08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: New open-source-competition for DivX and Co.
»On2 Technologies releases TrueMotion VP3.2 video compression technology
The small software company On2 Technologies which is situated in New York has released its powerful video compression algorithm TrueMotion VP3.2 as open-source. With this step the company which formerly has been known as Duck Corporation wants to offer a powerful competition to DivX and the ISO-standard MPEG-4 which has to be licensed.«
Read the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Ralf Berg (ANF)
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Tool: New alpha-version of IFFAnzeiger
Ralf Berg writes:
Today I have uploaded a new alpha-version of the IFFAnzeiger on my homepage. IFFAnzeiger can also display oversized pictures directly of the harddrive.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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ASP: e-mail address changed
Marius 'Cyborg' Schwarz wrote:
At eanet.de there is probably a problem with forwarding of mails.
Because of that I have changed the email address. All those who have
sent me mails in the last week and who did not get any response please
send it again to the new mail address.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: Corel wants to take possession of SoftQuad
»Enterprises signed taking possession
Corel wants to take possession of the enterprise SoftQuad Software which is specialized for XML-solutions. The enterprises informed that a corresponding agreement has been signed. According to it Corel will take possession of SoftQuad by buying of shares.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
M0rpheus (ANF)
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New Amiga-website for hard- and software news
M0rpheus writes:
I have created this website to confirm my existing interest in the Amiga-computer. At the moment only one project is online which is a new Amiga-online-game based on the board game RISIKO!
I hope you will enjoy this site and the content :)
Respects M0rpheus
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.27
Yesterday Jan Erik Olausen has published version 33.27 of 'xvs.library'. This version contains the following changes:
- Added Penetrator 2001 Link virus
Thanks to Krzysztof Duda for the files.
- Added CCCP Clone Bootblock virus
Thanx to Mr Yoard for sending me this bootblock
- Fixed bug in recognition code for DKG-Blum file virus again!
Thanks to Urban Mueller for reporting this.
- Added Smeg2a Installer File virus
Thanks to Antonio De Cicco for the file.
- Added Smeg2a Link virus
- Added Smeg2b Link virus
Thanks to Zeeball for the files.
To be done:
- Remove Penetrator 2001 from memory.
Name: xvs.library v33.27
Archive name : xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 56.483 Bytes
Release date: 7. August 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
eMail: virusexecutor@c2i.net
xvs.library program length: 56.828 Bytes
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)
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AROS reachable at new URL
As reported earlier there was a hardware problem
with the server hosting the AROS website. In the meantime you can get to the
website with this URL: http://www.hepe.com/aros/
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
Emerald Imaging
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Game: Demoversion of Aqua released
A demo version of the adventure "Aqua" is released. In this game you will find
yourself in a mysterious world and have to try to get a way out.
Download:
AquaDemo.lha -
Readme
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
Assembly
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Event: Assembly 2001
At the Finnish Demoparty Assembly 2001, that has happen not long ago in Helsinki,
MatureFunk has won the first place with the Amiga demo Lapsuus.
This demo and other you will find under the title link for download.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages
WHDLoad allows to install games you only can play from disks on harddisk.
These are the new packages:
- 05.08.01 new: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts)
- 05.08.01 new: Missiles Over Xerion (Kingsoft/Cycletech)
- 05.08.01 new: Garfield: A Winter's Tail (The Edge)
- 05.08.01 enhanced: Fly Harder (Starbyte)
- 05.08.01 new: Alien Breed Tower Assault (Team 17)
- 04.08.01 new: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17)
- 04.08.01 fixed: Fears (Bomb Software)
- 04.08.01 new: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision)
- 04.08.01 new: Castle Vania (Konami)
- 01.08.01 enhanced: IK+ (Archer MacLean)
- 31.07.01 enhanced: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 07.08.2001
YAT.lha comm/mail 577K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
crossgcc_linux.tgz dev/gcc 2.8M+Crossgcc linux to AmigaOS
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 952K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 07/2001 (Itali
Aakt0801GFX.lha docs/mags 542K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801GUIDE.lha docs/mags 73K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801HTML.lha docs/mags 218K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
HBible.lha docs/misc 1.2M+Hebrew Bible with vowels and cantillatio
ChaosHeavy.lha game/2play 16M+World's Best Magic Game! 1-8 players! Fa
AquaDemo.lha game/demo 2.5M+Aqua demo version of great new adventure
mhi_MASPro.lha hard/misc 10K+MHI MAS Player Pro driver
ASIE.lha misc/emu 45K+ASIE (AMIGA Space Invaders Emulator)
mhi_dev.lha mus/play 56K+MHI Dev - The new standard in MPEG audio
mhi_MASStd.lha mus/play 9K+MHI MAS Player Standard driver
PlayGUI.lha mus/play 785K+Skinnable multi-format player-GUI
PlayGUIShot.jpg mus/play 172K+Screenshot of PlayGUI 3.2
arcadesnookeri.lha pix/mwb 7K+Nice MWB icon for Arcade Snooker
doomicon.lha pix/mwb 65K+Neat MWB icon for Doom
quakeicon.lha pix/mwb 7K+Nice MWB icon for Quake
Robot.jpg pix/trace 20K+Raytraced Robot
StarRacker.jpg pix/trace 36K+Futuristic Rocket Car
Alecos-WB-1.jpg pix/wb 141K+A nice desktop 800x600 16 Bit by Alecos
Ital301.lha text/misc 566K+English to Italian Translator v. 3.1
GS-JAnim.lha util/batch 7K+Join&Spare space on HD (Genetic Species)
2b_Spiral.lha util/boot 3K+A little toy to make Your Workbench look
e-bin.lha util/cli 72K+Port of "e", a full expression evaluator
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 122K+WarpDT preferences program V44.5
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 209K+TIFF datatype V44.1 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
AslToRT.lha util/misc 23K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
envhandler.lha util/sys 14K+A happyenv replacement (1.10)
Safe.lha util/virus 35K+Virus detector v16.3
FlagsWB3.9_GR.lha util/wb 3K+WB 3.9 Flags, Country files for Greece,
sgrab.lha util/wb 95K+Screen grabber with GUI (1.17) (as) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9430
Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9430 of the AIM-client AmigAIM. It
is a client to connect with the America Online Instant Messenger. Here is an
excerpt of the history where you can see the changes:
- Found bug in Mail Checking routine that could cause the program to go into
an infinite busy loop under certain circumstances.
