The new archive can be downloaded under the title link.

Now the details to the news

• New scaling engine with antialiasing. When playing the game you can switch between the scaling engines at any time.
• The program contains code for the MIDI-music. The MIDI-music starts playing as soon as AMidi will have been published for MorphOS.
• Support of the CD-ROM-audiotracks of Loom and Monkey Island. The MorphOS-version is the first one after the SDL-version which supports audiotracks. Because of that I have created a new CD-audio-library which is enclosed in the archive as a beta version and which can automaticly recognize CD-ROM-drives connected to the computer and if there is more than one CD-drive which can automaticly find the one with the "right" game-CD.
• Standard MorphOS command line (instead of the usual Unix like one).
• Start possible over pictprogram from the workbench or from the toolbar without having to write a script for this.
• Support for the video sequences of The Dig and Full Throttle.
• Manual with 26 pages in PDF-format and with detailed FAQ (requires Apdf).
• Archive contains colourful pictprograms for all supported games.
• Before publishing as usual all supported games have been tested that they are work like the Windows/Linux-versions.
• ... Many more minor improvements and bugfixes.

Intellectual property rights related to GoldED Studio, including source codes, documentation, distribution rights, the web site etc., are available for sale.

There are no plans to release the source code under the GPL or in a similar form or to make the software or its source code available free of charge.

What will happen to the BASIC interpreter?
Expect the source code to be made available under the GPL in the near future (in a nutshell, a GPL is a public domain license).

If you have a look at their Easter nest you'll find games like Rings of Medusa, Super Cars 1+2, Genetic Species Heimdall 2, Larry 1 Remake, Sherman M4, Pinball Magic and many others. Besides that many scene demos from the fantastic Mekka+Symposium 2002 demo party have been added, more music from the demoscene came online and the picture galleries are now containing some extremely colorful little eggs.

• HIGHWAY Production is on a roll
• Software Developer Kit is available
• VHI Studio is a solution for DigiCams
• TurboPrint printer driver
• Network module NORWAY (10MBit) is an option

The new board will be distributed in Europe by individual Computers, so it will be available from all our trade partners mentioned on the contact page.

From the Readme is to gather that those new versions should not be installed over the old 3.2 versions, because some subsystems are not compatible. Please read the readme files observant.

For which hardware will you go?

Possible answers:

• A1G3SE with AmigaOS 4.x
• A1G3SE with MorphOS
• Pegasos with MorphOS
• Pegasos with AmigaOS 4.x
• I´ll make my decision after sales start
• I am waiting for faster CPUs (>=G4) with AOS4
• I am waiting for faster CPUs (>=G4) with MOS
• I will change to an emulator
• I will still use my old hardware
• I wil change to another system

There was to ascertain that the Amiga-demos do not need to hide in any way for the superior PC-demos. At least they seemed more dynamic and more interesting. The most impressive was the 64k-demo "Planet Potion" of group "potion", this one was confirmed inside the hall with huge applause.

Furthermore there were beside the PC-demos some C64- and (sadly) any very few some Atari-demos. Shown were as well some demos for the Gameboy and for the TI83 calculator, which was very impressive.

Dale had injured a leg muscle in a skiing adventure, and he sat and took it easy while the others did most of the talking. Andy and Dave spoke about the early years, and about the Commodore bankruptcy. They spoke about their common work at PIOS on the Metabox set-top box. I can't recall who, but one of the three spoke about the 3DO system as the reinvention of Amiga OS, and another about the AmiJoe PPC-accelerator card. When asked about Amiga Inc.'s DE product, Dave said that it was "a good idea" and that someone named Gary had sent him two of the latest DE programs, but then accidentally let slip that the programs crashed on his Zaurus.

Overall the men seemed happy talking about their time at Amiga, and a bit wistful. Andy and Dave agreed that the single biggest mistake was wasted time and a failure to seize the moment when technological advances had been within the company's reach.

Upstairs in the large exhibit hall, a vendor with a mild speaking impediment ushered people over to try his Arcade in a Box. It is a sturdy joystick, button and trackball cabinet, which interfaces with MAME to play hundreds of arcade games with the feel of the real thing.

The people who produce the X1200 (which is an emulator-running PC in a compact A1200ish case) were there demonstrating that unusual product, which is rather spiffy in appearance. The X1200 is a pretty good idea. It runs Amithlon, which seemed to be selling very well at the show. Amithlon was getting positive comments all around. Amiga Inc.'s DE was a non-issue. Nobody is into that, from what I saw. There was a lot of anti-Microsoft sentiment. People resent having to use products by that company, because the Windows monopoly is such a fact of life and the consumer does not have much of a choice.

An example of the vendors present at the show was Compuquick who were very knowledgeable and had a good variety of stuff including A1200s and the oldish Phase5 PPC accelerators which can run MorphOS.

MorphOS felt a bit like a taboo subject. The MorphOS/4.0 question is the most politicized issue ever for followers of this platform. Some of the vendors were taking preorders for AmigaOne/4.0. Ben Hermans from Hyperion was reached on cellphone and was interviewed for at least 15 or 20 minutes. Ben must be given credit for putting himself out there and being a salesman.

I liked the fact that this convention doubled as an "alternative computers" convention, however this good idea has not been realized. There wasn't much representation from alternative computing systems. No Linux people, and I don't think anyone from QNX appeared either. And of course it would have great to see a MorphOS stand.

