amiga-news DEUTSCHE VERSION
.
Links| Forums| Comments| Report news
.
Chat| Polls| Newsticker| Archive
.

Amiga events
13.-15.06.25 • Flashback-Symposium #02 • Jößnitz (Germany)
01.-02.08.25 • Amiga/040 • Mountain View (USA)
11.-14.09.25 • Classic Computing 2025 • Hof (Germany)
17.-19.10.25 • Amiga40 • Mönchengladbach (Germany)
14.-16.11.25 • Flashback-Symposium #02 • Jößnitz (Germany)

14.Oct.2000
Dirk Baeyens on ANF


ACG News
The Belgium Amiga Club ACG have a new version of the Dutch newsletter "acgmail 86 Oktober 2000". In the first article the club is asking for help from the Belgium and Holland Amiga-users. Because there are less and less Amiga users in the club they are considering to stop the Amiga part of the club. If you want to help you can e-mail us - vissers.erwin@altavista.net.

[News message: 14. Oct. 2000, 12:27] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Oct.2000
Thomas Dellert via eMail


DCE Obtains Exclusive Rights for the Voodoo CGX Drivers
Vision Factory Development (VFD) and DCE Computer Service have signed an exclusive contract on the usage rights of the "CGX Voodoo"-drivers. Contrary to some declarations, this driver will only be available for the G-REX PCI board.
Complete announcement at the title link.

In this context please check out the official announcement at CyberGraphX.

[News message: 14. Oct. 2000, 12:17] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Oct.2000
VMC


VMC News
From now on, the VMC-ISDN and HyperCOM user-forums may again be used without any problems. All of the links of our vmc.de domain have been transfered to our usbhop.de until the definitive re-transfer.

Also, Mr. Frank of VMC asks Mr. Schönfeld of Individual Computers to expose the true facts.
More infos at the title link.

Supplement:
Since amiga-news does not want to become the scene of such conflicts, we would like to ask our readers, who want to be informed about the process of this conflict, to get information directly on the websites of the relevant companies:
VMC ./. Individual Computers.

[News message: 14. Oct. 2000, 12:17] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Oct.2000
H&P


H&P: New ImageFX Offers
For a limited period of time we offer all of the ImageFX packages (also all of the updates) including the PPC-Expansion PowerStation. You can get an overview on the offers in the press release at the title link.

[News message: 14. Oct. 2000, 12:17] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Oct.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF


SWOS Tournament in Danger!
What a pity. It could have been so cool! Actually I had planned to host a SWOS tournament at the AmigaMeeting. Sponsors had quickly been found. Now the whole thing might not take place.

  • My ride has jumped off: Persons from the region Aix-la-Chapelle/Cologne who want to go there please contact me!
  • Only 3 people (including me) have registered until now. All interested people please register!


[News message: 14. Oct. 2000, 10:58] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Oct.2000
Frogger-Homepage


FROGGER - New Beta-Version of the well known MPEG-Player
FROGGER a MPEG-Player for the AMIGA that allows acceptable replay speeds even on slower cpus (68030).

The '1.62 beta 2' version of the program, a further development of the 68K- and PPC-version, can be downloaded at the title link.

On the FROGGER download-site there is also a new FROGGER-Start-Pic.

[News message: 14. Oct. 2000, 10:51] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Oct.2000
AROS


AROS: Development Status
On oktober 11th, 2000 AROS has released a status report about the current status of this Open Source project. The changes concern mainly the AROS version for x86 computers.

Cleaning-up of the AROS source tree by Bernardo Innocenti, simple hardfile support of FFS formatted floppy disks (ADF) by Georg Steger, and better mouse support for AROS native/x86 by Tobias Seiler (mouse buttons work now). Georg threw in some additional code to change the position of the mouse pointer on the screen, and now you can move the window around. Since VGA.HIDD doesn't support the XOR drawing mode, yet there is still some graphics garbage when you move the window, but that should be fixed, soon.

[News message: 14. Oct. 2000, 06:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


StarOffice-Sourcecode Released
Sun has released the source code of StarOffice as Open Source on October 13th, 2000. This is the pre-release of StarOffice 6.0. The further development of the package has been handed over to the OpenOffice-Project.

The source code is 400 MByte in size, and is available for download at the OpenOffice website for download. It contains 35,000 files which count all together some 9 million lines of C++ code. A Pentium III computer with 256 MB RAM and Linux would need some 20 hours to compile the package. The space required on the harddrive will grow up to 2 GByte while doing this. Currently supported are Windows, Linux, and Solaris. A version for Mac OsX, which is said to be still in an earlier stade, should follow.

Sun themself will still participate in developing the Office package in the future through their development department in Hamburg, and release official StarOffice versions basing on OpenOffice. Those will also contain components which Sun has acquired from thrid party companies and thus are not part of the OpenOffice package. These components include the spell checker, the thesaurus and the database Adabas D.

[News message: 14. Oct. 2000, 06:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Oct.2000
Martin "Mason" Merz in ANF


MI News: AppMI - 5. Release
AppMI is a freeware collection of images and animations for toolbars with GlowIcons design, which would perhaps become a standard for the Classic Amiga System. The fourth update has been completed now.

The new archive contains 66 new or reworked images, 2 new animations and a new HTML documentation for easier navigation. More informations about AppMI are available here. The archive for registered users will be sent to them by email soon.

[News message: 14. Oct. 2000, 06:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Oct.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail


News about SView-Ports
SuperView is a well known graphics converting and viewing tool well knwon of the Amiga. The author Andreas Kleinert is working on porting SView to other systems, and publishes a status report:

The GUI preview of the planned WinSView tool kit still is at alpha state while subject of intensive development. Hence it still is not available, but by this you will get some initial impression on what it is about.

Development takes place on two levels:
  • 1. The underlying C++ class library for image handling (loading, saving)
  • 2. The program surface (GUI) in form of a MFC 4.1-based design

Both originally were developed using Watcom C/C++ - for the class library part and for testing it we use the Watcom C/C++ V11 ability to develop 32 bit software for the Win9x/NT character mode (DOS box), and for the GUI part BlueSky's Visual Programmer is utilized.

But the design of the C++ classes is completely platform independent (e.g. regarding endianess) and suitable to be ported for a wide range of operating systems, e.g. certain Linux derives, BeOS or QNX. Additionally, no compiler specific C++ specialities are used ("baseline C++") and utilization from a clean C program is no problem.
More infos can be found at the title link.

[News message: 14. Oct. 2000, 03:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
13.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet uploads
A-Fix_08102000.lha   comm/ambos  77K+AmBoS-Fix Rel. 08102000 (Sunday 08-Oct-0
StrICQSnd1.lha       comm/misc   86K+Sound's for StrICQ in WAV-format
AKTaskiSMS.lha       comm/tcp    10K+V1.2, YAM-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 + 
SMSEngineerMUI.lha   comm/tcp   212K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.4 - *
CnS4.lha             demo/mag   290K+CnS#4 - Diskmag with 4 new interviews!
BlitzLstSep00.lha    dev/basic  349K+Blitz mailing list archives for Septembe
wla_dx_020_6.8.lzh   dev/cross  298K+WLA DX v6.8 - GB-Z80/Z80/6502/6510/65816
Python16_Src.lha     dev/lang   2.0M+Python language 1.6 (source)
SATKG2k-inv.lha      docs/anno  920K+Satellite&Kindergarden-2000, invitation.
AmigaPoWeR.lha       docs/hyper  69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
StarTrekCONN.lha     game/misc  588K+Play in the StarTrek:TNG Universe
Skulpt_doc.lha       gfx/3d     746K+Sculpt3D clone Documentation (68k + Warp
stlist.lha           misc/emu    13K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
Obitus.lha           mods/misc   80K+Custom module from "Obitus"
Protector.lha        mods/misc   30K+Custom module from "Protector"
VictoryRoad.lha      mods/misc    6K+Custom module from "Victory Road"
brm_cook.lha         mods/techn 400K+DBM by brm.
brm_prop.lha         mods/techn 758K+DBM by brm.
brm_refu.lha         mods/techn 251K+DBM by brm.
brm_sala.lha         mods/techn 519K+DBM by brm.
VR-family.jpg        pix/art     11K+Jpg picture with fxPaint
AP11Recto.jpg        pix/misc    84K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 11 Cover Recto
Epson_600.lha        text/print  41K+Epson Stylus 600/700 Driver for WB V40.2
AutoRunNG_NO.lha     util/cdity   1K+Norwegian catalog for AutoRunNG
Find.lha             util/cli    30K+Find utility with many options
DirMaid.lha          util/misc   12K+Sort your directories automatically.
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc   62K+Report+ 3.5: 9-function utility
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   55K+V1.21 - Test and identify wb-program
arc2arc28.lha        util/rexx    5K+Convert any archive format easily


[News message: 13. Oct. 2000, 05:48] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
13.Oct.2000
Haage & Partner


STFax 4.5 Available
Now that Haage & Partner took over the distribution of STFax (the powerful fax and phone answering software), a new version is available. It now supports ELSA Office modems. For customers of version 4.x, a free update is available on H&P's FTP Server.

