05.Oct.2000
Darkage Software
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Spoletium3 Demo-Party
Bella Italia - Felice AMIGA - is not the official slogan of the AMIGA only demo party in
Spoleto (middle Italy), but might it be!
The arrangers of the party are promising: a scenic place for the event, interesting contacts,
valuable prices...
Who wants to try this, and maybe would like to put a short leave in Italy through this demo party which
will take place on November 4th, 2000: all the necessary information (also a detailed way description)
is to find at the titlelink. You can also download an invitation intro there (about 200 KB / AGA).
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05.Oct.2000
Marc Albrecht on ANF
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A.C.T. Stops Amiga Sponsoring
From the end of October 2000 A.C.T. and the co-operating ISP will stop all sponsoring actions
for the Amiga area. This will also concern every sites hosted at "amiga-software.com".
Single developers or groups who are sponsored up to now have already been contacted via e-mail, but
many of the addresses don't seem to work any more or the people are no longer interested in
Amiga.
Hence A.C.T. asks all web admins whose sites are sponsored or hosted by A.C.T. to move these sites to another
provider by the end of October 2000.
For some of the sites - among them amigasystem.org - the web admins are looking for successors, because otherwise
these sites would be canceled outright. Also concerned by the sponsoring stop is the hardware and software
sponsoring: from now on A.C.T. will not deliver hardware or software products for free to "up-coming projects" or similar.
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05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF
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First Details of the Matrox G800
By and by the first details of the new 3D graphics chip by Matrox are trickling though the net.
The G800 should be capable of an internal clock rate of 200 MHz, and was said to address the
DDR memory at 400 MHz. Three rendering pipelines should leverage performance of the by Matrox
introduced environmental bump mapping. Filling was said to range at 600 millions of pixels/sec or
20 to 30 millions of polygones/sec. Matrox is expected to introduce initial boards with G800 at
the CeBit in spring next year.
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05.Oct.2000
Trogladite Software
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Sender's First Module!
Sender's First module has been released today. It is for OS3.5
users only, and allows you to drag files, dirs and drives on to
the Sender appicon, and it will create "shortcuts" to these
files, dirs or drawers. Sender is a small freeware program to
move or copy any file to any directory from the Workbench.
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05.Oct.2000
Directory Opus 4 Support Page
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Directory Opus 4 Version 4.15b (Beta) Released
Jacek Rzeusik is permanently developing the source code of DirectoryOpus 4, which was enabled
by GP Software. A new beta version is ready for download.
Download: DOpus4beta.lzx - 242 KB
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05.Oct.2000
Christoph Kirsch via eMail
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DataM II 0.9 beta Released
On the homepage of the Amiga Club Steinfurt (Germany, titlelink) and at Aminet (/biz/dbase)
Christoph Kirsch has released a new beta version of the spread sheet program DataM II.
Beside numerous bug fixes this time in particular the possibility of viewing external files (via Datatypes) has
been implemented.
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05.Oct.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF
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NRNF: Pure Nostalgia ! Old Advertising, Show Flyers....
On the No Risc No Fun site now a nostalgia area has been created. On this page from now on you will find
Commodore/AMIGA advertising, show flyers, old articles, and many more, and more to come.
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05.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF
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New and IMPORTANT HyperCOM 2.96B4 Update
With this update smaller problems of being unable to print via HyperCOM parallel port under certain
circumstances are fixed. Additionally little changes has been made necessary to use our current VMC-ISDN software
along with the current HyperCOM drivers.
Download site
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05.Oct.2000
Marc Albrecht on ANF
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ACT: FAQ on Sponsoring Stop
- The domain names will not be canceled for the time being, but either will be released exempt from charges to the
sponsoring receivers or will be sold in early/middle 2001.
- I beg you to refrain from offering adoption of certain sites to me via e-mail. Contact persons are the web masters.
Since the domains will not be canceled, the web space could be hosted "anywhere". I would like to care for DNS changes.
- Our partners, and ourselves of course will continue to host sites at our usual conditions, if desired by the web masters.
It just doesn't match our future business plans to operate this special area for free.
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05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF
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New Mailing List for Amiga Vendors
Amiga has started a new built-up mailing list especially for Amiga vendors. Vendors can register to this list on this
site.
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05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF
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Pro Linux: Linux World Conference & Expo Starts
«The conference schedule makes reading like the "who is who" of the branch.
Beside popular speakers like Bob Young, Dirk Hohndel, and Arthur Tyde Jon "maddog" Hall from Linux International
will perform as keynote speaker. Exclusively for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
Linus Torvalds will be guest at the event. This trade fair which will take place from October 5th to October 7th 2000 will be
the first business-to-business event focusing the Linux operating system, and Open Solutions in Europe.
About 10,000 visitors, and more than 100 attending companies on over 9,000 m2 exhibition space are expected for the
premiere.»
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04.Oct.2000
Adrian Siemieniak on ANF
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New Mentat 0.5.2 (english2english Longman dictionary)
There is a new version 0.5.2 of Mentat - english2english dictionary,
based on Longman Natural English dictionary. New in this release - search
options for single/group of words, localization, 2 languages guide and
plenty of fixes.
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04.Oct.2000
Michael Lange on ANF
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FUBAR - New War Simulation
The new game "FUBAR" by Rosande Ltd. is distributed by Blittersoft and will probably be released in November 2000.
But it can be ordered in advance in the shops from now on!
At Q-Lab you can buy a cd with musics of FUBAR.
FUBAR is a war simulation. The scenario of the game shows you what happens if a war begins, and forces you
as the player to take all necessary steps to finish the war. The conception of the game is to rule the
whole world, all countries, and all people. To be successful you can slip into different roles, because
ruling the world is not an easy task.