In Eric Schwartz Puzzles, the object of the game is to piece together beautiful images in as few moves as possible. This addictive game features never before seen images from Eric, free style and challenge play modes, 7 difficulty modes, unlock pictures, saved scores, help, and much more.

The good news is that I have uploaded an updated kernel image (based on linux 2.4.19pre4) and a bunch of patches; You can grab that stuff from http://www.amithlon.net/en/amithlon_updates.shtml.

I hope it comes in useful for someone.

I know this is going to cause a great deal of discussion and speculation. I would like to ask everyone to please be reasonable, and stick to the known facts, as well as to polite forms of discourse. The situation is bad enough as it is, nothing at all can be gained from aggravating anyone involved.

It's TEMPORARY home is at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~yttrium/amiga/ Please note that the current layout is very much not going to be the final look of the page. I've got it how it is so that I can easily and quickly add pages and information without the need to work on the nitty-gritty of looks - I'm no website designer but please don't send ideas for how you think I can make it look better, I'll come to that when I've got enough information to warrant having a page in the first place. What I'd like to request is that anyone who feels they can contribute, please do so by emailling me information and pages to include. This is not intended as a news site so I don't want information about upcoming events and that sort of thing, just straight info. I'd appreciate it if you send me whole pages to just slot in where appropriate that you design them with no javascript, frames, or scripting of any kind - just straight and plain HTML with links - also if you could keep images to an absolute minimum as I only have 10MB webspace with my ISP and don't intend on moving it to a real server until it's complete enough to be the kind of place I'd be happy to point people for more information. My 10MB should be plenty if we can keep it to being pure text and key images only. If you take a look at what I've got there at the moment, you'll see the general kind of things I want. My AmigaOne page is probably about the most complete at the moment, but I could very much do with more technical information linked off the AmigaOne specs (most of those links I've written about one or two lines only at present).

The general idea is that anyone of any level can look at the site. People click on the AmigaOne link and see basic information. Techie types say, I want to know more about xxx, and click on that link for more tech info. Any information that is implied or suggested but not directly stated anywhere by someone "official" should be marked as such. I know you might mean well, but unsubstantiated rumors are NOT the intended goal of the site. I'm going to be putting a lot of my personal time and effort into maintaining the information and keeping it all as up to date as possible and I'd appreciate not having to wade through mountains of rumor and misinformation. Information regarding anything to do with Amiga is welcomed, but no "this is better than that" without hard fact to back it up. Presently I'm mostly interested in information on AmigaOne, AmigaOS4, Classic Amiga (history), Amithlon and AmigaDE (Anywhere), however if someone wants to write something about MorphOS, UAE, Pegasos, Merlancia, pOS, Classic Amiga expansions, software issues or anything else relevant, I won't reject it (if it's factual, unbiased and contains useful information of course).

Also, obviously, if anyone sees anything on the page that they think is incorrect, let me know and I'll investigate it further.

• Lit-Word!
• Discovering The forgotten DRAW dialect (PART #1)
• More than one way to... (Skinning, Effects)
• Bigger than a pixel - working with sections of an image!
• Bits & Pieces
  • How can I change the title text of a window?
  • Did you know?
• Pick of the List - Everything is a Value
• Get-Word! (Send in the contributions)

You can download it from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html. Maybe some1 on this list can try to port the server program to the AmigaDE??

About 80% of all participants have shown their interests in the AmigaOne and Pegasos board. But most of them want to wait how the market will develop before they decide to buy one of the boards.

AmiDynDNS is now a CLI/Commodity hybrid program. So you can use it as before from the CLI and from the workbench with a little GUI.

The Commodity mode is interesting for server users who must know the latest host. AmiDynDNS is running in the background after startup and checks in free chooseable intervall the stated host and updates if necessary.

Also two options are added, you can choose paths for log- and configfile.

Name: VirusZ III v0.99
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 57.211
Date : 1 April 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires: AmigaOS 2.04 or better
util/libs/ReqToolsUsr.lha
util/virus/xvslibrary.lha
util/pack/xfdmaster.lha
util/arc/xadmaster.lha (recommended)
util/libs/DisLib.lha (optional)

News in VirusZ III v0.99:

• Improved window calculation code to avoid rendering bugs when you have installed sysihack-like programs. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the bug report and screenshot.
• Splitted the single 'About' request in a 'Technical Info' request and a new 'About' request and added some more information to them.
• Fixed bug: 72 bytes of memory disappeared during every program startup, this seems to be a problem with special CreateNewProc() tags. After two nights of debugging I still couldn't locate the bug exactly, so I did some workaround instead, now there are at least no more memory losses.
• Added the first vector snapshots sent by David Oakes, Ian Chapman, Fulvio Peruggi and Harry Sintonen. Thanks guys!
• Fixed minor rendering problem with VirusZ's main window. This one only appeared if you have modified the top_border size with tools like MCP. Thanks to Luca Longone for the report/screenshot and sorry for my angry email :-)
• Added full support for NSD-64-bit devices. Now the bootblocks of partitions located higher than the old 4GB-border will finally be accessed correctly.
• Improved disassembler output in the bootblock lab. The first three longwords now always get displayed as 'dc.l' lines and disassembly starts at offset $000c, the real entry point of a bootblock. This avoids strange interpretations of the bootblock's checksum and the two other fields.
• Added some more vector snapshots sent by Dariusz Krzempek. Thanks!