[News message: 13. Oct. 2000, 03:27] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
13.Oct.2000
Amster Website


Amster Website has Moved
The website for the Napster client for Amiga, "Amster", can now be reached at http://www.amiga.dk/amster/. Please, change your bookmarks.

[News message: 13. Oct. 2000, 03:11] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
13.Oct.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail


Elbox: SHARK ATTACK
Detailed information from Elbox about their new PowerPC processor boards for Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000. Announced are PPC G3/G4 boards named SHARK with various processors which can be fitted into the MEDIATOR PCI A1200 and MEDIATOR PCI A3/4000 bus boards:

Date    Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:59:45 +0200
From    ELBOX press@elbox.com
Subject SHARK ATTACK

ELBOX COMPUTER
Krakow, 12 October 2000

ELBOX COMPUTER is proud to announce the breath-taking new product: the
most powerful PowerPC accelerator for Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000.

The new accelerator  -  SharkPPC G3/G4 board  -  is a pure PowerPC-based
processor card to be fitted in MEDIATOR PCI A1200 and MEDIATOR PCI
A3/4000 busboards.

SharkPPC G3/G4 cards give Amiga Classic computers the top performance of
the latest PowerPC technology and the power of the long-awaited next
generation computer.

New PowerPC750 processors installed in SharkPPC G3/G4 cards offer the
following performance: 17.4SPECint95@400MHz, 11.7SPECfp95@400MHz,
928DMIPS@400MHz, 22.4SPECint95@550MHz, 13.3SPECfp95@550MHz,
1276DMIPS@550MHz.

The SharkPPC G3/G4 design combines speed of PowerPC G3/G4 processors
with extremely fast on-board memory interface controlling two SDRAM
modules, up to 512MB each. The peak memory transfer rate reaches
582MB/s. The accelerator card takes control over the PCI busboard with a
66MHz PCI 2.1 compliant interface fitted with a two-channel DMA
controller.

Communication between the existing Amiga turbo accelerator and the
SharkPPC G3/G4 card is executed with the shared SDRAM memory and the
interrupt controller in the MEDIATOR PCI hardware. The new accelerator
offers excellent bandwidth to any PCI card: 264 MB/s (132 MB/s in the
system with 33 MHz PCI cards). This powerful performance in PCI graphic
cards enables development of new superb games/graphic applications in
the native PPC code.

All the currently available Amiga software may be executed in the 68k
processor with full use of all the PCI cards installed in the computer.
It is possible because both accelerator cards installed in the computer
access all the PCI cards independently.

On top of that, in new applications to be developed both accelerators
may enhance performance of each other just the same way as it is done in
advanced multi-processor systems. This is due to the fact that
processors in both accelerators (68k/PPC and SharkPPC) work fully
simultaneously, which is for the first time available for Amiga users.

The first SharkPPC G3/G4 cards for developers will be available by end
of November, with production planned to commence in January 2001.

When new speed versions of PowerPC processors are available, the
SharkPPC line will be expanded with more models.

The suggested retail price (VAT excl.) for the SharkPPC G3/G4
accelerators are:

SharkPPC G3/G4 750@400................ EUR 390.00
(PowerPC750@400MHz and 256KB@400MHz L2 Cache)

SharkPPC G3/G4 750@550................ EUR 520.00
(PowerPC750@550MHz and 256KB@550MHz L2 Cache)

Pricing of versions with other processors will be announced separately.

NEW

Please look for our further releases:

1. Development progress of PCI Sound and TV card drivers for MEDIATOR
PCI 1200.

2. MEDIATOR development line (A4000 and A3000).

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department


[News message: 13. Oct. 2000, 03:11] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
13.Oct.2000
Thorsten Schölzel via eMail


Amiga Shockwave-Player Support Page
Thorsten Schölzel writes:
Herewith I would like to announce the opening of the "Amiga Shockwave-Player Support" page. On the support page, you will find a shockwave player for Amiga as well as a configuration for the player under AWeb and IBrowse, so you can finally see shockwave files through a browser.

Currently, the site is under construction, but more content will follow in the next days.

[News message: 13. Oct. 2000, 01:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
tel. Harald Frank


Heavy Domain Quarrel between VMC and Individual Computers!
Sure one ore the other usere already realized that the website of Harald Frank VMC is taken by foreign content. The reader is welcomed to a completely new pay system in the internet. As contact address jens@jschoenfeld.de is given.

Calling Harald Frank provided clearness. A heavy domain quarrel between Individual Computers and VMC is the cause. Until this is cleared up VMC will be accessible at http://www.usbshop.de.

At the title link you will find the following statement by VMC:

«10-11-2000Unbelievable, www.vmc.de was stolen!
As we had to realize this afternoon the owner of our domain was, pretending wrong facts, renamed to Mr. Schönfeld by the internet provider Schlund.

The internet pages viewed at the domain which was up to now our domain, have nothing to do with our company, and also every e-mail to the addresses of VMC are sent to Mr. Schönfeld directly, by-passing the mail secret.

Because of this we ask all of the customers to send their e-mails to our usbshop.de domain which means to you, just to change the name vmc.de into usbshop.de in the e-mail addresses for the next days.

According to information via telephone by Individual Computers Jens Schonefeld will use this campaign to force a better position of him to the company VMC Harald Frank regarding wholesale prices for VMC driver software.»

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 12:23] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
Fun Time World


Get More Information about Amiga - The Next Generation Computing Platform
On the homepage of Amiga was an interesting article released about the past and future of the Amiga. Included is a list of programs that will likely be ported to the AmigaOne.

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 12:00] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
Jörg Dietrich at the ANF


Opera Beta for Linux-PPC Available
Jörg Dietrich wrote:
And though it works: Opera runs on Amiga! Only on APUS, but better than nothing. The beta-version of Opera, the commercial web-browser, is now for Linux PowerPC available (title link). It runs on my Amiga 1200 with Debian Potato.

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 12:00] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
Pagan-Games


"Earth 2140"-demo Released
Now there is a 13MB demoversion of the realtime strategy game "Earth 2140" available for download. System requirements (min.) are a 040/25 processor (recommended: 060 or PPC WarpOS), a gfx-board (CGFX & P96), 24 MB RAM (32 MB) and about about 20 MB space on your harddisk.

You can download the demo version here.

Also Pagan-Games said the graphic for the game "Dafel:Bloodline" was nearly complete so they can work now on the code for Classic Amigas, Mac and PC.

Supplement:
Thomas Steiding via eMail
Epic Interactive proudly announces the release of the Amiga demo version of "Earth 2140", a port of a classic C&C clone. You can find the demo at the download section. The complete game is about to be released early November for DM 99,95. But you can preorder directly at Epic Interactive for DM 89,95 (plus delivery and package). This offer is valid till October 25th, 2000. If the server is not accessible you can download it here: http://www.pagan-games.com, the great boys who have ported this game from PC to Amiga.

