13.Feb.2000
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: "Dried up"
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13.Feb.2000
Visual Engineering
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More special offers for Visual-Alpha-Border and -Logo bundle
The current special offers are valid until February 25th.
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13.Feb.2000
Jan Andersen by e-mail
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Virus Help Denmark
VirusExecutor version 2 has been released. The author Jan Erik Olausen has done major modifications
to the program.
Name: VirusExecutor v2.00
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size: 144,151 bytes
Release date: February 13th, 2000
Author: Jan Erik Olausen
System: OS 2.0x or better
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13.Feb.2000
Pierre Prestel in ANF
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Amigatools.Net e-mail address FREE!
If you want your own e-mail address with REAL POP3 and REAL SMTP access (so no junk mail)
ending in @AmigaTools.Net, you can get it from us for free. The application form can be
found at the title link.
The e-mail address is easily remembered, shows that you are Amigian, and is surely useful
for all people coding tools. Moreover, the e-mail space is UNLIMITED!
We also offer free webspace (UNLIMITED) and free DNS (name server). We simply host everything...
FREE! More info available at http://www.Intermail.Nu.
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13.Feb.2000
Michaela Prüß in ANF
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New web address and layout
The web address of my program now (finally) is an own domain. The "old" shortcut Gateway.To/Gateway5
should be functional, but, starting immediately, my pages are available with a completely new layout
at http://www.AmigaTools.Net (title link). Together with the page update, VersCheck, Gateway.Library
and the GatewayTools have also been updated. The new layout is much faster with less graphics and
NO FRAMES!
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13.Feb.2000
Nabil Gonem in ANF
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Ali Baba
Ali Baba is a new Amiga platform game that has been developed by Medici. At the title link, you can
find details about the game, screenshots, information about the team and useful Amiga links. A demo
of the game is available to dowload from the website. The game will be reviewed soon in AmigaFuture,
AmigaOS , AmigaScene and AmigaPower.
Download: ALIARCH.lha
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11.Feb.2000
Pagan Games
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Pagan Games looking for programmers (update)
Talented and creative minds are wanted for both the Amiga and Mac platform. You can read for
which projects programmers are wanted in the specification.
(Translation: mb)
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11.Feb.2000
Tales of Tamar
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Tales of Tamar v0.26 for alpha testers released
For registered alpha testers of Tales of Tamar, version 0.26 is available for download.
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11.Feb.2000
Markus Fellhauer in ANF
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(pre 3) CyberGfx 4.2 Update
Download: cgxv42_r2_pre3.lha
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11.Feb.2000
Halil Ibrahim Tasova in ANF
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Update of the freeware MP3 encoder SecondSpin v1.98b (pre2.0)
Download: SecondSpin_Install.lzx
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11.Feb.2000
Ulrich Hambuch in ANF
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WBInfo V3 Update
We've just released an update v3.01 on our homepage. Contrary
to our expectations, only three people registered WBInfo V3
within this week....
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11.Feb.2000
Sylvio K. in ANF
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DeepSilence Homepage Online!
At last! The DeepSilence homepage is online! Here you can find
everything about the new Manga Action RPG! The page was tested
with iBrowse, AWeb and Voyager. It could happen, though, that
some problems might occur, especially with iBrowse 2. Should this
happen please send an email to: Mangaclub@freenet.de.
(Translation: mb)
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11.Feb.2000
amiga-news.de
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Application for Insolvency by Phase 5 (Our news from 09.02.2000)
Regarding the news above we have received countless emails
with many different questions. We have compiled these questions
and forwarded them to the insolvency administrator Angelika Amend
by Fax. We are still awaiting the reply.
As we cannot give informations to these questions we suggest
to write to Miss Amend. The address can be found under the titlelink.
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11.Feb.2000
Elbox Computer by e-mail
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Elbox Press Release 11 February 2000
AllegroCDFS 3.0
ELBOX COMPUTER is proud to offer AllegroCDFS 3.0.
