11.Apr.2001
Haage&Partner
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Update Patches for StormC4
There is a first update for StormC which solves several problems and improves
as well as completes the support of Mixed Binaries and Shared Libraries.
Download site.
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11.Apr.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak via E-Mail
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Elbox: S3 ViRGE Driver for Mediator
Elbox announces of having completed the official driver for S3 ViRGE PCI-cards
which can be used on the Mediator Busboard. According to Elbox the drivers are 100%
compatible to Picasso96 and support the complete 2D-hardware of the cards.
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11.Apr.2001
scenet.de
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Amiga Music Preservation - Major Update
Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) has got a new design and a lot of new information.
AMP which has been founded by Curt Cool and Crown is a powerful collection of modules of
demo scene musicians meanwhile on 16 (!) CDs in all which additionally offers information
to well-known scene musicians as well as over 200 interviews!
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11.Apr.2001
Martin Elsner via E-Mail
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FTPMount Version 1.3
In addition to ClassAction I have uploaded FTPMount on my homepage.
This is an improved version (1.3) of the program which was developed by Evan Scott and Thies Wellpott.
With FTPMount you can handle FTP-sites just like directories on a harddrive.
Download: ftpmount.lha -
137 kB
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11.Apr.2001
Andreas Kuerzinger via E-Mail
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AKTaskiSMS v1.5
On the homepage of Andreas Kürzinger you can download version 1.5 of AKTaskiSMS from now on.
It is a German catalog for TaskiSMS2.5 as well as two alternative toolbars in YAM2-style
(MWB- as well as RomIcons-colours) and an icon in 32-colourful AKIconGold-design.
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11.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun on ANF
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NRNF: Interview with Oliver Smiles (Abode of Golgotha)
At No Risc No Fun you can find an English interview with Olvier Smiles. He created the great
Abode of Golgotha Saga (H2 AddOn) which we have recently tested for you. The TaskiSMS 2.52
review at our site is also rather new. We have added 120st screenshot to our WB gallery. Come
and find out how you can design your system more beautiful.
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11.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Chip: First Details to Matrox G550 Graphic Chip
»On the English spoken hardware-website there are specifications and details
to the new graphic chip by Matrox for the first time. The next Matrox-graphic card is
to be called G550 and have the following features:
- Made in 0,18 micrometer-process
- 1x, 2x and 4x AGP
- 360 MHz RAMDAC
- 32 MByte DDR SDRAM
- OpenGL- and DirectX-API-Support
- 256-Bit DualBus-Architecture
- Matrox Extended Dual-Head-Function
- Vibrant Color Quality2 Rendering-Technique
- Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping (EMB)
- Matrox Skinning
- Displacement Mapping
- Ultra Sharp DAC
- Integrated TV-out DAC
- High-quality DVD-Playback
Reactor critical refers to an "unofficial" source, but which is supposed to be very reliable.«
See title link for full article.
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11.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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The Register: PowerPC G5 to hit 2GHz (Update)
»Motorola is pushing ahead with the design of the PowerPC 7500 -
aka G5 - company sources have claimed, according to a report over at
MacOS Rumors.
We're sure they are, but we're not so sure the report's claims are
entirely accurate except in a very broad sense. The report's information
is a little too close to the details displayed on Motorola's last publicly
released roadmap, dating back to September 1999.
According to the report, the G5 will boast speeds of 2GHz and up,
"full-performance backward-compatibility", 512KB of on-die L2 cache a new
memory architecture and a modular design allowing the company to offer
multi-core chips. It will be fabbed at 0.1 micron using silicon-on-insulator
construction.«
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11.Apr.2001
Benjamin Yoris via E-Mail
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Hyperion Entertainment welcomes Amiga`s OS4 Strategy
In the aftermath of the recent announcement by Amiga Inc. that the Classic
Amiga OS would be ported to PPC, many users have asked us to comment on the
technical merit of Amiga's OS 4 strategy and what it would mean for games
and 3D graphics.
Prior to Amiga's announcement, senior software engineers of Hyperion
Entertainment identified the key bottlenecks in the Amiga OS which hampered
the performance of our games: the slow 68K based filesystem, the 68K based
RTG system, the lack of virtual memory and the dual CPU architecture of the
current PPC boards which generates performance-crippling context switches.
Amiga OS 4 will address all these issues and do much more.
We can confidently predict that with Amiga OS 4, users can look forward to
performance levels never before seen on the Amiga.
Hyperion Entertainment has therefore signed on to develop the 3D API for
Amiga OS 4 and provide a fully featured OpenGL(tm) implementation through
Mesa 3.4.
All our current and future game-titles will take full advantage of
everything that OS 4 has to offer.
Unlike some who unashamedly claim that « games don't play an important role
anymore in the current Amiga market », we are committed to once more make
the name « Amiga » synonymous with top-quality entertainment software.
Senior staff-members of Hyperion Entertainment will continue to work with
Amiga Inc. to ensure that Amiga OS 4 will provide everything game-developers
need to accomplish the goal of putting Amiga back at the forefront of gaming
and 3D graphics.
Ben Yoris
Hyperion Entertainment Software
PR Manager
Web: http://www.hyperion-software.com
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10.Apr.2001
Fabian Zaengel on ANF
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New Infos about AmigaOne
You will find new pictures of the AmigaOne in an Amiga- and ATX-towercase and
the latest FAQ and information for dealers at the title link.
At http://www.egroups.com/messages/amigaone
you can find an interesting forum
where Fleecy (Amiga, Inc.), Eyetech, and Hyperion are answering questions about
the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.x. A homepage for the operating system is planned for
this week.
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10.Apr.2001
VirusHelpDenmark
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New Link Virus Found
A new linkvirus was found. Until now it is not known which archive installs the
virus, but "Safe V15.1" is able to find it. More details at the title link.
Download: Safe.lha
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10.Apr.2001
VirusHelpDenmark
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VirusExecutor v2.11 Released
Version 2.11 of VirusExecutor, the virus killer, is released. This update can
handle the TCP-trojan (we reported). Details:
name: VirusExecutor v2.11
archive: VirusExecutor.lha
archive size: 258.521 bytes
release date: 10. April 2001
coder: Jan Erik Olausen
needed: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
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10.Apr.2001
Thomas Steiding via E-Mail
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e.p.i.c. ports "The Feeble Files" to MAC and MorphOS
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh has signed a license agreement to port
Adventuresoft's cartoon adventure "The Feeble Files" to the MACINTOSH.
The game puts you to play an alien called Feeble who works for the crop circle
division of a dictatorial government but somehow get involved in a rebellion to
overthrow the system. But you will quickly learn that Rebellion really has never
looked so pAtHeTiC.
