13.May.2000
Jeppe Nielsen on ANF
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HomeLand demo version v2.0
For the realtime strategy game Homeland, demo
version 2.0 is available for download. This new version offers a faster conversion from chunky
to planar for AGA, by using the CPU instead of the slower blitter. Also new are new buildings
and technical devices including graphical effects like transparency, explosions and more.
This is complemented by many other improvements.
This demo version offers a campaign consisting of two missions.
Download: HomeLand.lzx V2.0 (942 kB)
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13.May.2000
Torsten Ketelsen on ANF
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Confusion about ATC v1.1
While uploading the final version v1.1 of the FTP client AmiTradeCenter
to Aminet there was a delay, giving the impression the archive was not uploaded successfully (while, in fact,
it was successful). Due to this confusion, another beta version of ATC v1.1 (prerelease 8) was published
on the program's homepage. Please simply think of this as prerelease 1 of ATC v1.2.
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12.May.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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Foundation - The Undiscovered Land
Epic Marketing published on May 12th, 2000 detailled
informations about the Foundation Mission CD "The Undiscovered Land" on their project pages. The
CD will be available by the end of may.
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12.May.2000
Achim Stegemann in ANF
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Remarks on asyncio.library V40
First of all many thanks for the positive response to the new library!
I haven't expected one misunderstanding, though, which I'd like to put right.
The 68k functions are NOT faster under WarpOS! You only get the speed increase
if you call the new PPC functions from a PPC!!
The reason is the context switch! If you would access the PPC from the 68k side,
you'd get a switch every time that would slow down the system! In this case the
library would be even slower. Existing programs that run under WOS would have to
be adapted for the new PPC functions!
I hope I haven't killed the entire euphoria, but the many feedbacks regarding this
make this correction necessary. If somebody has any interest, I would be glad about
a V40 version for PowerPC. Sadly, I can't realize that (yet).
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12.May.2000
ANN
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Amiga Network News is looking for sponsors
The Amiga news service Amiga Network News by Christian
Kemp is looking for sponsors to further keep up the website.
Contact: Christian Kemp, ckemp@ann.lu
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12.May.2000
Czech Amiga News
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GoldED Studio Service Pack 17 available
For registered users of GoldED Studio, the service pack 17 is now available for download.
New features are the toolbar registers
which are already supported by many older extensions that have been properly updated.
The email extension now offers spell checking and is opened on the topmost screen. Also, the
syntax highlighting was improved.
Service pack 17 also offers a faster project plug-in and a standardized interface for
spell checking.
Download: Download - Log-In
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12.May.2000
Czech Amiga News
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AutodocViewerLite V2.0 Beta 5
AutodocViewerLite by Ronny Tennebekk is now available in version 2.0 beta 5. This version
offers the following features:
- Assembly ".h" includes
- Wheel mouse
- Links in the style of HTML.
- Toolbar
- Locale support
The program runs from AmigaOS 3.5 and 68020 upwards. Recommended are a 68040/40 as
well as 4MB free RAM and 2MB free harddisk space.
Download: advlite20b5.lha
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12.May.2000
Czech Amiga News
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WarpJPEG.datatype V44.11
Oliver Roberts published version V44.11 of his WarpJPEG datatype on May 7th. This
datatype displays JFIF and JPEG images. The following changes have been made since
version 44.10:
- The descriptor is now less over-meticulous so that JFIF files that start
with any standard marker type are recognized as well. Less common JPEG files
should now be recognized as well.
- Smaller optimizations and changes in the code.
System requirements: AmigaOS V3.0+, WarpUp Release V4(powerpc.library V15)+,
PPC + 68040/060, picture.datatype V43+.
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha
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12.May.2000
Fun Time World
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Games CD: Amiga ClassiX 2
Epic Marketing published the
Amiga ClassiX 2-CD
on May 11th.
The CD runs on Amiga and PC and contains more than 250 games, among them about 30
commercial games. Among the highlights are Beneath a Steel Sky, Ports of Call, Lethal
Xcess, Hilt I & II, Hannibal, Space M.A.X., Kelly X, Bomb Mania, Dithell in Space and
Lords of War.
You'll find a complete list of the games and infos on them
here.
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12.May.2000
Amiga.org
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NewTek: Discussion boards
NewTek has set up moderated discussion boards.
Those boards offer users a direct contact to the product teams. You can reach them under
http://www.newtek.com/discus/.
For LightWave and the Video Toaster there are three boards each: support,
feature request and product information. For Aura, Inspire, Calibar and the
Classic Amiga Video Toaster/Flyer there's one discussion board each.
