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Archive 11/1999


29.Nov.1999
Aminet [recent]


Aminet Uploads until November 29th, 1999
pio_icon.lha         biz/cloan   15K+Use PPaint as Icon-Editor with OS3.5 Sup
db3.6-beta-src.lha   biz/dbase  262K+V3.6 BETA - Multi purpose database. 15 l
db3.6-beta.lha       biz/dbase   50K+V3.6 BETA - Multi purpose database. 15 l
TBol080bDEMO.lha     biz/demo    61K+Material receipt program, (BOLLE MATERIA
TBol082bDEMO.lha     biz/demo    61K+Material receipt program, (BOLLE MATERIA
TCom200DEMO.lha      biz/demo    63K+An Amiga order program, (COMMESSE ITALIA
xtm-coloreggs.lha    biz/dkg     36K+Additional texture for Extreme
TAmillenium.lha      comm/bbs    52K+Millenium fixes for Transamiga BBS
FTransAPIv1.3.lha    comm/net   128K+Internet's Translator Client API v1.3
nc_update.lha        comm/news  115K+Newsreader Version 1.19 (MUI)
newscoaster.lha      comm/news  262K+Newsreader Version 1.19 (MUI)
SimpleFTP.lha        comm/tcp   125K+SimpleFTP v1.8 - Easy to use FTP client!
AWeb_UK_TV.lha       comm/www     3K+Loads the 4 main UK tv listings in Aweb
IBrowseSP.lha        comm/www    15K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v1.00
nah-worms.lha        demo/aga    65K+Satellite'99: Worms by Nah-Kolor (64kb)
PPC680x0V1.10.lha    dev/asm    122K+Use your PPC as the ultimate 68k!
SGMLS.lha            dev/lang   645K+SGMLS is THE SGML Parser!
advlite20b117.lha    dev/misc    81K+Powerfull AutodocViewer v2.0 beta v1.17!
FD2Pragma.lha        dev/misc   119K+V2.99 creates pragma, inline, ... files
FlexCat.lha          dev/misc   105K+2.4 - Flexible catalogs (C, Asm, Oberon,
FlexCat_0x0.lha      dev/misc    18K+2.4 - patch files for 020,040,060 binari
FlexCat_CatSrc.lha   dev/misc   120K+2.4 - #?.c(d|t) and #?.texinfo files
FlexCat_Demos.lha    dev/misc    36K+2.4 - Source examples (C/HSPascal/ARexx/
FlexCat_ExDocs.lha   dev/misc    52K+2.4 - Svenska, Spanish, Deutsch guides
FlexCat_Src.lha      dev/misc    31K+2.4 - portable FlexCat source files
MCC_Popph.lha        dev/mui     84K+V15.2 - Popup placeholder class (MUI)
MCC_Popph_Src.lha    dev/mui     33K+V15.2 - Popup placeholder class (MUI)
MCC_TipOfDay.lha     dev/mui     51K+V15.5 - 'Tip of the day' class (MUI)
MCC_TipOfDay_S.lha   dev/mui     47K+V15.5 - 'Tip of the day' class (SRC)
fbackng.lha          disk/bakup  85K+FBackNG - Daily backup/mirror/cleanup pr
formatsfs.lha        disk/misc   67K+A GUI For SFSFormat + extra Functions
PFS3ud.lha           disk/misc  112K+PFS3 undelete 
BD.lha               docs/hyper  51K+Bruce Dickinson Guide V1.2
BruceDickinson.lha   docs/hyper  51K+Bruce Dickinson Guide V1.2
Led_Zeppelin.lha     docs/hyper  67K+Led Zeppelin Guide V1.0
LZ.lha               docs/hyper  67K+Led Zeppelin Guide V1.0
ShopMailb01_12.lha   docs/lists  26K+German Shops & Mailbox guide 01.12.1999
AIOV30.lha           docs/mags  416K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 30 (Nove
Amiga4ever11.lha     docs/mags  1.6M+Freewaremag(GERMAN),November/Dezember`99
fc_aug99.txt         docs/misc   17K+FreeCell ML messages - August 1999
GlowMopoly.lha       game/data   48K+Gfx (Glowstyle) for HBMonopoly (german)
Muscarine.lha        game/role  1.7M+Pretty weird graphic adventure (V 2.0)
Boum.lha             game/wb     24K+Nice system & user-friendly minesweeper
PVS.lha              gfx/board   26K+Global Prefs editor for Picasso96
JPEG-Box.lha         gfx/conv   212K+JPEG generator for WWW graphics V4.21 (6
jpeg2ps.lha          gfx/conv    66K+JPEG to Postscript converter V1.8 (68k+P
PNG-Box.lha          gfx/conv   226K+PNG generator for WWW graphics V4.21 (68
AmiCAD_2.04.lha      gfx/edit   647K+Schematics vectorial electronics program
SvIVFix905.lha       gfx/misc    10K+*Fix* for SViewIV V9.05 (28.11.99)
akMPEG2.lha          gfx/show   186K+MPEG player for CyberGfx/AGA V3.05 (68k/
pcmser.lha           hard/drivr  13K+Freeware PCMCIA modem driver. V0.7
mccontrol.lha        hard/hack  212K+V1.34 PSX MemoryCard Reader
