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24.Jan.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


 Amiga.org: First AmigaOne review
On Amiga.org there is a first review of the AmigaOne. An "Earlybird" customer describes his experiences made of the system and of the installation of Linux. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jan.2003
Norman Thiel von Heise News (ANF)


 PCI Vendors list available again...
The PCI Vendors list is available again after a threat of a lawyer because of an inadmissable use of protected trademarks.
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


 Statement of Genesi concerning trouble of delivery
On MorphOS-News.de Genesi has given its opinion on the current trouble of delivery of the Pegasos. It is said that Genesi is waiting for more Articia-chips of Mai. Until Genesi will get and afterwards test it a delivery of the present chip version is expected which works without any errors thanks to the April chips in the Pegasos.

Besides this Genesi tests an alternative but something more expensive chip so in future it may be possible to work together with a different seller.

At the end of 2003 MorphOS may also be published for Macintosh computers but probably only as an executing second unit for applications which should be also offered for the Mac. In this connection it is asked if there is anybody who is interested in porting "wxwindows" on MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jan.2003
M. Lück (ANF)


 End of GRex petition
M. Lück wrote:
Today is the end of the GRex-petition. Until today 296 users have subscribed. TriMa and me want to thank you for your support. Unfortunately this petition has failed. I want to explain in the following lines why it is so.

Two weeks after the start of the petition I have sent the first list with all signatures (without email addresses) to DCE per email. I got an answer of DCE at once. DCE wrote that they would be glad about a support of OS4 and that they are interested in the current discussion.

We got the information of Steffen Häuser that the cybpci.library written by Ralph 'Laire' Schmidt will not work in the 68k emulation because of the 68k MMU setup. So the petition still became more important because presently GRex users have no chance of getting AmigaOS 4.0 started. We got all information per email which Hyperion needs to support the GRex. Four addresses are needed:

  • The base of GRex I/O address
  • The interrupt acknowledge address
  • The base address of config space mappings or
  • the PCI-config and PCI-data address


No circuit diagramm, hardware or software documents are needed. These information I sent DCE per email. I have not got any response until today.

Then we got the information that bplan has the hardware rights. This means DCE has only a licence for the GRex. If this is true or not we do not know. One week ago I contacted Mr. Carda per email for getting clearness. But I also have not got any response until now. That is a pity.

Now we hope that we can attract attention by posting this article.

Thank you very much again to all participants...
The attempt of moving something forward means so much to us - also if it may fail. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jan.2003



 Aminet Uploads until 24.01.2003
Since our last message there have been the following updated on Aminet: 

TinyGL.lha           dev/c      188K+Subset of the OpenGL API for AGA/CGFX/P9
AMIthlon_CD.lha      docs/help    2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
PfPaint_ENG.lha      gfx/edit    42K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha      gfx/edit    45K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
ShFGlowIcons.lha     pix/gicon   25K+Shadow Fighter glow icons by Ponos
littlejedi.mpg       pix/mpg     13M+Science fiction made on Amiga/Draco
Milk.lha             pix/wb     139K+Creamy white 1024x768 desktop snapshot b
XenoMorph_Icon.jpg   pix/wb     228K+XenoMorph's MMX Icons conversion PREVIEW
IBGold.lha           util/wb     17K+Gold appearance for IBrowse 1+
IBSilver.lha         util/wb     28K+Silver appearance for IBrowse 1+
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 First working beta of Powerkonverter
Today I have published a working version of my program called "Powerkonverter". Currently it supports all important basic functions of ffmpeg and additionally the "Motion Estimation" preference. Videos can be splitted or changed. Besides this all formats are supported which has been newly added.

But in this version pictures series will not be recognized. This will be the next step.

Installation:

Unpack the archive, copy the corresponding libs to your Workbench/libs directory. For starting the program you need to be installed the PNG datatype. ffmpeg must be in the system path (c:, s: or something like that). I have copied ffmpeg to c:.

I have programmed a PNG-GUI because then the program itself has only the half size compared with an IFF version. Additionally PNG datatypes are also available in PPC versions which accelerates the program.

Shortcuts:
ESC: Quitting the program
Return: Starting ffmpeg
Control + C: Aborting ffmpeg
Space: Stopping the console output of ffmpeg
Backspace: Continuing console output of ffmpeg


I have not implemented a seperate button for starting ffmpeg because it is simply unpractical. You can confirm the shortcuts on each place in the GUI like e.g. the Return key. If you want to test a newly preferenced figure only push the Return key for starting ffmpeg with the new figure.

If you want to program yourself new figures in the cycle buttons it is quite simple. The program directory contains several text files ".txt". These ones you can rewrite up to a certain level. The only thing which can be not changed is the amount of the entries. In the same way it works with the format lister. You can write your own formats if they are not there yet.

Later I will also add the automatic picture identification and the VideoCD option.

Download: Powerkon_beta.lzx (ps) (Translation: dr)

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23.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Amiga Future: New Survey and More
Two new surveys have been started on the Amiga Future Homepage. Additionally the results appear from the last survey, which was "What browser do you use?"

Until 25th January there's a raffle in which you could win a Shogo and a Wendetta 2175. With this raffle we want to support Thomas in creating the FAQs. Also, the links and the cheats collection have been updated. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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23.Jan.2003
ExtremeTech


 ExtremeTech: Amiga: Live Another Day
Olin Wread, a reader of Extremetech, has written a multipage, English-language article about the history of the Amiga.
Click on the title link to go to it. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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22.Jan.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)


 News-flash: IBM Introduces Their Own PDA Concept
Yesterday in New York at the LinuxWorld convention IBM introduced their own concept of a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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22.Jan.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


 Freeciv Amiga native 1.18
The new Freeciv Amiga native version is available from now on for download at Sebastian Bauer's homepage. It covers exactly the version 1.14.10 which has been published at www.freeciv.org two days ago.

Freeciv is a free Civilisation clone which is playable via Internet versus several players or offline versus the computer. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
EdWord


 Editor: EdWord Professional V6.0 - source code
After Martin Reddy published the full version of his editor EdWord Version 6.01 for Amiga computer as freeware in September 2001 he has now released the source code under GPL (GNU Public License) also. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Nova Design


 Nova Design PR: Giant Nova Design Software Sale
By the title link there is a press release by Nova Design which covers offers for several software e.g. ImageFX or Alladin 4D. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Onyxsoft


 Onyxsoft: QuickSketch and several updates
With QuickSketch a new freeware program by Daniel Westerburg is introduced to the product portfolio of Onyxsoft. The program is similar to 'QuickNote', it might to be used for text notes, but QuickSketch can additionally handle graphic (sketched) notes.

Furthermore the following updates were made available:
  • DagensTV (version 1.2)
    The program processes information of the TV pogram which are sent by dagenstv.com via email.

  • MultiRen (Version 1.53)
    MultiRen is a tool for renaming files comfortably.

  • TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.23)
    TheMPegEncGUI is a graphical interface for MPEG audio encoder.
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Amiga Society


 Amiga Society: Schlachtfeld - 32x32 patterns in raw format
The 32x32 patterns for the action strategy game 'Schlachtfeld' (graphics phase I) are in a raw format online now. The patterns do not fit exacty together. This is mostly because of the rendering which shifted the patterns a little bit. This requires a massively post production work for some patterns. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)


 Diskmag: Eurochart needs support!
One of the last diskmags of the Amiga demo scene, "The official Eurochart", will be published by middle or end next month. The editors ask for a vote for volume 48 and to participate the poll (Scene Survey) or to contribute something else e. g. English articles, graphics or musics. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


 News from Eyetech: State of AmigaOneXE
After moving the website of Eyetech onto another server the site is now up to date. Beside some changes in prices for the Eyetech complete systems a change for the AmigaOne interested persons is interesting: The AmigaOneXE-G3 will be delivered with a G3 CPU (750FX) with 800 MHz instead of the announced 700 MHz.

On the AmigaOne mailing list Alan Redhouse is talking about the latest stateof the delivery of the AmigaOneXE:

It seems the first 25 boards are delivered to Eyetech and are taken under another quality control by 25 chosen testers. The other motherboards will be delivered to Eyetech in the next week. Because of the high inquiry and the fact of the quality check by Eyetech the delivery will take a longer time than expected so the boards will be delivered to dealers and customers in February. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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21.Jan.2003
Amiga.sf


 Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 21st January 2003
The following software-ports have been updated or added:

(ps)

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21.Jan.2003



 Aminet uploads until 21.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet: 

AMIthlon_CD.lha      docs/help    2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
PfPaint_ENG.lha      gfx/edit    42K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha      gfx/edit    45K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
ShFGlowIcons.lha     pix/gicon   25K+Shadow Fighter glow icons by Ponos
SSGlowIcons.lha      pix/gicon   72K+Samurai Shodown glow icons by Ponos
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21.Jan.2003
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 21.01.2003)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly only meant for playing from disk on your hard drive. The following packets have been updated or completely new added:

  • 21.01.03 new: 1000cc Turbo (Energize) done by Codetapper
  • 21.01.03 fixed: The Speris Legacy (Team 17) fixed save game bug
  • 21.01.03 improved: Sky Chase (Imageworks) supports 2 new versions
  • 21.01.03 new: Lunar-C (Mindscape) done by JOTD
  • 21.01.03 new: Battle Chess (Interplay) done by Psygore
  • 21.01.03 improved: Better Dead Than Alien (Electra) supports another version
  • 21.01.03 improved: Lost Patrol (Ocean) NTSC version supported, miscellaneous fixes
  • 21.01.03 improved: Iron Lord (UBI-Soft) supports German version
  • 21.01.03 new: Fascination (Coktel Vision) done by CFOU!
(ps)

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21.Jan.2003
S. Eichholz (ANF)


 heise: Atari-ST-Emulator for PocketPC
As "heise" says for PocketPCs with StrongARM CPUs has been released an Atari ST emulator. The emulator is "Donorware", this means it is for free but donations are welcome. If there are enough "donations" maybe the coder will develop an Amiga emulator. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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21.Jan.2003
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)


 Today grand opening of The Butterfly Vale
Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages! The Butterfly Vale has opened its gates for visitors. The Vale is your future source for MorphOS ports and high-quality own MorphOS developments.

As for your journey to us, please recall that the Vale is located in a remote place where the air is still fresh and clean. We would like to keep it that way and ask you to if possible leave your power-consuming Pentium switched off and use alternate means of transportation. We recommend coming in by flying horse.

Here's a short overview of our main attractions. While you browse our various areas, you may notice that we have some smaller archives up that are not mentioned here.

cdda.library 1.0

cdda.library is a MorphOS library that provides CD digital audio services to A-Box programs. Developers benefit from the library's high-level functions such as drive search by certain criteria, looped playing of CD sections, event callbacks and author/track title information where available.

Users benefit from the library's drive autorecognition by not having to enter or even recall any device/unit values in most cases - thanks to cdda.library's powerful functions, ScummVM MorphOS is the only port that does not need the user to specify a CD drive.

ScummVM 0.3.0b + new CVS

The full ScummVM 0.3.0b MorphOS distribution is now online. It includes an updated PDF manual, and the icons have been converted to Ambient format. Also, there are now new icons for the Simon the Sorcerer games.

A new CVS snapshot has been uploaded as well, this one is the first public MorphOS snapshot with experimental, preliminary support for "THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND", as well as support for the Mac/Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 2 and early support for the CD32 version of Simon the Sorcerer.

Exult 1.0

Exult is a rewrite of the Ultima 7 engine for modern operating systems. It allows you to play one of the best and most detailed parts of Origin's famous Ultima series. Exult has recently turned to version 1.0 which means that both parts of Ultima 7, "The Black Gate" and "The Silver Seed" along with their add-ons "The Black Sword" and "Forge of Virtue" are fully supported now. The original data files are required to play.

FreeSCI 0.3.4

The MorphOS port of FreeSCI had been announced three days ago on the FreeSCI homepage (http://freesci.linuxgames.com). Today saw the official release of FreeSCI 0.3.4, and the MorphOS version is available for download from the Vale on the same day! FreeSCI is an attempt to create a portable interpreter for games written for Sierra On-Line's SCI system. Playable games include King's Quest IV, Space Quest 3, Leisure Suit Larry 2 & 3, The Colonel's Bequest, and several others. 32 bit Ambient icons for nine games known to be completable are included in the archive.

Frotz

Frotz is an interpreter for the adventure games produced by Infocom, and fan works created with Graham Nelson's Inform compiler. Frotz MorphOS Release 1 is based on David Kinder's Amiga port, Release 14 (the current Amiga version is release 16). Major changes to the Amiga version (14) are:
  • Updated port to Frotz 2.43 code base
  • Made Frotz fully graphics cards compliant
  • Rewrote GUI code from BGUI to MUI
  • Rewrote audio.device code to AHI
  • Aspect correction for V6 graphics
  • Fixed lots of preferences issues


Inform

Graham Nelson's Inform allows you to write your own games to run on Infocom interpreters. In addition to the binary, I've provided an archive with most material from Glenn Hutchings' all-in-one Inform package. It is meant for new users who want to start quickly with Inform. It includes the library, some useful 3rd party contributions, examples and a tutorial, all ready to use.

Magnetic

Magnetic is an interpreter for the adventure games once produced by the British company Magnetic Scrolls. It is based on David Kinder's Amiga port. Major changes from the Amiga version are:
  • Rewrote Copper code to proper graphics cards compliant code
  • Implemented title splash screen
  • Implemented animations for Magnetic Windows games
  • Implemented online hints for Magnetic Windows games


The Butterfly Vale is looking forward to your visit. Also keep in mind that this is just the beginning ... (ps)

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21.Jan.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper: Another SID-driver for the Catweasel
The second Amiga-based SID-driver is a playsid.library that accesses the SID of the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper directly. At the moment this only works on Catweasel controllers that are plugged in a Zorro slot of an Amiga, support for Clockport-connected controllers will be added shortly. Playsid plays back a lot of tunes that are known from C64-games and demos. The probably most famous collection of SID music is the High Voltage Sid collection that contains more than 20000 songs.

Special thanks goes to the brothers Rakesh und Sharwin Raghoebardayal who have adapted the library to the Catweasel in their spare time, and released it as freeware.

Download: playsid.lha - 19 KB

Link: High Voltage SID collection (ps)

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20.Jan.2003
Free Pascal


 Compiler: Free Pascal 1.0.7 Amiga snapshot available
A new snapshot of the compiler Free Pascal version 1.0.7 is now available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
AND Software


 Context menu: ContextSAS Version 1.65
The program ContextSAS by Andre Dörffler enables you to provide and to use context sensitive menus for AmigaOS3.5+. The DefIcons system is supported. By using a few additional tools one can thereby iconify even Workbench windows and create links.

With the new version 1.65 newdrawer_gui was added in the tools, which can be used as replacement for newdrawer. This time with GUI. This version offers the possibility of defining a dividing line for each menu entry and the activation by the middle or left mouse button is now functioning correctly. In the next update a hierarchical menu definition will be added, so stay tuned...

Download: ContextInstall165.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV


 TV board software: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 240
Guido Mersmann published beta version 236 of the TV board driver software AmithlonTV.