The MAC version will require a 180 Mhz PPC CPU, MacOS 8.6 or higher and 32 MByte
Ram. The game is scheduled for release in May 2001. You will find more detail on
the game in the projects section of our homepage.
A version for the alternative PPC OS MorphOS is also planned.
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10.Apr.2001
Thorsten Will via E-Mail
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"SECRETLY!"(DemoScene) Looking for GFX Artist
"SECRETLY!" is looking for some gfx artists for future projects (demos and so on).
If you are interested, send some examples of your work and a little bit about
yourself to twill@gmx.de or to
mr.vain@secretly.de.
Some information about the group you will find at the title link.
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09.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
QuickNote V1.5 Beta 1
OnxySoft released version 1.5 (Beta 1)
of the program 'QuickNote' by Stefan Blixth. Download:
quicknote15b0408.lha
Tales of Tamar Amiga Client V0.34r2
There is a new version (V0.35 R2) of the Amiga-client of
Tales of Tamar for registered beta testers available
here.
Shogo:MAD
As already reported Hyperion Software
uploaded a demo of Shogo:MAD to the Aminet. Download:
ShogoDemo.lha or
ShogoDemo.lha
Ghostscript 6.50
Rüdiger Hanke announced that
he released version 6.50. The download is available at his
Homepage.
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09.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
SKF13Theme.lha biz/dopus 7.1M+Theme for DirectoryOpus5 Magellan 2
ListbrowserPch.lha biz/patch 10K+Fixes AWeb popup problems with OS3.9 BB1
ShogoDemo.lha biz/titan 36M+Shogo: Mobile Armor Division demo versio
fnews10.lha comm/misc 50K+Free configurable News Display Tool for
daytimedemo.lha comm/tcp 9K+Daytime client/server example + source (
smbfs.lha comm/tcp 120K+SMB file system client; complements Samb
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 362K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
mbs-oldskool.lha demo/ecs 300K+Oldskool Fools by Mandel Bros.
dln-1st.lha demo/intro 140K+First intro by Deadline SF
dln-dentro.lha demo/intro 102K+Dentro by Deadline SF
dln-mustro.lha demo/intro 146K+Mustro (2nd intro) by Deadline SF
Message.lha demo/intro 88K+An Old-School Demo by HCS 90
upstream1.lha demo/mag 579K+Upstream 1 diskmag by Balance
upstream10.lha demo/mag 436K+Upstream 10 diskmag by Balance
upstream8.lha demo/mag 645K+Upstream 8 diskmag by Balance
dln-notelines.lha demo/sound 803K+Notelines musicdisk by Deadline SF
deepcore.lha demo/track 406K+Deepcore trackmo by Balance
JMildred_ScrMd.lha dev/basic 18K+Example of using Mildred with AGA and RT
devpic.lha dev/cross 95K+PIC16 development package
FD2Pragma.lha dev/misc 144K+V2.124 create pragma, inline, ... files
muimaster020.lha dev/mui 97K+Muimaster.library 020 patch Rel 4
IICopier2.0PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish Locale for IconImageCopier2.0
jAnimator1.0PL.lha docs/help 10K+Polish Locale for jAnimator1.0
MagellanIIPL.lha docs/help 39K+Polish Locale for MagellanII
Aakt0401GUIDE.lha docs/mags 89K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0401HTML.lha docs/mags 267K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
rusfaqs.lha docs/misc 94K+Amiga FAQs, in Russian
SuddenDeath.lha game/actio 50K+4 player tron
F1GP_2001.lha game/data 9K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (1 April
obvious.lha game/data 102K+DynAMIte style with obvious colors
MUI_HLed.lha game/misc 71K+Map editor for HistoryLine 1914-1918
PerOneMine1.lha game/misc 249K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine2.lha game/misc 362K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine3.lha game/misc 363K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine4.lha game/misc 345K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine5.lha game/misc 336K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine6.lha game/misc 372K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
gse1.lha game/patch 17K+Editor for Gunship2000 roster files
WHD_JWSnooker.lha game/patch 30K+HD Installer for Jimmy White Snooker
WHD_PDroid90.lha game/patch 17K+HD Installer for Paradroid90
WHD_RAMHamster.lha game/patch 8K+HD Installer for Rockstar Ate My Hamster
WHD_UridiumII.lha game/patch 14K+Uridium II Hard Drive Installer
WHD_Zeewolf.lha game/patch 25K+HD Installer for Zeewolf
WHD_ZeewolfII.lha game/patch 24K+HD Installer for Zeewolf II
eyangband.lha game/role 789K+EyAngband 0.3.0 - Roguelike solo RPG
gumband.lha game/role 953K+Gumband 2.1.3b - Roguelike solo RPG
kangband.lha game/role 843K+Kangband 2.9.2r1 - Roguelike solo RPG
oangband.lha game/role 900K+Oangband 0.5.1 - Roguelike solo RPG
Connect4.lha game/think 64K+Connect 4 game using MUI (with source)
MagicNumbersDt.lha game/think 2K+V1.1, German catalog for MagicNumbers v1
MentalBlokz.lha game/think 405K+Puzzle game that will drive you mental f
Warp3D-4.0.lha gfx/board 980K+Warp3D V4
SoftCinema.lha gfx/show 403K+Ultimate Movie Player (PPC) V0.12
FMdriver.lha hard/drivr 356K+FrameMachine drivers, TV on WB, Videos a
FMdriverVHI.lha hard/drivr 15K+FMdriverVHI - VHI-FrameMachine drivers
ps2m.lha hard/hack 23K+Ultimate Amiga PS/2 WheelMouseController
mathdrill.lha misc/edu 50K+Math Drill Flashcards Program
imdbDiff010330.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
vdo_whit.lha mods/vdo 802K+Valkoinen [xm 14ch]
DelfMPEG.lha mus/play 161K+MPEG audio player for Delfina DSP
dmdev.lha mus/play 135K+Mpeg.device for Delfina DSP
MASMPegDevice.lha mus/play 129K+CBM compat. device for MAS MP3 Player
AMIGirl.lha pix/misc 321K+Picture of Death - The AMiGA Girl ;) by
BareED.lha text/edit 279K+Simple text editor which supports propor
AutoPDF14.lha text/misc 26K+AutoPDF 1.4 - Convert Postscript to PDF
ltools157_demo.lha text/misc 70K+Dictionary and Document Translator
CheckX.lha util/arc 30K+V1.83 Check for Archives/Packers/Viruses
ilbmdtPPC.lha util/dtype 11K+Ilbmdt for the PPC, running WarpUP (45.3
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 27K+WarpDT preferences program V44.3
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 133K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.19 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 140K+PNG image datatype V44.14 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
cookietool.lha util/misc 67K+Clean up your fortunes database, V2.5
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 498K+V1.44 - WB graphics benchmark
WheelBusMouse.lha util/mouse 12K+Bus Mouse wheel support
ScreenShell.lha util/shell 9K+Opens full size shell on new public scre
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 19K+PatchBrain v1.29 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
aafont.lha util/wb 4K+Antialiased fonts on wb (1.1)
choowin.lha util/wb 19K+Start and Window activation utility
classaction.lha util/wb 190K+AmigaOS multipurpose filemanager
CondenseIcon.lha util/wb 6K+Os3.5 tool to make .info files smaller (
mainprefs.lha util/wb 86K+AmigaOS Preferences GUI
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09.Apr.2001
Thomas Würgler on ANF
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Trojan Warning (Update II)
Some sort of trojan (apparently the newly uploaded stackattack.lha on
Aminet) has caused SMTP bombing of haage-partner. The file is this: StackAttack.lha
util/boot 68K 0 V1.2b Kills GURUs (stack problem). It's on the
German Aminet mirror.
