10.Apr.2001
VirusHelpDenmark
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VirusExecutor v2.11 Released
Version 2.11 of VirusExecutor, the virus killer, is released. This update can
handle the TCP-trojan (we reported). Details:
name: VirusExecutor v2.11
archive: VirusExecutor.lha
archive size: 258.521 bytes
release date: 10. April 2001
coder: Jan Erik Olausen
needed: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
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10.Apr.2001
Thomas Steiding via E-Mail
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e.p.i.c. ports "The Feeble Files" to MAC and MorphOS
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh has signed a license agreement to port
Adventuresoft's cartoon adventure "The Feeble Files" to the MACINTOSH.
The game puts you to play an alien called Feeble who works for the crop circle
division of a dictatorial government but somehow get involved in a rebellion to
overthrow the system. But you will quickly learn that Rebellion really has never
looked so pAtHeTiC.
The MAC version will require a 180 Mhz PPC CPU, MacOS 8.6 or higher and 32 MByte
Ram. The game is scheduled for release in May 2001. You will find more detail on
the game in the projects section of our homepage.
A version for the alternative PPC OS MorphOS is also planned.
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10.Apr.2001
Thorsten Will via E-Mail
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"SECRETLY!"(DemoScene) Looking for GFX Artist
"SECRETLY!" is looking for some gfx artists for future projects (demos and so on).
If you are interested, send some examples of your work and a little bit about
yourself to twill@gmx.de or to
mr.vain@secretly.de.
Some information about the group you will find at the title link.
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09.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
QuickNote V1.5 Beta 1
OnxySoft released version 1.5 (Beta 1)
of the program 'QuickNote' by Stefan Blixth. Download:
quicknote15b0408.lha
Tales of Tamar Amiga Client V0.34r2
There is a new version (V0.35 R2) of the Amiga-client of
Tales of Tamar for registered beta testers available
here.
Shogo:MAD
As already reported Hyperion Software
uploaded a demo of Shogo:MAD to the Aminet. Download:
ShogoDemo.lha or
ShogoDemo.lha
Ghostscript 6.50
Rüdiger Hanke announced that
he released version 6.50. The download is available at his
Homepage.
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09.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
SKF13Theme.lha biz/dopus 7.1M+Theme for DirectoryOpus5 Magellan 2
ListbrowserPch.lha biz/patch 10K+Fixes AWeb popup problems with OS3.9 BB1
ShogoDemo.lha biz/titan 36M+Shogo: Mobile Armor Division demo versio
fnews10.lha comm/misc 50K+Free configurable News Display Tool for
daytimedemo.lha comm/tcp 9K+Daytime client/server example + source (
smbfs.lha comm/tcp 120K+SMB file system client; complements Samb
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 362K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
mbs-oldskool.lha demo/ecs 300K+Oldskool Fools by Mandel Bros.
