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24.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF) Society Updates
There are some new updates on Amiga-Society again. There are many new entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware. There are also new pictures on the software site. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
AmigaRealm (E-Mail) AmigaRealm: Call for support of Amiga.org
Certainly you have already read that the website of the American news service called Amiga.org was hacked and the database destroyed. Under the title link AmigaRealm calls up everybody to support Wayne Hunt who is the maintainer of Amiga.org by contributing money so that he can bring the website online again. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Jörn-Erik Burkert (E-Mail) AMIGA-Magazine: Extracts from issue #11 online
As usually the print-magazine 'AMIGA-Magazin' makes some articles available for reading. This time the highlight is a basis article for XHTML 1.0. It shows how you can design HTML-documents future-safe. Additionally you can find an editorial and a preview to the next issue as well as a programmer-workshop to "Warp 3D V4". (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Paul Cardwell (ANF) GetBoinged! an Amiga application listings website goes live!
GetBoinged! is a place where Amiga developers can list their applications on, be it for Amiga DE or Classic. It was developed by two Amiga fans, Paul Beel my friend and myself. We do not host the "actual" applications, we allow the developer to point to a location where the application resides (html links).

We invite you to check out GetBoinged.org at http://www.getboinged.org. If you cannot find the application you are looking for, feel free to sign up for an account and post the application.

We are currently in the process of gathering Amiga DE applications, Amiga Classic is basically done (both will be updated frequently). If you have a comment or suggestion, feel free to let us know, we want this site to be enjoyable!

We look forward to your visit and hope you enjoy GetBoinged.org.
Thank you,
Paul Cardwell
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF) Software Update for Catweasel Floppy Controller
There is a new version of the multidisk.device in the support-area for download. The device works with all Amiga versions of the Catweasel Controller. On frequently request some new formats have been introduced which can also read and write hidden data on the disks. For the most common formats the track-line was extended and for PC-disks special formats with different sector sizes have been introduced.

The format for C64-disks has been extended on 40 tracks and a small bug has been fixed. Finally it should be now possible to write the disk-id in the sector-header correctly. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner H&P: Upgrade: ImageFX 4.5 is now available
Nova Design has just announced that the current update to ImageFX 4.5 is available. This version adds some new functions to the most efficienty programm package for picture manipulation. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Golem - IT News für Profis Golem: Slashdot interviewed: "Trying the impossible"
Slashdot-editor Timothy Lord reports about the work behind the site
Linux-boom to and fro: No open-source-website has such a big influence as the Slashdot-offer with its motto "News for nerds, stuff that matters". Ben Schwan talks about the work behind the site, the power of good communities and about the future of free software after the end of the Internet-Hypes with slashdot-editor Timothy Lord.
Have a look at the title link for the full interview. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
internet.com internet.com: EU wants computer-programs under protection by patent this year
»The European Commission wants to set computer-programs under the protection by patent within the Union. This is reported by the 'Financial Times Deutschland' in its current issue. After disputing in the authority for months inland market commissar Frits Bolkestein pushed through his plan of patent regulation for software-programs. Still this year he wants to present a directive proposal to it. With it "an uniform protection by patent is supposed to be created to push innovations at developing software" says the Commission.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Eternity Hard- und Software Eternity: AmigaOS XL-demonstrating system in shop
In order to introduce AmigaOS XL something more transparent from now on at Eternity hard- and software you can observe an Amithlon-demonstrating system in shop. At the same time some products will be set to an absolutely minimal price for three days.

Eternity Hard- und Software
Rosmarstraße 37
50226 Frechen

Telephon: 049 2234 / 272300
Telefax: 049 2234 / 271472

Mo. to Fr.: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Access Innovation Ltd. Mick Tinker takes leave of Amiga market
Well time moves on, nothing stands still... The Amiga does not make me a living, it hasn't for a long, long time and it doesn't look like it ever will make me a dime. I have moved on in my life and its time that I left the Amiga behind.

It has been an interesting time. I still love the concepts and elegance of the Amiga, many of those concepts will move forward through the experiences of all those engineers that have had contact with it. Amiga R.I.P.

Note of the editors board:
The Anti Gravity website, which have bought the BoXer project from Mick Tinker, is not available any more. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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23.Oct.2001
Markus Pohlmann (ANF) Update of the project Crashsite website
The website www.projektcrashsite.de (title link) about the new role game of the same denominator has been updated. An initial test picture of the 16Bit Iso 3d engine, new music in MP3 format and the questions and answers so far are part of the new content.

Since the game's graphic artist Daniel Hartlehnert is searching for a new employer there are some examples for his work in the "Die Macher" section.

In the support section the programmers are asking for decision guidance regarding what should take priority - development for 68k od PPC. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Oct.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)

Emulation: New version of Amigenerator released
The SEGA MegaDrive (Genesis) emulator Amigenerator is released in version V0.34. The changes in V0.34:

[VDP] Error in VSTAM removed (Pengo)
[VDP] Unnecessary code in sources etc. removed
[SOUND] Sound code reworked
[SOUND] Support of On/Off of psg/fm/z80 and sound added
[CORE] Welcome ROM added
[CORE] Saving is added again
[CORE] The saving of sound was reworked completely

(ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF) Digital Almanac III - Amithlon
Thanks to Harald Frank it was possible to present DA III running on "Amithlon" on the event which took place last Friday in Mutterstadt, Germany. There was greate positive responsiveness to that presentation. Calculation speed did not rank behind comparable PC programs. So, the only planetarium program left for the Amiga also runs under Amithlon without problems. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Oct.2001
Tales of Tamar Game: Tales of Tamar - Amiga Version 0.38R3
The Amiga version v0.38R3 of the Internet and round based game Tales of Tamar contains speedups on the map screen, and OnScreen animations for the trade- and diplomacy screen. The game is only available for beta testers. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner H&P: AmigaXL: Selling since October 18th
H&P wrote:
23. Oct. 2001: On Thursday, October 18th sale of AmigaOS XL started. Delivery of the preorders still will take a few days. We ask you for understanding. Last weekend the new version was presented and up for sale on the Pianeta 2001 in Empoli, Italy.
(ps)

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23.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: Interview with Carl Svensson (mp3Play)
The GUI "mp3Play" comes from Sweden. The developer Carl Svensson answered the questions of the Amiga Arena.

Olaf Köbnik: "The Amiga Arena is supporting the freeware and shareware market and I just can appeal you again and again to support the developers with feedback." (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Oct.2001
m.w.VERLAG GmbH amiga-news.de in the 'Book of the 6,000 Most Important Websites'
amiga-news.de has been recorded to the Internet guide "Das Web-Adressbuch für Deutschland - Die 6.000 wichtigsten deutschen Internet-Adressen" (The Web-Address-Book for Germany - The 6,000 most importandt German Internet Addresses). The editors board of the mv publishing company did a one year data-recall facility and tested about 250,000 web offers and read out the 6,000 best websites.

Base of this book is a concise structure, 19 chapters are partitioned into subject relating rubrics. It contains an extended headword index and e-mail register. The arrangement of sub-categories and the extended index enables the reader to quickliy find what he is searching for and the short comments simplify to decide the optimal address. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Oct.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis and xlHtml Update
Fr3dY has updated two of his tools. First is version 1.0.3 of Anubis, an anonymous mailer with many features, available for download. Also xHTML is updated onto version 0.3.9.1. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
OSNews OSNews: Interview with Carl Sassenrath about REBOL (Update)
You will find a complete interview with Carl Sassenrath about REBOL under the title link. It especially has an eye on the possibilities that REBOL/IOS will give X-Internet ('executable' Internet), and the chances of REBOL in the market against .NET and other systems.

The interview was held by Eugenia Loli-Queru.

REBOL is a platform overlapping sytem from Carl Sassenrath (Amiga-Exec), that was released first in November 1997. The REBOL language lets you use the Internet easily including coding of CGI-scripts and the easy design of GUIs. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
The Amiga Alternative Audio Page

MPEG-Audio-Player: MAD for 68040 and MorphOS
Today we have a brand new port-release for you .. madplay, the best mpeg-audio player out there .. this will make a nice complement to the LAME encoder... The archive comes with binaries for 68040 and MorphOS... Please read the included amiga.readme for special instructions on usage!

From the MAD README:

MAD has the following special features:

24-bit PCM output
100% fixed-point (integer) computation
completely new implementation based on the ISO/IEC standards
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)

Because MAD provides full 24-bit PCM output, applications using MAD are able to produce high quality audio. Even when the output device supports only 16-bit PCM, applications can use the extra resolution to increase the audible dynamic range through the use of dithering or noise shaping.

Because MAD uses integer computation rather than floating point, it is well suited for architectures without a floating point unit. All calculations are performed with a 32-bit fixed-point integer representation.

Because MAD is a new implementation of the ISO/IEC standards, it is unencumbered by the errors and copyrights of other implementations. MAD is NOT a derivation of the ISO reference source or any other code. Considerable effort has been expended to ensure a correct implementation, even in cases where the standards are ambiguous or misleading.

Download: madplay.lzx (220 KB) (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Pagan Games Pagan Games: New game for AmigaDE - BLOBULA
Pagan Games proudly presents Blobula. The first next-generation platform independent game for desktop machines as well as personal digital assistants. Thanks to AmigaDE Blobula runs on most hardware but AmigaDE will at first be available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and the Sharp Zaurus PDA. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail) Image processing: SView ImageFX Loader Update
The ImageFX plugins (loader/Saver) for SView are updated and are available for download (title link). (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Ottawa Amiga Show Team Event: Ottawa Amiga Show - Changes
Against other statements the Ottawa Amiga Show will not take place on two days, only on 17.11.2001. Also changed has the location. Now it is the Routhier Centre, 172 Guigues Street, Main floor, Ottawa, Canada. More informations under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Kermit Woodall (ANF) Nova Design, Inc. Releases ImageFX 4.5
Nova Design, Inc. Releases ImageFX 4.5
Richmond, VA - Nova Design announced the immediate availability of the latest upgrade to ImageFX 4.5. This release adds even more features to one of the industries most powerful image editing and special effects package and the top package for the Amiga.

Nova Design has been a long-time supporter of the Amiga platform. Their software packages include ImageFX, Aladdin 4D - a 3D modeling, rendering and animation package, Millennium - the ultimate upgrade for Newtek's Toaster and Toaster/Flyer, and Cinematte - a blue-screening plugin for both Photoshop and Aura.

New Painting Features
The painting tools have been improved with the addition of several new Drawmodes. These Drawmodes allow a new range of compositing so you can composite brushes into your images will all the same tools that the composite tool offers you for full image compositing. When combined with the Drawstyles, which control where your pixels come from when using brushes, you have literally thousands of possible drawing options and combinations!

New Animation Features
ImageFX 4.0 introduced the concept of being able to load an animation and work on individual frames just like you would a layered still image document. ImageFX 4.5 takes this much further with the all-new Keyframe Manager.

The Keyframe Manager allows you to combine images, animations, or animbrushes onto any animation you have loaded. You can completely control the path of these images or animations by specifying precise positions at individual keyframes at any point in the animation. You can do this with single point keys, two point keys, or four point keys. You can scale during single point animations, use two points to make easy 'squash and stretch' cartoony effects, or use four points flip points around to make '3D' flying logos and other simulated perspective tricks. With a little artistic talent it's not hard to track something in an existing animation and add a new effect on it or replace it with something new.

The Keyframe Manager can also process simple scripts without bothering with compositing images or animations. You can track lightning into a scene or have a wizard cast a glowing light with a lens flare. The possibilities are enormous!

Ordering
Just call 1-800-IMAGE-69 or (804) 282-1157, fax (804) 282-3768 to order. (ps)

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22.Oct.2001
Amiga Exotica (ANF) Amiga Exotica Update
This section provides complete unmodified rips with full credits for all Amiga game sound tracks regardless of format. Unlike other collections available elsewhere on the internet, UnExoticA's archive hasn't been defaced with rip credits, which often replace comments left by the original composer.

Huge thanks to all the people who have worked hard to make this section. Full credits for the area can be read on its Main Page. At the time of writing the area contains 3440 files packed into 615 archives. That's 269 different composers! Uncompressed there is currently 212 Megabytes of music! (ps) (Translation: sk)

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22.Oct.2001
WHDLoad

Installer: New packages for WHDLoad
WHDLoad gives you the possibility to install floppy-based games onto your harddisc. The following new or updated versions are available:

21.10.01 new: Night Breed (Ocean) done by Bored Seal
21.10.01 fixed: Torvak the Warrior (Core Design) install script debugged
21.10.01 new: Barbarian (Psygnosis) done by CFOU!
20.10.01 improved: Thunder Jaws (Tengen/Domark) various changes
20.10.01 fixed: Doofus (Prestige Software) highscore fixed
20.10.01 fixed: Hudson Hawk (Ocean) no more problems on 68060
18.10.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) supports another version
17.10.01 new: Megatwins (US Gold/SEGA) done by JOTD
17.10.01 improved: Marble Madness () new icon (Info,Image)
17.10.01 new: Geisha (Coktail Vision) done by CFOU!
17.10.01 new: Space Ball (Rainbow Arts) done by CFOU!
17.10.01 new: F1 Tornado (Zeppelin/Quex Development) done by Bored Seal
17.10.01 new: Dark Fusion (Esprit Software/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
17.10.01 new: Battle Storm (Titus) done by CFOU!

(ps) (Translation: sk)

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22.Oct.2001
Suite101 / John Chandler John Chandler: AROS: Native AmigaOS For Your PC
John Chandler is dealing with AROS the native AmigaOS for PC in his current article, published at suite101. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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22.Oct.2001
Apex Designs Game: Payback Update 5, new demo and map-update
Update 5, updated maps and a new demo of Payback are now available for download. Update 5 fixes all bugs reported since the release of update 4. If you still have some problems, please have a look at the FAQ. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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22.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner H&P won't leave the Amiga market
Markus Nerding (Manager of H&P) wrote:
"There was a rumour at amiga.org saying that we would leave the Amiga market. This is not only complete nonsens but even hard to believe with reagard to the recently released AmigaOS XL and Freespace. Due to the fact that amiga.org is currently down I think that it was probably hacked by someone else." (ps) (Translation: sk)

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22.Oct.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail) AmigaPage News - New pictures and fair movies
After a long time some new stuff, again. In the 'Amiga-Geschichte' (Amiga history) section some pictures have been added. Also the 'Messe-Werbung' (fair advertising) and 'Amiga-Werbung' (Amiga advertising) sections have been updated.

A few weeks ago Marcus Neervoort has put the 45 minutes Fleecy Moss log from the WoA2000 in Cologne in MP3 format at the download area. Have fun and so long until the next update. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Oct.2001
Salvador Fernandez (E-Mail) New pictures of the Pegasos mainboard with MorphOS v0.8
Under the title link you can see the latest pictures of the Pegasos mainboard taken at bplan's on last Thursday. Short after this the machine traveled to Italy to the Pianete 2001. Michael Garlich, Titan Computer, picked it up in person last Friday.

Already now various Amiga applications and PCI hardware like graphic boards, network cards, TV cards, etc. are working full featured.

Until WOA 2001 about 10 developer systems of second generation - the PEGASOS2 design - will be available. This heralds the final lap to make the first fully working 'successor' of the latest Amiga generation definite reality. The new multiprocessing sysem and MultiOS machine will be available in different configurations and variations for endusers in 1Q02.

Soon we will make new announcements about this (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Oct.2001
Alexander Fritsch (ANF) Webcam with VLabMotion, DracoMotion, Vlab or VLab-Parallel
There is an ARexx script enabling to use a VLabMotion, DracoMotion, Vlab or VLab-Parallel as a webcam available for download under the title link. Via Arexx a picture get's taken within Movieshop which then will be exported. After that this pictures will be loaded into ADPro where it get's scaled and date and time added to it. If a VLab is used the VLab-ADPro loader will be utilized. The picutre get's uploaded to the FTP server using "PutClient" (Aminet). The script is capable of setting MiamiDX online and offline automatically, if desired. Moreover it is possible to save all of the pictures taken. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Oct.2001
Amiga Future AMIGA 2001: Provisional exhibitors list
The editors board of the Amiga Future is busy in creating a preliminary report about the Amiga show in Cologne (17.-18. Nov.) and published a provisional exhibitors list under the title link. Up to now about 20 companies or grous approved to attend the show. (sd)

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21.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF) amiNET.GUI: 'Message of the day' via WAP cell phone
The Aminet's "Message of the day" now also can be read using a WAP capable cell phone. The URL is: http://www.aminet-gui.net/wap/. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future HTML: Preprocessor HSC V0.919
After a longe period of time a new version of the HTML preprocessor 'HCS' (HTML Sucks Completely) was released. To make this development of the tool previously programmed by Thomas Aglassinger is now being done by Matthias Bethke.

This preliminary version fixes some bugs and comes with new featrues.

Among other things HSC supports macros, qualified requests and expressions. The elder support page gives you a closer overview.

This version was released as source-only which should compile on all systems previously supported by HSC.

Download: hsc-source.tar.bz2 (376K) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future Mailer: Simplemail mailing list on new server
Due to intensive spams the mailing list regarding the e-mail client 'Simplemail' has been moved to freelist.org.

You can subscribe to this list by sending an e-mail to simplemail-usr-request@freelists.org. The archive is available via http://www.freelists.org/archives/simplemail-usr/.

More information about this list are available under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future Database: MySqld V4.0.0 (Alpha)
On 18. October 2001 version 4.0.0 of the MySqld archive for Amigas with 68040 CPU was released on the 'Da SixK Port Page'.

Version 4 is about a definite enhanced version of this databench allowing to implement previously missing features like requests within requests.

This version was not entirely tested by the MySQL team yet, what makes it alpha status.

As a first new feature one can test union-queries, which work good.

With 'InnoDb' a new format was added, but which does not work in the Amiga version yet and therefore is disabled in the startmysqld script. Who is able to find a way to use this feature on the Amiga might contact sixk@ifrance.com.

Who would like to use special fonts, just have a look at the startmysqld script and the mysql:languages/charsets/ directory.

More information about the MySQL version 4.0.0 released on 15. October are to find at www.mysql.com.