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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06.Aug.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Project: AmigaFFE status
I would like to give a short update of the topical status of the
AmigaFFE-project. Due to the fact that the release of the source code
of Frontier-First Encounters (quotation: "..when it's done.") I would
like to suggest a small project that deals with Frontier, too.
Maybe some of you know the game "Elite - The New Kind". It is a Elite
version, that looks slightly better then the original Amiga version.
The Allegro-library (used for the new version of First Encounters, too)
is used for the programming of this game (for Windows). Here is my
question: Is out there any interest in a port of this game (for practice)?
Furthermore, I get an email containing the info that Alive Mediasoft
already had a running version of First Encounters that was never finished.
Does someone out there have any contact information (e-mail, snailmail)
of one or more former employee of Alive? Because I would like to ask them
if we could finish this version.
Additionally:
The analysis of the actual situation will be seperated in two parts:
- Technical information concerning the game (shortkeys, engine, and so on)
- Some kind list about what we can do and what we can not concerning the port.
In the near future I will put some impressions for example pictures on my page. I will publish the soundtrack (MIDI and maybe MP2 version, too.
If you did not hear anything about the AmigaFFE-project here are some information:
The AmigaFFE-project wants to port the game Frontier First Encounters, the successor of Frontier Elite II, to the Amiga.
This is an "Everyone's Invited"-project. That means that everyone is
welcomed to join the team wether he/she wants to program or 'just'
write the documentation. Further details are available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Aug.2001
Amiga Security Page (ANF)
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Information about SMH.com.au: 6000 Hacks a Week
Marius Schwarz wrote:
Because of the
article
(6,000 attempted hacks a week gets home user a bit annoyed) at
smh.com.au I put together
a small compilation of information concerning this topic.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Aug.2001
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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Filemanager: DiskMaster 2.5b12
Rudolph Riedel released DiskMaster 2.5b12 and DM2.guide 1.97. It is available at the Archive-section of his homepage.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Aug.2001
Amiga. Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: e.p.i.c. about to produce programs for the AmigaDE
The well known software house
e.p.i.c. interactive
entertainment
will produce games for the AmigaDE. These games will be released
for PDA's and micro-computers like the Sharp Zaurus. The first three
games will be "Boxikon", "Piles O' Tiles" and "Pegger". The whole
press release can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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05.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 16.3
Virus Help Denmark released version 16.3 of the virus detector 'Safe' by
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' recognizes viruses in memory and removes
them if possible.
Changes since last version:
- fixed ReadArg() template in order to remove wrong
message on machines which users didn't noticed that TCPPATCH is dead!
- optimization
- small fix in xfd slave for new SMEGs
- added analyse of SMEG2 viri
Name : Safe v16.3
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 36.032 bytes
Release date : 05 August 2001
Compilation date: 30. July 2001
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires : Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
Download: Safe.lha (35K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Richard Hackelbusch (ANF)
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Game: Spaceward Ho! for free download
Richard Hackelbusch wrote:
While searching for signs of life of one of the best Amiga games
(Spaceward Ho!, AmigaMagazin rated it "very good, 10,2", issue 9/94),
which even runs on graphics boards, I happened to find the homepage of
the author who has ported Spaceward Ho! to the Amiga,
(http://www.bebbosoft.de/), and it
turned out that with permission of the manufacturer
(Delta Tao Software) he has put the
game online for free download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)
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Developer tool: CVS V1.11.1p1
Version 1.11.1p1 of the AmigaOS port of 'CVS' has been released.
This update among other things fixes another Enforcer hit, which occurred
along with an error message when using the internal SSH client.
Beside of this bugfix two more new features have been added to simplify
working with cvs and ssh a bit or to make it more compatible with the
prior version.
Jens Langner advises any developer to get the latest version at the following
and well known address:
http://amcvs.light-speed.de/.
During the following days this update should be on Aminet, too.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: cnvtools V0.99a Beta
Patrick Roberts released beta version 0.99a of his 'cnvtools'.
The archive contains four tools for image and audio formats supported
by the ave/cnv tools, including cpm and rpm. Using these tools you can
convert the formats, get information about audio or image files, and more.
The tools' source codes are part of the archive.
Download: util/conv/cnvtools.tgz (29K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: playsound V0.96 Beta
Patrick Roberts released 'playsound' for the AmigaDE SDK v1.1.
Playsound plays audio samples and supports all AVE-CNV formats.
Download: unclassified/playsound.tgz (425K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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