dln-1st.lha demo/intro 140K+First intro by Deadline SF
dln-dentro.lha demo/intro 102K+Dentro by Deadline SF
dln-mustro.lha demo/intro 146K+Mustro (2nd intro) by Deadline SF
Message.lha demo/intro 88K+An Old-School Demo by HCS 90
upstream1.lha demo/mag 579K+Upstream 1 diskmag by Balance
upstream10.lha demo/mag 436K+Upstream 10 diskmag by Balance
upstream8.lha demo/mag 645K+Upstream 8 diskmag by Balance
dln-notelines.lha demo/sound 803K+Notelines musicdisk by Deadline SF
deepcore.lha demo/track 406K+Deepcore trackmo by Balance
JMildred_ScrMd.lha dev/basic 18K+Example of using Mildred with AGA and RT
devpic.lha dev/cross 95K+PIC16 development package
FD2Pragma.lha dev/misc 144K+V2.124 create pragma, inline, ... files
muimaster020.lha dev/mui 97K+Muimaster.library 020 patch Rel 4
IICopier2.0PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish Locale for IconImageCopier2.0
jAnimator1.0PL.lha docs/help 10K+Polish Locale for jAnimator1.0
MagellanIIPL.lha docs/help 39K+Polish Locale for MagellanII
Aakt0401GUIDE.lha docs/mags 89K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0401HTML.lha docs/mags 267K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
rusfaqs.lha docs/misc 94K+Amiga FAQs, in Russian
SuddenDeath.lha game/actio 50K+4 player tron
F1GP_2001.lha game/data 9K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (1 April
obvious.lha game/data 102K+DynAMIte style with obvious colors
MUI_HLed.lha game/misc 71K+Map editor for HistoryLine 1914-1918
PerOneMine1.lha game/misc 249K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine2.lha game/misc 362K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine3.lha game/misc 363K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine4.lha game/misc 345K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine5.lha game/misc 336K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine6.lha game/misc 372K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
gse1.lha game/patch 17K+Editor for Gunship2000 roster files
WHD_JWSnooker.lha game/patch 30K+HD Installer for Jimmy White Snooker
WHD_PDroid90.lha game/patch 17K+HD Installer for Paradroid90
WHD_RAMHamster.lha game/patch 8K+HD Installer for Rockstar Ate My Hamster
WHD_UridiumII.lha game/patch 14K+Uridium II Hard Drive Installer
WHD_Zeewolf.lha game/patch 25K+HD Installer for Zeewolf
WHD_ZeewolfII.lha game/patch 24K+HD Installer for Zeewolf II
eyangband.lha game/role 789K+EyAngband 0.3.0 - Roguelike solo RPG
gumband.lha game/role 953K+Gumband 2.1.3b - Roguelike solo RPG
kangband.lha game/role 843K+Kangband 2.9.2r1 - Roguelike solo RPG
oangband.lha game/role 900K+Oangband 0.5.1 - Roguelike solo RPG
Connect4.lha game/think 64K+Connect 4 game using MUI (with source)
MagicNumbersDt.lha game/think 2K+V1.1, German catalog for MagicNumbers v1
MentalBlokz.lha game/think 405K+Puzzle game that will drive you mental f
Warp3D-4.0.lha gfx/board 980K+Warp3D V4
SoftCinema.lha gfx/show 403K+Ultimate Movie Player (PPC) V0.12
FMdriver.lha hard/drivr 356K+FrameMachine drivers, TV on WB, Videos a
FMdriverVHI.lha hard/drivr 15K+FMdriverVHI - VHI-FrameMachine drivers
ps2m.lha hard/hack 23K+Ultimate Amiga PS/2 WheelMouseController
mathdrill.lha misc/edu 50K+Math Drill Flashcards Program
imdbDiff010330.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
vdo_whit.lha mods/vdo 802K+Valkoinen [xm 14ch]
DelfMPEG.lha mus/play 161K+MPEG audio player for Delfina DSP
dmdev.lha mus/play 135K+Mpeg.device for Delfina DSP
MASMPegDevice.lha mus/play 129K+CBM compat. device for MAS MP3 Player
AMIGirl.lha pix/misc 321K+Picture of Death - The AMiGA Girl ;) by
BareED.lha text/edit 279K+Simple text editor which supports propor
AutoPDF14.lha text/misc 26K+AutoPDF 1.4 - Convert Postscript to PDF
ltools157_demo.lha text/misc 70K+Dictionary and Document Translator
CheckX.lha util/arc 30K+V1.83 Check for Archives/Packers/Viruses
ilbmdtPPC.lha util/dtype 11K+Ilbmdt for the PPC, running WarpUP (45.3
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 27K+WarpDT preferences program V44.3
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 133K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.19 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 140K+PNG image datatype V44.14 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
cookietool.lha util/misc 67K+Clean up your fortunes database, V2.5
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 498K+V1.44 - WB graphics benchmark
WheelBusMouse.lha util/mouse 12K+Bus Mouse wheel support
ScreenShell.lha util/shell 9K+Opens full size shell on new public scre
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 19K+PatchBrain v1.29 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
aafont.lha util/wb 4K+Antialiased fonts on wb (1.1)
choowin.lha util/wb 19K+Start and Window activation utility
classaction.lha util/wb 190K+AmigaOS multipurpose filemanager
CondenseIcon.lha util/wb 6K+Os3.5 tool to make .info files smaller (
mainprefs.lha util/wb 86K+AmigaOS Preferences GUI
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09.Apr.2001
Thomas Würgler on ANF
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Trojan Warning (Update II)
Some sort of trojan (apparently the newly uploaded stackattack.lha on
Aminet) has caused SMTP bombing of haage-partner. The file is this: StackAttack.lha
util/boot 68K 0 V1.2b Kills GURUs (stack problem). It's on the
German Aminet mirror.