Download: MySqld-4.0.0-Alpha.lzx (sd) (Translation: mj)

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21.Oct.2001
CodePoet

Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.17 R3 - private beta-test
Version 0.8.17 release 3 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' currently is in private beta-tests. So this version is not yet available for download. The following has changed since the prior version:

FIXED: No longer crashes in windowed-mode on XP Themed-view.
FIXED: 68020+ bitfield instruction fix (stuck doors in Dungeon Master AGA)
FIXED: Fix garbage display on Venus the Flytrap and Nightbreed Interactive Movie. (Toni Wilen)
FIXED: Trying to delete a non-empty directory will now properly return ERROR_DIRECTORY_NOT_EMPTY. (Bernd Roesch)
FIXED: Increased the range of addresses checked for memory-mapping, in order to make JIT "direct" mode work on more systems.
FIXED: Selecting a Picasso96 8-bit mode in windowed-mode would complain about not matching your desktop's depth, and switch to full-screen. (Reported by Michael at Cloanto)
FIXED: Installer won't install when WinUAE is already running.
ADDED: AHI driver support. (Bernd Roesch)
ADDED: Option to disable use of overlays completely.
ADDED: Jose's modifications to the sound routines and GUI. (Jose Gil) NOTE: Read doc called "SoundSyncro Readme.rtf"
CHANGED: Floppy-disk emulation, including .FDI support. (Toni Wilen)

(sd)

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21.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News Aminet-CD #45
Aminet CD 45, dated October 2001, contains almost 1 Gigabyte of (uncompressed) software in over 800 archives. Since the release of Aminet 44 numerous new software has appeared. The current edition includes the full Amiga Future Website. Read more (sd)

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21.Oct.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)

Virus Help Denmark: Antivirus poll 2001
Under the title link Virus Help Denmark ask "Who has done the most for the Amiga Antivirus scene in 2001 ?".

Until 31. December 2001 one can vote regarding this on the above page. The winner of this poll will receive about 100 USD which VHT drawed from antivirus disk sales (0.25 USD profit per disk). With your own vote you are possible to decide who will win that money.

The nominees are:

Alex van Viel - VirusChecker II
Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor
Zeeball - Safe
Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ
Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - Xvs.library
VT-Schutz - Heiner Schneegold

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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future

Tales of Tamar: Videos of the LARP I, the Ankou band
Around the 22nd of September the first LARP for 'Tales of Tamar' took place. Now, on the 19th of October a video of that meeting was published showing the beautifull landscape of the LARP area, some battles, the live in the tavern, and much more.

The video was done by Virtual Dimension, they made it up from several tapes. From their server the video is available for download in MPEG format at three different sizes.

On the LARP evenings an medieval band called 'Ankou' made music plenteously and thus cared for the proper ambience. Special was that the bard of the band made it to sing free-style for seven minutes. This piece of music was ripped off the video and is available for download as MP3 on the Tamar servers.

Larp I MPEG-Video (klein) (4.4M)
Larp I MPEG-Video (mittel) (20M)
Larp I MPEG-Video (groß) (47M)
MP3-Musiktrack: Ankou (vom Larp I), stereo, 128kbit (7.5M)

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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Page Event: Short report about the Pianeta 2001
There were some highlights to sight on the Pianeta Amiga 2001. Haage&Partner presented AmigaOS XL running on an 1.4GHz Athlon. The Amiga software compatibility is said to be very good. For example there were MooVID playing two movies in two windows at the same time.

VirtualWorks showed both of the new PCI solutions G-REX4000D and Mediator 4000 PCI in a show-case, but not working.

An absolute innovation was presented at the booth of Titan Computer where one was able to gaze at Candy Factory Pro running on the Pegasos system by bplan GmbH with MorphOS version 0.8.

Furthermore a new Italian print magazine called Bitplane and done by Nicola Morcutti was presented. This magazine is planned to be published bimonthly including a CD and will be available to subscribers only.

Other exhibitors are Darkage Software, Digital Equipment, AGI, Il Piccolo Emporio, and Mirko Cipolla (CIP060) who presented an A1200 with MediatorPCI, Voodoo, SoundBlaster, and TV card. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Oct.2001
CUCUG CUCUG: Status Register October 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. Dealt are current and important information regarding Amiga, Macintosh and PC as well as the computer industry. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF) Updates at the Amiga-Society
Again there are several new entries in the software area, and in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware had several articles been translated. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Ralph aka Elvis (ANF) Game: new Angband compiles for Amiga
EyAngband 0.3.5
Eytan Zweig released a new version of EyAngband that solves the known problems in the last release and introduces a new birth-screen taken from ZAngband and the ability to use a dead character as template for a new one. It's available as source code, Windows version, Amiga version (by Bablos), PPC, and 68k Mac version (by "Gileba").

Amiga ports
Apart from the already mentioned EyAngband 0.3.5 port Bablos also compiled Angband 2.9.3 and Gumband 2.1.8a for the Amiga. (ps)

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20.Oct.2001
Timo Kloss (email) Inutilis news: OctaMED plug-in for Inga
The first plug-in for Inga is now available and can be downloaded from the homepage. With this it is possible to start four-channel-songs created with OctaMED within an Inga adventure. So this is meaningful for all adventures that aren't supposed to be released on CD. In addition for the plug-in is the medplayer.library (v6) needed!

Inga is an engine for graphics adventures with a developer package on sales. Detailed information on the homepage. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Sebastian Beloch (ANF) CyberGraphX v4.2 pre11 released
New drivers for the BlizzardVisionPPC and the CyberStormPPC make it possible to work correctly with the new flash version from 17. October. A new cgxsystem.lib is included with a new option (NOMOUSERATIO env). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Jürgen Lange (ANF) Software compatibility list for Amiga OS XL revised
On 19.10. got the software compatibility list for Amiga OS XL updated. Shapeshifter runs on Amithlon, some games under Amiga XL. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)

amiga-topcool is back
After a longer period of "thinking" the Amiga print magazine makes its presence felt again: colored and round. That means, from the autumn issue on will the amiga-topcool be released as CD-ROM rather than a print magazine. This can be expected by the subscribers:

A colored layout that's orientated along the print layout but readable in HTML format.
More pages as we aren't depending on printing costs anymore.
The possibility to advertise one's Amiga club to the max - 10 MB memory is space available for free for every Amiga club.
The latest PD software as well as demo versions.

How many times the amiga-topcool will be issued in the future depends on the drive of the number of free-lance worker that will hopefully grow in the future. The CD will be subdivided as follows:

10 HTML pages up-to-date (interviews, ticker, press releases)
10 HTML pages application (previews, news, reviews, topic)
10 HTML pages game and fun (previews, news, reviews, Classic reviews, cheats)
10 HTML pages community (Amiga club list - with 10 MB memory space per club, retailer list - with web appearances on CD, readers reactions, etc.)
software (PD, demos, maybe commercial full versions, too)

Further information will follow in the next days on our Internet site that will get a new look, too. The price of the CD is 10,- DM (including packing). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Chris Hodges (ANF) Full text Aminet search engine in alpha test
Some hours ago I've completed a somewhat finished version of my Aminet full text search engine. For now you find it on my local Amiga 4000 under the URL http://213.196.87.182/ (title link).

Full text means that the appr. 100 MB of the 70000 readme files will be searched through, too. Normally these search request need less than 2 seconds to be answered.

I'd like you to test it and give me suggestions for improvements asap. Happy alpha testing! (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Mikey C (ANF)

Event: World of Amiga South East
So are we! On Saturday 3rd of November 2001 the World of Amiga Southeast show is taking place at Poplars Hall, Shenfield, Essex, UK.
This is the ideal opportunity for you to come along and show all those who that think the Amiga market is dead where they can shove it!

We have worked tirelessly to bring you some of the biggest names in the Amiga Industry to World of Amiga Southeast 2001

Amiga, Elbox, Eyetech, Cloanto, & Pagan Games are amongst those who are attending the show ready to see in the new era of Amiga Computing with the eminent launch of the AmigaOne/SharkPPC Zico Spec Machines and beyond. James Daniels, Paul Burkey and Fleecy Moss are just some of the Amiga Celebes will be in attendance at WoA Southeast.

However, all our hard work will be for nothing if we have a poor turnout.

We need every one to come along and show the world that we want an alternative to the dull and bloated OS that has afflicted the masses in the computing world.
Sick and tired of all the doom and gloom in the Amiga market?
In short we want a new Amiga, and just because an Amiga Magazine shuts down, it doesn't mean that the existing Amiga dealers have suddenly ceased to exist or have gone elsewhere.
So turn up to WOA Southeast and support Amiga, Fore-Matt Home Computing, Weird Science, Stellar Dreams, Elbox, Clubbed Magazine, Cloanto, Eyetech, 100%Amiga, VP, and many more by coming along on the day.
Many retailers need shows like WoA Southeast to keep their commitment and businesses going until the next generation Amiga takes off.

Let's make the doom mongers eat a big shitcake, turn up and do us proud!

For more details on advance ticket ordering, full list of exhibitors, discussion forums and how to get there please visit http://www.worldofamiga.com

Michael Carrillo (aka Mikey C)
World of Amiga Southeast, Exhibitor, Media and Public Relations.

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20.Oct.2001
eisblock (ANF) DiCaTool V0.8
All owners of serial digital cams who want to use their cams as webcam with their Amiga can download the program DiCaTool during the weekend from my Apache server (title link). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
CD³²-Allianz (ANF) Takeover of the CD³²Outside successful!
I may all those who are waiting for new issues of the "CD³² Outside" tell that the takeover by Henning Schlautmann had been successful. From 01.11.2001 on will now Henning Schlautmann continue the "CD³² Outside" resp. maintain. Address questions, critics and suggestions concerning the "CD³² Outside" please to him. The 4. issue of the "CD³² Outside" therefore has to be released until 01.02.2002! (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email) Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS special price
Today it's the last time you have the possibility to preorder the route planner AmiATLAS 6 for a unique special price at the Amiga Arena. An "update special price" for registered users of version 5 is of course available, too. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Falke 34 (ANF) CybergraphX V4.3 beta for G-Rex
Version 4.3 beta of the graphics card driver software CyberGraphX for G-Rex is available for download. This version contains a new cgxsystem.lib and the Voodoo as well as the Permedia2 drivers were updated. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Stéphane Campan (email)

Datatypes: new versions by Oliver Roberts
Oliver Roberts has updated his Warp datatypes. Since yesterday are the following versions available for download:

WarpJPEG.datatype 44.25 - JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
WarpPNG.datatype 44.21 - PNG picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
WarpTIFF.datatype 44.5 - TIFF picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
WarpBMP.datatype 44.6 - BMP picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
WarpPSD.datatype 44.3 - Adobe Photoshop® picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)

All datatypes are freeware and serve for displaying different kinds of data in different viewer programs. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Oct.2001
Stéphane Campan (e-mail) Print magazine: Amiga Active Magazine Announces Major Changes
Fri 19 Oct Amiga Active Magazine Announces Major Changes
Amiga Active, the world's leading Amiga magazine, is undergoing significant changes to meet the challenges of a changed marketplace. With the first consumer version of the next generation Amiga environment, the AmigaDE player, finally available to the public, Amiga have stepped into the future, and Amiga Active magazine is following suit.

Issue 26 of Amiga Active magazine will be released on the 25th of October. This issue will contain the normal mix of forward-looking and "Classic Amiga" content, including the most detailed preview of the Amiga DE to date, revealing for the first time much of what is actually going into the next-generation Operating Environment which Amiga are building on top of the binary-portable intent JTE (Java Technology Edition) multimedia engine from Tao Group. This will be the last time that Amiga's journey into the next generation will be a matter of previews and predictions. The next generation has arrived.

Amiga Active has been preparing for this from the very beginning. Since the very first issue we have been covering the revolution taking place in computing, and over recent months our coverage has increased through our ever-expanding "Next Generation" section. We are now taking the magazine itself into the next stage with a change in focus, and a change in name - to digital.
Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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19.Oct.2001
Matthew Kille (ANF)

Zeoneo website launched
The Zeoneo website is now online with details of its two new releases for AmigaDE: Convex and Planet Zed.

Until now, Zeoneo was a company that relatively few people knew about. Indeed, it may suprise many people to know that we have been working behind the scenes for well over a year now. In that time, experience and understanding of the systems that make up AmigaDE has been gained and used to develop our first two PDA-targetted titles.

Convex is an addictive puzzle game where the objective of each of the 25 levels is to remove all the marbles.

Planet Zed is a vertical scroll shoot 'em up game that borrows many of its features from the classic Bitmap Brothers game Xenon2.

Further information and screenshots of these products is available on the website. www.zeoneo.com (ps) (Translation: rh)

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19.Oct.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail) New downloads at the NARR site
At the NARR site you can download a colorful imageset in GlowIcon style for MUIVideo (was released some time ago for the Amiga Arena).

In addition to some other small changes on my site, there's also a new skin (SolarCalc) for CoolCALC which was made by Klaus Licha. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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19.Oct.2001
Andreas Schmidt (ANF) 4,000,000th visitor :-)
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! You've just had your 4,000,000th visitor, that's me. With the help of a printout made with Netscape (PS file) I can prove it. Will there be a price? :-)

Comment from the team:
We currently have no prices, but maybe a company donates something :-). (ps) (Translation: rh)

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19.Oct.2001
Scott Pistorino (ANF) WWW.AmigaSource.com - Your NEW source for Amiga information
For your viewing pleasure. A new source of Amiga information has been created. After months of hard work www.AmigaSource.com has finally been released to the Amiga community. With 500 links and many more still yet to come this I hope this will be of much use to you all.
Thanks. Scott Pistorino (ps) (Translation: rh)

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19.Oct.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF) Sharp announces developer version of their SL5000 PDA for November
Sharp has announced the developer version of their SL5000 PDAs for November
In the article at the title link there is some concrete information about the operating system of the PDA for the first time. The PDA will use besides the already known Embedix Linux kernel by Lineo Qt embedded and the QT Palmtop Environment by Trolltech as well as the browser Opera. Further, a Java VM is integrated.

The article does not mention who provides the JVM. Probably TAO's Java VM won't be used but rather the Jeode Java VM by Insignia, at least this is mentioned on the Sharp developer page for the PDA. Then the Sharp PDA would use the system of the partners Lineo - Trolltech - Insignia - Opera already announced on the Lineo page.
Original article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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18.Oct.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)

Eyetech: Initial impressions of the design case for AmigaOne
Eyetech has released first impressions of the design case for the AmigaOne, exclusively developed for Eyetech by the French industry designers Naya.

Some of Naya's employees are still active Amigans who seem to have contacted Ben Yoris (Hyperion) who then arranged contact with Eyetech. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Oct.2001
Stéphane Campan (E-Mail) XTeam Software Solution: Geometry Studio Demo
In the section download is present a preview of Geometry Studio (need a mpeg player). (ps)

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18.Oct.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail) Hyperion announce Haage & Partner to distribute "Freespace: The Great War"
18-October-2001: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce that Haage&Partner will act as Publisher of the Amiga conversion of "Freespace, The Great War".

The eagerly awaited game which was originally developed by Volition and published by Interplay, is arguably the best space-combat simulator ever to grace the Amiga platform and offers an unparalleled mix of top-notch graphics, plot and gameplay.

Freespace will run on any PPC equipped Amiga with at least 64 MB of memory or a 68060 based Amiga with 3D accelerator (e.g. Voodoo 3, Permedia 2).

More information can be found at freespace.haage-partner.de.

Freespace can already be pre-ordered from the H&P online store at www.amiga-shop.de .

Users who pro-order their copy of Freespace will receive their copy before anyone else. (ps)

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18.Oct.2001
Paul Qureshi (ANF) AmiMPC - Amiga in-car MP3 Player
The AmiMPC website is now available at: http://amimpc.world3.net. Check out the Amiga in-car MP3 player based on an A1200 and MAS Player Pro! (ps)

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18.Oct.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF) DCE: GREX 4000D shipping from today
From today the GREX 4000D is in stock and available. Today the first boards have been delivered to our distributor Vesalia Computer. The boards also are being offered by Virtualworks on the Pianeta 2001 in Empoli, Italy. Moreover we have created a new driver pack for free use (download: grexdriver2_2.lzh).

To make our board PCI compatible with the Pegasos board the CyberPCI library version 2.2 is available now (download: flash_20011012.lha). This new flash for the first time enables Voodoo3 users to display the 15KHz start screen directly on the Voodoo card after system start. For this new graphic boards drivers and new 68060 libraries are required and made available (download: GREX68K_libraryV2_2.lha).

Also new is the graphic board driver for the SIS 6326 VGA card supporting both of the RAM variants of this card. For sound support we are offering drivers for the approved Terratec sound cards PCI 128 and PCI 512. Compatible cards with the chip sets ESS SOLO ONE (PCI 128) as well as Fortem edia 801 (PCI 512) can be used, too. Both of the drivers support use with AHI. All of the drivers will be available for download from tomorrow. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)

Digital Almanac III - update announcement
A new update for the Amiga astronomy program "Digital Almanac III" version 4.2 can be expected bevore long. A certain release date was not determined, yet.

New features:

Enhanced formula for the moon's brightness.
The DA screen now is puclic (public screen).
The Bayer/Flamsteed database has been enhanced.
Online information of several hundreds of stars!
Selection of different Internet sites for constellation descriptions via context menu in the star window.

Bugfixes:

Small bug in the accuracy matrix fixed (but did not affect due to low values).
URLs in the planet window called wrong Internet sites.
When opening a project file on program start (CLI or WB) accidently a screen mode request was done.

If Harald Frank will agree and there will be time enough DA III perhaps will be presented running on the new Amithlon/AmigaXL on the Amiga meeting of the Amiga-Freunde-Pfalz in Mutterstadt, Germany, on 19. Oktober to show the new emulator's performance by an scientific program. But this cannot be guaranteed at this time and cannot be checked before the meeting. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Oct.2001
T-Online Computer Virus warning for Windows users: New virus "Anthrax-Info" (update)
»According to the US software company Kaspersky Labs a new e-mail worm "Anthrax-Info" appeared on Tuesday abusing the fact that Amerikan's are afraid of anthrax infection these a days, but did not do any damage up to now. «

Complete article see title link (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)

Update 18. October 2001:
This link for our English speaking readers to find information about this new worm: www.kaspersky.com (mj)

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18.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: Interview with Rafal Kaczmarczyk (developer of XBaze)
Recently XBaze version 7 was released being a very flexible database with an easy field and display editor. The Amiga Arena talked to the developer Rafal Kaczmarczyk. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Oct.2001
Tao Group Tao Group establish subsidary in Japan
»Tokyo, Japan, 17th October 2001: UK-based Tao Group today announces the establishment of its new subsidiary, Tao Japan K.K, headquartered in Tokyo. It will be responsible for continuing the growth that Tao's Japanese business has already enjoyed. It will also work closely with both Tao's partners and the Open Contents Platform Association (OCPA) - the open standards body using Tao's 'intent®' software platform as a core component for home and mobile connected appliances.«
Complete article see title link. (ps)

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17.Oct.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail) Amiga Future: Homepage is being updated again
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17.Oct.2001
XBaze Database: XBaze V7.01
On 14th of October 2001 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.01 of the database called 'XBaze'. In this version a bug of the popup-menu in the view-editor has been fixed.