Could there be hidden loopholes in MorphOS? Read the link and consider
for yourself.
Frank Niewiedzial informed us that other
files could be affected too.
"Do not download and install safe.lha and fblit.lha. They are fakes and send hatemails to H&P."
Silivio K. told us that the current version of 'BlaceWCP' could be concerned too.
"The current version of BlaceWP, available from the aminet, opens the port 113 (auth) of your
computer and connects to the H&P web- and ftpserver! The program itself is not a product of H&P.
Thats why it could be possible that it is a trojan too.
The following logs were recorded:
tcp 0 0 pD9042BA5.dip.t-.auth haage-partner.co.61797 TIME_WAIT
16:00:46.081940 pD90427BC.dip.t-dialin.net.2865 > haage-partner.com.smtp
16:02:08.530618 pD90427BC.dip.t-dialin.net > 217.5.107.165: icmp: echo request
"
Annotation of editor's:
Haage & Partner confirmed that at the moment 15 e-mails arrive at H&P every minute. Juergen Haage:
"Do not panic. No normal mail will get lost."
The MorphOS-Team has nothing to do with the virus and dissociate from this! "Lowest level, this is
not our way of competition".
Even Georg Steger, the original author of StackAttack dissociates him self in his commentary at
ANN.
Virus Help Denmark and the admin of the aminet Matthias Scheler are informed and they will check the
files and maybe delete them.
At the title link there is a tool available that removes the task from the ram. After reboot it will
be there again and you have to restart the tool.
Annotation: Messsage of the day from Aminet
- TROJAN HORSES FOUND ON AMINET. The following four archives on Aminet were
unfortunately infected: util/boot/StackAttack.lha, util/boot/BlazeWCP.lha,
util/virus/Safe.lha and util/boot/FBlit.lha. They contain faked releases
of the original software linked with a Trojan horse which sends out
abusive e-mails. On infected systems a process called "zakahackandpatch"
will show up. If your system is infected deleted the software listed abover
or replace it with older versions and reboot. As a protest against this
abuse of Aminet we will shut down our services on "us.aminet.net" and
"de.aminet.net" until Friday.
- DE3.AMINET.NET NOW COMPLETE. The mirror in Erlangen, Germany now stores all
Aminet files.
Annotation 10.04.2001:
Following the official message by Virus Help Denmark. They are
offering the old alten Archives at there homepage.
Four new 'TCP' trojans was found today on Aminet. If you installed
one of these archives, please delete the files. We hope to have a
cure for these trojan within the next 24 hours.
The TCP trojan will send an email to 'Haage & Partner', with a very
stupid text.
Here is what we know so far:
Virus Type.... : TCP Trojan
Trojan name....: zakahackandpatch
Archive name.. : Safe.lha Archive size.. : About 20 kb
Archive name.. : Fblit.lha Archive size.. : 142.086 bytes
Archive name.. : BlazeWCP.lha Archive size.. : 32.862 bytes
Archive name.. : stackattack.lha Archive size.. : About 32 kb
Thanx to Frank Niewiedzial, Kev Harrison, Luca Longone and many more
for your information about these archives.....
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09.Apr.2001
Greg Donner
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Update of the Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ
Since our last message about the official OS3.9 FAQ by Greg Donner there were many
updates in different parts of the FAQ.
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09.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Prerelease!
We made ArTKnoid by Thilo Koehler (developer of Toadies) available at our side.
The program is a arkanoid-clone.
Amiga Arena TaskiSMS annotation
The registration for the special-price for TaskiSMS is now possible via snail-mail.
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09.Apr.2001
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III - News
After a longer brake there are now some new news about Digital Almanac III (DA 3).
The English version is available now! The German update will be available within a few days.
These are the main changes since version 2.0:
- Improved stability
- Corrected times of the rising and setting of the moon.
- PixelCheck-function does not longer crash with CGX-15/16/24Bit-Screens.
- Times of moon eclipses in the calendar are now in local time.
- and much more...
Furthermore there are about 100MB of videos concerning astronomy and science-fiction.
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09.Apr.2001
Markus Fellhauer on ANF
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AmigAIM 0.9412 Beta Released
Betaversion 0.9412 of AmigaAIM by Richard H. Poser is available for download:
AmigAIM_BETA.lha
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09.Apr.2001
Jens Troeger on ANF
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InstallerNG
I released a small update of InstallerNG. I only changed the runtime error handling: you are
able to switch of the error requestors via tooltypes.
There will be version 2 out in some weeks. If you have any wishes for the new version just
send me a mail.
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09.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun on ANF
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Abode of Golgotha Saga at NoRiscNoFun
We have a review of the Abode of Golgotha Saga. These games are based on the Heretic II engine.
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08.Apr.2001
Michael Garlich via E-Mail
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Titan Computer Support MorphOS
Press release from Titan Computer, Software Development, 08.04.2001
Titan Computer is happy to announce that we have decided to now also support
MorphOS in the future.
One of our first projects will be the video-editing software Motionstudio,
which will be developed by the company with the same name, who have already developed
software like Elastic Dreams and Artstudio Pro.
Motionstudio will be released in 4/Q exclusively for MorphOS.
The software supports non-linear video-editing, PlugIn interface, more
than 40 video- and audio effects, innovative GUI as well as Firewire support
(e.g. B-Plan Pegasos Computer).
Take a look at one of the first
screenshots (201 kB)
of the GUI.
Kontakt:
Titan Computer
Mahndorfer Heerstr. 80 A
D-28307 Bremen
Tel.: +49/(0)421/48 16 20
Fax : +49/(0)421/43 88 29
E-Mail: MacFly@TitanComputer.de
WWW: http://www.Titan-Computer.com
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08.Apr.2001
RELEC im ANF
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Prometheus in Switzerland & France
Prometheus in Switzerland & France!
RELEC Software & Hardware AMIGA become exclusive distributor in Switzerland and France.
