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18.Jan.2001
amigasdk.com on ANF Exploring MP-Like Solutions
Fleecy Moss (Vice President - Development - Amiga Inc.) talks on the AMIOPEN mailing list about the subject Memory Protection (MP) in the new Amiga. This discussion rose from the amiga-news.de interview with Francis Charig from TAO. Hereupon followed several discussions in the MooBunny forum:

1. Thread Looks (to me) like AmigaDE will never have mp
2. Thread Tao's response to MP in AmigaDE
3. Thread Bill M's response to Tao's response to MP in DE

Also at ANN this subject has been discussed industrious in a long Thread.

There were many comments at amiga.org, too.

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18.Jan.2001
Frederic Laboureur via eMail

PureBasic Version 2.00
Version 2.0 0f the compiler PureBasic has been released. It was completely re-written and now is 4 to 7 times faster than before. For registered users there is an update and a demo version for non-registered users available. The website has moved and now is accessible under www.purebasic.com. Technical details.

About the compiler:

Completely rewritten !
Now, it's 4 to 7 times faster to compile
Faster procedure handling
Multi-dimensioned arrays are now supported
Residents are now saved/loaded in one file
PowerPC code have been removed (nobody want it ?)
Some bugs have been fixed
The switch MC68020 have been added to the command line

About the PureLibraries:

Rewritten the Sprite library (50% faster) and added several commands: SaveSprites(), LoadSprites(), RemoveCookie(), FlushSprite(), SpriteHandle(), CopySprite(), GrabSprite()
Added 'DisableDebugger' and 'EnableDebugger' to disable the debugger for some part within a program.
Added the debugger support for Sprite, Joypad, Chunky and Sound libraries.
Added the following commands: Processor(), MMU(), FPU(), RectsHit(), Hex(), Bin().
Fixed some commands: ListIndex(), FontID(), DrawingFont()

About the editor:

Added a keyboard shortcut to close the error window.

Misc (Full version only):

SpriteGrabber (Allows to get sprites from a picture)
OpenPureBasic (C/C++ -> PureBasic convertor)

The PureBasic web site has now moved to www.purebasic.com. The Windows x86 version is available for free to any Amiga registered users ! Just send us a mail to get it !/li

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18.Jan.2001
QNX New QNX Distribution
Today QNX Software Systems released an new QNX® distribution. This one contains Version 6 of QNY RTOS with new Neutrino® 2.11 mikrokernel, as well as Photon® 2.0 mircoGUI. Newly added was SCSI support, a packet manager allowing to update the integrated browser VoyagerTM. The new distribution offers enhanced support for audio streaming and video in the range of multimedia. More information is to find under the title link.

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18.Jan.2001
amiga.org Planet IT: Interview with Bill McEwen
Dave Johnson from Planet IT did an interview with Bill McEwen, President and CEO at Amiga Inc. on January 8th, 2001.

Here a small extract from the six-pages interview:

Q: It sounds like you have plans to do a lot of things. Where are you concentrating your effort?

A: In the home. Homes need set-tops, desktop computers, handhelds and cell phones. Motorola even has a cell phone running the Amiga OS, by the way. The home is our target, and I think you'll see us first in set-top boxes. We also have some reference designs for some amazing desktops that we think will blow people away. We won't build hardware ourselves, but we have reference designs for others to build.

Q: So there could be new Amiga hardware coming out. Will there also be shrink-wrapped Amiga OS packages to run on Windows?

A: Yes, there will be, but I'm not sure what the timing will be. We're still finishing up some of the last components, like the 3D renderers. That will all be finished up in the next new months. Already, we can run very cool 3D animation on a Cassiopeia, and it is very smooth.

The entire interview is to find under the title link.

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18.Jan.2001
MeterNet MeterNet® Press Release
At the bottom of the following press release MeterNet announced the SimpleBox 8600 series (powered by AmigaDE) to be released late February 2001.

MeterNet® Selects EnReach Technology's Easy Internet Access Platform for SimpleBox wb7500 Series

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 17,2001 PRNewswire -- EnReach Technology, Inc., a global leader providing infrastructure software for enabling enhanced services on television, announced today that MeterNet Corporation has selected the EnReachTV2(TM) Internet access platform to power the new wb7500 series in its expanding SimpleBox entry-level Internet appliance lineup.

The new SimpleBox wb7500 series will utilize a specially tailored version of EnReachTV2 that integrates Webmail, TV Lists, and MeterNet's SimpleBox User Interface. Each SimpleBox wb7500 will ship preconfigured with US Nationwide access dial-up service for $19.95 per month. Multi-lingual English and Spanish technical support will also be provided. Initial US shipments are scheduled for March 2001.

"EnReach's interactive software solution and our new SimpleBox wb7500 series is an easy to use, low-cost combination that targets 'Late Adopters' seeking a simple preconfigured alternative to discover the Internet on their home televisions," said Greg Wible, President of MeterNet.

The EnReachTV2 Internet access software offers companies like MeterNet the opportunity to supply their customers with a low cost Internet access solution optimized for television. Advanced smart-fit screen technology and an embedded browser make this a strong contender in the device marketplace.

"We are pleased to be working with a solution provider like MeterNet, who was identified as one of the six major stand-alone Internet on TV providers by The Carmel Group," said Bo Wu, CEO for EnReach."

MeterNet's SimpleBox Program is dedicated to bringing best of breed solutions to their embedded platforms that target vertical and export markets. Each device incorporates a tailored SimpleBox User Interface (UI) on top of rugged solid-state design hardware with no moving parts. Along with providing simple navigation and operation, the SimpleBox UI offers optional integrated Web-based eMail and TV Listings that are optimized for display on televisions. The new wb7500 series complements the wb6400 series that have been shipping worldwide for the last 18 months and the new broadband wb8600 series that will be released in February.

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18.Jan.2001
Oliver Roberts New WarpBMP.datatype Version 44.1
WarpBMP.datatype v44.1 by Oliver Roberts released. The BMP picture datatype is freeware and available for download for the following processors: 68k, PPC/WarpOS und PPC/MorphOS.

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18.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker] Heise: Linux Worm Obviously Spreading Rapidly
«An Internet worm named Ramen is attacking servers running under the Linux distribution by Red Hat and apparently is spreading quite quickly. It's activities stood out by augmented scans on Remote Procedure Call Services (RPC). The worm utilizes two security gaps known long before inside of FTP-Server wuftpd and the program rpc.statd, which obviously still not have been remove from many Linux machines. Already in September 2000 the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) gave warning of augmented attacks of this kind.»
See title link for the complete article (German).

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18.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker] Heise: DivX Successor "OpenDivX" goes Open Source
«The MPEG4 video codec successor "DivX", which derived some stardom from being in operation for spreading piracy copied movies via the Internet, may hope to be widely supported. To gain more programmers to participate in the so called "Project Mayo" the developers around Joe Bezdek, "Director of Product Definition" of Project Mayo decided to release the current en-/decoder core of the video format as Open Source. OpenDivX is only one step on the way to realize greater goals: a versatile video codec - named "DivX Deux" by the programmers - offering high quality and being free available at the same time »
See title link for the complete article (German).

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17.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm

New Aminet Uploads

F1db.lha             biz/dbase  109K+Store and manage Formula 1 results
TAdesivi.lha         biz/demo    50K+V1.0.5 Ticket editor for TurboGest (ITAL
TProspEd.lha         biz/demo    84K+V2.0.1alpha Form Editor For TurboFat2 (I
AW2.20-Patch.lha     biz/haage  1.0M+AmigaWriter Patch 2.x -> 2.20
BitchX-BIN.lha       comm/irc   1.2M+Amiga port of BitchX (console only)
ABS-MIS.lha          demo/euro  415K+"Miss" - By Absurd
APT-DM26.lha         demo/euro  534K+"Dreams#26", an intropack from Apathy * 
APX-TB3AGA.lha       demo/mag   2.3M+Taboo #3 AGA magazine by Appendix (polis
APX-TB3CGX.lha       demo/mag   3.0M+Taboo #3 CGX magazine by Appendix (polis
PureBasic.lha        dev/basic  557K+V2.00 - Brand new powerful programming l
PureBas_Up2.00.lha   dev/basic  537K+V2.00 - Update for registered users (fro
pmdev.lha            dev/gui    339K+PopupMenu.library SDK V10.8.0
Edison.lha           disk/cdrom  14K+Patches ISO-image headers from MakeCD/Bu
AmigaOS35.lha        docs/help   11K+A guide on Workbench 3.5
saku35.lha           docs/mags  1.8M+Saku #35 (1/2001). Finnish e-zine.
SwosGreece.lha       game/data    8K+Greek datafile for SWOS 00/01
pmangband.lha        game/role  393K+Pern mangband 3.0.9
skulpt_doc.lha       gfx/3d     746K+Sculpt3D clone Documentation (68k + Warp
skulpt_src.lha       gfx/3d     386K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k / PPC + Warp
skulpt_wos.lha       gfx/3d     1.2M+Sculpt3D clone (PPC (WarpOS) + Warp3D)
VHIStudio.lha        gfx/misc   944K+V5.4: DigiCam & Videoboard-soft: Rec, Gr
Nostalgia.lha        misc/emu   197K+THE Multi-Emulation system (1.8a)
imdbDiff010105.lha   misc/imdb  2.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Ankhrapt1.lha        mods/med   441K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
AntiqueDream.lha     mods/med   342K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
Test2long.lha        mods/med    84K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
np_feub.lha          mods/misc  684K+Noyz Phaktah '001 - Fuk 'Em Up, Buttercu
soo_line.mpg         mods/mpg   2.8M+Soo Line Blues Rock Guitar Jam
vampirebride.mpg     mods/mpg   4.4M+"Vampire Bride" by Zadoc...and the Night
EP_Swedish.lha       mus/play    16K+Catalog files for Eagleplayer V2.01
astrons1.jpg         pix/astro  232K+Onsala observatory telescope
astrons2.jpg         pix/astro  238K+Another Onsala observatory telescope
OS39w800.lha         pix/back   742K+800x600 OS3.9 Wallpapers (Backgrounds Pi
silverskin.lha       pix/misc    23K+A smooth silver-skin for CoolCALC 
DBrown.jpg           pix/vehic  319K+A tractor (David Brown 995)
Fiat580.jpg          pix/vehic  241K+A tractor (Fiat 580)
Monkey_Island.jpg    pix/views  289K+A picture of Monkey Island
PanosWB.lha          pix/wb     163K+Snapshots of my Workbench
VeloxWb.lha          pix/wb     262K+My nice Wb with Blizzard Vision in 16bit
MyNotes.lha          text/edit   28K+A simple MUI based QuickNote clone
Typeface124.lha      text/misc  170K+Bitmap font editor
CDTVTools.lha        util/cdity 446K+Original CDTV tools for your Amiga
GhostBuster.lha      util/cdity  10K+Commodity useful for people playing audi
ModePro.lha          util/cdity 248K+4.67 Screenmode Promotion & Public Scree
WarpJPEG.dt.lha      util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) 
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) 
WarpPNGdt.lha        util/dtype 133K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) 
wavdt41.lha          util/dtype   8K+Datatype for wave sounds (41.6)
pmlib.lha            util/libs   27K+PopupMenu.library for 68000 (.library on
pmlib020.lha         util/libs   27K+PopupMenu.library for 68020 (.library on
pmlib040.lha         util/libs   27K+PopupMenu.library for 68040 (.library on
pmlib060.lha         util/libs   27K+PopupMenu.library for 68060 (.library on
pmuser.lha           util/libs   54K+PopupMenu.library V10.8.0
WriteKickDisk.lha    util/misc   10K+Makes Kickstart disk from ROM image

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17.Jan.2001
ANN Amiga Samba Installation Script
A new installation script for Samba is being developed. Samba is a software which enables connecting PC to Amiga. The new installation script is to help amateurs to install Samba in a simple way. Please, have a look at the title link for further information.

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17.Jan.2001
AROS-ML

AROS News

Since child windows seem to be patented, Stefan Berger has removed the support for them again. :-( If someone knows whether this technology can be used freely, we'd like to know :-)
Georg Steger has written an ASL Font Requester
Johan Alfredsson has implemented and improved C:Run, C:NewShell, C:List, C:Dir, DisplayBeep() and some more.
Adam Chodorowski has improved our Workbench and began to port a TCP/IP stack to AROS (ping compiles but there is no code for the stack, yet).
Michael Schulz has begun to work on a new AROS i386/Native core which can load the large AROS kernel. AROS needs GRUB to boot, now.
Flavio Stanchina has improved lots of header and build files.

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17.Jan.2001
Benny Kjær Nielsen via eMail Allan Odgaard Needs Help
Allan Odgaard, who is known from several MUI-classes, has a serious problem with his hard drive. In order to solve this problem he needs an identical hard drive. The following type is needed:

Seagate ST3660A with the following parameter: 1057CYL-16HEADS-63SECT-545.5MB

Those ones who can place this hard drive at Odgaard`s disposal please mail to Allan Odgaard.

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17.Jan.2001
Reader on ANF Vulcan Software Alive
After a long period of abstinence there are some news from Vulcan Software. We remember: An English producer and developer of moderate Amiga games.

The "Valhalla" series, which was not very successful for the Amiga already, will be continued for the PC. For the Amiga this game could at least convince by its few spoken sentences, but the first screenshots of PC-Valhalla makes suspecting a product PC users might gladly leave un-converted. (ps)

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17.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker] Heise: Linux 2.4 with File-System ReiserFS
«The Linux-kernel v2.4.0 has just been finished at last, and development already goes on. The biggest change which will be integrated in the next kernel-version 2.4.1 would be including of the Journaling File System ReiserFS. Already at the beginning of October Linus Torvalds explained in an interview with c`t that he will not include ReiserFS in kernel 2.4.0, but as soon as possible in the 2.4. line. Obviously the time is right: kernel 2.4.1-pre7 contains ReiserFS.»
Have a look at the title link for the full article (German).

According to Sourceforge Apus test-kernels are also available for Amiga Linux.

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17.Jan.2001
Frogger Frogger Version 1.64b2 Released
There is a new beta-version 1.64b2 of the MPEG video player 'Frogger' by Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz which you can download in several processor-versions as usual.

This program is shareware and you can register via the website online (via RegNet) or via transfer of money.

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17.Jan.2001
Boing World DOpus4 Version 4.15.4 Released
Because Jacek Rzeuski is not able to go on developing DOpus4 Paul Huxham will continue and has finished a new version 4.15.4 which you can download.

Download: DOpus4154.lzx - 425 KB

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17.Jan.2001
Fun Time World New Version of sKulpt Released
sKulpt is the successor of the legendary 3D software 'Sculpt Animate 3D/4D' of Eric Graham and Byte By Byte. Some years ago the raytracing program has a lot of friends because it was simple, cheap and effective. It was made many pictures with this program of amateurs as well as of professional.

The successor sKulpt will be developed completely new by CdBSSoftware and supports already for now PowerPC and Warp3D. Have a look at the title link for further interesting information. Download:
Skulpt_exe.lha - 68K
skulpt_wos.lha - PPC

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17.Jan.2001
Amiga Active Amiga Active - Preview for Issue #17
Following an extract from the preview of issue #17 of the English Amiga magazine:

Amiga's Rivals - It's a technological re-rack - but who'll survive the longest in the 21st century?

Develop on Windows - The latest Amiga SDK reviewed inside.

Linux on Amiga - We show you how.

Amiga Forever 4 - The ultimate Amiga on a PC?

Simon the Sorcerer II - The longest awaited Amiga sequel?

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17.Jan.2001
Amiga Future News 'The Commodore Billboard' Needs Help
Amiga Future wrote:
'The Commodore Billboard' has a really big problem. The site has 17 new TV-advertising spots and several other stuff, but has not any possibility to offer that amount to the users on their own server. Because of that Soren is urgently searching for users to put some files on their servers. If you have this possibility, please contact Soren via eMail.

Following the complete message:
«The 17 tv-ads require some 70 MB. This will generate more traffic than I'm allowed to use on my server. I'm currently in contact with a guy who might be able to host all the files for free. This is obviously the ultimate solution, but if this fails, I would like to know if some of you die-hard Commodore fans out there would be willing to help me?

Instead of one server hosting all the video clips, I was wondering if we could spread the files over several servers. If 17 people would volunteer and host 1 file each? You would have to provide between 2.2 and 5.5 MB storage space each. Would anyone be interested? I order to make this work, I guess it'll have to be all or nothing. If only 5 people volunteer, I think I'll scratch this hosting idea. As you may have traffic limits on your accounts I can inform you that The Commodore Billboard has between 30-40 visitors aday. This will of course be higher for a short while, when the news about the 17 tv-ads reaches the Commodore news sites. But then again, not all 40 will download 5 MB video clips. And with the audio previews available, maybe people will be more selective and not just download the whole lot. This might help decrease traffic. By the way, you have to provide webspace on fairly decent servers. I wouldn't want people to download the video clips with a speed of 0.2 KB/sec. ;-))»

Any help in solving the hosting problem is much appreciated. eMail»

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16.Jan.2001
Christian Rosentreter on ANF Pictures from Oldie Party
Under the above title link you can find pictures from the "Oldie Party for Homecomputers" which was organized by the HTWK Leipzig on Mai 4th, 1999.

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16.Jan.2001
Scalos Scalos Module Update
Mike Carter has fixed the path problem in his module 'Execute Command' for Scalos and now made it available for download as version 1.1.

Scalos-Module_EC.lha - 24 KB

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16.Jan.2001
NewTecniques NewTecniques: Bonus
The bonus content of the graphic magazine 'NewTekniques' with many interesting workshops, articles, and tutorials only accessible for subscribers so far, was now made openly available. In the issue for Mai/June 2000 e.g. it is in detail describe how to create a perfectly animated Boingball with LightWave.

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16.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail Virus-Help Denmark News
Jan Andersen from Virus-Help Denmark was often asked if he was able to provide the website of Virus-Help in German and French language, too. Peter Schmidt called his attention to the possibility to make use of "Translator.go".

So, now via Translator.go the website can be translated by request to German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portugese. Andersen is aware of this not to be the best choice, but better than nothing at all. Base language of the website is still English.

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16.Jan.2001
Innovative on ANF

VHI Studio 5.4 is Here!
A new version of the reference software in case of video cards and digital cameras on the AMIGA, VHI Studio 5.4, has been released. The update is free for owners of VHI Studio 5.x. Since v5.2 there are the following changes:

Driver for Digita compatible digital cameras (optional).
Driver for Sony MSAC-SR1 compatible reading devices (optional)
Save series of pictures directly from camera to HD
JPEG-Decoding now on PPC (if exists)
MPEG Encoder now also capable of frame rates uneven 25 f/s
Bugfix in the DC240/DC280 driver, Update to V1.5

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15.Jan.2001
Matt Sealey via E-Mail AmigaOS Change-Logs Release Campaign
Matt Sealey started a petition to find out how big the common interest in the publishing of change-logs since AmigaOS 3.1 really is.

The change-logs contain changes and add-ons compared to the previous versions of the AmigaOS. This could be helpful for the development of new software.

The logs for AmigaOS V2.0 up to V3.1 are available on every Developer CD. According to Matt Sealey Haage & Partner declined publishing their changes on the Developer CD V2.1.

There is the possibility on http://www.starforge.co.uk/petition.html to sign a petition.

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15.Jan.2001
Amiga-Mania 5 Pictures of the Amiga-Mania 5
There are some pictures of the user meeting 'Amiga-Mania 5' in Toulouse (France) available at the title link.

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15.Jan.2001
Bright Light Software TIDesigner V1.22 Released
TIDesigner is a good help-tool for everyone who wants to create TealInfo folios for the Palm Pilot easier. The program is shareware.

Download: tidesigner.lha - 34 KB

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15.Jan.2001
CGrX Plans for a New Elbox Voodoo-driver
Elbox announced the release of version 1.2 of the Voodoo-driver for the PCI-board for this week. The new version should contain many improvements. Additional information is available at the title link.

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15.Jan.2001
Amclust on ANF New HTTP-Daemon with Real CGI-support
EasyAccess is a small and stable HTTP-daemon with the following attributes:

- EasyAccess can be made resident
- supports GET and POST method and every kind of CGI (tested with CanDo, Perl, Python and Batch-files)
- support for automated creation of directory content-files, Auth-Scheme RFC 19452 "Basic", Server Side Includes and more.

Download: EasyAccess.lha

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15.Jan.2001
BTTR Team via eMail Back to the Roots Update
Back to the Roots is one of the best sources for legal game-downloads. This update contains the "Championship Manager"-series, "Second Samurai" and "Emerald Mine".

Don't forget to take a look at the other games. There are new scene demos, pictures and sounds taken from Amiga-games.

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14.Jan.2001
Fun Time World AAA Award Canceled For The Time Being
Since 1997 the AAA Awards were given to people out of the Amiga area, among other things for their hard- and software products. Among the award winners have been Holger Kruse, Dave Haynie, Marcel Beck, Kermit Woodall, Stefan Burstroem and SoftLogik. Now the awarding of this price will be canceled for the time being. The reasons for this are too little manpower and too low support. In the future the award may be granted again. This depends among other things on the community and Amiga. Everybody who wants to comment on this may write to f98-msa@f.kth.se.

The actual AAA Award Homepage at www.aaa-awards.org will be offline in the near future. The new one can be reached via www.amiga-cg.se/aaaa/.