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 09:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
Peter Weigoldt


Schlachtfeld V2.15
Due to some wrong set attributes during archiving problems appeared. The lha-archive of the game "Schlachtfeld" was now completely new archived and was tested by Peter Weigoldt.

Download: Schlachtfeld2_V2.15.lzx

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
Amiga Globe


Drawstudio at Kickstart Amiga Group
The known paint-, illustrations- and presentation software Drawstudio is from now on again available at Kickstart. Because the developers have left the Amiga market there will be no support and no updates for the product.

System requirements: Amiga with 68020 or better, Workbench 2.04 or better, 3 MB free RAM, 2MB free HD space. FPU, gfx-board or AGA are supported but not necessary. PPC is not supported.

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF


Interview with Fleecy Moss at "Temple Of Technology"
You will find an interesting interview with Fleecy Moss at the title link. Browser without CSS-support (Cascading Style Sheets) can flush the background to be able to read the article.

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
CGX


CGX ViRGE V3 Driver tested with 4 MB ViRGE/DX
The free drivers CGX ViRGE V3 were tested with another two 4MB ViRGE/DX boards. You will find the results on the Mediator page and on the page of CGX supported gfx-boards.

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
CGX


Elbox Website Update
On the website of Elbox (still under construction) are all dealers listed that distribute Elbox products in several countries.

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
Peter's Amiga HP


New Printer Drivers for Epson Stylus 600/800 v.40.20
New drivers V40.20 for Epson Stylus 600/800 printers with EpsonPrefs released. Driver for Epson 400 will follow.

Download: Epson_600.lha

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
tecchannel.de


MPF: Information Appliances
At the Microprocessor Forum 2000 in San Jose, USA, an all day opening lecture on the subject information appliances took place given by Steve Leibson, chief analyser of MicroDesign Resources and chief editor of the microprocessor report.



After main-frames, mini-computer, micro-computers, and PCs the fifth computer generation comes into public view by the IAs. Appliances of this generation distinguish on application oriented design. Meaning design and functionality of these appliances is styled for one application, e.g. in the case of web-pads on the internet or in case of game consoles on easy gaming using your TV-set. This causes self describing operation and hence easy use of this appliances.

The article (German) on tecchannel.de summarizes the lecture in view of types of appliances, Connectivity (Bluetooth, IrDA, etc.), processors, as well as displays, and gives a result at the end of the article. This result complains about that manufacturers tend to implement too much features in their initial IAs. By this operation again becomes complicated, and prices increase which automates failure, according to Steve Leibson.

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 03:22] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
12.Oct.2000
Eternity via eMail


A Lot of Eternity News
Some things are changing at Eternity, but in main everything will stay the same: Eternity is and will keep being Amiga vendor, Amiga publisher, and distributor of Amiga hardware and software.

This news is most important:

The URL has changed!
http://www.eternity-computer.de from now on is the new online home of Eternity. Please change your bookmarks! Many thanks to Marc Albrecht for hosting the Eternity pages free of charge for several years.

To make getting used to the new URL more easy for users we have raised another of our popular special projects:
For orderings within the next two weeks the customer will get 1 DM discount on every of his/her order already placed in 2000. With this we want to thank our many faithful customers and want to give them a very special bonus.

EAsys! Servicepack 3
For the system enhancer EAsys! distributed by Eternity service-pack 3 was released. This fixes many little bugs, and automatic creation of icons is implemented. Who wants to learn about the other new features should get it soon.

MASplayer
The MASplayer which we distribute since early this month already sells well. Happily our customers are not dumb, so we received some suggestions on additional possible use of the MASplayer:
  • MPEG-Movie-Player could surrender playing of sound completely to the MAS and thereby would have to deal almost only with playing the movie.
  • Internet-Phone would be possible with acceptable speed and quality also on Amigas.
  • Internet-Radio via MASplayer is already under construction.

Interested software authors can contact us via e-mail to eternity@pride.de. We heavily support developers.

Free co-workers wanted:
Eternity Hard- & Software is looking for a free co-worker who would independent deal with project coordination around Eternity's activities. Good knowledge of English (speaking and writing) are advantageous. Interested people would contact eternity@pride.de, please.

[News message: 12. Oct. 2000, 03:22] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
11.Oct.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


New Previews at NoRiscNoFun: Sin and Exodus
You can find two new previews at NoRiscNoFun namely the 3D Shooter Sin, ported by Hyperion, and Exodus the realtime-strategy game. And there is another pleasing message: From now on you can access NRNF without windows of advertising.

[News message: 11. Oct. 2000, 06:46] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
11.Oct.2000
Christian Sobotta on ANF


A.C.SYS - News
The homepage of ACSYS (a Turrican-clone) has moved. From now on you can access this site under http://www.paragram.de/acsys.html (title link). Because developers wonder if they should finish programming this game there is a opinion-poll If more than 500 people speak in favour of this project the programming will be finished. The editorial stuff of the Amiga Future have made a closer look at the game saying its worthy! Demo-Download: acsys-de.lha - 620 Kb

[News message: 11. Oct. 2000, 06:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
11.Oct.2000



Radio Report about the Amiga
Next Saturday October 14th, there will be a report about the Amiga in the computer and internet programme namely "Netradio" (title link) in the "Bayerischer Rundfunk". Ruediger Engel will primarily report in an interview with Claus Kruesken about the versatile abilities of the Classic Amiga in the year 2000 and will give a perspective of the plans and the future of Amiga Inc. Of course you can listen to the channel of Bayern 3 via antenna and cable in Germany, and in Europe via Astra Digital Radio on frequency range of 11,14125 GHz, sound supply 6,48 MHz, and worldwide via Internet as RealAudio-Steam for RealPlayer or Windows MediaPlayer.

[News message: 11. Oct. 2000, 04:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
11.Oct.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF


US-Patent 4,777,621
Twelve years ago, on October 11th, 1988, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) gave the patent for issue "Video Game and Personal Computer" which was registered on July 19th, 1985 under the patent number 4,777,621. As inventors were named Commodore-Amiga, Inc., Los Gatos: Jay G.Miner, Joseph C.Decuir und Ronald H. Nicholson. This patent is to be seen as THE Amiga patent. At THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-ROM coming out in December there is the full history of "Amiga Patent Story".

[News message: 11. Oct. 2000, 03:04] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
11.Oct.2000
Amiga Power


Pictures of the AGA from Toulon
On the last weekend in Toulon, France, the "AGA The Blue 2" took place. Under the title link you can have a look at some initial pictures.

[News message: 11. Oct. 2000, 01:48] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
11.Oct.2000
Marius Schwarz on ANF


New DirectDos Demo Available
Marius Schwarz wrote: It has been announced for a long time: DirectDos (the new Workbench feeling) is available in a improved version with many new functions and many bug fixes. The new functions are for example remember, iconifying, new rename functions, and much more. Remember starts the DirectDos-tasks automatically again after rebooting the computer, which helps you to continue to work no matter if the reset was your intention or a crash of the system. But the best of all is lower price: Instead of paying 50 DM for the program it now costs only 30 DM from version 1.02. Please download the demo from the Aminet or my website. This one will move to a new server in the next time. Therefore the programm is possibly not available all the time. The link will be the same.

[News message: 11. Oct. 2000, 01:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
11.Oct.2000
Stefan Ruppert on ANF


UniView V40.8 Update
Stefan Ruppert wrote: At my homepage I have uploaded version 40.8 of UniView. UniView is a full replacement for MultiView. It is now possible to open several files simultaneously. Each file will be displayed in a seperate window. Furthermore I have improved opening a seperate screen which therefore works now with several windows open. But this function is still improvable.