More informations and FAQ in French at
relec.prometheus.html.
Note from the editor:
'Prometheus' is not the BBS-software, but the
PCI-Board by Matay with the same name.
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08.Apr.2001
Jens Schönfeld on ANF
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Mekka & Symposium 2001 co-sponsored by individual Computers
As during the past years we support the now nearly legendary scene-party
Mekka & Symposium with prices for about 1100,- DM.
The fourday party is held every year on easter in Fallingbostel (between Hamburg and
Hannover
(our report).
In the Mid 80's the first "European style demos" came to the C-64.
Intro-Coders broke with the Cracker-scene to let their creativity develop freely. In the
90's this programming style evolved on all of the computer systems, for example Amiga, C-64
and PC, to an style of art, which we think is worth supporting.
The programming (coding) of demos has become a lifestyle for some people:
Even the proposal of marriage of a well known C-64 coder to his girlfriend had to
shown as a demo over the "big screen" - supported by the applause from several thousand
scene-members.
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08.Apr.2001
Martina Jacobs
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Sven Drieling's Evaluation now also in English
Martina Jacobs has translated the evaluation by Sven Drieling
entitled "St. Louis 2001: Nothing has changed".
St. Louis 2001: nothing has changed - 05.04.2001
Translator: Martina Jacobs
Last weekend Amiga published their current plans in St. Louis
which beforehand were announced to be a ground shaking event.
According to what I have read about that in the Internet since
Sunday it seems to me that nothing has changed.
Amiga's long term target further on is a portable, independent
running AmigaDE combined with TAO's Elate. New is that the plan
to develop AmigaOS v5 including memory protection, SMP, and
other features as an further foundation component for this
system was added. Furthermore there is Sharp featuring a
cooperation to develop applications for Sharp's Zaurus PDA
basing on AmigaDE.
Unfortunately no changes happened to Amiga's information policy,
too, thus it is very hard to understand, what Amiga's plans are
about and I'm not quit sure if I realized their plans correctly.
Indeed it effects me if Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss are talking about
one single plan, but concentrating on opposite tails. Bill McEwen
is focusing on short term targets (AmigaOS for PPC, PDA, hosted AmigaDE)
and Fleecy Moss is focusing on the long term targets (independent running,
portable AmigaOS v5 + AmigaDE for hardware from PDAs through servers
including the desktops). Those two different focal points might be
one reason for the current confusion. A second reason might be
that Amiga didn't publish any contiguous texts clearly stating
their future plans, by now - a.o. still almost nothing is known
about the AmigaDE.
As I've got it the plans are now as follows, whereas I'm absolutely
not sure, if my version is correct, since it is very hard to read
what Amiga now actually wants to do from the input coming from
Amiga and there is range for personal interpretations.
Short term targets are the AmigaDE hosted on Linux and WindowsCE for
PDAs, an an AmigaOS v4.x plus the hosted AmigaDE for PPC computers,
which meet the Zico specification. For example this applies to the
AmigaOne 1200 by Eyetech.
The long term target is a portable, independent, run-anywhere OS
basing on the AmigaOS and combined with TAO's Elate and the AmigaDE.
That OS will offer memory protection, virtual memory, SMP, and similar
and will be available scalable for from PDAs through servers.
In this there are no changes in plans for and further development of
AmigaDE. It still will offer the VP, the Sheep language, OpenGL,
and the other planned and still unknown features and it
will run hosted on other systems, as well as it will be available
as an independent system, on the long run.
The d'Amiga also might still will act as a computer for software
development with an advanced SDK. I don't think/hope that Amiga
will nominate the Zico-PPC for the only development computer for AmigaDE.
By that and 15 month after their foundation Amiga should now
meet the wishes of both, the people wanting an AmigaOS for PPC
as well as the people recommending AmigaDE, and not at the
expense of any of these groups.
It is completely incomprehensible to me, why Amiga is not capable to
put this across the public.
What makes me bothered by St. Louis
Calamitous information policy
Amiga finally has to
realize that it is absolutely impossible for outsiders to understand and
to comprehend what Amiga actually is planning and for what reason. This is
due to all of the necessary information published only bit by bit on
account of tempered reactions from Amiga users, who were completely
confused and misinformed after the announcements in St. Louis.
What sill is missing are texts illustrating Amiga's plans clearly,
understandable, comprehensible, and without contradiction - on amiga.com.
Such would not only be helpful for the Amiga users, but even for
Amiga's staffers, who again got a flood of tempered reactions
lavished on them after St. Louis, while they could have spent their
time doing more suggestive things.
No new SDK
Contrary to what was anticipated by many of us there was no new
version of the SDK presented in St. Louis already containing e.g. OpenGL,
a glimpse on Sheep, and offering other elements. That might have been a
reason for the impression that Amiga now would disregard the AmiaDE and
instead would put their focus on AmigaOS.
Neglect of current AmigaPPC computers
In the beginning disregarding the AmigaOS and concentrating on
the AmigaDE. There even wasn't the definite statement that a third-party
company will port AmigaDE to the current AmigaPPC machines and that
AmigaDE will contain a Classic Amiga emulation right from start
(with accentuation on definite statement). Because of such statements
one could have purchased hard- and software for the existing Amigas
in peace of conscience, since one would have known that one would be
able to use those components together with AmigaDE in the future.
That way Amiga companies and distributors could have continued to
transacted their businesses from early 2000.
That's why I don't understand why Amiga makes the same mistakes,
again. AmigaOS v4.x was announced for Zico PPC machines, but there
is no definite statement that AmigaOS v4.x also will be available for
existing PPC-Amigas. Equipped with a PCI board plus adequate FireWire
cards, and similar, these computers would meet the Zico specification,
moreover.
I understand that Amiga themselves is focusing the easier to handle AmigaOne.
With this Amiga will not forfeit time and they can concentrate on their
real target in a better way. But I cannot understand why the possibility for third-party
companies to port the AmigaOS v4.x for AmigaOne to the existing PPC-Amigas
wasn't mentioned in one single announcement. Though somewhere Fleecy Moss
denoted that possibility, there doesn't seem to be any definite
statement on that.
Amiga would not deteriorate by such a port, but probably there would
be some 1,000 AmigaOS v4.x users more. Nobody would mope because of the
expensive PPC hardware suddenly becoming useless, though this hardware would be proper for
the AmigaOS, and Amiga companies and Amiga vendors could earn money with
PCI boards, and similar, already now, instead of being forced to wait for the AmigaOne
in summer.
Neglect of desktops
Regarding the AmigaDE Amiga first put their focus on PDAs.
Due to the existing cooperation with Sharp and - as I think -
because it is easier to gain a secure market position in the PDA
section than in the desktop section, they are doing it right.