Changes:

  • BUGFIX:
    Several small fixes and changes on the library core.
  • CHANGED:
    Added some information to the driver programming guide


Download: AmithlonTV_Beta240.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
Amiga Flame


 Amiga Flame: Select from the Top 5 the game of the year 2002
Amiga Flame would like to determine the best game of the year 2002 out of the Top 5 of the Amiga games. Nominates, and thus being available, are the following games:

  • The Feeble Files (Adventure) - Epic Interactive
  • Software Tycoon (Simulation) - Epic Interactive
  • Tales Of Tamar (PBEM Strategy) - Eternity
  • Quake II (3D Shooter) - ID Software
  • Crossfire II (Mix of Shooter, X-Out and Wing Commander) - Dreamworld Development
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
Czech Amiga News


 Audio: AHI 5.4=6.0rc0-m68k / PPC
Martin Blom, developer of the sound map driver system AHI, published new beta versions for m68k and PPC.

ahi-5.4=6.0rc0-m68k.lha
ahi-5.4=6.0rc0-ppc.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003



 Aminet Uploads until 20.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet: 

SN-BackupArc.lha     biz/dbase   86K+V1.0 Provide Backup's automatically (Ger
newscoaster.lha      comm/news  428K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.55) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha   comm/news  186K+NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.55 - 18.1.20
mhm-BeApe.lha        demo/intro  85K+Beape 4k intro - CAFe02 winner with sour
BlitzLstDec02.lha    dev/basic  525K+Blitz mailing list archives for December
BlitzLstOct02.lha    dev/basic  140K+Blitz mailing list archives for October 
BlitzLstSep02.lha    dev/basic  241K+Blitz mailing list archives for Septembe
FindModule.lha       dev/e       13K+Find OS Function or CONST or whatever yo
nano.lha             dev/lang   192K+Interpreter with syntax near to BASIC an
AMIthlon_CD.lha      docs/help    2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
Frenchies.lha        docs/misc  275K+French translations from Didier Giron
UklSloneczny.lha     docs/misc   89K+Guide ***POLISH ONLY*** about Solar Syst
cf2_demo.lha         game/demo   11M+CrossfireII demo, advanced single/multip
cf2_demo_upd03.lha   game/patch 400K+Patches any CrossfireII demo version to 
DVD2VCD.lha          gfx/conv    93K+DVD2VCD(Cli Usage) 
imdbDiff030110.lha   misc/imdb  5.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmiBiorythme.lha     misc/misc   68K+MUI Biorythm tool v1.0b. Now localised (
newbaer.lha          mus/misc    19K+GNU/GPL updated Paula-to-AHI redirector 
PlasmaPlugin.lha     mus/play    24K+Plasma-Spectrum Plugin for AmigaAMP Powe
XenoMorph_WB09.jpg   pix/wb      68K+XenoMorph's WB Extreme Personalization
XenoMorph_WB10.jpg   pix/wb     114K+XenoMorph's WB Extreme Personalization
MemTrailer.lha       util/boot    4K+Allocates 16 bytes for MEMORY-PROTECTION
DirSSCompare.lha     util/dir    13K+Compares two dirs (for differences)
EBGuide.lha          util/rexx    2K+View Australian TV Guides in Shell/CLI
VClock_v1.7c.lha     util/time  332K+Real Speech Clock - Final Release
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20.Jan.2003
Amigan Software


 Tool: Report+ Version 5.64a
For users of AmigaOS 3.9 version 5.63 of Report+ is set to be downloaded. With Report+ from Amigan Software it's easy to create bug reports, Aminet "readme" files, autodocs and similar reports. The program is Freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools.

Download: ReportPlus.lha - 304 KB (ps)

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20.Jan.2003
Alex de Vries (E-Mail)


 New Amiga-Product: Pure Basic
Xing Interactive are very proud to announce the release of the powerful and versatile programming language "Pure Basic". The product will be released in the second week of February 2003 and is available to consumers at the very competitive price of 29,95 Euro in DVD case packaging.

Pure Basic is more advanced and flexible then any of the other Basic programming languages currently on the market and it comes at a fraction of the price. The beauty of this product is the versatility though as you can develop your own games and applications on PC Windows, Linux or even AmigaOS! Speed is another unique selling point. Where other Basic programming languages crawl at a slow pace due to complex instruction translations Pure Basic shines by even outperforming C++ written code. If you ever wanted to program your own commercial quality games or applications in an easy to learn and even more easy to use language then this is your chance! (ps)

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20.Jan.2003
Sylvio K. (ANF)


 ADA team with inquiry over the Soms3D-Engine
Sylvio K., director/conductor of the Anime development for Amiga team, decided to start an inquiry concerning the Soms3D-Engine due to the many e-mails with suggestions he got.

Originally it was intended to make Soms an on-line adventure but due to the suggestions in various mails something else could become of it. Everyone who would like to participate in the inquiry, please answer the following questions by sending an e-mail with the reference "Soms3D". These are the questions:

What do you think? What shall become of the Soms3D engine?

Currently the favorites are a 'Silent Hill' similar horror game and a 'GTA3'-Clone. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


 FreeBSD 5.0 available
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. It is derived from BSD UNIX, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development. (ps)

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19.Jan.2003
Daniel Miller (ANF)


 Genesi on the CES: Some more pictures and words (Update)
In case you are interested, you can find an article on Genesi's show appearance at the CES 2003 in Las Vegas, USA by Daniel Miller under the title link.

Update 20.01.2003:
Today was released another summary of the CES 2003 show by Nicholas Blachford. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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19.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


 IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT 2.01 with numerous improvements
An update from fxPAINT version 2.0 to 2.01 is now available for free download. Changes include:

  • fxPAINT no more requires a fxPAINT: assign
  • the behaviour of the slider has been changed due to numerous requests
  • the "Choose"-button now switches forth and back between plain paint-mode and gradient-mode
  • further adaptions to MorphOS
  • the IFF24-saver now works correct
  • other bugfixes
A fully detailed list of all changes can be found in the update archive. (ps)

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19.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Crossfire II shipped & further news (Update)
On Monday Crossfire II will be shipped to all subscribers and Amiga dealers. The shipped version of the game will be v1.03, which contains various bug fixes and the following new featueres as compared the the show version:

  • Full MorphOS and Pegasos compatibility
  • Complete story in German
  • Many mission details changed and difficulty level adjusted
  • Tutorial now optional
  • Currently selected weapon will be highlighted

Furthermore a new demo version of Crossfire II has been released on the APC&TCP and Dreamworlds Development home pages. There you will find the updates of the game and the demo version V1.03. In addition the support pages for the game on the APC&TCP home page have been updated and a.o. a FAQ added.

Update 20.01.2003:
On the Amiga Future home page you will find an interview with Dreamworld Development. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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19.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


 Set-top boxes and more: New statement by Genesi
In a new statement (title link) Raquel Velasco und Bill Buck of Genesi have a.o. announced a contract for Pegasos and MorphOS based set-top boxes, which provides for the cash flow necessary for the other projects.

Shows are expensive. 100,000 Dollars have been invested in a short period of time just for the CES in Las Vegas and the ARC in Aachen and the respective attention grabbing (not to forget the cost for the other public presentations and events).

Furthermore it contains another hint at having applied legal measures to get AmigaOS on the Pegasos.

According to the announcement, the Pegasos is shipped with MorphOS, DebianPPC, Mac-on-Linux and a bundle of games and applications. Ports of OpenBSD and Gentoo are said to be in the works and available before the CeBIT. Furthermore there are talks about ports of BeOS, OpenBeOS, NetBSD, Zeta and NewOS. SuSE and Mandrake are already running on the Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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18.Jan.2003
Petr H. (email)


 New beta version of GLQuake for WarpUP/Warp3D (beta 10)
Under the title link is the new version of GLQuake for WarpUP/Warp3D available for download. The author of the program is Massimilano Tretene.

The minimum setup to run GLQuakeWOS 1.09 beta 10 are:
  • PowerPC processor
  • 3D graphics card
  • 32 MB Ram
  • AmigaOS v3.x
  • WarpUP
  • Warp3D
What's new:
Fixed: paula allocation routine bug
Fixed: input.device allocation bug
Fixed: mouse allocation bug
Added: Sky Boxes support (ps) (Translation: wk)

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18.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Preview of the new GUI for ffmpeg 0.4.6
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Today I've made the first preview of my "Powerkonverter" GUI available on my homepage. This GUI isn't created with Gui4CLI anymore but with Powergadgets.

Download: Powerkonverter.lzx (ps) (Translation: wk)

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18.Jan.2003
Gojira (ANF)


 Mail program: new YAM developer version dated 18.01.2003
Since today there's a new developer version 2.4-dev [020] BETA of the mail program YAM available which is Open Source for some time now. This version is a pure developer version that may still contain bugs and for that the developers team doesn't give any warranty and support. Request regarding the developer versions via email aren't answered, either. Usage at your own risk!

The made changes can be taken from this list. Further information can be found on the Yamos SourceForge page.

Download: YAM24Dev.lzx (ps) (Translation: wk)

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18.Jan.2003
C-One Website


 CommodoreOne: new pictures
On the website about the CommodoreOne you can see in the area "Picture" new pictures of this by Jeri Ellsworth new designed nostalgia computer. Interested ones can find technical details and many further information following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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18.Jan.2003
Computer City (ANF)


 New pictures-search-game for Amiga
Computer City will release in 2003 a new game for Amiga computers, more details can be found on the provisional website. For further information please contact info@compcity.nl or the Attention programmers team.

The freeware game developed by the programmers group Attention, these are Philippe van Calsteren, Elvis Poldervaart and Patrick Henz is a game similar to a FindIt error searching game called Foto/Foto that will be available for many platforms. This will work in the way that a website will be created on the Internet where the game will be played. Two almost identical pictures will be uploaded with one of them containing five errors.

The game itself will be run locally, there'll be only a contact to the server to download the pictures or to upload the result and to be entered into the highscore list. The first betas are said to be shown on the Benelux Amiga Show that is planned for April 2003. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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18.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


 UADE version for MorphOS
Harry Sintonen has created with UADE 0.80pre1-mos1 a MorphOS version of UADE the Unix Amiga Delitracker emulator. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV


 TV-card software: AmithlonTV beta version 236
Guido Mersmann has published the beta version 236 of his TV-card driver AmithlonTV.

New in this version:

  • FEATURE:
    The new bt8x8 driver supports the new interlace mode, that is useful in several cases. (e.g. VHI Studio)
  • FEATURE:
    Some already implemented functions are now available within the menu.
  • FEATURE:
    Added some missing menu entries to the TVWatch setup window.
  • CHANGED:
    Many catalog changes.
  • FEATURE:
    Online help added (currently German only).
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta236.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jan.2003
Jarmo Laakkonen


 Jarmo Laakkonen: Lame V3.93.1 - FFMpeg V0.4.6 - mpgtx V1.3
Jarmo Laakkonen has updated some of his programs:

  • LamePPC - Lame MP3 encoder version 3.93.1 for WarpOS - lame.lzx 241 KB

  • Lame source code for C-Compiler lame_src.lzx - 952 KB

  • FFMpeg 0.4.6 - Fast video- and audioconverter. Supports AVI/QT/ASF/MPEG/DIVX/WMV1/MP3/AC3 and other - for 040/WarpOS - ffmpeg.lzx - 890 KB

  • FFMpeg source code for C-Compiler ffmpeg_src.lzx - 639 KB

  • mpgtx 1.3 - MPEG video-/audio-splitter and "Joiner", unfortunately there is no 68k version, because the author has no time of fighting with gcc-bugs - for WarpOS - mpgtx.lzx - 81 KB

  • mpgtx source code for C-Compiler - mpgtx_src.lzx - 77 KB
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jan.2003
GFX-BASE


 GFX-BASE: Review of fxPAINT 2.0
GFX-BASE has a new review. This time they put the latest version of the image-authoring-software fxPAINT v.2.0 to the test. In this review they tried to give you an impression of the new features, optimizations and improvements in this new release (especially for those who already own a previous version of fxPAINT) as well as an overview for those, who have not tried or seen fxPAINT before. Read it under the title link. (ps)

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17.Jan.2003
amiga.sf


 Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 17.01.2003
The following software-ports have been updated or added:

(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jan.2003



 Aminet Uploads 17.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet: 

YAM22_no.lha         comm/mail   23K+Unofficial Norwegian locale for YAM v2.2
BlitzLstNov02.lha    dev/basic   48K+Blitz mailing list archives for November
SvIVFix930.lha       gfx/misc    56K+*Fix* for SViewIV V9.30 (31.8.2002)
Luefter.lha          hard/misc    2K+Fan replacement for CyberstormPPC
goaschlageins.lha    mods/blkha 346K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
monster.lha          mods/blkha 350K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
X-mas_time.lha       mods/blkha  99K+X-mas PT mod by blakkhar
vd-ami2k1_eng.mpg    pix/mpg    135M+<VD> show report "Amiga 2001", medium, E
c64Hero.lha          pix/nicon  243K+35 cool new icons [by cYbo]
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jan.2003



 amiga-news.de: Amiga Link Directory Filled with over 1000 Links
Our Amiga Link Directory (ALD) set forth in January, 2000 to fill the big hole left by the closing of AWD [Amiga Web Directory -DM]. Since then the result has been positive: 29 categories with over 1000 hand-sorted links. Alfred Sturm is the man who labors behind the scenes in this area, entering new links almost daily.

If your own homepage has something to do with Amiga we would be happy if you would enter it in this area. You can also help by notifying Alfred Sturm of dead links or address changes. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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16.Jan.2003
David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)


 Amiga Games Hit Parade January/February 2003
It's time to vote at the Hit Parade - January/February 2003. We need the classifying of your current prefered Amiga games.

Send us your classifying (20 games max) at our address: daff1@club-internet.fr.

You can also vote at our website: http://hitparade.amigagames.com.

Remember you can put all kind of games (commercial, freeware, old, new,...). If your list don't have changed since last time, simply reply the mail with the subject "no change for me".

Final classifying will be published in early February. (ps)

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16.Jan.2003
Golem - IT News


 Golem: Data Rights Group against the Collection of Flat-rate IP Numbers
Regulations designed to protect personal rights have been twisted to do the opposite.

After the government of Darmstadt, according to multiple press reports, directed Internet provider T-Online to archive which customers used which IP numbers at which times (because of many customer complaints), the Independent Center for Data Rights (ULD) commented on the decision. The Darmstadt oversight officials pointed out that the ruling was limited, and that the rights situation to the officials of other German states would be unchanged.
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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16.Jan.2003
Halvadjian Georges (ANF)


 PerfectPaint V2.91
PerfectPaint V2.91 is available.

What's new:
  • A lot of new keyboard shortcuts
  • Improve for Animation:
    Crop - Scale - Scale page Color correction - Gamma - Negative - ScrollRGB - Swap RGB
  • Remove some requester when ARexx is on.
  • Numeric keyboard to select brush (0-9)
  • Preview effect for very small picture is fixed
  • Minimum, maximum and median effect works well now for very small picture
  • Improve creation of Animation when several pictures are dropped into the appicon.
  • Improve drawing effect: Colorize
  • Add Brush Handle (Alt x)
  • New picture effect: Mirror
  • 'Ctrl' can be used now to block cursor in X or Y position
  • Improve addframe, delete frame and copy frame: Jiffies are now respected.
  • New animation effect:
  • Double each frame
    All frames will be duplicated with a mix option.
  • Cel Number: This script places the cel number on each selected frame. Prefix and suffix can be assigned
  • Insert picture works correctly now with indexed palette
  • New ARexx command:
    pp_RemapBrush
    pp_SetRGBcolor
    pp_PickColor, pp_GetPickRed,pp_GetPick_Green,pp_GetPickGreen
    pp_AddFrames
    pp_TextGui
    pp_FixBrush
  • Convert to RGB and Convert to CMAP works now with animation
  • Improve Text_Gui and palette requester
  • Add an 'Info Button' on some requester.
  • Show Grid works now in "non classic" mode.
  • New picture item: Erase All Buffers (K)
  • And always several little bug fixed.
Download: PfPaint_V291.lha

Update 17.01.2003:
There is an update, that eliminates a bug in version 2.91.

Download: PfPaint_V291b.lha (ps)

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16.Jan.2003
CHIP online (ANF)


 CHIP online: Hacker-Group: Spy Tool for File Exchange Software?
Roland 'Cyco Myco' Weigert writes:
I just read two very interesting columns at CHIP Online. The first is from January 14th and covers the topic: "Hacker Group: Spy Tool for File Exchange Software." According to this there is apparently a hacker group in the service of the RIAA which uses a covertly installed worm in Windows and Linux media players to see what media files the user has, then sends the information back over the Internet to the music industry (RIAA).