ASpV067.lha          misc/emu    35K+V067. ZX Spectrum 48K emulator.
ASpV067Upd.lha       misc/emu    15K+Spectrum 48K emu. Update V0.64->0.67
cp4.lha              misc/emu   597K+C= Plus4 Emulator - V0.73
cp4_update.lha       misc/emu   181K+C= Plus4 Emulator - V0.72 > V0.73
DarcNES.lha          misc/emu   224K+NES, SMS/GG, PCE emulator v991127a (9911
GBE.lha              misc/emu    84K+GameBoy/GameBoy Color emulator for WarpU
imdbDiff991119.lha   misc/imdb  2.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
SpaTra04.lha         misc/misc  112K+Spanish Translations Pack 04 v0.65
sbf_pili.lha         mods/misc   92K+Pianostyle - xm mod - sbf/phx (slarti)
Fear.mpg             mods/mpg   6.8M+Slow electro/trance track by Planet G 
FollowMe99.mpg       mods/mpg   4.5M+Hardtrance track by Planet G. Reedition 
NMS-Scrambled.lha    mods/pro   240K+Scrambled Eggs - By Nemesis/Zenon^Dynami
MjK-BlackAngel.lha   mods/techn 228K+Deep Beat tume by DJ Mijk 
MjK-ChemikazeR.lha   mods/techn 591K+DJ Mijk Remix of phia's Chemikaze 
MjK-Disengage.lha    mods/techn 163K+Kikkass trancetune from Dj Mijk 
MjK-fettolaine.lha   mods/techn 2.3M+Jumpy housetune by DJ Mijk 
MjK-Nazina.lha       mods/techn 945K+DJ Mijk presents A kikkin new tune. 
vdo_alte.lha         mods/techn 459K+The 38th voodoo release
vdo_olet.lha         mods/techn 575K+The 40th voodoo release
vdo_pend.lha         mods/techn 315K+The 39th voodoo release
vdo_shin.lha         mods/techn 160K+The 37th voodoo release
vdo_wave.lha         mods/techn 107K+The 41st voodoo release
psademo.lha          mus/edit   726K+The reference NLE/DSP system (demo)
Amoralplay1.4b.lha   mus/play   110K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
BlurPlugin.lha       mus/play     5K+Graphical effect plugin for AmigaAMP
CoverPlugin.lha      mus/play     7K+Album cover display plugin for AmigaAMP
FlutterPlugin.lha    mus/play     6K+Graphical effect plugin for AmigaAMP
RainbowPlugin.lha    mus/play     6K+Graphical effect plugin for AmigaAMP
Bottlebrush.jpg      pix/misc   131K+Australian flower taken by Digital Camer
Neerv_MWB.lha        pix/mwb     14K+Neervoort s MWB Game - Icons !!!
BerlinM1999.jpg      pix/sport   58K+A picture from Berlin Marathon 1999
vocaboe.lha          text/edit   93K+English data set for Vocabo
csv2html.lha         text/misc   35K+Converts CSV files to HTML.
Man2RTFppc.lha       text/misc   23K+Converts from MAN to RTF (PPC)
pdflib.lha           text/misc  1.8M+Pdflib (libpdf) and tools V2.01 (68k+PPC
Spc2Tab.lha          text/misc   11K+Converts spaces into tabulators.
CheckX.lha           util/arc    30K+V1.65 Check for Archives/Packers/Viruses
csv2html.lha         util/cli    35K+Converts CSV files to HTML.
DayMove.lha          util/cli    10K+DayMove 1.25 - Move files (+/-)x days ol
iconcopy.lha         util/cli     5K+V1.5 of the shell command to copy icons
dirdiver.lha         util/dir    15K+Search for files (WarpUP).
muitoolkit.lha       util/libs   41K+V1.1 - The MUI Toolkit library (FREE)
AIBB_Mods.lha        util/moni    8K+AIBB modules for 68000 and 68010 CPUs
SIATP.lha            util/moni  109K+System Information And Test Program (SIA
FWCalendar.lha       util/rexx  145K+THE calendar creator for FW & Pagestream
SplitOSDocs.lha      util/rexx    3K+Splits OS3.5 HTML manuals into chapters
VersionWB.lha        util/sys    34K+V2.11 AmigaDos Version replacement.
CyberClock.lha       util/time   25K+Digital clock w/ changeable digits
mvtime.lha           util/time   79K+Simple timer with Arexx port
Safe.lha             util/virus  25K+Best new linkviruses detector v11.8
TUP1_4.lha           util/virus  66K+The Ultimate Protector 9x v1.4
vht-vg29.lha         util/virus  82K+VirusWarning.Guide v2.9 (VHT-DK)
dimixgadget.lha      util/wb     48K+New Gadget for use with VisualPrefs an O
ProcessIcon.lha      util/wb     18K+V1.18 CLI tool to manipulate icon data
(ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Olliweb


