03.Jun.2001
Amiga Future
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Installation: JST V4.8, WHDLoad - new packages
On 1. June 2001
JST
version 4.8 was released.
For the installation tool 'WHDLoad' six new install packages for
games were released on 1. and 2. June 2001. Those also work with
JST and are available for download under the title link.
- Fly Harder (Starbyte) by Codetapper.
- Curse Of Ra (Rainbow Arts) by Jeff.
- Citadel (Arakkis/VD) by Bored Seal & Psygore & Jeff.
- Simpsons - Bart Space Mutants (Acclaim/Ocean) by Codetapper.
- Cyberzerk (Boeder) by Bored Seal.
- 688 Attack Sub (Electronic Arts) by Jeff.
JST and WHDLoad enable floppy-disk only games and programs to
be installed on harddisk.
Download: jst.lha
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03.Jun.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: full version of the system manager (update)
With permission of Frederic Laboureur the Amiga Arena makes
possible the full version of 'The Boss'.
'The Boss' is a system manager enabling programs and
application to be started by simply pressing a button. No annoying
and memory consuming icons, menus or docks are used for launching.
A simple button is enough to start a program.
'The Boss' is very easy to operate, flexible, compact, system friendly,
and recource considering, and moreover runs on any screen possible
(Workbench, public or even it's own one). This tool addresses anybody
who finds tools like Toolmanager or ToolsDeamon to be too inflated.
Features:
- Completely configurable. No additional tools needed.
- Font sensitive GUI. Chooseable font for both, screen and buttons.
- Full OCS / ECS / AGA support. Chooseable screen mode.
- All functions on one single screen. No menus, icons or docks.
- No seperate interface like MUI or ClassAct needed.
- asynchronous multitasking and extreme system friendly.
- 16 colour WB-palette to determine the tool's colours.
- Efficient use of memory - only a few memory is required.
- Chooseable types for buttons, drawers, scripts, and executable files.
- Unlimited number of buttons possible, whichever how much you need.
- Small, optimized and fast code makes it all system friendly.
- Very easy to use and configure.
- Drag & Drop support.
As always the Amiga Arena is looking for users wanting to translate or write
reviews or manuals. sd
Supplement 06 June 2001:
Amiga Arena - The Boss Update!
Since some users have had problems with the keyfile Frederic Laboureu reworked
the program file. All users having problems regarding the keyfile, please
reload the archive. Special thank to Harald N. for reporting and to Frederic L.
for the quick update.
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03.Jun.2001
ANN
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Instant-Messenger: GUI development for STRICQ V2
On ANN
Douglas F. McLaughlin wrote, that he started development of STRICQ v2. In this
version the GUI will be completely independent from the rest of the program.
This allows STRICQ v2 to be equipped with different GUI's. People interested
in developing a GUI (MUI or other) for STRICQ v2 can mail to
Douglas F. McLaughlin for closer
discussions about the implementation.
There will be a SDK for GUI developers.
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03.Jun.2001
amiga.org
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BBC: Sharp Zaurus-PDA in Click Online
On BBC World the broadcast 'Click Online' reported about
the Zaurus-PDA by Sharp and showed several applications running
on it. According to the
message
on amiga.org the name of Amiga was not mentioned, however.
The report is available as ASF file (Windows Media Player) on the
BBC World-Server and
also will be to see in replays of the broadcast of which the dates are listed under the title
link.
Supplement 03 June 2001:
On ann.lu it
reported,
that the CEO of Sharp talked about the AmigaDE in a broadcast on CNBC, but also that
he talked about to be favoring Microsoft's .net (dot net) for future product lines.
(David Scheibler)
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03.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Unix: OpenBSD V2.9
On 1. June 2001 version 2.9 of the open source Unix 'OpenBSD' was
released. This release among other things includes the following
components:
- XFree86 4.0.3
- gcc 2.95.3 (+ Patches)
- perl 5.6.0 (+ Patches)
- Apache 1.3.19, mod_ssl 2.8.2, OpenSSL 0.9.6 (+ patches), DSO support
- ipf 3.4.16 (+ Patches)
- sendmail 8.11.3
- lynx 2.8.2 with HTTPS support
- ncurses 5.2
- Latest KAME IPv6
- KTH Kerberos 1.0.4
- OpenSSH 2.9
OpenBSD supports several systems including
i386, Amiga, and Mac68k.
More information are available via the title link.
Information about the Amiga port in particular are available
http://www.openbsd.org/amiga.html.
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03.Jun.2001
Amiga Future
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C=: The Commodore Billboard Newsletter #10
The The Commodore Billboard website
is an archive of advertising, brochures, and TV spots by Commodore.
In issue #10 of the newsletter from 31. May 2001 new entries to the archive
are listed. Among those are PET and Japanese advertising, an 8-pages Dutch Amiga brochure,
and two English brochures, as well as a photograph of Eddie Newton wearing a C= tricot from
the times when C= was sponsoring the English soccer club Chelsea.
(sd)
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02.Jun.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: ENVHandler V 1.8
Stephan Rupprecht has released version 1.8 of his HappyEnv replacement
'ENVHandler'. Download: envhandler.lha - 13 kB
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02.Jun.2001
Fun Time World
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Inofficial Mediator support homepage
Users of the Mediator board may find information around this PCI board on
the new website of Sam Thomas from Elbox.