AllegroCDFS is the fastest Amiga CD filesystem.
AllegroCDFS is 2 to 4 times faster than any another Amiga CD filesystems.
AllegroCDFS 3.0 advantages:
Access to:
ISO 9660 level 1, 2, 3
Joliet (Windows 95/98 long filename - 64 characters) level 1, 2, 3
RockRidge (with Amiga Extensions)
CDDA (tracks available as files in raw format)
UDF (Video DVD).
Supports Amiga protection bits.
Supports Multisession.
Supports direct audio grabbing from standard audio CDs.
Supports SCSI and ATAPI devices (CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD).
AllegroCDFS 3.0 suggested retailed price: EUR 40.00
AllegroCDFS is also bundled with the high speed EIDE/ATAPI controllers for Amiga 1200/3000/4000 computers:
ELBOX FastATA, PowerFlyer, Winner High Speed IDE controllers.
AllegroCDFS is now marked with a new LOGO, which we enclose.
Darek Smietana, ELBOX COMPUTER
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11.Feb.2000
Thomas Dellert by e-mail
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Interview with Thomas Dellert of DCE
As DCE has bought the licences for many products of Phase 5,
we have asked Thomas Dellert a couple of questions:
Interview in German
Translator: Martina Jacobs
amiga news:
Many users worry about how and if Phase5 products will still
be available. As to our knowledge DCE allready obtained a number of licences from Phase5
some time ago. How about this in detail?
Thomas Dellert:
DCE owns exclusive rights on the following Phase5 products:
- Blizzard 1240
- Blizzard 1260
- Blizzard 2040
- Blizzard 2060
- Blizzard SCSI IV Kit
- CV 64 3D
- CV PPC
- B-Vision
- Cyberstorm MK III
- Cyberstorm PPC
- Blizzard PPC
Pos. 1-6 are allready availabel again.
Cyberstorm MK III and PPC will be shipping within the 8th week of this year.
Blizzard PPC after about 7 weeks.
BVison and CV PPC about today fortnight.
Distribution will be done by Vesalia Computer.
amiga news:
These are excellent news! Will DCE take over repaire services for those products, too?
Thomas Dellert:
DCE will take over repair services for those products. So, owners of elder boards don't
have to worry about that.
amiga news:
Will the licences and the availability of Phase5 products be impaired or even endangered
by Phase5's application for insolvency?
Thomas Dellert:
We've obtained exclusive rights for these products in April 1999 allready.
We are not paying any licence fee to P5. Rather than this we obtained the licences by a single
payment. There are unobjectionable contracts. The availability of the products is secure.
amiga news:
Will there be further software updates relating phase5 products? Are you allready in contact
about this with Ralph Schmitdt?
Thomas Dellert:
A good and very important question, Petra. Yes, I had a meeting with Ralph Schmidt and Frank
Mariak two days ago. We have come to terms that in the future we will cooperate very close.
There will be a FTP server on oure homepage, where device updates will be found for download.
amiga-news.de:
Are there any plans for new developments based upon Phase5's products?
Thomas Dellert:
For sure existing hardware will be produced at first. There are a lot of preorders. Since Permedia II chips
have been announced by TI, we probable will be able to produce only a number of 1200 BVision or
CV-PPC boards. Hence we are thinking about a Permedia III board for Amiga. This might be mounted
upon the existing BVision or CV-PPC platform. Frank Mariak will develope the software for us.
With the entire amount of technical know-how of Phase5 we now have a powerful package at our disposal.
In any case there will be activities relating PPC. For the time being as a dual CPU resolution only.
amiga-news.de:
In particular: Will there be a Phase5 G4 board from DCE, and will there be pay regard to prepayments
Phase5 allready recieved relating those boards? Or will there be hardware at cheaper prices, similar
to Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe offering to all those Euromail harmed people AminetCDs at a price of
DM 5 or bricks?