But since AmigaDE must be available for desktop machines (developer machines),
and because one certain point in case of PDAs is the easy data transfer
between PDA and desktops, in my opinion nothing objects to talk about desktops
in one breath. Since just AmigaDE would make it possible to execute one single
application on PDAs as well as on desktops. The desktop variant then would
run hosted on the widely spread Windows and Linux machines, and in addition
on AmigaOS v4.x on PPC-Amiga computers.
Conclusion
With AmigaDE plus applications for PDAs and AmigaOS plus the PPC-hardware, in
my opinion Amiga takes two ways on which Amiga, as well as third-party companies,
could have gains in a short term, already. Additionally Amiga now meet the
wishes of the PPC and AmigaDE backers, without changing the initial targets.
I don't know why Amiga now reclaims the AmigaOS. Reasons for that might have been the
claims to further develop the AmigaOS, and that Amiga learned to know reality during
the last month and while that learned that yet it takes some time to transform own ideas,
no matter how good these are.
The Zico PPC computers are still a very small corner of the market only addressing the
existing Amiga users, for the first time. With a LinuxPPC for those machines the ring of
users can be extended with another hand full of people, who then might become aware of
AmigaOS and AmigaDE, too. But in my opinion it will not be possible to address a bigger
market with that. But this might be possible by a hosted AmigaDE for PDAs and
desktops. While I still don't know what AmigaDE is about in detail, so I absolutely have
no idea how much interesting this system would be for users of other systems.
But if there would be an independent running AmigaDE, already yet, that would represent only
a small part of the AmigaDE systems installed, cause most of AmigaDE systems probably would run
hosted on another system, as I think. Because this way users were able to use the system and
software they know and additionally the new system with the run-anywhere software. They would not be forced
to switch to another system, overnight.
Because I don't have any details about the AmigaDE, I cannot estimate Amiga's future chances, at the
time being. But I think they now have put their plans on stable ground, thus they have good conditions
in the beginning.
But in my opinion a possible breakthrough will not come overnight, but will yield over the years.
One important thing in this then will be the portable AmigaOS v5, in which assumedly AmigaOS and
AmigaDE will melt together as one, making Amiga independent from other systems.
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08.Apr.2001
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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AmiNET-Gui Available under www.aminet-gui.de
The AmiNET-Gui is, at last, once again reachable under a .de-domain.
The Domain aminet-gui.de will in the next hours once again link to the amiNET-Gui.
Shortly the page will be redesigned , as soon as http://www.aminet.de
will be connected once again.
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08.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
V³ 3.3.95beta
The browser Voyager
is now available in 2 versions, one for AmigaOS and one for MorphOS. Which changes have been
made can be read in the
Readme.
Download:
AmigaOS:
v3_3395beta_amigaos.lzx
MorphOS:
v3_3395beta_morphos.lzx
Choowin V1.0
Martin Elsner
has released version 1.0 of his Workbench-Tool 'Choowin'.
Choowin is a small tool to start programs and bring windows to the front and activate them,
similar to a task-manager. Version 1.0 now has a startmenu, a new tooltype-filter and
a new look
Download:
choowin.lha - 20 kB
SoftCinema V0.12 beta
Total Vision
has released beta-version 0.12 of SoftCinema, the movie and animation player for the Amiga.
The program ist shareware, an unregistered version plays only 30 seconds. You can register
the program online at RegNet or, if you don't have a credit card, order at
Fun Time World.
Download:
SoftCinema_012.lha
CondenseIcon V44.5
Stephan Rupprecht
released version44.5 of CondenseIcon, which lets you shrink .info-files.
Download:
CondenseIcon.lha - 6 kB
Mapeditor V1.01
At Peter Weigoldt
you can find version 1.01 of his map editor for the game 'Schlachtfeld'.
Download:
Karteneditor.lha - 72 kB
Turboprint V7.17beta
At IrseeSoft version 7.17Beta of the
printer driver system 'Turboprint' is available for download.
Download: tp717beta.lha
VEPatchBrain V1.29
AT
Virus Help Denmark you can find the new PatchBrain version 1.29 for the
virus checker 'VirusExecutor'.
Here the details:
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.29
Archivename:
VEPatchBrain.lha
Archivesize: 19.658 Bytes
Releasedate: 8. April 2001
Coder: Jan Erik Olausen
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08.Apr.2001
A.C.T. on ANF
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Prelude Programmer-Infos
A.C.T. have made available the first version (currently only in German) of the information for
programmers, which will allow to write Prelude drivers. This makes it also possible to
develop Linux drivers for both Preludes (Z2 and 1200).
Knowledge about the used sound chips is also necessary.
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08.Apr.2001
Daniel Reichen via AMIPRESS-ML
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Send Convalescent Wishes to John Zacharias
As we already reported on our Special St. Louis page John Zacharias, author of AEMail and
organizer of the AmiWest, happened to have a stroke on the St. Louis Show. Meantime he's on the
mend. Send him your convalescent wishes with the greeting card under the title link, created especially for that on
Northwest Amiga Group.
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08.Apr.2001
Stefan Robl on ANF
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FMdriver und FMdriverVHI V1.25
After a long delay at last I released the two FrameMachine drivers v1.25, today.
New in FMdriver the possibility to save different configurations to have optimal
source regarding settings at hand. This is very helpful especially if one uses different
players for passing data (e.g. 16:9, 4:3, DVD, etc.), but wants to have removed those
ugly black borders right from the start. Moreover it now is possible to create time laps
recordings in a very simple way.
The VHI driver FMdriverVHI was generally reworked and mate with my new driver conception
for the FMdriver packet - now performance together with VHI should be much better.
Something else on personal cause: unfortunately that I'll have to strongly reduce my
programming and hardware activities this year, due to my studies and final year project.
Due to this I ask you for your understanding, if it will take me some more time to
reply on an e-mail! At all events I will try to release more new versions, even though
the time famine.
And now, have a lot of fun with the new versions of the programs!
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08.Apr.2001
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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Play!Amiga: Shogo-Demoversion Review
What took a long time, at last became fine! Shogo demo version available!
After a long waiting period now there is the Shogo demo. The game is supposed to be
finished next month. Of course there's one probing question: what will the game look
like on my computer? It is about to download simply 40 MB as well as Warp3D v4 and one
can get a first impression. That's what Play!Amiga has done for you.
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08.Apr.2001
Dynamite Team on ANF
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Dynamite 1.2 Released for Download
1. There is an update file for updating Dynamite v1.1 to v1.2 for download.
Dynamite is an Bomberman like online game.
2. There are some innovations in the HTTP section.
- The "Stylorama", the page for new graphics sets, now is working and contains
the current versions. Look for "Stylorama" down right below "The empereors new clothes".
- A Dynamite forum was opened. If you want to express yourself or just would like to
praise the people involved in Dynamite, you can do it there.