The most important new features in this release are:
The argument NOQUIT has been added to tell YGM not to quit an already running instance of YGM if it is started again. Modified the places where YGM looks for different files to better support running YGM from the WBStartup drawer. Mailbox login now supports APOP for transmitting username and password more safely. REPEAT values may now be specified in seconds too.

• DBase (db.lha) (251K)
• AmigaArenaDBaseSource.lzx (211K)

Some interesting snippets of information, posted by SlimJim:

• Screenshots of Amiga OS 4.0 will be published in the first part of April.

• Magic Menu and Birdie (among others) will be seamlessly integrated into the OS 4.0 interface.

• The new OS 4.0 GUI will look quite different (i.e it will not just look like a fast OS 3.9).

• Opus Magellan 2 has been licensed for OS 4.0 (details unknown).

• For the moment, the new printer system is not due to arrive until Boingbag/OS 4.1.

• The _latest_ MUI source code will be used (there was a question about this)

• IBrowse2.3 will be quite some beast. It will be enhanced for OS4.0. Not just some Aminet update. It will still miss some features of Netscape/IE though. There is not time to fix all to OS4.0. Flash is planned to be implemented. IB will be _much_ more stable than it is now.

• The guy that did the Warp-datatypes seems to be doing the new PPC-datatypes.

• The datatype system as a whole is to get a complete overhaul later. There is not enough time to do that to initial release.

• An office suit (Open office if I remember correctly) is being worked on. This is a 'high priority' for inclusion. (although it was not clear to me if it would be shipped initially)

• The development of software -independent of company size- is difficult to predict. But Mr. Hermans seems quite confident of an end-user release in May.

Next, I will re-write the chapter about "Patches for Amithlon".

Olivier Fabre
Olivier Fabre has released Matrix version 1.9 for 68k/MOS. Matrix is s screenblanker.
Download: Matrix_1.9.lzx - Readme

Tales of Tamar - Amiga version 0.42 R4
With Version V0.42 R4 the artillerie is introduced. there are light, middel and heavy artillerie made of 4 different siege engines: small and big ballista, catapult and warcatapult. The siege engines are thebest weapons to conquer cities and castles.

EvenMore Version 0.60
The textviewer EvenMore was released in version 0.60. With this new version the preferences were changed this means that new settings are required.
Download: EvenMore.lha

Different to former "successors", which were in truth only common 486 pcs with an C64 emulation, this one will be a completley new design, as most as possible compatible to the C64. Interesting is that, different than the Aone, this will use custonchips again.

I have converted these images to 800x600 JPEG and made them available for download as LhA and zip archives.

At Emaculation it says, conversely, that Microcode Solutions has taken legal steps against Emaculation. However it does not explain why.

"We get Lawsuits!
In case you are wondering, Microcode Solutions and the makers of their hardware card have threatened legal action against the operators of this website.

I will not be reporting on or promoting Microcode products in the future.

Any questions?"

On top of that, the Altnet admins were not going to let more than 5 users on the HTML chat, utilized by amiga-news.de and amigafuture.de. At Phat-Net 15 users are allowed, and on request this number may be raised, for example for special events. So there will be fewer problems with the use of the HTML chat. Not to mention that PhatNet has services. Unfortunately I can't control the fact that everyone who has registered a nickname must register it again. This should present only a minor problem though, ask us and we'll be happy to help you with it.

Advantageous to everyone: Phat-Net is a German server, located right in the middle of Germany.

Current entry data for your IRC client:
IRC Server: irc.phat-net.de
Port: 6667
Channel: #amigafun

Windows chatters who don't want to install an IRC client will find on this homepage, since a while ago, a functional IRC Java client. You just have to enter your nickname and you can participate in the chat.

The source code of BarsnPipes has been released on 25th of May 2001 by Todor Fay. Since Alfred Faust has continued developing this program it became freeware.

These are the improvements:

• Screenmode requester
• GadTools-gui
• You can use most of the requester with the help of the keyboard.
• CAMD-library
• New 32-colour-design
• Localisation (German catalog included)
• and much more

Now this program is also useable for users of Amithlon (until now this did not work because of the "old" screen pop-up.

• 26.03.02 new: Formula 1 Grand Prix (Cirrus Software/Tynesoft) done by Codetapper
• 25.03.02 improved: Wanted (Infogrames) filesystem compatibilty
• 25.03.02 improved: Rugby the World Cup (Domark) misc changes
• 25.03.02 new: Minskie - The Abduction (Binary Emotions) done by JOTD
• 25.03.02 new: International Ice Hockey (Impulze/Zeppelin) done by Codetapper
• 21.03.02 new: Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers (Activision) done by Codetapper
• 21.03.02 improved: Flashback (Delphine Software) misc changes
• 21.03.02 fixed: Joyride (Phenomena) color signal
• 20.03.02 new: Nippon Safes Inc (Dynabyte) done by CFOU!
• 20.03.02 updated: Mad TV (Rainbow Arts) minor changes
• 20.03.02 new: 1000 Miglia (Simulmondo) done by CFOU!
• 20.03.02 new: Mental Images Game Disk 2 (Mental Images) done by Abaddon
• 18.03.02 new: Campaign 2 (Empire) done by Bored Seal
• 18.03.02 new: Archon (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD
• 18.03.02 new: Air Support (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
• 18.03.02 new: The way of the Little Dragon (Parsec Software) done by Psygore

With ?Sid4Amiga? a comfortable player for these unforgettable C64-sounds is available! Paul Heams, the developer of "Sid4Amiga", talks about the further development of his programs and in really positive way about the AmigaDE; he is awaiting his pre-ordered AmigaOne SE. You will find the interview here.