Could there be hidden loopholes in MorphOS? Read the link and consider
for yourself.
Frank Niewiedzial informed us that other
files could be affected too.
"Do not download and install safe.lha and fblit.lha. They are fakes and send hatemails to H&P."
Silivio K. told us that the current version of 'BlaceWCP' could be concerned too.
"The current version of BlaceWP, available from the aminet, opens the port 113 (auth) of your
computer and connects to the H&P web- and ftpserver! The program itself is not a product of H&P.
Thats why it could be possible that it is a trojan too.
The following logs were recorded:
tcp 0 0 pD9042BA5.dip.t-.auth haage-partner.co.61797 TIME_WAIT
16:00:46.081940 pD90427BC.dip.t-dialin.net.2865 > haage-partner.com.smtp
16:02:08.530618 pD90427BC.dip.t-dialin.net > 217.5.107.165: icmp: echo request
"
Annotation of editor's:
Haage & Partner confirmed that at the moment 15 e-mails arrive at H&P every minute. Juergen Haage:
"Do not panic. No normal mail will get lost."
The MorphOS-Team has nothing to do with the virus and dissociate from this! "Lowest level, this is
not our way of competition".
Even Georg Steger, the original author of StackAttack dissociates him self in his commentary at
ANN.
Virus Help Denmark and the admin of the aminet Matthias Scheler are informed and they will check the
files and maybe delete them.
At the title link there is a tool available that removes the task from the ram. After reboot it will
be there again and you have to restart the tool.
Annotation: Messsage of the day from Aminet
- TROJAN HORSES FOUND ON AMINET. The following four archives on Aminet were
unfortunately infected: util/boot/StackAttack.lha, util/boot/BlazeWCP.lha,
util/virus/Safe.lha and util/boot/FBlit.lha. They contain faked releases
of the original software linked with a Trojan horse which sends out
abusive e-mails. On infected systems a process called "zakahackandpatch"
will show up. If your system is infected deleted the software listed abover
or replace it with older versions and reboot. As a protest against this
abuse of Aminet we will shut down our services on "us.aminet.net" and
"de.aminet.net" until Friday.
- DE3.AMINET.NET NOW COMPLETE. The mirror in Erlangen, Germany now stores all
Aminet files.
Annotation 10.04.2001:
Following the official message by Virus Help Denmark. They are
offering the old alten Archives at there homepage.
Four new 'TCP' trojans was found today on Aminet. If you installed
one of these archives, please delete the files. We hope to have a
cure for these trojan within the next 24 hours.
The TCP trojan will send an email to 'Haage & Partner', with a very
stupid text.
Here is what we know so far:
Virus Type.... : TCP Trojan
Trojan name....: zakahackandpatch
Archive name.. : Safe.lha Archive size.. : About 20 kb
Archive name.. : Fblit.lha Archive size.. : 142.086 bytes
Archive name.. : BlazeWCP.lha Archive size.. : 32.862 bytes
Archive name.. : stackattack.lha Archive size.. : About 32 kb
Thanx to Frank Niewiedzial, Kev Harrison, Luca Longone and many more
for your information about these archives.....