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14.Jan.2001
Fun Time World Voyager: Supported Tags
On January 14th, 2001 Oliver Wagner has updated the list of the HTML tags supported by the WWW browser 'V³'. It now meets the level of the version 3.3.69 of the browser.

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14.Jan.2001
Hynek Schlagwack via email

Second SimpleMail Alpha Released
On January 14th, 2001 Hynek Schlawack and Sebastian Bauer have released the second alpha version of the email client 'SimpleMail'. Compared to the previous version the following has changed:

New: image buttons.
New: showing of HTML mails (using internal routines lent from SimpleHTML).
New: mails with different mode possible.
New: showing of mail threads.
New: index files for folder.
Change: better address book.

SimpleMail can be found under http://www.schlawack.net/simplemail/. There are also screenshots of the software on this site.

The authors hope for this second version receiving a little bit more feedback as they got for the first one and point out that the alpha state refers to functionality, but by no means to stability.

Download: simplemail.lzx (80K)

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14.Jan.2001
Czech Amiga News News Regarding the Amiga in Norwegian Language
Under http://www.polarboing.com/ there can be found up-to-date news from the Amiga area in Norwgian language.

The site uses PHP-Nuke for the layout of the content and offers among other things a personal login and a text box with the latest files of the file area of amigadev.net.

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14.Jan.2001
ANN ANN Looking for Advertising Income
For financing the Amiga Network News Christian Kemp is looking for companies to advertise on ANN. The latest advertising banner showed only 5 US Dollars during 13 days while 50,000 page views were counted. Costs appear to ANN among other things because of web space, telephone (monthly around 100 US Dollars), and domain name.

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14.Jan.2001
Achim Stegemann on ANF Digital Almanac III update v2.3
Achim Stegemann wrote:
A new update for Digital Almanac III to version 2.3 was sent to all online registered cusotmers.

It mainly fixes some bugs in th PPC version with caused crashes in special cases.

More information about the update can be found on the homepage following the title link.

The English version of DA III will be finished as planned in the next three to four weeks.

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14.Jan.2001
Jorge Pino (taken from the newspaper Computerwoche) New Multi-Functional Chip
An interesting multi-functional chip was presented by people out of the Commodore/Amiga area at the CES. The company Embedded Wireless Devices (EWD) offers with the "Valhalla E8000" a chip that is capable of transferring several wireless communications protocols like Bluetooth, 802.11 (wireless LAN) or Home RF simultaneous. Panasonic will apply the chip in future products.

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14.Jan.2001
WHDLoad WHDLoad version v13.1
On January 14th, 2001 version 13.1 of WHDLoad has been released. This version contains many bugfixes and improvements.

Download: WHDLoad_13.1_usr.lzx

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14.Jan.2001
stephan Rupprecht on ANF WAV datatype v41.6
On January 14th, 2001 Stephan Rupprecht has released version 41.6 of the WAV datatype. With this datatype you can play sound files encoded in WAV format.

In this version defective samples shouldn't cause the RIFF parser to run into an endless loop, anymore.

Download: wavdt41.lha (8K), readme

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14.Jan.2001
Amiga Flame News Ultra Violent Worlds released
Some time ago Crystal Interactive has announced to offer Amiga games on dual format CD-ROMs, that would contain a version for another computer system along with the version for the Amiga. Now, with Ultra Violent Worlds the first game of this kind has been released for the Amiga and IBM PC compatibles.

Ultra Violent Worlds is a 2D-Shooter with vertical parallax scrolling on three levels, background animations in arcade quality, impressive explosions and atmospheric sound FX inclusive a matching soundtrack. Next to the 1 player mode there's the possibility to play with two people on one split screen at the same time.

The game was developed by the Australian company Vorlan Software. The Amiga version was already released in 1998 and contained several bugs at that time. These were fixed in this re-release.

The Amiga version runs on any Amiga with AGA, 2MB Chip-RAM and 2MB Fast-RAM. The PC version runs on Windows 95/98 with 8MB of free RAM.

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14.Jan.2001
Alfred Strum

New Aminet Uploads

amlog.lha            comm/misc  100K+V2.2 - HTTP/FTP/MAIL adress database
streamer.lha         comm/www    32K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
AAM-Demo.lha         demo/aga   1.3M+AmigaAnimeManga AGA DEMO => First DEMO
kng-flow.lha         demo/intro 127K+Winner 64kb at FuckYanica One, jan 6-7, 
Anime-X.lha          demo/mag   762K+H-Anime disk-mag from Carnage
Wishkah.lha          demo/sound 821K+Music Disk by VORTEX
ADV-ITA.lha          dev/amos   478K+Italian adventures creator
BUtility.lha         dev/amos   134K+Extension for Amos 1.3 users.
BSMustek-src.lha     dev/c       43K+Source for Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver F
lclint.lha           dev/c      515K+A tool for statically checking C program
SegTracker_pch.lha   dev/debug   13K+Patches SegTracker V37.73 to V37.74
ScalaHelp.lha        dev/misc   623K+A little help script for scalamm - progr
VCDGear.lha          disk/cdrom 134K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
hof-html.lha         docs/hyper 255K+Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame January 2001
xadclients.lha       docs/hyper  18K+Guide to all the XAD clients
ademoinfo.lha        docs/lists 355K+Amiga demo list
amiuserlist.lha      docs/lists  66K+AmigaUserList V10.98 of Germany, Switzer
AmigaFuture28.lha    docs/mags  736K+Great german paper mag preview
InterviewsAren.lha   docs/misc   45K+Amiga Arena Interviews 2000
PBOBS_Setup.lha      game/data   21K+PuzzleBOBS 1024x768x8 config file.
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  316K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
SeekAndDestroy.lha   game/patch  27K+HD-Installer for Seek And Destroy V1.0
colourlines.lha      game/think 107K+Logical ball game
Seachess.lha         game/think   9K+Tic-Tac-Toe; Source included.
CyberBugfiX.lha      gfx/aga      9K+CGXAGA companion - new features & chipme
CGX-AGA.lha          gfx/board    2K+Devs:Monitors/CGXAGA replacement with so
PfPaint_ENG.lha      gfx/edit    32K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha      gfx/edit    35K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
PfPaint_V24.lha      gfx/edit   1.3M+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
PBOBS_GfxE.lha       gfx/show   337K+Guide to make gfx to PuzzleBOBS game (E)
PBOBS_GfxI.lha       gfx/show   346K+Guide to make gfx to PuzzleBOBS game (I)
ICS.lha              hard/misc  2.4M+V2.01b LE ICS - professional color corre
OliverK.lha          mods/blkha 120K+HC PT mod by blakkhar
Beach.lha            mods/med   260K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer    
Dreamer.lha          mods/med   640K+Ukrainian Dreamer's MED-module   
Happy.lha            mods/med   273K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer    
Jangle.lha           mods/med   290K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer    
Light_candle.lha     mods/med   132K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer    
Mama.lha             mods/med   267K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer    
Plasma.lha           mods/med   226K+Good Vetal OCSS-remix on Demo-music
Rainy_day.lha        mods/med   204K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer    
Shut_up.lha          mods/med   383K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer    
Stop.lha             mods/med   474K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer    
SPL_HappyPhone.lha   mods/misc   43K+SOPROL module called "Happy Phone"
BaxPlayerV2.2.lha    mus/play   159K+Multi-format module player.
EP_FredGray.lha      mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "Fred Gray" external replaye
OS39Wallp.lha        pix/back   1.1M+Some AmigaOS3.9 Wallpapers (Backgrounds 
swalps.jpg           pix/views  194K+Scene from the Swiss Alps
lorys_SS.lha         pix/wb     359K+My grab of shapeshifter on my A1200t Bli
Yod-WB1.jpg          pix/wb     286K+(1280x960) OS3.9, CV PPC, Heretic II & m
Yod-WB2.jpg          pix/wb     245K+(1280x960) OS3.9, CV PPC, WipeOut2097 & 
OFS033.jpg           pix/wfm    374K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS034.jpg           pix/wfm    519K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS035.jpg           pix/wfm    490K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS036.jpg           pix/wfm    365K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS037.jpg           pix/wfm    729K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS038.jpg           pix/wfm    637K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS039.jpg           pix/wfm    651K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS040.jpg           pix/wfm    526K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
TheGateway.jpg       pix/wfm    474K+The Gateway
ttfr.lha             text/font    8K+Rename true type fonts file correctly
TurboVal.lha         util/boot   18K+The best validator for FFS (v2.1)
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype 104K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) 
WarpPNGdt.lha        util/dtype 132K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) 
boards229.lha        util/libs   41K+Boards.library V 2.29 - 428 Expansion bo
WHDInfo.lha          util/misc   12K+WHDLoad slave examiner for HD games V1.2
Safe.lha             util/virus  19K+Safe v14.6 - virus dicovering system
CoolCALC.lha         util/wb    122K+*skinnable* calculator for the AmigaOS
RxTD.lha             util/wb     27K+V1.0, WB 3.9 ToolsDaemon prefs converter
TextloaderNG.lha     util/wb    494K+TextConverter V2.20 - Word,WPerfect,HTML
VisualPrefs_RU.lha   util/wb     56K+VisualPrefs: Russian catalog and docs
VisualPrefs_SI.lha   util/wb     36K+VisualPrefs: Slovenian catalog and docs
VisualPrefs_SR.lha   util/wb     10K+VisualPrefs: Serbian catalog

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14.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF MacOS X Resembling Image Set
Under the title link you can download two MacOS X (Aqua) resembling image sets for use with Opus Magellan 2. Additionally, to make the workbench look fresh and stylish, there are several patterns for use with MUI and also for the workbench windows with a similar refreshing look. You can find screenshots and the archive sized 102 KB.

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14.Jan.2001
M. Lueck on ANF AmigaOS 3.9 Wallpapers (Background Images)
Hello Amigans, as there's the huge amount of 4 new background images on the AmigaOS 3.9 CD since AmigaOS3.5 I have decided to do some myself. The first archive is already available on Aminet under pix/back/os39wallp.lha (1024x800 24Bit). A 800x600 version was just transferred onto Aminet. The 800x600 version is named OS39w800.lha Both archives are freeware and I allow Haage&Partner to use these.

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13.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail Safe Version 14.6 Released
Safe is a virus detector which can discover viruses, but cannot terminate them.

Name: Safe v14.6
Archive Name: Safe.lha
Archive Size: 19.779 Bytes
Date: 13. January 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: requires xvs.library v33.24

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13.Jan.2001
Virtual Dimension EMail Game: StarEmpire II
01-31-2000 will be the official launch of StarEmpire II planned, the space strategy game! This text basing game is payed via e-mail, so no flatrate is needed. There are still some seats to take - who wants to can still log on.

There is also af FAQ page from now on, in which the most important questions are again answered nin short. If there are still questions to ask an e-mail to starempire@virtualdimension.de will be adequate.

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13.Jan.2001
Greg Donner Greg Donner: OS3.9 FAQ Updated
Greg Donner has updated the pages "Known Bugs", "3rd Party", and "Utilities" of his Amiga OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

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13.Jan.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail CDTVTools v1.0 Published
CDTVTools v1.0 has been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. This package is a collection of programs using the CDTV base library to give also normal Amiga users the CTDTV feeling. All of the included programs are commodities which can be controlled via Exchange. So now everybody can e.g. start the original CDTV screen blanker, CD player or preferences program.

The tools are basing on the CDTV basie library "playerprefs" by Commodore which is implemented in the CDTV's ROM. Since I discovered documentations on this library on the Developer CD v1.2, I was able to develop these tools within two days. Of course these tools are freeware.

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13.Jan.2001
Xandiy on ANF Amiga-Community.net News
At Amiga-Community.net you can post your opinion about several products for the Amiga. For each (rational) opinion of members one will get 1 (one) score. For every 4 (four) scores one will get 1 (one) EURO credit entry. Credits can be payed from 5 (five) EURO!

Unfortunately entries with AWeb don't seem to work and therefore there is a special forum for AWeb users. IBrowse and PC browsers seem to work. If someone has problem with other browsers, please contact Xandiy@web.de.

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13.Jan.2001
Oliver Luehr on ANF Chip: C64 with New Garment
«The Internet magazine Hardwareguru has sighted a Commodore 64 at the super market Kaufland as a surfing machine designed to be directly connected to a TV set.
Web.It reissued the C64, but did not use the original hardware. The Web-C64 is equipt with a low-end AMD processor with 100 MHz, 16 MByte ROM, and 16 MByte RAM, as well as two MByte flash memory.»
Entire article at the title link (German).

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13.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF NVidia OS Poll Online Again
The offline taken poll on the favourite operating system is now online again. At the time Amiga is ahead with 57.91%. IP addresses of "multiple voters" are logged and published in a black list!

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13.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker] Silicon Valley Pioneer William Hewlett Has Passed
«The legendary engineer and Silicon Valley pioneer William Hewlett has passed on Friday in Palo Alto, California, at the age of 87. He was co-founder of the technology corporation Hewlett-Packard. Together with David Packard he started his business in a garage in Palo Alto and lead it to the computer age and to a high tech giant with 49 milliards US dollar volume of sales. Hewlett millionfold got ahead of his initial target, "...to do anything to earn a nickle". The economy magazine Forbes listed him on position #26 of the richest men of America with fortune of nine milliards US dollars.»

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13.Jan.2001
Olaf Koebnik via eMail Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Interview Action!
"Rags" the action game by Shades Production was a little sensation at Aminet, not without a reason! For all of you still remembering "Beach Head II" on the C64 it's to be said "obligation to download"! But read the preview of "Rags" and the interview with Shades Production! at the "Aktion" area yourself!

Amiga Arena - Special Price Action!
PhotoAlbum/CyberShow, GeoWorld, and VPrefs are available at a special price only until 01-31-2001!

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13.Jan.2001
Amiga Future XBaze Website with New URL
The website of the database program 'XBaze' by Rafal Kaczmarczyk is available under http://www.o.k.pl/~xbaze/ (title link), from now on.

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13.Jan.2001
Thomas Unger on ANF THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES - Release 1.0.1
In release 1.0.1. of the KICKSTART ARCHIVES beside of some smaller changes in particular the PDF files of the patent history have been re-converted and can be read trouble-free with Apdf v2.2, now too.

THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES due to quality problems in the beginning will be written on blanks of the type TDK CD-R74CMEC and shipped in a bubble wrapped envelope.

Since all of the specimen copies are out, we can now care for the orders very fast.

Thomas Unger (Kickstart@nexgo.de) is always all ears for hints on interesting websites still missing on the CD-R. If these match the concept of the KICKSTART ARCHIVES, he will contact the owners.

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13.Jan.2001
Infomedia Infomedia Network News
Infomedia Network and the Tao Group signed an agreement to deliver TVision products. Press release of 01-10-2001:
Infomedia and Tao Group Collaborate to deliver TVision Development Kit...

Press release of 01-12-2001:
Infomedia Network and Tao group have formed a closer relationship to deliver Infomedia's TVision product for the Java embedded space...

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13.Jan.2001
Oliver Roberts HP New Datatypes for WARP
WarpJPEG.datatype 44.16 of 12.1.2001, Freeware
JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)

WarpPNG.datatype 44.10 of 12.1.2001, Freeware
PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)

Download:
WarpJPEGdt.lha - (103K)
WarpPNGdt.lha - (133K)

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13.Jan.2001
Haage&Partner The Quantum Leap: StormC 4
The latest version of the successful development system actually represents a quantum leap: network capability, shared make, CVS, modified GCC compiler for the Amiga hunk format, global full-text search, extended editor, debugging of tasks and shared libraries, and the new StormDOC.

But the most important feature of this new development system is the step it takes towards the new AmigaOS. Though still everything runs on the Classic Amiga and will be published like that, but everything was developed with easy portability in mind. Last but not least this was the reason for a modified version of the GCC used as compiler.

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13.Jan.2001
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF playamiga.de - News About the Reorganisation
The renewal of playamiga.de comes to figures. The popular company Synotec will care for the re-design. Since there should not only be optical changes, but also changes of the contents we need your help.

Some questions were worked out for a completely new rating system. If you would like to help with this, just send an e-mail to Juergen A. Theiner and you will get the questions in return. Many thanks in advance and already look forward to the announcement of: 'playamiga.de becomes Play!Amiga'

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12.Jan.2001
Paul Nolan Photogenics Website with New Layout
Paul Nolan's website for Photogenics was updated and has got a new layout.

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12.Jan.2001
AmigArt mFTP II Version 1.3 Released
Version 1.3 of the FTP client mFTP II has been released.

Download: mftp_13.lzx

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12.Jan.2001
Stéphane Campan via eMail Scalos 1.2d Beta Released
A new beta version of Scalos, the extensive Workbench replacement, has been released. The website hasn't been updated, yet. Please read the readme's before installation!

Download:
Scalos-V1.2d.lha
Scalos-IconSystem.lha

Here the original mail:
All OS3.4+ owners will be pleased to know that a new Scalos exe has been released! The fixes are a combined effort with the original source from Juergen and the dedicated effort of Dave for sloggin' it out through late nights! Until the website is updated later today you can grab the new executable only archive from:
http://scalos.striatum.org/products/scalos/main/Scalos-V1.2d.lha

To install, simply copy the executable in the archive to SCALOS: path. Please continue to read this email before installing anything new! You will also need the latest (release 3) of the seperate icon system archive
http://scalos.striatum.org/products/scalos/main/Scalos-IconSystem.lha

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THESE FILES ARE STILL CONSIDERED BETA STATUS UNTIL IT *APPEARS* EVERYBODY IS HAVING NO PROBLEMS. We appreciate error reports to the mailing list, share your problems regarding OS3.5+ icon images with us so we can ensure all problems are fixed.

NOTE:
We are aware that the logo in the about requester does not remap to the correct colours currently, this is a side effect of the new 'C' ported code for portions of Scalos. This will not affect use and we hope to have that fixed before the next release. Which should hopefully feature some decent bug fixes.

Ensure you backup your OLD 'Scalos' executable file before replacing it with this new one, just incase. Once everything is finalised all beta files will become release versions and appear in the main Scalos distribution archive. Hey, we might even upload it to Aminet too :-) Have fun, and lets hope all is well.

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12.Jan.2001
Onlinekosten.de PC Manufacturer Gateway Cancels Every 10th Job
Onlinekosten.de wrote:
«The US computer manufacturer Gateway after unexpected deficit cancels more than every tenth job. As the company announced on Thursday (local time) in San Diego, California, job slashing would go off already during the first quarter this year, Gateway employed 19,300 people worldwide in 1998. The offeror specialized in direct shipping of PCs announced a deficit of 94,3 millions of US dollar for 4Q/2000, because of diclined demand and risen pricing pressure. »

Heise wrote:
«More than 10 % of staffers of the oppressed PC manufacturer Gateway will loose their jobs: this is a consequence which Gateway drew from extremely base balance for the 4th quarter. Balance was even worse than expected after the profit caution from late November when Gateway stated to be in the red in the 4th quarter.»

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11.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF WB2000 Images and MiniGlowIcons Update
Due to great demand now there is an updated archive of the Mini GlowIcons, and an special archive for WB2000 users who can only use IFF-pictures with this program. If number of downloads, which you can reach via "Aktuelles", will keep on this high level there will be new icons added.

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11.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm

New Aminet Uploads
Mishap: The recent number suddenly did not show any new uploads any more. Of course the new number now gives in return the uploads of the last two weeks; but there is no other option to get back to rotation, yet.

