15.Jun.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga starts with delivery of the "Party Packs"
According to a posting of Gary Peake (see titlelink), Amiga has begun
last Thursday with delivery of the "Party Packs".
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
René Thol (ANF)
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(New) informations on GREX 4000 and MicroServer
René Thol has received some interesting informations from DCE on the G-Rex 4000 board
and summarizes:
- the GREX 4000 is ready, they're waiting only for the boards from the manufacturer.
- the GREX 4000 replaces the the daughterboard (ISA-, ZIII- and videoslots) on the motherboard and is connected with the port for the CVPPC on the Cyberstorm board.
- the TV board drivers for the GREX are still in the works and are thus no longer mentioned in the GREX advertising since only finished drivers are advertised there.
- AGP extensions are not planned. The AGP slots of the AmigaOne will also work only through PCI with the resulting speed.
- The planned DCE Microserver will be plugged later in one of the PCI slots and features two SDRAM slots with 133 MHz bus speed. It can be used as busmaster and has access to the entire Amiga hardware. Sadly, a Cyberstorm board already working in the Amiga has still to be used
and its processors can not access the SDRAM (buswidth through PCI too narrow). Because of a CPU socket, more current CPUs than the G3/G4 can be used later. Existing PPC applications won't run immediately on the new CPUs (due to addressing and such) but have to be be adapted through (minor) changes in the sourcecode and a special library.
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (e-mail)
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Event: Benelux Amiga Show and Amiga LAN Party
As already announced,
the Benelux Amiga Show takes place on June 23rd, 2001 in Rotterdam together with a
LAN party which are organized by the Dutch print magazine ´Amiga Scene´ and the dealer
´Computer City´.
Besides the already mentioned highlights and VIPs there are the following confirmations:
Alan Redhouse of Eyetech will present two
AmigaOne with a colleague.
Discount on admission
To make the trip to Holland from neighbor countries more appealing, a discount of 50% on
the admission is granted to everyone who comes from outside Holland. (ps)
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14.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Heise: mp3PRO: MP3 Successor joining the Race
»Since today, 14th June, the first official demo version of the designated
MP3 successor mp3PRO is available for free download on Coding Technologies' website.
The "RCA Demo mp3PRO Player/Encoder 1.0" plays Mp3(PRO) files as well as wav-files.
The latter can also be converted to the new mp3PRO format at a non-varying bit-rate
of 64 kbit/s. The new and downwards compatible format augurs a substantial better
quality of sound at low bit-rates, due to "spectral band replication" (SBR).
«
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)
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14.Jun.2001
Nico Barbat
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Event: Autumn Show appointment determined
Autumnal there will be a show organized by the Falke-Verlag, again.
Meantime the time-frame was determined: The "AMIGA WORLD 2001" will
take place on 20th and 22nd September 2001 with the
maxpo 2001 jointly at the
fairgrounds of Cologne. More information will follow, soon.
(ps)
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14.Jun.2001
BTTR-Team (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: Download Hours Fixed
BTTR downloads now disabled 2/3 of each day!
Our archive files will only be available for download from
06:10 to 13:10 GMT (may vary), but they should work at full
speed then. We are not happy about this, but unless we find
some sponsors, we have to prevent our archive from being closed
down by this action. If we find we can extend the times outward
more, we will.
The entire content of the site (except all downloads, full-size
pictures and the mod player) will continue to work the entire
day. The same applies to the Aminet downloads, as they are not
stored on these servers.
If you are willing to help us by either donating money to pay
parts of our traffic, by purchasing targeted advertising at our
site or by providing us a fast dedicated *nix server somewhere
else, please contact traffic@back2roots.org.
Several thousand people visit this site each day, and create
the enormous traffic together. Some download more, some download
less. It would be nice if a few of you could also help us to keep
this monster comfortable for people of all time zones.
Many of you have surely noticed that most of the gaming archive
sites were closed down recently. These sites all paid their
traffic by advertising. So did we. However, this does not work
for archive sites anymore, since advertising prices dropped
horribly worldwide.
We have several ideas in the queue to find an income to finance
this site for your convenience. Just none which will work fast
enough. So please also contact us if you want to provide temporary
help.
To all companies who have licensed games to be offered at our
site for free: BTTR will continue to be a non profit project,
and we did never earn a single pence with it, and we will
continue to do so.
(ps)
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14.Jun.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New Screenshots of the AmigaDE GUI
Under the title link there is a posting by Fleecy Moss (AmigaOne mailing list) along
with several pictures attached to the mail.
Matt Chaput (together with other people) in deed has been authorized to design the new
GUI.
Fleecy explained that "of course these still are prototypes and eventually will be 'skinnable'
(configurable with skins). But the pictures should give a good impression of where things are
going".