Thomas Dellert:
Relating that I allready met with Wolf Dietrich. Indeed at this time I cannot tell, if we will
decide for a G4 project.
amiga-news.de:
Do DCE have access to hardware of Phase5' customers, which lies at Phase5's for repair at this time?
Thomas Dellert:
No, we haven't.
amiga-news.de:
Thomas, thank you very much for your informativ answers. We are pacifyed and pleased that production will
contiue, and that customers who have Phase5 products will be able to take up a competent service for
repair at DCE.
DCE
thomas.dellert@dcecom.de
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11.Feb.2000
Tom Neidhardt in ANF
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EASys! Homepage now also in English
EASys! - the Amiga OS 3.x Addon System that makes working
with the Amiga even more comfortable was presented as
reported on the HEW'99 with huge success.
Due to the positive response I have now also made an
English version of the homepage "by foot". Thus, the the English
page is meanwhile more up-to-date than the German :) ..
I will update the latter in the next time. A current
info-snap for the product in both languages can be
retrieved via link (about 78 kB). Along with the update
there will be a complete featurelist in English by the
middle of next week. In this way, I wish all "Easyans"
further "happy pottering".
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11.Feb.2000
Halil Ibrahim Tasova in ANF
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Patch & HD Installer Page has moved
"The Ultimate Patch & HD Installer Page" can from now
on be reached under http://jffabre.free.fr/amiga/patches.html.
Please change your bookmarks.
JST version 3.0 beta has been released and contains many
bugfixes. Download: jst.lha
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10.Feb.2000
Airsoft Softwair Homepage
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TUP2 version 1.6 released
This version of "The Ultimate Protector" includes some improvements and bug fixes.
Download: TUP1_6.lha
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10.Feb.2000
AMIGA
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Cable TV Show 2000 in Calcutta, India
From 27 - 29 January, Amiga International, Inc. attended one of the biggest Cable TV Shows in Calcutta,
India. Just like last year, it was another full success. This time, there were four more AMIGA booths
apart from the main one.
Monarch Video and Agani PTY from Mumbai as well as Abishek Enterprise from Calcutta and Rajan Electronics
from Delhi also had booths at this exhibition. There were lots of visitors from neighbouring Bangladesh,
the coming market where the Amiga will gain shares of the cable TV market.
In a TV interview, Petro Tyschtschenko explained why AMIGA is so popular in the Indian market and what
solution it means for the TV market.
Amiga International, Inc. plans to participate in this important event again next year.
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10.Feb.2000
Alexander Kurtz in ANF
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Aminet-GUI now in English
The Aminet-GUI is now also available in English. This is possible by using an online translator.
Upon calling the Aminet-GUI, the German or English version can be selected on the intro screen.
More languages are planned for the future. If you know good online translators from German or
English to other languages, please send an e-mail to
AmiNET@LXK.FindHere.COM. I would also welcome
language suggestions.
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10.Feb.2000
Markus Fellhauer in ANF
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NES Emulator ANES CGFX Fix available
Download: anesfix.lha
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10.Feb.2000
Markus Fellhauer in ANF
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pre-Update for CyberGraphX 4.2 released
Download: cgxv42_r2_pre1.lha
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10.Feb.2000
Haage & Partner
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Haage & Partner news
In the last few days, there have been some new announcements of 3D software titles. More details
in the 3DWorld.
Who wins ArtEffect or AmigaWriter???
At Haage & Partner, the 555,555th visitor of their website is expected soon. To celebrate,
again a software package can be won. Lottery
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10.Feb.2000
Thomas Steiding by e-mail
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Tales From Heaven demo available
Epic Marketing writes:
On our homepage there is now a demo of Tales From Heaven available.
Please note that the demo does not support graphic cards, while the finished game will do so.