Videomanage.lha      biz/dbase  398K+A Videodatabase
OpusMI.lha           biz/dopus  1.3M+GlowIcon DOpus Images (7th Release)
OpusMIupd.lha        biz/dopus  236K+OpusMI Update (6th to 7th Release)
HomeBank.lha         biz/misc   201K+V1.8 The personal account manager (MUI)
AmBoS-Demo.lha       comm/ambos 1.6M+AmBoS 2.98 - Full/demo archive
AmBoS-Update.lha     comm/ambos 1.2M+AmBoS-Update Rel. 2.98j (Wednesday 03-Ja
Cit_Docs_BA01.lha    comm/bbs   571K+Citadel 68K Documenation
Cit_exec_BA01.lha    comm/bbs   247K+Citadel 68K BBS Program
cit_src_BA01.lha     comm/bbs   544K+Citadel 68K BBS Program Source
Cit_Util_BA01.lha    comm/bbs   464K+Citadel 68K BBS Program Utilities
AInfoBOT.lha         comm/irc    31K+Clone of the PERL InfoBOT
DalHelper.lha        comm/irc    37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
ON.lha               comm/irc    12K+ON function for AmIRC
ClipWatch.lha        comm/misc  181K+Tool to call Clip/WIT remote surveillanc
EZPagerNG_CE.lha     comm/misc  407K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
LCR-I.lha            comm/misc  114K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
LCR-P.lha            comm/misc   75K+LeastCostRouter Print-Tool
LCR.lha              comm/misc  112K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
AutoTCP.lha          comm/tcp     1K+AutoTCP, Autostart your favourite TCP/IP
samba_2.0.7.lha      comm/tcp   6.3M+Port of the free SMB client and server
TaskiSMS_HU.lha      comm/tcp     3K+Hungarian catalog for TaskiSMS 2.0
ApacheMI.lha         comm/www    49K+GlowIcons for Apache Servers
Cookie_Killer.lha    comm/www    14K+AWeb cookie management (v1.01)
RadarTA.lha          comm/www    31K+Radar Transfer Anim for any web browser.
wpz-frozen40.lha     demo/aga   1.3M+Frozen#4o - The Party Edition
Nature-Grid2fx.lha   demo/intro  86K+Nature - Grid2, winner 64k at TP2000
nms-spaceqst1e.lha   demo/intro  16K+Space Quest 1E. cracktro from Nemesis
pvt-cafe.lha         demo/slide 2.3M+Demoparty Computer Art Festival 1999-200
jrm-mm70.lha         demo/sound 132K+DA JoRMaS: MonoMeno #70
BallMasterSrc.lha    dev/basic   48K+Source for BallMaster V1.2
BlitzLstDec00.lha    dev/basic  253K+Blitz mailing list archives for December
clockita.lha         dev/basic   67K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
2b_TKLsort.lha       dev/c       33K+This program sorting text files. 
Amiga-C-Dec00.lha    dev/c      122K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Dece
codestorage.lha      dev/c      354K+Create & manipulate your own DataBase of
pgmasst.lha          dev/c       77K+A GUI for various text editing & formatt
MuGuardianAnge.lha   dev/debug  287K+MungWall superset, detect accesses to no
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TinyGICollectn.lha   pix/gicon   49K+GlowIcons - size doesn't matter ;-)
jcIconsII.lha        pix/icon   130K+Os3.5,os3.9 Icon package II
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Ver.lha              util/sys    14K+Bugfixed replacement for c:version 40.1
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WB2000_18_Ita.lha    util/wb      3K+Italian Catalog for Workbench2000 1.8

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11.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF Nice Calculator for the AmigaOS
Who ever worried about the shop-soiled calculator of the AmigaOS can look forward, now! On my homepage one can download the initial version of CoolCALC. This one virtual offers the same functions as the original program, but can be embellished with skins (one is part of the archive) and can be iconified. Under the title link you will find screenshots and also the download area. Have fun!

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11.Jan.2001
Xandiy on ANF Amiga-Community.net Looking for Sponsor(s)
Since finally a possibility was found to give bonus for written opinions one or more sponsors (with banner) are wanted. Interested people may please contact

From now on there will be scores. Everybody who is registered for the Community will get scores. First register and then wait until your member-number gets mailed to you, then you can score. One score for every message. What one can do with his/her scores will be announced during the following days.

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11.Jan.2001
Halvadjian Georges on ANF

PerfectPaint V2.4
PerfectPaint v2.4 is available for download under the title link. What's new?

Improve some requester
Improve Brush Mosaic
Raylab Factory: RayLab Factory is a powerfull and simple gui for RayLab. With this gui, you can:
- Select a predefined shapes or 3D font.
- mappe you shape with predefined textures or a mapping image.
- rotate your shape, place your light ...
- and build you picture or brush directly in perfectpaint. RayLab is a freeware raytracer made by Marcus Geelnard.

Include in PerfectPaint package, the raylab881 executable and the documentation (with the permission of the author). There is a Wos version of Raylab on Aminet (raylabwos.lha) and a 'PPC elf' version, on the official Raylab homepage

fixed a bug while saving CMAP palette
New tool: Rotated ellipse
several bugs corrected with CMAP brush
small bugs corrected with gradient effect, starfield effect, zoom, TurboPrint and Symetrie
Add Load and Save Stencil
Use AsyncIO.library
PPM picture can, now be loaded and saved.
Fix a bug with the arexx command: pp_Render, the script for saving Gif anim will works well now
Animation can be croped.
Improve PerfectPaint aspect: Desktop and Requester can have pattern (in PPM format) (see prefs/Backgrounds)
You can, now, manage 10 different brushes. With these brushes you can create, loading and saving Albums.
Little bug fixed with XPK requester
New Color effect: Adjust levels and Auto levels.
If you change depth of your picture, Current brush is automatically remapped
Improve balance requester
Improve Rubber stamp
Improve arexx script: LoadPS (postscript)

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11.Jan.2001
LinuxToday Linux 2.4.0 Released
After almost 2 years of development on 01-05-2001 Linux 2.4.0 was released.

Download: v2.4 Directory

In the meantime even the first pre-patch has been released. Take a look at the message at Pro-Linux.

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11.Jan.2001
AmigArt GUI History Since 1973
Under the title link you can read the history of the GUI (Graphical User Interface) since 1973.

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11.Jan.2001
EASys! Patch for EASys! 4.84 Released
On the 'Servicepacks' page there is a "patch" for the current version 4.8.4 (has to be installed!) underr OS 3.9 available. Please, it is absolut necessary for you to read the Readmefile before installation!

Download: EASys!_patch_484.lha

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11.Jan.2001
Coloraid ICS Version 2.01b Released
Version 2.01 of the free available color calibration software for AmigaOS 'ICS' by Wolf Faust was released. Download links for the program as well as diverse additions you will find under the title link.

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11.Jan.2001
Greg Donner Greg Donner: OS3.9 FAQ Update
Greg Donner has updated his Amiga OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) as well as the compatibility list, installation tips, and the page with known bugs.

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10.Jan.2001
Fun Time World "Die Welt": How The Chips Learned Being Noisy
"Until 1985 acoustical there was no alteration according to the standard of computer sound which was introduced by C64. To this time Atari had the idea of producing an home computer Atari ST equip with a MIDI-interface. This Musical Instrument Digital Interface made it possible to control electronic music instruments like keyboards with the computer. Atari ST was the first computer in series that used this possibility and made the data exchange between computer and music instruments possible. The built-in 8-Bit-sound-chip had only the ability of producing three mono voices, but the main processor worked perfectly together with the MIDI-interface. Musicians from all over the world recognized the future of computer music and almost each sound studio connected its mixing desk with an Atari ST. Since the early nineties a MIDI-interface was standard for sound cards.

Two years after the introduction of the ST, in 1987, Commodore set a new standard for music computers with the Amiga 500 for the mass market: four-channel-stereo was the new standard. Programming of music directly in the computer was now possible without expensive equipment. For a long time this was the greatest advantage of the Amiga towards other computers. Because of that and because of its great graphical abilities it was the game computer at all."

Also in the today`s `Die-Welt`-article Concerto Commodore it is reported of the musical abilities of the C64.

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10.Jan.2001
Simon II Simon the Sorcerer II
As you can read on the homepage of Paul Burkey, who made the Amiga-port of Simon the Sorcerer II, there will be a MAC-port soon. It also could have been solved the audio-problem. There will be an update for the Amiga-version in a few days.

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10.Jan.2001
Boingworld NVidia OS Opinion Poll
There is an opinion poll at the NVidia news site in the left menu about the preferred operating system. The Amiga is also on the list and is currently on the third place with 17,99 % after BeOS and Windows.

Supplement 11.01.2001:
The opinion poll has been canceled because the voting was falsified by scripts which vote again and again. The script-kids do not have the faintest idea which harm they make!

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10.Jan.2001
Thomas Steiding via eMail Epics News: Amiga-Version of Earth 2140 Available
From today Earth 2140 which is a for the PC developed real-time strategy game by Topware Interactive is available for Amiga. Earth 2140 needs an Amiga with at least 68040 CPU, a 4 MB graphic board and 24 MB RAM. But in order to have the full pleasure of the game it is recommended a PPC Amiga with 32 MB RAM. On the website of Epic Interactive under the title link you can find a new demo-version as well as further information about Earth 2140.

Download Demo: Earth2140_Demo.lha

You can find a preview for this game at No Risc No Fun.

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10.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF Futurezone: New Power Macs are Ready
The most efficient model of the new Macintoshs which is a 733 MHz G4 Power Mac surpassed a Pentium-4-PC [1,5 GHz] with 12 seconds while rendering a 3D-graphic to the pleasure of the audience.

Other reports on this topic:
The Register: Moto G4 Plus makes it to latest Power Mac line-up
Slashdot: A Basket Full of Apple News

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10.Jan.2001
Oliver Roberts HP New Datatype for Warp
WarpJPEG.datatype 44.15 from 9.1.2001, freeware
JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)

WarpPNG.datatype 44.9 from 9.1.2001, freeware
PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)

Download:
WarpJPEGdt.lha - (104K)
WarpPNGdt.lha - (132K)

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10.Jan.2001
MorphOS MorphOS News
Sigbjørn Skjæret has published a new VCDGear 1.6d at www.morphos.de. "This Amiga-port of VCDGear (station-version) can make VCDs on your Amiga. You can find information to the original project at www.vcdgear.com." Please have a look at the VCDGear.readme (1780B).

Download: VDCGear16d.lha - (123K)

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10.Jan.2001
Amiga Inc. AmigaOS 3.5 Boing-Bag #2a Released
Because of some minor bugs at Boingbag #2 of AmigaOS 3.5 yesterday it was published an update #2a which simply has to be installed over Boingbag #1 or #2. Download: BoingBag2a.lha - 1,6 MB

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10.Jan.2001
V³ Portal V³ 3.3.65beta Released
It was released version 3.3.65beta of the Amiga-browser Voyager. This is the first version with a new layout-engine. A keyfile is needed. you can find important information about the changes in v_33beta65.readme.

Download: v_33_beta65.lzx - 889 KB

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09.Jan.2001
Bob Scharp 30.3./1.4.2001 - Amiga2001, St. Louis, USA
The 7th Gateway Computer Show 'Amiga2001' will take place late March / early April 2001 in St. Louis, USA. Organizer is Bob Scharp. On the web page (title link) you will find unter "Next Show" an updated list of exhibitors, which clubs and personalities will attend, and which events are panned.

If you would like to be exhibitor on the Amiga2001, please click on "Exhibitor?".

Contact:
Bob Scharp
Amigan-St. Louis
P.O. Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044
U.S.A.
E-mail: bscharp@icon-stl.net
WWW: http://www.amiga-stl.com/

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09.Jan.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail CD32 Games Install Kit v4.1 NG Released
The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.1 NG has been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. But this update can only be downloaded and used by people owning the CD-ROM "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition". In version 4.1 the integrated emulator's compatibility is strongly enhanced, and some bugs are fixed. Owners of the CD-ROM "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" can download the update using the program updater which is part of the CD-ROM.

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09.Jan.2001
Amiga-Community.net Amiga-Community.net now with Customer Portal
Amiga-Community.net perhaps is the only customer portal for Amiga. You can give your opinion about products or websites for Amiga. One can enter anything dealing with Amiga, e.g. shareware - freeware - hardware - software - .....

You can also suggest new categories and products. Some products are already in, these just need to be rated, now. But there is no reimbursement as with similar services.

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09.Jan.2001
Heise Newsticker Heise: Corel Parts with Their Linux Branch
As it looks like Corel will do part with their Linux branch.

Heise wrote:
«Though Corel Corporation will publish their this year's strategy first on 23rd of January, analysers estimate that corel will part with their Linux branch. In reply on these notions in US reports Corel's share value rose at 7.5 % at the American technology stock exchange Nasdaq, last Monday. Already in December speculations came up about Corel might take this step. »
Entire article at the title link (German).

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09.Jan.2001
Mirko Naumann via eMail

Picture Supplement regarding WoA 2000
Mirko Nauman has sent us a whole lot of pictures from the WoA2000. Unfortunately we cannot publish all of these, cause 34 MB are simply way too much. We selected the nicest pictures and made a little catalog out of these which you can find here.

This is how the pictures were taken:

Mirko filmed on the show with his MiniDV video camera SONY DCR-TRV8E and then connected this camera via SVHS cable to his second Amiga with PicassoIV and PalomIV TV module. As his camera takes 25 frames per second he had to select and save the best pictures. Then he converted the pictures saved before to JPEG using the picture format converting software GfxCon by Dirk Farins.

Amiga News	APC&TCP	Individual 3
ISDN Surfer	KDH Datentechnik 2	Amiga suitcase
Mediator A4000D	Mediator PCI 4	Elbox
Schatztruhe	Messepix 4	Mr. Amiga
Mr. Amiga Killing Linux 2	New Boards	OS3.9
Police at the Mediapark	Repulse Soundkarte	Wildfire
DreiEinHalb Computer	WinTV	Athlon-Amiga
Avio	BlizzardPPC&BVisionPPC	Casablanca
CD32 Playing StarWars	Earth2140	EASys
Elbox2	Elbox3	Elbox Tower
Falke Verlag	GRexPCI	Haage&Partner
Airbrush

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09.Jan.2001
Chief via eMail Another Commander now Freeware
'Another Commander' is a buiseness simulation and stragety game in space. The game was made available for free download by Rangonsoft.

Download: Ragon.lha - 1,88 MB

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09.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz CES: New Products and Pictures
Under the title link you can find the final report by Christoph Dietz. He discovered many new products on the CES which though are not necessarily Amiga specific, but not less interesting.

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08.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm

New Aminet Uploads

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08.Jan.2001
Trogladite Software Trogladite Software is Looking for Developers
Trogladite Software is looking for new software-developers and web-designers for our website. If you are interested visit the title link for further informations.

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08.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail Safe V14.5 Released
Safe is a virus-detector that just looks for viruses but it will not delete them.

Name: Safe v14.5
Archivname: Safe14_5.lha
Archivgröße: 19.818 Bytes
Datum: 8. Januar 2001
Programmierer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: Benötigt xvs.library v33.24

Download: Safe14_5.lha

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08.Jan.2001
David Connolly via eMail Amiga Survivor
CS&E took over the well known printed magazine 'Amiga Survivor', originaly published by Robert Iveson. They are looking for advertisers to finance the future of this magazin. Visit the title link or contact the below address for further information.

David Connolly
Managing Director
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum
Oxford Business Park
Oxford
OX4 2JZ
http://www.csande.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 481421
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 481482

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08.Jan.2001
DirOpus

DirOpus 4.15e (Beta) Released
Changes of this beta release:

Fixed various Enforcer Hits
Moved the code back to SAS/C, sorry GCC fans ;-(
Added support for bigints (64 bit math) and changed code as required
Removed all '#include's proto's and converted="" them to pragmas
Added a smakefile that has dependencies

Download: DOpus4beta.lzx - 455 KB

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08.Jan.2001
Joern Plewka, Support Katodev on ANF Audio Driver for New and Old Sound Cards
Katodev announce that the development-documentation for the X-Audio.device is still available at the software page of their website. They would be glad if new cards would use it.

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08.Jan.2001
Freund on ANF Amiga Story at the ARIVA Stock Forum
The Amiga Story at the ARIVA Stock Forum.

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08.Jan.2001
HD Installer JST 4.4 Released
Version 4.4 of JST were released. If you want to use old games with new systems you will love JST.

Download: jst.lha

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08.Jan.2001
Eternity News

Eternity News: MPG Video-card / USB for AMIGA
Eternity wrote:
We are looking for some developers for the realising of an MPEG-Video-card or a USB-card for the Amiga in co-operation with Kato Development:

Programmers that develop drivers and host programs, based on Linux-sources, for the Amiga. We consider the following suppositions:

The intention to develop something 'New' for the Amiga.
There has to be some time available.
You have to know that you wont become a millionaire by developing for the Amiga.
Will for co-operation.
C and C++
Know about the Amiga-hardware.

With the knowhow of Kato and some other persons we will try to develop one of the above mentioned products. We make no promises!

Additionally we are looking for distributors that would like to support the investment and will get better conditions.

And last but not least we would like to come in contact with other projects of this kind, cause if there are already projects like this running, we will renounce ours.

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08.Jan.2001
Stéphane "SteaG" Campan New Graphic-Adventure
X-Team Software announce a new adventure game which they will develop together with Hurricane Studios. You can find initial screenshots at the title link.

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08.Jan.2001

CES: Interview with Grant Courville, QNX
At CES, Christoph Dietz has interviewed Grant Courville from QNX (English translation by Martina Jacobs):

QNX, also one of more than 1,500 exhibitors on CES in Las Vegas, is still in mind of the Amiga community as a partner for the Amiga platform from the age of Jeff Schindler and later of Jim Collas. About that time, development after that - and regarding this most of all about porting to PPC boards by phase5 taken in consideration - I talked to Grant Courville.

QNX presents Neutrino

Neutrino not an a PC for once

Darrin Fry, manager Photon development, proudly prensents how the Amiga operating system would have looked like, if there wasn't any change of direction.

To Courville, former development manager and now manager of the "World Wide Sales Engineering", after the end of development together with Amiga, QNX benefits from many users' and developers' feedback QNX received. Those days QNX had placed "QNX on disk", their operating system with browser, TCP/IP stack and some demos, on one single 1,44 MB disk. Also the neutrino's multimedia capabilities made capital from the developments which - by the way - mainly were done by QNX. But also the marketing effect would have been very fortunate for the company's further assignment.

The splitting of the Amiga community into QNX and Linux supporters, which rose Jim Collas' decision, he regards to be the most negative effect imaginable. He will take a look at the AmigaSDK in any case, cause "perhaps there might be another future for QNX and Amiga". He thinks porting to QNX would not be a big problem.

As in July 1999 the porting of neutrino to the PowerUP boards by phase5 was announced (see our message) users started hoping, again. But there never was more to see than the press release. Unfortunately phase5 never delivered any PPC board to enable QNX to use the Amiga computer available. Contact to phase5 dropped away as time went by. Though there is the QNX operation system for PPC processors in the meantime, but just not for PPC equipped Amiga computers, cause there is no matching to the typically Amiga custom chips. Due to the minor number of existing boards chances for porting are to estimate as very low, said Courville finally.

European Contact Addresses:

QNX Software Systems Ltd.
Voice: +44 (0) 1223 204800
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 204801
Email: qnx-uk@qnx.com

QNX Software Systems s.a.r.l.
Voice: +33 1 64 61 81 61
Fax: +33 1 64 61 81 62
Email: qnxfrance@qnx.com

QNX Software Systems GmbH
Voice: +49 (0) 511 94091 -0
Fax: +49 (0) 511 94091 -199
Email: info@qnx.de (Translation: mj)

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08.Jan.2001
Torsten Dudai New Cartoon: Low Tide

(td) (Translation: td)

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07.Jan.2001
CyberGFX CGX auf Voodoo5
On the 4. January 2001 there was a screenshot released on the CyberGFX site showing CGX running on a Voodoo5.

The driver can use the complete 64 MB of the Voodoo5 and is aware of the duel VSA-100 chips on the Voodoo5 5500 PCI card.

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07.Jan.2001
Black_Amiga News on ANF Black_Amiga Gives In
Black_Amiga wrote:
After days of considering hither and thither I have decided to abandon the Amiga. That means that ATP will be released in its momentarily development state (version 0.9 beta) and also that I offer my Amiga for sale. More about this on the homepage.

ATP is a address book/organizer software.

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07.Jan.2001
Infomedia Network CES: Infomedia Network
TVision recognized as Industry's first Open JavaTM Programmable Set-top Box

LAS VEGAS-Infomedia Network was recognized today at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as being the first TV set-top box manufacturer to provide an open JavaTM Programmable Set-top box.

Utilizing a true real time operating system and JavaTM Virtual Machine, Infomedia's TVision set-top box provides features and functionality that content developers and service providers have been looking for in programmable consumer electronics devices.

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07.Jan.2001
BlitzEnginners ML

SMSEngineer Update
The software SMSEngineer, that is used to send short mails to cell phones, has been released in version 1.0.9 (SMS = Short Message Service).

New in this version:

Window is now re-sizeable
Fixed Bug! Little things on code
Fixed Bug! About Requestor for Mroocheck and Serial Mouse
Added one new German Gateway
Added library check for Main and Register executable

Download: SMSEngineerMUI.lha

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07.Jan.2001
Martin Merz on ANF Update of OpusMI
The 7. release of OpusMI is now available on Aminet and on the MasonIcons homepage. The complete OpusMI archive contains meanwhile more than 450 GlowIcons for use in DirectoryOpus Magellan.

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07.Jan.2001
Richard H. Poser via eMail

AmigAIM Beta Version 0.9407 Released
The new beta version 0.9407 of AmigAIM, the AOL Instant Messenger compatible messaging software for Amiga is now available and can be downloaded from the usual places.

New in AmigAIM 0.9407 beta:

Modified network connection routines slightly, increased socket connection timeout. Seems to have fixed the problems I was having with "Socket Connection" errors.
IO Packet Window shows a couple errors if problems occur during initial Auth connection.(Host not found, etc...)

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06.Jan.2001
Maxime Doyen on ANF

HomeBank 1.8 Update
Version 1.8 of 'HomeBank', the MUI Account-Manager has been released.

The fresh new release of this MUI account manager !! :-)
New features are:

multi accounts in a same file (now called a wallet)
transfer between accounts
automatic cheque numbering
security password for locking a wallet (file)
print for statistics (numeric only)
every images is now external and user configurable
progression gauge for loads & saves
a logo for about and at launching
and so on...

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06.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz

CES: Interview with TAO's CEO Francis Charig
As already reported, Christoph Dietz flew to Las Vegas for amiga-news.de to attend and report directly from the CES. Here's the interview he had with the CEO of TAO, the software partner of Amiga Inc.:

Francis Charig (Chairman TAO)

Francis Charig (Chairman TAO)
Patrice Haftmann (Chairman/CEO Infomedia)
J.D. Ray (Präsident/COO Infomedia)

Amiga-News: Good morning Francis and thank you for the opportunity of this interview.