[News message: 11. Oct. 2000, 01:17] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
11.Oct.2000
Milan Computer


Statement on Milan II
Even other systems (in this case Atari user) have to face disappointments. Milan II was put on hold. One now wants to make the operating system Atari-TOS (incl. MagiC) hardware independent by means of Linux. Then programs will be coded for one time and will run everywhere, which sure appears to be well known to Amiga users. Here some extract from the statement by Milan Computer, which is to read as full length (German) at the title link:

«Perspectives today are good on the one hand, and disappointing on the other hand: The Milan II was put on hold. Month of work eating thousands of Deutsch Marks disappeared as well as the hope of many Atari users to have their own and fast Milan II soon. This is primary to assign to technical difficulty. Moreover trying to find venture capital companies from Germany to increase fund remarkable over month failed. In this country at this time primary internet buildings in the air are supported and created, building fictitious million value from scratch to crash down as fast as it raised most of the time. One of the realy seldom companies able to offer their own small operating system provided with much of software unfortunately bears the big risc for the investors to provoke costs by matter manufacturing (main boards, etc.).

But this does not mean the end of the project, at all. Milan-Computersystems will continue to offer the Milan I with 040 processor to all of the people wanting a Milan today. And also the upgrade board to the 060 processor is still available and stable in the meantime. In fact there is nothing in the way to a Milan with 060 processor at this time.

Now the step which will be taken is to look towards Milan III. Therefore at this time there are two scenarios to choose from all of them banking on that the Milan-TOS (and with it the addon MagiC-Milan) to be able to be nearly hardware independent soon.
  • A. One elects a Linux kernel adaptation to e.g. AMD hardware (Athlon, Duron) and standard board peripheral equipment. Along with this a board will be chosen which just has to be imported in this country. If requirement like a big flash eprom are fulfilled this can be a TOS basing computer as before starting directly from chip. Performance with this solution would increase proportional to the used processor and with a 400MHz would have a much higher performance than a 060 processor.
  • B. One uses a (in case of need own) PPC G3/G4 board which is more close to the 68060 processor, so that from 350 MHz more than double performance would be gained.

To make TOS running on these processors an 68k interpreter will be integrated, in difference from a Windows or MacOS emulation running independent native making high performance possible.»

[News message: 11. Oct. 2000, 01:11] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
11.Oct.2000
Hellcoders Homepage


Hellcoders Homepage Announces Game Project
On the Hellcoders' homepage a new game was announced. The plot of the space game is described as the follows: You have captured a small space vehicle which approaches other ships camouflaged. You can gain points if you beam yourself into a ship, kill the crew and sell the whole equipment at the black market.

The game would have nice inter-sequences. According to the news the graphics and movies are in progress. One may be curious about the announced initial screen shots.

[News message: 11. Oct. 2000, 01:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
11.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
mboxExtractor.lha    comm/mail   11K+Mbox Extractor (extracts mails from an U
MuYaReq.lha          comm/mail   50K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
YAT.lha              comm/mail  518K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
LCR-I.lha            comm/misc  110K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
LCR.lha              comm/misc  111K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
AKTaskiSMS.lha       comm/tcp     7K+V1.1, YAM-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 + 
dct16_src.lzh        comm/tcp    41K+DCTelnet 1.6 Source code in C
SMSEngineerMUI.lha   comm/tcp   214K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.5 - *
js_umsrfc.lha        comm/ums   140K+Umsrfc update (1.6)
GRH_Zillement.lha    demo/aga   2.4M+Greuh!Zillement Beta (2nd 
wpz-frozen36.lha     demo/aga   574K+Frozen#36 - Kindergarden Party Edition
wpz-infernal.lha     demo/aga    67K+Intro by Whelpz+Destiny - 1st at Fuck Ya
Amiga-C-Sep00.lha    dev/c      112K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Sept
ConvertFDPlus.lha    dev/lang    43K+ConvertFDPlus - A converter for Amiga FD
DigitalLibrary.lha   dev/misc    19K+DigitalLibrary - An Amiga library with m
fda-upd.lha          disk/cache  57K+Uses whole free memory to speedup V2.8 u
fda.lha              disk/cache 330K+Faster than PFS also installed V2.8
fda_DviPS.lha        disk/cache 407K+English documentation in DVI, PS & texin
fda_d_DviPS.lha      disk/cache 444K+German documentation in DVI, PS & texinf
fda_d_GuidHTML.lha   disk/cache 102K+German documentation in Guide & HTML
JsplitIt.lha         disk/misc   47K+Split & join files between Amiga & IBM w
TurboDevice.lha      disk/misc   58K+TurboDevice - An Open Source resident RA
Zip4mat.lha          disk/misc   99K+Automatically prep & format your zip dis
VWorksPricelis.lha   docs/hyper  23K+Virtual Works pricelist 
tam4.lha             docs/mags  2.4M+Total Amiga Magazine, issue 4
WarpUp-Sep00.lha     docs/misc   30K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in S
DC-EMBond4_Lvl.lha   game/data  366K+81 levels for Diamond Caves 1
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (8 Octob
TerrainEd-1.0.lha    game/misc   45K+TerrainEd - A terrain editor for the gam
WormWars.lha         game/misc  768K+WormWars 6.4: Advanced snake game
jst.lha              game/patch 182K+JOTD Startup for HD Installs & Degrader 
mkhd.lha             game/patch  12K+HD Installer for Mortal Kombat V1.7
ruffhd.lha           game/patch  16K+HD Installer & Fix for Ruff'n'Tumble V1.
slamtilthd.lha       game/patch  26K+HD-Installer for SlamTilt V2.0
ultbbcd32hd.lha      game/patch  23K+HD-Installer for Ultimate BodyBlows CD32
zouthd.lha           game/patch  32K+HD Installer & Fix for Z-Out V2.0
mangband.lha         game/role  328K+Mangband 0.7.0 beta - client
ADoomPPC.lha         game/shoot 551K+Amiga PPC port of ADoom v1.6
pairsw3d.lha         game/think 1.0M+Simple pairs card game using W3D.
Skulpt_68k.lha       gfx/3d     1.2M+Sculpt3D clone (68k + Warp3D)
Skulpt_ppc.lha       gfx/3d     1.2M+Sculpt3D clone (PPC (WarpOS) + Warp3D)
Skulpt_src.lha       gfx/3d     386K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k / PPC + Warp
Anim2gif.lha         gfx/conv   152K+Converts and rescales an amiga animation
Anim2mpegB.lha       gfx/conv   264K+Converts amiga animations to mpeg animat
Anim2mpegS.lha       gfx/conv   282K+Converts amiga animations to mpeg animat
Anim2qt.lha          gfx/conv   167K+Converts and rescales an amiga animation
Mp2anim.lha          gfx/conv   272K+Converts & scales mpeg animations to ami
SmartScale.lha       gfx/conv    11K+A CLI program used for graphics conversi
View.lha             gfx/show    15K+Shows Pics via Datatypes
ATUtil-PCSide.lha    misc/emu   279K+Some additional PC-side sources for ATUt
TDMouse-1.0os.lha    misc/emu    41K+Use a serial PC mouse on the Amiga!
imdbDiff000929.lha   misc/imdb  2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
LottoPL.lha          misc/misc  398K+Lotto for players. (Polish - Duzy Lotek)
BD-Dominator.lha     mods/bladr  49K+"Dominator" by Black Dragon/Honoo+LED.
BD-Emperor.lha       mods/bladr  35K+"Emperor" by Black Dragon/Honoo+LED.
Lame68k.lha          mus/misc   148K+Lame 3.87, mp3 encoder
SIL51_Icons_r1.lha   pix/icon   207K+Few icons in OS3.5 Icon format.
HowToKillAPC.mpg     pix/mpg     21M+How to kill a PC
AKBackPix03.lha      pix/mwb    418K+Greyscale Fantasy WB pix 03 (ROM-Icons c
AKBackPrv03.jpg      pix/mwb    128K+Greyscale Fantasy WB pix 03 - Preview
AKIconz4.lha         pix/mwb    274K+A MWB *GAMES* Icon Collection (Vol. 4)
LombiWB.lha          pix/wb     261K+Two grabs of my WB, one with RTG & one w
ArialFont.lha        text/font   36K+Microsoft Arial font
ViewDiz_NO.lha       util/arc     1K+Norwegian catalog for ViewDiz 2.1
MiniMen.lha          util/batch  97K+A GUI menu program with many application
Matrix.lha           util/blank  40K+DPMS Matrix screen blanker (v1.4)
AHelp15_NO.lha       util/cdity   2K+Norwegian catalog for AHelp v1.5
AHelp_NO.lha         util/cdity   2K+Norwegian catalog for AHelp 1.5
ttflib68020.lha      util/libs  252K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68030.lha      util/libs  251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68040.lha      util/libs  251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68060.lha      util/libs  251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
Dictionary.lha       util/misc    5K+A very useful dictionary script
DirMaid.lha          util/misc   12K+Sort your directories automatically.
LC2.lha              util/misc  151K+Aussie Lotto checker/database.
ResetRun2.lha        util/misc   10K+Resets your computer and runs a given pr
Widerstand.lha       util/misc   50K+Decoding resistor color rings (german)
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   54K+V1.20 - Test and identify wb-program
CyberClock_mag.lha   util/time    5K+Hungarian translation for CyberClock
CyberClock_slk.lha   util/time    5K+Slovak translation for CyberClock
Fix.backdrop.lha     util/wb     46K+A GUI to clean up .backdrop files
WB2000_NO.lha        util/wb      5K+Norwegian catalog for WorkBench2000 1.6