In the second article, from yesterday, comes this: (Music Industry: No Spying in File-sharing Software), denies the RIAA, who have something to do with all this. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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16.Jan.2003
Petra Struck


 amiga-news.de: Small Changes in Design
In order to make our menus a bit more readable we have removed the headings for 'Sub pages' and 'Special Pages.' These links may now be found in the upper menu under the link ´Sub Pages´ (bottom row, all the way on the right.

The links to our Partner Pages, which were formerly in the upper menu on the third row, are now in the right menu under ´Amiga Network.´

This was reached by a clear division between internal (upper menu) and external (right menu), and the right menu has become considerably shorter and thereby more readable. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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15.Jan.2003
M.Schwarz (ANF)


 Former Metabox Executive Stefan Domeyer accused
Stefan Domeyer former executive of the Met@box AG has been accused last week by the public prosecutors of Hannover because of stock excange course manipulation.
Full article (German) see title link.

The set top box producer gained some interested within the Amiga community due to its announcement of a processor card for the A1200 in November 1999. Because of the unclear business methods Metabox reached the headlines several times in 2001.

Met@box AG has been founded on May the 15th 1996 with the name PIOS Computer AG by Amiga-Commodore developer engeneers (Dave Haynie, Andy Finkel) and former managers of Amiga Technologies (Stefan Domeyer). The initial capital, contributed by seven formers, had the amount of DM 1.05 millions. Further details are to obtain from our info page from June 1999. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2003
Bernward Hofmann (E-Mail)


 Amithlon: PuhDerBaer update
Bernd Meyer writes:
I just realized that the stereo-capable version of PuhDerBaer (the Paula-to-AHI redirector) never made it out to the users. Well, it's never too late --- download the archive and please make sure you read the included README.

Please note that I packed this up under Linux, rather than under AmigaOS. So it is possible that permission bits may not be set correctly --- so if things don't work, look for that first. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus


 Event: Pictures from the CES 2003 by Genesi USA
By the title link there are three photos available from the team who were presenting not only the Eclipsis but also the possibilities of the Pegasos computer at their own stand at the CES 2003 in Las Vegas. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2003
A.D.A.


 A.D.A.: Four news demos at the Amiga Demoscene Archive
On January the 12th 2003 the Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.) has been expanded with four new demos. Added are:

  • Splinters by Mystic (1997, Slideshow)
  • Diskobox by Abyss (1997, 40k-Intro)
  • Flower Power by Anarchy (1992, Demo)
  • Goa by The Black Lotus (1996, Demo)
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus


 #AmigaFun-Website will be abandoned
After one of the founders of the IRC channel #AmigaFun has left the channel the official website for #amigafun will be closed at the end of January.

Due to that the HTMLchat hosted at our forum will be shut down at the end of the month. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2003
The Legacy


 The Legacy: 621 game infos updated
The Legacy is the game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad CPC, which offers screen shots, cover scans and information about the developers to its readers. Today 621 game infos (mainly at the screen shot area) were updated. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2003
UAE-X


 Emulator: UAE-X Version 0.7 - Amiga emulator for the X-Box
With UAE-X you are able to emulate an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 with your X-Box. UAE-X is available to the terms of the GPL. For compilation the Microsoft XBOX XDK will be needed. By the title link there are beside the new version 0.7 detailed information and some screen shots available. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2003
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packages (until 01-13-2003)
With WHDLoad you can install games to your hard disk which were intended for floppy disk use only. The following packages were added/updated since our last post:

  • 13.01.03 new: Tornado Ground Attack (Energize) done by Codetapper
  • 13.01.03 new: Pharaoh's Curse (Bignonia) done by Asman
  • 13.01.03 new: Nigel Mansell's World Championship (Gremlin) done by JOTD
  • 13.01.03 improved: Body Blows (Team 17) another version supported
  • 11.01.03 fixed: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment) fixed access faults and VBR
  • 11.01.03 new: Better Dead Than Alien (Electra) done by Psygore
  • 08.01.03 fixed: The Speris Legacy (Team 17) fixed install script
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus


 New website by Lorence Lombardo
Lorence Lombardo has put a new website online from that his software for 68k and Amithlon Amiga might be downloaded, among these are Amidiction, PegaThlon, HTMLStrip or BabelDoc. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2003



 amiga-news.de: Amazon partner program buttons built in
Along the discussion (German) during the last week about new possibilities of funding there was several times the proposal among the comments to join the Amazon partner program. We signed it up now and there are now the two buttons for that built in at the right menu.

Many of you are buying books at Amazon. If you will do so in future by using one of the two buttons we will obtain a provision, which we can then use to fund amiga-news.de. So this is a kind of possibility to support us financially. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2003
amiga.sf


 Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 01-15-2003
The following software ports were updated or added: (ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV


 TV card software: AmithlonTV beta version 230
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 230 of his TV card driver software AmithlonTV.

New with this version:
  • BUGFIX:
    Found the crappy crash bug, that caused the bt8x8 driver sometimes to crash. The same bug seems to caused the video freezing, the picture startup problem and some fuzzy system trouble. I made fullspeed resizing tests without any further picture trouble or crashes. Sometimes it's worth to rework a trouble making driver from scratch!
  • FEATURE:
    The new reworked bt8x8 driver is able to process as many picture buffers as required.
  • FEATURE:
    The new reworked bt8x8 driver is pre calculating the risc code size before compiling, which causes less memory usage.
  • BUGFIX:
    Fixed a window sizing problem with smear (reported by Carsten Siegner).


Download: AmithlonTV_Beta230.lha (ps) (Translation: ub)

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14.Jan.2003
Alfie's Amiga Homepage (ANF)


 OpenURL and RxMUI Update
The RxMUI package is now released in version 31.5, and OpenURL is available in version 4.1.

Some other projetcs have also new versions:
  • BWin.mcc 20.3
  • GIFAnim.mcc 19.2
  • SpeedBar.mcc 16.2
  • Urltext.mcc 18.3
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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14.Jan.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Individual Computers: New year, new drivers, new prices
Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper is not only a PCI-card, it can also be used in an Amiga. The first SID-driver has now been released for AmigaOS: Stefan Haubenthal has written a 6581sid.library for common C64 emulators like Frodo or MagiC64.

Download: 6581sid.lha - 1442 Bytes

Unfortunately, the new year also brings bad news: Higher taxes, higher energy cost and higher wages at our contractors force us to increase some prices for the first time in the nearly nine-year old history of the company. This mainly affects the new products. On the other hand, we will decrease prices for the existing inventory.

The new pricelist is valid from February 1st, 2003.

Prices at your local reseller may be different from the prices listed here, especially because of differen VAT rates in the European countries. Prices listed here include the German VAT of 16%. Price lists published previously become invalid with the publication of this list. 

Buddha Flash IDE controller                     49,90 EUR
Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper                       89,90 EUR
Catweasel Z-II (incl. Buddha)                   74,90 EUR
Catweasel ISA (PC-Version)                      39,90 EUR
Gemini SCMS-killer (opto in)                   149,00 EUR
Gemini SCMS-killer (coax in)                    99,00 EUR
Graffiti Videocard                              19,00 EUR
IDE-fix Express upgrade A1200                   24,90 EUR
IDE-fix Adapter A4000                           14,90 EUR
ISDN-Surfer w/o OVP                             59,90 EUR
ISDN-Surfer w/ OVP                              79,90 EUR
Silversurfer                                    29,90 EUR
Silversurfer limited Edition                    34,90 EUR
A600 adapter for Silversurfer                    9,90 EUR
X-Surf 2 ethernet                               89,90 EUR
Lyra keyboard adapter                           29,90 EUR
VarIO (Zorro/26-pin version)                    49,00 EUR
VarIO (A1200 version)                           59,00 EUR
PCI POST code display                           39,90 EUR
Indivision Flickerfixer                         99,00 EUR
Retro Replay                                    50,00 EUR
Retro Replay incl. Silversurfer                 75,00 EUR
C-One reconfigurable computer mainboard aprox. 250,00 EUR


The products Kylwalda and IDE-fix express A1200 will only be produced on special order. We're currently considering production outside Germany to keep the target price of 189,- EUR for the Delfina soundcard.

Something funny at the end: Individual Computers is being massively attacked by viruses in the past few weeks. Up to eight emails containing a virus arrive every day. The amusing part about this is that it's viruses that only spread through Windows and Outlook. Those who want to harm us should know that we're not using sub-standard software, and attacks like this are simply ineffectual. (ps)

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14.Jan.2003
Steffen Häuser / Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)


 New Quake2 Update available
On our website is a new Update for Quake2 available, for PPC and 68k, registered users can download it there.

The new update fixes a bug in the GL renderer of the first update, a small bug in the GUI and has some optimizations. Also you can now save screenshots (with the GL renderer) as JPEGs as before only in TGA. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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14.Jan.2003
amiga.org / Stefan 'Scholle' Czinczoll (ANF)


 Pre-Releases of the new RC5-72 Clients available
Under the title link the AmigaOS-Clients (68k, PowerUp, WarpUp) for the RC5-72 contest can be dowloaded. As said on amiga.org the PowerUp-version is 100% MorphOS compatible. The clients are so called "release candidate" versions. The versions have the numbers v2.9001.479.

The aim of the project RC5-75 is with as many computers as possible to decode a 72-bit-key. There are trillions of possibilites to compute. To take part in this you do not have to have knowledge in programming, only free computer capacity. Jut install te client, get some blocks and after decoding send them back. Help, a FAQ and more explanations you will find at Amiga RC5 Team Effort. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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14.Jan.2003
Andreas Kürzinger (ANF)


 BlizKick Version 1.24rc5 und NewPatchMult64 Version 1.5
New versions of Harry "Piru" Sintonen's BlizKick (v1.24rc5, MapROM Tool for Phase5/DCE Turboboards, Readme) and NewPatchMult64 (v1.5, 060 Patches for UMult64/SMult64, Readme) are released. For both tools are new detected bugs fixed.

Download:
BlizKick-1.24rc5.lha - 280 KB
NewPatchMult64-1.5.lha - (ps) (Translation: gf)

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13.Jan.2003
Jürgen Schmitz (E-Mail)


 Amiga Inc.: AmigaOS4 Feature Set: Release 1
January 13, 2003 - Snoqualmie, WA

Amiga is pleased to publish this first version of the feature set of the up and coming AmigaOS4.0. The document will undergo revision in subsequent issues but because of the massive demand for information made by the public, we have decided to release it in its current state.

Due to the large amount of work and the obvious technical nature of OS development, the document is both considerable in size, laden with jargon and, to save download time, diagrams have not been included.

For those using older Amiga based PDF viewers, there may be a few minor issues with displaying the front page graphics but this is due to issues with these viewers. On official PDF viewers, and on the new AmigaOS4.0 viewer, the document is rendered true.

Amiga would like to thank both those in the AmigaOS4.0 project team, who have worked on this project with passion and commitment and those who have patiently waited for their favourite platform to bloom once again. It has been a huge undertaking and no one company, entity or person can take the credit. It has been a fantastic demonstration of what makes the Amiga platform so special, the coming together of like minds to build something extraordinary.

AmigaOS4.0. The legend continues.

Click here to download/view the AmigaOS4 Feature Set PDF

Update:
There is also a HTML version of this PDF document: http://www.ryusworld.webhop.net/OS4Features/features.html (ps)

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13.Jan.2003
Sylvio (ANF)


 New Screenshots of Soms3D and innovation
There are new Soms3D shots on the Anime development web page to admire, which shows the first progress of the engine. In addition one can now chat with the developers of Soms3D. On the IRC server phatnet (irc.phat-net.de #amigafun) and/or at this URL. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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13.Jan.2003



 Aminet Uploads 13.01.2003
Here the current uploads: 

rno-urea.lha         demo/aga   1.6M+RNO: "Urea" demo from M&S 2000 (7th)
eviled.lha           dev/e       75K+Editor with source in E
php-4.3.0-bin.lha    dev/gg     717K+PHP 4.3.9 - AmigaOS 68k binary
fdisk.lha            disk/misc  206K+PC partition table editor for Amiga
CyberGazetka01.lha   docs/mags  406K+Skubaniec - simple polish mag
WormWars.lha         game/misc  624K+Worm Wars 7.3: Advanced snake game
Sv5Fix100.lha        gfx/misc   284K+*Fix* for SView5 V1.00 (11.1.2003)
3c589.lha            hard/drivr  54K+Driver for 3Com PCMCIA network cards
Lame68k.lha          mus/misc   324K+Lame 3.93.1, mp3 encoder
cvs-1.11.4.lha       util/gnu   1.1M+CVS 1.11.4 - Concurrent Versions System 
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  305K+Report+ 5.64: Multipurpose utility
idle1_4.lha          util/moni   12K+A (working) cpu monitor
idlewos.lha          util/moni   12K+A cpu monitor with WarpOS Support
(ps)

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13.Jan.2003
John Klas (E-Mail)


 Sixgirls Computing Labs is under attack
John Klos from Sixgirls Computing Labs writes:
Sixgirls Computing Labs, which is known for being one of the only hosting services which uses an Amiga as a full time server (reva.sixgirls.org), is experiencing a massive denial of service attack of unprecedented magnitude.

A previous attack saturated the 10-base-T connection of the Amiga server with over 7 Mbps of syn packets, which caused loss of most connectivity for part of a day, but the machine was put behind another Sixgirls server with 100-base-T connections which filters this traffic.

Another attack began at midnight EST Sunday morning. Information from the upstream router shows that this attack is using 150 Mbps of traffic to make the connection unusable. Measures will be put into place to block this traffic upstream, and normal service should resume sometime Monday. The authorities are investigating.

Temporarily, you may have trouble accessing sites which are hosted on reva.sixgirls.org, such as:

http://distributed.amiga.org/
http://www.totalamiga.org/
http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/
http://ireland.amiga.org/
and others.

Please check back. (ps)

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13.Jan.2003
Grasshopper LLC


 DTP: PageStream V4.1.5.5 for Amiga OS and Windows
On 12 January 2003 Grasshopper LLC published version 4.1.5.5 of the DTP program 'PageStream' for Amiga and Windows. This update is available for registered users on the Grasshopper LLC Website at the disposal. Currently this update contains only the new files until the test of the package is finished. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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13.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV


 TV software: AmithlonTV beta version 229
Guido Mersmann published beta version 229 of the TV card driver software AmithlonTV.

  • CHANGED:
    Complete rework of the current video_bt8x8.lib. Many routines replaced, improved or completly removed.
  • BUGFIX:
    Fixed a memory allocation problem. The video_bt8x8.lib didn't work on non powerpci.library systems, now this is fixed.
  • BUGFIX:
    TVCard.library is now able to detect the Philips video chip which is using the pci subclass "other" instead of video.
  • FEATURE:
    New option "Push in screen"! When using PowerWindows you're able to drag windows out of the screen, which is very useful. My TV window is placed at the right bottom of the screen by default. When using the menu/hotkey to enlarge the window it stays there and grows into the screen border. By using the new option the window position is automaticaly changing to fit on screen.


Download: AmithlonTV_Beta229.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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13.Jan.2003
SAKU


 Meeting: Pictures of the Alternative Party 2003 (update)
Under the title link you can find some pictures of the Alternative Party 2003, which took place last weekend in Helsinki, Finland.

Supplement 14.01.2003:
Further pictures can be found here and here. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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13.Jan.2003
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


 Meeting: Amiga party in Braunschweig asks for registration
Marius Schwarz wrote:
"For planning reasons of the Amiga Lan party in Braunschweig, which will take place on 8 and 9 February 2003, we would like to ask all of you, to announce your coming by using our web form. We need the registration because of the food supply, are thus in your interest. THX." (ps) (Translation: sk)

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13.Jan.2003
Velcro_SP (ANF)


 Meeting: Pictures of CES 2003 (Genesi)
I placed pictures of the CES 2003 on-line. Much fun when looking at! (ps) (Translation: sk)

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12.Jan.2003



 amiga-news.de: 1000th news ticker mailed!
More than 600 subscribers make use of the possibility to have our news sent to them via eMail. Jürgen Müller, who we are extending a big thankyou to, has been creating a ticker almost daily for more than 3 years, and yesterday the 1000th ticker was sent in the German section!

