06.Jan.2003
The Register
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The Register: Microsoft's masterplan to screw phone partner - full details
Andrew Orlowski deals in the English language article, which you can
read under the title link, in detail with how the dispute
between Microsoft and the telephone manufacturer Sendo started out, and who
carries which responsibility for this argument.
In this connection we remind of the fact that Amiga Inc. announced in
their Executive update of November 2002 a
partnership with Sendo concerning their Smartphones Z100. The telephone should be delivered together with the SmartPhonePack by Amiga Inc. Few days later Sendo announced in a special report
that the development program for Smartphones was
given up, and as consequence the Z100 will not be delivered. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Jan.2003
MooBunny
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Board: MooBunny in version 4.2 beta 32 on-line again
The English discussion board 'MooBunny' is now, after some changes of the underlying scripts, back on-line.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Jan.2003
Rudolph Riedel
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File manager: DiskMaster version 2.5RC8
Yesterday Rudolph Riedel published the beta version 2.5RC8 of his file
manager. The download is available at the title link.
Innovations in this version: 2.5RC8 (03-01-05) 72700 Bytes
- Corrected default display-format to "N S C".
- Bugfix: digits calculation for file-size display returned one
digit to less on sizes of 10/10x/10xx/10xxx...
Thanks for reporting to Jostein Klemmetsrud!
- Added different modes for file-size display.
- Added "separator=" & "sizes=" options to 'SetX'.
Download: DM2beta.zip (ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Jan.2003
Paul Huxham (ANF)
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Image cataloging: PhotoFolio 2.3 upgrade released
Steeple Software is proud to announce the release of PhotoFolio v2.3.
After two free updates (2.1 and 2.2) that introduced many new features,
PhotoFolio v2.3 is a paid upgrade that adds even more features:
New browse window functionality
- Sorting ascending and descending in the browse window.
- Select orphaned proofs (proofs that have no images associated with them).
- Open with configurable context menu can send a proofs' image to any application.
- On opening can automatically synchronize the browse window contents with an updated directory.
Better proof management
- Delete orphaned proofs. Images that have been deleted that have already had proofs created can be deleted automatically.
- Create proofs for new images. Creates proofs for new images that have been added to directories automatically (where proofs have been created for the directort before).
- Send a list of proofs and details to a text file.
Improved drag and drop support
- ARexx scripts can be dropped onto browse windows, the main window and the ARexx settings window.
- Images can be dragged and dropped from the Workbench to add them to a browse window.
New program windows
- Path palette window for storing paths that are used often.
- Directory view module - now has toolbar with copy, move, rename, delete.
Show window
- Can save the loaded size image or the original full size image.
- Can perform image processing. Current operators include Flip X and Y, Rotate 90, -90 and 180, Sharpen and Gamma adjustment.
Main window
- List of open browse and show windows in a menu for easy selection to bring to the front.
Tooltypes
- Per project settings with the SETTINGS tooltype.
ARexx - Additional commands:
- ADDIMAGE (Adds an image to a browse window)
- DELETEORPHANEDPROOFS (Deletes proofs that have no image)
- CREATENEWPROOFS (Creates proofs for new images)
- SELECTORPHANEDPROOFS (Selects proofs that have no image)
There have also been many minor improvments and several bug fixes. See complete list
complete here.
With continuing support, PhotoFolio promises to be one of the most
powerful image cataloguing systems available on the Amiga platform.
PhotoFolio v2.3 is available now. Full purchase details are available
here.
Steve Quartly and Paul Huxham
Steeple Software
(ps)
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06.Jan.2003
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Aminet: New uploads from 06-Jan-2003
As requested by our readers we publish here the list with the new
Aminet uploads. Due to the fact, that we made our own recent list,
in future you will see only the new daily uploads.