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09.Apr.2001
Greg Donner
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Update of the Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ
Since our last message about the official OS3.9 FAQ by Greg Donner there were many
updates in different parts of the FAQ.
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09.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Prerelease!
We made ArTKnoid by Thilo Koehler (developer of Toadies) available at our side.
The program is a arkanoid-clone.
Amiga Arena TaskiSMS annotation
The registration for the special-price for TaskiSMS is now possible via snail-mail.
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09.Apr.2001
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III - News
After a longer brake there are now some new news about Digital Almanac III (DA 3).
The English version is available now! The German update will be available within a few days.
These are the main changes since version 2.0:
- Improved stability
- Corrected times of the rising and setting of the moon.
- PixelCheck-function does not longer crash with CGX-15/16/24Bit-Screens.
- Times of moon eclipses in the calendar are now in local time.
- and much more...
Furthermore there are about 100MB of videos concerning astronomy and science-fiction.
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09.Apr.2001
Markus Fellhauer on ANF
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AmigAIM 0.9412 Beta Released
Betaversion 0.9412 of AmigaAIM by Richard H. Poser is available for download:
AmigAIM_BETA.lha
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09.Apr.2001
Jens Troeger on ANF
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InstallerNG
I released a small update of InstallerNG. I only changed the runtime error handling: you are
able to switch of the error requestors via tooltypes.
There will be version 2 out in some weeks. If you have any wishes for the new version just
send me a mail.
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09.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun on ANF
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Abode of Golgotha Saga at NoRiscNoFun
We have a review of the Abode of Golgotha Saga. These games are based on the Heretic II engine.
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08.Apr.2001
Michael Garlich via E-Mail
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Titan Computer Support MorphOS
Press release from Titan Computer, Software Development, 08.04.2001
Titan Computer is happy to announce that we have decided to now also support
MorphOS in the future.
One of our first projects will be the video-editing software Motionstudio,
which will be developed by the company with the same name, who have already developed
software like Elastic Dreams and Artstudio Pro.
Motionstudio will be released in 4/Q exclusively for MorphOS.
The software supports non-linear video-editing, PlugIn interface, more
than 40 video- and audio effects, innovative GUI as well as Firewire support
(e.g. B-Plan Pegasos Computer).
Take a look at one of the first
screenshots (201 kB)
of the GUI.
Kontakt:
Titan Computer
Mahndorfer Heerstr. 80 A
D-28307 Bremen
Tel.: +49/(0)421/48 16 20
Fax : +49/(0)421/43 88 29
E-Mail: MacFly@TitanComputer.de
WWW: http://www.Titan-Computer.com
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08.Apr.2001
RELEC im ANF
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Prometheus in Switzerland & France
Prometheus in Switzerland & France!
RELEC Software & Hardware AMIGA become exclusive distributor in Switzerland and France.
More informations and FAQ in French at
relec.prometheus.html.
Note from the editor:
'Prometheus' is not the BBS-software, but the
PCI-Board by Matay with the same name.
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08.Apr.2001
Jens Schönfeld on ANF
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Mekka & Symposium 2001 co-sponsored by individual Computers
As during the past years we support the now nearly legendary scene-party
Mekka & Symposium with prices for about 1100,- DM.
The fourday party is held every year on easter in Fallingbostel (between Hamburg and
Hannover
(our report).
In the Mid 80's the first "European style demos" came to the C-64.
Intro-Coders broke with the Cracker-scene to let their creativity develop freely. In the
90's this programming style evolved on all of the computer systems, for example Amiga, C-64
and PC, to an style of art, which we think is worth supporting.
The programming (coding) of demos has become a lifestyle for some people:
Even the proposal of marriage of a well known C-64 coder to his girlfriend had to
shown as a demo over the "big screen" - supported by the applause from several thousand
scene-members.