If you hadn't yet known about this possibility, you can learn how to subscribe and unsubscribe under the title link. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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12.Jan.2003
Jörg Thomas (ANF)


 New URL for ylf's home page
As Amiga browsers apparently are learning and thus are slowly getting problems with my hitherto domain redirect service in the form of annoying banner ads and popup windows, I have now set up a new URL. As from now my site with the well known hardware tips and the \"Amiga ist ...\" page can also be reached under http://www.ylf.de.vu.

At the same time I would like to thank everyone for their feedback, and ask those who have linked to my page to update the link at the next opportunity.

Regards, Jörg Thomas (ps) (Translation: cb)

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12.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Amiga Future: New review online
Today a review by Tristan Mangold of the online game 'Inselkampf' has been published in the Amiga Future home page's articles area. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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11.Jan.2003
Stefan Ruppert (ANF)


 Red card for Internet investigators
Stefan Ruppert wrote:
Just stumbled across the above mentioned site. Don't know if this has already been posted here but it seems to me to be interesting for all Internet users.

Some words about the content:
"The Bundesrat has decided concerning a bill that intends the saving of all available data in the area of the classic telecommuncations (calling via cellphone and mobile cell phone, SMS, fax etc.) as well as all data available on the Internet on stock. The goal is to make it possible for the secret services and the offices for prosecution to find data they can access if is needed. Details shall not be handled in form of laws but through the Federal Government via a statuory instrument."

For those who are interested I came via fiff.de to this site. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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11.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Conrad Elektronik: USB/Firewire to IDE interface
At Conrad Elektronik you can buy an interface for USB/FireWire to IDE. With this interface it shall be possible to run an external IDE tower with hard disks for example via the USB interface card Highway. This interface handles on the IDE side ATA and ATAPI (PIO 0-4 and UDMA 0-4).

Interesting though is the question whether this interface can work also in the other direction. IDE to USB/FireWire.

Supplement:
Link to the interface removed as they use with single session IDs. So all interested have to wade through to the interface's page themselves. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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11.Jan.2003
Jabberwocky


 Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky v1.3 - 6. preview (Update)
Tom Parker has released preview 5 of the Instant Messenger 'JabberWocky' for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages.

Connections to other Instant Messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo are possible via gateways.

Download: Jabberwocky030109.lha

Update 12.01.2003:
Today was released preview 6. Download: Jabberwocky030113.lha (ps) (Translation: wk)

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11.Jan.2003
Ralf Himmel (ANF)


 Replacing floppy discs with MiniCD-RW
The company Memorex will offer from Februar 2003 on rewritable CDs for the waistcoat with 8 cm in diameter as a replacement for the floppy discs. The small CD-RW that can be rewritten up to 1.000 times and can contain a maximum of 210 MB of data is suitable for mobile users. The Pocket CD-RW fits in every pocket and therefore suits perfectly for the mobile use, e.g. in the laptop, MP3 player or in the digital camera. Using the standard audio compression mode MPEG you can record 210 minutes of music. They are said to be available from February on for a price of 6,99 Euros for five Pocket CD-RWs in a slim jewel case. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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11.Jan.2003



 Aminet uploads of 11.01.2003
Here are the latest Aminet uploads: 

opentriton-hun.lha   dev/gui      3K+Hungarian catalog for OpenTriton GUI sys
fat95hun.lha         disk/misc   20K+Hungarian translation for fat95
AmigaFuture40.lha    docs/mags  1.0M+Great german paper mag preview
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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11.Jan.2003
Stefan Schulze (ANF)


 Collected Dreamworlds news - Crossfire II update (update)
There are many news to report:

The new homepage of Dreamworlds Development is online. The base design is already complete as well as are the news and the downloads. Information about projects and the team will follow in the next few days. Until then there's a link to the old homepage.

Crossfire II has experienced a big update. There's finally a demo version (download: cf2_demo.lha - 11,7 MB) and an update (download: cf2_upd101.lha), containing the following:
  • Alternative graphics functions that don't need ChunkyPPC; solves problems of ChunkyPPC on Pegasos systems.
  • Mission mode completely translated into German.
  • Optionally playable in the Workbench window.
  • The tutorial can be skipped when starting a new game.
  • Active weapon is marked with light effect.
  • New music piece specially for mission #11.
  • Many missions details changed.
  • Wrong colors when playing in 8bit without screen fading fixed.
  • Crash in mission #26 fixed.
  • "File not executable" error fixed.


People ordering the full version now will get already the new version with all known problems fixed. The demo version is up to this level, too, and lets you play the tutorial, 2 missions from the middle of the game and test the multiplayer mode. To keep the archive small in size were all animations and musics removed. A more complete demo will be released e.g. on the next AmigaFuture CD.

Crossfire II is a kind of Wing Commander seen from above with complex and varied missions, a thrilling background story, lavish effects and explosive multiplayer fights.

Update:
On the APC&TCP homepage have recently further screenshots of the game been released. The game is available at APC&TCP and in a few days also on the shelves in the stores. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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10.Jan.2003
TTEngine


 FAQ for TTEngine written
Grzegorz Kraszewski has written an English FAQ to the topic TTEngine. TTEngine is a text-rendering environment for AmigaOS based on TrueType font. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jan.2003
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)


 GetBoinged.de will go online in two weeks
Thorsten Schölzel wrote:
The website www.getboinged.de which has gone offline some time ago will be online again in two weeks. The goal has clearly determined: Supporting x86 users who use AmigaOS via WinUAE.

The workshops describe the installation of AmigaOS3.9 for getting the best sound as well as the creation of an Internet connection with Genesis. I try to show that the use of AmigaOS is very easy with the help of an Amiga emulator. The proper preferences are very important. But before I will present you this issues I want to finish designing the homepage. You will be able to watch the site with AWeb, IBrowse and Voyager in any case.

Now I want to speak a few words to the "negativ thinker": "Currently there is a stagnation at users and developers. Why is it so? By working with UAE I could convince users having the Amiga system. Today they use Windows and AmigaOS/WinUAE in a friendly coexistence because there is good software on both sides. Try to expect the future a little more positive!" (ps) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jan.2003
Peter's Amiga Homepage


 Peter's Amiga Homepage: WinUAE FAQ updated
On the homepage of Peter the following sections have been updated:
  • Winuae FAQ
  • Windows XP guide will be available soon
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jan.2003
Amiforce (ANF)


 Amiforce: Amiblitz 2.27 distribution published
Amiblitz2.27_Ger-Distribution:
From now on the full distribution of Amiblitz version 2.27 is available on Amiforce. The update for Amiblitz 2.27 still had a few bugs which have been now fixed.

During the next days this archive will be completed by adding additional translations. Please get the changes from the history which the guide contains. The Amiblitz download section will be reworked and the date will be added.

The mailing list filearchive was created and data will be permanently added. This will be also written in the info site.

SN-archives:
The programs SN-KontoArchiv and SN-AnlagenArchiv can be now accessed under Amiblitz/Developer support. Additionally to a short describtion and the download there is also an online formular for registering directly at the author Steffen Nitz. This section is being reworked and has been still not finished. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jan.2003
Ancor Productions


 Website of Ancor Productions has a new design
The website of Ancor Productions which is well-known by projects such as 'The Last Seal' , 'PTOE' and 'AFP' has been completely new designed. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jan.2003
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


 Instant-Messenger: AmigAIM V0.9443 beta
Richard H. Poser has published the beta version 0.9443 of the AIM-messenger "AmigAIM". The following changes have been made compared with the previous version:

  • Fixed, I believe, a long standing bug with the reconnection system. This is only a small maintenance release, as I'm sure that was annoying.


For further details please have a look at the history-file.

Downlaod:
AmigAIM_BETA.lha
AmigAIM.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jan.2003
d!RT!E & Zito of mOOdS (ANF)


 mOOdS now also without frames and Javascript!
Additional to some minor improvements you can now watch the homepage of "mOOdS - Music For Your Instincts" which is a music group based on Amiga without frames and without Javascript. Have much fun you IBrowse fans! (ps) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2003
Petra Struck


 Interview with Urban Müller (Aminet Administrator)

Interview with Urban Müller
by Petra Struck - 09.01.2003 (In Deutsch)

As we had to report in early January, the Aminet series of CDs was cancelled. So Aminet CD #52 will be the last one put together. This turn of events compelled us to ask a few questions of Urban Müller, the person who does the CDs and is also an Aminet administrator.

Amiga-News: Who is Urban Müller?

Urban Müller: I'm an Amiga fan since way back when. I first satisfied this passion during my IT studies and then as I worked as a search machine programmer.

Amiga-News: What constitutes Aminet and what is Aminet?

Urban Müller: Aminet was the attempt to ease the load on our university's Amiga archive through the use of mirrors, and it succeeded through the help of volunteers.

Amiga-News: How many years have you busied yourself with Aminet?

Urban Müller: Oh my God, it's been almost ten years! :)

Amiga-News: How is Aminet organized? Who does what and how long does it take to do it?

Urban Müller: The two moderators - Matthias Scheler and I - proofread all uploads for correct *.readme file, to make sure there are no viruses, for appropriate content and correct category designation. Normally this doesn't take too much time, however new features (for example the new web interface from Andrea Kareth) and the maintenance of the many mirrors take some time.

Amiga-News: What sort of difficulties have you had to overcome in this enterprise?

Urban Müller: Almost everything has gone quite well. Only occasionally are mirror admins difficult to reach, and I myself have a network card problem with the Amiga :)

Amiga-News: How is Aminet financed?

Urban Müller: Luckily Aminet's financial requirements are not very high, because bandwidth and storage space have been provided by universities.

Amiga-News: The cancellation of the Aminet CD series will leave a hole that will not be easily filled. Why exactly is it being stopped?

Urban Müller: The number of breaks shrank steadily, also in part it's due to the fact that almost everyone can connect to the Internet and therefore doesn't need a CD.

Amiga-News: Under what circumstances would it be possible to carry on the CD series, for instance would it help if we had a subscription campaign which registered 500 new subscribers?

Urban Müller: I think that would only postpone the cancellation a bit.

Amiga-News: Could you possibly turn over the rights to make Aminet CDs to someone else?

Urban Müller: I wouldn't rule that out, if someone is interested.

Amiga-News: What feelings do you have about the current Amiga situation?

Urban Müller: It's going to be difficult for the Amiga to expand the tiny user base after such a long period of standing still, but I would like to be surprised by positive developments.

Amiga-News: Do you still have an Amiga?

Urban Müller: Of course, but now I spend more time using Linux.

Amiga-News: In closing, is there anything you would like to say to readers?

Urban Müller: I thank all the people who have contributed to Aminet, especially the software authors, who have invested countless hours. Without them the Amiga would never have been useful for as long as it has.

Amiga-News: Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to our questions. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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09.Jan.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


 New FAQ Page for HIGHWAY / SUBWAY
E3B is offering a compilation of frequently-asked questions (and answers) on their website. If you have USB problems they recommend that you first take a quick look there, perhaps the problem is already known and may be easily solved.

This FAQ is offered as support for customer service. If you have problems or questions E3B is also available by email, of course! (ps) (Translation: dm)

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09.Jan.2003
H & P


 Haage & Partner Website Revised
The webpage of Haage & Partner has been completely revised. At the first glance it seems that Amiga will not play a big role at H&P in the future. The resisted decline of the Amiga market is apparent. The Amiga pages are there as they were before, but the principle focus of H&P is now visibly in other areas. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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09.Jan.2003
PageStream.de


 PageStream News for January 2003
PageStream News for January, 2003
It's version 4.1.5.4 of PageStream for Windows and 4.1.5 for Amiga. The versions are still in testing stage and only available in English versions. A Macintosh version will follow shortly. A Linux version is also announced, but exact dates can't be stated yet.

Registered customers can download the new version and the German localization in the download area. Customers who have not registered yet can do so now: Registration.

PageStream area revised
To honor the new year the Pagestream area was revised and now meshes with the new design of the main site. Shortly the text area will also be updated and reorganized. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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09.Jan.2003
Golem - IT News


 No Soldering Required: Radeon 9500 Conversion to Radeon 9700
Driver patch enables functions only offered by more expensive products.

After the Russian website Overclockers.ru publicized a modification in which one could change a Radeon 9500 with 128 megs RAM to a better-performing Radeon 9700 with a BIOS update and a bit of solder, the story continued: tinkerers found new ways to do the same thing without any hardware modification nor warranty voiding, although there are a few restrictions.

Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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09.Jan.2003
Amigaworld.net


 Amiga Inc. Website Covered in Computeractive's Netcharts
The website of Amiga Inc. has landed in the "Netcharts" section of the English-language computer newspaper 'Computeractive.' The website is described as follows:

www.amiga.com
Unlike the rest of the 1980s home computer systems such as the Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64 that went west during the early 1990s, the Amiga is still reasonably common. All sorts of software and applications are still being developed and Amigas are still widely used to create video effects for TV and film. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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09.Jan.2003



 Aminet Uploads 09.01.2003
Here the current uploads: 

CDCat30PL.lha        docs/help   14K+Polish Locale for CDCat 3.0
AmigaBG.jpg          pix/back   395K+A simple Amiga wallpaper
(ps)

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09.Jan.2003
TecChannel (ANF)


 tecChannel: T-Mobile Offers Microsoft Smartphones
According to tecChannel: Microsoft Germany has found a new partner in T-Mobile for their efforts in the Handy market. This quarter T-Mobile will market the first telephone with the Handy software, the Microsoft SmartPhone. Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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09.Jan.2003
CD32-Allianz (ANF)


 New Category at CD32 Alliance: Instructions
On account of many requests for the original instructions of CD-32 stuff we decided to meet the challenge and create a category for instructions. Additionally there are also the instructions for the SX-32 expansion module and diverse CDTV accessories. In the CD-32 Games area, there are the instructions for Lotus Trilogy. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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08.Jan.2003
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packages (until 01-05-2003)
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games on a hard disk which were orginally designed for floppy disk use only. The following packages were added/updated since the last announcement:

  • 05.01.03 fixed: XP8 (Weathermine Software) support for NTSC machines
  • 05.01.03 new: The Speris Legacy (Team 17) done by JOTD
  • 05.01.03 new: Sextimates (Actionworks) done by Psygore
  • 05.01.03 new: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment) done by JOTD
  • 05.01.03 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) supports AGA version, highscores fixed
  • 04.01.03 new: Sky Chase (Imageworks) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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08.Jan.2003
CVS


 Developer tool: CVS version 1.11.4 AmigaOS/MorphOS port
By the title link there is the latest update of the Amiga and MorphOS port of CVS (Concurrent Versions System) available which was done by Olaf Barthel and Jens Langner. The current version is 1.11.4. Please see the included ChangeLog.

Download: cvs-1.11.4.lzx - 982 KB

CVS is a tool for programers which simplifies the version control of source code a lot. More known from Unix/Linux these ports may be useful for one or another using AmigaOS or MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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08.Jan.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)


 Event: C= show report on Dutch radio
Ron van Schaik writes:
Hello all great C= lovers,
First of all I wanna wish you a very good 2003!

Dutch radio will have a report of our C= show held on December 21 at the Trefpunt in Holland. There is an interview with Jeri Ellsworth and a report of the C= One. Also there will be an interview with our clubmembers Ruud Baltissen and Gideon Zweijtzer (builder of the new C64 32-bit processor).

The programm called Telescoop will be on air at Saturday January 11 from 17:00 till 18:00 at radio 747AM. Info: (telescoop magazine). When you wanna see some nice pics (two pages) of our C= show held on December 21 you can watch it on: commodore-gg.hobby.nl/dec2002a.htm and commodore-gg.hobby.nl/dec2002b.htm.

