01.Jan.2001
CGrX
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Graphics Boards Page: 7th Anniversary
Congratulations! The graphics boards page where you can find informations
dealing with graphics boards for Amiga computers celebrates 7th anniversary.
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01.Jan.2001
AmiHoo
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AmiHoo Magazin No. 3
Issue number 3 of the AmiHoo magazine published.
This issue contains news, reviews and a contest.
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01.Jan.2001
Grasshopper LLC
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Grasshopper LLC
Grasshopper, publisher of 'Pagestream', wish you a happy new year and tells that
within the first week of the year phone calls will not be answered, but e-mails.
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01.Jan.2001
VaporWare
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AmIRC 3.5.6beta
Beta version 3.5.6 of AmIRC released for that v3.5.5 beta timed out on 1st of January.
Download: amirc_356.lzx
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01.Jan.2001
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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Some new URLs for amiNetGUI
I applied some new URLs for amiNetGUI:
http://aminet.x2.nu
http://aminet.cs.nu
http://aminet.cc.nu
http://aminet.wls.net
http://aminet.tiz.net
http://aminet.pc5.org
http://aminet.x15.org
http://aminet.0am.org
http://aminet.foren.org
http://aminet.home-page.nu
http://fly.to/aminet
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01.Jan.2001
Marcel Rohles on ANF
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New FreeCiv Beta Version
A new beta version of Freeciv, a 'Civilization II'-like multiplayer strategy game,
is available for download at the title link.
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01.Jan.2001
Jochen Rhein on ANF
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New Version of ICS Released
From ICS, the free AmigaOS Scanner Color Calibration Software is a
major new ICS upgrade V2.01 now available. Following new features have
been added to V2 of ICS:
- Now all ICS image reading and writing is done using the new IRW library
- ICSConvert can now write JPEG, IFF, and TIFF
- ICSConvert and ScanTarget now support 16 bit/channel image data
- ICSConvert can now read/write embeded ICC color and IPTC/NAA editorial
information
- Now includes tools to extract ICC and IPTC information from images (IFF,
TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- Spanish localization added
- ICSConvert can now be used as tool for image format conversion
- IRW does offer improved and localized error handling
- Error requesters now offer detailed information, hints and often also
a retry function
- Major speed improvement for loading certain files formats
- Also, memory requirement was reduced.
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01.Jan.2001
Allister Brimble via eMail
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Amiga Music Website
Allister Brimble published his own webside at mp3s.com. He is well
known for his work for Alienbreed, Project X, Bodyblows and Superfrog.
He is still working for the software industry and he is composing music for Driver,
Driver 2 and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Some songs he did are available at the title link.
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01.Jan.2001
Elbox via eMail
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Elbox Wish Happy New Year
Elbox sent in new year greetings which should not be taken too seriously according to what they stated.
The Not-So-Serious Inside Story Announcement
Crack-off, 31 December 2000
The pi-pi-Castro Task Force is proud to promote the latest technique
of advertising.
The pi-pi Castro Task Force hereby authorise everybody to read
the secrets of their latest technology of collecting money
in advertising and to disclose this secret to enyone on the way:
- We, the world-famous pi-pi Castro Task Force,
produced the world-famous graphic system
for the world-dominant computer platform of the Ah-miga.
Sure, we did some work. Nobody paid us for that :-(
- Then we saw some people get big in the Ah-miga world.
- We thought: "Why don't take money from them?"
- We noticed Err-box produced their hardware (el mediatore).
- Err-box produced their software (the pi-pi driver).
- We did not help them (why should we?)
- So we thought we could ask Err-box for money for using
our world-famous name of pi-pi 96
- Therefore we are world famous. Proved.
- Err-box did not want to pay us.
- We asked other friends to persuade Err-box.
- Franco Mariacchi managed to get computers
and Special-Delusion-Kit documents
from Err-box - FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
- Hi-period managed to get some hardware from Err-box
plus the same paperwork. FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
- We did not manage to get a single pfenig from Err-box.
And we need paper too.
- Franco Mariacchi and Hi-period are laughing at us.
- Therefore we are suckers.
And our friends are laughing at us. Proved.
- Aha. A painting family wants us to pay DM 6,000
for using the "Pi-pi-Castro" name.
- Therefore we wanted Err-box to pay it for us.
- As Err-box are discussing the issue behind the curtain,
and we need cash badly, we demand Ah-miga users
to register our pi-pi system immediately
and pay us for their being happy.
- If nobody pays us, we will cry out
that any other soap-ware worldwide is ill-egg-all.
(Apart from our pi-pi-castro, sure enough.) Proved.
Err-box Komm-puter was happy to find
the appropriate name for this
new method of advertising: the REVERSE ADVERTISING.
Danke mucho, err-boxie.
Please remember that you have to pay us DEM 5.00 or
USD 10.00 every time you use the word "advertising".
The Pi-Pi-Castro Task Force
Courtesy of Err-box Komm-puter
De-pression De-partition-ment
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There is a popular custom in Poland to make jokes
on colleagues and fellow people in the end of the year,
to summarise the most prevalent features
of their behaviour during the year.
Here is our summary of what has transpired
between the P96 team and ELBOX Computer during that time.
Please take it with a bit of reserve,
as we do not intend to offend anyone,
just to introduce a pinch of humour into the issue,
which seemed to be so tense and serious in the Amiga world.
Happy New Year!!!
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31.Dec.2000
Starmag-Team on ANF
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Jubilee-Starmag #25 is Online
Das Starmag-Team wrote:
Hello, dear people!