Francis Charig: It's a pleasure for me either!

Amiga-News: Let's start with some basic questions. How old are you and where are you born?

Francis Charig: Unfortunately I'm 40 years old. I was born in Oxted by London.

Amiga-News: Sure you are married and have children?

Francis Charig: Yes, my wife is Japanese and we have two boys. One is six and the other will be three in February.

Amiga-News: When and where was TAO (pronounced: DAO) founded?

Francis Charig: TAO was founded in 1992 in Bracknell nearby Reading, England. Until 1995 it was a virtual company, located in a bedroom.

Amiga-News: How many people are working for TAO?

Francis Charig: About 70 people. More then 50 of them are in the software department. They are coming from three major groups: the Video games industry, the Blue Chip Industry and we selected the best directly from the universities, Stanford for example.

Amiga-News: What's your position at TAO?

Francis Charig: I'm the chairman of TAO. TAO is not a public company. Sony and Motorola together own 30% of TAO. If TAO would be a public company, its market value would be about $100.000.000. Nowadays Amiga Inc. is our most important partner.

Amiga-News: Do you remember your greatest success?

Francis Charig: Of course, it was to bring this exiting engineering team together. These people are incredible. We only had a fluctuation of two people in the last 2 1/2 years.

Amiga-News: What was the worst day in TAO's history?

Francis Charig: [Thinks long] it was to loose business with our investor from the blue chip industry in 1995 while we had no customers.

Amiga-News: When did you had "First contact" with Bill McEwen?

Francis Charig: It was in October 1999. We introduced him to investors after he decided to use our software for the new Amiga. In fact: TAO saved Amiga.

Amiga-News: Are you familiar with Amiga's history?

Francis Charig: Yes, I know about it all. I know about Commodore, Escom, VisCorp, Gateway and all these things. I still have my Amiga, but unfortunately it's standing in the attic. Also my nephew used the Amiga. I loved gaming on it, e.g. BrakeOut.

Amiga-News: Can you describe the new OS with only three words?

Francis Charig: Consumer Multimedia Stack

Amiga-News: When will the new Amiga-OS be ready, in Q3/2001?

Francis Charig: Of course not! Someone in the next half year!

Amiga-News: We are just a few days in the New Year. Do you have a wish for this year?

Francis Charig: *Joking* Retirement. No, I wish that TAO would be successful in all of the key markets.

Amiga-News: Is the existing Amiga community important for you?

Francis Charig: Yes. The Amiga community provides ones of the best engineers and artist. There is more multimedia skill in the Amiga community than in the PC-World. But there is a discussion if memory protection is needed or not. I want to explain TAO's point of view. For what is memory protection needed? To prevent bad programmed software from crashing the computer. That means that it leads into bad programming. But the software for AmigaDE will run on your desktop but also on your mobile or in your car. Mobiles for example don't have memory protection. Are they crashing? No, the software for them is well programmed. If we add memory protection we have to have a very, very good reason. Because it slows down the operating system. Our goal is to deliver the best multimedia-operating stack. This also means speed!

Amiga-News: Some words to the community?

Francis Charig: We can make Amiga great together. To be great we have to lead the world. Amiga is delivering the best content to the mass market. If we always remember that, we can achieve.

Amiga-News: Thank you for this interview and have a successful stay at the CES.

Francis Charig: It was a pleasure to me. Thank you!

Contact Information TAO Group

North American Sales Queries

Tao Group US Office
POBox 668
Solana Beach, CA 92075

Tel. +1 858 793 1453
Fax. +1 858 259 1389
sales_northamerica@tao-group.com
WWW

Japanese Sales Queries

sales_japan@tao-group.com

Asia (excluding Japan) Sales Queries

sales_asia@tao-group.com

European Sales Queries

Tao Group Europe
62/63 Suttons Business Park
Earley
READING
RG6 1AZ
United Kingdom

Telephone
0118 901 2999 (United Kingdom)
+44 118 901 2999 (International)

Fax
0118 901 2963 (United Kingdom)
+44 118 901 2963 (International)

sales_europe@tao-group.com

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06.Jan.2001
Dirk Baeyens via eMail amiga-news.de now also at amiga.nl
The dutch-flemish translation of amiga-news.de by Dirk Baeyens has now been intergrated to one more dutch Amiga-Site.

We are very delighted and heartily great our new readers :-).

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06.Jan.2001
Amiga Flame Amiga Flame: Election of the Top 10 Amiga-games 2000
The poll to elect the 10 best Amiga-games of 2000 at Amiga Flame is still active. If you haven't voted yet, you can do it by following the title link.

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06.Jan.2001
Matthias Muench on ANF First meeting of the Amiga User Group 99 of the new year
The AUG99 is meeting on January 19th in Sinsheim at the Shooters (Citydom). More infos as well as a city map can be found on our homepage. Everybody who is interested in dropping by is invited.

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06.Jan.2001
AmiDog

AmiDog's Movie Player Update to Version 2.01
AmiDog's Movie Player 'AMP' has been updated to version 2.01.

Changes since AMP v2.00:

AMP used to free two never allocated signals, fixed.
GUI: Now works when started from a partition with a space in the name.
GUI: Added a version string to the .cfg file and placed it in S:.
GUI: Added DEVS: as default path for the device drivers.
GUI: Bumped version to v1.01 due to the changes.

Download: AMP201.lha

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06.Jan.2001
Greg Donner OS3.9 FAQ by Greg Donner Updated
Greg Donner created an extensive FAQ , which he updates regularly,in English about the new Amiga OS3.9 on his homepage. His compatibility-page, the page with known bugs, and the installation tips have been updated also.

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06.Jan.2001
Heise Newsticker Heise: CES: The Computer Sector Deals in Entertainment Electronics
«On Saturday at 19 o'clock MET the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), the world's biggest annual entertainment electronics fair is opening its doors in Las Vegas. One and a half hour before, Bill Gates will hold his keynote, which he will - as known by now - change on the birth hour of his new favourite, the game console XBox.

Though this will be no more surprise to anybody, but there are a lot more things to discover at the CES: After all there are 1800 exhibitors at the start this year and in addition to this there is a "frame program" at the fair with over 100 presentations with about 300 experts. 110.000 visitors are expected from over 100 countries. The fair was first held back 1967 with some modest 200 exhibitors and 17.500 visitors.»

Christoph Dietz of amiga-news.de has flown to Las Vegas to report to our readers from the fair and to cover us with pictures. In addition he has arranged for some interesting interviews. You can expect interesting news.

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06.Jan.2001
FTW Fun Time World: New forum in testing process
FTW writes:
«Nearly every Amiga-site has a forum, so why create one more? All of the forums that are working at our place currently are based on very simple technology can can hardly be expanded. The new forum is based on the Yet Another Bulletin Board' in short 'YaBB' and is offering every imaginable comfort. The forum will now be tested for some weeks and later on we will decide whether we stick to the system or remove it. The design is only partly adapted to out page. It will change during testing. To participate you need to register during which you can choose an appearance for yourself. If you wish so, your data will be stored in Cookies, so you will register automatically on your next visit. The new forum is really fun. We would be happy to find as many participants as possible. We will the create more special forums on request.»

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06.Jan.2001
Stefan Instinske on ANF New Layout in the Amiga-Section of alternative-games.de
From today on the new layout of Alternative-Games.de is also online in the Amiga-Section. Now we want to know what you think of the new design and therefor we have started a poll which will be available until 02-01-2001. We are looking forward to your visit!

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05.Jan.2001 New Scripts Online and Move Completed
Dear reader,

we have finished our move to the new server and if everything works as we expect, you can now see the scripts programmed by Sven Drieling in action on our German page.

The main change is that the entire news are now administrated in a database, you can comment on every single news and can send individual news to friends by e-mail. Also, you can view a printing and an ASCII version. If you prefer to see the start page with titles only, you can control this with the menu above.

We are looking forward to your comments. Write us what you like and what we could still improve.

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05.Jan.2001
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New Aminet uploads

Videomanage.lha      biz/dbase  398K+A Videodatabase
HomeBank.lha         biz/misc   198K+V1.8 The personal account manager (MUI)
Cit_Docs_BA01.lha    comm/bbs   571K+Citadel 68K Documenation
Cit_exec_BA01.lha    comm/bbs   247K+Citadel 68K BBS Program
cit_src_BA01.lha     comm/bbs   544K+Citadel 68K BBS Program Source
Cit_Util_BA01.lha    comm/bbs   464K+Citadel 68K BBS Program Utilities
DalHelper.lha        comm/irc    37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
TaskiSMS_HU.lha      comm/tcp     3K+Hungarian catalog for TaskiSMS 2.0
clockita.lha         dev/basic   67K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
Aakt0101GFX.lha      docs/mags  526K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0101GUIDE.lha    docs/mags   92K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
AaktInt1200GFX.lha   docs/mags  336K+International infotainment magazine (gra
Onkelz.lha           docs/mags   72K+German Boehse Onkelz guide AG
starmag25_ht.lha     docs/mags  1.3M+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
RivaAudio.lha        gfx/show    11K+Script for fast Mpeg-1 video+sound playb
TestGear-Notes.lha   hard/hack    4K+Test equipment projects, general notes.
anescgfx.lha         misc/emu   100K+A/NES CGFX v1.22 - Nintendo emulator
BD-MLBreath.lha      mods/bladr 109K+"My Last Breath" by Black Dragon/Honoo+L
32bc_drunk.mpg       mods/mpg   6.9M+8 drunk Gods
AmiDoPat.lha         pix/back    22K+Nice Images for AmiDock OS3.9
TinyGICollectn.lha   pix/gicon   49K+GlowIcons - size doesn't matter ;-)
OFS028.jpg           pix/wfm    758K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS029.jpg           pix/wfm    536K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS030.jpg           pix/wfm    320K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS031.jpg           pix/wfm    485K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS032.jpg           pix/wfm    578K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
sndfile.lha          util/libs  296K+Library for reading/writing various samp
PowerTools.lha       util/moni   12K+Power failure logger
TMPlus.lha           util/wb     87K+AddOnMenus to ToolsAppMenu(With-GUI-Pref
WB2000-Ger.lha       util/wb      5K+German Locale for Workbench2000 1.8
WB2000_18.lha        util/wb    673K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)

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05.Jan.2001
MooBunny Forum

Corinna Cohn. Interviewed Bill McEwen
Corinna Cohn. called up Bill McEwen, to clear up some rumors as much as possible. McEwen answered her some questions. Here a summary of what Bill McEwen answered:

AmigaOS 3.9 has upgraded Internet functionality that was missing from 3.5, and it has multimedia players. Otherwise, most of the functionality is similar to 3.5. Users will have to evaluate the features of 3.9 for themselves to see if there's any value added.
The last months were tight for Amiga Inc. from a financial point of view. They are looking for more investors. McEwen named several sources, among them a tier one company that would be interested in investing.
Bill McEwen is sure to have a product that hopefully impresses investors more than some of the ephemeral properties that other startups failed to sell.
Money is low. Will Amiga Inc. become insolvent? McEwen replied to this question that this is not true.
Amiga Inc. will only exhibit at Amiga trade shows. Products will be made available through vendors.
Bill McEwen named some manufacturers of set-top boxes which should be available soon. He is excited about other products appearing, especially something that should please Amiga users.
He reiterated that they (this being vendors using Amiga technology) had some products ready to debut and that we should stick around to see them.

Corinna Cohn. analyzes Bill McEwens statements as follows:
"Amiga does not have a product that I as an Amiga user would necessarily want, but that I as a computer geek might dig. We Amiga users are a technological launching platform for a new, possibly cool technology, and Amiga wants us to continue to pay attention to them until its ready. This explains 3.5 and 3.9, and it explains the early appearance of the developers kit. Amiga is going to continue to blow us kisses until they have something to impress us with or until they run out of money."

The computer industry is in an extremely hard competition. Even if it may be difficult for us at times not to lose our faith that Amiga Inc. will achieve what they have planned. It is worth acknowledging that they are obviously not willed to throw in the towel even though it would be easier and more promising to develop tools for another famous OS ...

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05.Jan.2001
MorphOS MorphOS: sndfile.library
Sigbjørn Skjæret has released version 1.22 of sndfile.library for MorphOS. The library allows the reading and writing of different sample formats which are used for example by AmigaAMP, DelfSF, Frogger and Lame. More information here.

Download: sndfile1_22.lha - 252 KB

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05.Jan.2001
Dennis Lohr via eMail Music: Psyria
Dennis Lohr 'Psyria' has been making music as a hobby for six years. he started with an A500 and Protracker 2.3a. Currently, he still creates his music mainly on the Amiga, but he uses the Digibooster today. He expresses his enthusiasm about the Digibooster like this: "For all Amigans who make music as well: have a look at that thing! There probably is no better tracker for the Amiga!"

Many of his songs (trance, techno, dancefloor, and pop) are available for download on his website at the title link. The website was entirely reworked lately.

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05.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail VirusHelp Denmark: Update of xvs.library
Yesterday, an update to the xvs.library was released which can recognize the trojans "4kIntro Trojan" and Dkg-Blum Trojan. If you're using VirusChecker, VirusExecutor or VirusZ, make sure to update the library.
Some information on the release:

Name...: xvs.library v33.24
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archiv size: 52.734 Bytes
Date: January 4th, 2001
Programmer: Alex van Niel

News for 33.24:
- 4kIntro Trojan added
Thanks to Ryben Kozlak and Jan Andersen
- Dkg-Blum Trojan added
Thanks to Peter Gordon, Urban Müller and Jan Andersen

NOTE:
This trojan also replaces/deletes or adds a file called asi.library XVS will not (yet) be able to detect this file because as far as I could analyze it, it looked like a normal VideoTracker file. If XVS would have to see this as a virus, more VideoTracker files will be fake detected. If you have problems or want this added anyway let me know.

STILL TO DO: - Add Neurotic Death 2 and Neurotic Death 4. These two linkviruses are polymorphic, but crash on my system if I try to infect some test files. It seems that they haven't been spread to the public, I received them anonymously from the author. So it's not that BIG danger at the moment. - Try to get and add GlobVec linkvirus. The only one who has it is Heiner Schneegold (author of VT-Schutz) and VTC Hamburg, but Heiner doesn't give his permission to the VTC to send me the virus :(

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04.Jan.2001
AmigaActive AmigActive Poll
AmigActive is organizing a poll to find out about your hopes, dreams, an plans regarding the new Amiga. If you would like to participate, you will find the form under the title link.

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04.Jan.2001
Opera Linux: Opera Version 4 Beta 5 Released
A new beta version v4b5 of the browser 'Opera' has been released for Linux.

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04.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF Netscape 6 like Image Set for Voyager
Under the title link you can download a Netscape 6 like image set for Voyager. The archive contains the related buttons (each in 3 different colours), background patterns for MUI, and a German description. The set is located on the Amiga/Projects page. There is also to find a screenshot.

Download: voyagerset.lha - 38 KB

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04.Jan.2001
AudioLabs New Plugin for ProStation Audio: Tube Pre Amp
For ProStation Audio, the audio software by AudioLabs, a new plugin called 'Tube Pre Amp' has been released, which will work for any version of ProStation Audio.

Download: TubePre.lha - 10,5 KB

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04.Jan.2001
Markus Holler Markus Holler Music Page Updated
Beginning the new year Markus Holler, very well known to Amiga users by very good music, has put a little audio pattern from the Merregnon soundtrack on his music page, which you can find under the title link.

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04.Jan.2001
André Rief on ANF Eyetech News
An AmigaOne presentation, which can be displayed using a Scala player, is available for download at Eyetech. It shows the presentation by Eyetech and Escena on the last Cologne show.

Furthermore Eyetech offers an EZCam PCMCIA digital camera memory adapter (Memory Stick, SmartMedia, CompactFlash) along with a driver allowing you to use the camera as device on the Workbench. By this you can display or copy pictures immediately.

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04.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF

3PMGUI Update
3PMGUI gives the MP2 CLI player MPEGA a small GUI with the features needed most. Since MPEGA as well as the GUI causes only low CPU load, 3PMGUI most of all suits very well for Amiga users with slow machines.

New Features:

drag'n'drop (just drag a MP2/3 file on the GUI to play it)
Autoplay
Button graphics can be exchanged / loaded via menu (some 'skins' are already included)
Other small enhancements

Download: 3PMGUI.lha - 132 KB

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04.Jan.2001
Michael Pfeiffer on ANF VWP News
Due to moving our homepages to another server at the time being all services basing on CGI scripts (as for downloads, statistics, links, boards, ....) are not available. This concerns the domains http://www.VirtualWorlds.de, http://www.AudioCutter.de, and http://www.AudioCutter.com. The problems are known and we are working to solve.

AudioCutter Cinema V 0.99
Along with the again working CGI scripts the endmost preview version (before final release) of AudioCutter Cinema will be available in a few days. Then the versions for PPC-/x86-Linux, and Windows will be available for free download, once more.

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04.Jan.2001
Olaf Koebnik via eMail Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Risiko full version!
The Amiga Arena in co-operation with Frank Abbing (UAC Desing) present the full version of "Risiko" as final v1.7, which is not available form Aminet.

Risiko Amiga in this conforms to the common game rules of the original board game by Parker Bros. But Risiko also has included special rules as like uprisings, earth quakes, and blitz! Both, German and English version! For all of the Amiga friends the best non-commercial version for Amiga is ready for download!

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04.Jan.2001
Stéphane Campan via eMail ClickBOOM News - S-File #9
ClickBOOM wish a happy new year to everybody and tell with their new S-File that the entire stock of 'Capital Punishment', and 'Quake' was sold to the British vendor CS&E.

More on they tell that there are negotiations regarding new licences in train.

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03.Jan.2001
Sebastian Eichholz on ANF Cult Magazines
Because PC-Joker will be delivered for the last time I want to give you the hint that at kultpower.de the PowerPlay-archives was expanded very much. Current state: 281 test results, 113 complete test reports as scans, 35 scanned advertising for games, 57 PowerPlay-covers. You can search through the database of PowerPlay very comfortably. Besides this you can admire 53 ASM-covers from the current software-market.

So you are right at kultpower.de if you want to indulge in memories and to read test reports of cult games like Turrican, Monkey Island, Battle Isle or Lemmings.

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03.Jan.2001
Czech Amiga News SecondSpin Beta-Tester Wanted
You can transform audio-CDs to MPEG-audio 1,2 or 3 with SecondSpin. Additionally further formats like AIFF and WAV are supported.

Author Lauri Ahonen has finished his military service and will now take care more intensively of the development of SecondSpin. Because of that he is looking for some new beta tester. Please contact him via eMail if you are interested in.

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03.Jan.2001
CGrX Mediator News: Soundblaster Driver for AHI
Mr. Wajda has posted in Mediator mailing list that he was informed by ELBOX that the Soundblaster-driver for PCI-board 'Mediator' will make use of the sound system AHI. It is not known when the driver will come to release.

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03.Jan.2001
KDH Upgrade AWebIISE to the Full Version
Expand your limited special version of Amiga internet browser AWEBII SE which was delivered with Amiga OS3.5 and OS3.9 to the full version.

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03.Jan.2001
Amiga Inc. AmigaOS 3.5 Boing Bag #2 Released
Today the Boing Bag #2 has appeared as update to AmigaOS 3.5.

Download: BoingBag2.lha - 1,2 MB

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03.Jan.2001
BlitzEngineers BlitzEngineers News
You can now access the website of BlitzEngineers (SMSEngineerMUI) under its own domain of http://www.blitzengineers.de/. It was completely new rewritten.

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03.Jan.2001
Wolfgang Kalaene on ANF PC Joker Closes Down
You can read at Gamesmania.de the following lines: PC Joker (note: successor of Amiga Joker) will be closed down
«Sad message for all Joker-fans. The PC-magazine will be closed down right before its hundredth issue. The subscriptions will be taken over by IDG-publishing house`s GameStar. The deliveries of these subscriptions contain a explanation of Joker-chief editor Michael Labiner. This is the second magazine dinosaur after PowerPlay which has passed.»

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03.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF 3PMGUI Released
You can download the first version of 3PMGUI under the title link. (The program is stored in the Amiga/Projekts site).

3PMGUI gives the MP2/3 Shell-Player MPEGA a small surface with most important functions. Because MPEGA as well as the GUI make use of the CPU very economically 3PMGUI is suited to Amiga user which has got a small CPU.

Features:
- small, fast and easily configurable
- graphical button surface exchangeable
- Shell commands for MPEGA configurable< - Help functions and possibility of saving of MP2/3s

Postscript to 3PMGUI: The error that 3PMGUI do not find the pictures at the beginning has been cleared. You can download the new version (still always 0.1) under the title link. Sorry.

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02.Jan.2001
AmiBench AmiBench News
Mark 'tecno' Wilson, the maintainer of AmiBench, the website for international free small ads, reports in his year summary about the adverse conditions capable to make a webmaster's life really hard, sometimes. AmiBench was hunted by bad luck last year: scripts which weren't finished; the service provider got hacked; the server played yoyo; the web account was closed by mistake; no feedback from the readers; ....

I can comprehend well that such conditions are very annoying and motivation goes to zero sometimes. Give Mark positive feedback to give his motivation a boost. :)

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02.Jan.2001
amiga.org Worm Wars Version 6.5 Released
Version 6.5 of the Game 'Worm Wars' has been released.