[News message: 11. Oct. 2000, 01:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
10.Oct.2000
AMI Sector One


AMI Sector One Extended
Welcome to another update of AMI Sector One. Today there is something of interest for both emulator fans and Amiga users. But first of all let us begin with the new features written by Bernd:
Microdeal - A resume: This article is about the hardware and software company Microdeal which disappeared in 199?.
Amiga Games vs. Amiga Joker: Here I compare two issues of these popular Amiga games related magazines.

The update continues with the new games Tanglewood (thanks to the author Ian Murray-Watson who allowed us to upload it), Tie-Break (thanks to the author Andreas Seebeck), Wrath of Gwendor and the request Wizzy's Quest (English version). Besides the ADF of Wikinger 2 has been fixed (thanks to Hubert Maier jr. for repairing it).

Users of real Amiga computers will hopefully appreciate the following HD versions which have been added today: F/A 18 Interceptor HD, Lethal Xcess HD, Sword of Sodan HD. Most of these HD versions require an installed version of WHDLoad.

There are also some new scans of Amiga games: Advanced Destroyer Simulation, Cosmo Ranger, Outrun, Peter Beardsley's Internat. Football, Pyramax, Quartz, Raider, Renaissance, Revelation, S.E.U.C.K., Space Gun, Speed Ball, Tie-Break, Titan, Treasure Trap, Triango, Turrican, UN Squadron, Way of the little Dragon, XCopy. Thanks to the contributors Peter and Raffaele.

I have also added some new tunes of games: View the new additions by clicking here. Finally I have also added information to another 280 Amiga games. You can access the information by clicking here. I hope you enjoyed today's small update. AMI Sector One will soon be back with some great news.

[News message: 10. Oct. 2000, 07:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
10.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF


VMC-ISDN V3 Beta89 now including Mac-FreePPP Support
Harald Frank wrote:
After many days of hard work and several hundred dial-in tests, we are able to offer an improved version of VMC-ISDN, which from the current version works with all Mac FreePPP versions without problems.

VMC-ISDN is now the only ISDN card software for AmigaOS allowing the Apple Macintosh emulators Shapeshifter of Fusion to build internet connections directly via ISDN and Sync-PPP. None of the currently available Amiga ISDN card drivers offers such an option, but often have such fatal errors in the protocols that make user-friendly operation impossible.

First tests showed that internet banking, requiring Java, can now be utilized with your Amiga using an ISDN card and a Mac emulator like ShapeShifter or Fusion, installing NetscapeNavigator or the InternetExplorer on your virtual Mac. Yes, the Amiga can do Java... ;)

Download Page

[News message: 10. Oct. 2000, 07:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
Amiga Inc.


Amiga, Inc.: Executive Update


September 28, 2000
Executive Update

Greetings to one and all.

I know it has been a long time since I last had the chance to write to all to all of you.

It has been very, very busy, and we have seen some great successes, and some disappointments. I have not been asleep, and to the contrary I have not been getting much sleep of late. There is so much activity, and so little time that I have been spending a great deal of time in other areas and not keeping everyone up to date.

To my Friends in Italy, I apologize that I was not able to attend the show. It was a real disappointment for me personally, as I wanted to greet each and every one of you. The reason was not because we are broke, or out of money as the rumors would state.

Simply, there were two companies in California that I have been working with, and they requested a meeting that occurred over the same period of time. With working with these OEM's we will be able to add several million more Amigans, and the discussions went well and are progressing quickly, these meetings were in addition to what is mentioned in point 3 below.

Now with all the above fun stuff……

Here we go:
  1. The SDK for Amiga DE.

    This has been very exciting, and we are really pleased with the number of applications and the number developers using the product to create some great products.

    The next version of the Software Development Kit will be out in the next couple of weeks. In addition to the Linux version there is now a version available for Windows. That's correct you are now able to develop for the new Amiga on either Linux, or Windows.

    It will feature a new raft of multimedia (Mesa, the SSEYO Koan Audio Engine, streaming) as well better development tools, a richer AVE and enhanced performance.

  2. Amiga OS 3.5 and beyond

    We are continuing taking a very hard look at the current Amiga and how we can best move the platform forward. There are discussions on going for some new opportunities and we will be able to share some announcements in the very near future.

  3. Amiga DE business opportunities.

    Wow, this is an area that is absolutely exploding. For developers this is going to be great news. Not only will the applications you are working on be used by your Amiga family members, but with the deals that are either executed or in motion there will be millions more consumers joining the Amiga family.

    Now many of you began to speculate on the Meternet announcement. Meternet is offering a great product, and they are going to be making it available to the Amiga community, but it is not the AmigaOne.

  4. The AmigaOne.

    We have listened to a great many of you with comments, suggestions, business ideas and technical ideas. Dean Brown has been a huge help, especially that he is now here in Snoqualmie with the other members of the team.

    Because of this input we have begun negotiations for a brand new design. Most of the details have been worked out, and I hope to have the finished announcement ready by the middle of October. It is my firm belief that you will all be very pleased and excited.

  5. Dealers/Distributors, and our friends in the Press:

    The well of information for all of you has been too dry, and inconsistent. To better provide information to each and every one of you.

    Amiga has created two new mailing lists. Please go to:

    http://www.amigadev.net/index.php?sid=&subpage=home&function=showmaillists or to www.amigadev.com and select mailing lists on the right hand side of the screen. Select either press or dealer, and fill out your information. We will begin weekly feeds to these lists to better support our press and dealers.

I know that many of you will read that this letter says nothing, and that there is nothing happening, other than a new motorcycle for me.

Well you are very wrong. We are meeting directly with the heads of some of the largest computer and consumer electronics companies in the world, and not only do they see the value in what we are offering but they see where the Amiga community, you, is the real value.

Now we still have a ways to go, but we are moving very fast, and I know that you will all be very proud of Amiga as we continue to make things happen.

The biggest challenge for Amiga right now is to stay focused on our core strengths, and not make the mistakes of those who have walked before us.

The Amiga opportunity is huge, and sometimes overwhelming. There are so many conflicting reports, and I have not done a very good job of being able to communicate to all of you as well as I would like to.

We are getting much closer every day, and everyone of you are a major part of the Amiga Family's success.

Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team

[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 11:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
Piotr Pawlowski


"Exodus - The Last War" and Appeal regarding a New Game
At the moment there were four different versions of "Exodus - The Last War" released : a polish, a german, an english, and a french one. Soon the Czech version will be available for download.

APPEAL

There are plans for developing another game; code name "Husaria". In Polish this means a kind of heavy cavalry, soldiers specialized for fast attacks, which were noted for their victories particulary during the 17th century. For example King Jan III Sobieski who has supported Austria against Turkey in the battle near Vienna.

For this new project the programmers are looking for the following things:
  • Maps of Europe from 16th and 17th century.
  • Fotos of castles, palaces and buildings used for economic purposes of the above mentioned centuries.
  • Fotos or pictures of armours and weapons of this time.

