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New tool to create VideoCDs (30. Jun. 2001)
Because of my suggestion here in the forum several programmers have ported a GNU project named VCDImager to the Amiga. This program can create a VideoCD image file in the bin/cue format from a MPEG system file. Supported are VCD1.1, VCD2.0, SuperVCD and ...

GFX-BASE: New tutorial (30. Jun. 2001)
On the GFX-BASE you can read a new (English) tutorial: this time it's a FAQ explaining how to make games, scene demos and other software running on your graphics card. For this we cover the effective use of mode promotion and problem handling. Among these...

Game development: in-game graphics for Schlachtfeld (30. Jun. 2001)
Finally there are first graphics shown that will be used for the units on the playfield of the future version of Schlachtfeld. The units "Chap", "David" and "Zyklop" can be found among these. First we restrict ourselves to a simple topdown view as the re...

Heise: Usenet pionier Jim Ellis died (30. Jun. 2001)
»Jim Ellis, who invented the todays Usenet in 1979 together with Tom Truscott and thereby an important part of the Internet, died yesterday in the age of 45 years because of cancer. Hundreds of fans released obituaries - of course in the Usenet - and than...

Amiga Inc.: Amiga Support Network to be extended (30. Jun. 2001)
Amiga Inc. will revise the Amiga Support Network site. It is planned not only to support the AmigaDE/SDK developments there but also to cover the support for the AmigaOS. Developers will get extensive developer information, tutorials, program code and ge...

Event: more photos of the Benelux show (30. Jun. 2001)
The French magazine PLANETamiga has released great photos of the Benelux Amiga Show 2001 that took recently place in Rotterdam. There are images of the AmigaOne, of the Prometheus PCI board, of the AmigaDE SDK and of many participiants, e.g. Fleecy Moss ...

Important change at playamiga.de (30. Jun. 2001)
From the 01.07.2001 on the new email address of playamiga is: juergen.theiner@t-online.de. You may also encounter some problems with the URL playamiga.de, so it is adviced to set the bookmark to http://www.eternity-computer.de/playamiga/. ...

Mail program: SimpleMail Alpha 0.7 (30. Jun. 2001)
Version 0.7 of SimpleMail, the new email client for the Amiga, has been released. Changes since the previous version: The attachment icons weren't displayed on OSses with version below 3.5. Support of signatures. Configurable greetings for a new crea...

Eternity: PC with preinstalled UAE with JIT (29. Jun. 2001)
For some time, Eternity has offered the EternityOne, which is a PC with AMD Athlon processor which has the Amiga emulator UAE preinstalled. From now on, the PC is shipped with only 1.2 GHz and a DVD-ROM. Further, WinUAE with JIT is installed automaticall...

Aminet Uploads until 29.06.2001 (29. Jun. 2001)
DigiCamGUI.lha comm/misc 4K+TritonRexx based GUI for DigiCam v1.0 UrlBase.lha comm/www 70K+Universal file based Favorit Link List S vzy-murderer.lha demo/aga 2.5M+Monochrome Demo by Veezya obligement27.lha demo/mag 651K+Ob...

Merlancia: Open letter to the Amiga Community (29. Jun. 2001)
Merlancia Press Release #MPR29062K1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29th June 2001 Merlancia Industries 3516A West Cactus Road Phoenix, AZ 85029 USA 1-877-53-AMIGA | ++1 602-789-0956 http://www.merlancia.com | merlancia@merlancia.com Merlancia Open lett...

Merlancia announces strategic alliance with 'individual Computers' (29. Jun. 2001)
Here the original press release by Merlancia on the strategic alliance with Individual Computers: Merlancia - Press Release #MMC29062K1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29th June 2001 Merlancia Industries 3516A West Cactus Road Phoenix, AZ 85029 USA 1-87...

Music: Audiomaster 2000 Version 0.76 (28. Jun. 2001)
Version 0.76 of the sample editor Audiomaster 2000 was released. This program utilized MUI and supports any AHI device. This program by Frank 'Fenny' Fenn is shareware; there is no saving possible in the demo version. Download: audiomaster.lha - 352 kB ...

Apple to buy PowerPC from Motorola? (28. Jun. 2001)
It's sill just a rumour; according to The Register Apple will buy Motorola's PPC branch, next year. Following an extract from the article: »Apple is set to wrest control of the PowerPC platform away from long-time partner Motorola through a clause in its...

amiga-news.de: of own concern (28. Jun. 2001)
Now our English pages have the same extended features as the German part, even commenting/annotating of news messages is possible. On this account we would like to ask every webmaster of non-German websites, which contain amiga-news.de in their link li...

Game: Frontier Elite II Sources? (Update) (28. Jun. 2001)
Michael Asse wrote: Again I sent an e-mail to Andrew Gillett of the Eliteclub and got a clear YES as answer to my question about the release of the sources of the Frontier Elite II Amiga version on Eliteclub. This would give interested people the...

Heise: Another two Top-Level-Domains activated (28. Jun. 2001)
»The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) addresses a "historic milestone for the Internet community" in their statement about the activation of another two top level domains. This is about the domains .biz for companies and .info f...

Amiga.org online again (27. Jun. 2001)
Because of some troubles with PHP-Nuke the English speaking news service Amiga.org had canceled the website to completely rework it. Because it takes much time to establish a new editing system Amiga.org is now online again with PHP-Nuke. ...

New timeline for AmigaOne (27. Jun. 2001)
Under the title link you can find the new timeline for the AmigaOne. According to it the selling start is at the beginning of October. Probably at the "secret" meeting at the Benelux Amiga Show they reached an agreement on it explained Alan Redhouse (E...

MPEG-Player: Frogger 1.65rc7 for PowerPC (27. Jun. 2001)
There is a new version 1.65rc7 of MPEG-animation-player 'Frogger' for Amiga PowerPC computers. If the oiriginal Frogger-website (titlelink) is too slow then you can use the following mirrorsite for downloading. The program is shareware and you can direct...