Lots of greetings Ron van Schaik (ps) (Translation: ub)

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08.Jan.2003
MorphOS-news.de


 Genesi USA founded (Update)
Genesi USA (tax number: EIN 42-1567425) has been founded this week in Nevada, USA. Genesi USA is a hold to 100% by Genesi SARL Luxembourg.

Samuel Rydh (MacOnLinux) will be at the Genesi-CES stand
Genesi SARL has informed MorphOS-news that Samuel Rydh (chief developer of Mac-On-Linux) will attend together with Genesi at their stand at the CES and will help to promote the Pegasos mainboard.

Update 09.01.2003:
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck:

Announcement:

Crossbee Management Joins Genesi

The Management of Crossbee S.A. of Paris, France has joined Genesi to assist in the organization of the Company. "Integrating Thendic-France, bplan GmbH, and all of our sales efforts and strategic initiatives required us to find and recruit a proven and talent international management team. Stéphane Donders and the Crossbee team are the right people to bring Genesi to the next level." The Crossbee team began working with Genesi 7 January.

Details about Crossbee can be found at www.crossbee.com. Crossbee and Genesi will share offices in Paris. New Genesi Offices will be established in Frankfurt and Luxembourg in January and February. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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08.Jan.2003
Amiforce (ANF)


 Amiforce: Amiblitz2.27 update
Unfortunately it has been very quiet around Amiforce due to lack of time and other projects. Now it's going on. The start is a new update archive of Amiblitz2.27.

For the usage there is a full distribution of Amiblitz 2.26 is required. The FAQ has partially translated to German and will soon be completed.

In the next days an updated distribution will be released. The following things will soon be changed/expanded:
  1. AmiblitzML files archive:
    All data which were posted to the German mailing list will be put inside a public folder so every user can access it.
  2. SN archive will be expanded
  3. At the "Gamesfun" area the will be added the section "Classicgaming" which will offer some never before released games.
  4. The music area gets a new track. ;)
The last poll is finished now and the results can be viewed at the start site. The favoured topic will be featured soon. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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08.Jan.2003



 amiga-news.de tries new ways of financing
The costs for amiga-news.de were covered by banner ads only. Due to the stagnation of the Amiga market it became more and more difficult during the last year to find paying clients for these banner ads.

With Martin Wolf of Eternity we try from today on a new kind of advertisements. amiga-news.de sets up a banner for a product, in this case 'Tales of Tamar', and for every purchase that was done via this banner amiga-news.de gets a provision. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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08.Jan.2003
heise Newsticker / Apple-Fan (ANF)


 heise online: Macworld Expo: Web browser by Apple
A new open source browser called 'Safari', which was developed by Apple especially for Mac OS X, should, so Jobs, show that innovation and speed is nothing magically. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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08.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Amiga-Mediaplayer version 2.9
Update of the 'Amiga-Mediaplayer'. New: Start of the TV window or 'Frogger' after a context change, save function for the radio frequency list, possibility for changement of single frequencies within the list and fix the new entries, TV/radio switch keeps the last chosen radio frequency. Optimization of the source code.

Shortcuts:
  • Return: Opens the Frogger ASL requester for media data
  • Esc: Quits the mediaplayer window
  • F1: Opens a context changer window "Changer"
  • F: Fixes the new radio frequencies within the frequency list
  • S: Saves the new radio frequency list


Function:
To change the radio frequency list a number key has to be stroken first. Then it is possible to change the tuner frequency with the up ">>|" and down "|<<" arrows inside the mediaplayer window in 10KHz quantities. If the desired frequency is reached only the "F" key has to be hit and the new value is fixed. Now this frequency can't be changed any more. If this new value should be to find at every start of the Mediaplayer the "S" key has to be pressed. Then the frequency list will be rewritten within the program directory, including the changed frequencies.

Download: Mediaplayer-2.lzy (ps) (Translation: ub)

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08.Jan.2003
Titan Computer (ANF)


 Diskussion: Rage Hard discussion board
For the new multi player tactic shooter Rage Hard a discussion board has set up here. Ideas, improvements and critics are welcome. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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08.Jan.2003



 Aminet uploads from 01-08-2003
Following the latest Aminet uploads: 

up-kicks.lha         demo/aga   1.1M+UP ROUGH "April In Paris" released at MS
up-yours.lha         demo/intro  66K+UP ROUGH "Introducin" our first intro ev
apx-tb05.lha         demo/mag   3.1M+Taboo #5 AGA/CGX.Polish scenemagazine by
fdisk.lha            disk/misc  126K+PC partition table editor for Amiga
Sv5-1.lha            gfx/misc   549K+SView5 V1.00 (1.1.2003) - Part 1/8
Sv5-2.lha            gfx/misc   152K+SView5 V1.00 (1.1.2003) - Part 2/8
Sv5-3a.lha           gfx/misc   127K+SView5 V1.00 (1.1.2003) - Part 3a/8
Sv5-3b.lha           gfx/misc   237K+SView5 V1.00 (1.1.2003) - Part 3b/8
Sv5-4.lha            gfx/misc    35K+SView5 V1.00 (1.1.2003) - Part 4/8
Sv5-5.lha            gfx/misc   141K+SView5 V1.00 (1.1.2003) - Part 5/8
Sv5-6.lha            gfx/misc   159K+SView5 V1.00 (1.1.2003) - Part 6/8 (opti
Sv5-7.lha            gfx/misc   154K+SView5 V1.00 (1.1.2003) - Part 7/8 (opti
up-warez.lha         mods/chip    5K+UP ROUGH "Hong Kong Warez" by Skope. Rel
up-ilove.lha         mods/house 676K+UP ROUGH "To Be In Love" by Spot. Releas
up-style.lha         mods/mpg   2.9M+UP ROUGH "Up Rough Karate Style" by Goto
up-ndrnt.lha         mods/techn 189K+UP ROUGH "Underneath Our Home" by Spot f
up-tumb.lha          mods/techn 290K+UP ROUGH "Tumblebeat" a compomod by Qwan
up-warp.lha          mods/techn 362K+UP ROUGH "In Warp" by Qwan  
up-spect.lha         mus/misc     8K+UP ROUGH "Spectrum" a waveform designer.
Xtree.jpg            pix/misc    85K+A Christmas tree
PLConverter.lha      text/misc   42K+Text Converter for Polish users only (I 
MemTrailer.lha       util/boot    3K+Allocates 16 bytes for MEMORY-PROTECTION
ScalosPlugAP96.lha   util/wb     12K+Avail Picasso96 plugin for Scalos
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07.Jan.2003
Matthias Acklow (ANF)


 BlizKick Version 1.24rc4
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has released version 1.24rc4 of BlizKick. This version fixes some problems with the SpeedyIDE module under OS3.9 BB2 and contains a tool for protection of the MMU. It is a version from June 2002.

Download: BlizKick-1.24rc4.lha - 279 KB - Readme (ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Jan.2003
No Amiga to Waste (ANF)


 No Amiga to Waste: Ideas wanted!
This page can be used as a source of ideas for coder. If you have a real good idea for a program on the Amiga that should be programmed you can post it here, and maybe a coder will take it and make it.

Coders for the Amiga are rar nowadays but some are still looking for ideas or asking what programmes are needed.

The last entry was taken years ago, so I wanted to get some attention to it again. (Translation: gf)

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07.Jan.2003
Scott Pistorino (ANF)


 AmigaSource reaches 1300+ links
Hello all, just a minor news flash. I am pleased to announce that www.amigasource.com has just passed the 1300 link mark. Drop in, look around, enjoy and PLEASE help spread the word!
Thanks
Scott Pistorino (ps)

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07.Jan.2003
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)


 TTEngine 6.0 and TTManager 1.1
TTEngine 6.0 and TTManager 1.1 have been released. New features:

  • Font requester in TTEngine. From user point of view it looks almost the same as ASL font requester that every Amigan is familiar with. The font requester uses data stored in "ttengine.database" file and is an easiest way to use the database with applications. Requester gadgetry is based on GadTools to keep independence of disk-based GUI packages and the look consistent with ASL. Three new functions in the library API have been introduced to handle the requester: TT_AllocRequest(), TT_RequestA() and TT_FreeRequest(). See autodoc file for details. Currently the font requester provides only the basic functionality - font family and size - and will be extended in the future versions in the compatible manner (TT_RequestA() is taglist based much like ASL). A new version of "PlainTest" example program uses the font requester.

  • Internal: Cache autooptimisation. TTEngine font cache now modifies its structure in the runtime to minimize cache search time. For example with "PlainTest" example program cache optimization lowers the number of cache search iterations from 15 500 to 6 700.

  • Cache size limit. TTEngine 6.0 font cache size is limited and the limit can be adjusted by user. This way you can avoid memory exhaustion even if working with hundreds of TrueType fonts. When the limit is reached TTEngine starts to flush unused fonts from the cache. Read more about this feature in an User's Guide document in the distributuion archive.

  • Internal: TTEngine global data acces is arbitrated with semaphores. It eliminates a rare possibility of lockups when multiple applications use TTEngine simultaneously.

  • TTManager: The database manager is now aware of cache limit setting saved in the database file.
(ps)

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06.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV


 TV board software: AmithlonTV beta version 209
Guido Mersmann published beta version 209 of the TV board driver AmithlonTV.

New in this version:
  • Bugfix: Fixed a small bug, that may caused a damaged memory list in very rare cases.
  • Bugfix: TVCardDump is opening the requested card. This forces all drivers to be running and creates a full dump.
  • Feature: Reworked the old card scan core within the library. Now it's possible to set an "ignore" value insteed of a valid card ID.
  • Feature: Added new card files for Pinnacle_PCTV2 and LiveView FlyVideoII.


Download: AmithlonTV_Beta209.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
Lizard / ANN (ANF)


 CManager now available under the GPL
Briefly announced: CManager from Alfonso [alfie] Ranieri is now available under GPL license at SourceForge.

Contact manager is a program, with which you can administer your addresses as well as user information. That can be Web addresses, ftp addresses, IRC channels or other addresses. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus


 Interview with LhA developer Dr. Haruyasu Yoshizaki
The developer of the LhA compression technology, Dr. Haruyasu Yoshizaki, mentions in an interview a possible port of future versions of LhA for the Amiga OS. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
amiga.org


 AB Glow Icons support side
A support site for the Glow Icons of Alessandro Bacchia is now available on the Italian website 'Ikir sector'. Currently the following pictogram collections are available for download:

AB Glow XMAS (81 Icons)
AB Glow Icons 2 (26 Icons)
AB Glow Icons 1b (32 Icons)
AB Glow Icons 1a (167 Icons)
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
The Register


 The Register: Microsoft's masterplan to screw phone partner - full details
Andrew Orlowski deals in the English language article, which you can read under the title link, in detail with how the dispute between Microsoft and the telephone manufacturer Sendo started out, and who carries which responsibility for this argument.

In this connection we remind of the fact that Amiga Inc. announced in their Executive update of November 2002 a partnership with Sendo concerning their Smartphones Z100. The telephone should be delivered together with the SmartPhonePack by Amiga Inc. Few days later Sendo announced in a special report that the development program for Smartphones was given up, and as consequence the Z100 will not be delivered. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
MooBunny


 Board: MooBunny in version 4.2 beta 32 on-line again
The English discussion board 'MooBunny' is now, after some changes of the underlying scripts, back on-line. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
Rudolph Riedel


 File manager: DiskMaster version 2.5RC8
Yesterday Rudolph Riedel published the beta version 2.5RC8 of his file manager. The download is available at the title link.

Innovations in this version: 2.5RC8 (03-01-05) 72700 Bytes
  • Corrected default display-format to "N S C".
  • Bugfix: digits calculation for file-size display returned one digit to less on sizes of 10/10x/10xx/10xxx...
    Thanks for reporting to Jostein Klemmetsrud!
  • Added different modes for file-size display.
  • Added "separator=" & "sizes=" options to 'SetX'.


Download: DM2beta.zip (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
Paul Huxham (ANF)


 Image cataloging: PhotoFolio 2.3 upgrade released
Steeple Software is proud to announce the release of PhotoFolio v2.3. After two free updates (2.1 and 2.2) that introduced many new features, PhotoFolio v2.3 is a paid upgrade that adds even more features:

New browse window functionality
  • Sorting ascending and descending in the browse window.
  • Select orphaned proofs (proofs that have no images associated with them).
  • Open with configurable context menu can send a proofs' image to any application.
  • On opening can automatically synchronize the browse window contents with an updated directory.


Better proof management
  • Delete orphaned proofs. Images that have been deleted that have already had proofs created can be deleted automatically.
  • Create proofs for new images. Creates proofs for new images that have been added to directories automatically (where proofs have been created for the directort before).
  • Send a list of proofs and details to a text file.


Improved drag and drop support
  • ARexx scripts can be dropped onto browse windows, the main window and the ARexx settings window.
  • Images can be dragged and dropped from the Workbench to add them to a browse window.


New program windows
  • Path palette window for storing paths that are used often.
  • Directory view module - now has toolbar with copy, move, rename, delete.


Show window
  • Can save the loaded size image or the original full size image.
  • Can perform image processing. Current operators include Flip X and Y, Rotate 90, -90 and 180, Sharpen and Gamma adjustment.


Main window
  • List of open browse and show windows in a menu for easy selection to bring to the front.


Tooltypes
  • Per project settings with the SETTINGS tooltype.


ARexx - Additional commands:
  • ADDIMAGE (Adds an image to a browse window)
  • DELETEORPHANEDPROOFS (Deletes proofs that have no image)
  • CREATENEWPROOFS (Creates proofs for new images)
  • SELECTORPHANEDPROOFS (Selects proofs that have no image)


There have also been many minor improvments and several bug fixes. See complete list complete here. With continuing support, PhotoFolio promises to be one of the most powerful image cataloguing systems available on the Amiga platform. PhotoFolio v2.3 is available now. Full purchase details are available here.

Steve Quartly and Paul Huxham
Steeple Software (ps)

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06.Jan.2003



 Aminet: New uploads from 06-Jan-2003
As requested by our readers we publish here the list with the new Aminet uploads. Due to the fact, that we made our own recent list, in future you will see only the new daily uploads. 