Download: wormwars.lha - 775 KB

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02.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm

New Aminet Uploads

DalHelper.lha        comm/irc    37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
ON.lha               comm/irc    12K+ON function for AmIRC
ClipWatch.lha        comm/misc  181K+Tool to call Clip/WIT remote surveillanc
samba_2.0.7.lha      comm/tcp   6.3M+Port of the free SMB client and server
nms-spaceqst1e.lha   demo/intro  16K+Space Quest 1E. cracktro from Nemesis
pvt-cafe.lha         demo/slide 2.3M+Demoparty Computer Art Festival 1999-200
BallMasterSrc.lha    dev/basic   48K+Source for BallMaster V1.2
powerd.lha           dev/e      723K+New powerful programming language v0.16
yaec.lha             dev/e      235K+Yaec - Yet Another E Compiler [1.1.1 Bet
catcheck.lha         dev/misc    23K+Amiga catalog tester, v1.0
VCDGear.lha          disk/cdrom  81K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
DVD-RAM.lha          disk/misc   68K+DVD-RAM RDB, MountList and DOSDrivers Ma
msd95v16.lha         disk/misc   40K+MS FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 Filesystem handler
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/hyper 582K+ITALIAN ONLY comunicati NotizieAmiga 12/
amiuserlist.lha      docs/lists  65K+AmigaUserList V10.96 of Germany, Switzer
amigazette_00.lha    docs/mags   81K+AMIGAzette (italian magazine)
amigazette_01.lha    docs/mags  167K+AMIGAzette 1st iusse (20.06.1999) (itali
amigazette_02.lha    docs/mags  633K+AMIGAzette 1st iusse (10.08.1999) (itali
amigo6_2.lha         game/board  88K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  237K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
WormWars.lha         game/misc  776K+WormWars 6.5: Advanced snake game
Powerdrive.lha       game/patch  40K+HD-Installer for Powerdrive V1.0
Viz.lha              game/patch  23K+HD-Installer for Viz V1.0
WorldCricket.lha     game/patch  33K+HD-Installer for World Cricket V1.0
gumband.lha          game/role  930K+Gumband 2.1.2a - Roguelike solo RPG
BallMasterAGA.lha    game/think 1.4M+Addictive puzzle game with many levels
BallMasterECS.lha    game/think 934K+Addictive puzzle game with many levels
Pishti.lha           game/wb    106K+Popular Turkish card game. (v1.01)
centipede.lha        gfx/3d     682K+Futuristic 3D font for Maxon Cinema 4D
chair.lha            gfx/3dobj  130K+Steel Chair Object for Maxon Cinema 4D
jpeg2mov.lha         gfx/conv    30K+Creates a QuickTime-Movie
AMP.lha              gfx/show   188K+MPEG1/2,MP2/3,AVI,QT/MOV,FLI/FLC,NSF pla
AMP2.lha             gfx/show   146K+MPEG1/2,MP2/3,AC3 player v2.00 (001229)
FormAldiHyd.lha      hard/drivr  59K+V1.3, Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aipt
mccontrol.lha        hard/hack  542K+V1.56 PSX MemoryCard Reader
ICS.lha              hard/misc  2.4M+V2.01LE ICS - professional color correct
imdbDiff001222.lha   misc/imdb  1.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
af-bassic_tune.lha   mods/techn 231K+DBM 8ch ->Acid Frog<- min.techno 143bpm
af-vklop.lha         mods/techn 984K+DBM 8ch ->Acid Frog<- min.techno 140bpm
GMP-G.lha            mus/midi   123K+GUI for GMPlay V1.3(a)
SDT_MSR.lha          mus/misc     4K+Sound Ripper
Amoralplay1.5.lha    mus/play   121K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
EasyMOD.lha          mus/play    14K+Simple shell-based MOD-player
EasyPlayer.lha       mus/play    90K+The alternative music player, v1.04
CGXBootPic39.lha     pix/boot   164K+CGXBootPic.library for OS 3.9
jcIconsII.lha        pix/icon   130K+Os3.5,os3.9 Icon package II
no_shower.lha        pix/misc   189K+[ancor] a pic with Sarah and her sister
sg-strip_2.lha       pix/misc    80K+[ancor] strip 2 of the comic
sg-strip_3.lha       pix/misc    66K+[ancor] strip 3 of the comic
AW-Filter.lha        text/dtp    50K+AmigaWriter filter for PageStream
Word8-Filter.lha     text/dtp     7K+Word 8 filter for PageStream
titleshadow.lha      util/boot    4K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
PowerTools.lha       util/moni   11K+Power failure logger
fastbar.lha          util/wb     32K+FASTBAR1.07b, another screen-manager for
TransAGA.lha         util/wb     32K+TransAGA, Transparent Workbench3x menu f

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02.Jan.2001
ModePro ModePro Millennium Edition
A millennium edition of the screen manager ModePro has been released. The program was completely recompiled in December.

Download: ModePro.lha

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02.Jan.2001
BoingWorld BallMaster Source Code Available under GNU
Damir Arh, author of several games for Amiga computers has released the source code of the game BallMaster under GNU Public License. Also two versions of the game itself are available for free download.

Download:
BallMasterAGA.lha - 1,4 MB
BallMasterECS.lha - 934 KB
BallMasterSrc.lha - 48 KB

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02.Jan.2001
Fun Time World Several Software Updates
In the new version of JST v4.3b a save error was fixed. With this program you are able to copy many of the disk games to harddisk and then start the games from there.
Download: jst.lha

Version 2.0.7 of the open source network software 'Samba' was released.
Download: samba_2.0.7.lha

powerd v.0.16 is a completely new programming language, but similar to AmigaE. You can find closer information in the documentation.
Download: powerd.lha

'yeac' is the beta version of a completely new AmigeE compiler.
Download: yaec.lha

Two new plugins by Ruediger Hanke for the DTP software PageStream were released. The Word8 filter allows to import even text saved with Word97 / Word2000. You can import documents saved with AmigWriter using the AmigaWriter filter.
Download:
Word8-Filter.lha
AW-Filter.lha

With 'DVD-RAM' you can connect DVD drives to the Amiga. Using the DVD-RAM software 2.6 G and 4.7 G (per side) medias are recognized.
Download: DVD-RAM.lha

In the patch archive for the browser AWeb the installer was extended by installation of language. A Russian catalog has been added to the catalogs archive.
Download:
AWeb3x34pch.lha
cats34.lha

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01.Jan.2001
CGrX Graphics Boards Page: 7th Anniversary
Congratulations! The graphics boards page where you can find informations dealing with graphics boards for Amiga computers celebrates 7th anniversary.

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01.Jan.2001
AmiHoo AmiHoo Magazin No. 3
Issue number 3 of the AmiHoo magazine published. This issue contains news, reviews and a contest.

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01.Jan.2001
Grasshopper LLC Grasshopper LLC
Grasshopper, publisher of 'Pagestream', wish you a happy new year and tells that within the first week of the year phone calls will not be answered, but e-mails.

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01.Jan.2001
VaporWare AmIRC 3.5.6beta
Beta version 3.5.6 of AmIRC released for that v3.5.5 beta timed out on 1st of January.

Download: amirc_356.lzx

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01.Jan.2001
Alexander Kurtz on ANF Some new URLs for amiNetGUI
I applied some new URLs for amiNetGUI:

http://aminet.x2.nu
http://aminet.cs.nu
http://aminet.cc.nu
http://aminet.wls.net
http://aminet.tiz.net
http://aminet.pc5.org
http://aminet.x15.org
http://aminet.0am.org
http://aminet.foren.org
http://aminet.home-page.nu
http://fly.to/aminet

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01.Jan.2001
Marcel Rohles on ANF New FreeCiv Beta Version
A new beta version of Freeciv, a 'Civilization II'-like multiplayer strategy game, is available for download at the title link.

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01.Jan.2001
Jochen Rhein on ANF

New Version of ICS Released
From ICS, the free AmigaOS Scanner Color Calibration Software is a major new ICS upgrade V2.01 now available. Following new features have been added to V2 of ICS:

Now all ICS image reading and writing is done using the new IRW library
ICSConvert can now write JPEG, IFF, and TIFF
ICSConvert and ScanTarget now support 16 bit/channel image data
ICSConvert can now read/write embeded ICC color and IPTC/NAA editorial information
Now includes tools to extract ICC and IPTC information from images (IFF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
Spanish localization added
ICSConvert can now be used as tool for image format conversion
IRW does offer improved and localized error handling
Error requesters now offer detailed information, hints and often also a retry function
Major speed improvement for loading certain files formats
Also, memory requirement was reduced.

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01.Jan.2001
Allister Brimble via eMail Amiga Music Website
Allister Brimble published his own webside at mp3s.com. He is well known for his work for Alienbreed, Project X, Bodyblows and Superfrog. He is still working for the software industry and he is composing music for Driver, Driver 2 and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Some songs he did are available at the title link.

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01.Jan.2001
Elbox via eMail

Elbox Wish Happy New Year
Elbox sent in new year greetings which should not be taken too seriously according to what they stated.

The Not-So-Serious Inside Story Announcement
Crack-off, 31 December 2000

The pi-pi-Castro Task Force is proud to promote the latest technique of advertising.

The pi-pi Castro Task Force hereby authorise everybody to read the secrets of their latest technology of collecting money in advertising and to disclose this secret to enyone on the way:

We, the world-famous pi-pi Castro Task Force, produced the world-famous graphic system for the world-dominant computer platform of the Ah-miga. Sure, we did some work. Nobody paid us for that :-(
Then we saw some people get big in the Ah-miga world.
We thought: "Why don't take money from them?"
We noticed Err-box produced their hardware (el mediatore).
Err-box produced their software (the pi-pi driver).
We did not help them (why should we?)
So we thought we could ask Err-box for money for using our world-famous name of pi-pi 96
Therefore we are world famous. Proved.
Err-box did not want to pay us.
We asked other friends to persuade Err-box.
Franco Mariacchi managed to get computers and Special-Delusion-Kit documents from Err-box - FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
Hi-period managed to get some hardware from Err-box plus the same paperwork. FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
We did not manage to get a single pfenig from Err-box. And we need paper too.
Franco Mariacchi and Hi-period are laughing at us.
Therefore we are suckers. And our friends are laughing at us. Proved.
Aha. A painting family wants us to pay DM 6,000 for using the "Pi-pi-Castro" name.
Therefore we wanted Err-box to pay it for us.
As Err-box are discussing the issue behind the curtain, and we need cash badly, we demand Ah-miga users to register our pi-pi system immediately and pay us for their being happy.
If nobody pays us, we will cry out that any other soap-ware worldwide is ill-egg-all. (Apart from our pi-pi-castro, sure enough.) Proved.

Err-box Komm-puter was happy to find the appropriate name for this new method of advertising: the REVERSE ADVERTISING. Danke mucho, err-boxie.

Please remember that you have to pay us DEM 5.00 or USD 10.00 every time you use the word "advertising".

The Pi-Pi-Castro Task Force

Courtesy of Err-box Komm-puter De-pression De-partition-ment

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There is a popular custom in Poland to make jokes on colleagues and fellow people in the end of the year, to summarise the most prevalent features of their behaviour during the year. Here is our summary of what has transpired between the P96 team and ELBOX Computer during that time. Please take it with a bit of reserve, as we do not intend to offend anyone, just to introduce a pinch of humour into the issue, which seemed to be so tense and serious in the Amiga world.

Happy New Year!!!

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31.Dec.2000
Starmag-Team on ANF Jubilee-Starmag #25 is Online
Das Starmag-Team wrote:

Hello, dear people!

We wish the Amiga-News-team a happy new year and of course our readers,too.

Issue #25 is out and ready for download and online reading on our website.

Greetings,
Your Starmag-Team

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31.Dec.2000
Chris Hodges via eMail Graphics Tablet Driver: FormAldiHyd v1.3
On 31. December 2000 Chris Hodges has released the version 1.3 of the graphics tablet driver 'FormAldiHyd'. The driver supports the graphics tablets Aldi/Medion/Tevion MD 9310. From the Readme you can draw the changes against the older version. Among other things this Millennium edition contains a fireworks demo.

Download: FormAldiHyd.lha (59 K), Readme

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31.Dec.2000
ANN ANN Celebrates 4. Birthday
On 28. December 2000 the news service Amiga Network News by Christian Kemp became 4 years old.

Under the title link Christian first lets the ANN year 2000 pass in review to have a look into the future afterwards. Looking back he can reference to almost 2 millions registered page views this year with around 50 GB transferred files. Against the year 1999 with 700 000 page views this is more than a doubling.

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31.Dec.2000
Andreas Wendorf on ANF Photos of 'The Party 2000'
Warp9 has put some photos of 'The Party 2000 / Denmark' into the web.

'The Party 2000' is a scene/demo party that attracts around 4,000 people every year in Aars in northern Denmark.

Supplement: 01.01.2001:
Juergen Beck via eMail:
There were several new amazing Amiga demos and intros. Among them well done demos of the demo groups Haujobb, and Ephidrena. Download: demos

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31.Dec.2000
frost on ANF AOG-News with New Website
frost wrote:
The AOG site has been completely redesigned.

And we wish everybody a happy new year.

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31.Dec.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF News on the PlayGUI Website
Richard Kapp wrote:
As Rolf Roth has unfortunately no more time to attend the official PlayGUI site, I (author of PlayGUI) have now taken over this task. The site shines now in a complete new design and besides, there are again three new skins, a funny theme and also other news. I wish you all a happy new year 2001!

(PlayGUI is a graphical interface for Hippoplayer, Play16, GMPlay and MPEGA, that uses skins and themes. By this it is possible to play GUI, MODs, MIDIs, MP2/3s and samples with one single (ex)changable GUI.)

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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World Payback Status Report #17
On 30. December 2000 James Daniels has released the status report #17 regarding the game 'Payback'. The game now offers additionally a multiplayer deathmatch mode for up to 4 players. To do this much had to be changed in the source code and therefor much work had to be put into this mode as the game wasn't design for supporting a multiplayer mode first. But the work was, according to James Daniels, worth it. Screens of the multiplayer mode are released on the screenshots page. The latest photos there also contain the improved textures.

Besides that the game now supports also the CD32 controller, and several bugs have been fixed.

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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World

Scalos: Iconsystem, Updates of WB3.9 Plugin and VolumeGauge Plugin
The new iconsystem for Scalos supports the normal and the AmigaOS 3.5 icons as well as the NewIcons.

Regarding the WB3.9 plugin and VolumeGauge plugin of Scalos updates have been released which fix bugs. The WB3.9 plugin allows under AmigaOS 3.5+ the use of newer features like 'AmiDock'. The VolumeGauge plugin equips all root volume windows with a fill gauge in the left window border in the AmigaOS v3.5 style. This plugin runs on AmigaOS V3.0+. The following bugs were fixed:

VolumeGauge: on iconifying of windows problems appeared.
WB3.9: There are additional system checks so that the plugin runs now more stable. Besides that the AmigaOS V3.5+ preferences are now loaded from workbench.prefs.

Download:

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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World Tales of Tamar: FAQ and Crincles of 55
Regarding the move based online strategy game 'Tales of Tamar' a German FAQ and the chronicles of the year 55 were released. The FAQ answers the most important questions regarding the game and gives a hint how to play 'Tales of Tamar' on the Amiga emulator 'UAE'.

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31.Dec.2000
Amiga Flame Amiga Flame: Vote for the Game of the Year 2000
As in the past years you can vote for the game of the year at Amiga Flame this year again. There are 12 games (adventures, real time strategy and other genres) for voting.

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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World Auctions on Fun Time World
Since several days there's the possibility to purchase resp. to sell soft- and hardware by auction on Fun Time World.

Directly on the homepage there's also a text box listing the up-to-date version numbers of the latest software titles or updates for the Amiga.

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31.Dec.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF CD-ROM: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES
On 30. December 2000 Thomas Unger has released the CD-ROM 'THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES'. This CD contains plenty of texts taken from the WWW that cover the history of the Amiga and give more information about the Amiga in the areas persons (among others Jay Miner, RJ Mical), official Amiga models, clones and emulators (among others ABox, Draco, REC WonderTV A6000), Amiga operating systems, accessories (Amiga Joyboard, The Big Book of Amiga Hardware), support (among others The Dave Haynie Archives, Great Valley Products - M Inc.) and specials (among others The Jay Miner Society, Amiga Juggler animation).

All informations regarding the content and the ordering of the CD can be found on the homepage.

Thomas Unger thanks to all those who have made some contribution to the success of the CD-ROM. Special thanks go to Gregor Franz who has finished his "DiCAS - The Commodore/Amiga story" during the holidays.

And he wishes all readers and the makers of the Amiga News a happy and successful year 2001.

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31.Dec.2000
Hans-Joerg Frieden in the Forum Warp3D and PCI Graphics Boards
Recently Hans-Jörg Frieden has expressed himself in our forum regarding the topic driver software for PCI graphics boards under Warp3D:

«Unfortunately the number of e-mails regarding Warp3D and PCI cards accumulates for Thomas and me. Almost every time it is "I have purchased a card of the brand XXX, when will you have 3D drivers ready?"...

Regarding this I want to say the following: Warp3D is and will continue to be a hobby project that is cooking on smaller flame as for now, because of the time consumption of Hyperion. If possible we'll write drivers. Nevertheless I will explicitly point out, that the buying of a graphics card is no cogent reason for us to produce a driver for it - as that takes quite some time. There will probably be no driver for Voodoo 5 (V4 is questionable but more likely), none for GeForce, Riva TNT, ATI Rage or whatever else, especially when there exists no chip documentation. Neither we will attempt to recycle a Linux driver.

In the case that somebody could get some chip documentation (legal!) and make it available for us the chances for a driver increase but this is no guarantee either.»

Via email Hans-Joerg adds that this is no kind of arbitrariness but only a hint that people shouldn't waste their money for graphics cards that can't be supported simply because of the lack of time or documentation...

We are getting mails all the time from people asking for GeForce support or Voodoo 5 but for those documentation isn't accessible. We have tried it even at NVidia, without success, even not against NDA... :-(

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30.Dec.2000 Happy new year from amiga-news.de!

© 2001 by Rolf Tingler (ps)

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30.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm

New Aminet Uploads

MicroBase_500d.lha   biz/dbase  830K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - GERMAN
MicroBase_500e.lha   biz/dbase  439K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - ENGLISH
Videomat1.7.lha      biz/dbase   56K+Video cassette management system
OS3.9NOupd.lha       biz/misc     2K+Bugfix for Norwegian translation of Amig
yaec_fix.lha         dev/e        0K+Fixes stupid archive error in yaec.lha (
Progr_Langs_v6.lha   dev/misc    71K+Comparison of progr. langs
AmigaPoWeR.lha       docs/hyper  69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  234K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
Tankista_v0.3b.lha   game/demo  105K+Buggy betaversion action game for 2 play
MicroPaint208.lha    gfx/edit   492K+Paint program w. effects / BMP support
BetaScanMustek.lha   hard/drivr  73K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
Keyswitch.lha        hard/hack   13K+Automatic keyboard&mouse switch (German)
ASpEmu.lha           misc/emu   133K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha     misc/emu    72K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ECat01.lha           misc/misc   15K+Spanish Catalogs Pack 01
psY_srY.lha          mods/blkha  87K+REvENgE - Nachfolger PT mod by blakkhar
BoingRays.jpg        pix/back   152K+Boing Ball peeking out of dark clouds
AP12Recto.jpg        pix/misc   128K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Recto
AP12Verso.jpg        pix/misc    74K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Verso
dau-cdrom.jpg        pix/misc    29K+How might a CD-ROM for dummies look like
titleshadow.lha      util/boot    3K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
iFlush.lha           util/cli    13K+Flushes UnUsed MemBlocks() Librarys() , 
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  289K+Report+ 4.21: 10-function utility
MicroRexx202.lha     util/rexx   50K+ARexx Intuition extension

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30.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail Advertising at Amiga Future
Exactly as in the last two issues of Amiga Future the editor of the magazine proposes a "commercial" advertising for "non commercial" products in Amiga Future (1/8 page b/w) for a special price of DM 20,- VTA included to shareware developers, webmasters and so on. We would like to ask all the persons that are interested in this offer to contact the editor of Amiga Future as soon as possible.

The whole editing team of Amiga Future wish a happy new year 2001 to all of you.

APC&TCP wish a happy new year 2001 to all of the Amiga users. You can look forward to next year because APC&TCP is planning to release a whole lot of new Amiga products next year.

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30.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail COOLbits Newsticker
We wish a happy new year to all of our customers!

Our shop will be closed until 07.01.2001.

Martin Strobl writes:
I have build the Elbox-Mediator PCI Board into my showroom tower and I am very pleased with the VooDoo 3000/16MB graphicsboard I also build in, since this duo is faster than my private CybervisionPPC. (showroom tower: Blizzard 1260, Private: CyberstormPPC 233/060/50).

A question concerning this subject: Is there interest to buy the Mediator-PCI Board/ PCI graphics board directly with a licensed version of the Picasso96 drivers? If you are interested please send an email to martin@coolbits.de. If there is enough interest I will contact the makers of the drivers to ask for the price of such a deal.

By the way, here is a tip for all those who own EXODUS in combination with a CybervsionPPC (maybe also other graphics boards:
The game ran extremely slow on my computer until I removed the program "PREPAREMUL" of Shapeshifter from my startup-sequence.