Download:
2b_XBaze-7.lha (539 KB) - Full archive
2b_XBaze-7.01-upd.lha (113 KB) - Update of V7
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
WHDLoad

Installer: New packets for WHDLoad (until 16.10.2001)
Games which have been previously made for disks can be now installed to harddrive with the help of WHDLoad. The following packets have been added or updated:

16.10.01 new: Synthesis (Underground) done by Psygore
16.10.01 new: Torvak the Warrior (Core Design) done by CFOU!
16.10.01 new: Thunder Jaws (Tengen/Domark) done by CFOU!
16.10.01 new: Side Winder (Arcadia Software) done by CFOU!
16.10.01 new: Scramble Spirits (Grandslam/Teque) done by Bored Seal
16.10.01 improved: Project X (Team 17) automatic load/save highscores
16.10.01 new: Joyride (Phenomena) done by Psygore
16.10.01 new: Peter Beardsley's International Football (Teque/Grandslam) done by Codetapper
16.10.01 fixed: Navy Seals (Ocean) graphics problem fixed
16.10.01 fixed: Jumping Jack Son (Infrogrames) highscores and some gfx fixed
16.10.01 new: Barbarian 2 (Psygnosis/Pandemonium) done by CFOU!
16.10.01 new: Banshee (Core Design) done by JOTD
16.10.01 new: The Last Sun Demo (Ackerlight) done by Psygore
10.10.01 new: Vindicators (Tengen/Domark) done by CFOU!
10.10.01 new: Vigilante (US Gold/Emerald Software) done by CFOU!
09.10.01 improved: Zool (Gremlin) all disk versions supported too

(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
SonicPulse Music: SoundFX News
Stefan Kost writes: "There have not been information for a long time so I want to make up for it. Currently I rewrite a lot of code and I fix bugs. Without it a version 5 would be impossible. There will also be some nice new features." (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Golem Golem: IBM introduces 1 GHz PowerPC-processor
»Power consumption lowered at 50 percent, efficiency incresed at 30 percent
At the microprocessor forum in California IBM has introduced its previously fastest PowerPC-processor called PowerPC 750FX. It is supossed to have a clock rate up to 1 GHz and for the first time is supoosed to unify copper cable, Silicon-on-Insulator-(SoI-) and low-k-dialectric-technologies in one chip.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article.

Another link to this topic:
Heise: PowerPC G3 with 1 GHz
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Jörg Brenner (ANF)

Lexsite: New update of hardware-website
Today Lexsite hase been updated. The following things have been added:

Description, photos and gallery-pictures of

Commodore A1060 Sidecar (XT-emulator for A1000)
Kupke Golem HD 3000 (ST-506-controller for Zorro II)
Datel Action Replay III A2000 (Freezer)

Photos and gallery-pictures of

GVP EGS 28/24 Spectrum (RTG-graphic adapter)
Village Tronic Picasso II (RTG-graphic adapter)
X-Pert Merlin (RTG-graphic adapter)
HK-Computer Vector Connection (interface adapter)
RBM IOBlix (interface adapter)

Description of

ArMax oMniBus (RTG-graphic adapter)

In addition all extensions which are supported by Linux and/or NetBSD have got a corresponding comment. By the way we are still looking for Amiga magazines from 1987 to 1993 especially from England and USA - we would be pleased if some poeple could give support to us. Generally scans of the according magazines are sufficient. Please contact us before sending it.

Last but not least: Thanks a lot to all which have sent us pictures of extensions! (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News Dave Haynie's Garage Sale
According to Czech Amiga NewsDave Haynie, Chief Technology Officer, Merlancia Industries (formerly working at Commodore), offers several Amiga hardware for sale under the title link. Different prototypes also belong to it: PIOS One-Board, A3000+-Board and Amiga-Gemini (Multiprozessor-Amiga based on A3000). (sd)

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17.Oct.2001
Amiga Inc. AmigaDE Shop: New products
In the AmigaDE shop two new products can be found called 'BoXiKoN' and 'Solitaire Pulsar'. 'BoXiKoN' is a Tetris-clone and 'Solitaire Pulsar' is a packet of ten different Solitaire-variants. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
H. Ogino (ANF) Japan Amiga User Group's (JAUG) homepage finished
JAPAN AMIGA USER GROUP'S (JAUG) homepage has been finished today. Here you can find everything about Amiga in Japan. "Amiga history in Japan", "Amiga softwares in Japan", "Amiga games in Japan", "Amiga power users now in Japan" as well as "Say it in Japanese", "Japanese culture", etc. On "Event" page JAUG is planning to have event titled "simultanous interpret chat" between Japanese Amiga users and non-Japanese Amiga users. This is the first time project worldwidely. Please visit the homepage and enjoy Japan! (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)

Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9433
Richard H. Poser has published beta version 0.9433 of the AIM-messenger AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with the America Online Instant-Messenger (AIM-service). It follows an extract of the history from where you can get the changes which have been made:

Fixed bug, I hope, having to do with some URLs containing the '&' replacement for '&'
Still working on new stuff in internal Alpha...

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

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17.Oct.2001
Jörn-Erik Burkert (E-Mail) Amiga magazine: Article of issues 9 and 10 online
On the website some readings of the issues 9/2001 and 10/2001 are online. Among other things you can read the full MySQL-course and a workshop for programming sound. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Fun Time World AMIGA 2001: Ticket advance-booking
From 17th to 18th of November 2001 the AMIGA 2001 will take place in MediaPark 6 in Cologne. From now on until 5th of November 2001 you can order your ticket in advance for this event under http://www.amiga-messe.de/kartenverkauf-d.html. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)

Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD V1.06
The MM CD 1.06 update for registered users of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been made available by ELBOX Computer.

The update includes the new TV card driver version:

tv.library ver.1.3
TV ver.1.2

Additionally, the driver supports TV backdrop functionality. See more: http://www.elbox.com/news_01_10_16.html.

Other driver updates in the MM CD UP1.06:

FastEthernet.device ver.1.1
MediatorNET.device ver.2.2

Important:
As the interest of programmers is really high, who would like to prepare graphic interfaces working with our TV drivers, we have decided to make available the appropriate tv.library developer's documentation.

The tv.library documentation is enclosed in the Mediator Multimedia CD UP1.06 in the DEV_TV drawer.

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department (sd) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Cyborg (ANF) Instant Messenger: CIM V1.05 now with MultiUserChat
With the Instant Messenger it is now possible to have an encoded MultiUserChat together with PGP-support of CIM. Since the last version the expected rework of the GUI has been made.

As usual the updates can be found on the Amiga Security page which you can access over the title link. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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16.Oct.2001
ANN Programming: ARexx- and AWNPipe tutorials
Bruce Steers has released tutorials for ARexx and AWNPipe on his homepage. The ARexx tutorial introduces you to the basics of ARexx. The AWNPipe tutorial describes how to use 'AWNPipe', with which GUIs and other stuff can be created. What makes AWNPipe special is the possibility to use it with any programming language offering read/write operations.

JavaScript is required to dispaly the page. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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16.Oct.2001
Jürgen Lange (ANF) Amithlon/AmigaXL: Compatibility list and release date
On 15. October 2001 Haage & Partner Computer GmbH have released a compatibility list for Amithlon and Amiga XL for QNX on thier website.

Furthermore it is being announced that the emulator package will start shipping within this week.

There will be an official presentation this weekend on the Pianeta 2001 in Italy. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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16.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF) Elbox: TV as background
Elbox Computer is pleased to inform that Amiga with the Mediator busboard is from now on the first hardware, in which displaying the actual and moving at full speed real TV broadcasting picture in the backdrop has become possible.

Mediator PCI is now the only PCI busboard for Amiga, whose users may use TV cards. Apart from this fact, Mediator PCI is also a pathfinder for new quality standards in the way PCI TV cards are used in computers.

Displaying the full-quality TV picture with absolutely 100% system performance maintained (irrespective whether you use a turbo card with PPC/68060 or with 68030) is now possible with the special method of storing code for the video capturing processor.

The fast SDRAM/SGRAM memory of graphic cards, to which the TV card sends the digitalised television picture is used in Mediator PCI also to store program for the TV-card video and audio capture processor. This means that none of the operations related to generating the picture requires any operation outside the PCI bus.

Therefore, performance of TV cards is significantly enhanced when compared against other computers with PCI TV cards, in which the video capture processors must take their code from the computer's main memory.

Inventing this method of co-operation between TV cards and graphic cards has become possible due to the effort of our in-house team of programmers, who have written drivers for both graphic and TV cards.

Software for TV cards for Mediator, which now supports as many as 50 of the most popular PCI TV cards, enables a series of different methods of displaying television image.

The basic method is to display the image in the window of the pre-set size from the range of 96x72 to 768x576. Any size of window may be freely scalable at any time. Scaling the TV picture is executed in real time with the PCI graphic card's hardware.

When the TV image is displayed as a backdrop, the user may freely define the colour, which will be automatically replaced by the graphic card with the moving television image.

The enclosed screenshots show television picture samples in Amiga with Mediator PCI.

Software for TV cards in Mediator enables a number of other additional functions, which the TV card may perform.

For example: managing the radio tuner integrated with the card or using the TV card as a scandoubler / flickerfixer for displaying the AGA-generated image in the PCI graphic card screen.

The software to enable operation of any supported TV card in the backdrop mode will be made available today to all the registered users of the Mediator Multimedia CD package as an update, free of any charge.

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department (sd)

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15.Oct.2001
Virus Help Denmark

Virus Help Denmark: VirusExecutor V2.22
There is a new version (2.22) of 'VirusExecutor' available. This version contains the following bugfixes:

Fixed bug when renaming VirusExecutor. No more modified error.
If you have unknown patches, the patch window pops up twice at startup. Fixed.
If you have an unknown patch and then run a program with a known patch, the patch window pops up with the same unknown patches. No need for that. Fixed.
Got some complaint about the flashy check box around the clock when checking memory/patches. Fixed.
Added "real" name to Shell programs in 'Show tasks'. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the code.
Fixed bug in dos.library LVO-names.
Added czech catalog. Thanks to Roman Brychta.
Fixed small bug in the install script.
Added 'Write to log file'-flag to the preferences.
Added an Iconify option to the project menu. See also the preferences if you want to iconify at startup.
Fixed Enforcer hit when KickTagPtr was zero. Thanks to Joerg Riemer for finding this hit.
Added recog for hidden executable files inside installer scripts.
Added hunk structure check of VirusExecutor.
Fixed hit in the memory monitor when RAM has no name. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for finding this hit.
If the xvs.libray somehow has been disabled, VE will tell you so. Thanks to Zeeball for this tip.

System requirements:

AmigaOS V2.04+
reqtools.library V38.11+
xvs.library V33.13+
xfdmaster.library V38.6+

Download: VirusExecutor.lha (298K), Readme (sd) (Translation: sk)

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15.Oct.2001
Housey (ANF) Music: New OctaMED- and additional music forums
New OctaMED forum at aBSTRaCTaSS as well as many other music production related forums. Please register and give support. We would also like to add more Amiga music related forums if the interest was shown. (sd) (Translation: sk)

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15.Oct.2001
Alex Goedert

Draco: Interest in PPC and Grafikkarte?
Alex Goedert wrote:

Hello!

I am currently making some inquiries about how much you out there are interested in a new fast, high-resolution graphic board and/or a faster CPU-addon-card with a UW-SCSI controller for the DRACO-system.

A hardware developer must have some strong evidences that his developments will be bought after the release. I think that everyone knows that such a development is expensive and time consuming.

I would like to please everyone who is interested in these devices to mail me.

Please do not discuss if it is worth it.

Furthermore the follwing would be a great help:

wiring of the DRACO-tower or DRACO-cube
Volunteers that make theire DRACO-systems available for hardware-development
People able to give some programming aid

Thanks a lot

Alex (sd)

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15.Oct.2001
Martin Blom (Geekgadgets-ML) Compiler: gcc-Crosscompiler für AmigaOS und MorphOS (update)
Martin Blom has released an initial version of a cross development suite for AmigaOS (68k) and MorphOS (PPC) running on Linux and created under RedHat Linux 7.1, but should also run on other Linux distributions. Beside of the compiler tools like 'fd2inline' and 'textinfo' are also contained. The adapted source codes are said to be released after about one week.

The several packets and more information are available by following the title link.

Update 18. October 2001
Displaced pior text due to that was not matching the content of the German message. (mj) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News Project for a better datatypes system
Martin Machiels is planning a project to develop an enhanced datatypes system. Beside of other things the current one misses streaming support. Furthermore other features are missing in the library as well as in Multiview.

Beside of the enhancements to the basic system new datatypes (read and write) for currently not supported formats as well as for new formats like MPEG-4 shall be developed, too.

The new system should be backwards compatible and run on AmigaOS V3.x, V4.x, MorphOS, AROS, and Amithlon. The datatypes.library of the AROS project might be a starting point.

Regarding organization Machiels has a project at Sourceforge in mind.

People interested to participate in this project might contact Martin Machiels via e-mail: darklite@beer.com. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Virus Help Denmark: Virus Help Denmark: xvs.Library V33.35
On 12. October 2001 Jan Erik Olausen has released version 33.35 of the virus checker library 'xvs'. Recognition of the Bobek2 virus installer from the 'CoolBall.lha' archive was added.

The xvs.library contains the recognition code to remove viruses previously part of VirusZ. The library was developed by George Hörmann and currently Jan Erik Olausen cares for it.

Download: xvslibrary.lha (58K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
AmigaArt Magazine: Obligement #29
Issue #29 of the French online magazine 'Obligement' is available for download.

This issue contains current Amiga news, interviews with Richard Fhager (author of 'BabeAnoid'), and Jean-Jacques Boulet (leader of the 'Amiga Center'), a report about the 'Alchimie Meeting 2001', tests of Photogenics 5 and the Repulse sound card, an article about ADSL, and many other articles more.

This magazine utilizes a special program to display the texts which runs on Amigas with AGA or graphics board.

Download: obligement29.lha (888K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News ExoticA: SID collection updated and new logo
On 13. October 2001 the ExoticA website was updated. This site deals with the musical capabilities and the history of the Amiga.

ExoticA's Mirror, the 'High Voltage SID Collection' was updated to version 43. This collection now contains 16.986 pieces of C64-music.

Per HTML-Interface these are available for download in a big tar.gzip archive (HVSC.tar.gz).

What has changed in this archive can be taken from the announcement text. Detailed information about the changes are part of the update-logs in the DOCUMENTS directory.

There is a new logo by Yon Iris on the start page of ExoticA, which strongly differs in style from the previous one.

If other artists also would like to see their works on this start page please, contact buzz for further information. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: 'MUIVideo' V2.40 full version
In cooperation with Christoph Kirsch the Amiga Arena makes possible the full version of MUIVideo v2.40.

With MUIVideo you can comfortably manage video collections. MUIVideo offers a database system allowing various entries for each dataset. Beside of movie title, original title, list of characters, etc., it is also possible to rate the movies.

MUIVideo has very good printing features and an easy to use GUI. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Richard Kapp (ANF) NARR Website: New Downloads and G4C-Tutorial
Richard Kapp wrote:
On my NARR website again some things have happened:

Beside of some new sections and an enhanced design the download section also was updated. Among other stuff there you will find a new image-set for Tinymeter, a logo for SimpleFind, an much more.

At the wallpaper section now you will find all of the CoolOS (several times part of the Aminet charts and ratings) and other background pictures for your Workbench.

Also new is a short (German) review of the easy to learn scripting language Gui4Cli (short: G4C) with which you easily can create nice GUIs and add functions to them.

Have fun while browsing and reading! (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF) Amiga-Society: New units in Tarnblau (masking blue), graphics competition
Again there are new units in Tarnblau (masking blue) at the Schlachtfeld area.

The upcoming graphics competition will start on 21. October and last thru the end of this year. There will be detailed information during this week.

The software area also was updated. There are some new entries and more to come during this day. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Inutilis News (E-Mail)

Adventure-Engine: Inga V0.7/3
Now the update of the adventure engine 'Inga' is available for download on the website. This update contains the engine in version 0.7/3 with the following innovations:

The menu screen (quit game, save / load game, ....).
A plug-in-system for sound and music (no plug-ins available yet).
Small bugfixes with graphics output (no more blinking text scraps any more).

Inga is an engine for graphic adventures in the style of Monkey Island 3. The developer pack is available from the vendors. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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13.Oct.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF) Amiga Club Guide: PHP system and new clubs
The switching to the PHP system has been finished which eases the maintenance of the pages. Besides that the navigation through the pages has been improved and more clubs were added. (sd) (Translation: wk)

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13.Oct.2001
Pro-Linux (ANF) WWW browser: Mozilla V0.9.5 for Linux, MacOS, Windows
Version 0.9.5 of the WWW browser 'Mozilla' has been released. New in version 0.9.5 are among other things index card support (like in Opera) and a plugin for 'gesture recognition'.

For now there are no binary packages for Linux PPC, only for Linux x86, Windows and MacOS. (sd) (Translation: wk)

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13.Oct.2001
Amiga Flame Think game: 'Last In Line' by Kaliko
Kaliko is a new founded developer team that is working on several games, especially for AmigaDE and the next generation of the Amiga computers as well as for Amiga classic, Windows, Linux and other platforms.

Their first game 'Last In Line' will be released for AmigaDE compatible PDAs. This is a think game for one or two players with tactical characteristics and a strong computer opponent.

Kaliko's looking for talented people for the development of games. Contact address: info@kaliko.net.

With this has Amiga Flame updated the list of the Amiga PDA games, too. (sd) (Translation: wk)

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13.Oct.2001
see message

Amiga meeting Bad Bramstedt: Webcam, DCE, Amithlon
Some new information abot the Amiga meeting taking place right now in Bad Bramstedt:

The webcam there is now working. Going to www.amigameeting.de automatically opens a small popup window showing a new picture every minute.

Important for AWeb users: switch off the function 'suppress banner window' in the browser settings/'1 options' as it won't work otherwise.

