22.Jun.2001
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org: problems with PHP-Nuke
Eight months ago, Amiga.org has changed the entire site to PHP-Nuke, an
all-in-one portal package. The portal offers all required functions,
including news, forums and comments.
According to Amiga.org, PHP-Nuke got instable under heavy load which
lead to frequent breakdowns. Wayne Hunt will now rebuild the entire
website and asks for comments or suggestions to
wayne@amiga.org. Especially the
news have highest priority.
(ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Ray A. Akey (e-mail)
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AMIGA Inc.: News from CEO Bill McEwen (Executive Update)
Greetings To The Amiga Family:
There have been some recent mis-representations that I have recently
received about Amiga, Inc., and our office locations. Amiga is doing very
well, and we are excited about the future of Amiga. The Amiga Family
continues to grow with new partners, new products, and the very near release
of AmigaDE 1.0.
However with all of this activity there have been some out there who have
recently sent out false information about Amiga, and I need to clarify this
now.
Amiga Incorporated is headquartered in Snoqualmie, Washington USA.
Amiga Deutschland is still in business. We have only closed the Langen
office. There are going to be some new additions, and a new office location
announced in the next couple of weeks, but know now that Amiga International
was a Gateway company, and was not and has not been associated with Amiga,
Inc. since 1999. The dealer in Germany that is making claims that they are
Amiga International is completely false, and Amiga Incorporated the parent
company of Amiga Deutschland is going to take legal action against those who
make these false claims.
There is another dealer in India who has started claiming that they are
Amiga in India. This again is also false. Amiga does NOT have any official
representation in India outside of the Amiga dealers who are there. Amiga
Incorporated is currently evaluating an office in India, and other countries
where we do business.
To those of you who continue to try and tear Amiga apart, it is time to
stop. Amiga is moving forward, there are great things ahead, and for the
first time in many years, the Amiga family will have new products, and
choices.
I look forward to a great year.
Kindest regards,
Bill McEwen
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22.Jun.2001
Soren Ladegaard (ANF)
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de Volkskrant: "Tulip" reviving the Commodore brand?
It's been reported in a Dutch national newspaper that computer company
Tulip intend to bring the Commodore
brand back to life in some capacity. Tulip spokesman J. van den Berg
claims the company is simply responding to customer calls for Commodore.
Whether this means some real Commodore hardware is on its way or all it
is is simply a line of PCs with the Commodore logo slapped on the outside
is still unclear, but Dutch readers will no doubt find
this article
very interesting...!
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21.Jun.2001
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Icons: MI News - QuadraMI 4 and new archive available
QuadraMI 4 is available for download.
A new image archive by the name of QuadraMI 4 is available on Mason.Home and
Aminet. QuadraMI 4 is an extended collection of icons for toolbars and start menus
for applications like Workbench 2000, Toolmanager, Directory Opus Magellan, and many
more. The images are of IFF format and available as ColorIcons. Those were created
in the popular GlowIcons design with a standard colour depth of 32 and a basic size
of 24x24 pixles, but without the glow effect.
Other projects.
Some new and reworked archives are available for download in addition:
- CManMI - new toolbar for CManager by VaporWare
- IBrowseMI - navigation bar for IBrowse with additional images by Kristóph Gruber
- mFTPMI - AppMI basing toolbar set for mFTP-II
- NRogMI - image set for NewsRog with GlowIcons design
Please, visit the "Projects" page of Mason.Home for more information. (ps)
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21.Jun.2001
Andrew Bell
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Unpacking-Frontend: Voodoo-X version 1.5 beta 9
Voodoo-X is a MUI basing interface for the archive unpacking system
XADmaster.library by Dirk Stöcker.
Using Voodoo-X you can handily view the content of archive (single files, too).
This beta version might contain crash causing bugs. More details under the title link.
Download: VX1.5.BETA9.lha - 120 kB (ps)
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21.Jun.2001
ASM-One
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Assembler: ASM-One version 1.47
Today, Boushh released version 1.47 of the assembler packet 'ASM-One'.
This version runs on Amigas with the original chip set and on Amigas equipped with
graphic boards (RTG). New is the PPC assembling which enables you to mix 68k/PPC code.
Download: asmonev147.lha - 294 kB
(ps)
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21.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)
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Event: Benelux Amiga Show News
Only two days left until the Benelux Amiga Show in Rotterdam, Netherlands, but still new and
interesting details are arriving:
Radio-Special
A Dutch radio station announced to create an Amiga special on the Show.