Paul Heams is looking for beta testers for the new version of ?Sid4Amiga?, if you are interested, send an eMail to Paul.

• CPU - any G3/G4 to the currently available speeds
• Memory - 2 133 MHz SDRAM slots for upto 2GB
• Graphics support - (2x AGP plus 66MHz PCI)
• Card expansion - 4 PCI slots
• Legacy Support
  
  1. FDD
  2. Serial
  3. Parallel
  4. PS2 keyboard and mouse
• Integrated Systems support
  
  1. 2 USB connectors plus 2 headers
  2. 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
  3. AC97 (Audio)
  4. MC97 (Data/Fax/Modem)
  5. UDMA 100/ATAPI - 2 channels (4 devices)

1. to provide a transition from the 68k based custom chipset Amiga hardware to PPC based pluggable sub system hardware
2. to provide as great a degree of backwards compatibility as is possible
3. to optimise the AmigaOS for its new hardware foundation
4. to move the AmigaOS forwards, offering new features and high performance all wrapped up in the traditional easy to use Amiga architecture
5. to prepare the way for AmigaOS5

1. Hardware abstraction layer
2. Virtual memory
3. New library interface
4. Resource tracking and management
5. Optional memory protection
6. WarpOS backwards compatibility

1. implemented as a single shared library
2. compatible with the Amiga standard "bsdsocket" API, as defined by the AmiTCP product
3. enhanced API for more control over the inner workings and configuration
4. built-in DHCP client
5. Internet Superserver (inetd)
6. IP filtering and networking address translation
7. drivers for asynchronous PPP (dial-up networking) and PPP over Ethernet
8. SSLv2

1. Joiliet support
2. RockRidge support
3. CDDA support
4. multi-session support
5. Video CD support

1. Permedia 2
2. Permedia 3
3. Voodoo 3
4. Matrox G450/G550
5. ATI Radeon

1. 1. Special PPC native OEM version of Ibrowse 2.3
2. PPC native version of MUI for applications that require it
3. Special PPC native lite version of Audio Evolution

1-4 Channel Compo

bLa         -  "Track Him !"            25 voices
Zenu        -  "Haavat & Arvet"         06 voices
Blakkhar    -  "my1.4chdbm"             05 voices


5-16 Channel Compo

breed       -  "Interferences"          21 Voices
Tripper     -  "Shooting Star"          08 Voices
pSYCHo      -  "Design Schranz"         04 Voices
Acid Head   -  "Trip256"                03 Voices
BlakKhar    -  "Commercial Pianopower"  02 Voices
Varthall    -  "The Digital Machine"    02 Voices
Zenu        -  "Hidious"                02 Voices
Acid Frog   -  "Digi Boosts"            01 Voices
Lord Kodomo -  "Partikelstrom"          01 Voices


17-32 Channel Compo

bLa         -  "JazzyBeat"              19 Voices
Tripper     -  "Long Journey"           09 Voices
pSYCHo      -  "Death Vision"           06 Voices

The following are the major features of FlashMandelWOS:

• Full functional program for rendering Mandelbrot & Julia fractals with different exponents.
• Support for ECS/AGA/RTG and 68020+/PPC Amiga computers or compatible systems.
• Uses new Reaction GUI, Arexx port, Localization, and has an Installer script also to easy update or uninstall the program.
• C & Asm 68k/PPC sources included !
• It's really fast even on old Amigas and should be also compatible with all new Amiga clones ;-)
• It's really cool and free ;-)

The major feature of the new 2.0 version is the ability to make animations and save them in an easy way using the new arexx port, some example scripts and a guide about all Arexx commands of FlashMandelWOS was created.

What's changed in 2.0 update:

• Added an ARexx port. (Edgar Schwan)
• Created a new guide to explain all features of FlashMandelWOS ARexx port. (Edgar Schwan)
• Created some example Arexx scripts. (Edgar Schwan)
• Compiled a special no 68k fpu version for owners of Blizzard MC040LC/PPC603e, it runs also on other systems without an FPU.

The AMIGAplus 03/2002 contains the following subjects among other things:

• AmigaOS 4: Interview with Ben Hermans
• Status Report: AmigaOS 4 decoded
• New: Pro Station Audio 5
• Who ist nun who: AMIGAplus-Redaktion
• Workshop: Web encoding with .htaccess
• Workshop: QNX for beginners
• Shareware Special: The best on 6 pages
• Scenish: Mad Wizards
• u. v. m.

• LOWERCASETAGS/XHTML now also applies to ENUM attribute strings
• XHTML now implies QUOTESTYLE=double
• removed some unused debug code

• Fixed V45 exec.library of AmigaOS 3.9 BoingBag2. It uses quite crude hack to enable it, you'd better have true 32bit memory that doesn't go away at reset for this to work. Works on my BlizzPPC, Wizor's & SMF^'s Blizzard 1260, Cyber2th's CSMkII and Zerohero's Blizzard 2060 at least. YMMV. Note that this hack automatically fixes some buggy programs that peek $f80000 for version information. Thanks to my impatient betatesters: Wizor, Jagge, Cyber2th, Zerohero, SMF^ and Lizard. Special thanks to Lizard for bugging me about this. Also thanks to everyone who mailed me about the problem.
• Improved romfixes module: No longer fails whole module if some sub-patch fails. Now it should be possible to use romfixes as the last module.
• Modified files since 1.24rc2: BlizKick.readme BlizKick/BlizKick BlizKick/BlizKick.ASM BlizKick/Modules/romfixes BlizKick/Modules/romfixes.ASM

The shareware software enables a connection to a Palm computer by 3Com or compatible devices. The program offers among other things HotSync functions between Amiga and Palm.