Additionally will more pictures of the meeting be released on the homepage.

Mister Dellert from DCE arrived at around 12.15 h and just puts up two computers with G-REX PCI board. People here are already eager about the things that will be shown on these systems later.

There's also an interview with Mr. Dellert planned later that will be released, too.

Torsten Gruner, Thorsten Hansen and Jörn Plewka from KATO Development are at the meeting and show Amithlon live. The interested user may take a picture of the power and the possibilities of the AmigaOS under Amithlon on up-to-date PC hardware.

The Amithlon co-developer Thorsten Hansen, from KATO, will introduce his own developing system and is fond on answering questions by interested users.

People who want to visit the meeting taking place until Sunday midday are very welcome.

Sources:

Sven Scheele, AmigaClub Schleswig-Holstein (email)
Thorsten Mampel, 1. chairman Amiga-Club Hamburg e.V.(email)
Harald Frank, VMC (email)

(sd) (Translation: wk)

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12.Oct.2001
Don Cox (Open Amiga-ML) OSNews.com: Interview with Wouter van Oortmerssen on 'SHEEP'
On October 12th 2001 an English interview with Wouter van Oortmerssen (Amiga E, SHEEP) on the programming language 'SHEEP' was published on OSNews.com. He was interviewed by Eugenia Loli-Queru.

Oortmerssen has implemented more than 30 smaller and larger programming languages since 1987 with different focus. Among those counts for example 'Amiga E'. Currently he's working for Amiga Inc. on the language 'SHEEP'. In the interview he talks about the abilities of this language. (sd) (Translation: rh)

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12.Oct.2001
Virus Help Denmark

Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.3
On October 10th 2001 Virus Help Denmark released version 17.3 of the virus detector 'Safe' by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' recognizes viruses in the computer's RAM and removes them if this is possible. Compared to version 17.1 the following has changed:

small fixes
added WatchDog 1.1 with very unknown bug fixed and improved security.
added new versions of CHECK and COMP, now they support <CTRL>+C, so any wrong operation can be easily interrupted
added warning:

'Safe' runs on AmigaOS V2.04 and above and requires the xvs.library.

Download: Safe.lha (25K), Readme (sd) (Translation: rh)

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12.Oct.2001
amiga.org

Prometheus: prm-rtl8029 V0.24, NetMeter V1.1
Version 0.24 of the ethernet Sana-II driver 'prm-rt18029' and version 1.1 of the network monitor 'NetMeter' were released on the 'Prometheus support page'.

The new version of the prm-rtl8029 driver is a bit faster (440 kB/s) and some small bugs were fixed.

NetMeter has tooltypes for the window position added and the 'Mediator protection' removed.

This network monitor works with a broad range of SANA-II drivers including the Amithlon NE2000 driver. With the Prometheus board version 0.24 of prm-rt18029 is required.

Prometheus is a Zorro III PCI bridge for Amiga computers which is produced by Matay.

Download:

prm-rtl8029.lha (13K)
netmeter.lha (22K)

(sd) (Translation: rh)

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12.Oct.2001
Michael Rupp (ANF)

Workbench: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation V0.8
TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation is a pure JavaScript simulation of the Amiga Workbench 3.x for Win32 Internet Explorer 5 and higher. New in this version 0.8 are the following features:

Moving of icons into and out of windows
Scrolling of the visible window contents with the arrow symbols
Language choice through preferences program
English localization (is now the default)
Workbench messages in the title bar, e.g. if you want to drag a drawer into its own window
Support of the menu items 'Last Message' and 'Open Parent'
Simulation of the original cycle gadget (incl. shift-click) for easier choice of pattern and language
Smaller bugfixes and improvements here and there

(sd) (Translation: rh)

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11.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF) Amiga-Society: Update of Schlachtfeld
Horst Diebel wrote:
At the Schlachtfeld area there are to see some units in 'TarnBlau' (masking blue) by Edgar Leidig (under "Instruktionen"). This masking colour was already determined for one party in Schlachtfeld Phase 2.

Moreover we would like to announce a graphics competition about the subject Schlachtfeld. More to learn about after a few days. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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11.Oct.2001
ANN BBS: DLG Pro BBS reminder site
Jeff Grimmett has put online on his DSL homepage a website DLG 'Memorial' about the BBS system (mailbox) of same denominator. This site contains the final DLG beta version including source code from the time when development was stopped.

Before long additionally there will be available a commented source code as well as - if there will be enough time - a postscript version of the manual. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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11.Oct.2001
amiga.org AROS: IBM-PC/native on one disk from 10. Oct. 2001
On 10. October 2001 Matt Parsons has released a new version of AROS for IBM compatible PCs. Interested people can download and test it and report bugs and problems to Matt Parsons.

This new version loads faster and contains many small demo programs for testing and playing around with.

At the time there is no desktop, but is to come. Furthermore there will be some utility disks with a bundle of Aminet programs for testing.

AROS is an open source project to implement a portable AmigaOS v3.1 compatible OS.

Download: AROS-ibmpc-bin.zip (800K) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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11.Oct.2001
Norman Thiel (ANF)

Library: vapor_toolkit V15.11
On 7. October 2001 version 15.11 of the 'vapor_toolkit' library was released. The vapor_toolkit.library is a library of support functions which are used by most Vapor applications and thus can be shared to reduce individual application code size. Changes since version 15.8:

more error checking in the library initialization (Zapek)
optimized memory usage for some functions (Zapek)
added "html" as built-in file extension (Zapek)
rewrote MIME handling functions. Much faster and more efficient (Zapek)
fixed a potential crash from VAT's ARexx handler (Zapek)
fixed the saving path of MIME entries not being always set :o) (Zapek)
fixed the ARexx handler task crashing when the library was flushed then reloaded again (Zapek)
fixed MIME extensions list which would only add the first one of each mimetype :o) (Zapek)
fixed screwup in the class dir handling :o) (Zapek)

Download: vapor_toolkit_1511.lzx (54K) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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11.Oct.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF) Event: Amiga Inside News
Matthias Münch wrote:
The countdown was started for the three days 'Amiga Inside' party from 19th to 21st October in Hirsau (near Calw), Germany and some seats are still to take.

Thanks to the noble support by KDH Datentechnik we are now able to reduce the admission charge to 5DM. Furthermore in all foresight VMC/Harald Frank will attend the party and present the Amithlon project, which sure might be interesting so many people. Unfortunately DCE did not agree with us firmly until now and thus we don't expect current DCE products to be presented.

More information under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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11.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF) Virus Alarm: CoolBall.lha
The file 'pix/back/CoolBall.lha' in Aminet was infected with the Bobek-2 virus in the installer. This virus can be removed using util/virus/VirusExecutor.lha. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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11.Oct.2001
DCE (ANF) PCI: World premiere USB for GREX
DCE Computer Service and Vision Factory Development are proud to be able to fulfil a long term wish of the Amiga users, at last.

Together with the GREX-PCI interface for the first time it is possible to use USB devices with the Amiga.

On Saturday, 13th October for the first time we will present the functionality of the interface in our demo machine to the visitors of the Amiga Meeting in Bad Bramstedt (Germany), which will be a world premiere.

On our website regular we will keep you informed about other news. Moreover we will establish a special USB page within the next days. You will be able to find this page under www.dcecom.de and www.vgr.com/g-rex. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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10.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News Database: XBaze V7
On 7th of October 2001 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7 of the database 'XBaze'. The English documentation, some bugfixes and some minor improvements have been added. You can read the changes at the download-site.

The program offers an easy to use editor for the arrays of the data record and of the layout (drag&drop).

You can send bug reports and proposals to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl

Download: 2b_XBaze-7.lha (sd) (Translation: dr)

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10.Oct.2001
ANN Magazine: Amiga Power #XV
Issue 15 of the French Amiga-magazine called 'Amiga Power' has been published. This issue contains tests of iFusion, Prometheus and ScanFx 3.0. Besides this it also contains hints to the configuration of Shogo and much more.

You can order the magazine over the title link. The magazine is published by the French Amiga-association 'AFLE'. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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10.Oct.2001
William Bidgood (Open Amiga-ML) AmigaDE: Tutorial-Site of William Bidgood
William Bidgood has created a tutorial-site to the topic of AmigaDE. Presently it contains English tutorials to VP-assembler and Java. The VP-assembler tutorials give a basic introduction to the elements of the language. The Java tutorial contains hints to Java under AmigaDE.

All those who find mistakes or problems in the texts please contact William Bidgood. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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10.Oct.2001
Aaron Digulla (AROS-Announce-ML) AROS: Status report (MorphOS, Amithlon, H&P, Amiga)
On the 9th of October 2001 Aaron Digulla, AROS, has published the following status report of AROS (which is an open source project for implementing of a portable, AmigaOS-compatible operating system) on the AROS-announce-mailinglist:

«Hello,

A long time since the last update but I can proudly reply that I keep the web site uptodate, now :-)

Here is a short roundup what has happened since the last update:

Parts of AROS are used in the MorphOS product. MorphOS gets some shared libraries which they need and we get patches to make Amiga software work :-) Two members of the MorphOS team, namely Nicholai Benalal and Emmanuel Lesueur have CVS write access and they have started to submit patches. All in all, a very good deal on both sides :-)

Amithlon (Harald Frank) has also asked if they can use our sources and we gave them the same deal that MorphOS got. Still, no patches on this side. As I see it, Harald and Bernie are drowning in work :-) Good luck to them !

Neither H&P nor Amiga have asked to use our source in any of their products. I expect them to know what they do. The times when I tried to "enlighten" others are in the past :-) Good luck to them, also.

On the AROS side, I can say that we have achieved a lot ! At the time of writing, the AROS CVS repository is 66MB and the contributed sources are 90MB. Commits are very frequent (in the last few weeks, there was almost no day when no one committed some of their work), so AROS is more healthy than ever.

And the range of software which we have is also quite impressive: We have ported the version of DOpus which you can find on Aminet (yeah, that's old). We have Radium (http://www.notam.uio.no/~kjetism/radium/), a note editor which can also play the songs you edit with it. We have a CDROM driver, the editor XDME (which was written by me) was ported last Sunday in about 8h of work (mostly fixing ghastly code which DICE did compile for reasons unbeknownst to me ;-) and Python (http://www.python.org/), the first programming language for AROS. We also have a couple of prefs programs (Font, Locale, ReqTools, Serial) now.

While AROS still lacks a lot of things and a lot of code is, well, doing only a fraction of what the original AmigaOS can do, it's still impressive to see how far we did get and that gives me a very good feeling what I look into the future. AROS Native/x86 is getting more and more stable and when a bug in the trackdisk.device is fixed (it's *very* slow) and a feature is implemented (it doesn't support the diskchange signal, yet, so you cannot run the demos on the contrib floppy disks), you won't only be able to boot into an AmigaOS-like system on your PC but you will at least be able to edit some prefs, save them to disk and write some texts with XDME.

Our now home might lack fancy colors and designer chairs but it certainly begins to feel like Amiga :-)

Have fun !» (sd) (Translation: dr)

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10.Oct.2001
Lionel Thillot (ANF) Event: French website to AMIGA 2001
For people who speak the French language and who are going to attend the AMIGA 2001 which will take place on the 17th and 18th of November in 2001 a website has been created.

This site offers the possibility of contacting each other in order to meet at the fair.

You can get further information under http://www.woa.amedia-software.com/. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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10.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF) amiNET.GUI also accessable under www.aminet-gui.net
From today on you can access amiNET.GUI under the url www.aminet-gui.net, too. This url already refers to the new (beta-) version of amiNET.GUI. Shortly the url www.aminet-gui.de will also refer to the new version. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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10.Oct.2001
Martin Bertelsmann in dcsau (ANF) A600/A1200: PCMCIA - Compatibility list
Martin Bertelsmann guides an AmigaOS-/Linux-/NetBSD-compatibility list of the PCMCIA-cards in Amiga 600 / Amiga 1200 under the title link.

He asks for further test reports. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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09.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News Game: Test of Payback (PPC) at Amiga Extreme
Amiga Extreme have already reviewed Payback, but they thought it was appropriate to post a short review for the PPC and Warp3D version of Payback. (sd)

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09.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News AROS: Floppies (FAQ), XDME, Python, FPU-Bug
Aron Digulla extended the AROS-FAQ with entries about the use of floppy drives in UAE and AROS as well information about the IRC channell for AROS. Furthermore he has started to port the editor 'XDME' which was almost finished. 'XDME' gets compiled and linked successfully - but crashes after it was launched. This would be fixed soon.

Thanks to Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen Radium is now playing.

Adam Chodorowski corrected the installation of Python (programming language). The runtime modules were not copied.

Georg Steger corrected the long existing FPU bug. The FPU wasn't initialized correctly and task switching between FPU and non-FPU tasks could crash AROS. There also was a certain error in the routine for removing a task. Steger added the missing character modes in graphics.hidd. The private field 'initialfont' of the IntWindow structure was removed (that's what IFont in the Window structure is for). Notification between slider and list-view gadget is more secure now. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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09.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)

Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD Update V1.05
Elbox Computer has made available the MM CD 1.05 update for registered Mediator Multimedia CD users.

The update includes:
THE NEW DRIVER: FastEthernet.device

It is the first time when Amiga users may use the driver, which enables using 100Mb/s network cards. The FastEthernet driver enables using Fast Ethernet 100/10Mbps cards based on RTL8139 chipsets in MEDIATOR PCI busboards.

Driver updates:

TV tuner drivers ver.1.2
Voodoo 4/5 drivers ver.4.8
pci.library ver.4.2

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department (sd)

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09.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)

Elbox: Mediator Update V2.5 und Warp3D
Elbox Computer is happy to announce release of the long-awaited Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator PCI busboards.

The Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator support both modes of pci.library operation: MMU and NO_MMU.

In the NO_MMU mode, Warp3D supports the PPC and 68k processors.
In the MMU mode, Warp3D supports only the 68k processor.

The Warp3D drawer contains full release of the Warp3D V4 for Mediator excluding the DEMO drawer. The DEMO drawer is enclosed in the Mediator Multimedia CD and at: http://www.elbox.com/download/Warp3D_V4_demo.lha

The following files, apart from the Warp3D, are included in MediatorUP25.lha:

pci.library ver.4.2 NEW
Voodoo.card ver.2.7 NEW

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
contact: press@elbox.com (sd)

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09.Oct.2001
Amiga.org (ANF) OS-News.com: Tao-Interview
At OSNews.com an interesting interview about Amiga's role in their partnership with Tao can be found. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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09.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS project update
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project Update
Users of AmiATLAS version 5 owning at least five additional maps will receive version 6 at the special price of 79DM (+ shipping and handling), if they send in the original disks and Key disk.

AmiATLAS6 is estimated to be shipping from 15. November 2001.

The preoder form can be found at the 'Aktionen' section. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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09.Oct.2001
Zoltan Hunt (Amiga Open-ML) Amiga: Interview about rumours with Bill McEwen
On 8. October 2001 at 'Temple of Technology' an interview by Vidar with Bill McEwen, Amiga Inc., was published. McEween talks about several rumours. A short overview of what he said:

«We have more money today, than we had 6 months ago, and we will have more money by the end of the month, than we had since we started the company.»

The romours about and end of AmigaOS 4 are false.

The AmigaDE update is being tested and will be released soon.

The original interview is available under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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09.Oct.2001
Richard de Rivaz (ANF) Home-Server: INET DIAL V3.847
Version 3.847 of the home server 'INET DIAL' was released. This version now supports Voyager v3.3.177, AWeb, and IBrowse.

INET DIAL is a home server for the AmigaOS. It supports X-10-Control, automatic upload, and automatic e-mail download, access to your own computer via network as well as login in to distend machines using 'direct dial' or the Internet.

More information and screenshots are available under the title link.

Download: inet_dial.lha (sd) (Translation: mj)

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09.Oct.2001
Mario Cattaneo (ANF) Utility: Magic Menu V2.31 Beta
On 9. October 2001 beta version 2.31 of 'Magic Menu' was released. This might be the last version by Olaf Barthel who continued Martin Korndöfer's project and now is wanting a successor.

This archiv only contains the most required stuff: binaries and the guide.

Download: MagicMenu_beta.lha (115K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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08.Oct.2001
CAPS-Team (ANF) CAPS - The 'Classic Amiga Preservation Society'
There is a new project to collect original disks of Amiga games called CAPS. These disks will be copied, including the copy protection, to a new memory device. It can also be used to restore destroyed original disks. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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08.Oct.2001
Petra Struck Holidays: 09. - 16. October 2001 (update)
Due to the fact that I will be on holidays for the next week I please you to mail your news to Sven Drieling sd@amiga-news.de or insert them directly into the ANF. News mailed to me will not be published during my holidays.

Update 11. October 2001:
The e-mail address sd@amiga-news.de dosn't work properly a the time being. An alternative address to contact Sven Drieling is indy@olis.north.de. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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08.Oct.2001
DCE DCE: GRex 4000 D production started
The production of the GRex 4000D devices has started. DCE updated theire website and published a small picture series. Furthermore many details were added to the product description. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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08.Oct.2001
CUCUG CUCUG: Status Register September 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. It deals with topical and important news about Amiga, Macintosh, the PC and the whole computer-industry. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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08.Oct.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF) News about the Sharp SL-5000 PDA
There is an article at the title link about the new Sharp-PDA.

Informations about the new PDA by Sharp is also available here. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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08.Oct.2001
NetBSD (ANF) Unix-command (NetBSD) "file" recognizes Amiga pictograms
The NetBSD version (NetBSD-current) of the Unix-command 'file' is now able to recognize Workbench-pictograms (.info-files). This feature is available for all platforms supported by NetBSD. Furthermore the maintainer of the file-distribution for Unix Christos Zoulas was informed. That means that this feature will soon be available for other Unix-versions, too. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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08.Oct.2001
Amiga.org GUI for MP3-Player: mp3Play Version 2.0
Carl Svensson wrote a simple GUI for the MPEGA-library.

Download. mp3Play.lha (13 KB) - Readme (ps) (Translation: sk)

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07.Oct.2001
V3Portal

WWW-Browser: Voyager V3.3.117 beta
Vapor released beta version 3.3.117 of the WWW browser 'Voyager' for AmigaOS (68k) and MorphOS (PPC) this time being a full archive including all required modules, libraries, and the installer script.

If you're running MorphOS the AmigaOS version must be installed first. Then the MorphOS archive can be installed. The MorphOS contains a description of this.

This beta version will run in demo mode without a keyfile.