Olliweb News
Update Linux-m68k: Installation manual for Debian 2.1 and the Schatztruhe 5.1 CD with files for direct CD installation without disks! Updates at Download: lxdoom for LinuxPPC5. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
CyberGraphX


CGX V4 page updated
CGX V4 page updated. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
AudioLabs


ProStatioAudio version 2.50 released
Download page (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS


New information area at Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS
New information area at Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
AmigArt


Storm MP3 player for Amiga
The StormMP3 Player is an MP3 player for Amiga computers. It uses an advanced DSP and PIC microprocessor to decode MP3 audio files without loading the Amiga with the heavy mathematical calculations needed to listen to any of the many MP3 files available. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
AmigaCentral


Wipeout 2097 Troubleshooting
In this document, Sam Jordan summarizes possible problems with the installation, and gives the solutions. At AmigaExtreme you can read a review of the game. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
AmiDog


Emulation: new versions of DarcNES/Amiga and GBE released
Download DarcNEWS: dn991127a.lha
Download GBE Amiga-PPC (Gameboy emulator): GBE.lha (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
AmigaAMP


AmigaAMP News
The VisFS PlugIn version 1.3 can now also display waves. Download: VisFS13.lha. Besides, a hardware page has been created, where you can find information about audio hardware, and a description of the hopefully-to-come-soon parallel port MPEG player.
The FAQ-page has been updated, and there's the new AmigaBall skin on the skins page. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Fun Time World


FlexCat 2.4 released
The catalog software FlexCat has been released as version 2.4. The program is now fully portable. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
M. Schwarz in ANF


DirectDos homepage has moved
The DirectDos homepage has moved to Nightshift. If you have asked one of the following questions before, have a look at the downloadable demo:
  • I want to change the look of my Workbench?
  • however I don't want to redraw all my icons?
  • I want the functionality of a directory tool on my Workbench?
  • I don't want to endure months of configuring?
  • I want to know which file is of which type without being a fortuneteller?