The announcement of the AmigaOne has motivated him to start again on the development of his program. The next version of 'Sid4Amiga' will contain the following enhancements:

• Reverb - 10 presets with variable return levels.
• A new PlaySid emulation library for use with Delitracker, PlaySid etc..
• An updated GUI for the new reverb settings. (Mixing desk)
• Bug fixes and a reworked library.

microATX mainboard, 133 MHz processor slot, 600 MHz G3 PowerPC up to Dual G4 PowerPC, PC133 memory with two banks, AGP slot, PCI subsystem with three slots, IEEE1394 (Firewire) with 100/200/400 MBit transmission rate, 10/100 MBit network, USB, AC97 sound subsystem, IRDA, ATA100 and more.

The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.14

The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 2.14

The new driver includes the workaround to the P96 system to prevent graphic corruption when graphic card memory overflow occurs.

The update includes a new version of the S3 ViRGE driver:
- Virge.card ver. 1.6

Werner Heuser: "Remarkable in the document are the insults at the end, which don't seem usual for writings from lawyers. The legal trouble is documented since its beginning at the MobiliX webpages and is discussed in many mailing lists and news groups. This seems to have impressed the plaintiffs. They now accuse MobiliX of inventing "a new kind of electronical terror", and are ready to sentence MobiliX. It will be interesting to know, which sentence the plaintiff will invent against critical discussion in newsgroups."

Despite the announcements of the plaintiffs, the case goes on: The court in Munich (Germany) has set the date for the first hearing to June 12th 2002.

Tireless, beyond-the-call-of-duty efforts are needed to translate the many daily articles, but this goes without saying. One must be involved often with various issues, and this certainly cuts into one's free time. So at this time we want to give a great "hurrah" and a big, heartfelt "thank you!"

• U.K. - Power Computing
• Germany - Vesalia or KDH Datentechnik
• Sweden - GGS-Data
• Other countries: see Elbox-dealers

The interview is on my homepage under the heading "User-Ecke." Here is a direct link: Interview.

This years show is shaping up to be one of the most exciting Amiga events the community has seen in years! Amiga Expo will host everything from battling Robots to new systems for running the Amiga operating system. And YOU will be able to see and hear it all from your home through the UGN's webcasting technologies.

The xvs.library contains all the virus recognition and removal code that was formerly included in VirusZ. This step has been taken for one major reason: VirusZ, Virus_Checker, Virus_Executor and all the other antivirus software can be updated quickly without releasing the whole packages every time a new virus appears.

So simply install the xvs.library from this archive to your LIBS: drawer to get 100% protection against the latest viruses.

To be able to check if the library in this archive really came straight from one of the authors, you can use the public key with the .sig files in the archive. If you are not sure or do not trust the included key, then you can always request the original straight from one of us (by email) or get it from the VHT-Denmark homepage.

Here is some info about the update:

Name: Xvs.library v33.38
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 81.516 bytes
Date: 19 March 2002
Programmer: Georg Hoermann & Jan Erik Olausen

News in xvs.library v33.38 (size: 59.040 bytes):
Just had to fix two problems with the security code:

• a. Timing has been improved to avoid interference with some music software. Thanks to Paracels/PCB for the report and testing.
• b. Expunge of library caused access to deallocated memory in some rare cases. Thanks to Mikolaj Calusinski for the report and the excessive beta-testing ;)
• Fixed (hopefully all) MuGuardianAngel hits in the SurveyMemory() routine. If anyone detects some more, please send me the logs. Thanks to Thomas Richter for his suggestions about mmu.library, but I finally found an other solution. And thanks to Sensei for reporting all his hits.
• Improved speed of SurveyMemory() drastically by skipping similar recognition routines in just one step if their common requirements are not available.

With version v0.42 the remaining city levels have been added. A city can now consist of up to 240 different buildings within four several levels: Village, town, city and metropolis.

At the same time Eternity dares to give a statement: "Now some things like settlers, cavalry, artillery and the statistics screen are missing and then the basis set for ToT has finally finished! But not to raise false hopes: Nevertheless ToT is tested for two years then we will add another two months of intensive tests in order to fix also the last bugs. Massive multiplayer games like ToT are very complexe programs and therefore have to be tested in this way.

What will happen afterwards? Already now we have carefully planned the future. ToT will be continued developing after the basis set, permanently improved and extended. ToT players can integrate with corresponding wishes in the project. All that which is meaningful and feasible we will add. Already now there are plans:

• Building castles
• Online-knights competition like archery, lances pang a.s.o.
• Pedigree-management for the players
• Specialists (clerics, wizards)
• Royal secret service
• Spying, saboteurs
• Library with extensive documentations of ToT
• 3D-card in ToT-fashion
• Battlescreens

As always the software is in an early beta phase and the GUI is still provisional. At the moment it is interesting if the tv-card is recognized. Definitively the following ones should work:

• WinTV PCI/FM - picture, tuning, stereo/2-channel-sound, radio, ext. Video/S-Video-In with sound.
• WinTV Go - picture, tuning, tv-sound.
• Medion (ALDI) last version - picture, tuning, stereo/2-channel-sound, Radio, ext. Video/S-Video with sound.
• miro PCITV picture, tuning, ext. Video, sound.