All changes since version 3.3.104 can be taken from the readme file.

Download:

v3_3_beta117_amigaos.lzx (992K), Readme
v3_3_beta117_morphos.lzx (521K)

Also there are several mirrors at the V³-Portal. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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07.Oct.2001
Stefan Blixth (ANF) www.OnyxSoft.nu not available for some time
Due to a problem with the Internet provider the normal domain 'www.onyxsoft.nu' of OnyxSoft (Cathedral) will not be accessible for some time.

To fix this problem a site mirror was established available at http://onyxsoft.dhs.org/. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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07.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS, Bonds
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project
In cooperation with the AmiATLAS development team the Amiga Arena make possible a special price for AmiATLAS 6.

Until and including 20. October 2001 you can preorder AmiATLAS 6 at the special price of only 99,- DM stead of 109,- DM at the Amiga Arena.

Registering via the Amiga Arena can be done by filling in the survey form at the 'Aktionen' area .

Note: Owners of AmiATLAS 5 might have even cheaper update possibilities since negotiations were not finished, yet.

AmiATLAS - The Story continues
When the Amiga Arena made possible version 2.0 to be released for free further development of AmiATLAS was not really sure to be done.

Thanks to good cooperation of Adreas R. (Innovative Software Solutions) and the Amiga Arena it was possible to find Gerd F. to take the task of further development of AmiATLAS

The more I'm happy about the AmiATLAS development team to able to present version 6 before long.

By this I would like to make you aware that WE (developers, users meaning Amiga users!) with a bit personal initiative are able to move many a things.

Feedback of any kind is very important to all developers. This issue should not be underestimated.

The Amiga Arena wishes the AmiATLAs development team much success and hopes that the users will take this project.

Olaf K. - Amiga Arena

Amiga Arena - Special Price
The special price for Bonds is still valid thru 31. October 2001. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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07.Oct.2001
AmigaArt

bplan: Pegasos - 1Q02
Sinan Gurkan, of AmigaArt collected information from the '"party on:-)" (R.S.)'-thread at ann:

Q1 2002 is the planned release date for Pegasos EndUser boards.
MorphOS Team has a contract from Amiga Inc. since May 2001, but they don`t want to sign it at the moment.
MorphOS Team thinks that "AmigaXL/Amithlon for x86, AROS, MorphOS for PPC" are the choices for 2002 and beyond.

There are more interesting postings in this thread with more than 180 comments (ca. 330K). (sd) (Translation: mj)

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07.Oct.2001
Fun Time World MP3: AMPlifier V2.33
On 6. October 2001 kato has released version 2.33 of the MP3 player 'AMPlifier'.

Now the player also can be used under AmigaOS3.0/3.1 with the new functions, again. Instead of the ReAction classes AMPlifier 2.33 requires the current ClassAct library to run under AmigaOS3.0/3.1.

Download: amplifier233.lha (sd) (Translation: mj)

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07.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)

Amiga-Society: Little Book of Amiga Software, Schlachtfeld
The pages of the Amiga-Society were updated.

Several updates to the Little Book of Amiga Software.
Schlachtfeld: Casino established (with password only); third alpha version.

(sd) (Translation: mj)

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07.Oct.2001
Geoff Milnes (E-Mail) Alt-WoA 2001: Report about the Amithlon presentation
Geoff Milnes published a report about the Amithlon presentation by Bill Hoggett on 1. October 2001 in Blackpool, UK. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Oct.2001
Carsten Schröder (ANF)

Magazine: AMIGA aktuell 10/2001 released
The October issue of AMIGA aktuell contains among other things

an up-to-the-minute interview with AMIGA president Bill McEwen,
many information regarding the Amiga emulators AmigaXL and Amithlon, including a preview and several comments,
a final word titled »Is the PowerPC nearing its end?«,
a review of the IDE-SCSI adapter »HighPerTEC SCSIDE-BR2«,
the first part of a workshop about shared filesystems,
a preview of the space game »Descent: Freespace«,

and much more. AMIGA aktuell 10/2001 can be read online on our website or be downloaded in HTMl or AmigaGuide format. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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06.Oct.2001
Dirk Baeyens Event: Amiga 2001 - website now online
The website of the Amiga 2001, that will be held on 17. and 18. November 2001 in Cologne in the Mediapark 6 (KOMED), is now online under amiga-messe.de (title link). The complete exhibitors list will follow soon. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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06.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (email)

Elbox: Warp3D running on Voodoo3, 4 and 5 in Mediator
Elbox Computer is humbly informing all the Amiga fans that Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator PCI busboards are on the release now.

Warp3D drivers prepared by Hyperion Entertainment for Mediator PCI busboards work flawlessly on PPC & 68k processors with the following graphic cards:

- Voodoo3 2000/3000,
- Voodoo4 4500,
- Voodoo5 5500.

Warp3D Voodoo drivers are now included in the software package bundled with all the Mediator PCI busboards.

For all the registered users of Mediator PCI busboards Warp3D Voodoo drivers are available free of charge directly and exclusively from Elbox Computer.

Update:
Because of the different comments we have contacted Hyperion and asked for an official statement that was sent to us just now by Hans-Jörg Frieden via email.

Here the official comment of the Warp3D team:

First some facts:

No member of the Warp3D team owns a Voodoo 4/5.
We don't have any documentation about it.
There were never talks about support for Voodoo 4/5. The drivers in their current form, no matter whether for Prometheus, G-REX or Mediator, was designed for a Voodoo3/Avenger and are functionally identical.

In general it can't be excluded that the Avenger driver works with other chips of the Voodoo family. This includes the Banshee as well as the Napalm (VSA-100 of the V4/5). But it is out of question to take on support or guarantee for the operation in any way. Should it really work (that couldn't be tested by now) then it is pure chance. And it doesn't need to work with all existing boards or revisions of the chips.

Should it come out that the drivers really work with the Napalm chips it will probably count the same for the Prometheus as well as the G-REX busboards.

But: neither Hyperion Entertainment nor the Warp3D team can guarantee in any way the operating of the drivers with any Napalm based graphics board. As far as we are concerned we do only deliver support for Voodoo 3.

Ciao,

Hans-Joerg Frieden
Senior Software Developer, Hyperion Entertainment
Mail: Hans-JoergF@hyperion-software.de
Web: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com
(ps)

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06.Oct.2001
Michael Burkhard (email)

Michael Burkhardt: Farewell to Hof
Michael Burkhardt, known to many Amiga users by his company IOM Messefilme and the Amiga controlled video wall on exhibitions, wrote:

» Dear friends,
now it is official: I change from my lackluster autonomy to an employment.

Already on Monday I'll move to Berlin 300 km from here, take a furnished apartment and work for the D.A.V.I.D. GmbH from Tuesday on.

This decision was a hard step for me and required a great effort. Especially the last months when a management consultant was helpfully by my side showed that it would be much better to live and work in a real Media town.

But to move my company would never have been to put through. I never would have taken this enormous risk. The more happy I was to have found a job now in the media industry.

At the D.A.V.I.D. GmbH I'll ensure as project engineer planning, technical support, and network installations for radio stations. This software house is specialized in applications for radio broadcasting. More details about the company can be found at www.david-gmbh.de.

I would like to thank all those who have helped me in my period of autonomy. Of course the company IOM will continue to exist, but I personally won't have the chance to deal with the management as my new job requires 100% of my time.

Particularly during the beginning it will become very stressful and it likely will be hard to contact me. Of course my e-mail address, my mobile phone number (0171-3296371), and my ICQ will remain the same, but surely I won't be able to answer immediately in the beginning, however.

In any case thanks to all people who always supported me in continuing my company. Of course I'm at your disposal for questions during this weekend.

Best regards,
Michael Burkhardt
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Medientechnik

IOM Film- und Videoproduktion, Hof/Germany
D-95030 Hof/Saale * Kornhausacker 56

Phone Contact: +49-9281-767102
Fax Contact: +49-9281-767103
Web Contact: http://www.messefilme.de
Email: info@messefilme.de
ICQ: 40465741« (ps) (Translation: wk)

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06.Oct.2001
Cyborg (ANF) Instant Messenger: CIM Update for IP-NAT Version 1.04ext
CIM now also works when using an IP-NAT router. Besides that many GUI improvements had been done. Data transfer is now possible.

CIM is a messaging utility developed by Marius 'Cyborg' Schwarz on the basis of the small ICMP demo on the ASP (Amiga Security Page). PGP is already integrated.

MrMarco (www.highantdev.de) has kindly made 'Traffic' available on his server. With this everything for a network similar to ICQ is given. Everybody who wants can log in. The program has been tested on several Amigas and runs stable. The installation is extremly easy, so no installation script is needed. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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06.Oct.2001
Chip Chip: Exclusive: Radeon 8500 beats GeForce3 Ti/500
»ATI's Radeon 8500 is the high end competitor to Nvidia's GeForce3 Titanium 500. With a chip clock of 275 MHz and a memory clock of effective 550 MHz it offers powerful arguments.«
Full article (German) see title link. (cm) (Translation: wk)

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06.Oct.2001
Andre Geisler (ANF)

Game: Payback PPC/W3D available
Payback PPC and the Warp3D version for 68k and PPC is available at Apex Designs since today. In Payback the player is taking over the role of a young fleeing driver and is trying to become a big gangster boss.

A new 68k version has been released, too. The following new features have been added:

PowerPC support
Warp3D support
Gouraud shading
Rotating 3D mode
You can now add custom textures to user maps
Map preview added to rampage and multiplayer setup screens
Fonts and in-game images are automatically scaled up at resolutions of 640x400 and above
Finnish and Dutch language support
Lots of minor bug fixes

(ps) (Translation: wk)

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06.Oct.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF) Mailbox: Stardate-bbs temporarily not accessible via Internet
Because of massive DSL problems is the Stardate bbs (Amiga mailbox for more than 10 years) for the time being not accessible via Internet. All Pollboxes/Points may please move over to the modem/ISDN dial in. The Telekom is working on the problem.

The popular Dynamite server stardate.2y.net is affected by this, too. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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06.Oct.2001
Jürgen A. Theiner (ANF) playamiga.de: new column
The October is here. As in every new month we have a new column, "Quo Vadis, Amiga?". In the charts there have been not many changes as the participation last month was relatively weak. Please participate as you have in the beginning. THANK YOU. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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06.Oct.2001
Kilian Servais (ANF) Disk magazine: NoCover issue 91 released
As already announced last month many changes had taken place at APC & TCP. So is the NC, that of course continues to be issued at the beginning of the month, from now on available free of charge and the membership at the APC & TCP is now free of charge, too. People who want to get the NC sent on a regular basis via email just send an email to kilian@apc-tcp.de. Of course will the NC from now on be uploaded onto the Aminet (docs/mags), so that the interested ones can download the latest issue from there, too.

At the moment we're looking for users who want to collaborate on the NC - we're always pleased about articles that can be submitted not only via email but also via snailmail (Kilian Servais, Feldkampstr.78, 44625 Herne). The NC #92 will, by the way, be released on the Aminet within the next 48 hours resp. can be ordered via email. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Oct.2001
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)

e.p.i.c. interactive ports the Earth 2150 series to Mac and MorphOS!
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment has signed a contract with Zuxxez Entertainment (http://www.zuxxez.com) to bring 3D RTS series Earth 2150 to the Macintosh. EARTH 2150: ESCAPE FROM THE BLUE PLANET will lead the way and should be available for Mac gamers this winter. Sequels EARTH 2150: THE MOON PROJECT and EARTH 2150: LOST SOULS will follow at a later date. More information on EARTH 2150 can be found in the projects section. A movie trailer will soon be available. Additional information on EARTH 2150 can also be found on the official Earth 2150 homepage.

A version for Pegasos/MorphOS will follow! (ps) (Translation: rh)

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05.Oct.2001
László Török PalMooVId version 1.2 (demo) - AVI player for PalmOS
If you want to expand your Palm handheld with an AVI player you'll find a demo version of PalMooVId at the title link. The program was written by László Török, known to many Amiga users from his AVI player for Amiga. The program will be shareware.

New in version 1.2:

ADDED OS version check (3.5 req)
FIXED some minor bugs

Download: PalMooVIdDemo.zip (ps) (Translation: rh)

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05.Oct.2001
KATO

AMPlifier V2.32
AMPlifier is mainly a convenient player program for MP3 (MPEG) audio, but it can also play a variety of 16 bit sound formats (AIFF, MAUD, WAV, RAW). AMPlifier supports hardware-based MPEG audio decoders as well as software decoding through mpega.library. The visual appearance can be adapted by the user through so-called 'Skins' to suit her own preferences. Since the same system as in WinAMP is used, thousands of complete skins are available.

AMPlifier now has features requested by users:

ReAction user interface
works with packed skins (.wsz)
ID3v2 tag support improved
two new ARexx commands
direct input of URLs for MP3 streaming
saving of MP3 streams to harddisk

Download: amplifier232.lha (ps) (Translation: rh)

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05.Oct.2001
AROS AROS News: Mirror and IRC channel
If you find the main server of aros.org too slow, you can alternately bookmark http://aros.planetmirror.com.

'4play' created an official AROS IRC channel on EFNet which you can reach with /join #aros. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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05.Oct.2001
Mikey C. (ANF)

Event: Exhibitors list of the 'World Of Amiga Southeast' Show
Start planning! There are only four weeks to go! On Saturday, 3rd November 2001, Amiga Active will be sponsoring the World of Amiga South East Show, to be held in Brentwood, Essex, UK, From 12:00pm till 5:00pm.

The World of Amiga Southeast show, Exhibitors list is finally here, and Amiga are coming!

Please note, the layout and exhibitors list on the WOAse website is incorrect, please refer to this list for now. A correct hall layout and list will be posted sometime today at http://www.worldofamiga.com.

List of Exhibitors...

Space..............Company/Organisation
1-2................Kicksoft Ltd
3..................Pagan Games
4..................Huddersfield Amiga User Group
                   /Blackpool User Group
5..................TBA
6..................Amiga
7..................Cloanto
8-14...............Eyetech
15-16..............Fore-matt Home Computing
17.................100% Amiga Magazine
18.................South Essex Amiga Link
19.................Amiga North Thames
20.................Kickstart
21.................Amiga Support Association
22.................Elbox (SharkPPC Premiere)
23-24..............Mediator Support Team
25-27..............Virtual Programming/Amiga Active
                   Magazine (Show Sponsors)
28-30..............Weird Science
31-33..............Stellar Dreams
34.................Hyperion Games Arena
35.................Gloucestershire Amiga User Group

Sadly, Analogic are unable to attend due to commitments elsewhere. On the positive side, Haage and Partner have confirmed their attendance and may take the last unsold space.

Don't forget tickets can still be purchased in advance via our website http://www.worldofamiga.com and via telephone/mail order from Fore-Matt Home Computing on +44 (0)8700 112234

Other important announcements about the show including information on where to stay. will follow in due course.

World of Amiga Southeast is sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine (ps) (Translation: rh)

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05.Oct.2001
Amigan Software Tool: Report+ Version 5.06
With Report+ by Amigan Software bug reports, Aminet readme files, autodocs and similar reports can be easily created. The program is Freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools.

Download: report.lha (426 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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05.Oct.2001
TheLegacy Game museum: TheLegacy news
An improved search engine was built into the website of the game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC and Schneider/Amstrad CPC which makes it very easy to find certain game descriptions or screenshots.

An update with about 500 new games was put online on October 3rd, 2001 and a rotating "Top 5" built into the start page which contains three different themes. The data is created dynamically from the database. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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05.Oct.2001
WHDLoad

Installer: New packages for WHDLoad (up to 04.10.2001)
Games which were made for disk use only can be installed to harddisk thanks to WHDLoad. The following packages have been newly added or improved:

04.10.01 new: Golden Eagle (Loriciel) done by CFOU!
04.10.01 new: Cadaver Demo Level (Bitmap Brothers) done by JOTD
03.10.01 fixed: Operation Stealth (Delphine) needs less memory now
03.10.01 fixed: Dream Tripping (Digital) install script corrected (ReadMe,Image)
03.10.01 fixed: Shadow of the Beast 3 (Psygnosis) intro in PAL version fixed
03.10.01 new: Slightly Magic (Code Masters) done by Bored Seal
03.10.01 improved: Fire Force (ICE) support for CD³² version added
03.10.01 new: Crazy Cars (Titus) done by CFOU!
03.10.01 new: Ballistix (Psyclases/Reflexions) done by CFOU!
01.10.01 new: Wayne Gretzky Hockey (Betchesda SoftWorks) done by CFOU!
01.10.01 improved: Tetrix (Markus Olinger/CT-Verlag) supports another version and a small fix
01.10.01 improved: Run the Gauntlet (Ocean) supports another version
01.10.01 fixed: Quest of Agravain (Codemasters) small change
01.10.01 new: Knight Force (Titus) done by CFOU!
30.09.01 improved: Kult/Chamber Of The Sci-Mutant Priestess (Exxos/Infogrames) supports another version

(ps) (Translation: rh)

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05.Oct.2001
Japan Amiga User Group (ANF) Japan Amiga User group's homepage soon finished
Japan Amiga User Group's (JAUG's) homepage is soon finished. This website offers "Japanese Amiga Profile & History", "Japanese Amiga Power User now", "Japanese Amiga Newspaper", "Japanese Amiga books, videos & softwares", "Japanese Amiga Business movements", "JAUG'S BBS" & a lot of others. Here you can come to know all about Amiga status in Japan. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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05.Oct.2001
Tom Duin (ANF) Bindassigns 1.2 and RealPlayerInfo 1.0 at Amigaharry corner released
Bindassigns 1.2 and RealPlayerInfo 1.0 released at Amigaharry corner. Bindassigns replaces "MakeDir"s and "Assign"s in Startup-Sequence. It can also replace the "Assign"s in the User-Startup. RealPlayerInfo 1.0 shows information about Real-Audio and Real-Video files.
Tom Duin alias amigaharry (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Oct.2001
Gerd Frank (E-Mail)

AmiATLAS 6 - Release planned for 15. November 2001 (Update)
Gerd Frank is being thinning an optimizing his 1.5 million of AmiATLAS code lines, and whiping into shape 50 MB of map data, hotel guides and city guides. In all foresight AmiATLAS6 would be finished for the Cologne show in November and available from the booth of KDH and maybe from the booth of APC & TCP.

Changes since AmiATLAS5 (partial statement!).