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30.Dec.2000
Stefan Falke in ANF EZP@gerNG Classic Edition V1.6 Released
This millennium's final release of the classic edition of EZP@gerNG has now also been released. It is as always available in the download section.

The changes of this release are similar to those of the full version 1.3 of EZP@gerNG, as far as the CE-version supports the different features. All the changes of this release.

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30.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF

playamiga Closing it's Doors...
Juergen A. Theiner wrote:
On 01.01.2001 I will close playamiga.de. But only to be back for you (at the latest) in February. And then with a lot of new features:

New layout
More tests and previews
Release list
The possibility to order games directly on the site.
Monthly column about the Amiga and its world
Charts and, and, and ...

If you want to continue to participate actively in the creation of the page, I would like to ask you to send me the names of your favourite games so I can create the charts (eispirat@home.ivm.de).

Important: The Payback Work in Progress Report will stay online and will be renewed soon.

Happy new year!

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30.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino in ANF News from Infomedia Network
Fun Time World wrote:
"The homepage of Amiga's partner has been completely reworked. There aren't a lot of news, but the first pictures of the Set-Top-Bow TVision based on Amiga technology have been released."

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30.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail Amiga Arena - Special Price Deal
The special price deal of PhotoAlbum/Cybershow will be maintained until the 31.01.2001.

I wish everybody a happy new year and success for 2001!

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30.Dec.2000
AmiDog AMP2 Version 2.00 Released
Version 2.00 of the movie player AMP2 has been released. In this version there are a lot of new features. The author tried to make this version as stable and bugfree as possible. However if you have MPEG movies that don't work or make AMP 2 crash, the author would be happy to receive a message from you by eMail.

Download: AMP200.lha

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30.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF Amiga Sound Standards and How to Destroy Them (Part 1)
Joern Plewka wrote:
In the past Katodev had to fight the fact that internally there wasn't enough menpower available. That's why it was impossible for us to participate in certain discussions. The things that head towards us now (criticism about AMPlifier) is from our point of view hard and "generated".

Katodev and others are trying to support all of the existing standards those usable from concept. We'd like to point out that the mpeg.device has been released 1993 by Commodore (picture and sound). All cards with hardware MPEG-support that were released after that have used this driver. CD32-FMV, Peggy+, Melody-Z2, Melody1200 series and also the Delfina series. For the later even the source code is available on Aminet. Those who are now still not capable of writing a correct driver for their hardware should simply ask for help or make their hardware layout available for everyone!

AMPlifier supports this standard. Those who create a driver for their hardware can use this software unlicensed. AMPlifier is part of OS3.9 or available on our homepage (unrestricted shareware) in Rev. 2.21. Those who don't like the software should write their own, but please support the standards!

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30.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF Silversurfer does NOT Work with Melody1200
Joern Plewka wrote:
Since the Cologne fair previous to this year's fair the Silversurfer in it's original state doesn't work correctly with Melody1200 since the complete clockport is blocked, which is in contradiction with what the manufacturer states at his homepage. This information isn't even available to users when they ask for support. Katodev is fed up with fixing Silversurfers without complaining, by now. Currently it seems that even the software does NOT work with Melody1200 anymore.

If Silversurfer and Melody1200 can't work together simultaneoulsy it means that Melody can die from bus-collisions, sooner or later. Please get a guaranty on purchase that Silversurfer does the things you require or use Twister1200. This makes you preventing a lot of anger, port and time for you and us.

We have reconstructed the layout of the Silversurfer now. This shows that the IRQ runs over a diode. Those having problems due to this "trick" should replace the diode by a transistor (e.g. BS170).

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29.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail VirusHelp Denmark: New Informationen on New Trojan
I have received some new info about the new trojan that was found on the 27'th of December. It is spread in an archive with the name "dcs-4k.lha". But the demo group have nothing to do with this new trojan. We have also been told that it is a guy from England and that he also made the "dkg-blum.lha" trojan, his name and address is known to Virus Help Denmmark. Thanks to Mikko for the new info.

Here once more the full information on the new archive (we had posted these on 12/27/2000 already):

Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will delete your "sys:" if you run the program. At this time non of the anti-virus programs can detect this trojan, but in the next update they will be known.

The cure right now (If you have lost your SYS: to bad......), then you will have to try and get the files back with eg. DiskSalv, AB-Tools or VT-Schutz.

Here is some info about the infected archive:

Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan name....: 4KIntro.exe
Trojan size....: 4096 bytes (packed with StoneCracker 4.04)
: 6072 bytes (un-packed)
Archive name.. : dcs-4k.lha
Archive size.. : ? (Not known yet)

This archive has been send to all the antivirus programers.....

Thanx to Ryben Kozlak for the info and sending the archive to us..

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29.Dec.2000 Visitor #2,000,000 on amiga-news.de
Last night, the 2,000,000th visitor came to our website. Joe has sent us a screenshot of the 'event'. A proud number for 27 months. This turns out about 74,074 visitors per month, with rising tendency. Currently, between 6,000 and 8,000 readers visit us per day!

This is the opportunity to thank you for this great acceptance. We are very happy, especially about the fact that more and more programmers, developers, and readers take the chance to enter news in our Amiga News Forum (ANF) themselves.

As you certainly know, we are a team of Amiga users who invest a large amount of their spare time in this project. That's exactly why we are happy about your feedback and of course most of all about every support, as without all your help, amiga-news.de wouldn't have emerged to what it is today: one of the best news services for the Amiga :).

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29.Dec.2000
ANN Jay Miner Millennial Memories Video
A new video from Kermit Woodall is available for download at Nova Design.

Download: jayminermm.mpg - 23,4 MB

Also, there's a 30 second video extract at Nova Design, which was produced from a video for Bob Scharp's Bounce Back Videos. The idea behind the 'Bounce Back Videos' is to give Amiga user groups the opportunity to convey background knowledge on several projects to the users.

Download: novacomm.mpg - 6 MB

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29.Dec.2000
Richard H. Poser II via eMail

AmigAIM BETA version 0.9406 released
A new beta version 0.9406 of AmigaAIM, the client for Amiga to participate in the AOL Instant Messenger Service, was released. It's available for download at the usual places.

Extract from History of AmigAIM since Public Release...

AmigAIM 0.9406 Beta (28 Dec 2000)

Fixed problem with ARexx command "login", was supposed to use last logged in name if user is not specified. Now acts as originally planned.
Added Notes section for each buddy for user to keep private data about buddies, accessed via Contextmenu (Edit Notes) in "Online" as well as Chat Menu in Chat Window.

Download: AmigaAIM_BETA.lha

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29.Dec.2000
Lars Maschmann on ANF New AmBoS-Support-Homepage
A new support homepage is available for the Amiga mailbox program "AmBoS". It can be found at http://ambos.regiodata.de and contains information and downloads (current updates and a complete demo archive).

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29.Dec.2000
Carlos on ANF PalmBackup 1.9 Released
PalmBackup is the Amiga software for PalmPilot/Visor/ThinkPad (and derivatives) users that allows backup/restore of databases held on your handheld computer, new software installation, and advanced database management. Since 1.9 PalmBackup was released as free software (the full source code is also available). The project has a new homepage at http://sourceforge.net/projects/palmbackup where the latest news, and releases can be found.

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29.Dec.2000
S&R Raghoebardayal on ANF CoyoteSound: Early Beta Released as Freeware
An early beta-version of CoyoteSound has been released as freeware. This version is still very limited but since development has continued a little while ago, it might change very soon.

If you want to see more development on this program, please contact the authors (coyoteflux@chello.nl) and tell them why. CoyoteSound will remain freeware.

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29.Dec.2000
Rafal Kwasny on ANF

New 16 Bit Amiga Sound Card under Development
A new 16 bit sound card called 'Martina' for the Amiga is under development.

Specifications:

1x stereo out 16bit, max 96kHz
2x stereo in 16bit, max 96kHz (sampler)
expansion port for MPEG modules (MP3 layer decoding, MPEG-1 for clock port version)
no pass through (card is blocking clock port)
AHI drivers, audio.device overtake function, MPEG decoder handling possible in the future by mpga.library,
mixing audio from Paula and CD-ROM devices
24bit, MPEG-2 ROM-mounted version (for BVision and FastAta users), compatible with a4000 (a3000 possible)

More information and a screenshot of the prototype are to find at the title link.

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28.Dec.2000
Sebastian Beloch on ANF StrICQ v0.1734 Released
On the StrICQ support page v0.1734 has been released which should fix some bugs in version v0.1733.

Download: stricq.lha - 222 KB

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28.Dec.2000
Tobias Abt via eMail Picasso96 Driver for Mediator
Sufficient demand for Picasso96 drivers for Mediator provided, that is about 300 registered users (specify Mediator for purpose when registering), in case of need we will purchase a complete developer- and test-system with our own funds, and then create own drivers for diverse PCI graphics boards. This drivers will then be of quality known form us.

But Elbox mentioned to us that they already would have shipped two systems to Germany for other driver development (CGX). Well, it would be in our terms to provide us one of these. To charge UPS with delivery cannot cost the world.....

Another problem would be accessing the API of the Mediator system's pci.library. Elbox provides this only for NDA, though they don't feel themselves to be bound to such concinnities, see their unauthorized Voodoo3-P96 driver...
If they would refuse us to access this, of course this would raise a certain problem which could lead to slightly delays.

Supplement 12-29-2000:
Tobias Abt via eMail:
Afterwards we got the information that this developer system provided to the CGX team was distributed by Vesalia, but financed by Elbox.

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28.Dec.2000
Amiga Club Steinfurt New SiteWay-Modul: EasyAccess
EasyAccess is a helpful tool in creating and editing CGI scripts. Using this local server one can test his sites offline (incl. CGI and SSI). EasyAccess is part of the SiteWay project.

Download: EasyAccess.lha - 405 KB

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28.Dec.2000
Martin R. Elsner MainPrefs Version 2.02 Released
Who wants to change environment variables, handily edit configuration files as like s:startup-sequence or start OS preferences tools in a predictable way can do that using MainPrefs V2.02, now. The program requires OS3.5 because of its Reaction-GUI.

Download: mainprefs.lha - 65 KB

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28.Dec.2000
B. van der Meer on ANF Amiga-news Now Also At AmigaScene.nl
We have integrated amiga-news.de in Dutch on our website, now. Our thanks to Dirk Baeyens and Petra Struck.

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28.Dec.2000
Matthias Muench DCE with New Homepage
DCE has got a new homepage. There are also to find a few new information on G-REX for Amiga 4000.

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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF VaporWare 2000: Winners Published
The US magazine Wired again has published the award winners for announced but not released computer products. Hundreds of voters again participated. This year award seems to hit Apple (a hard year for Apple since Steve Jobs had to concede profit caution and errors).

Another link on this subject:
Heise: Vaporware 2000: Die Gewinner (German)

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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF New Roadmap for Mozilla
ProLinux wrote:
"Plans for future versions of Mozilla up to v1.2 has been published on the Mozilla project's website".
Might become a subject for the future AmigaDE.

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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF Amiga.com opens User Group Database
One can register for the database on the developer site of Amiga.com (see link).

Amiga dazu:
«We will also have a UBB message board, a searchable User Group database, and mailing lists so that User Groups world wide may communicate together. All of this will be available from links off this main page.

If you are a User Group member and have other suggestions, please send feedback to: support@amiga.com».

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27.Dec.2000
Martin McKenzie on ANF CAD Technologies Website Update
Website redesigned with a fresher look. Added a large number of links to the tutorial section. Added renders to the gallery pages.

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27.Dec.2000
Ralph Debusmann EasyPlayer Version 1.04 Released
Version 1.04 for the music player 'EasyPlayer' by Ralph Debusmann has been released.

Download: EasyPlayer.lha.bin - 92 KB

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27.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm

New Aminet Uploads

ksmED.lha            comm/irc    55K+Edit/Create Kuang11 '.ksm' files for /sa
StreAmi.lha          comm/misc   38K+Shoutcast/Icecast Amiga client (v1.24)
samba_2.0.7.lha      comm/tcp   6.3M+Port of the free SMB client and server
streamer.lha         comm/www    27K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
APL-JOIN.lha         demo/euro   25K+"Jointro" by Apollo - December 1995
APT-A500.lha         demo/euro    4K+"A500 Gourad" - A 4K Intro From Apathy (
APT-BYO.lha          demo/euro    8K+"The Byoot" - A 4K Intro By Apathy
APT-GRO.lha          demo/euro   78K+"Groovey" - A 64K Intro From Apathy (The
APT-OFF.lha          demo/euro   36K+"Offshore#1" - Messagebox by Apathy (Aut
APT-SBS.lha          demo/euro   72K+SBS by APATHY - Released at The Gatherin
APT-ZEE.lha          demo/euro    4K+Zeebeeking (4K) By Apathy At Kindergarde
ITC-REW.lha          demo/euro   11K+"Rewired" - Winner 10K Intro From Kinder
ITC-SWP.lha          demo/euro   54K+Swappers Paradise - Old Swaptro By Insti
SPT-BUB.lha          demo/euro  126K+"Bubble" - An intro by Specter from Dece
VOD-VOY.lha          demo/euro  224K+Voy-Voy - Demo By Void For Kindergarden 
FuriousReply.lha     demo/slide 982K+An unreleased manga slideshow by BoyzOut
SFSTools.lha         disk/optim  34K+Some tools for optimizing SFS file syste
AIOV42.lha           docs/mags  327K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 42 (Dece
BigSouthNP.pdf       docs/misc  311K+Fantasy novel in pdf format
FormAldiHyd.lha      hard/drivr  41K+Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/...
imdbDiff001215.lha   misc/imdb  2.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
aa2001.lha           misc/misc  1.6M+Astrologic texts, german and HTML (DEMO)
rEvENge.lha          mods/blkha 147K+REvENgE PT mod by blakkhar
LifeSinus.lha        mods/misc  1.1M+XM Acid Jazz by Mr.Lou / Dewfall Product
Protector.lha        mods/misc   31K+Custom module from "Protector"
TheFight.mpg         mods/misc  4.9M+MP3 Dance by Mr.Lou / Dewfall Production
NMS_BXmas.lha        mods/pro    82K+Black Christmas - By Nemesis/Zenon
bo-102.lha           mods/techn 497K+#102 bOhema release - SPEKTRA (mod).
bo-103.lha           mods/techn 533K+#103 bOhema release - TZX (mod).
bo-104.lha           mods/techn 251K+#104 bOhema release - KLINTON (xm).
crs_qwe.lha          mods/techn 706K+CRS00057: speaker for the dead - qwe
vdo_alt2.lha         mods/vdo   380K+Alternative auto 2 [xm 10ch]
MMV8_Disk_2.lha      mus/edit   425K+MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0
AmigaAMP.lha         mus/play   577K+MPEG audio player with GUI (68k/PPC)
EasyPlayer.lha       mus/play    90K+The alternative music player, v1.03, Xma
EP_ChipTracker.lha   mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "ChipTracker" external repla
EP_DSS.lha           mus/play     6K+EaglePlayer "Digital Sound Studio" exter
WB13Icons.lha        pix/icon    43K+Some old icons for 640x256 screens
woa2k-walk.mpg       pix/mpg    4.6M+MPEG-Video of the walkaround at WoA 2000
woa2k-webcam.mpg     pix/mpg    4.9M+MPEG-Video of the *AC#-Webcam at WoA 200
Impact.jpg           pix/wfm    272K+Impact
InTheClover.jpg      pix/wfm    351K+In The Clover
LghtnngStrk.jpg      pix/wfm    306K+Lightning Strikes
OFS018.jpg           pix/wfm    744K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS019.jpg           pix/wfm    653K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS020.jpg           pix/wfm    552K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS021.jpg           pix/wfm    403K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS022.jpg           pix/wfm    566K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS023.jpg           pix/wfm    546K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS024.jpg           pix/wfm    502K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS025.jpg           pix/wfm    259K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS026.jpg           pix/wfm    446K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS027.jpg           pix/wfm    453K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
MirrorCopy.lha       util/cli    21K+Create/maintain exact copy of dir (V1.6)
TransPrefs21.lha     util/sys    41K+TranslatorPrefs V2.1 (bugfixt)
Ver.lha              util/sys    14K+Bugfixed replacement for c:version 40.1
VisualPrefs_HU.lha   util/wb     10K+VisualPrefs: Hungarian Catalog file

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27.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail VirusHelp Denmark: New Trojan Found
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will delete your "sys:" if you run the program. At this time non of the anti-virus programs can detect this trojan, but in the next update they will be known.

The cure right now (If you have lost your SYS: to bad......), then you will have to try and get the files back with eg. DiskSalv, AB-Tools or VT-Schutz.

Here is some info about the infected archive:

Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan name....: 4KIntro.exe
Trojan size....: 4096 bytes (packed with StoneCracker 4.04)
: 6072 bytes (un-packed)
Archive name.. : ? (Not known yet)
Archive size.. : ? (Not known yet)

This archive has been send to all the antivirus programmers.....

Thanx to Ryben Kozlak for the info and sending the archive to us..

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27.Dec.2000
Piotr Pawlowski New Distributor in Poland
Quedex is a new Amiga distributor in Poland authorized by Amiga Inc. The Polish Amiga market emerges well.

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27.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail Amiga Arena - Free Games
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Frank Abbing enables all of the shareware / freeware games developed for Amiga by UAC Design to be offered for download! These games are not available from Aminet!

Olaf Koebnik is especially exited about the full version of board game port "Risiko" to be available for the first time at Amiga Arena. Appropriate to the quiz fever the game "Awaking" makes the opening! Awaking is a quiz game such as 'Jeopardy&180;, 'Riskant' or 'Der grosse Preis'.

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27.Dec.2000
ANN Scalos: Compatibility to OS3.9
Since the release of AmigaOS 3.9 some OS tool are using new functions not available in Scalos. With a new plugin for Scalos of Juergen Lachmann these new functions are now available enabling you to make use of tools of OS3.9 like "AmiDock".

Download: Scalos-Plugin_WB39.
For further information please have a look at the link.

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27.Dec.2000
AmiSectorOne New Games and More at AmiSectorOne
There again are new classic games at AmiSectorOne. Among others you can download A-Train, Ambermoon, Amberstar and Sim City 2000 (English and German) there. Furthermore the demo area was completely re-established. Therefore most demos are accessible again and you can also find some new pieces of music in the areas of "Game Music" and "Scene Music".

AmiSectorOne thank all of the visitors for their support.

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27.Dec.2000
tpec.u-net.com FBlit v3.73xms
It was published a new test version of FBlit v3.73xms on 22nd of December 2000. FBlit patches some OS functions normally using the blitter, such that these can use the CPU and don't have to operate inside chip-mem.

The patched functions are also faster and non-interleaved data will suffer less from colour flickering .

Additionally non-displayalbe bitmaps can be put in fastram for named tasks. The new version contains various minor changes to v3.69b.

Download: fblit373xms.lzx.

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27.Dec.2000
Stefan Martens on ANF New (final) Amiga User List Published
Right now the new AUL went online and is also on the homepage for download. Soon on Aminet, too.

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27.Dec.2000
Thomas Heyer on ANF And Max Rally does Work..... ;)
Do you also have the game Max Rally from Aminet Games, Aminet Set 10 or Aminet 36, and it just doesn't work? Here is the solution: On the above mentioned CD-Roms explode.library is missing! This can be downloaded e.g. from Aminet (util/libs/explode-7.lha) and unpacked to your own libs directory. Good playing.

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26.Dec.2000
Jan Hendrik Mangold on ANF AWeb 3.4 Update for Registered Users
From now for registered users of the browser AWeb v3.x an update for the latest version v3.4 is available. Amitrix wish merry Christmas.

Download: aweb3x34.pch.lha

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25.Dec.2000
TFA ASM-One V1.46
Today version 1.46 of the assembler-compiler 'ASM-One' was released. Some minor bugs were fixed and a cursor for the monitor was added.

Download: asmonev146.lha (257 KB)

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25.Dec.2000
VMC VMC News
VMC would like to wish all of their customers a merry Christmas (the whole thing is available at the title link).

VMC-ISDN 2.99B100 Christmas update released
Attention! This is a commercial update. All features are available without a VMC-ISDN-license but the connection time is limited.

We will make a special offer to the owners of the original ISDN-Blaster-Z2. The following changes were made:

Speed-up of the interrupt-system witch made the whole thing a lot more stable. Problems with FUSION were removed and things like vlink.device are no longer necessary.

At the moment we are working on the next generation of VMC-ISDN. We will build in some interesting features like message transport over the D-channel and much more.
There are some screenshots of the new X-Phone version available at our VMC-ISDN product page.

HyperCOM 2.98 Christmas update
The new last non-commercial update for HyperCOM are available now. Two minor problems were fixed and the speed were increased.

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25.Dec.2000
Richard H. Poser II via eMail

AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9405 Released
As a Christmas Present - sort of, anyway...

The latest version has been uploaded to the normal locations, on the webpage and descriptions on the links section of the mailing list have been changed.

Extract from History of AmigAIM since Public Release...