• Fixed avi palette handling. (bug introduced in 0.17)
• Optimizations in OpenDivx decoder.
• DivX 5.0 codec supported.
• Angel Potion codec supported.
• Added support for several different motion jpegs codecs.
• Few bugfixes in AVI parser.
• Introduced external plugins, only few converted to new API so far.
• Crash when NOVIDEO option was used. Fixed.

Download:
http://amiga.pl/softcinema/

At the weekend I have checked the upper half of the Europe map and removed 48 invalid links. Als some URLs are updated.

BlitzKick Version 1.24rc1
The homepage of Harry ´Piru´ Sintonen is now back online. Beside of Blitzkick there are some other updated programs (for example cnet.device) available.

New card sets for Klondike
Dirk Stöcker made some new card sets for the Klondike card game RekoNet available at his homepage. Further details can be found here.

AmiBlitz2 is the name for the free version of Blitz Basic 2.

A full list of updates to the Blitz2000 site can be found at http://news.blitz-2000.co.uk.

• wordperfect2text.plugin
• rtf2text.plugin

• Do you have thoughts on quantum computing?
• What importance do you give to the design of efficient algorithms, and what emphasis do you suggest giving this area in the future?
• Can you give us an outline for computer science, some milestones for the next ten or twenty years?
• What is the relationship between God and computers?
• What is your thinking about software patents?

• Bugfix: The processing of HAM pictures didn't work.

• New: Can now add numeric (only) UINs to the contact list.
• Modification: Online/offline status changes are now updated for those contacts that are permanently in the 'Not in List' group. To be permanent, a message must have been sent/received or the contact was added manually.
• Modification: Some may have noticed that in the previous version the system beep came up on incoming messages.
• Modification: The versioning system now works according to the normal Amiga scheme: version.revision.

• It's now possible to add UINs manually. Searching for Name/Nick/E-Mail is not yet supported.
• If you have used ICQ2001b before, STRICQ V2 will import your contact list from the server.
• If you get an enforcer hit, please forward it/them to Douglas F. McLaughlin. Make sure you use <pre></pre> tags.
• You'll need the latest versions of NList, NListtree, and TextInput. Links for download are available on the STRICQ homepage.

The distribution of Amiforce will follow as soon as the last remaining problems have been fixed.

A German mailing list is planned as well. As addition there's already the forum available.

All interested people are kindly invited.

The HTML format can be viewed on all computer systems provided an Internet browser is installed.

• 4 x PCI slots + 1 x AGP slot on 2 buses
• 10/100Mbps ethernet
• 2 x USB connectors + 2 more on headers
• 2 x UDMA 100 channels (4 devices)
• Open firmware-compatible BIOS with OS4.0 extensions & NV memory
• PS2 mouse & keyboard connectors
• Sound, modem & gameport I/O via the AMR header
• Parallel, serial & floppy (PC FDD controller) connectors
• Real time clock
• 2 x SDRAM sockets for up to 2 GB of main memory

The DigiboosterPro-Community seeks to find your Web address to your homepage where you can find music in the DBM or other formats.

For More Information, Contact: Bill McEwen, Amiga Inc.
425-396-5660 (x226 ) (voice) - 425-396-5671 (fax)

Amiga® To Provide Content For Next Generation Windows CE .NET-Based Devices

Amiga Games and Productivity Applications Will Target Windows CE .NET

San Francisco, CA - March 12, 2002 - Amiga, Inc. announced the release and distribution of Amiga applications targeted at the Microsoft Windows CE .NET operating system. The applications will run on any of the range of Windows CE .NET-based devices including handhelds, smart phones, web pads, and set-top boxes.

Amiga has a rich history of gaming and multimedia and has been delivering rich, compelling applications since 1985. The new breed of Amiga applications have been written to run on the entire range of Windows Powered products including PDA's, Cell Phones, and Set Top Boxes. Amiga provides a middleware portability layer, which allows Amiga applications to be written once and run across a range of Windows Powered devices without change. More than 100 applications will be made available initially and many more are being created by Amiga developers worldwide.

"We are pleased to be able to deliver content that is optimized to run on the Windows CE .NET Platform", said Bill McEwen President/CEO of Amiga Inc. "Amiga developers are world renowned for their abilities to create amazing multimedia content with a small footprint. This gives us the ability to deliver a robust and exciting experience for even the smallest devices."

"As the number and variety of small- footprint and mobile Windows Powered devices continues to grow, ISVs want to ensure that their applications are able to run on as many of these different devices as possible," said Keith White, senior director of marketing for the Embedded and Appliance Platforms Group at Microsoft Corp.  "Amiga Anywhere enables application developers to easily take advantage of the rich application and multimedia support in Windows CE .NET to write gaming applications that will run on a broad range of smart Windows Powered devices."

Amiga for Windows Powered Products is expected to ship in April this year. More information can be found on the Amiga Anywhere web site at http://www.amiga-anywhere.com/.