Download: TFH_demo.lha
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10.Feb.2000
Dundar Unsal in ANF
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Amigart opened a farewell guestbook for phase 5
Amigart opened a guestbook where you can send a farewell to phase 5.
(Translation: mb)
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10.Feb.2000
Jan Andersen by e-mail
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VirusHelp Denmark - Virus warning
On Wednesday, for a very short time there was an archive named PatchYamPPC12.lha on Aminet.
The program replaces the file "s:cedmacros" with a different file. We don't know (yet) what
this new file does. If you have installed this program, it should be sufficient to delete
the file s:cedmacros.
Name: YAMPatcher
Archive name: PatchYamPPC12.lha
Archive size: 7,088 bytes
(Translation: mb)
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10.Feb.2000
Jeppe Nielsen in ANF
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New demo and homepage for HomeLand online
A new homepage for HomeLand has gone online, where you can always find the latest version
of HomeLand. HomeLand is a real-time strategy game similar to C&C or Napalm, with many
new features. Units can be configured and commanded according to individual wishes. The game
is distributed by Alive Mediasoft.
Download demo version 1.0:
HomeLand.lha - 664 Kb
(Translation: mb)
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09.Feb.2000
TUMULT
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New class: Wheel.mcc
Wheel.mcc by Henning Thielemann. Download:
MCC_Wheel.lha.
TUMULT has a new Gallery, presenting
new Image sets for MUI. Starting is author Mario 'Padrino' Cattaneo with new gadgets in
Xenbar / MWB look.
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09.Feb.2000
Sid4Amiga
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Sid4Amiga version 3.32 released
Sidplayer for Amiga version 3.32
Download:
Sid4AmigaV3_32.lha
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09.Feb.2000
John Chandler
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Part II of the Greenboy interview
Greenboy is member of the Phoenix Consortium, and speaks especially about QNX in part II
of this four-part interview. Part III and IV will be released next week and the week after.
Part I can be found here.
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09.Feb.2000
clickBOOM
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S-File 3 for Nightlong
The first alpha version of Nightlong is finished. The full game is working, but there are
optimizations to be done. For example, Nightlong is so big that it is hard to put everything
on the three CDs planned! As soon as all problems are solved, beta tests will start.
Oh, yes, and beta testers to-be have to pre-order Nightlong!
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09.Feb.2000
Fax from Phase5
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Phase 5 filed for protection from its creditors
On January 26th, 2000, Phase 5 filed for protection from its creditors. Talks are held
with third parties interested in taking over (and continue) the AMIGA technology part.
This way, running developments and products, especially the new G4 CPU cards, could be
continued.
In case of liquidation, all customers that placed preorders and
prepayments with phase 5 digital products will be contacted and informed of their
rights.
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09.Feb.2000
Ingo Musquinier in ANF
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AmiTradeCenter Public Beta
The latest version of the FTP client "AmiTradeCenter", recently released on Aminet, is now
also available from the ATC homepage. A mailinglist has been created at OneList.com. To
subscribe, please send an e-mail to:
amitradecenter-subscribe@onelist.com.
Download: ATC_beta_08022000.lha
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08.Feb.2000
Oliver Roberts
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WarpJPEG.datatype version 44.9 PPC (WarpUp only)
This version removes the problem in the "error cleanup code" which crashed PPCs while decoding
corrupt JPEG images.
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha - 39 Kb
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08.Feb.2000
Pagan Games
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Pagan Games News
Pagan Games is working on a Members Area. This closed area is still under development, but
will include many interesting things. There will be several forums, e.g. a discussion forum,
a developer forum, and an opportunity to talk to Pagan developers directly. Demo download
offers, monthly newsletter and vote areas are also planned.
Pagan Games is happy to introduce two new employees. Axiom will work on the graphics of
Dafel: Bloodline, and Psycho (szene coder of Loonies)
will join the Magick development team to create the 3D engine.