History of AmigAIM since Public Release...
AmigAIM 0.9405 Beta (25 Dec 2000)

Added "Temporary" class of Buddy. If a message is received from someone not already on Buddy list, they are added to temporary status. If not moved from Temporary status to main list, Buddy is not saved when program is exited.
Colors for different types of messages in Message list added. (Incoming, Outgoing, Auto-Outgoing, Auto-Incoming, and System)
Prefs have capability of default color on Left or Right, or use of special colour on Left and Right for each Message.
Activity window now has the capability of having prefs set colors for display of status changes (Online,Offline and Away)
Single Window mode appears to work better now, as I have the window closed, changed than reopened after a change in prefs.
Issuing an ARexx command of QUIT FORCE now causes the client to close under most conditions without putting up any requesters (Even if prefs, etc haven't been saved)
Documentation in form of AmigaGuide document and MUIA_HelpNodes finally added to program, including documentation of part of ARexx interface.
Modified text input history system, now keeps history of last entry while cycling up/down through history. (Modification or reuse of old history entry will replace last entry)

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25.Dec.2000
Sebastian Beloch at ANF WHD-Load v13.0 and JST v4.3 Released!
Update of the installation programs for old, disc-based games.

JST v4.3 offers a higher compatibility with WHD-Load-Installer-Slaves and contains an expanded OS-emulation.

WHDLoad v13.0: Still working on bugfixing and adding new features for WHD-Load-Slave-programmers.

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25.Dec.2000
Tom Duin im ANF BindAssigns 1.1 and WIN95 Keymap Update
Updated the BindAssigns archive to 1.1. New, code cleanup and how to replace the Assigns in the User-Startup. New for Windows95 keymap for PC-keyboards: notes about the place of the different key's, including the Help key. And installation with AmigaOS3.9 notes.

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24.Dec.2000
Mark Wilson via eMail Wishing you all a Merry Christmas
I would like to wish you all Merry Christmas on behalf of the AmiBench Team.

We wish you and your loved one's all the very best for 2001 and we hope that you get what you wished for this Christmas!

Please visit http://www.amibench.org/ for our E-Christmas Card!

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24.Dec.2000
Chris Hodges via eMail

XMas Edition of FormAldiHyd V1.2
today is XMas eve and therefore the day of presents. So quickly grab the new version 1.2 of FormAldiHyd from my homepage.

Changes:

V1.2 (24-Dec-00): (28860/13144 Bytes)
Released to my homepage and AmiNet.
Fixed the bugs with relative mouse movement (Cinema4D) and FlipX and/or FlipY enabled (thanks to Roger Petry for giving me the hint).
Reduced lower LMB Threshold limit from 13% to 1% on users request.
Added a second usable area slider for mouse only, so you can change between mouse and stylus on the fly and have a suitable acceleration for the mouse movements.
Range for the tablet was 1 pixel off set (minor flaw).
Iconify on startup did not work as stated in the manual (lazy me never tried it, sorry), so I added an option to iconify in the prefs.
Changed the GUI layout a little bit.
Added a FAQ to the guide.
Painted a nice MWB icon for FormAldiHyd. Does anyone want to design a NewIcon or GlowIcon?
Added a niffy logo to FormAldiHyd (sorry :) ).
Formalin now parses the ToolTypes and therefore can be started from Workbench without problems now.

Just a few minutes ago, Gerhard Müller sent an email to me, telling me that he has managed to get the Tablet working in conjunction with his MFCIII. Moreover, he has supplied me a patch that is included in this mail (thank you so much, Gerhard!). All users with MFCIII should try out this patch and see if it's any good and solves the problem.

So this will be the last update for this millennium. Enjoy your xmas holidays and happy new year! See you in 2001 :) And let's see who will notice a slight change in my geek code in a few days :-D

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24.Dec.2000
Torben Mueller on ANF New Screenshots und Amos-Graphic-Interface Downloads
The homepage of AGI (graphical interface for AMOS V1.3), Airline 2, and the Depotmanager have moved. The new address is: http://home.t-online.de/home/harry500/Index.htm (please, take care of lower/upper capital).

Screenshots of Depotmanager, and download of the AGI (Amos Graphic Interface) have been added.

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24.Dec.2000
frost on ANF AmigaOnlineGames
AmigaOnlineGames took the task to list all Amiga games working in any network. Who knows other online/network games may sent the titles via e-mail to Frost.

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24.Dec.2000
Hynek Schlawack and Sebastian Bauer on ANF Initial Alpha Version of SimpleMail Released
SimpleMail is a new e-mail program being developed by Hynek Schlawack and Sebastian Bauer. We have just released the first alpha version on the website. It requires MUI and several additional MUI classes. SimpleMail still is at a very early level, but it is already usable and the most important features are implemented.

SimpleMail is to be an open source project at SourceForge. Here the URL of the project's page.

Download of the alpha version: simplemail.lzx

We wish all of you merry Christmas an a happy new milennium.

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24.Dec.2000
Martin Merz on ANF MasonIcons News
Martin Merz wrote:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

There are some news on MI:

In general
- please, vote for me for the Trogsoft Awards.

Homepage
- the new MasonIcons homepage now is online
- please, rate this page on ALD
- a new counter system
- ATTENTION! This page is coloured, now ;)

AppMI
- a new update is available (version 5 to 6)
- AppMI is now free for download without registering
- registered users have been added to the newsletter

OpusMI
- OpusMI is to be continued

Other projects
- ApacheMI - an image collection for the Apache server
- PPaintMI - a default icon collection for PPaint
- MicroDotMI - update including all of the images
- VoyagerMI - update including all of the images

I wish you all merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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24.Dec.2000
Sebastian Beloch on ANF The Secret of Mount Monkey - a Canceled Devotee-Adventure
Sebastian Beloch wrote:
This project was started in 1998, but was canceled in the meantime. This demo version includes complete intro and parts of the first level (not playable). THE SECRET OF MOUT MONKEY is an adventure game in style of the old classic adventures by Lucas-Arts (e.g. Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Day of the Tentacle, ....). The game combines the characters of these games building a new adventure game.

Guybrush Threepwood's daughter accepts the bid of Simon The Sorcerer to save the world, and has to supply several ingredients for his magic potion. She travels to foreign islands (MONKEY ISLAND), visits the Maniac Manison (DAY OF THE TENTACLE), stumbles into the comic strip worlds of Sam & Max as well as Leisure Suit Larry...

The demo in graphics strongly abutes to the old adventure games and is a must for all those who loves adventures.

The demo and screenshots are to find at the project section "Software-Projekte" on http://www.sebel-interactive.de/.

Download: MountMonkey.lzx

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24.Dec.2000
Igor Sereda on ANF

Merry Christmas - Voyager V33 Alpha 56
Vapor wish all of you a merry Christmas and has released for the Christmas season a new version of Voyager for registered users. Notes on this version can be taken from the Release Notes. Furthermore there is an update of the VSSL library and of the VSearch plug-in.

Download:

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24.Dec.2000
Maik Schultheis on ANF Christmas Greetings from ACCD
ACCD wish all Amiga users a reflective Christmas feast and a happy new year.

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24.Dec.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF Digital Almanac EGroups-Mailing List Closed
Achim Stegemann wrote:
Since there were no new entries to the mailing list for about half a year, the list is closed, from now.

Support still is open via normal e-mail address of the author (achimste@gmx.de) or via hotline. Questions, suggestions, a.o. should be sent to the author directly.

From now on announcements and circular letters are exclusively sent to all registered DA3 customers or published on Amiga news sites.

I wish all Amigans a merry Christmas and a happy new millennium!!

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24.Dec.2000
Thomas Wenzel via eMai

AmigaAMP V2.8 Final
Thomas Wenzel wrote:
At last, short before the holidays there is the full version of AmigaAMP 2.8. shoutcast streaming now definite works better, and some bugs could be fixed, too. Along with AmigaAMP v2.8 also a new version of the Plugin Development Kit is released. Now it is possible to get information on the AmigaAMP window for example to 'dock' your own plug-in graphics to it.

Download:

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24.Dec.2000
Gojira on ANF Christmas Greetings from ACBB
Gojira wrote:
Stress-free Christmas and a clean slip into the next year (millennium)... ... to all Miggies and most of all to the "amiga.news" team from the members of the Amiga Club Berlin & Brandenburg (Germany).

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24.Dec.2000
frost on ANF Christmas Greetings from the "Hummelkanal"
frost wrote:
The "Hummelkanal" wish all "Hummel-Chatters" & Amiga users merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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24.Dec.2000
Fun Time World

Earth 2140 Finished
Pagan Games has finished Earth 2140. The game will be available within some days. There was also released a new demo version of the game which fixes several bugs.

Download:

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24.Dec.2000
Fun Time World A.C.T.: Prelude Z2 und Samplitude
Due to problems shipping of Prelude Z2 sound cards by A.C.T. delayed for some time. But now the card is shipping. In additional Samplitude is available for download on A.C.T.'s homepage. This version has many features disabled which can be enabled by purchasing a keyfile in the A.C.T. shop.

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24.Dec.2000

The amiga-news.de Team Wish All Of The Readers Merry Christmas!

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

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24.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm

New Aminet Uploads

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24.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail Christmas Greetings from APC&TCP
APC&TCP wish all Amiga users merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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24.Dec.2000
Daniel Reichen via eMail December issue of Web-Naj Northwest Amiga Group Journal Released
The December issue of the Web-Naj Northwest Amiga Group now is online as web-version. The magazine is filed with interesting subjects all around the Amiga.

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24.Dec.2000
Daniel "NX_LOKI" Schulz via eMail Christmas Greetings and News from ANNEX
ANNEX wish all of you merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Contrary to some rumours the group would have parted I would like to tell, that we are still there. We are well and waiting for strating shot for us to come back with new songs, a new performance and hopefully a great come-back of the Amiga next year.

Publishing a track on the new OS 3.9 hopefully was a clear sign that we are NOT to leaving behind the Amiga, but rather we are waiting for the things to continue. OS 3.9 also was a noticeable sign for a generative co-operation happened, at last.

I wish all Amiga users and most of all the programmers merry Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you for everything. Daniel "NX_LOKI" Schulz

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24.Dec.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition Site
The support sites for the The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM are now online on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. You can get much information and soon also screenshots on that page and additionally the CD-ROM can also be ordered from there.

The The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM is out now for a price of 29.95 DM ($20 USD).

Finally, Airsoft Softwair wish all Amiga users a merry Christmas and a succesful healthy new year 2001!

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24.Dec.2000
Charlot Cobben via eMail Merry Christmas from C&C
!!Merry Christmas and a wonderful Amiga 2001!!
From all of us to all of you.. loving; adoring; worshipping and most of all Using their Amiga!
Martina, Sjef, Willem, Steven, Debby and Charlot

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24.Dec.2000
Sebastian Beloch on ANF StrICQ 0.1733 Released
On the StrICQ support page StrICQ v0.1733 was released! The new version contains bugfixes and the client has been graphically enhanced. So there now are status icons in the main window (the known ICQ flower), and the preferences window has got nicer icons.

Download: stricq.lha

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24.Dec.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF NoRiscNoFun Wish Merry Christmas!
We wish you and your families merry Christmas.

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24.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF Also playamiga.de Wish Merry Christmas
I'm already looking forward to a new and eventfull Amiga year. Hopefully we all will be aboard again.

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24.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF Christmas Greetings and Gifts from Katodev
It is Christmas at KATODEV, too. Over the month users' wishes cumulated here. It is hardly possible to fulfil all of those, but at least some hopefully interesting things for you are to find on our table with gifts. But, details will not be released before the days after Christmas; and now at last also a somehow newer webpage. Well, stop working now, it's time to have a break....

Merry Christmas to all of you! Also greetings to China, where a third of the current Kato team is located now. Joern Plewka, Thorsten Hansen.

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24.Dec.2000
André Beer on ANF Merry Christmas from GeoWorld Team
The GeoWorld team wish all Amiga users merry Christmas, reflective holidays, and a happy new year 2001!

For of you still not aware: "GeoWorld - Geography for your Amiga" is available at an abolute special Christmas price until evening of 12-25-00. All information on our homepage.

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23.Dec.2000
H&P Merry Christmas from Haage & Partner
The Haage&Partner team wish all of the AMIGA devotees a merry Christmas and .... a happy new year!

From 25th of December to 7th of January 2001 our office will be closed. From Monday 8th of January we will be there again for advice and deed.

Within this time the OS 3.9 support will only be available on 27th and 28th of December, 16:00 to 18:00 h MET.

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23.Dec.2000
Fun Time World Makers of Exodus Taken In by Swindler
Fun Time World wrote:
«The makers of the game "Exodus - Tha Last War" apparently were taken by a swindler. Mariuz Samson (Exodus) voiced on this problem in an article on the homepage of the Polish magazine eXec. The person in question, whose name wasn't mentioned, has also been responsible for the server problems due to which it partly was very difficult to download the demo version from the page. Similar problems also happened with e-mails which didn't always arrive. For the alleged hacker attack also the person in question has been responsible. Unfortunately the swindler was also able to read the e-mails sent to the group and possibly answered some of those.

If you happened to receive an e-mail with a reply-to address different from the following, so this one might be sent by the person in question: samsonm@poczta.onet.pl, darexodus@poczta.onet.pl, sland@skrzynka.getin.pl, and maybe also slandsales@go2.pl. Now you can reach the group under the following e-mail address: samson10@box43.pl.»

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23.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News Christmas and new year wishes from Stefan Robl
Under the above title link Stefan Robl (AmiDock, AmigaMPEGPlayer) does not only wish a merry Christmas and a happy new year, but also recalls his Amiga year 2000.

During his internship at Haage&Partner he developed the speed optimized ARexx interpreter "StormRexx" which but isn't finished, yet. For AmigaOS V3.9 he developed 'AmiDock', and for the AmigaSDK he released the MPEG player 'AmigaMPEGPlayer'. At the Neuss show he was able to present his "AmiCamedia" driver for digital cameras by Olympus.

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23.Dec.2000
amiga.org Amiga.org V7.0 Now Online
The newly designed website of amiga.org now is accessible directly under the known URL http://amiga.org/. Among other things this site provides actual Amiga news on which you now can comment directly. Additionally there are among other things several discussion forums, a login for members, and immediate display of the latest uploads to the AmigaDE software archive at Amiga Inc..

The rss- and ultramode-Backend allow developers of web-tools easy to access the current headlines.

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23.Dec.2000
amiga.org Official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ
On the AmigaOS V3.9 pages at Amiga Inc. there is to find a link to the official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ by Gregory Donner. This English FAQ contains a.o. the topics installation tips, icon operation, compatibility, internet applications, undocumented features, 3rd party utilities, and known bugs. Beside of the online version there is the HTML version as both, LHA and ZIP archive available for download.

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23.Dec.2000
Innovative Merry Christmas from Innovative
We wish all of our customers and friends a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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23.Dec.2000
AIO AIO Magazine Issue #42
Just in time for Christmas issue #42 of the AIO magazine has been released.

Download: AIOV42.LHA

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23.Dec.2000
Jens Schoenfeld via eMail Individual Computers: ISDN Surfer Driver V1.938
At the download area from now on the new capi20.device, and the new isdnsurfer.device are available for download. The only change: capi20.device does no longer claim to be a demo version. This expiry of the software was meant to remind of updating. Unfortunately the deadline for further development was set too short.

By this we want to wish all of our customers, suppliers and business friends a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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23.Dec.2000
Eyetech Group Ltd. Merry Christmas from Eyetech
Merry Christmas from Eyetech.

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23.Dec.2000
HiSoft Systems iBrowse News
Middle of December on the support forum of iBrowse, which was hosted by www.senduptheflares.com/ and now doesn't exist no more it was to read that Stefan Burstroem, author of iBrowse has got a full time job, cause he wasn't able to exist from what he gains from iBrowse, any more.

Here the original message form the HiSoft forum:

«Unfortunately, after many, many years of hard work on iBrowse, Stefan Burstroem (the author of iBrowse) has been forced to get a full-time job. The revenues coming in from iBrowse sales simply are not enough to support worldwide marketing plus a salary for the author.

Although Stefan remains committed to iBrowse and the Amiga, it is difficult to see how he can take the product forward without help. And, even then, I cannot see how enough revenue will come to pay the people involved.

Please let me know if any of you have any ideas how this problem can be solved. David»

On the iBrowse product page at Hisoft (see title link) it is mentioned that it is absolute necessary to have a look at the demo version of iBrowse before registering, to be sure that the browser fulfils your needs. According to Hisoft so much changes have happened to the internet, that Amiga browser cannot keep up, any more.

Here the original text:

«The latest version of the Amiga's premier web browser.
Note that the Internet has moved on and the Amiga has not kept up, so some modern websites are not accessible on the Amiga because they require software that is not available for the Amiga. Therefore, before you purchase an iBrowse 2 keyfile please ensure that you have downloaded the evaluation version and satisfied yourself that iBrowse 2.2 is suitable for your requirements.»

Conclusion: At this time further development of iBrowse is not to expect. But at eGroups still a discussion forum for iBrowse users is available: http://www.egroups.com/group/ibrowselist.

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23.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail COOL bits Newsletter
We wish all of our customers a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

After our stocktaking an update of the homepage will be put online. Due to stocktaking and holiday our shop will be closed from 12-27-2000 to 01-07-2000.

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23.Dec.2000
Ralph Debusmann via eMail EasyPlayer Version 1.03 Released
Ralph Debusmann wrote:
I've just uploaded the Christmas release (version 1.03) of my music player "EasyPlayer" to Aminet, now with "be quiet" option. Who cannot beat waiting until it appears there, will find the version on my homage under the title link.

Greetings, merry Christmas and a happy new year!

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23.Dec.2000
Elbox via eMail Merry Christmas
Elbox Computer Team wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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23.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail Merry Christmas from Amiga Future
Amiga Future wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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23.Dec.2000
utopia on ANF Amiga Mall Now Open
Vince Pfeifer (Amiga Inc.): "The Amiga community is now able to purchase the same goodies that we here at Amiga wear!"

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23.Dec.2000
Peter Sander im ANF Season Greetings from AS-WebShop
We wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2oo1. Along with our wishes we want to thank for the great reception in the year 2000. The AS-WebShop will continue to available for everybody in the year 2001 with it's offerings all around the AMIGA.

We also want to thank for laud and criticism of many kind. With the soon to come new version (v3) of the WebShop software we will take care of many of these. Extra thanks to: Heiko and Lars, as well as all of the #AmigaClub-BTX. - Some of it wouldn't not be possible without your help. Special thanks to: Family Horbach from KDH-Datentechnik - their sovereignty to master our whims is admirable. - Thank you! - Danke!

Finally one note: Our office will not be available by phone between the holidays. FAX (05121-39586), EMail (info@as-webshop.de) or the online shop of course will be accessible.

PS: I want to thank you Petra (and of course the amiga-news.de team) for daily suppling us with news, tips, and information all around AMIGA and similar subjects. Great performance - Thank you!

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23.Dec.2000
AMItac on ANF Amiga Emulation and More to Come
AMITac wrote:
We are a young NetTeam among other things dealing with emulation of Playstation and Amiga. We've started doing the manual for the UAE emulator, which will be finished at latest in a week (HTML manual). Later on more classic stuff will be added. Who would like to can contact AMItac or RamireZ or put a link to our site.

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23.Dec.2000
Peter Merfeld on ANF

Voodoo 5 CyberGraphx Driver Finished
DCE Computer Service GmbH, Oberhausen, Germany, is exited to announce the Voodoo 5-5500 graphics board to be supported by CyberGraphX driver in time for the upcoming release of the G-REX PCI interface end of January 2001.

The following drivers are finished:

Voodoo 3 - 2000 - 3000
Voodoo 4 - 4500
Voodoo 5 - 5500
10Mbit PCI Netcard (Realtek Chipset)
S3 Virge

End of January 2001 also the initial beta version of the new Warp3D driver will be available. This driver will support Voodoo 3-2000-3000.

DCE wish all of the readers a merry Christmas and a happy new millennium.

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23.Dec.2000
utopia on ANF Holiday Executive Update from Bill McEwen

December 23, 2000
Executive Update - Looking Back

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to one and all:

Wow, have we been a blessed company. On December 27, 1999 we executed our agreement with Gateway, and January 3rd 2000 was our first day of business.

In one year we have been able to release an upgrade to the AmigaOS (3.9, with our partners Haage and Partner), we have announced and released two versions of the SDK for the New AmigaDE (Digital Environment), we have released the AmigaOne specification and announced two partners in building these new machines, (bPlan, and Eyetech).

Yes this has been an amazing year.

As we look back upon these last 12 months, there have been many lessons learned, and it is with these new lessons that we will be moving into 2001, with clear focus, and numerous new announcements and deals. Yes, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will be great fun for Amigans around the world, for it is here that the rest of the world will begin to learn what you already know! :-)

At this time of remembrance and thanks, we are also reminded of our friends that we have lost. Coz, Bob Cosby is very missed and we think of him, and pray daily for his wife Marsha. It has been the most sobering event for Amiga, and it helped us to remember that Family is what makes Amiga great. We are looking to add many new members to the Amiga family this year.

This year has been hard for us in other ways also: the stock market has certainly hindered our ability to raise the capital we wanted to accelerate our plans, and many of us have had to endure financial hardships making the dream of Amiga a reality. The Amiga team is together, and moving ahead quickly towards this new and exciting year.

I want to thank each and every one of you for your continued support and for everyone hanging in there with us.

We are truly a blessed company.

I want to personally wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and a very Happy New Year.