If possible, we need pictures of all 4 walls of the buildings, because we need this for making 3d-models out of them. It would be nice if you could tell us the name of the e.g. castle, and maybe send us a little map showing the location.

If you would like to help us, you can send your material via email to darexodus@poczta.onet.pl.

[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 11:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
Michael Pfeiffer via eMail


VWP News
AudioCutter Cinema V 0.91 for PPC-Linux
After versions for x86-linux and Windows a preview version of the AudioCutter Cinema for PowerPC-Linux was released. This version contains bug fixes and some minor changes. The important new feature is a function for 2-dimensional and spectral sample analysis. The preview-version can be downloaded here. For further informations have a look at AudioCutter.de.

AudioCutter needs Java. We recommend for PPC-Linux the Java Virtual Machine by blackdown.org. Unfortunately it is not very fast, but it runs very stable.

AudioCutter Cinema for PPC-Linux on Amiga
The PPC-Linux version were even tested on an Amiga and runs very well on it. The only thing is that you need is a kernel with audio support (Amiga-DMA sound).

[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 11:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail


Amiga Arena News
There are new interviews with Christian Steiner (Sharks) and Roman Schaub (Ancor).

[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 11:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
AmigaImpact


Plans for a Central Amiga-Faq-Page by French Amiga Users
The French Amiga site 'Universe' plan to install a central page for Amiga-FAQs.

Because they would like to offer these pages in English too, hence they are looking for translators.

Further informations are available at the title link.

[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 10:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
Michael Lange on ANF


AWeb 3.4 Internet Browser with New Features
Michael Lange wrote:
An article published at the AWeb-mailinglist unveils some new features of AWeb 3.4:
  • Enhanced JavaScript (supports some JavaScript v1.2 commands)
  • Support for AmiSSL
  • Option to disable banner-ads
  • Designed SELECT-objects appear now as a popup-menu
  • Context menus are using now the same palette as the system-menus
  • Better navigation by support for wheel mice
  • Function for displaying "tool tips" ('ALT' tags)
  • Support for "FONT FACES" including the possibility of using different fonts in the same HTML-document

This is just a short overview of the whole article by AmigActive. The new issue contains screen shots of the upcoming version 3.4.

[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 10:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
Telepolis Online Magazin


Inventor of the World Wide Web Contra Censorship
«Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the WWW ten years ago, speaks contra the content control in the internet.»
In a longer article Tim Bernes-Lee notes why he is speaking contra control by law in the internet, and shows his point of view of the media internet as well as of it's evaluation. The talk between Tim Bernes-Lee and the Observer-News are to find here.

[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 10:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
Truetype for Amiga


Fonts: New ttf.library V0.8.3
Version 0.8.3 of the Truetype-Font-Library were released. The ttf.library adds the possibility of using TrueType compatible fonts.

[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 07:51] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
Richard H. Poser via eMail


AmigAIM Beta version 0.9395
The new betaversion 0.9395 of the chat client for the AOL network "AmigAIM" is available for download now. The changes:
  • Fixed problems with showing of Auto Responses from an Away Buddy, as well as now sending a real Auto Response message when supposed to when Away and one is set (Was sending as normal message, automatically)
  • Away window now shows nicks and number of messages received while being away, as well as time of last message.

Download:
AmigAIM_BETA.lha - Complete archive
AmigAIM.lha - Update

[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 05:38] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


New interview with Hyperion Entertainment
There is an new interview with Hyperion available. This time we spoke with Ben Hermans, the head of the entire group.

[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 05:38] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
Piotr Pawlowski


Exodus - The Last War
As we reported in september, the polish group "Zloty Skarabeusz" will publish there game "Exodus - The Last War" very soon. Now there is a demo version (14mb) available. The demo was split into 3 files.


[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 03:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
09.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank at ANF


Update of the VMC Technical Library
The public informations in the Technical Library were reworked, and links to our manufactores used were added.

Beside many smaller corrections some additional information on the products has been added. Furthermore direct links to available data sheets of the components use by us were enclosed. All data sheets are available as PDF files (Adobe AcrobatReader) and by this can be freely used by any interested person.

[News message: 09. Oct. 2000, 03:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
08.Oct.2000
Fun Time World


SpeedCOM A1200 and PARalizer
The SpeedCOM 1200 is a serial interface board designed for use with the clock port and can transfer up to 460 kbs. As the board address can be changed, it is possible to use two of these boards simultaneously. It has been developed by Artur Gadawski. Currently he's working on the PARalizer, a board with a parallel interface.

[News message: 08. Oct. 2000, 10:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
08.Oct.2000
Thomas Wenzel on ANF


AmigaAMP Homepage Moves
Thomas Wenzel wrote:
Since amiga-software.com understandably will close their current design soon, Marc has kindly made it possible for me to continue my supply at amigaamp.de. The mailing list will continue at amiga-software.com for the time being.

Unfortunately my CyberStormPPC presently is broken, so that I cannot continue to work on AmigaAMP. Incoming e-mails can also be answered in a limited way, because it's only half the fun without YAM :-)

As soon as my Amiga works again I'll attend to v2.8 final of AmigaAMP. Please, be patient...

[News message: 08. Oct. 2000, 06:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
08.Oct.2000
AmiSpaTra


8. Internet Amiga F1GP Championship
On 15. October 2000 starts the 8. internet championship with the racing game "Formula One Grand Prix" (F1GP) by Microprose. Here you have, thanks to the internet, the possibility to prove your skills worldwide in competition with the other participants.

The conditions for participation, the rankings of the past years, and further informations can be accessed via the title link.

[News message: 08. Oct. 2000, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
08.Oct.2000
Amiga Active


Amiga Active #13
Already on 28. September 2000 the 13. issue of the British Amiga magazine "Amiga Active" has been released. With this issue the magazine celebrates the first anniversary. Additionally the website is online with new design since October 1st.

[News message: 08. Oct. 2000, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
08.Oct.2000
Olaf Koebnik via email


Amiga Arena News: AudioCutter demo
AudioCutterDemo - World premiere!
(LinuxPPC version 0.91)
The Amiga Arena is proud to worldwide exclusively present in cooperation with Virtual Worlds Productions to all Amiga/LinuxPPC users the demo version v.0.9.1 of the audio software "AudioCutter - Linux PPC" for download. (The link is exclusively placed in the Amiga Arena!)

Furthermore a special price offer regarding AudioCutter will be made possible to all Amiga Arena visitors.

Hint for the demo version: It's not possible to save with the demo version!

AudioCutter Informationen:
The AudioCutter Cinema is not an "ordinary" audio software, but integrates extensive functions which make synthesizing, manipulating, converting and editing of sounds possible. Additional to the editing and cutting functions there is an extensive support for surround sound offered.

[News message: 08. Oct. 2000, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
08.Oct.2000
ANN


AmiHoo Online Again
The Amiga specific web directory AmiHoo again is accessible at the known URL. (http://www.amihoo.com/).

[News message: 08. Oct. 2000, 04:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
08.Oct.2000
ANN


ACE 2000 - The Alternative Computer Expo
On October 21st - 22nd, 2000 the Alternative Computer Expo will take place in Melbourne, Australia. This exhibition deals with all current alternative operating systems like Linux, AmigaOS, MacOS, UNIX, OS/2, BeOS, RiscOS, QNX and more. Among others Amiga International, Red Hat, Vaporware, REBOL Forces, Amiga Technology Australia, and some Amiga user groups belong to the exhibitors.

A preview regarding the fair was released in the I.T. The Amiga is also mentioned in this article.

[News message: 08. Oct. 2000, 04:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
08.Oct.2000
Amiga Future


The World Foundry No Longer Responsible for Maim & Mangle
The World Foundry LLC (TWF) don't have the rights for developing the announced Amiga games "Explorer 2260", "Maim & Mangle", and the "Collins Encyclopedia Galactica" (CEG, part of Explorer 2260), anymore. The developer Chris Page now is responsible and continues to develope the games.

The website of TWF is empty. Some quite obsolete information regarding "Explorer2260" can be found here.