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08.Feb.2000
Aaron Digulla via Email
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AROS: Menues are now working
The code for the menues has been inserted. Different than on the original
Amiga, tasks are handled as a task that contains all input-events as long
as the right mouse button is pressed. For this reason the menues will not
block other tasks, and are easily improved upon. If blocking menues are
still a problem then they ccan be controlled by by each program
individually by checking for RMB down/up.
In other words the AROS-Menues work better than the original Amiga OS
menues.
(Translation: mb)
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08.Feb.2000
Juan Manuel in ANF
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HTMLEXT 2
AMIGALAND now has a completely redone version of HTMLEXT (Web Maintenence
for GoldED) for free download, complete with intstaller. Prerequisite:
Gui4Cli 3.8 (installed).
Download: htmlext210.lha
(Translation: mb)
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08.Feb.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Alanac II 1.8.6 Bugfix
A Bugfix for the well-known Astronomy Program Digital Almanac II is
available both in Aminet and on the authors homepage. Also included is the
Frech calalog files after having been forgotten in the last version. A few
guru-causing functions have been corrected and improved. See the Aminet
readme file for more info.
(Translation: mb)
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08.Feb.2000
Chris De Maeyer in ANF
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EZQuake V.1.04 available
The Quake launcher EZQuake in now in version 1.04 available with the
following new features: Select Quake executable, MemAs Gadget to support
both Clickboom versions. New versions can be found on the Support page
(title link).
Download: ezquake.lha
(Translation: mb)
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08.Feb.2000
Martin "Mason" Merz in ANF
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OpusMI - GlowIcons for DOpus 5 Magellan
This Opus icon collection contains 240 OS3.5 icons and 480 images in IFF
format for the toolbar and startmenu in DOpus 5 Magellan version 5.82 (with
OS 3.5 support). The icons are in 40x32 pixel format to ensure ease of use even at
higher resolutions. The archive will be uploaded shortly to Aminet in "biz/dopus".
(Translation: mb)
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07.Feb.2000
PPT
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PPT version 6.18 released
Janne Jalkanen has released version 6.18 of his image processing software.
Download: PPT_dist.lha
(Translation: mb)
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07.Feb.2000
Joachim Nink by e-mail
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New Multiuser File System (MuFS) v2 website
Wez Furlong has created a new and up-to-date portal for Multiuser File System (MuFS) v2
online. Details at the title link.
(Translation: mb)
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07.Feb.2000
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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akMPEG4 version 4.30 (68k + PPC) available
Download: akMPEG4.lha - 148 Kb
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07.Feb.2000
AmigaNation
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Amiga Mozilla Page
James Russel from AmigaNation News has placed a new site online named
AmigaMozilla Home. With James at the helm, this
site will surely last longer than the several other websites about AmigaMozilla that have already
vanished again :).
(Translation: mb)
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07.Feb.2000
amiga-news.de
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Hotlist
You will surely have noticed that the link to our old hotlist (in the link bar on top)
and the Quick Links from the right-hand menu have vanished. It would have been redundant,
additional work to maintain them in addition to the comprehensive
Amiga Link Directory.
If your website is not yet listed in the ALD, we would be happy if you'd take the two minutes
it takes to register. Changes to the submitted data can be commited with the password given
on first submission. So you can add a banner (100x100) later, if you haven't one handy right
now.
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07.Feb.2000
GoldED
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GoldED now also retailed by GTI
From now on, apart from Amigaland, GoldED is also distributed by
GTI Grenville Trading International GMBH,
Carl-Zeiss-Str. 9, D-79761 Waldshut-Tiengen, Tel: +49 7741 83040, Fax: +49 69 25577025.
(Translation: mb)
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07.Feb.2000
FutureZone
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FutureZone: Hints at Software-Piracy are booming
"The 'Business Software Alliance' BSA, a global association against Software-Piracy, has received
8,126 hints at illegal software in western europe for the year 1999, which is 39 percent more than in 1998.