SN-AnlagenArc.lha    biz/dbase  100K+V1.0 Money units archive (Germany only)
SN-KontoArc.lha      biz/dbase   76K+V1.0  Accout archives (Germany only)
nc21.lha             biz/patch  1.1M+NetConnect v2 Service Pack 1
nc22.lha             biz/patch  1.7M+NetConnect v2 Service Pack 2
GoPortscan.lha       comm/net   376K+V1.0 TCP/UDP Portscanner + more with MUI
LinksysTIADCC.lha    comm/tcp     2K+Set ENV:TIADCC from LinkSys router BEFSR
Yam2Thor.lha         comm/thor    3K+Addressbook (YAM) -> User List (Thor)
NetNifty-WS02A.lha   comm/www     8K+Early preview of NetNifty Web Server - u
wpz-frozen50.lha     demo/aga   1.4M+Frozen#5o - Christmas Edition [2oo2]
wpz-frozen51.lha     demo/aga   874K+Frozen#51 - Christmas Edition [2oo2]
mhm-BeApe.lha        demo/intro  85K+Beape 4k intro - CAFe02 winner with sour
mhm-BeApe_Rele.lha   demo/intro  85K+Beape 4k intro - CAFe02 winner with sour
ASM-One.lha          dev/asm    295K+68k & PPC Assembler Development Environm
clockita.lha         dev/basic   85K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
MBPrefs.lha          dev/basic   24K+External Preferences Editor for MaxonBas
RenderDevBas.lha     dev/basic   12K+Using Render library from HBasic
Mods-JMH.lha         dev/e       11K+Some useful E Modules
mkisofs-2.0bin.lha   dev/gg     326K+Mkisoft v2.0 - CD image builder for Amig
php-4.2.3-bin.lha    dev/gg     618K+PHP 4.2.3 - AmigaOS 68k binary
rinetd-0.61.lha      dev/gg      83K+Rinetd v0.61 - TCP port redirector daemo
sox-12.17.3bin.lha   dev/gg     317K+SOX v12.17.3 sound converter for AmigaOS
sox-12.17.3src.lha   dev/gg     525K+SOX v12.17.3 sound converter for AmigaOS
Flexy.lha            dev/misc   102K+FLEXY 1.3  A very user-friendly GUI for 
MySqld-v3-upd.lha    dev/misc   621K+MySQL v3.23.51 update (68040 exe only)
MySqld-v3.lha        dev/misc   2.5M+MySQL v3.23.48 database (complete)
MySqld-v4.lha        dev/misc   4.9M+MySQL v4.0.4 database (complete)
MCC_BWin.lha         dev/mui     62K+MUI public borderless window class
MCC_SpeedBar.lha     dev/mui    205K+Highly configurable toolbar class
MCC_Urltext.lha      dev/mui     32K+MUI public custom url class
GL_BMP_Load.lha      dev/src    226K+OpenGL BMP texture loader routines
TimedSerial.lha      dev/src     25K+Serial I/O functions that time-out. Sour
BackupRexx.lha       disk/bakup  24K+Backup.rexx uses MirrorCopy to backup ha
EasyACDDA.lha        disk/cdrom 409K+Play&Save CD tracks with Gui - EasyACDDA
fdisk.lha            disk/misc  126K+PC partition table editor for Amiga
LutherBibel.lha      docs/etext 1.4M+The bible (German) by Martin Luther
Monedas.lha          docs/hyper  10K+Numismatica guide of spanish history coi
Poczet.lha           docs/hyper 161K+Guide ***POLISH ONLY*** about polish mon
SpanienSS.lha        docs/hyper  97K+SpanienSS guide of few history some span
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/lists 1.4M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 12/2002 (Itali
AIOV66.lha           docs/mags  405K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 66 (Dece
nocover106.lha       docs/mags  1.5M+Great german diskmagazine
vchess_dt.lha        game/board  12K+V1.3, German catalog for VChess 4.1
2Decide_Demo.lha     game/demo  232K+A highly customizable 2D strategy game.
Filepoke.lha         game/patch  48K+Filepoke V3.1 cheat your games
Gomoko-Ninuki.lha    game/think  21K+Reflexion game
MenoBoxXmas.lha      game/wb    629K+3D-platformer in OpenGL-window V1.0 (68k
W3DInformer.lha      gfx/board   10K+Show supported efects in W3D driver(s)
Gif2anim.lha         gfx/conv   151K+Converts & scales GIF animations to amig
ImageConvert.lha     gfx/conv    29K+ImageConvert 1.10, batch converting with
swfplayer.lha        gfx/show   306K+Standalone player for Amiga (v1.2d2) 68k
3c589.lha            hard/drivr  53K+Driver for 3Com PCMCIA network cards
newkernel.lha        hard/drivr 1.0M+GNU/GPL updated kernel for AMIthlon
WinSP.lha            hard/drivr   4K+New driver for Window's spanish keyboard
TestGear-Extra.lha   hard/hack  140K+A600, A1000, A500(+), A1200 & PC extras.
TestGear-Notes.lha   hard/hack  749K+Test equipment projects, general notes.
amitrs80.lha         misc/emu   312K+TANDY TRS-80 Model 1 Emulator V1.0
Wintec.lha           misc/emu     3K+Wintec keyboard config for UAE
imdbDiff021220.lha   misc/imdb   15M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff021227.lha   misc/imdb  827K+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmiBiorythme.lha     misc/misc   63K+MUI Biorythm tool. French only. v1.1
amoon.lha            misc/sci    99K+Map of the Moon
Darius+.lha          mods/misc  114K+Custom module from "Darius +"
Foundation1.mpg      mods/mpg    10M+First part of a three part suite
Foundation2.mpg      mods/mpg   5.0M+Second part of a three part suite
Foundation3.mpg      mods/mpg    11M+Third part of a three part suite
Oriental_sun.mpg     mods/mpg   6.3M+Oriental song by Pero-Fotar 
Prelude3.mpg         mods/mpg   1.6M+Prelude3. MPEG of old tape of me on keys
rno-r082.mpg         mods/mpg   6.8M+Rno-records release #82 by Roz(Tekno)
TheSpell.mpg         mods/mpg   3.3M+The Spell MPEG of old tape of me on keys
AmySequencer.lha     mus/edit   224K+MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
abcm2ps.lha          mus/misc   294K+Convert music tunes from ABC format to P
EP_StevBarrett.lha   mus/play     8K+EaglePlayer "Steve Barrett" external rep
EP_WallyBeben.lha    mus/play     7K+EaglePlayer "Wally Beben" external repla
mhm-mAYhem.lha       mus/play   148K+MAYhem pak II for DT2 (AY/YM chip emulat
mhm-mAYhem_del.lha   mus/play   148K+MAYhem pak II for DT2 (AY/YM chip emulat
PlasmaPlugin.lha     mus/play    24K+Plasma-Spectrum Plugin for AmigaAMP Powe
AllBlue.png          pix/back   399K+An nice WB background [by cYbo]
nICkONs.win98.lha    pix/gicon  110K+Glowicon`s from Win98 4 your AmigaOS
anl-strip_7.lha      pix/misc    58K+[ancor] a normal life
explosion.lha        pix/misc   368K+[ancor] a picture with an explotion done
nwo-strip_10.lha     pix/misc    45K+[ancor] now way out
sgf-strip_1.lha      pix/misc    53K+[ancor] StarGround flashback
sgf-strip_2.lha      pix/misc    47K+[ancor] StarGround flashback
vd-ami2k1_eng.mpg    pix/mpg     11M+<VD> show report "Amiga 2001", medium, E
AmiReplace.lha       text/edit   60K+MUI text replace tool. French but easy. 
JanoEditor.lha       text/edit  290K+Simple and efficient text editor v1.01d
MyNotes.lha          text/edit   31K+A simple MUI based QuickNote clone
BibVision.lha        text/show   97K+Bible text viewer for 68k/WarpOS. V1.4
CheckX.lha           util/arc    39K+V1.92 Check for Archive/Packer/Virus
P96EmulUpd.lha       util/boot    5K+Hacks version information in the CGX (V3
DepthMenu.lha        util/cdity  54K+Popup menu for depth gadgets. V2.41.
dir2html_trans.lha   util/dir    16K+Translations for Dir2HTML
ExtraLib.lha         util/libs  241K+Dynamic buffers, filesystem CRCs, colorf
pccard.lha           util/libs   51K+Library to parse PC Card information
EasyInterest.lha     util/misc   25K+Compound interest calculator
VClock_v1.7b.lha     util/time  331K+Real Speech Clock - Bug Fix
VirusZ.lha           util/virus  85K+VirusZ III 0.9d - Antivirus Software
RandomWBPatt.lha     util/wb     29K+Timer controled Slideshow-like random WB
ScalosPlugAP96.lha   util/wb     12K+Avail Picasso96 plugin for Scalos
VolumeMeter.lha      util/wb     34K+Transparent graphical hard drive usage m
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05.Jan.2003
TGD (ANF)


 REBOL/View on Amiga - new Reblets available
As from now some new Reblets/programs are available in the download area under the title link, which have all been developed on the Amiga (68k) under REBOL/View.

Apart form the tool "Web-GetIt!" for downloading complete HTML conforming Web pages, four interesting gamelets (Kniffel-It!, Move-It!, Cascade-It! and Break-It!) are waiting for you to try them out. The size of each Reblet is less than 30 kBytes!

Minimum requirements for these programs are an Amiga with 68030/50 MHz processor as well as the corresponding REBOL/View environment. Of course the programs can also be used on every other platform under REBOL/View or REBOL/IOS. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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05.Jan.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)


 Amiga Inc.: T-Shirt statement
Amiga Inc.'s Web site features a statement on the T-Shirt situation in conjunction with the Coupon campaign.

This is the statement:
(4-Jan-2003) Amiga Inc. would like to apologise unreservedly for the delay in getting the T-shirts out. We have received all the orders from the dealers and no blame should be attached to the dealers for the delay. There are several reasons for the delay and we are working on trying to get these remedied as quickly as possible. We hope to have everything sorted out in the next few weeks. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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05.Jan.2003
Søren Ladegaard (ANF)


 Amiga .mod remix scene
It seems that many people long to see more remixes of classic Amiga .mod music. In an attempt to create an Amiga .mod remix scene as have been achieved in the C64 scene by sites like remix.kwed.org, c64audio.com and remix64.com, I have created a new Amiga remix specific mailing list at Yahoo Groups.

Let's hope for a growing Amiga remix scene in 2003. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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04.Jan.2003
Petra Struck


 Innovation at amiga-news.de
With the beginning of this month is Sven Drieling not anymore at our services for news and commentation as after 3½ years full of work for amiga-news.de he now wants to attend to his own projects again. For possible problems with the scripts Sven remains, though :). Very special thanks to Sven for the work he had done.

Up to now Sven had done the Sunday news and had helped in managing the forum and the comments. Besides that he lent a helping hand in cases when I had no time. We have internally discussed several possibilities how to fill this gap respectively how to solve the problem as I really can't and don't like to give up my free Sunday.

On Sundays and public holidays only ANF news
So to take the load off all (the translators, too) a little bit we came to the conclusion that from now on there will be no news investigation and no entering of news from our side on Sundays and public holidays but only releasing news that were entered into the ANF. That means that also news that are sent to us via email will not be released until the next working day.

Help of any kind wanted
On this occasion we'd like to remember our readers that amiga-news.de is a news site from users for users meaning we have to rely on help. Your help could be for example that you enter news that are coming across your way while surfing into the ANF or you enter a good web site you encounter into the ALD. A good help would also be the arranging of payed advertisement banners as these are the basis of the financing of amiga-news.de.

Another possibility to work actively on amiga-news.de is the creation of articles of all kind, for example workshops, experience reports, previews, reviews, exhibition reports and everything else that could interest our readers. The help in translating is also everytime very welcome.

Further suggestions?
We are very interested to hear your suggestions how we could improve amiga-news.de and are eagerly awaiting your hints and proposals. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
Martin Kuchinka


 Programming language: PowerD v0.20 alpha 4
Martin Kuchinka has today released the version 0.20 alpha 4 of the programming language 'PowerD'.

Download: alpha.lzx

What's new with this last alpha release? Well, again several bugfixed, but there is also one new executable called 'dc_68k', which is the same as 'dc' except that this executable generates the 68k only code, so it's only for ppl with older non ppc Amigas. Else it's completely the same as the 'dc' compiler.
Uploaded the TextInput.mcc modules by Miklos Nemeth. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)


 Music scene: AMP updated!
The two Amiga demo scene musicians Curt Cool and Crown have collected a very comprehensive data base for all in all 9424 musicians. Here you can download their music pieces directly, read uncounted interviews, etc. etc. All people interested in music created on the Amiga should risk a look at AMP (Amiga Music Preservation). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)


 Scene: disc mag Jurassic Pack now with own domain!
One of the last active Amiga demo scene disc mags 'Jurassic Pack' has now an own domain. Right now is issue #12 in preparation. People who'd like to participate with an English article, a music piece or a title screen should contact the main editors as soon as possible for further details. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)


 Music group Moods welcomes the new year with four titles
The music group Moods welcomes the new year with four songs, all downloadable from the group's website. Furthermore a new MoodTant called Raztaman had recently been contracted who'll introduce in the future his works under this label. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)


 The Ascii scene is not dead!
The Amiga Ascii scene lives and lives and... ! The two scener Dipswitch and Potzkoten from Cologne have released shortly after the turn of the year the colly named Klockwerk. Shortly before that Marc Zito Oberst showed his activity with En-Sof.

Further information about this topic can be obtained from ThugLife. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


 IOSPIRIT guest of Genesi at CES 2003
IOSPIRIT will attend the CES 2003 as guest of Genesi in Las Vegas (Booth #29101 in the Home Networking, IT & Wireless Pavillion). Among others, fxPAINT 2.0, fxSCAN 4.0 and VHI Studio 6.0 will be shown. Felix Schwarz will be available for questions.

At this point we also would like to thank Genesi for this great opportunity and their continued commitment.

Due to our participation at CES 2003, dispatching of postal orders is only possible after the 15th of January again. Orders for download version via credit card are not affected by this, though. Also, our availability via phone and email is very limited until 15th of January - thanks for your patience. (ps)

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03.Jan.2003
Blackbirds Nest


 Retrogame: Missile Command
Today the website of Blackbird celebrates its third birthday. Because of that Blackbird makes the readers a present with the retrogame 'Missile Command'.

Compared with the original version (made by Michael Rosskopf) Blackbird has added three different levels of difficulty, a title screen, a screenmode requester and many minor improvements. For instance it is now always possible to quit the game by pushing the ESC-key.

The game runs starting from a 30er processor with 2-4 MB FastRAM and graphic card. Besides this it is UAE-compatible. Under UAE you simply have to choose UAEGFX 640x480x8bit.

Download: MC.lzx (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
Creative Development


 USB-card: First snapshots of UltraBUS
For the first time Creative Development shows a few simple snapshots of the first prototype of its USB-card which many people have already seen at ARC 2002.

You can have a look at the card here. At the second picture you can have a more detailed look at the card - you can also recognize the FlashROM as well as both extension ports.

The final layout will be clearer and possibly more compact but already right now the card makes a good impression. Creative Development is very buzy while finishing the development of the card and hopes to report further news soon. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
AND Software


 Context menu: ContextSAS version 1.63
The program ContextSAS written by Andre Dörffler makes it possible to create and use context sensitive menus for AmigaOS 3.5+. The DefIcons-system is supported. With the help of a few additional tools it is possible to iconify Workbench screens and to create connections.

Today version 1.63 has been published. Some new features have been added in this version. It is now possible to show the name (=title) of the context. A new internal command has been also added. With its help it is possible to filter the content of WB-listers. Of course some bugs have been also fixed.

Download: ContextInstall163.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
Richard Small (phone)


 The end of an era - last Aminet CD published
Because most Amiga users have direct access to the Internet now, the bimonthly Aminet CD has become somewhat redundant. As a consequence, the Aminet team has decided to stop distributing CDs. Aminet as a whole is of course not in danger of being shut down, the service offered by the web and FTP servers will remain the same.

The latest (and final) Aminet CD, no. 52 (December 2002), includes the full version of Andreas Kleinert's Superview Productivity Suite II as the highlight. SuperView II reads, writes and/or converts more than 50 graphic formats and also integrates external programs like Xpk, Ghostscipt or MetaView. In addition to converting or displaying graphics (on more than 20 supported graphic cards (via CyberGraphX, Picasso96 or special driver systems)), the program offers more than 30 different effects for picture manipulation. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
Idruna Software


 IconDesigner for Photogenics wanted
Paul Nolan is looking for a talented icon designer who can design the toolbar of Photogenics completely new. People who are interested in this can mail to info@idruna.com and should send some samples of former projects. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
Dietmar Knoll


 GAUHPIL: Many sections updated (02.01.2003)
GAUHPIL (Geographic Amiga User Home Page Internet List) is a list of websites of Amiga users which has been created by Dietmar Knoll which has been sorted considering continents and countries. Yesterday the following sections have been updated:

Additionally several history sites have been updated. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
Maxworld


 Book of budget: HomeBank version 2.1 (beta 2)
With the Shareware program called HomeBank you can manage your finances and e.g. calculate the costs of your car. There is the possibility of displaying the cost in graphical statistics. The new version 2.1 (beta2) fixes minor bugs.