All of the previous additional maps included, now.
Free updates (at least v3) until 30. June 2002, maybe even longer.
Updated and extended data set.
Extensive hotel guide, city guide, ....
Extended rout calculation (brakes, traffic jam menace, ...).
Functions speeded-up, some more than 30%.
Menus and dock bar free configurable.
GUI graphics (e.g. dock) easy to exchange.
GUI and display optimized and extended.
Phonetic search, e.g. for towns or street names.
External data tools for AVON, post code, and car registration numbers (city code).
External vehicle cost manager.
OS3.5/3.9 Support
Delivered on a coloured printed CD-RW in DVD-case with coloured cover.
Price 109,- DM

Possible to be ordered from:

AmiATLAS Development Team
c/o Gerd Frank
Wölsauerhammer 51
D-95615 Marktredwitz

E-Mail: AmiATLAS@gmx.net

Or from the popular AMIGA stockists.

For more information it is vital to have a look at he website for the prior version AmiATLAS5 at http://software.freepage.de/iss, but which is not topical!

Gerd Frank established a mailing list for bugreports, suggestions, and other discussions all about AmiATLAS: amiatlas@freelists.org. To register to this list, please send an e-mail with subject subscribe to amiatlas-request@freelists.org.

Update 05.10.2001:
Price statement changed. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Oct.2001
dynAMIte Game: dynAMIte Version 1.8
Version 1.8 of the network / online game 'dynAMIte' was released. This game is about a Bomberman clone.

Download:
dynAMIte_update.lha (154 KB) - changes.txt
dynAMIte.lha (1,5 MB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Oct.2001
AmigaOS XL H&P: AmigaOS XL FAQ now in English, too
The AmigaOS XL (FAQ) now is online in English language, too. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Oct.2001
Andreas Schaumlöffe Programmer for unready MUI Gnutella client wanted
'Gnutella' is a free program which is preeminently suited to share and exchange any desired files (mp3, exe, mpeg, txt, jpg, etc.) with other users.

Until a short while ago Jay Cornwall was developing a Gnutella client for the Amiga, but now released the sources to Aminet due to lack of time. Maybe this is the way to find a programmer interested to finish this project. More information can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Oct.2001
Steffen Nitz (E-Mail)

New version of Regist II released
Version 0.7A of Regist II (title link) was released in the Aminet. Regist II enables programmers to easily administrate and operate software registrations.

Please send registrations, suggestions, and other feedback to: Steffen.Nitz@t-online.de.

Changes in this version:

Global-Prefs-Option for printer and text editor settings, etc..
Local-Prefs-Option for the respective data field with the following options implemented:
- Editing of the entries list in the main window for a better overview of data field entries.
- Basic currency and number format for the fees taken can be given, which e.g. will be displayed in the main window's title-bar.
- Currency list get's adjusted to the basic currency (currency conversion).
- Texts for the options of "Update", "Zugestellt" (delivered), and "Bezahlt" (payed) (on or off) can be edited and entered.
- Compressing-program and the file viewer for the text files given under "Sonstige Angaben" (other data) in the main window now can be given.
Now a text file can be given under "Sonstige Angaben" (other data) and displayed with the external file viewer.
This text file can be loaded into or adapted to the input field under "Sonstige Angaben" (other data). This text then can be edited using an external text editor given in the global settings.
E-Mails and letters can be printed right after those were created.
It is now possible to print entries using a self-created template.
Reg.Nr. can be calculated, loaded from a file and the highest value can be calculated.
Data filed loading up to 4 times faster!
Entries can removed or deleted from the data field.
New file samples "Aktuelles Datum" (current date), second and third address line and for the text under "Sonstige Angabe" (other data) added.
The program can be controlled by tooltypes (e.g. a data field can be given to automatically be loaded when Regist II was launched).
Progress bar when loading data fields is more precise.
Other changes and optimizations.

(ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)

Elbox: PREMIERE: Fast Ethernet 100Mbps in Amiga
ELBOX COMPUTER is pleased to announce that from now onwards Amiga computers equipped with MEDIATOR PCI offer the possibility of using Fast Ethernet 100Mb/s network cards.

This has become possible with the FastEthernet.device SANA-II driver developed by Elbox for the MEDIATOR PCI busboard series. This driver enables using 100Mb/s cards based on RTL8139 chipsets in MEDIATOR PCI bus-boards.

Fast Ethernet driver is now included in the MEDIATOR MULTIMEDIA CD collection. All the registered MM CD users are now receiving this new driver free of charge.

Fast Ethernet RTL8139 card features:

10Mb/s and 100Mb/s operations
Support for 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s N-way Auto-negotiation operation
Half/Full duplex capability
Support for Full Duplex Flow Control (IEEE 802.3x)
10/100Base-TX compliant
PCI bus master data transfer capability
Two large (2Kbyte) independent receive and transmit FIFOs
Descriptor-based buffer management
LED indicators for various network activity monitoring

MEDIATOR bus-boards are at present the only PCI solution for Amiga computers with the exclusive support for:

TV cards,
Sound cards, and
Fast Ethernet PCI cards.

(ps)

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04.Oct.2001
BTTR-Team Back to the Roots Amiga-News 233
We enjoyed the summer a bit, but now it's finally time to update "Back to the Roots" (http://www.back2roots.org) again - and this is another massive update!

With permission from "Reakktor Media" we can offer you "Subtrade", a brilliant M.U.L.E. clone. Other new games are e.g. Conquest of the Longbow, Zeppelin, Blastar, Seek and Destroy, Zool 1+2 (HD), Banshee (HD) and many more.

Then we added 20 AGA demos, 20 ECS demos, 40 PC demos, 50 Amiga game tunes, 100 demoscene tunes and 70 scene pictures. A lot of stuff for you to download, isn't it? (ps)

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04.Oct.2001
(ANF)

Filesystem: SFS V 1.193 (Beta)
On 02. October 2001 Jörg Strohmayer has released version 1.193 of the SmartFilesystem. New in this version:

ACTION_FH_FROM_LOCK didn't return an error for directories, fixed.

Download: SFS.lha (40 KB)

This is a beta version. Bugreports and runability confirmation can be send to Jörg Strohmayer. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Oct.2001
Patric Klöter (ANF) Commodore - Amiga: The devotee page has moved!
From today the Commodore-Amiga devotee page is available at the new address http://www.commodore-amiga.de (title link)! Please, adjust your bookmarks.

Beside of some optical changes the content was extended. Recently the rubric "Spiele-Klassiker" (classic games) was added containing pictures and comments of some classic Amiga games. I would be happy if you would drop in on this site. ;-) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Oct.2001
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail) Elbox: Mediator PCI 4000 Quick Installation Guide
The Elbox Computer Website has been updated. The Mediator PCI 4000 Quick Installation Guide has been added in Support - Product Manuals.

The manual illustrates installation of the Mediator PCI 4000 and PCI cards in Amiga 4000D in the E/BOX 4000 tower case (aka Power Tower 4000).

To view the installation in html, click here.
To download the pdf file manual, click here. (ps)

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03.Oct.2001
flextron (ANF) Overview of Amiga-Groups and Clubs
As many as possible Amiga-groups and clubs are supposed to be found here. We want to report about the background of these groups and clubs. We especially want to focus on information about club-subscription and number of members.

We also have forums where you can ask questions or write answers to different topics. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Oct.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)

New Amiga Online Superstore now open
A new Amiga Online Superstore has just opened from FORE-MATT Home Computing. Hundreds of products are now available to order from the website with many hundreds still to be added. Featuring 128 Bit secure encryption when ordering your desired Amiga items.

As well as our vast range of CD software currently on the site, you will also be able to purchase hardware, peripherals, books, magazines, and AmigaOne products as well as selected Amiga retro classic titles. Many titles can be purchased at a lower price than our catalogue or competitors price! FORE-MATT Home Computing is the largest stockist of Amiga software in the UK and many of the titles to be added will be exclusive to the Amiga Online Superstore.

Also, to celebrate the opening, there will be FREE SHIPPING to anywhere in the world for all software purchases made through the online ordering system and received by 14 October 2001. (ps)

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03.Oct.2001
Ralph Reuchlein (ANF) Database: After a long time a new version of MUIbase published
After one year of a break of development there is a new version of MUIbase again which is v1.6. MUIbase is a relationale database with several datatypes and trigger-functions. The Amiga-magazine assesses MUIbase 1.2 on issue 11/99 with 87%.

The MUIbase-homepage has moved to http://www.muibase.de/ because amigaworld.com the provider till now do not work just fine. You can access the old site over http://old.muibase.de/ but which will be not updated any longer. Bit there you can still find old examples and some hints. On the new site download and registration works as usually but if there should be displaying faults then please say it to me because presently I have not an entirely working Amiga and I have no time for reinstalling. Bugfixes, ARexx-support and transactions as you know of other databases have been added. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Oct.2001
Michael Garlich (ANF) MotionStudio for MorphOS announced
Titan Computer announces MotionStudio which is a new videocut-software for MorphOS exclusively. Some of the outstanding features are e.g. particle effects free to define which can be applied on each b-w mask you like, 40 video effects, very intuitive GUI and much more.

On the website you can already watch a Quicktime-film where Motionstudio has worked on a PowerPC G4 with 350Mhz. (Translation: dr)

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03.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)

Society: Hard- and Software-Updates

NEW PICTURES Chaos Engine 2 thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Aladdin thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Alien Breed thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Agony thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Ambermoon thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Anstoß thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES 1869 thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Backstage thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Zak McKracken thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Wet thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Virtual Ball Fighters thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Civilization thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Coloniization thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Cruise for a Corpse thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Defender of the Crown thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Fightin Spirit thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Foundation thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Foundation DC thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Foundation Gold thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Lionheart thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES Primal Rage thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus
NEW PICTURES PowerMonger thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus

The Big Book of Amiga hardware has been already updated on 30th of September. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Oct.2001
Michael Asse (ANF) Wanted: AmigaFFE-Web-Updater
Michael Asse wrote:
Hello,
because presently I have limited access to the Internet I am looking for an updater for my website concerning the AmigaFFE-project who might take care of updating the website.
Mainly you might have to do copy/paste tasks and not to take care of the design of the site or project itself.

I would send you mails which contain the site and the according changes as long as I got a better access to the Internet.

If anyone would be interested in it then simply send me a mail.

In addition to it I am still always looking for some interested people for the port of the game Elite-The New Kind. I have an unfinished version here which we might have to get to an end. Thanks a lot! (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Oct.2001
T.o.T. Game: Tales of Tamar Amiga-Version V0.37R6
'Tales Of Tamar' is a round based internet game from Eternity Entertainment Software available for all platforms.

With this version 0.37 R6 for Amiga you can see for the first time OnScreen animations with full colour update. From now on one after another weapons and buildings will be integrated into the following versions. Very pleasant from the players. All animations are running even on a 68030 with AGA! Also on Amigas with gfxboards now animations with changing colourpalette per frame are no problem. A result of the extraordinary work of this Bindel :-).

The latest version of the Battle-Lost-Screen is added. It is another piece of fine art from Dieter Zenteck. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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02.Oct.2001
Stefan Sommerfeld (ANF) Soundcard: New Repulse Toccata-Emulation
The latest version of the Toccata-Emulation for the Repulse soundcard is available. Thanks to Christian Haldenwang who placed us a VLabMotion and a Toccata at our disposal so we could fix some bugs. The Toccata-Emulation works now very fine with MovieShop. So the Repulse is the perfect replacement for the Toccata. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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02.Oct.2001
Brad Webb (E-Mail) Newsletter: Amiga Update #010930 from Brad Webb
Brad Webb publishes monthly his newsletter 'Amiga Update', he informs you about the most important events around the Amiga. Read the latest newsletter under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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02.Oct.2001

Events: AmigaMeeting 2001 in Lodz (Poland)
On October, 6th in Lodz, Poland, the AmigaMeeting 2001 will take place. The event is held by the University of Lodz (Banacha Street 22). Some of the exhibitors:

ELBOX Computer (Mediator, G3 Shark)
MATAY (Prometheus and software from Hyperion)
eFunzine (Amiga e-shop)
X-Soft (e.g. the books "Amiga na Infostradzie [Amiga on Infostrada], "Wordworth w praktyce" ["Wordworth in practice"]
Fleecy Moss will visit the AmigaMeeting 2001, but this is not confirmed.

The Organizers:

X-Soft
Mathmatic Section of the University of Lodz
Matay

Contact:

Tel.: ++48 42 630 50 42, 0600 483 029 (Mobil)
E-Mail: biuro@xsoft.w.pl

Travel route:
From PKP Lodz Kaliska or PKP Lodz Fabryczna Rail Station take the tramway 12 (look at map)

All tickets (price: PLN 15 0 less than DM 10) will take place in a lottery. If you wish to present your Amiga, contact the Organizers - you get free tickets. (pp) (Translation: gf)

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02.Oct.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)

Virus Help Denmark: Safe v17.1
Virus Help Denmark has released version 17.1 of the virus-detector 'Safe' of Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' discovers viruses in the memory of the computer and removes them if possible. Changes since the last version:

changed all text output to PutStr(),
added security mechanism that will react in case of xvs.library deactivation,
fixed installer script to avoid crashing WinUAE and to really replace old file with new one,
added to package initial releases of my new AV tools which prospectively become components of new anivirus called MILL. Check them out as they already are functional. Please let me know how they work on your configurations. Special thanks to Soenke Freitag for letting me continue and release his private integrity checker!

Name: Safe v17.1
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 30.671 Bytes
Release date: 1. October 2001
Coder: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Download: Safe.lha (30 KB), Readme
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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02.Oct.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF) Emulator: Jagulator is open Source
With the Jagulator it is possible to emulate the Atari jaguar (the first 64-bit game console of the world). Now the Jagulator was released as open Source. Maybe somebody has time and joy to port the Jagulator for the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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01.Oct.2001
WHDLoad

Installer: New installers for WHDLoad
WHDLoad lets you install floppy-based games onto your harddisc. The following installers were added or updated.

30.09.01 improved: Kult/Chamber Of The Sci-Mutant Priestess (Exxos/Infogrames) supports another version
30.09.01 new: Winter Camp (Thalamus) done by Codetapper
30.09.01 new: Quest of Agravain (Codemasters) done by Codetapper
30.09.01 new: Ray Of Hope (Majic 12) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
30.09.01 new: Barbarian 2/Axe of Rage (Palace SoftWare) done by CFOU!
30.09.01 new: Alien Breed 3D (Team 17) done by Psygore
30.09.01 improved: Trivial Pursuit (Domark) german version added
30.09.01 new: Purple Saturn Day (Exxos) done by CFOU!
30.09.01 improved: Drakkhen (Infogrames) some changes
30.09.01 fixed: Titan (Titus) AF removed
30.09.01 new: Plan 9 From Outer Space (Gremlin Graphics) done by CFOU!

(ps) (Translation: sk)

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01.Oct.2001
László Török PalMooVId Version 1.1 (Demo) - AVI-Player for PalmOS
If you want to watch AVI-files with your Palm-device there is a demoversion of PalMooVId available at the title link. The program was developed by László Török, well known for his AVI-player for Amiga computers. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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01.Oct.2001
Maxworld Personal finance: Screenshots of HomeBank 1.9
HomeBank helps you to manage your personal finances as well as the monitor the costs of your car. There are some screenschots of the new version available at the title link. This new version should be released in the first days of October. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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01.Oct.2001
GeoWorld GeoWorld® Developer-Tool
André Beer and David McMinn are currently working on the finishing of GeoWorld-developer-tool. With this tool you are able to change or extend the infos about countries or towns and international organizations. Data updates will still be released in the future. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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01.Oct.2001
Oliver Roberts Datatype: WarpDTPrefs Version 44.6a
WarpDTPrefs lets you change the preferences of the datatypes by Oliver Roberts.

Download: WarpDTprefs.lha (ps)

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01.Oct.2001
amiga.org Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #51
Issue number 51 of the online-magazine Amiga Information Online (AIO) is now available.

AIO use their own viewer, available for AmigaOS.

Download: AIOV51.LHA (sd) (Translation: sk)

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01.Oct.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF) Eyetech Statement on AmigaOne/OS4
On the AmigaOne mailing list Alan Redhouse responds to requests regarding the AmigaOne / OS4.0 development status and to reclamations regarding the long period of time without any new announcement.

>>The Eyetech timeline hasn't been updated for over a quarter (northern hemisphere tm.) ;) and as I see it, we are, in a way, partners with Eyetech and Amiga Inc. and so it would be courteous and helpful if they could give us some kind of update on the situation. Delays if necessary are fine (well, y'know what I mean) and I certainly don't want to add to the pressures that Alan and Eyetech etc are already under, but I think it would be reasonable to break the silence.

>Would giving you / anyone on this list / me more information affect how many units they ship? Businesses aren't courteous because they're, well, because they're businesses I guess.

It is about business, not about a lack of courteousness and, particularly, the A1 project is not a reality TV show or soap opera.

This is a complex, specialist project that no large (sane?) company would undertake for a small and diminishing market. The end result has to be affordable, despite the small production runs so the whole development has to be done under very tight cost control.

Of course in any complex project there are snags and solutions, holdups and breakthroughs almost daily, many of which are outside our and our partners control. However it is our collective jobs to sort them out professionally and not to conduct our daily business lives as if we were on Big Brother, Loft Story (or whatever its called in your country).

This is also made more difficult by us trying to be as open as possible within the bounds of NDA's and the propensity of mailing lists to rumourmonger. We have deliberately kept this list open, but the commercial downside is that Bill Hoggett misses no opportunity to promote Amithlon and knock the whole PPC concept, Paul Qureshi doesn't love Eyetech (for some reason that I'm unclear about) and thinks Elbox's rumoured solution is best. And we know Ralph Schmidt is in the list representing the interests of bplan who are also intending to compete for the contents of Amigan's wallets. All that means that we have to be even more aware of the misinterpretation of any information that we put out.

Its also common and public knowledge (ie Bill said it in his St Louis speech) that Amiga Inc are having difficulty raising their second round of finance since the tech meltdown earlier this year. This has inevitably had an effect on the level of resources that they have been able to put into the A1/OS4.x project, and there has therefore had to be a reallocation of financial and operational responsibilities within it across the other partners. This all takes time (and money) to sort out and so, yes there have been some delays. And it is obviously important to treat all the A1/OS4.0 work as a single project because it is clearly not feasible to sell the hardware in advance of the OS being ready - all you get then is a very expensive but not very functional paperweight.

However OS4.0 is now well under way and looks like it will make a November release, but maybe not the 1st.

So why has there been silence?