Download:
Update: dynAMIte_update.lha - 216 kB
Complete Archive: dynAMIte.lha - 1757 kB
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07.Apr.2001
Frank Herfurt alias Master 3 on ANF
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Invitation for Chat
Channel #miggy.de invites Amiga & PC users to chatting. Everybody with
questions or problems regarding his/her Amiga or PC should address to this place.
The channel #miggy.de has always an open ear.
Server: de.arcnet.vapor.com
Channel: #miggy.de
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07.Apr.2001
Marco Frischkorn on ANF
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Development of BATTLE Stopped
Already in November HighAnt Development announced a turn in direction (we reported). Today Marco
Frischkorn informs us that the development of the remaining game
'Battle' had definitively been dropped, too.
Frischkorn: "Game Over! You get to see this normally only at the end of a game
but in this case it's also valid for BATTLE. Because of private things (I'll
become father for the second time) and the general situation we have decided to
finish the development of BATTLE and to let the game and the development kit
die."
Read his full statement under the title link.
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07.Apr.2001
Horst Diebel on ANF
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New Entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Since the 1. April there are again new entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware:
- New entry and pictures: Amiga Desktop Video Master (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
- New picture: Micronik A1200 busboard (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
- New entry and picture: BSC Ram expansion (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
- New entriy and picture: Xpert flicker fixer (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
- New pictures: Rocket Launcher (thanks go to Jorge Santillan)
- New pictures: Access 32 (thanks go to Jorge Santillan)
- New pictures: A3500[T] (thanks go to an DJ)
- New entry and pictures: MTec 1230/28RTC (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky)
- New entry and pictures: Mastercard (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky)
- New pictures and update: Megamix '2000' (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky and Jens Schönfeld)
- Generous update: A2024 (thanks go to Ralph Ewers)
- Update: ATonce Plus (thanks go to Jani Kultanen)
- New mystery: Item #8 (thanks go to Kepp)
- Mystery solved: Item #7 (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky and Jens Schönfeld)
- New entry: VarIO (thanks go to Jens Schönfeld)
- Manufacturer reports: (thanks go to Jens Schönfeld)
- New entry and picture: Prometheus
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07.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via email
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VEPatch.Brain for VirusExecutor v.1.28 Released
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.28
Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 21.052 Bytes
Release date: 6. April 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
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07.Apr.2001
FOM on ANF
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Amiga Easter Card
From the FOM website you can now send an easter webcard of the known Amiga
cartoonist Eric Schwartz.
Amiga no Brasil
You can also find a collection of sundry programs of Brazilian Amiga users on
the CD-ROM Amiga no Brasil.
Games, internet, tools, animations, mods and more. It can
be obtained for DM 5.- plus porto and package from me.
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07.Apr.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden on ANF
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Warp3D v4 was Released
Warp3D V4 was released. The fourth release of the 3D-hardware driver system now
can be downloaded under the title link.
Warp3D needs a compatible 3D-graphics card. The archive contains drivers for
ViRGE and Permedia 2. The drivers for the Voodoo 3 aren't present in this
actual version yet.
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06.Apr.2001
Thomas Frieden on ANF
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Shogo Demo on Aminet
The long wait finally has an end: the demo of Hyperion's story-based shooter
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division should appear soon on Aminet.
The game runs on PPC (WarpUP) and requires at least 64 MB RAM.
For hardware acceleration, Warp3D V4 is required, which should be available
from Aminet at the same time.
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06.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Audiomaster 2000 v 0.66
At Frank Fenn, you can find a new
version of his MUI sample editor 'Audiomaster 2k', which supports all
AHI devices. Saving is not possible in the demo version.
Download: audiomaster2k.lha - 276 kB
AWeb popup problem
If you have after installation of OS3.9 boing bag 1 a problem with AWeb that
cycle gadgets with less than three options show only the first option correctly,
you can find at Tom Parker
a small patch which solves the problem by patching the 'listbrowser.gadget'. Download:
ListbrowserPatch.lha
Aminet CD 42
Aminet CD 42 is now available at Schatztruhe.
The April CD contains more than 800 MB (unarchived) software in almost a thousand archives.
As a special highlight, the full version of the SuperView Productivity Suite is included,
with a cheap upgrade option to SuperView Productivity Suite II.
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06.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena News
In cooperation with Pablo F., the Amiga Arena makes a special price for TaskiSMS possible!
TaskiSMS is an easy to use SMS sender for the Amiga. The special price is 50% of the regular
price and is only valid until May 10th, 2001. You can register at Reg.net.
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06.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
DopJoin.lha biz/dopus 5K+Join files with DirectoryOpus 4.xx. V1.0
DopJoin5.lha biz/dopus 5K+Join files with DirectoryOpus 5.xx. V1.0
ListbrowserPch.lha biz/patch 10K+Fixes aweb popup problems with OS3.9 BB1
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
YAT.lha comm/mail 518K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
GoPortscan.lha comm/net 99K+V0.2 TCP Portscanner with MUI interface
T-Rexx.lha comm/tcp 106K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
titlebar_ic.lha dev/gui 24K+BOOPSI class of titlebar gadget images
plDPurpleGUIDE.lha docs/hyper 49K+Polish Deep Purple guide V0.1
Aakt0401GFX.lha docs/mags 266K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
AmigaOS39revie.txt docs/rview 12K+A short review of AmigaOS3.9
diceset.lha game/data 13K+A dice-set for the WBgame MagicNumbers
WHDParadroid90.lha game/patch 17K+HD Installer for Paradroid90
WHDRockstarHam.lha game/patch 8K+HD Installer for Rockstar Ate My Hamster
WHDWhiteSnook.lha game/patch 31K+HD Installer for Jimmy White Snooker
WHD_UridiumII.lha game/patch 14K+Uridium II Hard Drive Installer
MagicNumbers_d.lha game/think 2K+German catalog for MagicNumbers v1.0
AmiCAD_2.08.lha gfx/edit 691K+Schematics vectorial electronics program
CMNDR-ImageFX.lha gfx/ifx 136K+Customizable GUI for ImageFX
yav172.lha gfx/show 396K+PowerPC support. Shows bitmap pictures o
FDDx2toInt.lha hard/hack 21K+How to connect two PC FDD to internal po
MMKeyboard.lha hard/hack 140K+V1.00 Use entire Multmedia Keyboard on A
unlzx.c.gz misc/unix 9K+Unlzx - decompresses LZX archives on mul
GroundMind.lha mods/blkha 421K+16 channel DBM by blakkhar
Chiba_el.mpg mods/elbie 5.9M+Chiba_Electronique [electro] by ElbiE^t1
rno-r059.lha mods/misc 748K+Rno-records release no.59 by kure/rno (h
crs_tilo.lha mods/techn 596K+CRS00060: phase - timelock
MSE.lha mus/midi 193K+MIDI SYStem EXplorer - PatchEditor+MORE
madonna.jpg pix/art 148K+Hand drawn picture of Madonna
AutoPDF13.lha text/misc 22K+AutoPDF 1.3 - Convert Postscript to PDF
xadmaster000.lha util/arc 261K+V10.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68000
xadmaster020.lha util/arc 263K+V10.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68020
xadmaster060.lha util/arc 267K+V10.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68060
xadmasterdev.lha util/arc 153K+V10.0 Powerful unarchiving system (DEVEL
WinToFront17.lha util/cdity 62K+Replaces ClickToFront, with more options
idle1_3.lha util/moni 15K+A (working) cpu monitor
xfdmaster.lha util/pack 155K+Rel1.35 Decrunch packed files (exe/data)
xfdmaster_dev.lha util/pack 175K+Rel1.35 Decrunch packed files (exe/data)
ScreenShell.lha util/shell 6K+Opens full size shell on new public scre
TimeKeep.lha util/time 50K+TimeClock Util for Clients-Projects-Invo
TimeKeepDev.lha util/time 35K+TimeClock Util for Project Development
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 21K+PatchBrain v1.28 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
IconMaster.lha util/wb 24K+Icon copier with some nice features V1.1
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06.Apr.2001
BoingWorld
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amiga.org.yu Moved!