VPRO-TV - Amiga Special
The editor board of the TV station VPRO-TV took the task to create an Amiga
special. To make that reality they even will travel to the U.S.A. and also the European
users shall be reviewed. In cooperation with the Dutch print magazine
AmigaScene it will be discussed what is to
report about AMIGA on the Benelux Amiga Show, and first shots will be taken.
Matay will attend, too.
The Polish hardware developer Matay,
at this time well known by the PCI board ´Prometheus´, shortly decided
to attend the show and they sure will have some boards with them.
(ps)
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21.Jun.2001
GP-Software / Thomas Wölflick (ANF)
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File manager: Directory Opus 6 released
As already reported, yesterday, in the article
File manager: DirOpus V4.15m Beta
the PC version Directory Opus 6 was released at
GP Software.
While rummaging in the Aminet uploads I stumbled upon the following text inside the
DOpus6 readme file (title link):
"ALL REGISTERED USERS OF DIRECTORY OPUS 5 FOR THE AMIGA ARE ENTITLED TO A
25% CROSSGRADE DISCOUNT ON THE PURCHASE PRICE."
This is interesting for Amiga users using a PC, too, and not wanting to miss
their favourite file manager. The 30-days-PC-test-version is available e.g.
here (DOpusInstall.exe).
(ps)
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21.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: Transmeta sales decreasing drastically
»Orders from Japan decreasing
The still fresh processor developer Transmeta now also warns of intelligibly lower
sales in 2Q01. For a reason they mention the bad economical situation which now
spreads to Japan, too - Japan is Transmeta's biggest market place.
Though additional manufacturers to produce their own chips could have been
gained, orders from Japanese Notebook manufacturers are significant low.
Therefore Transmeta adjust their sales expectancy to 40% - 45% below sales
in 1Q01 (18.6 millions USD).«
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)
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21.Jun.2001
Computerwoche (ANF)
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HP brings stereos and TV-sets to the Web
»The IT company Hewlett-Packard (HP) from California, U.S.A.,
is about to present a system to connect stereos and TV-sets to the internet, next week in New York.
The "HP Digital Entertainment Center", to be plugged into stereo or TV-set casings, can download,
save and play music videos and digital sound from the Web. The appliance has enough memory to save
up to 750 audio CD's. It is connected to the Internet by simply pressing a button without to
be forced to boot-up a computer.«
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)
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21.Jun.2001
Thomas Steidung (E-Mail)
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Games: Amiga Classix 3 released
The game compilation CD Amiga Classix 3 was released at e.p.i.c. interactive,
today. On this CD available for Mac, Amiga, and Windows are to find more than
100 complete and many of them formally commercial games.
Among the commercial highlights on this CD are Der Seelenturm,
XTreme Racing, Obsession Pinball, Fatman, Beneath the Steel Sky, Lure of
the Temptress, Vroom, Wheelspin, Trainer, Ziriax, Sixth Sense Investigation,
Blade, Tactical Manager, Risk, Black Sect, Tanglewood, and Ziriax.
This CD is available from e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment.
(ps)
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20.Jun.2001
Jan Andersen
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Virus Help Denmark: VEPatch.Brain Version 1.35
A new update has been published of the 'VEPatch.Brain v1.34' for VirusExecutor. Here the details:
- Name: VEPatchBrain v1.35
- Archivename: VEPatchBrain.lha
- Archivesize: 22.161 Bytes
- Date: 20. June 2001
- Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
- Required: VirusExecutor V2.xx
Changes since the last version:
- SysTracker v0.1
- SnoopSetFunction v0.9
- AslToRT v39.2
- OutLineFont v1.3
- imagepool.library v0.8ß
- New recon to explode.library due to virus...
- Remember.. If you have a lot of unknown patches, please let me know so I can
add them to this patch brain :)
(ps)
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20.Jun.2001
Fr3dy (E-Mail)
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Portings of Fr3dY: New URL
As reported on 11th of June in 2001 Fr3dy has made some ports for 68k and MorphOS and make the tools available on a website.
The url has changed: From now on you can access the website under http://fr3dy.meanmachine.ch/.
(ps)
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20.Jun.2001
Neodym (ANF)
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User report soundcard "Repulse" and new AlienDesign website
On ANN a lucky man who ordered the soundcard ´Repulse´ in advance has posted a report about it. He seems to be very satisfied.