2,577 hints were exclusively for offers on the net. Therefor the BSA has had 1.808 sites closed until now."
At BSA Deutschland you can find many interesting details and statistics
Concerning the subject. Maybe Amiga should also join this association! (ps)
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07.Feb.2000
Amiga
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Executive Update (Update)
The Executive Update of February 3rd has been reworked at several points. Basically, the wording has been
redone, and the following paragraph has been added:
"We will soon be starting official meetings in Europe, the UK, and the US for developers and dealers. This will include
introductory training seminars for the new OS, and introductions to the retail pricing and schedules. We will also begin
the process of introducing the new web site, and putting the Amiga Advisory Council to work."
Here's a copy of the most recent version:
"February 4, 2000
Greetings to one and all:
A great deal has occurred over the last couple of weeks, and it is only going to get more interesting as we move forward. It has been some time since I spoke with you, and I wanted to share some of the fun.
In the last two weeks we have announced our new foundation partner, started technical training with our new development team, and had many meetings with future technology partners
The responses have been overwhelmingly positive and, to quote an old song "they ain't seen nothing yet".
On January 8, 2000 at CES in Las Vegas we announced our partnership with the Tao-Group as our foundation OS partner. This is not just a technical but a strategic relationship and brings with it great rewards. I have asked Fleecy to write a short document highlighting the Amiga/Tao relationship from a more technical perspective, to save you from having to put up with my telling everyone how incredibly great and fantastic it is. We want you to make your own minds up.
In the next two weeks we will make another strategic partnership announcement with regards to the new path for Amiga. As with all our announcements, look at it against the whole picture and not in isolation.
After a week long trip to Germany and the UK I have come back with a much better understanding of what we can and cannot do. As mentioned before we are not going to make promises or product announcements. We will announce to you, the community, only after the deal is signed or the product is sitting before us. This won't put a stop to rumours, but it will make them all the more obvious. Change brings uncertainty, and in an information vacuum, mischief makers like to take the spotlight. If it isn't officially sanctioned by Amiga, don't believe it.
Our job as a company is to create exciting market opportunities for Amiga developers to take advantage of, and to give Amiga users a platform they can enjoy. This requires more than just an upgrade to the existing OS. This requires, indeed demands a complete strategy reaching into all areas of the present and the future. The time has come for all of us to move forwards, owner, developer, and user.
Many of you have sent us business proposals, and product marketing ideas, and for this we thank you, and ask for your patience as we look over them. Some are providing us with valuable insight into the desires of the Amiga community as a whole, others are providing us with a good chuckle. This is the Amiga advantage that other platforms just do not share.
Over the next few months there may be some companies that come out with their own plans, or state that we do not have the community at heart as we move forwards. The reality is, they do not know what we have planned. In order to stay focused and to keep up our incredible pace, we are not sharing our plans outside of our signed partnerships.
We have to prioritise and act singlemindedly if we are to reach our first plateau in our given timescales. Once there we will be able to pause for breath. Some are not happy about this, but they do not know the full plan. Our mission is not just about restoring the Amiga, but about pushing it forwards as THE technology for tomorrow.
This means that if you hear something annoying, or frustrating, or downright nasty, and the source is not Amiga Inc, then disregard it.
Plain and simple.
If you did not hear it from us, or read it here on this web site it is not true.
We are not asking for your trust or your undying belief. We only ask that you take us on OUR words and deeds, not on the misinterpretations of others.
We will soon be starting official meetings in Europe, the UK, and the US for developers and dealers. This will include introductory training seminars for the new OS, and introductions to the retail pricing and schedules. We will also begin the process of introducing the new web site, and putting the Amiga Advisory Council to work.
I want to thank each and every one of you for your hospitality during our meetings and for your continued support as we move forwards. We have had the chance to meet with many end users, developers, dealers, and new partners, and look forwards to meeting even more of you as time goes on.