We have just the thing for you!
DirectDos opens an unlimited number of windows on your Workbench which can be used as standard Workbench windows, but having numerous advantages:
  • improved intuitivity
  • improved file access
  • more comfortable
  • picture preview
  • animated icons
  • 24bit transfer animations
  • multitasking! on Workbench
  • transparent windows
  • user-defined types and actions
  • can be used on public screens
  • easy configuration preferencer
  • AGA & CGX
  • full user control
  • PowerUP support
  • 100% system compatibility

Aside from these features, there are many hidden ones like opaque resize, opaque move (AGA and CGX), themes, user icons, user buttons, program appicons, drag&drop, compatible to Workbench windows and Workbench functions, 30 predefined types, about 1200 in the XL version, 30 user types, information scrolling and some more. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Kai Hofmann by e-mail


SGMLS 1.1.92 parser on Aminet
A new version of the SGML parser SGMLS by James Clark, known from its Unix freeware origins, is available for Amiga on Aminet: dev/lang/SGMLS.lha. The porting has been done by Dipl.-Inform. Kai Hofmann, as usual. The current release has a reworked Installer script and a new support webpage at the title link. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Marko Seppänen by e-mail


New modules for Image Engineer
From under the piles of Image Engineer's source code material, originally based on works of Simon Edwards, we found some new modules. Here's one, a Text-module. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail


TUP version 1.4 available
Today, The Ultimate Protector 9x v1.4 has been released. It is a virus protection program, which is running in the background and senses / notes all files being changed. In this version some bugs have been fixed, and new catalogs for Italian and Spanish users been added. Version 1.4 of TUP can be downloaded from the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
Download: TUP1_4.lha. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Falk Lüke per e-mail


Eternity News
Now available from Eternity:
Developer CD v2.1, a great collection of programs, tools and documents for OS3.5 has been released with the Developer CD v2.1. Besides the RKMs in HTML format it also contains a full version of StormC v3.0!
Digital Almanac II v1.7, who knows his way in space? This program knows 55,000 small planets, 40,000 galaxies, 1,000,000 stars and is able to excite the user with animations in IFF-Anim, Quicktime and MPEG format. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Håkan Parting by e-mail


VersionWB 2.11 available
The update contains some bugfixes, and now is AmigaOS 3.5 compatible.
Download: VersionWB2_11.lha (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Jan Andersen by e-mail


VirusWarning.guide version 2.9 available
Download: vht-vg29.lha - 84 Kb. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Steven Flowers by e-mail


Goal 2000 available
Alive has released the long-awaited soccer game "Goal 2000" on disks and CD. Next week, a new demo version and new screenshots will be available on the website. More information can be gathered from issue 8 of "The Pulse". Even before christmas, the following games are planned for release: Whales Voyage 2, Putty Squad, Fightin Spirit, Spherical Worlds, Black Viper and Whales Voyage. Moreover, 5000 copies of "The Pulse" are given away for free. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Michaela Prüß in ANF


Installer v3.1, v3.5, ...NG, New... (get a script first!)
Currently more and more news are read about different Installer programs. Not only OS3.5 has finally brought an update to the old C= Installer, "the others" are active, too.
But to be honest, it's not about looking better and having more features, but who is most compatible and handles script errors best.
It's because the scripts are the weak spot, not the Installer. Installer is much more capable than most people are aware of. Well, I am right now facing the task of writing such a script myself, and so I came up with the idea to create a library with functions. After some talks with several people, it changed into something completely different, an Installer Script Maker. Right now in beta demo v0.1 (0.2 in the pipe), it should quickly turn into an Installer make system. The whole thing is an Installer script itself. This means that someone wanting to write a script will simply have to start the Installer, edit the basic rules and wait. Of course some little C programs are running in the background to simplify things.

The complete system will be expandable on a modular layer, create scripts as uniform as possible (created from ready modules) which will be protected against errors as good as possible with growing usage and experience.

I hope this will finally bring us error tolerant installations handled in a uniform manner. Extras like backing up system files before overwrite, or ready translations of standard functions in as many languages as possible will be only a small step from there.

If you want to see how the first attempts looked like (no longer up-to-date), I posted the beta 0.1 on my homepage. The documentation is English for now, so a maximum number of people understand it.