- Everyone wants certainty in announcements, either to plan and be reassured, or to snipe and start rumours. There is no point in making announcements while negotiations are still proceeding and therefore some aspects of the outcome are still uncertain.

- Amiga Inc has been on the verge (and still is) of obtaining a substantial funding package for the past few months, which would clearly change the resources available for the project substantially. We have all been hoping to make a joint news announcement incorporating this and its effect on the A1/OS4.x project.

- There are many individuals providing input to the project and they all need to be consulted prior to making substantive announcements. In fact I'm probably breaking my own code of conduct in this respect by posting this note.

Ok thats not a lot, but its all this list is getting from me today. I hope it helps.

Alan

PS Several people have commented that they think we have a monopoly supply position with the A1 board. Well we do have the only PPC product that will run OS4.0 (although we are pressing for OS4.0 to be released for the Cyberstorm PPC as well), but that is because OS4.0 needs an existing Classic Amiga chipset to run. In theory there would be nothing to stop someone (eg bplan) designing a pci card with the classic chipset on and using it as the basis of the classic compatibility on a CHRP-compatible board. But the economics of doing this just don't add up, particularly when A1200's are readily and cheaply available (the type - PAL or NTSC - doesn't matter) and there would be a significant amount of additional work in porting/testing OS4.0 to work on this new card. Given the small market size there is really only scope for one A1-type product. If someone else had been mad enough to decide to build one we would almost certainly have decided to drop out - so there would still have been only a single product to choose from.
(ps)

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01.Oct.2001
Jürgen Haage (E-Mail) H&P answers questions about AmigaOS XL FAQ
As reported H&P made a German online FAQ about the emulator AmigaOS XL available. After reading the FAQ I asked Jürgen Haage some questions concerning the point 30. Following you will find the answers.

FAQ:
30. What about AmigaOS 4.0?
The development is managed by Amiga Inc.

Question to H&P:
AmigaOS 4.0 should be exhibited with the AmigaOne in November this year. Does the follwing sentence mean that H&P is not currently working on AmigaOS 4.0 for AmigaOne?

Jürgen Haage:
As you may know the discussion started early this year. The first prototypes were planned for March. We planned the development of our part of AmigaOS4 according to this date. The first presentation was expected for the St. Louis Show in April...
But up until know we still have no hardware to develop for.

FAQ:
It is mainly a porting of AmigaOS 3.9 to PPC. Only some few new components are planned for this release. They are also available for 68k and could be easyly used with Amithlon/AmigaXL. But this is a decision of Amiga Inc.

Question to H&P:
This means that it is only some political decision made by Amiga Inc. if OS4 will be available for Classic-Amigas?

Jürgen Haage:
There are some important assumptions to be able to make a political decision. I do not think that these assumptions are available at the moment.
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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30.Sep.2001
Thomas Igracki (ANF) Audio: cddb.library
With this library every programmer can integrate CDDB support in his/her programs without knowledge of cddb protokols or tcp/ip.

CDDB is about a database of audio CDs from which one can draw title, track title, etc. of any desired audio CD.

Download: cddb-lib.lzx (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Sep.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF) Aminet: Initial beta version of the new amiNET.GUI
Alexander Kurtz wrote:
The amiNET.GUI is being reworked completely to be changed from a static HTML site to a dynamic PHP script.

This will bring much advantages to the users.

Now I'm able to offer the dowload pages in several languages and can even add more languages without any problem.

Moreover an automatic debriefing of the MOD (Message Of the Day) is possible. So the user immediately will be informed about trojans or viruses, if appear in the Aminet.

Before long it also will be possible to automatically let create a message on the news page, if you upload using amiNET.GUI

Soon I will be able to offer an operative version of AULA.

An initial beta version of the new amiNET.GUI is online. This is far from containing all of the functions, but already views the direction the amiNET.GUI is going.

My ambition is to get the amiNET.GUI off beta status until the Amiga meeting on 17. November 2001 in Bremen, Germany.

I would be very happy to learn about your opinion and/or suggestions, cause the amiNET.GUI wasn't made for me only, but for you. (sd)

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30.Sep.2001
AmigaArt Audio: Betas of AHI V5.17 and paula.audio V4.27
Martin Blom released beta version 5.17 of the 'ahi.device' for PPC/68k, and beta version 4.27 of 'paula.audio'.

This release contains bugfixes for AmigaOS, MorphOS, and Amithlon.

Download shortcut: www.lysator.liu.se/~lcs/files/ahi/beta/ (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Sep.2001
Amiga-News.net (ANF) Ride agency to the show and other events
xandiy wrote:
Like all the other past years, again I offer a ride agency. This time at Amiga-News.net (has nothing to do with amiga-news.de).

Me and other Amiga devotees would be happy about many offers and requests.

xandiy (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Sep.2001
Amiga Future Amiga-Society: Software page extended, Schlachtfeld bugfix
The Amiga-Society website was updated. New or extended articles were added to the software page, primarily by the help of Nico Barbat, Falke Verlag (AMIGAplus).

The current archives for the strategy game Schlachtfeld were missing the sound files 6_24 to 6_28. On 30. September those missing sounds were included and released on the download page.

Download: Schlachtfeld2_V2.15.lzx (1613K) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Sep.2001
Amiga Future

Event: AMIGA World 2001 on 17./18. November 2001 (update)
Amiga Future magazine on their website report about the 'Amiga WORLD 2001' to take place on 17th and 18th November 2001 in the 'Mediapark 6' in Cologne. About 400 m² of exhibition space is available there. The Falke Verlag is organizer of this fair.

Amiga Future established a thread on this show in their forum with topical news and discussions.

According to AMIGAplus magazine the following exhibitors would attend this show:

Amiga Inc.
AMIGAplus
Amiga Active
Amiga Future
APC&TCP
bplan
Cloanto
COOLbits
DCE
Eternity
e.p.i.c. interactive
Haage & Partner
Hyperion
individual Computer
KDH Datentechnik
Matay
Merlancia or Vesalia

(sd)

Update 01. October 2001:
From today, on the website for this Amiga show it is mentioned that this show is called 'AMIGA 2001' and will take place in the KOMED in Cologne, Germany. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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30.Sep.2001
Oliver Förster (ANF) Music: Sid4 Amiga Beta V3.34
On 28. September 2001 Paul Heams has released a new beta version of the SID-(C64-music-)player 'SID4Amiga'.

New is a 'Reverb' routine which makes it possible to add a bit atmosphere to the good old pieces of C64-music.

Download: S4AB_334.lha (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Sep.2001
Olaf Koebnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: Interview with J. Jalkanen and full version of
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
Janne Jalkanen, developer of the image editing software "PPT" answered the questions of the Amiga Arena and unveiled interesting stuff about his future and the AmigaDE.

Amiga Arena - BladeHD
After many users weren't able to run the Amiga Arena version of the RPG game "Blade" by Mark S., the final German version is available for exclusive donwload. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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30.Sep.2001
Soren Ladegaard (ANF) More C= Commodore TV-commercials
A 16 second videoclip (mpeg) showing "Commodore Amiga präsentiert - Seaquest DSV" recorded from German RTL television is now available for download at The Commodore Billboard in the "Commercials -> Amiga" section. Audio preview available too. (ps)

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30.Sep.2001
Tom,s Hardware Guide Tom's Hardware Guide: ATi Radeon 7500: Class for the mass
»ATi a bit precipitated made inroads into the editorial offices with prototypes of the Radeon 7500 and 8500. Now the final silicon was finished for the cheaper variant Radeon 7500 and it now is shipping to the vendors. Innately this board comes with dual monitor support and a TV out connector.«
Complete article (German) see title link.

More articles about this subject:
Tom's Hardware Guide: GeForce3 Under Attack: ATi's Radeon 8500 Previewed
Tom's Hardware Guide: SMARTSHADER - Up The Pixel Shader Ladder
Tom's Hardware Guide: Matrox Launches The G550
Tom's Hardware Guide: More articles from the graphics boards field.
(cm) (Translation: mj)

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30.Sep.2001
Hard Tecs 4U Hard Tecs 4U: Prices for the new Athlon XP turned up
»Initial information about prices for the new Athlon XP turned up at The Register.«
Complete article see title link. (cm)

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30.Sep.2001
Tom's Hardware Guide Tom's Hardware Guide: TFT prices still in downtrend
»Market investigators continue to expect TFT screen prices to tend downwards. Near the end of 3Q01 prices for these handy displays will be about 20% cheaper than early this year. The analyzers all in all expect twice as much devices to be sold in 2001 compared to sales of the previous year.«
Complete article (German) see title link. (cm) (Translation: mj)

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29.Sep.2001
Jens Henschel (ANF) AMIGAplus forum online again
Today at 14:30 h has the AMIGAplus forum gone online again. The bugs were removed and the design got a revision. Enjoy posting! (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Sep.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page Tool: giFT V0.9.6
giFT V0.9.6 is a generic interface to FastTrack, the Peer-to-Peer network that is used by Morpheus, KaZaA and Grokster for shared use of files. Available for download are versions for 020, 040 and 060 CPUs as well as a MorphOS version. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Sep.2001
programmed-excellence.de Genealogy program for Amiga in the works
Sven Dröge is working on a genealogy program for the Amiga. The idea for this program came him when Sven looked at his father-in-law who was doing some investigation about his family. That man entered personal data into some software on the PC. The PC software owns an export function into the GEDCOM format, the default data exchange format for family tree data. Sven Dröge asked his father-in-law to open such a file for him, and he got information about this format from the Internet.

As further investigation showed that such software doesn't exist for the Amiga, the decision was made to program a genealogy program himself. ´Dynasty´ was born and the plan is to make Dynasty that genealogy program for the AMIGA. You can read about already realized resp. planned features under the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Sep.2001
Volker Grabbe (email) Scanner calibration software ICS for AmigaOS 4?
Volker Grabbe has asked Wolf Faust, the programmer of the scanner calibration software ICS, about the future development of this software. With permission by Wolf Faust we release the questions and answers:

Volker Grabbe:
Good day, Mr. Faust, as I use on my A4K Scanquix 5, I'd like to ask you a question. What about coming support of the AmigaOS 4.x from your side? May Amiga Inc. possibly have approached you because of your product to be integrated into the OS?

Wolf Faust:
No. AmigaOS 4 is at least for me rather far away. Neither was I asked about it. And even if so, right now there's simply a lack of time for something like this. And even if there would be time there had to be something happening financially to view OS 4 as development platform. In the end the investments into OS 4 have to pay back sometime. Many of the developments here in the last time are extremly expensive and would almost be not financeable even in the best of Amiga times.

Volker Grabbe:
I didn't want to embarrass you with my questions yet I am curious about the future.

Wolf Faust:
Quite clear: there'll be only developments that aren't Amiga specific. But Amiga users make profit of the expensive developments for PC/Mac. It would be inconceivable for example to realize the coming offer for transparency units only for Amiga users. The investments alone for the machine/working time are running into the hundreds of thousands.
But when I look at the little number of accesses by Amiga users to my website etc. I'm beginning to doubt that even this makes still sense in the long run. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Sep.2001
Stefan Blixth (email)

OnyxSoft: Cathedral v1.1 and updates

New Program : Cathedral (version 1.1)

Information : - This is a program made to create
really *phat* reverb effects on
audio samples.

- Included engines :
* 68020 (w/o FPU)
* 68040 (FPU)
* PPC-WarpOS
* PPC-PowerUP

Use your PPC to create "phat"
echo-effects very quikcly :-)


----
New version : DECH (version 1.4)

Information : - It can now be used for other
compilers than AmigaE!

- It's possible to save 5 different
pre-defined command-lines for
your five favourite compilers.

- Plus other useful changes.

---
New version : TheMPegEncGUI (version 2.08)

Information : - Added a settable delay between
the encoding of files in the list
to let the filesystem save it's
directory structure to prevent
eventual loss of finished mp3's
in case of a crash.

- Added some modes for Lame.

----

And if you have some minutes over, please fill
in our little survey at:
http://www.onyxsoft.nu/survey.html

(ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Sep.2001
Werner Lange (email) HCS Lange: no calls possible until 1.10.2001 (Update)
As the Amiga repair company HCS Lange has moved recently it cannot be contacted via phone because of the switching of the telephone number. From 02.10.2001 on should the line work again.

HCS Lange
AMIGA & COMMODORE SERVICE
32756 Detmold
Phone and Fax 05231 - 34530

Update 30.09.2001:
HCS Lange is available via email. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Sep.2001
Florian Rehnisch (ANF) Discussion about deleting of news:de.comp.sys.amiga.archive
On news:de.admin.news.groups they are discussing at the moment the deleting of the newsgroup de.comp.sys.amiga.archive.

The newsgroup was used for releasing announcements and archive lists of mailboxes and FTP sites, but is for some time now only used for daily upload statistics of the Aminet. The proponent of the process (Simon Paqet) is thinking that this can't be the meaning of a newsgroup that is distributed worldwide via many news servers.
(Title link: 1.RfD via Google-Groups) (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Sep.2001
Michael Göken (ANF) Event: pictures of and report about the Amclust meeting
Michael 'MCP' Göken wrote:
The second Amclust meeting 2001 was again a full success. The Amclust and the AC Osnabrück met last weekend.
On this occasion were many interesting views exchanged regarding the present situation of the Amiga market and its loyal users.

As highlight Thomas Dellert presented his PCI-Board 'GREX'. All were very impressed by the new hardware, only the price is set a little bit too high in many users' opinion.

In addition has our Guido Mersmann introduced his keyboard adapter which offers really many features, for example hardware password protection, multimedia keys, computer on/off, etc.. For this exists a superb software that is also already available on Aminet. On interest email to Geit@gmx.de. Apart from that people had been working for three days with the Amigas. We've taken some snapshots of this event (see title link). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Sep.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF) Digital Almanac III - news
Good news for all users of and people interested in Digital Almanac III. After the sales of the astronomy software had to be stopped because of defective hardware it can go on again. There's hardware again, so the development and the sales of the CD-ROMs can restart. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Sep.2001
Tao Group Tao Group: Tao Strengthens Wireless Java
Reading, England, September 27, 2001 -- Tao Group today announces it has acquired additional intellectual property software rights from ASCII Corporation in Japan to further strengthen its 'intent JavaTM Technology Edition' software suite.

The Tao Java product, compliant with industry standards and Sun Microsystems-branded, has been developed over five years and is already being installed into an array of products including digital cameras, phones, pda's, digital televisions, set top boxes, personal computers and web tablets. The various specifications supported by the intent JTE are compact and robust, and run real world content many times faster than any alternative.

Dr. Paddy Byers, Chief Technology Officer of Tao said: "Emphasis on the development of Tao's product has always been on enabling Java technology-based services that the operators and manufacturers must be able to deliver to the consumer to support their economic models. The agreement with ASCII makes our story stronger than ever."

Francis Charig, Tao's Chairman, commented: "This is an excellent acquisition for Tao as we consolidate the technology on the intent media stack for both wireless and wired devices. Our Java product is part of a comprehensive multimedia, language independent solution which is uniquely helping companies take compelling and differentiated products to market both quickly and at low cost."

The conclusion of the ASCII Agreement is the first of several key announcements by Tao in the wireless space over the coming months.
The complete press release can be found following the title link. (ps)

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28.Sep.2001
Markus Pohlmann (ANF) New role-playing game for Classic Amigas in the works
Project Crashsite - that'll be the name of the new role-playing game for Classic Amigas which is currently still under development. The role-playing game in the science fiction genre will require a CD-ROM, 68040 (minimum) and a graphics card.

Here an excerpt from the description:
»Mankind has reached for the stars and colonized a planet system. Far away from Sol, Future II develops into a self-sufficient economy system with own government. Not only has this government plans for Future II but the Sol government also. The third in the trio is McJevl, the space flight company who made the settling and terraforming possible. McJevl has plans too, and gets a big chance to make them reality.
Here enters the player as member of the Future Security Corps, the system-internal police. With a team consisting of up to six characters, law and order must be preserved in Future II. A difficult task which gets even harder as a meteor hits one of the planets and an eye-witness of the event is being murdered before the eyes of the Future Security Corps.
Investigations lead to the fact that this is not the only death ...«

Up-to-date information on the game development are now available at projektcrashsite.de. If you want to get a first impression of what the Classic Amiga is in for you should surf by.

Comments, suggestions and critics are welcome. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Sep.2001
AudioLabs Audiosoftware: ProStationAudio compatible with G-Rex PCI bus boards
ProStationAudio is compatible with G-Rex PCI busboards by DCE and Terratec PCI audio boards. Frank Mariak, DCE's software designer of drivers for the G-Rex, confirms that drivers they just made for the 128i and 512i Terratec models have passed preliminary tests for analog I/O with ProStationAudio. Drivers for the 512i are being extended with S/P-DIF support.

G-Rex makers and AudioLabs are actively cooperating to provide the best compatibility between this new PCI busboard and ProStationAudio (a big thank you to Frank for his continued and accurate work).

The G-Rex PCI busboard, available in two models for the A4000 and A1200 is a solution developed specifically for owners of P5/DCE CyberStorm and Blizzard PPC and/or 68K CPU cards. The G-Rex 4000D replaces the stock A4000 backplane, offering slots for PCI and Zorro cards. ProStationAudio takes advantage as well of PCI graphic cards installed on the G-Rex. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Sep.2001
dynAMIteXXL Game: dynAMIteXXL version 1.7a
dynAMIteXXL version 1.7a, a Bomberman clone, is available for download. dynAMIte requires from this version on the identify.library V13. This update contains many changes which are listed in the changes text.

Download: dynAMIte.lha - dynAMIte.readme (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Sep.2001
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF) Software update for Prometheus
Matay has released small software upgrade for Prometheus - Zorro III to PCI bridge. It consists of new version of SANA-II driver for Ethernet cards based on RTL8029 chip, and small graphical network traffic monitor called NetMeter. These can be downloaded from Prometheus support page. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Sep.2001
Amarpreet Singh Munde (ANF) Datatype: DocDatatypes V40.22
Amarpreet Singh Munde has released an update of DocDatatypes.

DocDatatypes is a set of datatype classes for documents. The list of supported formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text.

New for this version (40.22) is the support of writing Compressed Palm Docs and the fixing of the Mac Write, Mac Text, Mac TeachText and WordPerfect 4 descriptors. Also all datatypes have had some speed improvements and memory optimisations.

There is also the latest version of FindFile in the archive. A new fast, easy to use file finder application that offers search by name, size, date, and even file type.