Next to many installation tips you can find up-to-date Mediator news
and programs that have been written specifically for this board. The beginning
is made by the program ´Medication´ by Richard Brookly that makes
setting up the board much easier.
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02.Jun.2001
Nogfx homepage
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Game: FlashNG V 1.15 (Arkanoid clone)
The version 1.15 of the Arkanoid clone 'FlashNG' has been released. The archive
contains 'IFF2RAW', a tool to create own GFX sets for the game.
Download: flashNG.lha - 119 kB
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02.Jun.2001
Richard Kapp via email
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Interview: GFX-Base talked with Onyxsoft
The GFX-Base has made an (english) interview with Stefan Blixth,
Daniel Westerberg and Anders Ericsson from OnyxSoft
(the creators of freeware like Onyxbase, Quicknote, Detris,
DRemind and others). In this very comprehensive interview they have spoken about
their freeware projects, new plans, the origin of OnyxSoft and their views of
different subjects.
(ps)
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02.Jun.2001
c't issue 12/2001 (ANF)
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c't newspart: 'Mac OS 9 on the AMIGA'
The AMIGA is making headlines once again in the current print issue of the c't
(German computer magazine), page 39:
»Already for years is the AMIGA for some fans the better Macintosh. Now the
MacOS versions 8.5 to 9.1 and therefore PowerPC native programs, too, can be
used on the computer - with iFusion.
The British distributor Blittersoft sells the emulator for 430 Mark via the
internet (www.blittersoft.com). The software is said to support up to 2
GByte RAM, disk drives, harddisks and CD-ROMs. Requirements for the use is
according to Blittersoft an AMIGA computer with a PPC board, 32 MByte RAM and
Cybergraphics version 4. (adb)«
This headline shows very exactly that the interest in the AMIGA is also
depending on the really existing (and not only announced) products. (ps)
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02.Jun.2001
DocDatatypes
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Datatype: DocDatatypes v40.10
Amarpreet Singh Munde has released version 40.10 of his DocDatatypes.
The datatypes archive contains different datatypes, that can read and reproduce
most different non-Amiga document types like for example Word or RTF documents.
Newly added is the support of Mac Teach text files. The software package is shareware.
(ps)
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02.Jun.2001
amiga.org
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Event: Saku 2001
The Finnish Amiga User Group announces their fourth annual Amiga event. The Saku
2001 will be held on 1. September in the Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa
near Helsinki. Further details can be found under the title link.
(ps)
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01.Jun.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 01.06.2001
PeekMail_GR.lha comm/mail 3K+Greek locale for PeekMail
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01.Jun.2001
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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Web tool: GetImageInfo
GetImageInfo is a helpful program for determining image information. Mostly
thought for the integration of image dimensions in HTML documents. Shell and
Workbench usage. GetImageInfo requires no datatypes and only reads out the file header.
Supported formats: BMP, GIF, IFF, JPEG, PBM, PCX, PNG, PSF, SUN, TARGA, TIFF.
Download: GetImageInfo.lha
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01.Jun.2001
Christian Bauer
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Mac emulator: Basilisk II version 0.9-1
The 68k Macintosh emulator 'Basilisk II' is available for AmigaOS, BeOS, Unix &
Linux and Windows. Yesterday, Christian Bauer released version 0.9-1.
Download: BasiliskII-0.9-1.amiga.lha - 124 kB
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01.Jun.2001
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GoldED support website has moved
The support website of Dietmar Eilert's GoldEd has moved to a Free2Surf server and
can now be found at the following URL:
http://golded.dietmar-eilert.de.
Please change your bookmarks.
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01.Jun.2001
amiga.org
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Event: Ottawa Amiga Show, Canada
As reported,
Amiga.info plans to organize the first Amiga show in Canada for three years. The
original date was end of July but since the AmiWest is held the same weekend
in Sacramento the organizers decided to postpone the show until presumably early
September 2001.
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01.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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The Register: Sharp uses Intel for Linux PDA
According to ´The Register´ Sharp abandons Hitachi in favor of Intel and
breaks with the tradition to equip the Zaurus PDA with StrongARM. Sharp admitted
this yesterday.
Certainly the price was a factor in the decision as to use the Intel CPU means to
save costs. The reason? "StrongARM offers lowest energy consumption and best functions,"
says Hiroshi Uno, leader for mobile systems at Sharp in an interview with Bloomberg.
Full article at the titlelink.
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01.Jun.2001
clixnet.de
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Technologies: AMD and Transmeta announce cooperation
AMD and
Transmeta announced to have signed a licence
agreement on industrial standards for future microprocessor technologies. The licence
includes AMD's x86-64(TM) technology as well as AMD's HyperTransport(TM) technology.
HyperTransport allows a faster transport of information so that single chips in
computers/networks can communicate with each other up to 48 times faster.
(mj)
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01.Jun.2001
Jan Andersen by e-mail
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V15.7
The virus scanner ´Safe´ can detect but not eliminate viruses.
Here the details of version 15.7 which has been released today:
Name: Safe v15.7
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size: 26.921 Bytes
Release date: 31. Mai 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
New in v15.4 - 7000:
Fixed stupid bug with QUICKTEST which caused that some machines
crashed. Thanks to MikeHendren and Dieter B. for reports.
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