There is a great deal of activity, with a lot of first footsteps on some truly amazing paths. New partners excited, old faces returning, familiar faces reminding us of our heritage. Indeed we are already having to move into bigger facilities, such is our rate of growth.
I know it can be frustrating but after years wandering lost in a dark place, the sun is finally starting to crack a smile on the horizon. Together, we will march into tomorrow.
Keeping the faith,
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team."
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07.Feb.2000
Eternity
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Eternity: 20.000st visitor on the Eternity Homepage
At 3:34 PM on February 5th, 2000, the 20.000st visitor logged onto the Eternity Homepage. Congratulations go
to Mirko Patzenbein from Frankenberg/Sachsen. Mirko is working on a A1200PPC / Bvision connected
to a Ilyama 19'' Monitor. The desired game, Heretic II or Shogo, will be shipped as soon as it will be available.
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07.Feb.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Peter Verswyvelen makes several games available for free download
Peter Verswyvelen makes several of his old Amiga video games available for free download, for example
Ziriax and Zarathustra. Deliverance should follow. The games are also playable using UAE Amiga Emulator.
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07.Feb.2000
Chip
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Chip: ATI announces All-in-Wonder 128 PRO
"ATI presents the graphics and multimedia expansion card All-in-Wonder 128 Pro. It unites all of the
known features of the well known All-in-Wonder 128 with the highly efficient graphics chip RAGE 128 Pro
and delivers new, convincing multimedia functions to the user. The use of the RAGE 128 Pro chip
enhances the 2D-, 3D- and video-performance by 40 percent compared to the former model and delivers
the best over-all performance for the actually available games and applications. Furthermore the newest
member of the All-in-Wonder family features the fastest DVD-accelerator, the most uptodate
video compression technology as well as Digital VCR and realtime-video-capture."
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07.Feb.2000
CamX/Camouflage
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CamX/Camouflage Project News
From now on the CamX/Camouflage Projekt (MIDI/Audio-Sequencer) has its own domain at
http://www.camx.de
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07.Feb.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Corel takes over Borland
"Corel, newest member in the group of Linux-distributors and Inprise/Borland, manufacturer of
developper environments for Linux, are planning fusion. Finacial basis of the deal:
Corel exchanges Inprise shares for own shares worth 2,5 million US-Dollars. The new company
will be known as Corel; the leadership will be assured by Corel CEO Michael Cowpland."
Complete article (German) under the title link."
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07.Feb.2000
AWNPipe®
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AWNPipe® version 2.34 released
Download: AWNP_2-34.lha - 196 Kb
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07.Feb.2000
AmigaAMP
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AmigaAMP 2.8 Beta-2 available
Download: AmigaAMP28b2.lha - 438 Kb
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07.Feb.2000
TigerTronics
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USB for Amiga - Statusreport
The prototyp that has been announced for end of february will probably be ready 4 weeks later. Even if the development
has moved on very fast, some more, thorough test are necessary, to eliminate any remaining problems.
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07.Feb.2000
Carsten Scholling in ANF
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New List-Tree class NListtree.mcc
A new List-Tree class named NListtree.mcc Version 1.0 (18.0) is available from now on as a public beta version at
Apocalypse Hard- und Software. Problems, tips,questions and improvements can be send to cs@aphaso.de
Download: MCC_NListtree.lha - 132 Kb
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06.Feb.2000
Olaf Köbnik by e-mail
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Amiga Arena News
MUIbase as special offer
Probably the best Amiga software for relational databases, at the Amiga Arena as one-time
special offer of roughly 20 Euro, normal retail price: 30 Euro. Please support shareware
programmers! More details about the Amiga Arena in the "Aktion" area.
GeoWorld continues to be a special offer in the Arena until February 29th. GeoWorld is
continuously worked upon, with update 1.11 being available soon.