I'd like to see this as basis for discussions of all interested. And now I have enough work putting the file lists in the interactive script... (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Hynek Schlawack in ANF


GoldED Service Pack 14 available
Dietmar Eilert now offers another update for his editor GoldED. This service pack cannot be downloaded from internet, but must be ordered from the author. More details (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Dennis "Hurrican" Pauler in ANF


Video from HEW '99
here is a little show walkabout as MPEG video, with music and comments. (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Thorsten Gehler in ANF


NOViA INS - new BBS system, v0.74 alpha
Novia is a new Open Source BBS program, integrating internet services like mail, NNTP, IRC, Instant Messaging into a BBS system. The basic system consists of BBS, file & board services, and the mailer daemon is already finished. To speed up project development I am looking for volunteers helping in finishing the system. Moreover I am planning to create a multiuser network file system with quotas.
Download: novia.lha (520 byte)
novia.readme (ps)

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29.Nov.1999
Halil Ibrahim Tasova in ANF


StrICQ version 0.1573 available
Download: STRICQ.lha (ps)

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26.Nov.1999
Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail


NewInstaller v1.4 news
A big update for NewInstaller will be released soon. There are many new features and improvements. Many visual modifikations have been made, and NewInstaller now also supports themes, which should be interesting for many. NewInstaller v1.4 will possibly be released next week. (ps)

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26.Nov.1999
PC-Welt


PC-Welt: EU: Internet much too expensive
In the opinion of the EU commission, prices for Internet connections are much too expensive in Europe. Compared to the USA, national connections cost four, international connections sixteen times as much."
Full article (German) at the title link. (ps)

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26.Nov.1999
IT-Nachrichten


IT-Nachrichten: Cookies illegal?
"Cookies are a nuisance for many: Some regard them as "service", others think of them as 'espionage'. In the USA talks arise: Should Cookies be banned?"
Full article (German) at the title link. (ps)

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26.Nov.1999
CyberGraphX


Int2 Patch site for A3000T updated
The Int2 Patch site for A3000T has been updated. (ps)

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26.Nov.1999
Steffen Häuser by e-mail


Heretic II (beta) - test by Steffen Häuser
Steffen Häuser has tested Heretic II by Hyperion Software. Tested was a beta version of Heretic II, which e.g. revealed that the AMiga version is as fast as the PC version (even somewhat faster).

From:       Steffen Häuser SHaeuser@quark.de
To:         amiga-news.de  team@amiga-news.de
Subject:    H2 News
Date: Wed,  24 Nov 1999 14:02:10 +0100

Hi!

(Any replies please to MagicSN@Birdland.es.bawue.de)

I recently tested the latest Beta Version of Heretic II (i am Betatester)
concerning speed, and did a speedtest, where i compared the speed with the
speed on the PC of my
little brother of the PC Version of Heretic II. In both cases the SOFTWARE
RENDERER was used.

Hardware Data:

Amiga:

Cyberstorm PPC 604e 150 MHz (yes, only 150, i have a lowend 604e Board...)
Cybervision/PPC
OS: AmigaOS 3.0 (3.5 is ordered, but not yet arrived)+ WarpOS V4

PC:

Pentium II 300 MHz
Riva TNT (TNT 1) Based AGP-Bus Graphics Board
OS: Windows 95

Remember: All speed is done with SOFTWARE RENDERER, for both systems, for
fairness :)

The values (i tested at different places, but of course PC and Amiga version
were always tested at the same place):

Level                Amiga Speed (150 MHz)        PC Speed
(300 MHz)

dmandoria                 31 fps                 60 fps
oglemine1                 35 fps                 72 fps
oglemine1 different location with         24 fps
45 fps
lots of monsters visible
hive1 (lot of transparency FX)          9 fps                 27 fps
no typical situation for the game

And now some values in a higher resolution:

Startlevel in 400x300             24 fps                 41 fps
Startlevel in 640x480             10 fps                 19 fps

On an average i was usually (in 320x240) at:

                    25-30 fps                 around
50-70 fps

I estimate on a 233 MHz the average should be around 40-50 fps in typical
situations...

What do we learn of this ?

1. On an average the Amiga Version has the same speed like the PC version
   (at least if we had a PC with the same MHz-number, 31*2 = 62 fps
   for example, where the PC version had 60 fps, the Amiga Version 31 fps
   (first example)

2. Massive Transparency Effects are the death for every software-renderer,
   no matter if Amiga or PC. Luckily these effects are not displayed
   all the time. Situations like at the start of hive1 only happen in very
   few situations (hive1 is actually the slowest level in the whole game, it
   seems, at least at a certain position in the level)

3. The speed value of Heretic II is actually quite nice, even on a lowend
   PPC like mine, on a 233 MHz you will have values around 233/150 times
   as fast.