God Bless,
><> Bill McEwen ><>
President CEO Amiga, Inc,
bill@amiga.com.

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22.Dec.2000
Benjamin Yoris by e-mail Merry Xmas from Hyperion
The Hyperion Entertainment team would like to wish all of you a very happy holiday season and a merry Xmas. Rendez-vous in 2001 with even more outstanding games and new deals to come.

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22.Dec.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF IRC-Server runs on Amiga 500 :-)
I've just noticed that the information text of the EFnet IRC server irc.gigabell.de says: "Running on AmigaOS, Kick 1.3". If you want to see it yourself, just log into this IRC server of the Gigabell AG and have a look at your Whois.

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22.Dec.2000
Thomas Würgler on ANF Christmas gift from e.p.i.c. and Pagan Games
You should remember to look at the Pagan Games site on the 23rd of December for an early Christmas gift to all Amiga gamers. Merry Christmas from Pagan Games and e.p.i.c. interactive.

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22.Dec.2000
Stefan Falke on ANF

EZP@gerNG Christmas release
The latest version 1.3 is immediately available - it can be downloaded from the download area.

The unregistered version is free as always. All registered EZP@agerNG users find an update archive there which they can use to update their registered version 1.2 to version 1.3.

The most important changes in this release:

Different backfill images are supported for the EZP screen, the main window and the requester.
toolbar graphics are evaluated a lot more flexible so that the creation of own toolbars is much easier now.
Shell and ARexx scripts to install toolbar and service images more easily.
New ARexx command SENDMAIL to make the sending of e-mails through ARexx easier.
Arguments can be passed to the ARexx menu item scripts

All changes of this release. A merry Christmas to all Amiga users and a happy new year 2001!

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22.Dec.2000
2IDs on ANF Happy X-Mas
With this entry in the amiga news, we would like to thank you for the many visits and the great support.

The last year has brought quite some changes to those working on the web. Even at us, the PC and thus Flash5 have made their entrances - which doesn't mean that we will leave or neglect the Amiga sector. On the contrary: there's something planned in the Amiga sector for next year, you'll be pleasantly surprised!

A special thanks to the AMIGA-NEWS-TEAM. Always reliable and latest informations. Thanks also to Stefan Kost (SOUNDFX) and Patrick Meng (SYMPHONIEPRO) for the uncomplicated co-operation.

We wish all who read this pleasant Christmas days and a successful and purposeful year 2001. Your 2IDs.TEAM

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22.Dec.2000
Matthias Henze on ANF New beta version (V.45.00 beta 4) of stormamiga.lib V.45.00 for StormC
After a long time there's a new version of stormamiga.lib as a Christmas gift from Matthias Henze. The most important improvements in this version are certainly the new, very fast and exact math functions for the MC68040 and MC68060. Other function were also rewritten from the scratch up. Furthermore, there are many optimizations and some bugfixes.

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22.Dec.2000
Fun Time World Amiga Extreme takes a break
«Amiga Extreme will be closing for a while. This is because I feel that I don't have the motivation to continue the site, and the fact that there's almost nothing to post, I don't see much of a point in updating. There are better sites for that (Amiga.org and Czech Amiga News for example).

Once again, this is not the end, it's just the end for Amiga Extreme on the classic platform. The next time Amiga Extreme will open is when the AmigaONE release is closing in on us and when there's some real news for the new platform. I'm already working on a new design and have lots of ideas for the new AE.

Also, the e-mail addresses will still be up, so you can mail me at syke@amigaextreme.com. More info will be posted when it's time. I have no plans to leave the Amiga platform, and I'm confident that the new Amiga platform will be successful. Your sincerely - Stefan "Syke" Falk - webmaster@amigaextreme.com.»

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22.Dec.2000
Stefan Robl by e-mail FMdriver V1.14 BETA released
Stefan writes:
On my homepage is now an official beta version of my driver system for the FrameMachine video card. New additions include a GrabbingCenter, hardware drivers were moved into a library (68k and PPC), slight speed improvements, localisation of the most important programs and a couple of little things ... :)

I can only offer limited support until February 2001 as I will put all my projects "on ice" to allow me more time for my studies. Thanks for your understanding!

Christmas is soon ... what's missing? Of course, my annual "Christmas letter" ;-), here in English.

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22.Dec.2000
BTTR-Team Back to the Roots Amiga-News 226
Christmas is near and again another year has passed. Therefore "Back to the Roots" (http://www.back2roots.org) brings you some nice presents in form of some wonderful classic Amiga games - as always for free and with permission!

The companies Dynamix and Digital Integration are supporting our project now, too so the flight simulations Red Baron, F-16 Combat Pilot and Tornado are now online. Also the great adventure games Space Quest 1 (the remake!), Colonel's Bequest, Code name: Iceman and others like Thunderhawk, Wonder Dog, Vroom and Warhead!

There are interviews with the legendary Scene-musicians "Jester/ Sanity" and "Clawz/Bomb" online, too! Both are telling some interesting news, not only for music lovers. As usual there were also tons of Scene-demos, pictures and modules from Amiga games and the demo scene added.

We'd like to thank all our visitors for their support during the last year and send greetings to all companies and people who helped us to keep the classic stuff alive. We wish you all a merry X-mas and a happy new year.

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22.Dec.2000
Frey United Software on ANF

PSV Manager v1.41
Updated version of our freeware football management game "PSV Manager". Added:

French league
Finnish league
samples to end of career
different "dan" background-pics for different leagues.
Fixed: two samples after chat with the chairman.
Fixed: few spelling mistakes.

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21.Dec.2000
Timo Kloss on ANF Ermentrud-Demo Update
For those who find the Ermentrud demo too fast, now the speed is adjustable with a small update. The update is available for download under the title link.

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21.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF Heise: AOL is testing accounts for standard protocols
The online provider AOL allows their customers to connect to net the only with a special connection software, so far. This might change soon. See title link for complete article (German).

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21.Dec.2000
Matthias Gietzelt on ANF

Christmas Version of Emperor Released
Emperor is an object-oriented programming language allowing even users without knowledge of C/C++ to become master of AmigaOS 3.5 and to programm for it by a programming help. Emperor provides variegated macro elements for menus, requesters, etc., which put aside dealing with complicated system structures. Emperor can create source code for AmigaOS 2.0 as well as for OS 3.5.

Advantages of Emperor:

Direct visualising availabel for every macro element
C/C++- source code generating
Integrierated text editor
StormC connection
Extended guide (German / English)
FREEWARE

Innovations in Emperor version 3.5:

Display of scroll- und slider gadgets reworked
Finnish catalog support
Program environment for configuration of version, author, program name, stack, memory check, and much more added
GadgetHelp for own programs: easily connect a gadget to configure this feature
Function [delete menu-edit-list] added
GadgetHelp for almost any gadget (more than 600 online help files)
Editing of the include list possible
New startup picture added (thanks to Janne Peraäho)

The program is available as version 3.5 from the Aminet directory dev/c.

Matthias Gietzelt wishes the entire Amiga community a merry Christmas and a happy new millenium.

Download: Emperor_v3.5.lha

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21.Dec.2000
Martin R. Elsner on ANF MainPrefs 2.0 Released
For those who want to change environment variables, easily change configuration files such as s:startup-sequence or start the OS preferences programs in a predictable way, now can do all of this with MainPrefs V2.0. New in the program is the possibility to change assigns, and an Italian catalog by Arturo Franzin.

The program requires OS3.5, cause it has a Reaction GUI. It shall be available from Aminet from the next update, but from now also on the homepage under the title link. The programmer Martin R. Elsner makes efforts to further enhance the program and is open for new suggestions.

Download: mainprefs.lha - 64 KB

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21.Dec.2000
amiga.org 3ivX.nu: Poll
3ivX.nu poll: On which operating system would you like to run the new video format 3ivX ? Beside of Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD, Linux, and BeOS also Amiga is one of the possiblities to vote for.

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21.Dec.2000
Stephan Rupprecht SGrab Version 1.14 Released
Version 1.14 of Stephan Rupprecht's screen-grabber with graphical GUI was released.

Download: sgrab.lha (51 KB) - readme

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20.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm

New Aminet uploads

FSCP_Txt.lha         biz/dbase   55K+Farscape StarBase-Text (47)
XFLS_Txt.lha         biz/dbase  256K+The X-Files StarBase-Text (168)
BestOfASGold.lha     biz/demo   406K+Demo of Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold CD
AmIRC_GR.lha         comm/irc    13K+Greek locale catalog for AmIRC 3.5
amlog.lha            comm/misc   99K+V2.1 - HTTP/FTP/MAIL adress database
dvbcontrol.lha       comm/misc  315K+V1.31 D-Box/Mediamaster Settings Editor
MPackMUI.lha         comm/misc   50K+V1.01 MUI interface for MPack V1.5
HTTPResume.lha       comm/www   117K+Resume interrupted HTTP downloads
2b_CreativE.lha      dev/e      112K+CreativE - AmigaE compiler/linker [binar
CreativE.lha         dev/e      112K+CreativE - AmigaE compiler/linker [binar
BestOfASGold_A.lha   docs/anno   32K+Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold announceme
FSCP_Gde.lha         docs/hyper  56K+Farscape Guide (47)
XFLS_Gde.lha         docs/hyper 259K+The X-Files Guide (168)
Fireball_3.lha       docs/mags  841K+German Entertainment Magazine
Onkelz.lha           docs/mags   67K+German B hse Onkelz guide AG
amigo6_1.lha         game/board  87K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
NewWorms.lha         game/data  2.8M+New Worms-Samples for WormsDC
Fate1.21.lha         game/role   16K+Fate - Polish Version of Dice Simulator 
Frotz.lha            game/role  256K+Frotz 2.40R14 Infocom game interpreter
MUIReversi_GR.lha    game/think   2K+Greek locale catalog for MUI Reversi
CreateIndex.lha      gfx/conv    71K+Make HTML picture index with ImageStudio
AmiCAD_2.07.lha      gfx/edit   660K+Schematics vectorial electronics program
h8ilbm.lha           gfx/show    24K+HiQuality-HAM8 IFF-24bit image viewer
clock_port.txt       hard/hack    6K+A1200 Clock port info, updated
pario15.lha          hard/hack   21K+Parallel Port access routines
ShapeShifterGR.lha   misc/emu     3K+Greek locale catalog for ShapeShifter
imdbDiff001208.lha   misc/imdb  6.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
rno-r053.mpg         mods/mpg   3.4M+Rno-records release no.53 by FarFar/lns 
downtime.lha         mods/pro   273K+'Downtime' - a protracked MOD by My&.
ikava.lha            mods/pro   438K+'Ikava' - a protracked MOD by My&.
rats.lha             mods/pro   164K+'Rats' - a protracked MOD by My&.
vauva.lha            mods/pro   197K+'Vauva' - a protracked MOD by My&.
y2k.lha              mods/pro   419K+'Y2k' - a protracked MOD by My&.
sakuvk00.lha         pix/misc   1.8M+Pics from Finnish Amiga UG 2000 meeting.
OS3.9Grab.jpg        pix/wb     137K+OS3.9 Screengrab running on Voodoo3 (Med
BareED.lha           text/edit  214K+A simple text-editor for the use of non-
BurnGUI_GR.lha       util/arc     3K+Greek locale catalog for BurnGUI
SystemPatch.lha      util/boot    6K+Speedup patch for 68020+
titleshadow.lha      util/boot    2K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
MCP_GR.lha           util/cdity   8K+Greek locale catalogs for MCP and MCPPre
ModePro.lha          util/cdity 240K+4.66 Screenmode Promotion & Public Scree
DevsList.lha         util/cli     2K+V1.0 - Devices lister
WBStartEmu.lha       util/libs    2K+Os3.9 version of wbstart.library (45.1a)
FindChanges.lha      util/misc   40K+Finds changes made to disk
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  286K+Report+ 4.2: 10-function utility
Snapper.lha          util/misc   40K+V1.0 Snapshot any window's position
PowerTools.lha       util/moni   10K+Power failure logger
Ver.lha              util/sys    13K+Bugfixed replacement for c:version
IconMaster1_0.lha    util/wb     19K+Icon copier with some nice features V1.0
tv-prog.lha          util/wb    310K+(PL/CZ) TV programe on computer! [v0.82]

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20.Dec.2000
Michael Wurstwasser via eMail ANN: Fleecy Discussing
Michael wrote: «Each one who is not perfectly aware of the intentions and attitudes of Amiga Inc. might be interested in the long discussion at ANN (see title link - ca. 350 kB).

Even if it might never happen and MorphOS assumedly would be the better choice, so it might be interesting with Fleecy Moss' statements there in mind for once to consider the "50,000-copies"-edge to be the promise of a solid 4.0 PPC under active headship by Amiga Inc. Contrary to the suspicion this might only be an unsocial lure to gain more income, cause I initially took it by this, too.

It's a pity that always only hard discussions and impeachment generate clarifying answers from Amiga Inc. or other companies. In this case regarding the 50,000 copies promise.»

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20.Dec.2000
Amiga Resource Amiga Resource: Contest
You can win an AmigaOS 3.9 in the contest at Amiga Resource if you know a feature which was introduced by OS 3.0.

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20.Dec.2000
Heise [Newsticker] Heise: Background details: Microsoft are Stricken
«Crippled due to the cartel case, tantalized by cracker's attacks, and trailed by the general downwards trend of the PC branch the software giant from Redmond now starts to paddle hectically. Because the signs are indicating storm: For the first time after ten years and for the second time in the company's history at all Microsoft had to call out a profit caution for the current quarter. PC sales in the otherwise so opulent Christmas business are stagnating worldwide, thus the best income source stops bubbling the way Bill Gates' crew was used to. After all, almost a third of volume of sales Microsoft draws from the fact that vendors sell PC's along with Windows or other products by Microsoft.»
Complete article under the title link (German).

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20.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Andreas Kleinert makes it possible to sell SView IV with PPC-modules and the AK datatypes at a special price. SView IV is a program for converting, showing and formating of pictures in a fast and comfortable way. This special price is valid until 15th of January 2001. You can find further information under the title link or to SView IV and AK datatypes (PNG,JFIF,TIFF) under ar-kleinert.de.

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20.Dec.2000
Rolf Tingler via eMail Cellular Phones Top Shells with Amiga Design
From now on top shells with Amiga design for Nokia 3310 are available. You can have a look at the top shells on the website of Airbrush Paradise Tingler. Orders can be placed at the shop of Airbrush Paradise.

Furthermore APT is looking for distributors within the EU. If you are interested in this, please send an e-mail to the sales manager Gabi Tingler.

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20.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software Trogladite Awards - Subtotal
As already reported Trogsoft gives an awards for each of the categories application, games, hardware, developer, and websites every year. Under the title link you will find a summary of votes after the second week.

For applications 'YAM 2.2' still is far ahead; for games &180;Heretic 2' still is ahead followed by &180;Foundation'; for hardware with 'Mediator' ahead followed by 'AmigaOne' also nothing changed; for development 'MorphOS' and 'Hyperion' are still close up. The only change appeared for websites with amiga-news.de ahead followed by Czech Amiga News. At this occasion I would like to thank the readers for voting!

Did you already vote? If not, we would be very happy about you voting for amiga-news.de.

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20.Dec.2000
Gregory Donner AmigaOS 3.9 Review by Gregory Donner
Gregory Donner has put an extended review of AmigaOS 3.9 online on his website.

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20.Dec.2000
Stephan Rupprecht WBStartEmu Update for OS3.9
Downlaod: WBStartEmu.lha - readme

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20.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail VirusHelp Denmark: Virus Warning
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will only execute it self if you have named your hard-disk "DH0" & "DH1". The trojan is spread in and archive with the name "DKG-BLUM.LHA". If you run the "DKG-BLUM.exe", the trojan will replace your c:loadwb with another loadwb (size: 3560 bytes) and replace c:assign with another assign (size: 2408 bytes), and the screen will tell you that there is not enough memory, and you will have to restart, then it looks like the trojan will delete DH1:.
The trojan also adds or replaces 2 other files, "LIBS:asi.library" & "DEVS:ASI.device".

The cure right now (If you have lost your DH1: to bad......), then replace the trojan files with clean ones, here is the trojan sizes:

c:loadwb ( 3560 bytes) c:assign ( 2408 bytes) libs:asi.library (24548 bytes - delete if you dont have clean file) devs:asi.device ( 2408 bytes - delete if you dont have clean file)

Here is some info about the infected archive:

Virus Type.... : Trojan
Archive name.. : dkg-blum.lha
Archive size.. : 28.535 bytes (lha packet)

This archive has been send to all the antivirus programers.....

Thanx to Peter Gordon & Urban for the info and sending the archive to us........

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20.Dec.2000
BoingWorld BoingWorld: Mediator PCI 1200 Review
A Mediator PCI 1200 review has been posted to BoingWorld.

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19.Dec.2000
AmiBroker Stock Exchange Sofware: AmiBroker 3.42 Released
Version 3.42 of the stock exchange software ',AmiBroker' has been released. This version contains important bugfixes. Issue #7 of the AmiBroker newsletter is online, too.

Supplement: Sebastian Brylka noted that this is just the version for Windows. Sorry, I overlooked that. The current version for Amiga is AmiBroker/Amiga 3.37 beta from 24.11.2000.

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19.Dec.2000
Fun Time World

Arcadia: New Bubble Heroes Patch
A new patch for the game 'Bubble Heroes' by Arcadia was released. This patch fixes a bug that caused the random function to produce too much yellow bubbles on some machines, enhances sound output, and makes the game a little faster.

Download:

BHAGAPatch.lzx - AGA (101K)
BHRTGPatch.lzx - RTG (104K)

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19.Dec.2000
Carsten Scholling via E-Mail

MUI: NListtree V18.6 Beta 5
Carsten Scholling released beta version V18.6 Beta 5 of the MUI class 'NListtree'. This class displays data in a tree structure. For this time the update contains bugfixes and useful enhancements.

Bugfix: Multiselection bug fixed, which allowed entries to be dropped on thier children entries (crash!)
Bugfix: Position calculation rewritten. No more accidently deleted entries.
Bugfix: Drop-Typ "Sorted" never occured
Bugfix: Renaming the user field wasn't possible.
Bugfix: MUIV_NListtree_Insert_ListNode_ActiveFallback (see Autodocs).
Bugfix: Inserting open nodes into one closed leaded to wrong position calculation (reported by Luca 'Hexaae' Longone, thx)
New: Second find method implemented (user field). This searching function is rather meant as a backup to have different searching possibilities, if needed. (Hooks must not always be set again).
New: MUIA_NListtree_ShowTree implemented (tree on / off). Useful for different sorting orders for which a tree structure maybe isn't wanted.
New: Spanish localisation by Javier de las Rivas.
New: New Trigger-Attribute: MUIA_NListtree_SelectChange.

Download: MCC_NListtree18.6b5.lha (306K)

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19.Dec.2000
UAE-JIT

UAE-JIT: Service Pack for 'Ipswich Town'
On December 15th, 2000 Bernd Bernie Meyer has released a service pack for the 'Ipswich Town' version of 'UAE-JIT' for Linux/386, which is an Amiga emulator. This Update in general fixes bugs of the previous version. Particulary it was made more stabel, and portable while speed did not change. So this update in general addresses those who had problems with the previous version in using or compiling it. A detailed list of changes made are to find in the WHATSNEW-JIT-Text.

This version is available as Linux/x86 binary for glibc V2.1 or glibc V2.0 in form of complete source code or source code patch for the UAE V0.8.15 Source code. In the source code archive the file 'dirct_access.c' is missing, which should be downloaded separately in addition.

Download:

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19.Dec.2000
Alexander Wachau on ANF

TechReview: Ten Passed Technologies
«Not every disappearing technology deserves that fate. Sometimes the "losers" have an elegance and simplicity the "winners" lack. Here are ten examples.»

In the article Amiga is mentioned as third along with the picture of an Amiga 1000. Nick Montfort talks about the Amiga's good multitasking - but now which is being implemented in MacOS X - and other good features we don't want to miss on our computers. It is also mentioned that an new Amiga is already under construction. New Ermentrud Demo Released ! Timo Kloss on ANF mailto:Timo@inutilis.de http://www.inutilis.de Inutilis Software has released an new demo version of the adventure game "Ermentrud" for CyberGfx. This demo is ready for download on their website. There are many innovations compared to the initial demo version due to the entire story control system working now, too.

Three locations (screens)
Two dialog partners (shoes)
Intro pictures

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19.Dec.2000
Jens Troeger on ANF New InstallerNG
I have uploaded a new version of InstallerNG to the support page (and to Aminet). A stupid bug in the message system of the built-in BOOPSI GUI has been fixed, and new is the CALL-PLUGIN function which allows the user to implement own functions in InstallerNG by a typed API and to use it from a script. Example source code for this as well as for all of the other API modules are included.

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19.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail

Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Guymay presents version 2.1 of Bubble Stones, the freeware "Bust a Move" clone! New in this version 2.1:

New game modes "Hot"
Keyboard Support
English manual
Enhanced gameplay

Now you are able to design the look of the field yourself! If you have own fields, please send them to me to create a Bubble Stones hompage for fields and high scores. Please, send suggestions for the game to GuyMay, the develper of Bubble Stones!

Merry Christmas!
Amiga Arena wishes a merry Christmas and all the best for 2001 to all Amiga friends. Keep The Flame burning!

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