[News message: 08. Oct. 2000, 04:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
08.Oct.2000
Andi Brandmair on ANF


Comparade 8. - Amiga & Commodore Scene User Party
The Comparade is the Amiga and Commodore Party in southern Germany. It will take place from October 27th - 29th at Emmering/FFB, near Munich. Entrance fee at 30 DM for all of the three days. There will be an Amiga demo competition, and a C64 demo competition performed, and network, internet, and many more things are to happen. More information and map are to find at the title link.

[News message: 08. Oct. 2000, 02:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
07.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
OpusGIFlags.lha      biz/dopus  171K++200 Flags NewIcons in OpusGIBar's forma
WW5spCatalog.lha     biz/misc    10K+Wordworth5 spanish catalogs. Update 2
DalHelper.lha        comm/irc    37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
MuYaReq.lha          comm/mail   31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
PSMail.lha           comm/mail   93K+Prints YAM mails using GhostScript.
YerYamLogo.lha       comm/mail    3K+YerYamLogo, quick and Fun Yam Logo
EZPagerNG_CE.lha     comm/misc  357K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
StreAmi.lha          comm/misc   23K+Shoutcast/Icecast Amiga client
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   431K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
Lynx.lha             comm/www   785K+Great WWW Browser,version 284dev10
SPO3-Invtro.lha      demo/aga   115K+Invitation intro for SPO ! (Amiga-only d
UP-EP004.lha         demo/sound 1.8M+UP ROUGH "Mixagrip EP" feat. Mortimer Tw
Emperor.lha          dev/c      498K+Object-oriented programming language
advlite20b8.lha      dev/misc   276K+Powerfull & neat AutodocViewer v2.0 BETA
MusicBox-2.1bi.lha   disk/cdrom 421K+Most powerful CDDA player and CD manager
NoDirCache.lha       disk/misc   33K+Reset DirCache partitions to FFS or FFS 
StarTrekCONN.lha     game/misc  570K+Play in the StarTrek:TNG Universe
ADoomPPC.lha         game/shoot 551K+Amiga PPC port of ADoom v1.5
ADoomPPC_src.lha     game/shoot 532K+Source code of Amiga PPC port of DOOM v1
WBPacman.lha         game/wb     49K+V1.10 BETA - Small workbench Pacman
RivaAudio.lha        gfx/show     4K+Real Fast Mpeg video 1 Player with sound
BetaScanMustek.lha   hard/drivr  71K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
likdamind_II.lha     mods/blkha 330K+Digibooster mod by blakkhar with DSP-Ech
positron.mpg         mods/elbie 3.0M+Positronic Robotique [Synth] by ElbiE^t1
rno-r048.lha         mods/misc  300K+Rno-records release no.48 by Roz (Funkyh
Phm_Rmsc.lha         mods/pro   141K+014: "Reminiscenes" [Dance]
XGToolset7.lha       mus/midi   184K+Version 1.7 of the XGToolset for Bars&Pi
XGToolset7_src.lha   mus/midi   303K+Source of the XGToolset7 for Bars&Pipes
DelfScope.lha        mus/misc    51K+Oscilloscope/analyzer for Delfina DSP
MpegAnalys-r.lha     mus/misc    41K+Checks Mpeg audio files for errors
EP_MikeDavies.lha    mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "Mike Davies" external repla
EP_PSA.lha           mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "Professional Sound Artists"
PobreJoaquim.lha     pix/anim   991K+The famous Joaquim anim. Now with sound!
Anabolic_Koala.lha   pix/art     65K+Anabolic Koala
OS3.5-HQ-icons.lha   pix/icon   263K+High quality OS3.5 icons for games P1
OS35InputImg.lha     pix/misc   110K+OS3.5 Input Prefs remplacememt images
OS35LocaleImg.lha    pix/misc    78K+OS3.5 Locale Prefs remplacememt images
Silver_Gate.jpg      pix/vehic   96K+M/S Silver Gate
ttf2pfb.lha          text/font   70K+Convert TrueType to Postscript Type1 fon
ttfr.lha             text/font   16K+Rename true type fonts file correctly
DPMSManager.lha      util/blank  13K+CyberGfx/P96 DPMS energy saving manager
AHelp_NO.lha         util/cdity   2K+Norwegian catalog for AHelp v1.5
WbOpen1_11.lha       util/cli    15K+Open WB-drawers/files using CLI/Asl-requ
RC5Control.lha       util/misc   11K+Automated RC5 client control (FREEWARE)
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   39K+V1.15 - Test and identify wb-program
XPKPatch18.lha       util/pack   22K+Unpacks XPK, PP & CrM files "on the fly"
y2four.lha           util/sys     1K+Year showing with four digits for list- 
DRemind_HU.lha       util/time    9K+Hungarian catalogs for DRemind 1.55
Safe.lha             util/virus  19K+Safe v14.5 - virus dicovering system
bc-machines.lha      util/wb    390K+Stylish set for VisualPrefs and Birdie


[News message: 07. Oct. 2000, 05:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
07.Oct.2000
AmigArt


Amiga Inc. Looking for Developer
Amiga Inc. would like to employ a software developer for the Interface-Team. Conditions for an application are experience with Ave, the SDK and interface programming. People who have those experiences, and who would like to know more about the job may contact Fleecy Moss directly.

[News message: 07. Oct. 2000, 05:23] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
07.Oct.2000
Allen K. on REBOL-ML


REBOL: Article about Huffman-Compression
Ole Friis has released an article about compression with Huffman-Encoding in REBOL on the REBOL Forces. Thus he starts a series of articles about compression algorithms which are coded in REOL.

[News message: 07. Oct. 2000, 04:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
07.Oct.2000
Carl Sassenrath on REBOL-ML


REBOL/Core 2.3 Manual
REBOL has released an obviously reworked documentation about REBOL/Core 2.3. It has been restructured, former chapters were reworked, new chapters, and new examples were added, as well as some diagrams that should illustrate the concept of the series.

The manual is currently available for download as PDF file. A HTML version should follow soon.

Download: core.pdf (4,5 MB)

[News message: 07. Oct. 2000, 04:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
07.Oct.2000
diff.org


Report about the Pianeta Amiga 2000
The highlight of the report (Italian) by Andrea Vallinotto is the presentation of the new Mediator PCI-Board by Elbox, which is illustrated with different pictures on a second page.

[News message: 07. Oct. 2000, 03:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
07.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News


Amihoo.com Server Problem
The Webmaster of amihoo.com, Michael Carrillo, announced that Amihoo only is available at the alternative address http://www.amihoo.u-net.com/ (titellink) due to server problem which he hasn't any bearing on. He hopes that the problem can be solved as soon as possible.

[News message: 07. Oct. 2000, 03:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
07.Oct.2000
Amiga Future [News]


"Das Schlachtfeld" Update V2.15
"Das Schlachtfeld" (The Battlefield) is a strategy game for 1 to 4 players. It is a mix of "BattleIsle" and "Battleforce" and has been written in AMOS (The Creator) by Peter Weigoldt. You may download the updated archives at the download area on the support page.

[News message: 07. Oct. 2000, 03:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
07.Oct.2000
AmigaSDK.com


AmigaSDK.com with New Layout
The layout of AmigaSDK.com, the website which provides you with information about the new AmigaSDK, has been improved. The navigation is clear, and the new look of AmigaSDK.com is well done.

[News message: 07. Oct. 2000, 03:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
07.Oct.2000
The JOTD Patch & HD Installer Page


HD-Installer JST Version 4.1 Released
With JST by J.F. Faber you may now also install pure floppy-disk games to your hard drive and start these from there. The current version 4.1 includes many updated "Loaders".

Download: jst.lha

[News message: 07. Oct. 2000, 03:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
07.Oct.2000
Torsten Dudai


New cartoon: Who's next?






[News message: 07. Oct. 2000, 02:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
07.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF


Apple: Decreasig Market Value
Financial Time Germany: "Apple: Different problems than the rest of the PC branch"
«From surprised to outraged was the reaction of financial analysts on the reduced profit forecast of the US computer manufacturer Apple. Several influential banks changed their bargain recommendation for Apple shares into warnings on weekend. Admittedly some of the banks mentioned Apple's problems not to be typical for the branch.