Download: HomeBank21beta2.lha - 303 KB (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 03.01.2003)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly only meant for playing from disk on your hard drive. The following packets have been updated or completely new added:

  • 03.01.03 new: Cracker Journal 1 (Alpha Flight) done by Wepl
  • 03.01.03 improved: XP8 (Weathermine Software) misc changes
  • 03.01.03 improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century) support for NTSC added, memory requirement reduced
  • 03.01.03 improved: Bubba'n'Stix (Core Design) supports CD³² version
  • 03.01.03 new: Ashes Of Empire (Midnight) done by JOTD
  • 02.01.03 fixed: Knight Force (Titus) better save game support
  • 02.01.03 new: Gravity (Image Works) done by CFOU!
  • 02.01.03 new: Dimo's Quest (Infernal Bytes/Boeder Software) done by CFOU!
  • 02.01.03 new: Cardiaxx (Electronic Zoo/Team 17) done by CFOU!
(ps)

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03.Jan.2003
ANN


 Wired: Vaporware 2002: Tech up in Smoke?
Amiga Inc. is placed nineth of the top 10 (or better spoken bottom 10) of the Vaporlist which is selected by the readers of Wired. Vaporware are here products which have been braggingly announced but until today have been not deliverd.

It follows an extract of the full list of the winners of the Vaporware award:
  1. Duke Nukem Forever
  2. Mac and Linux clients for Neverwinter Nights
  3. Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms
  4. Oqo's Ultra-Personal Computer
  5. Infogrames' Master of Orion 3
  6. NVidia's GeForce FX graphics card
  7. QuarkXPress for Macintosh OS X
  8. Ubi Soft's Shadowbane
  9. The new Amiga
  10. Silicon Film's Electronic Film System
You can find the full Wired article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


 Event: Benelux Amiga & Pegasos Show 2003
As Ron van Herk of Computer City announced on MorphOS-News.de, a Benelux-Amiga-Show combined with a Benelux-Pegasos-Show is planned for April 2003 in Rotterdam, Holland.

You'll find out more from cindy@beneluxpegasosshow.com. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
John Chandler (Suite101)


 John Chandler on Suite101: Expecting
John Chandler regularly writes Amiga-themed articles for Suite101.com. In his latest (which may be reached by clicking on the title link) he refers to what we may expect from Amiga Inc. in 2003, or not. Chandler doesn't forgo mentioning that 2002 didn't go as expected, and he can hardly conceal his disappointment that he and many others still can't use an AmigaOne with OS4. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Eric Schwartz


 Sabrina Online: Holiday Greetings
Eric Schwartz had Sabrina send you holiday greetings on your Amiga. :) (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Amiga Future


 Magazine: NoCover #106
Under the title link you may reach the online version of the current issue (#106) of the magazine 'NoCover.' Between convention reports and diverse articles (for example articles on ArTKanoid, YiYa.de, personal responsibility and heavy metal lyrics) Wolf Zimmer has put together a colorful mixture of themes for this edition. Included are reader letters, as well as Small Talk and naturally the obligatory help-line. The Amiga Arena interviews with Andreas Falkenhahn and Thomas Schulze additionally may be read through.

Download: nocover106.lha - 1,6 MB (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Thylacine Updates


 USB: New Drivers for USB Card Thylacine from 31st December, 2002
The following new drivers for the USB card Thylacine are set for download: (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Webseite von Stiftung Warentest


 Foundation Stock Review: What's Changed Since 1st January, 2003 (w. Update)
In a thorough article Foundation Stock Review summarizes what has changed since the 1st of January this year. Starting with altered highway signs, progressing to the changeover from 0190 to 0900 telephone area codes, and including all the important and interesting changes.

Update of 2nd January, 2003:
In the same vein as the new 0900 phone service numbers is the following interesting Golem article: Telecommunications: New Charges for 2003.

Here is an excerpt: 0900 numbers change to the prefix of 0190 after January, 2003. After the regulatory officials partially approved the new telecommunications charges, they come into effect on the 1st of February, 2003. Along with that come reductions in urban and German charges, and increases in the monthly base fee for analog T-Net connections. Immediately after January the phone service will raise the setup charge for T-DSL. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Webseite von Jocke Sjöblom


 GUI: Overview of MUI Classes Updated by Jocke Sjöblom
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom, as earlier reported, established a website on 26th December 2002, which provides readers an overview of MUI classes along with download links and directions to homepages. In the time since then the website has been updated with the very latest information. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Golem - IT News


 Golem: Interview: How the Penguin Came Across the Xbox
Michael Steil and Milosch Meriac from the Xbox Linux Project interviewed:

The XBox Linux Project is the successful attempt to run the open-source operating system on Microsoft's cheap game console. Golem.de spoke with both German maintainers of this enterprise, Michael Steil and Milosch Meriac, in detail about the success up until now, the posted "bounty" of 200,000 Euros, the hacker work among the team, and what still must happen in order to fully realize the Xbox as PC equipment.

Click on the title link for the Golem-Article. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Webseite von Chris Perver


 Text Viewer: EvenMore Version 0.61
Chris Perver has updated his website, and published version 0.61 of the text viewer 'EvenMore.' New to this version is the capability to function as a plugin, by which the program is usable with different GUIs.

Along with that comes the necessity to completely reconfigure your settings for this version. Detailed information about all this may be found in the History. Newly added are also Portuguese and Polish speech catalogs.

Download: EvenMore.lha - 800 KB (ps) (Translation: dm)

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01.Jan.2003
Emerald Imaging


 Emerald Imaging announces new RPG game called eVe
Emerald Imaging, known from the adventure game "Aqua", works on a new RP game called "eVe". The game will have hand drawn scenes and selected music should increase the fun factor. Here is the original announcement:

Announcing the next game from Emerald Imaging!
eVe is the next project that we will be working towards. It's a unique "console style" action RPG with hand drawn artwork beautiful music and addictive gameplay. Work has just began on this project and the game is still in Alpha state but I am putting it on the site so that I can keep people updated on the development status. More information will follow... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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01.Jan.2003
ASM-One


 Assembler: ASM-One version 1.48 revision 482
Today Boushh has released version 1.48 revision 482 of the freeware assembler package 'ASM-One'. This version runs on Amigas with the original chipset as well as on Amigas with gfx cards (RTG). Added features are:

  • FPU EQUates can now be used (EQUS/EQUD/EQUX and EQUP)
  • WL bug fixed
  • Fixed serious bugs with PPC registers
  • More read and write directories
  • Cleaned out the 'V' directive
  • Updated the Guide


ASM-One is an assembler, a disassembler, an editor, a debugger and a monitor (Hexadezimal/ASCII/Binary/Disassembly) as well.

Download: asmonev148.lha - 302 KB (ps) (Translation: ub)

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01.Jan.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


 Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #021231
Following the title link you may find the complete newsletter by Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for December 2002. In his English newsletter Brad Webb briefs monthly all news regarding the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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01.Jan.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: Interview with Sascha Brandt (Ancor)
Happy New Year!
Olaf Köbnik of Amiga Arena wishes healthy and successful year 2003 for all! The "flame" will burn in 2003 also and the (Amiga-Arena) year starts with a little surprise.

Interview with Sascha Brandt (Ancor)
Remembering the demos and announcements of adventure games like "Shadow on Time", "Gilbert Goodmate", "Middle City" or "The last Seal"? None of these games has been available in a final version yet (and will mostly never) except the last one!

The sci-fi adventure "The last Seal" by Ancor is still under development and early this year there will be a new demo version released. Since 1997 Ancor are developing "The last Seal", after a first playable demo was published it became quiet around this group. Read within that interview why this has been so and what the current development stage is. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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01.Jan.2003
Joseph Duchâtelet (ANF)


 CdBuilder: A new productivity program launcher for the Amiga
Joseph Duchâtelet writes:
CommandBuilder version 1.03 (CdBuilder.lha) has been uploaded to Aminet util/wb. Programmed in Gui4Cli this program allows you to compose CLI, ARexx, Gui4Cli and WorkBench commandlines very easily, using mostly just button & mouseclicks.

New commandlines can be saved directly to CommandSelection files. CommandSelection files organised according to your specific needs are a fast and effective way to make use of your computer. Find out what are some of its concepts:
  • selection files
  • expanding files
  • scripting
  • and more to come: ask me for my latest HD version
Download: CdBuilder.lha (ps)

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31.Dec.2002



 amiga-news.de wish you a Happy New Year 2003!



© 2002 by Rolf Tingler
(ps)

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31.Dec.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 New Hollywood screen shots
As some people did not know that Hollywood is also able to import the popular Rainboot boot configuration file format, I have put up some screenshots in the Hollywood section which show Hollywood running Rainboot configurations. This gives you real Rainboot feeling on your Workbench. The screenshots show the boot configurations Alien Boot, AmigaOS 3.5 Boot, CloudBoot, PCommBoot, Pixel Art Boot & Windows Simulator Boot. Finally, I wish all Amiga users and all my friends a Happy New Year! (ps)

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31.Dec.2002
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)


 Tool: ViewISO 1.1
ViewISO is a TrueType font viewer using TTEngine. Now with ARexx port and commandline interface it can be used as TrueType viewer in filemanagers. Download it here.

ViewISO is a program designed for viewing ISO-8859 charsets using TrueType Unicode fonts. It can be useful to check if a TrueType font contains glyphs for given charset. On the other hand you can see how some exotic glyph looks like. ViewISO requires MUI and TTEngine installed.

Changes from version 1.0:
  • ARexx command 'LoadFont' (script for filemanagers included).
  • 'Load' button.
  • Accepts font name as a commandline parameter.
  • Serious memory leak fixed.
(ps)

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31.Dec.2002
Elbox (E-Mail)


 New Year Greetings from Elbox
Elbox Computer would like to wish Amiga users and its supporters a Happy New Year. Year 2002 was a time of intense and effective work for Elbox. We enriched Amiga computers with eight new products: five new Mediator PCI busboard models (4000D, 3000D, 3/4000T, 1200SX and 4000Di), two comprehensive Mirage tower systems (for A4000D and A3000D computers) and a USB High-Speed controller (Spider USB 2.0).

In 2003 we are focusing on the SharkPPC G3/G4 product line, which will turn your PCI Amiga into a new powerful G3/G4 system. A New Year Gift from Elbox: With every Mediator busboard or Spider USB bundle purchased in the Elbox On-line Store between 31th December 2002 and 17th January 2003 you will receive a free Mediator T-shirt! (ps)

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30.Dec.2002
Dietmar Eilert


 Editor: GoldED studio AIX update SP8 and PGP5.0i 1.1
Service pack 8 for GoldED released. This contains new menu and keyboard configurations (it must at least be installed SP3). The new PGP Addon ensures that the coding software 'Pretty Good Privacy 5.0 international' (version 5.0i 1.1) by Phil Carpenter can be used with GoldED. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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30.Dec.2002
zErec (ANF)


 Update of the AMIthlon Kernel
There is a new Kernel for the 68k-Emulator AMIthlon available in the Aminet. This version contains the following improvements:

  • Support for GeForce3 graphic card
  • Support for Matrox G550 graphic card, and improved support for other Matrox boards
  • Support for Dell and IBM computer with corrupted PCI BIOS
  • Workaround for a bug in Amithlon, that causes a crash during booting on CDROM less computers
  • Improved hardware support for IDE/SCSI controllers


Download: newkernel.lha (ca. 1 MB) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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30.Dec.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)


 RayDreams - First homepage of Fortunato/Diskmag.de on-line
The first homepage of the raytracing artist Uwe "Fortunato" Gillissen, which often helped out the Diskmag.de team in the past, is now finally on-line. In RayDreams Fortunato presents newer creations besides some older works. Everyone who is interested in a picture may write directly to the artist and will then receive the original version of it. If you have questions feel free to contact Fortunato. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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30.Dec.2002
amiga.org


 Emulator: UAE-X version 0.5 - Amiga emulator for x-box
With UAE-X you can emulate an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 on your x-box. At the title link you can find detailed information and some screenshots. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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30.Dec.2002
AIO


 Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #66
The issue #66 of the English language Amiga on-line magazine 'Amiga information on-line (AIO)' is now available. This issue contains besides others the following articles:

  • Dr. Strange, Web Wanderer
  • Virus Protection
  • A Utility For AIO Readers Only
  • Hints & Tips
  • 'Twas the Night Before Amiga


The complete content can be founded in the Readme, which is attached to the archives. AIO uses its own display program and can be used starting from Amiga OS V3.0.

Download: AIOV66.lha (415 KB) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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30.Dec.2002
Dirk Salzsieder (ANF)


 Benchmark: AmigaMARK LPA 2003 V0.905 Beta Preview (Update)
On 29 December 2002 Rupert Hausberger released a preview of his benchmark program 'AmigaMARK LPA 2003'. Since the completion will still last some time, Rupert Hausberger decided to place this modified version ready for testing. Characteristics:
  • Processor -, memory and non removable disk analysis
  • graphic comparing of results and modules
  • module-based storing of the results
  • evaluation of the computer achievement according to a percent system
  • bench mark report in the title format
  • individual attitudes for each individual test
  • support of the NSD [new style DEVICES] equipment standard
  • and much more ...
Feedback to this program can be sent by E-Mail to Rupert Hausberger (rupert_hausberger@gmx.net).

Download: AmigaMARK.905beta.lha (836K), Readme, History

Supplement 30.12.2002:
Feedback only at Rupert Hausberger. (sd) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Amiga Future: New Workshop column
For finding workshops easily a list of all workshops known to the Amiga Future editorial staff has been published. Among those are, e.g.
  • Installing Apache 1.3.20
  • ArtEffect
  • Creating ARexx scripts
  • Cinema4D for beginners
  • T-DSL and Amiga
Hints to further workshops can be brought to Amiga Future's attention via eMail. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
A.D.A.


 A.D.A.: Intro and three music disks
29th December 2002: An intro, three music disks as well as screenshots have been added to the Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.). The additions are: The productions for Amiga computers are available for download ('Kiss my jazz/Appendix' not yet) and are presented with pictures on their page. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
SDI's program page


 Tool: CheckX V1.91 - Examines packers, archives, viruses
29th December 2002: Dirk Stöcker has released version 1.91 of his tool 'CheckX'. This program examines packed files as well as archives and checks them for viruses. Thereby the files are dearchived or unpacked as far as possible.

The tool utilises the xfdmaster.library (util/pack/xfdmaster.lha) and xvs.library (util/virus/xvsLibrary.lha) for searching packed files and viruses as well as the xadmaster.library (util/arc/xadmaster.lha) for dearchiving file and diskette archives.

These libraries are also available for download through the title link.

Further information can be gathered from the Web site and the Readme.

Download: CheckX.lha, Readme (sd) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
Amiga Future


 CUCUG Status Register 12/2002
The CUCUG Status Register of December 2002 has been published. In the Status Register the Club regularly reports about its own meetings and about the areas Amiga, Linux, Macintosh and PC. This issue contains the following about PPC as well as Amiga:

The Macintosh Section:
  • IBM "AltiVec"
The Amiga Section:
  • Executive Update - November 2, 2002
  • Letting The World Know !
  • Amithlon Mothballed
(sd) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Player: Amiga-Mediaplayer V1 full version
Today Carsten Siegner has finished work on the first version of his player 'Amiga-Mediaplayer' and released this version.
  • Multimedia program with transparent GUI (TV, Radio, Mediastreamer)
  • Context sensitive (Mediastream, TV, Radio)
  • With the help of FroggerNG nearly all formats can be replayed (Mediastream, Video, Audio)
  • If you have Amithlon with AmithlonTV installed you can enjoy a transparent TV window. This can then, if the TV card also has a radio tuner, switch to a radio window.
  • The TV part gets its TV prefs from TV-Watch.
  • The radio part has its own prefs file which can be edited with an editor.
  • The radio and TV part have 7 channel buttons each for programs. This is arranged as in TV-Watch, except no radio settings are taken over from the TV-Watch prefs.
  • Furthermore, you can turn on or switch between TV card inputs (VHS1, VHS2, SVHS1), and change audio settings (Stereo, Mono, Channel1, Channel2 and Mute).
  • In addition to the seven program buttons, the radio part also has two realtime frequency controllers. With these you can set the radio tuner frequency.
  • The radio part has a frequency display (in MHz) where you can read the tuner's current frequency.
  • Changer window for context choice.
  • Integrated some shortcuts.
Requirements:
  • Amithlon (full functionality)
  • Amiga (68k, WOS, PPC, MOS), TV and radio part not activated
  • Functioning AmithlonTV 2.07-beta installation (incl. Smear)
  • TV card with radio tuner
  • Functioning FroggerNG 2.05 installation (with Key)
  • Functioning ARexx
  • AHI
  • For Amithlon: AC97 mixer (or else the Sound card won't be initialised)
Installation:

Just copy (nothing else) the libs appropriate for you system into the "Workbench:Libs" directory. That's it.