After one year without activity, the Yugoslavian news site 2Amiga Jugoslavija"
has taken up its news service again under the name "Amiga Pager News". The page
has moved and can now be found at
http://www.geocities.com/kenguar/index.html.
All articles appear in Serbian language.
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06.Apr.2001
CyberGraphX
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Klaus Burkert passed away
Klaus Burkert, known for excellent Amiga hard- and software development died
two days ago from a heart attack.
We offer our sincerest condolences to his family and friends. May they find
the strength to get over this loss.
Posted on the official P96 mailing list: "Silence,
I just want to inform you guys out there that yesterday, after a major
heart attack on Monday, one of the greatest developers of Amiga hard-
and software who was my best friend and mentor Klaus Burkert has died.
It was a really big shock for me and so it will be for others.
I don't know what else to say, there are not really words to fit the
situation... Bye Klaus, cu on the other side" - Tobias Seiler
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06.Apr.2001
Jens Schönfeld on ANF
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isdnsurfer.device V1.943 Online
The new version of the ISDN card driver can be found in the support area
of the Individual Computer homepage and offers two new features:
- EOF Mode: This more efficient method of communication between TCP/IP stack
and isdnsurfer.device should give a notable performance boost.
- NSD (New Style Device) commands: Adaption to the newest OS versions.
Further, a multitasking bug was fixed which led to performance losses. The
development continues, with the next update there will finally be Sync-PPP!
Download: isdndev.lha
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06.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik on ANF
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena full version!
With permission of Thomas Dorn, the TruePaint HD version, the 24 bit painting
program, is available for download! TruePaint is the predecessor of XiPaint!
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06.Apr.2001
René Stelljes on ANF
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New IRC Amiga Channel: #amiweb
On April 8th, the new Amiga chat channel #amiweb will officially open. Most of
you will probably think that there are so many channels and that another channel
won't make any sense. However, #amiweb won't be an ordinary channel, but rather
a possibility for the average user to chat with programmers and other important
people on the Amiga.
On April 8th from 7:00 pm on, #aminet will be officially opened. Invited for
the "opening ceremony", we have among others Petro Tyschtschenko and Matthias
Böcker, author of DynAMIte and ATC, and the Amiga dealer "Black & White".
The server data:
Server: showme.altnet.org (IP is 216.87.208.170)
Port: 6667
channel: #amiweb
So now just think up some questions, and then we'll read us on April 8th!
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06.Apr.2001
Fabio Alemagna on ANF
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Bill McEwen Interviewed
Quantum Leap, the Italian
e-zine devoted to new technologies is proud to publish an exclusive
interview
with Bill McEwen, president and CEO of Amiga Inc.
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05.Apr.2001
Sébastien Jeudy via E-Mail
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Interview with Fleecy Moss
Sébastien Jeudy, author of l'Annuaire Amiga Francophone and editor at Planet 100% Amiga has done this little interview and permitted amiga-news.de to publish it:
Sébastien Jeudy: Following the announces of Saint-Louis, here are some questions concerning AmigaOS vs MorphOS: The next AmigaOS (4.0 to 5.0) will upgrade to full PPC and include the AmigaDE part. Now AmigaOS and MorphOS are really in competition. How will you react?
Fleecy Moss: We work to forward the Amiga, as always. How our company reacts depends upon too many things to go into here.
Sébastien Jeudy: What do you think about MorphOS?
Fleecy Moss: I think it was a brave attempt by people to continue the AmigaOS when it looked as it no one else was going to. I think the people working on it are all highly skilled, and I have spent a large period of the last few months trying to get them to work with Amiga to forwards the Amiga. I am always open to talking to them.
Sébastien Jeudy: Do you think that you (Amiga Inc.) and the Ralph Schmidt Team could work together? (MorphOS has already some interested PPC parts...)
Fleecy Moss: Amiga Inc. will work with anyone who wants to work with us, but they have to understand that in doing that, Amiga will also work with others and that that is our choice, not theirs.
Sébastien Jeudy: Have you contacts with the Ralph Schmidt Team?
Fleecy Moss: I met them in Cologne, I have spoken to Ralph a few times and have spent much time dealing with intermediaries.
Sébastien Jeudy: Will you stop their works or will you let them to continue their MorphOS development?
Fleecy Moss: I would be very happy to involve them in the team advancing the Amiga. If they chose to do their own thing and are doing nothing illegal, then they should have nothing to worry about.
Sébastien Jeudy: Don't you think that this competiton will divide our little community ? :-(
Fleecy Moss: Consumers, dealers and developers must follow their hearts. I can guarantee them that we will do our utmost to provide the best solution for them, and for all those out there who should have their lives improved by the Amiga experience...but I cannot, and would not force them.
Sébastien Jeudy: bPlan has said that their Pegasos will run with MorphOS. Can you confirm us that the Pegasos will also run with the future AmigaOS (i.e. the full PPC + AmigaDE version)?
Fleecy Moss: Last time I checked, bPlan still said they wanted to produce an AmigaOne. I shall be checking again this week.
Sébastien Jeudy: Thank you very much Fleecy and Best regards, Sebastien Jeudy.
Fleecy Moss: Thanks Sebastien, and a big hello to all the french.
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05.Apr.2001
Sven Drieling on ANF
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St. Louis 2001: Nothing has Changed
On the 5th of April 2001 Sven Drieling published his estimation of
Amiga's currently published plans. Excerpt:
»Last weekend Amiga published their current plans in St. Louis which were
announced beforehand to be a ground shaking event. According to what I have read
about that in the Internet since Sunday nothing has changed.