Besides this Aliendesign seemed to found a GBR because the website can be now accessed under the new url http://www.aliendesign-gbr.de/.
(ps)
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20.Jun.2001
Eyetech
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Eyetech: AmigaOne 1200/4000 faq updated
The AmigaOne 1200/4000 faq (frequently asked questions) of Eyetech has been updated and some questions and answers has been added.
(ps)
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20.Jun.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Bill Gates likes Open Source
»Bill Gates recently told that he basicly has nothing against free software: "An ecological system with free and commercial software which leaves the costumer the decision is an important and healthy ecological system". But he criticized the General Public License (GPL) because it forbid commercial enterprises to use work or to build on it which has copyrighted by the "Pac-man-like" character of this licence. What Gates understands under "Pac-man-like" he unfortunately did not told.«
Complete article under the title link. (ps)
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20.Jun.2001
Directory Opus 4 Research Project
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Filemanager: DirOpus V4.15m beta
Jacek Rzeuski has published betaversion 4.15m of the filemanager 'DirOpus'. The update contains some improvements which are listed in the History.
This betaversion only contains the files which has changed compared with 'Directory Opus V4.15'. You can find this version and the corresponding source code on the download-site.
DirOpus is a filemanager programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software. The DirOpus version for Windows is already available in version 6.
In 1999 the source code of version 4 was released under GNU Public License-conditions. Jacek Rzeuski then started to rework and improve the program.
Download: DOpus415mbeta.lzx - 472 kB
Mirror: http://dopus.free.fr/
Alternative download: DOpus415mbeta.lzx
(ps)
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20.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)
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Event: Benelux Amiga Show news
As already announced several times the Benelux Amiga Show in connection
with a LAN-party will take place on 23th of June in 2001 in Rotterdam
which are organized by the Dutch print magazine called ´Amiga
Scene´ and the trader ´Computer City´.
Premiere
In addition to the already mentioned highlights Hyperion will publicly
demonstrate the Warp3D on a Prometheus PCI-Board with Voodoo3 graphic
board for the first time. Ben Hermans, Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden
and Timothy de Groote are pesent.
TV
A Dutch television station will make recordings of the show and will
broadcast it in the programme '7 dagen' ('7 days'). The broadcast
will show people who keep their proper distance to Microsoft and
rather do not want something to do with it. You could not describe
the Amiga community in a better way, could you? :) (ps)
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20.Jun.2001
iFusion Mailingliste (ANF)
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Emulator: iFusion Update V1.3.0
We are pleased to announce the availability of V1.3.0 of iFusion.
This version enables sound on the emulation.
There are three update patches available at the Blittersoft website
iFusion section (www.blittersoft.com)
to update the three current CD releases (V1.0.0, V1.0.1 and V1.2.0).
You will need to have your original CD mounted to patch your program.
Also required are the Mac sound extension (NWEAudio) and revised drivers,
all available for download.
Please note that we are also in possesion of the latest Picasso96 update
that corrects all screen split problems
when used with iFusion. We are unable to make this available as it is beta,
but the Picasso96 team should be releasing this update soon. We were able to
run iFusion with Voodoo III and Prometheus using this new patch.
Also note that the asyncio.library is no longer required by iFusion.
Thanks to Jim/Joe for this update! :-)
(ps)
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20.Jun.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P: Opinion poll to PageStream
In order to better get to know the demands of the costumer concerning
PageStream Haage&Partner has prepared a small opinion poll and would be
pleased if you took part.
Because PageStream is currently delivered without example files and
patterns H&P has also given you the opportunity to upload your patterns
to its server. If you have made ones and you want to place it at the
PageStream-users disposal you can transfer the files.
Direct link to the opinion poll and to the upload:
German -
English
You can find the opinion poll under the title link. (ps)
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20.Jun.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 15.9
With the viruschecker ´Safe´ you can look for virus but you can not eliminate them. It follows the details to version 15.9 which has been published today:
Name: Safe v15.9
Archivename : Safe.lha
Archivesize: 33.767 Bytes
Releasedate: 19. June 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Required: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
News in v15.9:
- Added BOBEK2 linkvirus (memory removal and XFD slave to see it in files with VirusZ).
This one was very difficult to handle in memory. File detection is very easy and
shouldn't generate any false positives.
- Kicked out TCPPATCH/S parameter in order to make place for code that kills BOBEK2 in memory.
(ps)
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