SN-AnlagenArc.lha biz/dbase 100K+V1.0 Money units archive (Germany only)
SN-KontoArc.lha biz/dbase 76K+V1.0 Accout archives (Germany only)
nc21.lha biz/patch 1.1M+NetConnect v2 Service Pack 1
nc22.lha biz/patch 1.7M+NetConnect v2 Service Pack 2
GoPortscan.lha comm/net 376K+V1.0 TCP/UDP Portscanner + more with MUI
LinksysTIADCC.lha comm/tcp 2K+Set ENV:TIADCC from LinkSys router BEFSR
Yam2Thor.lha comm/thor 3K+Addressbook (YAM) -> User List (Thor)
NetNifty-WS02A.lha comm/www 8K+Early preview of NetNifty Web Server - u
wpz-frozen50.lha demo/aga 1.4M+Frozen#5o - Christmas Edition [2oo2]
wpz-frozen51.lha demo/aga 874K+Frozen#51 - Christmas Edition [2oo2]
mhm-BeApe.lha demo/intro 85K+Beape 4k intro - CAFe02 winner with sour
mhm-BeApe_Rele.lha demo/intro 85K+Beape 4k intro - CAFe02 winner with sour
ASM-One.lha dev/asm 295K+68k & PPC Assembler Development Environm
clockita.lha dev/basic 85K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 24K+External Preferences Editor for MaxonBas
RenderDevBas.lha dev/basic 12K+Using Render library from HBasic
Mods-JMH.lha dev/e 11K+Some useful E Modules
mkisofs-2.0bin.lha dev/gg 326K+Mkisoft v2.0 - CD image builder for Amig
php-4.2.3-bin.lha dev/gg 618K+PHP 4.2.3 - AmigaOS 68k binary
rinetd-0.61.lha dev/gg 83K+Rinetd v0.61 - TCP port redirector daemo
sox-12.17.3bin.lha dev/gg 317K+SOX v12.17.3 sound converter for AmigaOS
sox-12.17.3src.lha dev/gg 525K+SOX v12.17.3 sound converter for AmigaOS
Flexy.lha dev/misc 102K+FLEXY 1.3 A very user-friendly GUI for
MySqld-v3-upd.lha dev/misc 621K+MySQL v3.23.51 update (68040 exe only)
MySqld-v3.lha dev/misc 2.5M+MySQL v3.23.48 database (complete)
MySqld-v4.lha dev/misc 4.9M+MySQL v4.0.4 database (complete)
MCC_BWin.lha dev/mui 62K+MUI public borderless window class
MCC_SpeedBar.lha dev/mui 205K+Highly configurable toolbar class
MCC_Urltext.lha dev/mui 32K+MUI public custom url class
GL_BMP_Load.lha dev/src 226K+OpenGL BMP texture loader routines
TimedSerial.lha dev/src 25K+Serial I/O functions that time-out. Sour
BackupRexx.lha disk/bakup 24K+Backup.rexx uses MirrorCopy to backup ha
EasyACDDA.lha disk/cdrom 409K+Play&Save CD tracks with Gui - EasyACDDA
fdisk.lha disk/misc 126K+PC partition table editor for Amiga
LutherBibel.lha docs/etext 1.4M+The bible (German) by Martin Luther
Monedas.lha docs/hyper 10K+Numismatica guide of spanish history coi
Poczet.lha docs/hyper 161K+Guide ***POLISH ONLY*** about polish mon
SpanienSS.lha docs/hyper 97K+SpanienSS guide of few history some span
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.4M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 12/2002 (Itali
AIOV66.lha docs/mags 405K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 66 (Dece
nocover106.lha docs/mags 1.5M+Great german diskmagazine
vchess_dt.lha game/board 12K+V1.3, German catalog for VChess 4.1
2Decide_Demo.lha game/demo 232K+A highly customizable 2D strategy game.
Filepoke.lha game/patch 48K+Filepoke V3.1 cheat your games
Gomoko-Ninuki.lha game/think 21K+Reflexion game
MenoBoxXmas.lha game/wb 629K+3D-platformer in OpenGL-window V1.0 (68k
W3DInformer.lha gfx/board 10K+Show supported efects in W3D driver(s)
Gif2anim.lha gfx/conv 151K+Converts & scales GIF animations to amig
ImageConvert.lha gfx/conv 29K+ImageConvert 1.10, batch converting with
swfplayer.lha gfx/show 306K+Standalone player for Amiga (v1.2d2) 68k
3c589.lha hard/drivr 53K+Driver for 3Com PCMCIA network cards
newkernel.lha hard/drivr 1.0M+GNU/GPL updated kernel for AMIthlon
WinSP.lha hard/drivr 4K+New driver for Window's spanish keyboard
TestGear-Extra.lha hard/hack 140K+A600, A1000, A500(+), A1200 & PC extras.