We wish the Amiga-News-team a happy new year and of course our
readers,too.
Issue #25 is out and ready for download and online reading on our
website.
Greetings,
Your Starmag-Team
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31.Dec.2000
Chris Hodges via eMail
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Graphics Tablet Driver: FormAldiHyd v1.3
On 31. December 2000 Chris Hodges has released the version 1.3
of the graphics tablet driver 'FormAldiHyd'. The driver supports the graphics
tablets Aldi/Medion/Tevion MD 9310. From the Readme
you can draw the changes against the older version. Among other things this
Millennium edition contains a fireworks demo.
Download: FormAldiHyd.lha (59 K),
Readme
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31.Dec.2000
ANN
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ANN Celebrates 4. Birthday
On 28. December 2000 the news service Amiga Network News
by Christian Kemp became 4 years old.
Under the title link Christian first lets the ANN year 2000 pass in review to
have a look into the future afterwards. Looking back he can reference to almost
2 millions registered page views this year with around 50 GB transferred files.
Against the year 1999 with 700 000 page views this is more than a doubling.
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31.Dec.2000
Andreas Wendorf on ANF
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Photos of 'The Party 2000'
Warp9 has put some photos of 'The Party 2000 / Denmark' into the web.
'The Party 2000' is a scene/demo party that attracts around 4,000 people every
year in Aars in northern Denmark.
Supplement: 01.01.2001:
Juergen Beck via eMail:
There were several new amazing Amiga demos and intros. Among them well done
demos of the demo groups Haujobb, and Ephidrena.
Download: demos
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31.Dec.2000
frost on ANF
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AOG-News with New Website
frost wrote:
The AOG site has been completely redesigned.
And we wish everybody a happy new year.
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31.Dec.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF
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News on the PlayGUI Website
Richard Kapp wrote:
As Rolf Roth has unfortunately no more time to attend the official PlayGUI site,
I (author of PlayGUI) have now taken over this task. The site shines now in a
complete new design and besides, there are again three new skins, a funny theme
and also other news. I wish you all a happy new year 2001!
(PlayGUI is a graphical interface for Hippoplayer, Play16, GMPlay
and MPEGA, that uses skins and themes. By this it is possible to play GUI, MODs,
MIDIs, MP2/3s and samples with one single (ex)changable GUI.)
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Payback Status Report #17
On 30. December 2000 James Daniels has released the status report #17 regarding
the game 'Payback'. The game now offers additionally a multiplayer deathmatch
mode for up to 4 players. To do this much had to be changed in the source code
and therefor much work had to be put into this mode as the game wasn't design
for supporting a multiplayer mode first. But the work was, according to James
Daniels, worth it. Screens of the multiplayer mode are released on the screenshots page.
The latest photos there also contain the improved textures.
Besides that the game now supports also the CD32 controller, and several bugs
have been fixed.
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Scalos: Iconsystem, Updates of WB3.9 Plugin and VolumeGauge Plugin
The new iconsystem for Scalos supports the normal and the AmigaOS 3.5 icons as
well as the NewIcons.
Regarding the WB3.9 plugin and VolumeGauge plugin of Scalos updates have been released
which fix bugs. The WB3.9 plugin allows under AmigaOS 3.5+ the use of newer
features like 'AmiDock'. The VolumeGauge plugin equips all root volume windows
with a fill gauge in the left window border in the AmigaOS v3.5 style. This
plugin runs on AmigaOS V3.0+.
The following bugs were fixed:
- VolumeGauge: on iconifying of windows problems appeared.
- WB3.9: There are additional system checks so that the plugin runs now more
stable. Besides that the AmigaOS V3.5+ preferences are now loaded from workbench.prefs.
Download:
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Tales of Tamar: FAQ and Crincles of 55
Regarding the move based online strategy game 'Tales of Tamar' a German FAQ and the
chronicles of the year 55
were released. The FAQ answers the most important questions regarding the game
and gives a hint how to play 'Tales of Tamar' on the Amiga emulator 'UAE'.
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31.Dec.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Vote for the Game of the Year 2000
As in the past years you can vote for the game of the year at Amiga
Flame this year again. There are 12 games (adventures, real time strategy and
other genres) for voting.
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Auctions on Fun Time World
Since several days there's the possibility to purchase resp. to sell soft- and
hardware by auction on Fun Time World.
Directly on the homepage there's also a text box listing the up-to-date version
numbers of the latest software titles or updates for the Amiga.
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31.Dec.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF
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CD-ROM: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES
On 30. December 2000 Thomas Unger has released the CD-ROM
'THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES'. This CD contains plenty of texts taken from the WWW
that cover the history of the Amiga and give more information about the Amiga
in the areas persons (among others Jay Miner, RJ Mical),
official Amiga models, clones and emulators (among others ABox,
Draco, REC WonderTV A6000), Amiga operating systems,
accessories (Amiga Joyboard, The Big Book of Amiga Hardware),
support (among others The Dave Haynie Archives, Great Valley Products - M Inc.)
and specials (among others The Jay Miner Society, Amiga Juggler animation).
All informations regarding the content and the ordering of the CD can be found
on the homepage.
Thomas Unger thanks to all those who have made some contribution to the success
of the CD-ROM. Special thanks go to Gregor Franz who has finished his "DiCAS -
The Commodore/Amiga story" during the holidays.
And he wishes all readers and the makers of the Amiga News a happy and
successful year 2001.
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