You will be the general of thousands of armies, the president of the whole mankind, but in addition the
leading scientist, manager, diplomat, and banker. Each of this roles is in touch with the military, civilians,
research, financial world, and has got connections to other competitors who are striking for the same goal as you do.
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04.Oct.2000
Michael Jurisch on ANF
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John-Sinclair-Encyclopedia-CD-ROM
The very extensive John-Sinclair-Encyclopedia by Bastei dealing with the most successful series of horror stories
of the world can be ordered on CD-ROM. Because this encyclopedia is fully based on HTML (optimised for IE, but can be
viewed using any other browser) AMIGA-Users are able to use this, too.
In addition the CD-ROM offers the radio-book "Daemonenhochzeit" for listening as mp3 file, a composed version of the JS-Comic,
short texts for each novel, pictures of the title of the magazins, and of the paperbacks, and much much more.
You can order the CD-ROM at the title link in the seperate Online-Shop.
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04.Oct.2000
Piotr Pawlowski
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Exodus - The Last War
As already reported on 26th of September the polish group "Zloty Skarabeusz" will publish their new
game "Exodus - The Last War", soon. You can look at some first screenshots at the titlelink.
The game is in the process of making and supposed to be finished within one week.
The company "SLAND MEDIA" is the publisher, which is directly connected to the group. Which company will
be responsible for sales in Europe has not been decided, yet.
For further information have a look at the provisional site.
This site is still completely written in polish. An own domain and English sites are likely to follow.
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04.Oct.2000
Jarmo Laakkonen
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Version 1.5 of ADoomPPC Released
Jarmo Laakkonen has published version 1.5 of ADoomPPC. The WarpOS version now supports Tooltypes,
too. Saving is now compatible to version 1.3 while it is no longer possible to use savings of version 1.4.
In order to increase the speed it was added a new option (nojoy), meaning without joystick.
Download: ADoomPPC.lha - 551 Kb
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04.Oct.2000
AudioLabs
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ProStationAudio V4.00 Finished
The new version of ProStationAudio V4.00 was finished. V4.00 now supports two CPUs (split interface on two
graphics boards and two monitors). There are two different versions for choice: Millenium
und Remix.
Download site
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04.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Initiative Bill against Internet-Patents in the USA
Howard Berman and Rick Boucher, two congressmen of the democrats, have introduced an initiative bill which
is supposed to restrict the possibility to patent business methods in the USA.
Above all the Business Method Patent Improvement Act addresses the rapidly increasing use of
patents for business methods.
Crucial point of the act is the declarative statement, that implementation of so called "Real-World"-business processes
on computers does not worthy being patented.
In addition the representatives want to establish the possibility of raising an objection against patents without being
forced to bring such action at law. See titlelink for full article (German).
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03.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Microsoft Aquires 25 Percent of Corel
«By a 135 million USD investment, Microsoft supports the stumbling Canadian
software manufacturer Corel. As Corel announced on Monday, the
software giant from Redmond purchased 24 million non-voting shares at
5.625 USD each. Those can be converted into fully voting shares;
holding almost 25 percent of the entire capital stock would make Microsoft one
of the largest shareholder of Corel.»
Full article (German) at the titlelink.
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03.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
DataM_II.lha biz/dbase 777K+Spreadsheet using MUI (German only!)
MuYaReq.lha comm/mail 31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
uprc.lha comm/misc 80K+Generates Aminet upload readme files
speak_freely.lha comm/net 1.3M+Internet Phone application with source
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 297K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.3 - *
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 424K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
TRSI-DEAD.lha demo/aga 420K+Our 4th and final intro for TRSI
ExtrasLib.lha dev/c 366K+Link library
tox.lha dev/c 13K+Tokenizer for XML
GradientSlider.lha dev/gui 7K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.6)
MultiDesktop.lha dev/gui 416K+An incomplete *Open Source* GUI library
MusicBox-2.1os.lha disk/cdrom 264K+Most powerful CDDA player and CD manager
VCDGear.lha disk/cdrom 79K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
DVD-RAM.lha disk/misc 62K+DVD-RAM FFS/SFS/CrossDOS/FAT95/Allegro D
RDBrecov.lha disk/salv 16K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
Aakt1000GFX.lha docs/mags 264K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1000GUIDE.lha docs/mags 84K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1000HTML.lha docs/mags 211K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
alem_0027.lha docs/rview 4K+ALEM's 1084 monitor guide v1.0 (FR)
TV-Logo.lha gfx/misc 73K+Small but capable logotype display
ATUtilities.lha misc/emu 919K+ATUtilities 4.0 - Replacement for the CB
TTU.lha misc/emu 5K+Create TAP images with Amiga
imdbDiff000922.lha misc/imdb 1.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
pie_dprs.lha mods/hardc 687K+Speedcore By Dj Pie / Lunatic 2k
Pegase.lha mus/misc 202K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
ltools13_demo.lha text/misc 76K+Dictionary and Document Translator
ltools_engwrd.lha text/misc 507K+Basic english word collection
ModeProSrc.lha util/cdity 691K+Source code to the Screenmode Promotion
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 38K+Test and identify wb-program
RAWBInfo_SI.lha util/sys 2K+Slovenian catalog for RAWBInfo v1.18
aafont.lha util/wb 3K+Antialiased fonts on wb (1.0)
DirScanner.lha util/wb 74K+V2.12: Small but powerful filefinder. (M
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 27K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.1
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03.Oct.2000
Thomas Wuergler on ANF
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Earth 2140 Work-In-Progress Report
At AmigaFire, the new Online Game Magazine, you will find a detailed status report
about Earth 2140, the real-time strategy game for 68k and PPC Amigas, which is being
ported by Pagan Games and will be
distributed by Epic Interactive.
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