4. We can expect much more from 3D Hardware (Warp3D Support) (On PC there
   was a REALLY HUGE speedup for 3D Hardware, especially
   when Transparency was involved)

5. PCI/AGP did not give that much more speed than PowerUP-Bus/Zorro 3 (i did
   not do actual speedtests of Z3, but it is not
   that much slower than on Zorro 3. Also WB Window Mode is also not that
   much slower - though of course slower)

I was also told by Hyperion that they are currently making much progress for
the 68k version, and that it looks good that probably 060+software
renderer will be fast enough to get the game playable.

Steffen Haeuser
(ps)

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26.Nov.1999
Jörn Plewka by e-mail


Comeback of Melody-Z2
Jörn Plewka writes:
Since some users have contacted us on the HEW, wanting a real cheap soundcard, we contacted Gruner Bürotechnik with the following result:

A few remaining Melody-Z2 will be available before christmas. Since nobody will distribute these cards, I think I should tell the price we agreed upon on this occassion (74,50 Euro plus p&p).

Compared with Melody1200, the card is outdated and out of development. As should be known, however, it is not bad, and still supported by the latest Melody driver system. (ps)

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David Stroud by e-mail


AmigActive . Mailinglist
The english print magazine has opened a mailinglist, you can subscribe at http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/amigactive-announce/.

The December issue AmigActive Nr. 3 is ready. At the menu point "issues" at the title link you can find what's in the issue, Have a look for yourself, you will want the issue :-). All issues can now be ordered individually, online and worldwide by credit card. (ps)

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25.Nov.1999
AWD [News]


Alive Mediasoft - new products and updates
Alive Mediasoft promises to finish the following games until christmas: Goal 2000, Whales Voyage 2, Whales Voyage and Putty Squad. (ps)

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25.Nov.1999
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Aminet Uploads until November 25th, 1999
PalmSyncGC.lha       comm/misc    8K+Gui4Cli interface to PalmTransfer
guardamy.lha         comm/www   217K+V1.01 Watch web pages for changes (BUGFI
MST-Megademo.lha     demo/aga   1.8M+Assembly '99: Megademo by Mystic
ABM13.lha            dev/asm      5K+Converts binaries into binary asm source
LittelComp.lha       dev/lang    18K+LITTEL language v0.13b MAJOR update!!
MCC_TipOfDay.lha     dev/mui     49K+V15.4 - 'Tip of the day' class (MUI)
MCC_TipOfDay_S.lha   dev/mui     47K+V15.4 - 'Tip of the day' class (SRC)
iron_maiden.lha      docs/hyper 136K+Iron Maiden Guide V2.7
GamesLists.lha       docs/rview  30K+37 (!!!) lists of Amiga games
GladDuel.lha         game/actio 103K+The ultimate killing game
SetupIOBlixUpd.lha   hard/drivr  45K+IOBlixZ2 and IOBlix1200 setup program bu
CSPPC233Fix.lha      hard/misc   13K+Workaround for CSPPC/233 hardware bug
rNO-L014.lha         mods/misc  482K+Rno-label release no.14 by xhale (tripho
RedRose.jpg          pix/misc    89K+A Red Rose      
JMG_Icons.lha        pix/nicon   83K+Icons package (GlowIcon format)
JPEG-DT.lha          util/dtype 279K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (43.1)
JPEG-DT35.lha        util/dtype 207K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (46.0)
PCD-DT.lha           util/dtype 132K+Datatype for Photo-CD Images (43.12)
PCD-DT35.lha         util/dtype  61K+Datatype for Photo-CD Images (44.0)
RGFX-DT.lha          util/dtype 116K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (43.12)
RGFX-DT35.lha        util/dtype  43K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (44.0)
zee_inilib.lha       util/libs  163K+V31.02 Library for ASCII-Prefs maintenan
XPKPatch16.lha       util/pack   19K+Upacks XPK and PP files "on the fly".
quotes.lha           util/wb      9K+Quotes - displays weird messages
(ps)

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