Amiga's long term target further on is a portable, independent running AmigaDE
combined with TAO's Elate. New is that the plan to develop AmigaOS v5 including
memory protection, SMP, and other features as an further foundation
component for this system was added. Furthermore there is Sharp featuring a
cooperation to develop applications for Sharp's Zaurus PDA basing on AmigaDE.
[-snip-]
By that and 15 month after their foundation Amiga should now meet the wishes of
both, the people wanting an AmigaOS for PPC as well as the people recommending
AmigaDE, and not at the expense of any of these groups.
It is completely incomprehensible to me, why Amiga is not capable to put this
across the public.
«
The entire text (German) is to find under
http://olis.north.de/~indy/NichtsGeändert.html.
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05.Apr.2001
Michael Ulbrich on ANF
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IDE-SCSI-Adapter Available
From now on we provide the IDe-SCSI adapter by the Hantz company.
This adapter makes it possible to connect cheap IDE harddisks to
a SCSI host. Reasonable useable with the SCSI-Kit for Blizzard cards,
BlizzardPPC, FastlaneZ3, WarpEngine, 4091, a.s.o.
Up to now it was Successfully tested with FastlaneZ3, Blizzard-Kit on 1230/4, CSPPC.
The transfer rates achievable are impressing: more than 17MB/s on a CSPPC, close to
8MB on FastLaneZ3 or the Blizzard-Kit.
Connection of the adapter is trouble-free, cause it is completely transparent for the host,
meaning there is no additional software needed. Just plug it in, start any HD installation
program and configure the disk.
Compared to a SCSI harddisk one absolutely can save several hundred Dollar! One advance
compared to common IDE solutions is the observable lower CPU charge due to the DMA
possibility of the usual SCSI host adapters.
Answers to questions are to find under the title link inside of the forum of SHOPnFUN (German).
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05.Apr.2001
Rainer Benda on ANF
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Metabox Selling ICS
Metabox selling ICS
As it became known from management circles Metabox AG, manufacturer of set-top-boxes,
currently are in negotiations regarding the sale of their 100% subsidiary ICS. ICS
produce bargain cash systems and was able to gain sales at the value of 2.29 USD in
1999. But meantime ICS has made application for insolvency at the district council
of Hildesheim, Germany.
No certain reason was given. According to press reports staffers did not get payed
since about two months and a preponderant part of them do not go to work, anymore.
Currently Metabox shares are dealt at the price of 1,40 Euro. The 52-weeks-high is at
45,80 Euro. The current price represents the 52-weeks-low.
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05.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Warp-Datatypes
Oliver Roberts has updated the
following of his datatypes:
WarpJPEG.datatype V44.19 - (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) -
WarpJPEGdt.lha - 133 kB
WarpPNG.datatype V44.14 - (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) -
WarpPNGdt.lha - 140 kB
WarpDTPrefs V44.3 - preferences program for Warp-Datatypes -
WarpDTPrefs.lha - 27 kB
BoingBag3.9-1
Since 04-04-2001 there is an updated BoingBag3.9-1 archive on the
OS3.9 support site containing
minor changes. The current file size is 5.254.174 bytes. So, who has downloaded
BoingBag3.9-1 before 04-04-2001 might get it once more. The following changes
were made:
1. German localisation of IconEdit now is okay.
2. The commodities Blanker, CrossDOS, Exchange and FKey are now really included as
their latest versions.
.plan by David 'zapek' Gerber
In his .plan
David, author of CVS Management and co-author of many programs like e.g. Voyager3,
describes why he bets on MorphOS.
IJPEG Tools V6.2B PPC-MorphOS Port
Fr3dY has ported "Independent JPEG Group's
JPEG Software tools" to MorphOS.
Download: ijpeg62b-mos.lha - 187 kB,
It is vital to also read the readme.
ClassAction V4.0 und MainPrefs V2.20
Martin Elsner provides updated versions
of ClassAction and MainPrefs for download. With MainPrefs now also variables can be
entered and deleted and assigns can directly be added to the user-startup or deleted from it.
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05.Apr.2001
Digital Amiga Dream
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DAD: Interview with Andreas Falkenhahn
Digital Amiga Dream (DAD) has interviewed Andreas Falkenhahn from
Airsoft Softwair. Read the interview under
the title link.
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05.Apr.2001
Thorsten Will via E-Mail
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Invitation for MS2001 Party Published
Mekka & Symposium, the traditional demo scene party, on which
many demo workers introduce their demos each year, is coming and
the organization enters the final lap. The best demos will be honored
with price money. The MS2001 will take
place from 13th to 16th of April 2001 in Fallingbostel, Germany, in the
Heidmark-Halle.
Mr.Vain of Secretly! (aka Thorsten Will) has done the invitation
(unofficial mekka^symposium-invitation) including directions and map and an indication of the
youth hostel. Download:
scl_ms2001inv.lha - 320 kB.
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05.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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Narr-Site News
From today you can download a theme for Voyager from my site.
This again is about a stylish Netscape like image set containing all of the
important buttons. There is also included in the archive a matching MacOSX like
background pattern. There is a screenshot on the 'Projects site'. Furthermore
a page for SendStuff was created containing screenshots and a small description
of the program.
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05.Apr.2001
Michael Wilps on ANF
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ahi.device 5.6 Available
Martin Blom has published the new version 5.6 of the ahi.device for 68k and
PPC Amigas on his homepage.
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05.Apr.2001
Michael Burkhardt (IOM) on ANF
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Red Zac General Meeting with Amiga 1200
On Monday the Red Zac (also known as Interfunk) general meeting took place in
Nuernberg, Germany. On two screens 16 ft. of width Powerpoint presentations
and live video from 6 cameras were shown. On customer's demand the computer's
name should be faded in the video pictures. This cries for Amiga technology, downright.
IOM took the task of preparation and presentation of these so called 'tummy bandages' using
a simple Amiga 1200, acceleration card 1230/40, Scala MM 300, 16 MB RAM, and Sirius II Genlock
by electronic design. From my point of view this event was a full success. The Amiga
worked trouble-less and it was just fun to admire the Workbench on such a big screen.
And as usual, if an Amiga gets set up anywhere, the same things happen:
somebody catches sight of her, recognizes her, and calls out, "hey, an Amiga".
After that a small group of people come together, who
a) have owned an Amiga themselves
b) are deeply impressed of this little thing, and
c) are interested in the current situation regarding Amiga.
But if you set up an PC anywhere this isn't anything special, even not if
Windows crashes or the computer doesn't do what it is supposed to do.
Conclusion: I love "the spirit of Amiga".
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