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08.Apr.2001
Martina Jacobs
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Sven Drieling's Evaluation now also in English
Martina Jacobs has translated the evaluation by Sven Drieling
entitled "St. Louis 2001: Nothing has changed".
St. Louis 2001: nothing has changed - 05.04.2001
Translator: Martina Jacobs
Last weekend Amiga published their current plans in St. Louis
which beforehand were announced to be a ground shaking event.
According to what I have read about that in the Internet since
Sunday it seems to me that nothing has changed.
Amiga's long term target further on is a portable, independent
running AmigaDE combined with TAO's Elate. New is that the plan
to develop AmigaOS v5 including memory protection, SMP, and
other features as an further foundation component for this
system was added. Furthermore there is Sharp featuring a
cooperation to develop applications for Sharp's Zaurus PDA
basing on AmigaDE.
Unfortunately no changes happened to Amiga's information policy,
too, thus it is very hard to understand, what Amiga's plans are
about and I'm not quit sure if I realized their plans correctly.
Indeed it effects me if Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss are talking about
one single plan, but concentrating on opposite tails. Bill McEwen
is focusing on short term targets (AmigaOS for PPC, PDA, hosted AmigaDE)
and Fleecy Moss is focusing on the long term targets (independent running,
portable AmigaOS v5 + AmigaDE for hardware from PDAs through servers
including the desktops). Those two different focal points might be
one reason for the current confusion. A second reason might be
that Amiga didn't publish any contiguous texts clearly stating
their future plans, by now - a.o. still almost nothing is known
about the AmigaDE.
As I've got it the plans are now as follows, whereas I'm absolutely
not sure, if my version is correct, since it is very hard to read
what Amiga now actually wants to do from the input coming from
Amiga and there is range for personal interpretations.
Short term targets are the AmigaDE hosted on Linux and WindowsCE for
PDAs, an an AmigaOS v4.x plus the hosted AmigaDE for PPC computers,
which meet the Zico specification. For example this applies to the
AmigaOne 1200 by Eyetech.
The long term target is a portable, independent, run-anywhere OS
basing on the AmigaOS and combined with TAO's Elate and the AmigaDE.
That OS will offer memory protection, virtual memory, SMP, and similar
and will be available scalable for from PDAs through servers.
In this there are no changes in plans for and further development of
AmigaDE. It still will offer the VP, the Sheep language, OpenGL,
and the other planned and still unknown features and it
will run hosted on other systems, as well as it will be available
as an independent system, on the long run.
The d'Amiga also might still will act as a computer for software
development with an advanced SDK. I don't think/hope that Amiga
will nominate the Zico-PPC for the only development computer for AmigaDE.
By that and 15 month after their foundation Amiga should now
meet the wishes of both, the people wanting an AmigaOS for PPC
as well as the people recommending AmigaDE, and not at the
expense of any of these groups.
It is completely incomprehensible to me, why Amiga is not capable to
put this across the public.
What makes me bothered by St. Louis
Calamitous information policy
Amiga finally has to
realize that it is absolutely impossible for outsiders to understand and
to comprehend what Amiga actually is planning and for what reason. This is
due to all of the necessary information published only bit by bit on
account of tempered reactions from Amiga users, who were completely
confused and misinformed after the announcements in St. Louis.
What sill is missing are texts illustrating Amiga's plans clearly,
understandable, comprehensible, and without contradiction - on amiga.com.
Such would not only be helpful for the Amiga users, but even for
Amiga's staffers, who again got a flood of tempered reactions
lavished on them after St. Louis, while they could have spent their
time doing more suggestive things.
No new SDK
Contrary to what was anticipated by many of us there was no new
version of the SDK presented in St. Louis already containing e.g. OpenGL,
a glimpse on Sheep, and offering other elements. That might have been a
reason for the impression that Amiga now would disregard the AmiaDE and
instead would put their focus on AmigaOS.