Also, in association with Amiga Arena, DocDatatypes Lite is available for registration at a reduced fee for those who do not require support of all the exotic formats.

Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Sep.2001
AmiBench AmiBench celebrates 4th birthday
Mark 'tecno' Wilson, maintainer of AmiBench, the website for international and free ads, celebrates the fourth birthday of the website with a quiz. Happy birthday. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Sep.2001
AmiDog

AmiDog: AMP PPC-Movieplayer V2.04
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has made available version 2.04 of his movie player 'AMP' for PPC for download. AMP is a shareware program which can currently play the following multimedia formats:

MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
MP2/MP3 audio streams
FLI/FLC
AC3 streams

Changes since AMP v2.03:

Optimized the AC3 decoder, it's about 50% faster now.
Added LORES option that will decode the MPEG at 1/4 of the original size (i.e. half width and half height). This is about twice as fast depending on bitrate and resolution.
Fixed some bad init in the MPEGV decoder, should remove the jerky playback at startup.
Fixed AC3 sync bug causing it to not work at all. Also, pausing may have caused any kind of strange effects.
Made the subtitle decoder handle LORES as well.
Fixed the "PPC Alignment Exception" problem.
GUI: Replaced Gray with Mode and added options for Gray/Color with/without Lores.

Download: AMP204.lha (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Sep.2001
Golem (M. Lunk by e-mail) Golem: Vim 6.0 - new version of the free Vi editor clone
»New version offers many new functions
More than one year after the first alpha release, the finished version of the editor Vim 6.0 (Vi Improved) sees the light of day. The free Vi clone is still almost 100% compatible with the almost legendary Unix editor "Vi" but offers many extensions and is tailor-made for the needs of programmers.«
Full German article at the title link.

Update:
Download Amiga version: Mirror Oldenburg (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Sep.2001
Bernd Roesch (ANF) Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.17r2
WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K and WinXP, has been released in version 0.8.17 Release 2 (JIT version). At the title link you'll find a detailed listing of the improvements and changes.

Download: WinUAE0817R2.exe (ps) (Translation: rh)

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27.Sep.2001
Golem Golem: Corel still with profits
»Profit and sales declining
In 3Q01 Corel gained sales of 34.2 millions USD which is slightly less than the 36.4 millions USD of last year and the 36 millions USD of 2Q01. Profit was at 500,000 USD or 0.01 USD per share.«
Complete article see title link (German).

Another message about this subject:
The Register: Corel makes money shock!
(cm) (Translation: mj)

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27.Sep.2001
Ralph Ewers (ANF) Hardware: Water cooling for Cyberstorm-PPC
A do-it-yourself project which might be of special interest for overclockers, since water is known to cool better than air does. This is said to run trouble-free up to know - at this time the author has in mind to utilize a peltier element together with the water cooling.

Even if one would not try this himself, it is vital to take a look at the picture of this reconstructed CSPPC on the page - somehow fascinating :-).
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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27.Sep.2001
CyberGraphX Homepage CyberGraphX Homepage: Visionary site established
Since early September the official CyberGraphX homepage is being regularly update again, after a small time-out, and the readers are provided with interesting information all about CyberGrahpX. At the title link you will find the newly established sub-site 'Visionary' with many screenshots of Workbenches running Visionary. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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27.Sep.2001
Thomas Wolf (ANF) AmigaKult: Graphic artist wanted!
AmigaKult is wanting one or more graphic artist/s to create small logos and pictures for the AmigaKult homepage. If you are interested, please send a sample of your skills to Thomas. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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27.Sep.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail) Elbox approves software
Elbox Computer is pleased to announce formulation of its new policy aimed at ensuring total compatibility of software written for Mediator PCI busboards by external developers with hardware and software designed and produced by Elbox.

Medication by Richard Brooklyn is the first program for Mediator to obtain the status of "Approved by ELBOX." The "Approved by ELBOX" seal means that ELBOX guarantees this program to be fully compatible with Elbox hardware and software.

Medication is a tool for every Mediator user. It allows configuring all the PCI cards installed in the Mediator busboard in one easy-to-use MUI based GUI.

Medication allows configuring all of the supported PCI boards installed in Mediator. It enables setting of: tooltypes in the Picasso96 graphic system, graphic card parameters, AHI preferences and sound card settings, TV card settings and control over parameters of the screen displayed by the TV card.

See the screenshots of the Medication program: http://www.geocities.com/richardbrooklyn/

More info about the Medication program: http://www.amiga-mediator.co.uk/medication/medication.shtml
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27.Sep.2001
Markus Schmidt (ANF) Update of the ICQ user list
Due to other projects Markus Schmidt had less time to intensively care for the ICQ user list. Hence a lot of registrations retained of which the number of 26 now have been entered to the list. Six new post code sections were added by this. The number of 20 entries remaining will be entered to the list during the following days.

Markus Schmidt: "By this I ask anybody, who might already have been missing his/her entry, to apologize and for a little understanding! The list is being maintained by me only and by hand, which sometimes leads to a longer delay before the next update. In the future I'll try to prevent longer queue times."
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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27.Sep.2001
Oliver Does (ANF) Vesalia: Blizzard-PPC changeover project
Due to great demand for G-REX 1200 boards Vesalia Computer starts one-time and time limited changeover project for Blizzard PPC with 68040/25 to 68050/50. Prices contain changeover cost including flashROM update and of course the 68060 CPU. This offer is also valid for defective Blizzard PPC boards, but doesn't include cost of repair (time and material). More information under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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27.Sep.2001
Christian Rosentreter (ANF) Picture sequence "Commodore Amiga" released
Photo session with an 'old girl-friend'; the model is about an Amiga 4000D built into a BigTower. As a homage to the community keeping this system alive since eight years Christian Rosentreter released an arty picture sequence. More information and the pictures are to find under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Sep.2001
WHDLoad

Installer: New pakets for WHDLoad (until 25.09.2001)
Games which are only made for floppy discs can now be installed on harddrive with the help of WHDLoad. The following pakets have been added or updated:

25.09.01 new: Heimdall 2 (Core Design) done by CFOU!
25.09.01 new: Dream Tripping (Digital) done by Psygore (ReadMe, Image)
25.09.01 improved: Defender Of The Crown (Cinemaware) small fix
24.09.01 new: Tetrix (Markus Olinger/CT-Verlag) done by Codetapper
24.09.01 new: Copper Master (Angels) done by Galahad (ReadMe, Image)

(ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Sep.2001
Amigan Software Amigan Software-Updates: WormWars V6.81 and Report+ V5.05
At Amigan Software there are updated versions of the game WormWars (V6.81) and of the tool Report+ (V5.05).

Download:
wormwars.lha (734 KB)
report.lha (420 KB) (ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Sep.2001
AudioLabs Audio software: ProStationAudio version 4.20
Version 4.20 of the audio software 'ProStationAudio' has been published. The new version supports all ALPS-plugins. The update will be sent to registered users. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Sep.2001
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail) Amiga.org: Opinion poll for the most popular browser
In the right menu of the Amiga.org-mainsite you will find an opinion poll which asks you for your most popular browser. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Sep.2001
Haage&Partner H&P website with new layout
H&P writes:
From today on the new newssite is online. After some experiments with colours and the formation of the head-, bottom- and news area the current layout has been created. As the dominating colour you will find a dark red with white characters - based on the traditional Amiga-colours. On the right border the information column has been placed again. There are messages which besides the current news in the middle will have a staying importance. Up to now only the newssite has been renewed but the rest will follow little by little.

The startpage of our Internet performance www.haage-partner.de or www.haage-partner.com has been also refreshed thus you can access on the current topics in a better way.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Sep.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page Email-program: Anubis V1.0.2
Anubis is an anonymous mailsender which supports WinGate, encrypted TSL/SSL, anonymous remailing, news posting and much more. You can download the program as MorphOS-version, too.

Download: anubis.lha - anubis-mos.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Sep.2001
Markus Lunk (E-Mail) Blittersoft sold to Virtual Programming Ltd. (update)
Blittersoft has been bought out by Virtual Programming Ltd. As a result, VP will assume all rights to the product range owned or distributed by Blittersoft, as well as carrying other Amiga products. VP will be supporting both the Classic Amiga and new Amiga markets. All existing Blittersoft customers will be supported by VP and further development will continue.

Update 29. September 2001:
At Amiga Flame you can find an extended article regarding this subject. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Sep.2001
Bob Scharp (E-Mail) Event: No more Amiga-shows in St. Louis
Since 1994 Bob and Diana Scharp have organized a great Amigashow in St. Louis and have spent much of their spare time for it. Now they decided to adopt a child which of course will have supreme priority and which lead to the decision of organizing no more shows. Now please read the complete article:

P.O. Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044
http://www.amiga-stl.com
bscharp@icon-stl.net

Fellow Amigans,

Over the years, Amigan-St. Louis, (Bob & Diana Scharp), have brought you many years of Amiga fun and edification. Namely the Amiga shows we hosted in St. Louis, MO. U.S.A. Since early 1994, we have been involved with providing the Amiga community with some of the best Amiga shows ever put on. Eventually we formed our own company, Amigan-St. Louis, to run these shows as they got too big to handle with just volunteers.

We have had many famous people and groups attend, exhibit, and showcase their products at our events. Some notable guests include a few Astronauts - Steve Nagel and Linda Godwin, a singing and dancing group - ANNEX, some celebrities - all of the various Amiga owners, presidents, staff. Notables such as Petro Tyschtschenko, Mitch Stone of Boycott Micro$oft, radio host Jim Singler, plus too many famous Amigans to mention.

We have not only hosted shows, but held banquets that have become famous by themselves. Who would ever forget the reintroduction of Amiga with Gateway, or even better with Bill McEwen. Then there was the ROAST of Petro Tyschtschenko. We celebrated Petro's many years of service to the Amiga community and his retirement the day of the banquet at our show Amiga2001. That will live in our hearts for many years.

Unfortunately, we cannot continue the shows for now. There will be no Amiga 2002© show, sponsored by us. The good news, is the reason why.

Diana and I are adopting a child. Our lives will be even busier than usual this year and next, so we will have to pass the torch, at least for awhile, to others. Although we are not ruling out the possibility of a future show sponsored by us, we just can't possibly do any for now.

We hope you will understand. We hope you will keep the Amiga in your hearts. Hey, we hope to see some of you at other shows and events. Maybe we will be able to bring our newest Amigan with us.

So for now, we bid farewell to the show side of our business, but please consider purchasing some of our latest products from our company.

"Petro ROAST tape"*.................... only $ 15 + $ 5 s&h
"Amiga Antenna balls".................. only $ 3 + $ 1 s&h
"Amiga Coffee Mug (no.2)............... only $ 12 + $ 5 s&h
"Other Bounce-back video tapes......... see web site

* Petro ROAST tape will be available in a few weeks. For other products, see our web page.

Mail your orders to:

Amigan-St. Louis
PO Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044

Please make checks payable to Amigan-St. Louis, in U.S. funds. Postal Money orders are also accepted. No credit cards or pay pal.

You can also visit our web site for details, at: http://www.amiga-stl.com

As a final note on Amiga shows in the U.S., I understand that Kermit Woodall of Nova Design is putting one together for the east coast. It is supposed to be held the last weekend of March 2002. For information, keep an eye on amiga.org and other news sites.

It has been a great pleasure working with many of you, and showcasing the Amiga and it's capabilities. I wish all of you great success, and we hope to see you all again.

Best Regards,

Bob & Diana Scharp (ps) (Translation: dr)

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25.Sep.2001
Richard Körber (ANF) Tool: Identify-Update with AmigaXL-Support
The Identify-package is now available in version 13.0. New is the AmigaXL support. The library does not only convert Guru- and Zorroboard IDs into a readable format, it also displays several data about the used system. Added tools like ListExp are very useful to create bugreports. Identify can be used by Assembler, C, Basic, Pascal, E, and ARexx and from the Installer. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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25.Sep.2001
Jörg Brenner (ANF)

Lexsite: Update of Hardware-Website
Today the Amiga-Hardware-Website is updated. New released on the Lexsite are following expansions:

Kupke Golem Turbo 1000 (Turboboard for A1000)
DCE SX 32 Pro (CD32-Turboboard and general expansion)
Commodore CDTV
AmiTrix SCSI-TV (SCSI-Controller for CDTV)
Breitfeld AccessX 500 & 2000 (IDE-Controller)
California Access Malibu (SCSI-Controller for Zorro II)
Commodore A570 (CD-ROM-Drive)
Expansion Systems DataFlyer 500 Express (SCSI-/IDE-Controller for A500)
GVP Impact A2000 (Series I) (SCSI-Controller for Zorro II)
HK-Computer Vector SCSI (SCSI-Controller for Zorro II)
Mainhattan Data Paradox (SCSI-Adaptor)
M.A.S.T. Tiny Tiger (SCSI-Adaptor)
Protar A500 HD (SCSI-Controller)
Roctec RocHard (IDE-Controller for A500)
Combitec S-RAM (Memoryexpansion for A500)
CP-Computer CP500 Plus/Vario 3 (Memoryexpansion for A500+)
CP-Computer MegiChip (ChipRAM-Expansion)
DKB Mem 1200 (Memoryexpansion for A1200)
Intelligent Memory Pro-RAM (Memoryexpansion for A500)
MacroSystem Multi Mega Box (Meoryexpansion for A500)
RBW RAM Fighter 2000 (Memoryexpansion for Zorro II)
W.A.W. 2MB ChipRAM Adaptor
W.A.W. BigRAM 25 (Memoryexpansion for A500)
W.A.W. BigRAM 30 (Memoryexpansion for A500+)

Also added are photos and/or gallery pictures for 15 expansions, more details here.

Many Thanks to all who gave material for the Lexsite. The website will be continued so we are still looking for supplements and pictures (especially about the latest expansions). (ps) (Translation: gf)

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25.Sep.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)

H&P: AmigaOS XL Roadshow
H&P will present LIVE the AmigaOS-XL on several events, because you can not imagine the increase of performance if you have not seen it with your own eyes. Here are the first dates:

20.-21. October 2001: Pianeta 2001, Empoli, Italy, Info
3. November 2001: World Of Amiga 2001, Brentwood, Essex, UK. Info
17. November 2001: Amiga-User-Club Bremen (Germany)

More informations and dates will follow. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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25.Sep.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF) AmigaFire: Pagan Games releases first AmigaDE game
On AmigaFire.com the first AmigaDE game from Pagan Games (Earth 2140, Dafel:Bloodline) including Screenshots is presented. "It is based upon the principle of gravity is described best with `Tetris meets Pool - in Space'" (ps) (Translation: gf)

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25.Sep.2001
mp3Play homepage (ANF) mp3Play v1.2 released
Carl Svensson has released a new version of the minimalistic MPEGA GUI, mp3Play. The new version 1.2 contains a bugfix which removes the problems with playing files with spaces in their names. mp3Play now handles spaces in file names just fine, and furthermore it remembers the last visited directory between loading files. (ps)

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24.Sep.2001
DCE (ANF)

DCE: VISIONARY Software for GREX 1200/ 4000 and BT 878 WINTV
Visionary is some kind of a remote control with a modern graphical interface. It gives access to the wide range of possibilities of the Visual Reality System. With it you can use modern TV/Video PCI-devices with the interface you prefer.

Visionary is made of modules. It supports a greate variety of chips and tuners. Support for new devices is easy to implement. Topicaly Visionary supports the following chips and tuners:

BT878
BT879
BT848
Conexant Fusion 878a
Conexant Fusion 879
Microtune Tuner
Philips Tuner

Visionary is not only easy to use but also skinable. You are not only able to watch TV on your Workebnch, Visionary also offers a cool way to do it. Additional information is available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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24.Sep.2001
Oliver Roberts

Datatype: Update of Warp-Datatypes by Oliver Roberts
Oliver Roberts released updated versions of the following datatypes:

WarpJPEG.datatype 44.24 - 24.9.2001 - Freeware - JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
WarpPNG.datatype 44.20 - 24.9.2001 - Freeware - PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
WarpTIFF.datatype 44.4 - 24.9.2001 - Freeware - TIFF picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
WarpBMP.datatype 44.5 - 24.9.2001 - Freeware - BMP picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
WarpPSD.datatype 44.2 - 24.9.2001 - Freeware - Adobe Photoshop® picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)

(ps) (Translation: sk)

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24.Sep.2001
Da Sixk Port Page Tool: MySQL Simple Query Tool MySQT_0.1a
MySQL Simple Query Tool is an utility that will let you to do queries to a MySQL database with an MUI Gui. MySQT is actually an early alpha version. That means, it has been programmed like some Kro$oft software and will only let you to do "SELECT" queries on small tables. Yes, I have not implemented dynamical memory allocation yet, but this will come. Before starting MySQT don't forget to edit icon tooltypes to fit your database access.

Download: MySQT_0.1a.lzx (ps) (Translation: sk)

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24.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: Interview with Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz
There is an interview with Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz, developer of Frogger/Softcinema, available at Amiga Arena. (ps)

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24.Sep.2001
Matthijs Schonewille (ANF) Website against terrorism - Stop this madness
Hi, I am an ex-Amiga owner. Today I use linux. I know my message has nothing to do with computers, but I hope you'll visit my website anyway. It is a website against terrorism. Please visit it and sign the list. Thank you.

I am still looking for a German translation. If you can help, please contact Matthijs Schonewille. (ps)

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24.Sep.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail) Amiga Future: Interview with Back to the Roots
Today, on the Amiga Future homepage a German interview with the Back to the Roots team was released. 'Back to the Roots' is a popular, extended and legal site to find authorized commercial Amiga software for free download on. An English translation of the interview will follow, soon. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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24.Sep.2001
WHDLoad / Peter The Rat (ANF)

Installer: WHDLoad Version 14.5 and new packets (until 23.09.2001)
Thanks to WHDLoad floppy-disk-only games can be installed to harddisk. Yesterday, version 14.5 was released and furthermore the following packets were added or updated:

23.09.01 new: Beneath A Steel Sky (Virtual Theatre/Virgin) done by JOTD
23.09.01 new: Titan (Titus) done by CFOU!
23.09.01 New WHDLoad V14.5, some fixes and changes
22.09.01 new: Neuromancer (Interplay) done by JOTD
22.09.01 improved: Elfmania (Terramarque/Renegade) misc changes
22.09.01 new: Blade Warrior (Jason Kingsley/Image Works) done by CFOU!
21.09.01 new: Into the Eagle's Nest (Pandora) done by Bored Seal

(ps) (Translation: mj)

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