About Amiga

Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic. Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM) from the Tao Group, enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux. AmigaDE Player and applications can be purchased at www.amiga-anywhere.com. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at www.amiga.com. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.«

Pferderennen offers:

• Entertainment for up to eight players
• Detailed "horsepowers" ;)
• Up to 30 stables with respective up to 50 horses
• A horses editor
• Possibility of saving game scores

The update includes the following things:

• Inga-engine version 1.0/6 (beta)
• Audio-CDs can be played (via cdplay.library).
• New script commands: pre-loading, clearing, ilkabove, ilkdown, "LadeLaufkarte", "AusDieMaus", "Leistensperre", "LeistensperreAus" and menu.
• The two mouse colours were changed to be equal to the workbench-standard.
• Developer modus integrated. Thus it is possible to load old game scores with processed script versions. Besides this the inventar and the variables can be changed during the game.

"OrtEditor" version 1.1
In a new menu you can select between German and English script-language. If you push the key <DEL> while positioning a graphic element the element will be invisible or visual again. This is very practical if you want to test if an element sits right on the background.

Many thanks to Christian Busse for translation and follow the call of Mathias Roslund - send feedback, a feature request or simply a good joke!

1. Fixed the '*** NULL POINTER ***' text some people reported showing up in the contact list. It was caused by sending or receiving a message to/from a UIN in the 'Not in List' group.
2. Now that the above bug is fixed, sending or receiving a message to/from a UIN will cause that UIN to remain in the contact list even after restarting STRICQ. However, there will be no status changes for those UINs.
3. When a UIN shows up in the 'Not in List' group, STRICQ will now request that UIN's short info and display the Nick in the contact list.
4. Fixed a long-standing bug in the contact list display that would cause a crash if the existing nick was changed after the UIN was already inserted into the contact list.

• You cannot add contacts manually yet. If you have never used ICQ2001b, don't bother using STRICQ V2 at this time.
• If you have used ICQ2001b before, STRICQ V2 will import your contact list from the server
• If you get an enforcer hit, please forward it to Douglas F. McLaughlin on the message base. You should use <pre></pre> tags.
• You will need the latest versions of NList, NListtree and TextInput. Links for download are available at STRICQ-Homepage

Features of the Mirage 4000 Pro:

• Mirage 4000 Tower-case with 300W powersupply
• Mirage A4000 Zorro III/PCI Busboard
• Mediator PCI 4000
• Mediator Multimedia CD

The Scene-event The Gathering takes place in Norway, where our retail partner Data Kompaniet will hand over our contribution to the competition prices.

Furthermore the upcoming update will contain:

• Online-access of GSC-2 catalogue of stars
• Improved zoom-function

This update contains some minor bugfixes of a bug that is not fixed in the original unix version.

• TheCrypt22.lha
• CrM.library.lha

• Offline messages are now requested, displayed, and cleared from the server.
• When a message window opens, it will no longer grab the current window focus.
• Message history is now saved. No GUI support for this yet, soon, of course.
• Login packets now match the latest ICQ2001b build 3659 release.

• You cannot add contacts manually yet. If you have never used ICQ2001b, don't bother using STRICQ V2 at this time.
• If you have used ICQ2001b before, STRICQ V2 will import your contact list from the server
• If you get an enforcer hit, please forward it to Douglas F. McLaughlin on the message base. You should use <pre></pre> tags.
• You will need the latest versions of NList, NListtree and TextInput. Links for download are available at STRICQ-Homepage

Name: VirusZ III v0.98
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 54.288
Date : 9 March 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library

News in VirusZ III v0.98:

• Fixed bug in vector check kickmem brain that caused all patches to be recognized as 'AmigaOS ROM Update'. Sorry for that!
• Designed a new display format for the vector check. This one looks better and is more informative than the old one.
• Added brain for kicktags to the vector check. This one currently only recognizes 'AmigaOS ROM Update' and 'ramdrive.device'.
• Added the 'Snapshot' function to the vector check (as I promised). Now you can snapshot every unknown patch that causes alerts on your Amiga and send me the results. This makes it possible for me to even add patches that I cannot install on my computer. Read the manual for detailed information!
• Added recognition for ppc.library v46.37 to the vector check. Thanks to Jean-Michel Chapron for the handmade snapshots.
• Added disassembler mode to Memory Monitor. This should help experienced users/programmers to analyse unknown vector patches.

For questions and discussions on personal basis, though, they are still at your disposal.

Here's the complete message in English in which they explain their move:
Recent events have given me the impression that it has become impossible in the Amiga community to speak up in self-defence without someone taking offence in it. Thomas and me have therefore decided (in in fact already did so) to unsubscribe from all amiga-related public mailing lists, newsgroups and web forums, and we have deleted all our Amiga bookmarks.

Work on our projects will not be affected by this. OS 4 will still be developed in the same way it used to be. We're just pulling out of the public.

I'm sorry we have to take such drastic measures, but it simply doesn't work otherwise anymore. You can still contact us personally, we're open for discussion, but no longer in public. Fact is that everything we say will end up on some web page or forum, being dissected to death and commented with all sort of nice wording, so the best solution is obviously to say nothing at all.

Thanks for reading this.

In Payback you are taking on the role of a young driver being on the run. The goal is to become a big gangster boss.

The AMIGAplus 03/2002 that was to be released on March 13th will be delivered because of this printing delay about three days later than planned. We ask for you to excuse this.

That's why I decided to change to YahooGroups. As far as I know not everybody is satisfied to be stored in a YahooGroup so I deleted the old subscriptions completly.