Neglect of current AmigaPPC computers
In the beginning disregarding the AmigaOS and concentrating on
the AmigaDE. There even wasn't the definite statement that a third-party
company will port AmigaDE to the current AmigaPPC machines and that
AmigaDE will contain a Classic Amiga emulation right from start
(with accentuation on definite statement). Because of such statements
one could have purchased hard- and software for the existing Amigas
in peace of conscience, since one would have known that one would be
able to use those components together with AmigaDE in the future.
That way Amiga companies and distributors could have continued to
transacted their businesses from early 2000.
That's why I don't understand why Amiga makes the same mistakes,
again. AmigaOS v4.x was announced for Zico PPC machines, but there
is no definite statement that AmigaOS v4.x also will be available for
existing PPC-Amigas. Equipped with a PCI board plus adequate FireWire
cards, and similar, these computers would meet the Zico specification,
moreover.
I understand that Amiga themselves is focusing the easier to handle AmigaOne.
With this Amiga will not forfeit time and they can concentrate on their
real target in a better way. But I cannot understand why the possibility for third-party
companies to port the AmigaOS v4.x for AmigaOne to the existing PPC-Amigas
wasn't mentioned in one single announcement. Though somewhere Fleecy Moss
denoted that possibility, there doesn't seem to be any definite
statement on that.
Amiga would not deteriorate by such a port, but probably there would
be some 1,000 AmigaOS v4.x users more. Nobody would mope because of the
expensive PPC hardware suddenly becoming useless, though this hardware would be proper for
the AmigaOS, and Amiga companies and Amiga vendors could earn money with
PCI boards, and similar, already now, instead of being forced to wait for the AmigaOne
in summer.
Neglect of desktops
Regarding the AmigaDE Amiga first put their focus on PDAs.
Due to the existing cooperation with Sharp and - as I think -
because it is easier to gain a secure market position in the PDA
section than in the desktop section, they are doing it right.
But since AmigaDE must be available for desktop machines (developer machines),
and because one certain point in case of PDAs is the easy data transfer
between PDA and desktops, in my opinion nothing objects to talk about desktops
in one breath. Since just AmigaDE would make it possible to execute one single
application on PDAs as well as on desktops. The desktop variant then would
run hosted on the widely spread Windows and Linux machines, and in addition
on AmigaOS v4.x on PPC-Amiga computers.
Conclusion
With AmigaDE plus applications for PDAs and AmigaOS plus the PPC-hardware, in
my opinion Amiga takes two ways on which Amiga, as well as third-party companies,
could have gains in a short term, already. Additionally Amiga now meet the
wishes of the PPC and AmigaDE backers, without changing the initial targets.
I don't know why Amiga now reclaims the AmigaOS. Reasons for that might have been the
claims to further develop the AmigaOS, and that Amiga learned to know reality during
the last month and while that learned that yet it takes some time to transform own ideas,
no matter how good these are.
The Zico PPC computers are still a very small corner of the market only addressing the
existing Amiga users, for the first time. With a LinuxPPC for those machines the ring of
users can be extended with another hand full of people, who then might become aware of
AmigaOS and AmigaDE, too. But in my opinion it will not be possible to address a bigger
market with that. But this might be possible by a hosted AmigaDE for PDAs and
desktops. While I still don't know what AmigaDE is about in detail, so I absolutely have
no idea how much interesting this system would be for users of other systems.
But if there would be an independent running AmigaDE, already yet, that would represent only
a small part of the AmigaDE systems installed, cause most of AmigaDE systems probably would run
hosted on another system, as I think. Because this way users were able to use the system and
software they know and additionally the new system with the run-anywhere software. They would not be forced
to switch to another system, overnight.
Because I don't have any details about the AmigaDE, I cannot estimate Amiga's future chances, at the
time being. But I think they now have put their plans on stable ground, thus they have good conditions
in the beginning.
But in my opinion a possible breakthrough will not come overnight, but will yield over the years.