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11.May.2000
Czech Amiga News
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SimpleFTP v2.36
On May, 9th 2000 Rick Hodger released the version 2.36 of the FTP-client SimpleFTP.
This update removes some bugs and gives higher speed for down- and upload.
SimpleFTP is an easy to use and powerfull FTP-client. It features:
- drag&drop for easy upload of files
- ADT (Aminet Directory Tool) -support
- progressbar for all datatransfers (upload, download, and directorylist)
- automatic filetype detection
- anti-idle to protect connection against timeout
- site-manager for up to 128 FTP-servers
- reconnect of disturbed connections ("resume")
- automatic disconnect from the internet after up- or download
- FTP-proxy-support
Download: SimpleFTP V2.36
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11.May.2000
Czech Amiga News
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ATC v1.1 prerelease 8
On May, 9th 2000 the prerelease 8 of version 1.1 of the FTP-client AmiTradCenter
is published.
The programm is able to parse FTP-URLs and offers ADT (Aminet Directory
Tool) -support. Changes to version 7 of the prerelease are:
- change: improved check of "Ram:/ram disk:"
- change: the FTP-Type command is not sended until next change of type
- change: the way the ftp.lib checks the result of the ABOR command
and the EOT has changed, so the programm should be more compatible
- bugfix: the serverlist was displayed as hosted if the first entry in
the .profile-file was a list and this was marked as active server
- bugfix: if the mode of a running but not connected serverentry was
changed and then a connection to this server was established the GUI did
not show the new mode
- change: the ADT-buttons (dl readmes, keep dirtree...) are moved to the server-group of the main-preferences program
- bugfix: ATC was not able to set the active server if you are not using the patched listtree.mcc class
- change: if a server is added to a closed group now the group is opened before the entry is added
Download:ATC 1.1pre8.lha
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11.May.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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asyncio.library v40 with WarpOS
Many developers know it - the "asyncio.library", which can significantly speed up media access
by asynchronous transfer. It is now available with WarpOS support, while being 100% compatible
with v39, and still being usable with a pure 68k. The disk access with WarpOS functions is
about twice as fast as with 68k functions.
The archive is freeware. Developers wanting to use the new library can use the archive for
free. An Aminet upload will follow (util/libs).
Download: asyncioppc.lha - 23 kB.
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10.May.2000
Martin "Mason" Merz on ANF
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OpusMI with new homepage
The "Mason.Home" homepage recieved a general update. Among others, it is
now possible to download the archives "OpusMIupd" and "GlowFlags"
directly.
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10.May.2000
ANN
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Developer System from Eyetech
While reading this announcement, please consider that these details have so far not
been confirmed by either the Amiga website or Haage & Partner. (ps)
McFly writes on the Amiga-Club-Forum:
Could this be the developer Amiga? Suggestion :-)
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10.May.2000
Amiga
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amiga.com online again
After some days downtime, the Amiga webserver is online again at
http://www.amiga.com.
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10.May.2000
Czech Amiga News
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SDK for PageStream
Deron Kazmaier is currently assembling a developer package for third parties, which will
enable the development of expansions (like filters, printer drivers, bitmap effects, speech
and scanner modules etc.) for the DTP software "PageStream" by
SoftLogik.
There will probably a fifth mailinglist being opened for this, targeted on questions and
developer support. Additionally, SoftLogik is looking for help improving the documentation
and the examples of the SDK as well as clarifying what is needed in such a developer
package.
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09.May.2000
Amity
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Brute Force Localizer released
A possible sollution for programs that don't use a localization of their own.
More details.
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09.May.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail
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RB2Exe v1.0 released
The long awaited Rainboot add-on RB2Exe has just been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
RB2Exe enables you to convert standard Rainboot configurations into standalone programs (executables).
The programs are then running on all Amiga systems with OS2.04+. This way, you can easily create
your own multimedia presentations!
RB2Exe can now be downloaded from the Airsoft Softwair homepage (title link).
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09.May.2000
R. Kühn on ANF
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First Amiga Gay-Zine
This is the first Amiga Gay Magazine. It is in a very early stage of completion.
Of course interesting the poll: "Who's the best looking guy from the Amiga world?"
This site is for all Amiga users.
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09.May.2000
Vapor
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Welcome on earth little Alina :-)
Oliver Wagner is a daddy! Cute little Alina
was born May 7th, 7:15 AM.
Congratulations, Claudia and Olli!
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