The Mediaplayer can then be started directly from the installation directory.

If Fogger is not installed or not installed correctly, an ASL requester appears asking for the Frogger path.

Upon starting the Mediaplayer first searches for system programs like RX etc. These have to be located in the SYS: directory, otherwise Mediaplayer won't start properly.

After the start of the Mediaplayers the TV window has to be restarted once, otherwise the audio part of the TV card isn't initialised, and no sound can be heard.

This, however, has to be done only once. On restarts of the Mediaplayer or the TV window the TV card is properly recognised.

Future:
  • Audio export of TV and Radio sound into an AIFF file.
Download: Mediaplayer-1.lzx (sd) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
amiga.org


 Alt-WoA 2003: New venue
The organisators of the 'Alt-WoA 2003' have opted for a new venue. Instead of at the 'Old Corn Mill' in Huddersfield, England, the Alt-WoA will now be held at the 'Kirkdale Conference Centre'. This is located a mile from the original venue.

Pictures, a map as well as information about the Centre are published on the Alt-WoA Web site.

The reason for the change is the closure of the 'Old Corn Mill' since mid-November for ca. 22 weeks. And the organisers' insecurity about whether or not the new owners will offer a suitable space for the event afterwards.

Amiga Inc. and Hyperion have already assured their attendance. A confirmation from Eyetech is being awaited to then start the preparations.

An exact date has not yet been published on the site. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
Amig@club


 Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.3 - 4th preview d/d 27th Dec 2002
27th December 2002: Tom Parker has released a new preview of the Instant Messenger 'JabberWocky' for Amiga computers. This version contains the following changes:
  • Localisation support in most dialogs
  • French language catalog
  • Fixed 2 enforcer hits reported by Luca "Hexaae" Longone
  • Autoconnect on startup preference now saved and used.
Jabber is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages.

Connection establishment with other Instant Messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is possible via gateways.

Download: Jabberwocky021227.lha

Source: jabberwocky.amigaworld.de. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


 USB: HIGHWAY/SUBWAY - First pictures of BootROM module
Michael Böhmer writes:
"On our poll page on the BootROM module and the re-release of the HIGHWAY the first pictures of our BootROM module can be found. Thus you can already get a first impression of this module.

Due to the holidays the poll has been extended until 6th January 2003." (sd) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
Amiga Society


 Amiga Society: Updates for hardware (German only), software and books
From the der Amiga Society Homepage:
'Winteroffensive...

is the theme of the recent update. At 29-Dec-2003 it starts with updates for Hard-(German translation only), Software and Books.

The second wave runs on January. For all who have been waiting so long for a new "Schlachtfeld" there will be released a little goody. The good old "Schlachtfeld" in winterlook with new maps. The graphic will be improved as it is possible. Sorry, this is all for the coming day's - but I hope it will give you some hot battles at cold winterdays.

regards....

Horst' (sd)

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29.Dec.2002
amiga.org


 CES 2003: Genesi listet
By now Genesi (Pegasos computer) have been listed as exhibitor on the 2003 International CES Web site.

The 2003 International CES takes place from 9th-12th January 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
amiga.org


 Amiga: Happy Holidays From Amiga Inc.
From the Amiga Inc. Web site:
"(24-Dec-2002) Amiga Inc would like to wish its partners, friends and all those in the growing Amiga community a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. 2002 has been about taking the best of the Amiga community, its passion, skill and commitment to excellence, and building for the future. 2003 will be about enjoying the fruits of those labors, and more, about sharing that enjoyment with the rest of the world. " (sd) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
amiga.org


 Game: Payback for GBA - Status Report #3
28th December 2002: James Daniels of Apex Designs has published the third status report on the GBA port of the game 'Payback'.

The game's frame rate has been increased through optimisations. 15 frames/s were targetted (matches V-Rally 3's frame rate) and 16 frames/s achieved, whereby the optimisations for transparency effects haven't yet been added, so an additional speed increase should be possible.

The other emphasis was on the HUD (Head up display) for showing the score, the map, the weapons display and the mission briefs. Instead of using the existing software routines, James Daniels had decided to use the GBA's hardware sprites. Though this is quite expensive, it brought with it a performance gain of some 10% compared to the pure software solution.

Additionally bugs have been fixed, so the game is now fully playable in most levels.

The emphasis for the next months lies on the audio mixer, the sound effects and the music. Furthermore there might be a chance to start work on the multi player mode.

The full report is accessible through the title link. It also contains new screenshots and a short video in MPEG format. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig


 Window organisation: DepthMenu Version 2.41
The Polish programmer Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig has released version 2.41 of his program 'DepthMenu'. With this program you can administer, minimise or maximise opened windows on your Workbench and much more.

New in this version: A nasty bug has been fixed, and a Hungarian catalogue has been added.

Download: DepthMenu.lha (ps) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002



 ANN has turned six!
The news service ANN celebrated its sixth birthday yesterday. Congratulations to Christian Kemp from amiga-news.de. Thank you for six years of excellent work and for the stamina! Here's to the next six years :-). (ps) (Translation: cb)

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29.Dec.2002
Cyborg (ANF)


 Amiga LAN-Party on 8th/9th Feb 2003 in Braunschweig
Cyborg writes:
The Amiga-User Braunschweigs will introduce themselves within the framework of the Amiga LAN-Party on 8th/9th February 2003 in the Freizeitzentrum Mühle in Braunschweig. Participation itself is free, merely a contribution to the electricity bill for computers brought along will be raised.

We are wishing for a well attended event and yes, we can go on throughout the night. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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27.Dec.2002
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 27.12.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly only meant for playing from Disk on your harddrive. The following packets have been updated or completely new added:

  • 27.12.02 new: Champions Of Krynn (TSR/SSI) done by Codetapper
  • 27.12.02 new: International Soccer (Zeppelin) done by Codetapper
  • 26.12.02 new: Whirligig (Firebird) done by Codetapper
  • 26.12.02 improved: Explora (Infomedia) supports Chrono Quest, new icons
  • 24.12.02 improved: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17) miscellaneous improvements
  • 23.12.02 new: Grand Prix Master (Dinamic) done by Codetapper
  • 23.12.02 new: Time Scanner (Activision) done by Codetapper
  • 21.12.02 improved: 3D Pool (Aardvark Software/Firebird) supports another version and the intro
  • 21.12.02 new: Skidz (Core Design/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
  • 21.12.02 new: Sweet Revenge (Decay) done by Codetapper
  • 20.12.02 improved: Eco (Ocean) supports another version
  • 19.12.02 improved: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games) freezes fixed, miscellaneous improvements
  • 16.12.02 improved: XP8 (Weathermine Software) supports another version
  • 15.12.02 improved: Hybris (Discovery Software) sound fixed
  • 15.12.02 improved: Bombuzal (Imageworks) possible freeze after pause mode fixed
  • 15.12.02 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) supports CD³² version
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2002
Patrick Hesse (ANF)


 Browser: Update for V3 published (3.3.126)
Today an update for Voyager 3 was published. This is version 3.3.126 and is meant for m68k.

Download: v3_3_126_amigaos.lzx

Update 28.12.2002:
27.12.2002 Zapek: "I finally found some old and outdated setup where to run V 68k and fixed the problem. It wasn't even my fault but SAS/C's one :) I tweaked around with the optimization levels and a new version is now available. Sorry for the inconvenience caused by the previous one." (ps) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2002
ANN


 TTEngine: ViewISO V1.0, TTManager V1.0
On December 27, 2002 Grzegorz Kraszewski published new software versions of TTEngine (display of true type fonts). This engine is based upon the FreeType2-projekt and is supported by e.g. fxPAINT and Hollywood.

  • TTEngine-homepage updated.
  • ViewISO V1.0 as a seperate archive published.
  • TTManager V1.0 published.
Download: (sd) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2002
ANN


 GUI: Summary of MUI-classes by Jocke Sjöblom
Jocke Sjöblom has created a website which offers a summary of the MUI-classes and also the appropriated donwload links and links to the homepages.

He tries to keep the list as up-to-date as possible and therefore also hopes that the users will help him. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2002
amiga.org


 Virus Help Denmark: VirusZ III 0.9d
Already on December 24, 2002 Georg Hörmann published version 0.9d of the antivirus software called 'VirusZ III'. The following things have changed compared to version 0.9c:
  • Fixed bug in the new snapshot function added in 0.9c, sorry!
  • Added new snapshots sent by AmiS, Dario, Alexander Niven-Jenkins, Rudolph Riedel, Chris Elliott, T.B., Gunnar Andersson and Andreas Kürzinger. Thanks guys!
  • Improved the code that checks if a given address is within valid memory ranges. Thanks to AmiS for beta-testing.
  • Added additional self-test that permanently checks VirusZ's code for modifications.
  • Finally added device-based sectorcheck! Please read the docs for further information.
VirusZ runs on AmigaOS 2.04 and higher und requires:
  • util/libs/ReqToolsUsr.lha
  • util/virus/xvslibrary.lha
  • util/pack/xfdmaster.lha
  • util/arc/xadmaster.lha (recommended)
  • util/libs/DisLib.lha (optional)
Download: VirusZ.lha (87 058 Bytes), Readme (sd) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2002
amiga.org


 Mail/Newsreader: Microdot2 1.4.17 beta
On December 27th, 2002 the beta version 1.4.17 of the mail/newsreader called 'Microdot2 1.4.17' was published for AmigaOS 68k and MorphOS.

Download: (sd) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2002
Ricco Clemens (E-Mail)


 Freespace "MultiplayerPack01" published
The "MultiplayerPack01" can be downloaded from the "Amiga Freespace" site. It contains five different multi player missions. There is for instance a little Freespace "soccer game". Additionally the Freespace download site has been updated. For instance you can now download a Freespace font. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2002



 amiga-news.de: Netiquette Revised and Supplemented by FAQ
To clarify the purpose and spirit of amiga-news.de's "netiquette" rules Sven Drieling has completely revised them and expanded on a few evidentiary points. A new development is the FAQ, which delves into some persistent questions about the proper use of the comment function.

We are asking all of our readers to take a few minutes to read the netiquette document (click on the title link). We are requesting that you respect our guidelines. Through this we will be able to achieve improved commentary for all concerned. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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26.Dec.2002
Martin Steigerwald (E-Mail)


 Tools: BackupRexx V1.6 and ImageConvert V1.10
Martin Steigerwald has updated two of his tools, as a little Christmas present. His tool BackupRexx has reached version 1.6 and is ready to be downloaded, same as ImageConvert version 1.10. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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26.Dec.2002
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)


 Microsoft PocketPC Press Release incl. Amiga Inc.
I found the following press release (from 18th December, 2002) on the Microsoft website. It is on the new PocketPC and includes questions and answers to and from Amiga Inc.'s Bill McEwen. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 Andreas Falkenhahn: Merry Christmas
I wish all Amiga friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The next year will bring some more products from me starting with the Malibu plugin for Hollywood which enables Hollywood to display Scala presentations. (ps)

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25.Dec.2002
Martin Elsner (E-Mail)


 MRE Christmas edition - The world is not enough!
Nearly half a year has gone since the last big release, now it's time to give you something to enjoy! ClassAction 4.50, StartMenu 1.30 and ProcessManager 1.10 have some often asked useful and nice new features - I don't want to add the whole list, here some details concerning ClassAction:

classes can be displayed as image, own screen possible, improved archive handling, mousewheel support, optimization ... Look on title link for a complete list of changes and all archives.

And with this little present for the community that still waits for real "Amiga Christmas" (ChristmasOne and Christmas 4.0 ;) I add my best wishes: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year full of new hardware and software! And many thanks to the testers, translators and users who have done their best to make this release possible! (ps)

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25.Dec.2002
Merlancia Industries, Inc. (ANF)


 Merlancia.com server changes and temporary outages
For anyone attempting to access www.merlancia.com:
Please be informed that www.merlancia.com will be temporarily down several times over the next few days while we consolidate our server systems. Please use www.merlanciausa.com in the meanwhile. We apologise in advance for any inconvienence this may cause you.

Happy holidays and new year.
-Merlancia Team- (ps)

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24.Dec.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


 IOSPIRIT wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
We wish all our customers, partners and friends a happy Christmas time and a good start into 2003.

As a small Christmas gift, purchasers of fxPAINT 2.0 can now download additional HTML-album skins by Nick Clover in our download center. (ps)

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24.Dec.2002



 The amiga-news.de team wish you a Merry Christmas!



© 2002 by Rolf Tingler 

ARABIC: Saiid yom al-milaad wa senat jadiida
ARMENIAN: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
AZERI-AZERBAIJAN: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
BASQUE: Zorionstsu Eguberri. Zoriontsu Berri Urte
BULGARIAN: Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo. Tchestita Nova Godina
CATALAN: Feliç nadal i bon any nou
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DUTCH: Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
ENGLISH: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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FINNISH: Hyvää Joulua. Onnellista Uutta Voutta
FRENCH: Joyeux Noel et heureuse Anne
GAELIC-IRISH: Nollaig mhaith Dhuit Agus Bliain Nua Fé Mhaise
GAELIC-SCOT: Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur
GERMAN: Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr
GREEK: Kala Khristougena kai Eftikhes to Neon Ethos
HAWAIIAN: Mele Kalikimake me ka Hauloi Makahiki hou
HEBREW: Mo'adim Lesimkha
HUNGARIAN: Boldog Karacsonyl es Ujevl Unnepeket
ICELANDIC: Gledlig jol og Nyar
INDONESIAN: Selamah Tahun Baru
IRISH: Nollaig shona diobh
IROQUOIS: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut
          Ojenyunyat osrasay
ITALIAN: Buon Natale e felice Capo d'anno
JAPANESE: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
KOREAN: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
LATVIAN: Priecigus Ziemas Svetkus un Laimigu Jauno Gadu
LITHUANIAN: linksmu sventu Kaledu ir Laimingu Nauju Metu
LUXEMBURGHISH: Schéin Chrëschtdeeg an dudden
               Rutsch an d'néit Joer
MANX: Ollick Ghennal Erriu as Blein Feer Die
      Seihil as Slaynt Da'n Slane Loght Thie
NORSE-DANISH: Gledlig jul og godt Nytt Aar
POLISH: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia i szczesliwego
        Nowego Roku
PORTUGUESE: Feliz Natal e prospero Ano Novo
RAPA-NUI (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi
                          Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
ROMANIAN: Sarbatori Fericite. La Multi Ani
RUSSIAN: Pozdrevly ayu sprazdnikom Rozhdestva Khristova
         is Novim Godom
UKRANIAN: Veselykh Svyat i scaslivoho Novoho Roku
SAMOAN: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
SLOVAK: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
SERB-CROATIAN:Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
SINGHALESE (Ceylon/Sri Lanka): Subha nath thalak Vewa
                               Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
SLOVENE: Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto
SPANISH: Feliz Navidad y prospero Ano Nuevo
SWEDISH: God Jul och ett Gott Nytt År
TAGALOG (Filipino): Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
TURKISH: Yeni yiliniz kutlu olsun
WELSH: Nadolic Llawen. Blwyddn Newdd Dda
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