Update: (08.08.2012, cg)
Added the two screenshots mockups that could still be found on the net. (ps)
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14.Jun.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 13.06.2001
TruncateMail.lha comm/mail 10K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
YAMGenesis.lha comm/mail 24K+YAM-->Genesis-->Yam2NN, united. V1.05
FlushHeaders.lha comm/news 32K+FlushHeaders for Yam2NN_087 V1.00
Yam2nnSpa.lha comm/news 4K+Spanish translation catalog for Yam2NN
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 26K+Online Dictionary
factsSpa.lha comm/tcp 2K+Spanish translation catalog for FACTS
Jabberwocky.lha comm/tcp 185K+Jabber/ICQ/AIM/MSN/Yahoo/IRC client
pproxy-mos.lha comm/tcp 6K+Little Proxy with cache -MorphOS-
Artifictional.lha demo/aga 1.3M+Secretly! - artifictional,demo at ms2001
PureBasic_Upd2.lha dev/basic 661K+V2.32 - Update for registered users (fro
DragnDrop14a.lha dev/gui 129K+Update of dragndrop library - got new fu
MCC_NListtree.lha dev/mui 264K+MUI list tree class for NList
stormgcc_binut.lha dev/src 5.2M+Sources of StormGCC from Dec. 2000 CD
stormgcc_cvs.lha dev/src 1.8M+Sources of StormGCC from Dec. 2000 CD
stormgcc_gcc.lha dev/src 11M+Sources of StormGCC from Dec. 2000 CD
TsGuiSpa.lha disk/misc 1K+Spanish translation catalog for TsGUI
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 31K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
WHDIDemos.lzh game/patch 2.0M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesA-B.lzh game/patch 2.1M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesC-D.lzh game/patch 1.7M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
Stato.lha game/shoot 2.5M+Statoscuro-overhead shoot'em-up.GIFTWARE
vpeg.lha hard/drivr 13K+Hardware mpeg-player for Peggy+ and simi
dissa.lha misc/emu 91K+Pc-Engine Roms Tools V1.77+Gui
Benelux-show.jpg pix/art 19K+Jpg picture with fxPaint and C4D
htmldoc-mos.lha text/misc 679K+Convert HTML to PDF,PostScript...v1.8.12
htmldoc.lha text/misc 612K+Convert HTML to PDF,PostScript...v1.8.12
muReset.lha util/cli 3K+Reset command with muFS support, check i
PopScreen.lha util/cli 2K+A small popscreen utility for scripts V1
AslToRT.lha util/misc 21K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
ReqAttackUpd.lha util/misc 52K+RAPrefsMUI 1.81
ReqAttack_deu.lha util/misc 38K+RAPrefsMUI german catalog & docs(1.80)
RxSPack.lha util/rexx 2K+Spanish translation catalogs for RxMUI,R
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 53K+External Virus Support Library v33.25 (as)
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13.Jun.2001
Haage & Partner
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H&P: ArtEffect Plugins Collection
The ArtEffect Plugins Collection
for the first time brings an extended collection of sensational effects and editing filters for the
image editing software ArtEffect.
As highlights among the effects there are Glow and DarkGlow maken
objects "glowing", Solar, Neon, and Alien to mutate images, classics
like PageCurl curling one edge of a picture, as well as OilPainting
creating a perfect painting from a photograph or scanned picture.
System requirements: ArtEffect 2, 3 or 4 (will not work with v1.5 or
SE version). The collection will come along with ArtEffect 2, so you can
start right away. (ps)
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13.Jun.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: "Trojan horse" disguise as folder
A new virus disguise as Windows-folder - while opening it shows a directory but in the background it installs a "Trojan horse".
[...]
The mail has the subject-line "Welcome you to" and it contains an attachment "iwantyou.exe".
[...]
In order to get rid of the virus you should delete the files "angel.exe" and "angel.dll" in the Windows/system-directory and reboot the computer.
For full article see title link.
(ps)
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13.Jun.2001
Ron Goertz
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ARexx: FWCalendar 4.14 and FWCAddEvent v3.97
FWCalendar of Ron Goertz is an ARexx-script (macro) for FinalWriter V4+
or Pagestream V3+ which enables you to easily create calendars.
The script contains over 100 variables which can be preferenced by the
user and is therefore useful in many different ways. With the macro
FWCAddEvent you can easily enter dates in the created calendar.
Download: FWCalender.lha - Please note the Installation hints!
(ps)
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13.Jun.2001
Richard H. Poser (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM 0.9415 beta
The new betaversion 0.9415 of AmigaAIM which is the AOL Instant Messenger for Amiga of Richard H. Poser is available.
Changes:
- Modified Away System to reply correctly when using the %n, %t or %d
replacements when set (Info display also properly shows when replaced and the
person is away).
- Added text in Add/Edit Away section to indicate the replacements.
Download:
AmigAIM_Beta - full archive
AmigAIM.lha - Update
(ps)
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13.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: Powerful PDA-processors of Motorola
»With two new chips of the DragonBall-family which uses less current Motorola starts a new round concerning PDA-processors. The DragonBall MX1 is the first processor of Motorola based on a ARM-core while DragonBall Super VZ puts one its trust on 68k-architecture. The predecessor the DragonBall VZ is used in PDAs by Palm, Handspring, Sony and HandEra.«
For full article see title link. (ps)
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13.Jun.2001
Roland Wintgen (E-Mail)
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Golem: Amiga delivers pre-version of AmigaDE
Golem - IT news for pros
reports about AmigaDE:
»Beta-version with SDK and example applications for 100
US-dollars
For a short time Amiga offers software packets for Windows and Linux
with which users and developers can test slowly growing up Amiga
Digital Enviroment (AmigaDE). Those ones who buy a party pack until
the 16th of June will get a beta version of AmigaDE with which
AmigaDE-software can be used directly under Windows or Linux as well
as free updates for one year.«
For full article see title link. (ps)
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13.Jun.2001
Jens Schönfeld (comment)
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Driver: New details to X-Surf driver
In a comment (see title link) to the topic of ADSL Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers told some interesting details to his driver for the network-card 'X-Surf' which is still in development.