TestGear-Notes.lha hard/hack 749K+Test equipment projects, general notes.
amitrs80.lha misc/emu 312K+TANDY TRS-80 Model 1 Emulator V1.0
Wintec.lha misc/emu 3K+Wintec keyboard config for UAE
imdbDiff021220.lha misc/imdb 15M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff021227.lha misc/imdb 827K+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmiBiorythme.lha misc/misc 63K+MUI Biorythm tool. French only. v1.1
amoon.lha misc/sci 99K+Map of the Moon
Darius+.lha mods/misc 114K+Custom module from "Darius +"
Foundation1.mpg mods/mpg 10M+First part of a three part suite
Foundation2.mpg mods/mpg 5.0M+Second part of a three part suite
Foundation3.mpg mods/mpg 11M+Third part of a three part suite
Oriental_sun.mpg mods/mpg 6.3M+Oriental song by Pero-Fotar
Prelude3.mpg mods/mpg 1.6M+Prelude3. MPEG of old tape of me on keys
rno-r082.mpg mods/mpg 6.8M+Rno-records release #82 by Roz(Tekno)
TheSpell.mpg mods/mpg 3.3M+The Spell MPEG of old tape of me on keys
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 224K+MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
abcm2ps.lha mus/misc 294K+Convert music tunes from ABC format to P
EP_StevBarrett.lha mus/play 8K+EaglePlayer "Steve Barrett" external rep
EP_WallyBeben.lha mus/play 7K+EaglePlayer "Wally Beben" external repla
mhm-mAYhem.lha mus/play 148K+MAYhem pak II for DT2 (AY/YM chip emulat
mhm-mAYhem_del.lha mus/play 148K+MAYhem pak II for DT2 (AY/YM chip emulat
PlasmaPlugin.lha mus/play 24K+Plasma-Spectrum Plugin for AmigaAMP Powe
AllBlue.png pix/back 399K+An nice WB background [by cYbo]
nICkONs.win98.lha pix/gicon 110K+Glowicon`s from Win98 4 your AmigaOS
anl-strip_7.lha pix/misc 58K+[ancor] a normal life
explosion.lha pix/misc 368K+[ancor] a picture with an explotion done
nwo-strip_10.lha pix/misc 45K+[ancor] now way out
sgf-strip_1.lha pix/misc 53K+[ancor] StarGround flashback
sgf-strip_2.lha pix/misc 47K+[ancor] StarGround flashback
vd-ami2k1_eng.mpg pix/mpg 11M+<VD> show report "Amiga 2001", medium, E
AmiReplace.lha text/edit 60K+MUI text replace tool. French but easy.
JanoEditor.lha text/edit 290K+Simple and efficient text editor v1.01d
MyNotes.lha text/edit 31K+A simple MUI based QuickNote clone
BibVision.lha text/show 97K+Bible text viewer for 68k/WarpOS. V1.4
CheckX.lha util/arc 39K+V1.92 Check for Archive/Packer/Virus
P96EmulUpd.lha util/boot 5K+Hacks version information in the CGX (V3
DepthMenu.lha util/cdity 54K+Popup menu for depth gadgets. V2.41.
dir2html_trans.lha util/dir 16K+Translations for Dir2HTML
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 241K+Dynamic buffers, filesystem CRCs, colorf
pccard.lha util/libs 51K+Library to parse PC Card information
EasyInterest.lha util/misc 25K+Compound interest calculator
VClock_v1.7b.lha util/time 331K+Real Speech Clock - Bug Fix
VirusZ.lha util/virus 85K+VirusZ III 0.9d - Antivirus Software
RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 29K+Timer controled Slideshow-like random WB
ScalosPlugAP96.lha util/wb 12K+Avail Picasso96 plugin for Scalos
VolumeMeter.lha util/wb 34K+Transparent graphical hard drive usage m (ps)
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05.Jan.2003
TGD (ANF)
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REBOL/View on Amiga - new Reblets available
As from now some new Reblets/programs are available in the download area under
the title link, which have all been developed on the Amiga (68k) under
REBOL/View.