One important thing in this then will be the portable AmigaOS v5, in which assumedly AmigaOS and
AmigaDE will melt together as one, making Amiga independent from other systems.
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08.Apr.2001
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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AmiNET-Gui Available under www.aminet-gui.de
The AmiNET-Gui is, at last, once again reachable under a .de-domain.
The Domain aminet-gui.de will in the next hours once again link to the amiNET-Gui.
Shortly the page will be redesigned , as soon as http://www.aminet.de
will be connected once again.
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08.Apr.2001
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V³ 3.3.95beta
The browser Voyager
is now available in 2 versions, one for AmigaOS and one for MorphOS. Which changes have been
made can be read in the
Readme.
Download:
AmigaOS:
v3_3395beta_amigaos.lzx
MorphOS:
v3_3395beta_morphos.lzx
Choowin V1.0
Martin Elsner
has released version 1.0 of his Workbench-Tool 'Choowin'.
Choowin is a small tool to start programs and bring windows to the front and activate them,
similar to a task-manager. Version 1.0 now has a startmenu, a new tooltype-filter and
a new look
Download:
choowin.lha - 20 kB
SoftCinema V0.12 beta
Total Vision
has released beta-version 0.12 of SoftCinema, the movie and animation player for the Amiga.
The program ist shareware, an unregistered version plays only 30 seconds. You can register
the program online at RegNet or, if you don't have a credit card, order at
Fun Time World.
Download:
SoftCinema_012.lha
CondenseIcon V44.5
Stephan Rupprecht
released version44.5 of CondenseIcon, which lets you shrink .info-files.
Download:
CondenseIcon.lha - 6 kB
Mapeditor V1.01
At Peter Weigoldt
you can find version 1.01 of his map editor for the game 'Schlachtfeld'.
Download:
Karteneditor.lha - 72 kB
Turboprint V7.17beta
At IrseeSoft version 7.17Beta of the
printer driver system 'Turboprint' is available for download.
Download: tp717beta.lha
VEPatchBrain V1.29
AT
Virus Help Denmark you can find the new PatchBrain version 1.29 for the
virus checker 'VirusExecutor'.
Here the details:
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.29
Archivename:
VEPatchBrain.lha
Archivesize: 19.658 Bytes
Releasedate: 8. April 2001
Coder: Jan Erik Olausen
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08.Apr.2001
A.C.T. on ANF
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Prelude Programmer-Infos
A.C.T. have made available the first version (currently only in German) of the information for
programmers, which will allow to write Prelude drivers. This makes it also possible to
develop Linux drivers for both Preludes (Z2 and 1200).
Knowledge about the used sound chips is also necessary.
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08.Apr.2001
Daniel Reichen via AMIPRESS-ML
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Send Convalescent Wishes to John Zacharias
As we already reported on our Special St. Louis page John Zacharias, author of AEMail and
organizer of the AmiWest, happened to have a stroke on the St. Louis Show. Meantime he's on the
mend. Send him your convalescent wishes with the greeting card under the title link, created especially for that on
Northwest Amiga Group.
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08.Apr.2001
Stefan Robl on ANF
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FMdriver und FMdriverVHI V1.25
After a long delay at last I released the two FrameMachine drivers v1.25, today.
New in FMdriver the possibility to save different configurations to have optimal
source regarding settings at hand. This is very helpful especially if one uses different
players for passing data (e.g. 16:9, 4:3, DVD, etc.), but wants to have removed those
ugly black borders right from the start. Moreover it now is possible to create time laps
recordings in a very simple way.
The VHI driver FMdriverVHI was generally reworked and mate with my new driver conception
for the FMdriver packet - now performance together with VHI should be much better.
Something else on personal cause: unfortunately that I'll have to strongly reduce my
programming and hardware activities this year, due to my studies and final year project.
Due to this I ask you for your understanding, if it will take me some more time to
reply on an e-mail! At all events I will try to release more new versions, even though
the time famine.
And now, have a lot of fun with the new versions of the programs!
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