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06.Feb.2000
Bob Scharp by e-mail
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Bill McEwen - "Live Interactive Video Conference" on March 1st
The Gateway Amiga Club hosts a video conference with Bill McEwen on Wednesday, March 1st:
Press Rlease
Amigan-St. Louis
Bill McEwen - "Live Interactive Video Conference" on March 1
February 4, 2000
Fellow Amigans,
We are happy to assist the Gateway Amiga Club, Inc. in bringing
you Mr. Bill McEwen in...
"Live" from the Gateway Amgia Club"
GAC's meeting will be Wednesday March 1, at the Ladue Horton Watkins
High School Videio Lab. It is located at 1201 South Warson Rd, in
Ladue, MO. The meeting starts at 7:30 PM, with the conference
starting at 8 PM CST.
Mr McEwen will discuss the "OS for the 21st Century" and
demonstrate some "new stuff". This is a meeting you won't want
to miss.
The interactive nature of this conference, will allow the speaker to
view his audience as they view him. Viewers can even ask questions
when their site is selected for viewing.
Amiga Clubs interested in viewing this live interactive video
conference" should go to GAC's web page at:
http://www.icon-stl.net/~amiga
and click on the "Amiga News" link. There you will find the
details of how to apply for the conferences link.
We suggest that clubs attempt to find video conferencing
equipment at their local high schools, colleges, or businesses
to keep their costs down. It is possible to rent Kinko equipment,
but costs can be higher than most clubs can afford.
Due to the video sites needing possible on-site approval, we will
need to have your request no later than February 14. Please
remember to fill out the form on the GAC website.
See you on the Big Screen,
Bob Scharp
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WOW! Amiga 2K is going to be HUGE! http://www.amiga-stl.com
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06.Feb.2000
Markus Fellhauer by e-mail
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AmiAIM version 0.15 / Frogger Version 1.53b3
New version of AmiAIM and Frogger.
Download:
AmiAIMv015.lha
frogger_ppc_153b3.lha
frogger_040_153b3.lha
frogger_060_153b3.lha
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06.Feb.2000
Felix Schwarz by e-mail
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fxPAINT demo version by Innovative finished
Due to the big demand, we decided to develop a demo version of fxPAINT. You can download the
result now. The demo version offers almost all the functionality of the full version, except
for those functions allowing to save or print a graphics. The PPC support is untouched by
these limitations.
Download: fxPAINTDemo.lha
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06.Feb.2000
Holger Beer by e-mail
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HBMonopoly 2.0
I have just finished version 2.0 of the game HBMonopoly. So now it is possible to play
Monopoly over network with up to eight Amigas. And now there is an official HBMonopoly
homepage (see title link).
Download:
HBMonopoly.lzx.zip
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06.Feb.2000
Ulrich Hambuch in ANF
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WBInfo V3 released
We did it, the demo version of WBInfo V3 is available immeadiately from our homepage. The Aminet
upload will follow in a few days!
Download:
wbinfo3demo.lzx
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06.Feb.2000
R0b0TR10T in ANF
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Anapster version 0.2 released
Download: anapster02.lzx
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06.Feb.2000
Sebastian Bauer in ANF
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Freeciv beta 1.7 released
The current Freeciv Beta is available from my homepage immediately.
Download:
freeciv_devel.lzx
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06.Feb.2000
Achim Klopsh in ANF
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RC - RUNCOACH, the runner trainer for Amiga
Finally, there is an Amiga training program for runners available. It calculates detailed
training suggestions to prepare for contests. After entering personal data, like weight,
pulse etc., a training plan with differing demand until contest day is calculated.
The program is a C port of the well-known Runcoach
by Paul Shields. He was so kind to supply me with the Prolog source code. After some effort,
I was able to get Eric Engdahl to make the Amiga port. I would like comments and expansion
requests, so RC will get many users. The program can be found on Aminet.
Download: rc.lha
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06.Feb.2000
Markus Lück in ANF
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StrICQ beta 0.1723 released
Download: STRICQ.lha
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