• 07.03.02 improved: Xybots (Tengen) supports another version, minor changes
• 07.03.02 fixed: Disposable Hero (Euphoria/Gremlin Graphics) SMC removed
• 07.03.02 updated: Street Racer (Epic) misc changes
• 05.03.02 new: Crack (Linel) done by Psygore

Ian Greenway:
This version has a small amount of code changed in the Z80 core which I was hoping would offer some small speed increase. Despite the fact it is shorter code, fewer clock cycles to execute, and cleaner, it seems to actually run about 5% slower on my '060. :-( Still, the code was optimised for '030, so maybe it will help there!

WinUAE 0.8.21 Release 2 (07.03.2002)
====
- FIXED: custom chipset emulation fixes (me, Bernd Schmidt)
- FIXED: JIT FPU (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: filesystem emulation (Bernd Schmidt, Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: PC joystick 2 (me)
- FIXED: mouse 2 emulation (me)
- FIXED: multiple CD32 CDROM and uaescsi.device updates (me)
- FIXED: bsdsocket (Bernd Roesch, Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: configuration GUI memory leak fixed (Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: keyboard problems (me)
- FIXED: CD32 pad button emulation
- FIXED: serial port updates (Bernd Roesch, me)
- CHANGED: sound emulation (me, Bernd Schmidt)
- ADDED: CD32 media eject/insert support (me)
- ADDED: CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA-ALT resets and clears chipmemory (me)
- ADDED: "pause emulation while minimized"-option to misc-page (me)
- ADDED: FDI-support is back (me)

Important notes, known bugs and workarounds:

• WinUAE freezes before GUI appears? Delete Configurations/default.uae.
• Check your CPU speed settings, they may not be correct if you load old configuration file.
• Sound buffer size is not comparable with old versions. 3 or 4 is usually the best size.
• When using CD32 emulation, keep "Hard Drives"-tab empty.

Included with the LINUX (FOR PLAYSTATION 2) kit is the PlayStation 2 Linux software, an internal hard disc drive (40 GB), a 10/100 Base-T Ethernet Network Adaptor, and a USB mouse and keyboard. You will still need to purchase or supply a PlayStation 2 console, a 8MB memory card (for PlayStation 2) [preferably a new memory card -- once formatted for Linux use, your game data will be erased and you will not be able to save new game data] and a VGA monitor with sync-on-green capability [check your monitor's user manual to see if it meets this requirement].

While it's exciting to see tremendous interest in this new PlayStation venture, there are a few things for you to note before purchasing. LINUX (FOR PLAYSTATION 2) is a tool for Linux enthusiasts and programming hobbyists. Basic understanding of the Linux operating system is strongly suggested for installation and use. Also, be advised that this accessory will NOT enhance your PlayStation 2 games. The hard disc drive formatted for Linux cannot be used with HDD-compatible PlayStation 2 games, and the included Network Adaptor (Ethernet) does not include a modem, which the upcoming standard Network Adaptor will. Be sure to consider all of these factors before making your decision to purchase.

For more information about LINUX (FOR PLAYSTATION 2), please visit the official PlayStation 2 Linux Community site FAQ at :

http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php

However, this problem should be fixed within the next two days. If anyone needs to send an e-mail urgently, there is another address that can be used: sharwin@thendic-France.com.

• "The Secret of Monkey Island" is 100% functional.
• "Indy 4" can be completed. The "necklace bug" was eliminated.
• The copy-protection used by "Day of the Tentacle" was overcome, and now the game may be played to the end.
• Progress was made in supporting "Sam & Max," which is now playable through Bumpusville. Just don't look at the dragon heart and don't switch off the alarm
• The format for save-games has been changed, so best to start the adventure from scratch.

One thing we would like to mention is that JMiner and the 3D engine are two completely different projects: The 3D objects are compatible with both engines but the renderer is by no means the same. The FPU-based J Miner runs slower when more polygons are added, the integer-based 3D engine will always run at one speed.

AuroraRadio is now officially online and is a Shoutcast radio station dedicated only to quality music. Every style and age of music is played, including Amiga modules and C64 SID music. Currently, the radio station is in its test phase, which means that sometimes the server is down, but under normal circumstances it should be available 24 hours a day...!

Yesterday the following sections were updated:

• Europe
• List of new links
• List of lost links
• History 2002

• New tooltype 'PICASSO96'.
  Use this tooltype if you have problem while displaying brush or text in zoom window. PfPaint will disable the cybergraphics command scalepixelarray_.
• Improve Palette requester and gradient effect when you are using Voodoo and picasso96.
• Fixed a nasty bug with picture <16 pixels.
• New arexx commands:
  • PP_Verbose 0 or 1 (will enable or disable security requester).
  • pp_group N° x y w h stat (will draw box on requester).
• Improve pp_GetLocale.
• Improve Bridge tool, more security, improve tvpaint host, new host tvpaint_layer (by PixelArt).
• Improve Opacity mapping.
• TVPaint's user request: Density mapping can be use as drawing effect.
• Improve Undo-Redo.
• Fix bug with undo and some effect.
• Update PerfectPaint.cd and PerfectPaint.ct.

Actually the C64 is past because it is much too small and too weak for the high demands of the Internet-epoch. Nevertheless some C64 still run on Internet.

Here is the address of a WWW-server (title link) which works with a C64. The only extension being added is an interface card with unbelievelable 38400 bps data transfer rate.