Apart form the tool "Web-GetIt!" for downloading complete HTML conforming Web pages, four interesting gamelets (Kniffel-It!, Move-It!, Cascade-It! and
Break-It!) are waiting for you to try them out. The size of each Reblet is less
than 30 kBytes!
Minimum requirements for these programs are an Amiga with 68030/50 MHz processor
as well as the corresponding REBOL/View environment.
Of course the programs can also be used on every other platform under
REBOL/View or REBOL/IOS.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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05.Jan.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: T-Shirt statement
Amiga Inc.'s Web site features a statement on the T-Shirt situation in
conjunction with the Coupon campaign.
This is the statement:
(4-Jan-2003) Amiga Inc. would like to apologise unreservedly for the
delay in getting the T-shirts out. We have received all the orders from
the dealers and no blame should be attached to the dealers for the delay.
There are several reasons for the delay and we are working on trying to
get these remedied as quickly as possible. We hope to have everything
sorted out in the next few weeks.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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05.Jan.2003
Søren Ladegaard (ANF)
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Amiga .mod remix scene
It seems that many people long to see more remixes of classic Amiga .mod
music. In an attempt to create an Amiga .mod remix scene as have been
achieved in the C64 scene by sites like
remix.kwed.org,
c64audio.com and
remix64.com, I have created a new
Amiga remix specific mailing list at Yahoo Groups.
Let's hope for a growing Amiga remix scene in 2003.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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04.Jan.2003
Petra Struck
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Innovation at amiga-news.de
With the beginning of this month is Sven Drieling not anymore at our services for news and commentation as after 3½ years full of work for amiga-news.de he now wants to attend to his own projects again. For possible problems with the scripts Sven remains, though :).
Very special thanks to Sven for the work he had done.
Up to now Sven had done the Sunday news and had helped in managing the forum and the comments. Besides that he lent a helping hand in cases when I had no time. We have internally discussed several possibilities how to fill this gap respectively how to solve the problem as I really can't and don't like to give up my free Sunday.
On Sundays and public holidays only ANF news
So to take the load off all (the translators, too) a little bit we came to the conclusion that from now on there will be no news investigation and no entering of news from our side on Sundays and public holidays but only releasing news that were entered into the ANF. That means that also news that are sent to us via email will not be released until the next working day.
Help of any kind wanted
On this occasion we'd like to remember our readers that amiga-news.de is a news site from users for users meaning we have to rely on help. Your help could be for example that you enter news that are coming across your way while surfing into the ANF or you enter a good web site you encounter into the ALD. A good help would also be the arranging of payed advertisement banners as these are the basis of the financing of amiga-news.de.
Another possibility to work actively on amiga-news.de is the creation of articles of all kind, for example workshops, experience reports, previews, reviews, exhibition reports and everything else that could interest our readers. The help in translating is also everytime very welcome.
Further suggestions?
We are very interested to hear your suggestions how we could improve amiga-news.de and are eagerly awaiting your hints and proposals.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Jan.2003
Martin Kuchinka
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Programming language: PowerD v0.20 alpha 4
Martin Kuchinka has today released the version 0.20 alpha 4 of the programming language
'PowerD'.
Download: alpha.lzx
What's new with this last alpha release? Well, again several bugfixed,
but there is also one new executable called 'dc_68k', which is the same
as 'dc' except that this executable generates the 68k only code, so it's
only for ppl with older non ppc Amigas. Else it's completely the same as
the 'dc' compiler.
Uploaded the TextInput.mcc modules by Miklos Nemeth.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Music scene: AMP updated!
The two Amiga demo scene musicians Curt Cool and Crown have collected a very comprehensive data base for all in all 9424 musicians. Here you can download their music pieces directly, read uncounted interviews, etc. etc. All people interested in music created on the Amiga should risk a look at AMP (Amiga Music Preservation).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scene: disc mag Jurassic Pack now with own domain!
One of the last active Amiga demo scene disc mags 'Jurassic Pack' has now an own domain. Right now is issue #12 in preparation. People who'd like to participate with an English article, a music piece or a title screen should contact the main editors as soon as possible for further details.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Music group Moods welcomes the new year with four titles
The music group Moods welcomes the new year with four songs, all downloadable from the group's website. Furthermore a new MoodTant called Raztaman had recently been contracted who'll introduce in the future his works under this label.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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The Ascii scene is not dead!