"Currently there is a driver for the X-Surf in development with which you can implement PPPoE based DSL in each TCP/IP stack (also the "ordinary" Miami, Genesis and AmiTCP). Currently the driver is in the alpha-phase but will be adapted to each possible PPPoE-implementation".
For full article see title link.
(ps)
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13.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)
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Event: Benelux Amiga Show and Amiga LAN Party
As already announced on 23th June 2001 Benelux Amiga Show and LAN-party will take place in Rotterdam which is organized by the Dutch print magazine ´Amiga Scene´ and the trader ´Computer City´.
Additional to the already mentioned highlights and vips Jürgen Haage of Haage & Partner will take part, too. (ps)
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13.Jun.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena news
Amiga Arena full versions
With permission of Stefan Berge Amiga Arena publishes the full
version of "FileCutter". "FileCutter" enables you to divide
files of any size into as many pieces as you like.
Because of that it is possible to transport a 4 MB big file which you
cannot archive to spread on 5 disks (720 kb).
In the newest version it works with files which were divided by
NortonCommander on a PC. A great thanks to Andreas Magerl who placed
the full version at your disposal.
Amiga Arena pre-release
The popular Workbench-game "ArTKanoid" (breakout clone) of Thilo
Köhler is exclusively online in version 1.2 right before Aminet.
Amiga Arena updates
"Blade" which is an action-RPG-game of Mark Sheeky is ready for download
in the harddrive-version. Exclusively in the German version.
Amiga Arena - "The Boss": German catalog
The German locale for "The Boss" was created by Richard Kapp and is
in the archive.
Amiga Arena special price action
In co-operation with Nemeth Miklos Amiga Arena makes a special price
for "LangTools" possible. With "LangTools" you can translate texts.
You can easily load a text and simultaneously translate the text with
an editor.
You can choose between several languages and more will follow.
"LangTools" is already in development and author Nemeth is looking
forward to your feedback.
Amiga Arena interview action
At the same time an interview with Nemeth Miklos which is the developer
of "LangTools" went online. (ps)
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13.Jun.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Matt Chaputs notions to GUI-design for AmigaDE
Under the title link you can find a document called AmigaUI Look.
It was created by Matt Chaput which is the GlowIcon-designer. Looking at the first paragraph you can only suppose that Matt concerned with the GUI for AmigaDE at least in October 2000.
In section "Work" of his website you can also find the site Amiga GUIs which contains some screenshots of his notions:
Screen mock-up #1
Screen mock-up #2
Single window- and control elements
If Matt Chaput did it on behalf of Amiga Inc or just for fun and if he concerns with it today is unfortunately not known.
(ps)
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12.Jun.2001
Patrick Beerhorst (ANF)
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ASA - Amiga Software Archive (work in progress)
We will revive amiga-software.com on our server. Until its shutdown it
was a regularly used service with an easy and fast overview about the
latest Amiga software.
We want to continue this with the ASA (Amiga Software Archive). Users
and coders can present helpful programs, tools and utilities with a short
description. The visitor will get also information about system
requirements (CPU, memory, OS, PPC, ...) and of course the link for the
related homepage and email address of the author - every author can
change and delete his entry via ID and password at any time.
The coding of the system will be finished next week, so from then on
you can make entries into it.
We need the support of experienced users, who will offer up some of
their freetime for administration and control of the latest entries.
If you are interested, please send an email to us:
asa@synotec-newmedia.de.
(ps)
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12.Jun.2001
Thorsten Willert
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News from Thorsten Willert
First you can get a fix of his HTML preprocessor extension in the GoldED WebWorld menu,
that you can use together with "CompressHTML".
Second he is looking for a new name for "CompressHTML", because the old name does not
fit anymore with the new functions.
Third the following of his AREXX programs are now public domain:
- Auto-Font-List
- FWTabTools
- FileInfo
- GH_Browser
- MakeSuffix
Because of lack of time Thorsten Willert can not develop them any further.
If you want to continue the development of these projects, he will give you
a helping hand to start.
Who wants to continue the AmigaOSGuide? It is an Amiga DOS manual, with dictionary.
State: OS 3.1. If you are interested, send an email to Thorsten Willert.
(ps)
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12.Jun.2001
PureBasic
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Compiler: PureBasic Version 2.32 for AmigaOS
Version 2.32 for AmigaOS of the compiler PureBasic is released. For registered
users is an update available, not registered users can download a demo version.
Download:
PureBasic_Upd2.32.lha - Update
pureBasic.lha - Demoversion
(ps)
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