cost
about 60USD as for OEM quantities.
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Complete article (German) see title link.
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14.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark Report Infected Archive
A new infected archive was found. The archive was infected by "Hitch-Hiker 4.11".
Here are the details:
Archive name: FlySwatter.lzx
Archive size: 219772 Bytes
Archive description: AmiTCP/IRC/War Client
Archive info: Flyswatter is an IRC assault program for AMITCP...
Be sure to read the program history
This is the Digital Corruption release of FlySwatter
This release has barely been tested.
Infected files: WarToolz/fakemailer (23.504 Bytes)
WarToolz/mflash ( 9.444 Bytes)
WarToolz/qmail_exploit (11.364 bytes)
All common anti-virus programs can detect the HitchHiker 4.11 link virus.
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14.Apr.2001
Achim Klopsch on ANF
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iFusion is Shipping
As a pre-orderer after 18 month of waiting I received the iFusion today, at last.
The longish longed for PPC version of the MAC emulator for my AMIGA.
A for now Cybergfx 3 and 4 are supported. There is no "direct" support for Picasso96, yet.
A "new world class" MAC OS version is needed. The OS included with the MACs was said not
to work. In contrast to that the version available from the vendors was said to work.
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13.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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New VEPatch.Brain for VirusExecutor Version 1.30
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.30
Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 22.057 Bytes
Release date: 13. April 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
Changes since last version:
fastlayers.library v40.48
rtg.library 40.3945 + 40.3992
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13.Apr.2001
Pawel Filipczak on ANF
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TaskiSMS Version 2.53 Released
The new version 2.53 of TaskiSMS has been released.
New in this version:
- bugfixed ICQ plug-in and ICQ UIN/password preferences added
- reduced stack usage for "about" window
- some bugs in the program functions fixed
- updated Lycos plug-in
- HandyLand plug-in added
- "do not wait for server response" added so that the sending of SMS is speeded up
- 50 new countries added to the support list
- some missing bubble helps added
- Jumpy plug-in deleted
This program allows you to send SMS to mobile phones in 160 countries of the world. The program
can be downloaded either from the TaskiSMS-homepage or
from Aminet Aminet.
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13.Apr.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Executive Update by Bill McEwen
Bill McEwen - April 12, 2001
Greetings to one and all:
What a wonderful time it was for us in St. Louis. I must thank our hosts Bob and Diana Scharp
and all of the members of the Gateway Amiga Club. They once again outperformed and kept things rolling.
I want to make very clear what the announcements were and what it means for Amiga and the rest of the Amiga Family.
- Amiga has made NO change in strategy with AmigaDE. Things are going great, as expected, and
we have some impressive new customers; Sharp being the first.
- Amiga OS 4.0 and beyond was announced. This is a staged series of releases that will bring a native
port of the AmigaOS to the PPC. This is NOT about WarpOS, vs. anybody. It is an Amiga Inc. port
of the OS. You may infer nothing else from this.
- AmigaOne A1200 is the first new hardware, for the Amiga, and we are still planning a standalone ATX
board and other new pieces of hardware. AmigaOne for the A1200 will be out this summer. We are then
looking at releases later in the year, for the new standalone designs.
Summary:
- AmigaDE doing great and on target with the goals that we set forth and we will continue development efforts.
- AmigaOS 4.0 out this summer with the first of the AmigaOne Zico specification machines.
- Sharp is a new partner of Amiga Incorporated. More will soon be released about our relationship.
- There will be more partners and more announcements soon.
- This is a great time to be part of the Amiga Family.
- For more in-depth information there is a new technical update to be posted later today.
I thank you all for your support and look forward to a very exciting year before us!
Sincerely,
Bill McEwen, and the rest of the team at Amiga, Inc.
Update:
As promised in McEwen's Executive Update, meanwhile technical details are available:
Technical Update Part 1
Technical Update Part 2
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12.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 15.2 Released
Version 15.2 of Safe was released. Viruses can be detected by Safe, but not removed from the system.