The Amiga Ascii scene lives and lives and... ! The two scener Dipswitch and Potzkoten from Cologne have released shortly after the turn of the year the colly named Klockwerk. Shortly before that Marc Zito Oberst showed his activity with En-Sof.
Further information about this topic can be obtained from ThugLife.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT guest of Genesi at CES 2003
IOSPIRIT will attend the CES 2003
as guest of Genesi
in Las Vegas (Booth #29101 in the Home Networking, IT & Wireless Pavillion).
Among others, fxPAINT 2.0, fxSCAN 4.0 and VHI Studio 6.0 will be shown.
Felix Schwarz will be available for questions.
At this point we also would like to thank Genesi for this great
opportunity and their continued commitment.
Due to our participation at CES 2003, dispatching of postal orders is
only possible after the 15th of January again. Orders for download version
via credit card are not affected by this, though. Also, our availability
via phone and email is very limited until 15th of January - thanks for
your patience. (ps)
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03.Jan.2003
Blackbirds Nest
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Retrogame: Missile Command
Today the website of Blackbird celebrates its third birthday. Because of that Blackbird
makes the readers a present with the retrogame 'Missile Command'.
Compared with the original version (made by Michael Rosskopf) Blackbird has added
three different levels of difficulty, a title screen, a screenmode requester and many
minor improvements. For instance it is now always possible to quit the game by pushing
the ESC-key.
The game runs starting from a 30er processor with 2-4 MB FastRAM and graphic card.
Besides this it is UAE-compatible. Under UAE you simply have to choose UAEGFX 640x480x8bit.
Download: MC.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2003
Creative Development
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USB-card: First snapshots of UltraBUS
For the first time Creative Development shows a few simple snapshots of the first
prototype of its USB-card which many people have already seen at ARC 2002.
You can have a look at the card here.
At the second picture
you can have a more detailed look at the card - you can also recognize the FlashROM as well as
both extension ports.
The final layout will be clearer and possibly more compact but already right now the card
makes a good impression. Creative Development is very buzy while finishing the development
of the card and hopes to report further news soon.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2003
AND Software
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Context menu: ContextSAS version 1.63
The program ContextSAS written by Andre Dörffler makes it possible to create and use
context sensitive menus for AmigaOS 3.5+. The DefIcons-system is supported. With the
help of a few additional tools it is possible to iconify Workbench screens and to
create connections.
Today version 1.63 has been published. Some new features have been added in this version.
It is now possible to show the name (=title) of the context. A new internal command
has been also added. With its help it is possible to filter the content of WB-listers.
Of course some bugs have been also fixed.
Download: ContextInstall163.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2003
Richard Small (phone)
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The end of an era - last Aminet CD published
Because most Amiga users have direct access to the Internet now, the bimonthly Aminet CD has become somewhat redundant. As a consequence, the Aminet team has decided to stop distributing CDs. Aminet as a whole is of course not in danger of being shut down, the service offered by the web and FTP servers will remain the same.
The latest (and final) Aminet CD, no. 52 (December 2002), includes the full version of Andreas Kleinert's Superview Productivity Suite II as the highlight. SuperView II reads, writes and/or converts more than 50 graphic formats and also integrates external programs like Xpk, Ghostscipt or MetaView. In addition to converting or displaying graphics (on more than 20 supported graphic cards (via CyberGraphX, Picasso96 or special driver systems)), the program offers more than 30 different effects for picture manipulation.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2003
Idruna Software
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IconDesigner for Photogenics wanted
Paul Nolan is looking for a talented icon designer who can design the toolbar of
Photogenics completely new. People who are interested in this can mail to
info@idruna.com and should send some
samples of former projects.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2003
Dietmar Knoll
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GAUHPIL: Many sections updated (02.01.2003)
GAUHPIL (Geographic Amiga User Home Page Internet List) is a list of websites of
Amiga users which has been created by Dietmar Knoll which has been sorted considering
continents and countries. Yesterday the following sections have been updated:
Additionally several history sites have been updated.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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