Here the details:
Name: Safe v15.2
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 28.873 Bytes
Release date: 12. April 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: needs xvs.library v33.24
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12.Apr.2001
Michael Wilps on ANF
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WarpJPEG V44.20 & WarpPNG V44.15 Datatypes Available
On Oliver Robert's homepage new versions of his JPEG & PNG datatypes for 68k and WOS were
released.
Download at the title link.
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12.Apr.2001
Lars Decker on ANF
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Amiga under QNX
Here the Amiga is mentioned as multitasking system, shortly.
It is interesting that the Amiga used runs under QNX.
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12.Apr.2001
Elbox
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Elbox Website with New Design
The Elbox website has got a completely new look enabling easy navigation, now.
But the site seems to be under construction, yet. Most of the buttons still don't
contain any information. For example under 'Download' there isn't the driver software
expected for download.
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12.Apr.2001
Raymond Zachariasse via E-Mail
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The GUI Research (TGR)
At TGR at this time a survey on the new AmigaDE's graphical user interface (GUI)
is organized. Under 'Survey' you can find more details and the queries.
Bringing the next UI design and engineering into the new millennium
....your vote could change the future of Amiga's GUI...
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12.Apr.2001
AMIPRESS-ML
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Amiga Inc. and Elbox Announce Relationship
April 11, 2001, Snoqualmie, Washington, USA.
Amiga Inc and Elbox working together for Amiga OS 4.0 and beyond
Amiga Inc is pleased to announce a long term relationship with Elbox
Computer Ltd of Krakow, Poland. Amiga Inc announced the development
of AmigaOS4, the latest version of the high performance, user friendly
operating system that introduced multimedia to the world at the St Louis
trade and user show on the 31st March 2001. To support AmigaOS4, Amiga
Inc also released the Zico hardware specification targeted at PowerPC
processors. Elbox Computer Ltd are working closely with Amiga Inc to
ensure that their existing and future products will gain Zico
certification, and thus provide a perfect platform for AmigaOS4.
'St Louis marked the beginning of the future.' said Bill McEwen,
President and CEO of Amiga Inc. 'Key to that is the Amiga community
moving forwards in a single direction, united and determined. With
Elbox as a partner, another key Amiga company has joined the drive
forwards towards success.'
'Our long-term commitment to computer technology is now giving tangible
results in the Amiga market,' said Maciek Binek, CEO of Elbox. 'Now,
with the Amiga Inc. initiative, we can see a clear sign of future-oriented
thinking and strategy, a breakthrough for this computer. We hope Amiga will
soon again become the common word.'
'Elbox have taken a major role in not just supporting the existing Amiga
market with their many products but also in providing a path forwards.'
said Fleecy Moss, CTO of Amiga Inc. "Our relationship with them will
ensure that their existing customers can benefit from AmigaOS4 whilst
new users coming to the Amiga will have additional excellent choices in
the hardware that they can buy.'
AmigaOS4 is currently under development and will ship in Summer 2001.
Elbox products can already be purchased from all major Amiga dealers,
and their next new product, the SharkPPC+ will be available along with
the premiere of the AmigaOS4 system.
About Amiga:
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting
applications to a new multi-media operating systems which is hardware
agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group
of Reading England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE (*¹) based
applications
can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000,
R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run
hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4.
Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has
offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga
on the web at http://www.amiga.com.
About Elbox:
Elbox Computer Ltd of Krakow, Poland is a privately held company that
has been in business since 1982, and has grown rapidly from its
industrial systems roots, now having a significant presence in
peripherals, multimedia systems, high performance motherboards,
enclosures, application software and general computer subsystems.
Its products are used throughout the world and set a new standard
in price, performance and customer satisfaction. For further
information, please send an email to
info@elbox.com or visit
Elbox website at http://www.elbox.com
*¹Was corrected from AmigaOS into AmigaDE by Amiga Inc..)
Translations: Spanisch von SAUG
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