Surprisingly Apple reduced their profit forecast for all business units on Thursday. The Apple market lost 52% of value, almost 9 milliards USD of market value were lost.»

[News message: 07. Oct. 2000, 02:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
06.Oct.2000
Kamil Barczynski on ANF


The Biggest (literally) Freeware Football Management Game
"PSV Manager" is a football management game extravaganza. Giant and very playable program full of humor. After success of Polish version, we have prepared the English edition. Why You should check out this game? Because:
  • only here You'll find 9 real/fantasy leagues and 40 generated,
  • You can choose any of 46 teams in each league,
  • You'll be playing in league and domestic cup competitions,
  • all European cups are simulated (including Intertoto Cup and Cup Winners Cup),
  • there are at least 10 ways to buy or loan player from one of approximately 1000 teams (maybe more),
  • summer and winter breakes are full of options to choose from (for example indoor-football tournaments, trips to foreign camps, friendly matches, transfers, vacations, etc.),
  • many options, statistics, hidden chances (or traps) gives that game an unforgetable atmosphere thanks to funny samples commenting Your actual situation.

AND ALL OF THIS YOU CAN HAVE FOR FREE !!!

System requirements: any Amiga, 2 MB Chip, 4 MB Fast, HDD: about 300 MB of free space for full version; about 48 MB of free space for basic version (without samples).

IMPORTANT: We are looking for some ftp/web site, which could distribute our game (about 200MB of free space is needed).

[News message: 06. Oct. 2000, 11:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
06.Oct.2000
Fun Time World


Shoutcast/Icecast Client Released for the Amiga
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has written a Shoutcast/Icecast Client for the Amiga and called it "StreAmi". There are two very popular audio streaming systems called Icecast and Shoutcast which are able to send MPG audio compressed audio data through the net. StrAmi allows you to fetch these audio files from any server and listen to them in real time.

This way, you can very easily listen to radio via internet. The program has a MUI interface and requires nothing more than a TCP/IP stack like Miami or AmiTCP and of course a fast internet access. You'll find lists of servers at www.shoutcast.com and www.icecast.org.

Download: StreAmi.lha - StreAmi.readme

[News message: 06. Oct. 2000, 09:28] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
06.Oct.2000
Amiga Impact


Image Engineer Online Again
After Marko Seppaenen, author of Image Engineer, has left the Amiga market in the middle of September and taken the website off the net, the website is now available again at the titlelink.

At Czech Amiga News, we found a statement of Marko Seppaenen.

[News message: 06. Oct. 2000, 09:28] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
06.Oct.2000
Amiga Realm


Amiga Realm with New Layout
In time for its first birthday, the Amiga Web Directory service "Amiga Realm" has completely redesigned the layout of their website and improved the clarity. The navigation was improved and the categories rethought.

[News message: 06. Oct. 2000, 07:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
06.Oct.2000
amiga.org


Amiga.info - Developer meeting
On October 18th, Wonder Computers will present the new Amiga developer machine "d'AMIGA" with the SDK software at a developer meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Those interested will find more details at the titlelink.

[News message: 06. Oct. 2000, 07:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
06.Oct.2000
Grasshopper LLC


PageStream 4.0.8c for Amiga and Windows Released
Grasshopper LLC, the new distributor of Pagestream, has made an update to Pagestream (Version 4.0.8c) available for download in the secure downloads area.

[News message: 06. Oct. 2000, 07:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
06.Oct.2000
Amiga Impact [News]


DS Home Page with New URL
The DS Home Page Denis Spach's DS Home Page, known for programs like VNC Viewer, VNC Server and X11 Server for Amiga, can now be reached at http://dspach.free.fr (title link).

[News message: 06. Oct. 2000, 07:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
06.Oct.2000
Amiga Impact [News]


Amiga Impact Cooperates with Planet
Online magazines increasingly cooperate with print magazines. The French online and news magazine "Amiga Impact" announces to cooperate in future with the print magazine "Planet".

amiga-news.de for example cooperates with the German Amiga Magazin. These partnerships are very positive for both sides as resource sharing means that the print magazines can concentrate on the editing of the news without having to spend considerable time to look for news.

[News message: 06. Oct. 2000, 07:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
06.Oct.2000
Welcome to Frogger


AC3Decoder Version 0.8 for Frogger
The AC3Decoder (Dolby Digital Decoder) for Frogger is available in version 0.8 for Amigas with PPC and PowerUP. Frogger is a fast MPEG video player for Amigas with 68040/60 CPUs or PowerPC and supports the MPEG-2 layer.

Download: ac3dec_pup.lha - 48 Kb

[News message: 06. Oct. 2000, 01:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
Dietmar Knoll via eMail


AFD-Copyright News
Hello Amigans!

The "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note"(TM). or shorter "AFD-COPYRIGHT"(TM) has been released for the fifth time this year.

This Copyright Note is an offer for all Amiga developers who want to release FD-Software, be it as Freeware, Giftware, Shareware or whatever.

AFD-COPYRIGHT is now available in eighteen (18!!!) languages - all in two formats, as plain text and as HTML-file.

After the releases of the Czech, Russian, Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese translations the latest addition is the Hungarian translation by Álmos Rajnai and Péter Kovács (again, from the ATO).

The files can now be downloaded from the Official Support Site for AFD-COPYRIGHT. The address is: http://AFD.home.pages.de/

And of course, news sites are allowed to spread this message. Thanks for your attention, interest and support!

[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 12:58] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
Darkage Software


Spoletium3 Demo-Party
Bella Italia - Felice AMIGA - is not the official slogan of the AMIGA only demo party in Spoleto (middle Italy), but might it be!

The arrangers of the party are promising: a scenic place for the event, interesting contacts, valuable prices...

Who wants to try this, and maybe would like to put a short leave in Italy through this demo party which will take place on November 4th, 2000: all the necessary information (also a detailed way description) is to find at the titlelink. You can also download an invitation intro there (about 200 KB / AGA).

[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 12:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
Marc Albrecht on ANF


A.C.T. Stops Amiga Sponsoring
From the end of October 2000 A.C.T. and the co-operating ISP will stop all sponsoring actions for the Amiga area. This will also concern every sites hosted at "amiga-software.com". Single developers or groups who are sponsored up to now have already been contacted via e-mail, but many of the addresses don't seem to work any more or the people are no longer interested in Amiga.

Hence A.C.T. asks all web admins whose sites are sponsored or hosted by A.C.T. to move these sites to another provider by the end of October 2000.

For some of the sites - among them amigasystem.org - the web admins are looking for successors, because otherwise these sites would be canceled outright. Also concerned by the sponsoring stop is the hardware and software sponsoring: from now on A.C.T. will not deliver hardware or software products for free to "up-coming projects" or similar.

[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 12:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF


First Details of the Matrox G800
By and by the first details of the new 3D graphics chip by Matrox are trickling though the net. The G800 should be capable of an internal clock rate of 200 MHz, and was said to address the DDR memory at 400 MHz. Three rendering pipelines should leverage performance of the by Matrox introduced environmental bump mapping. Filling was said to range at 600 millions of pixels/sec or 20 to 30 millions of polygones/sec. Matrox is expected to introduce initial boards with G800 at the CeBit in spring next year.

[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 12:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
Trogladite Software


Sender's First Module!
Sender's First module has been released today. It is for OS3.5 users only, and allows you to drag files, dirs and drives on to the Sender appicon, and it will create "shortcuts" to these files, dirs or drawers. Sender is a small freeware program to move or copy any file to any directory from the Workbench.

[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 12:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
Directory Opus 4 Support Page


Directory Opus 4 Version 4.15b (Beta) Released
Jacek Rzeusik is permanently developing the source code of DirectoryOpus 4, which was enabled by GP Software. A new beta version is ready for download.

Download: DOpus4beta.lzx - 242 KB

[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 10:27] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
Christoph Kirsch via eMail


DataM II 0.9 beta Released
On the homepage of the Amiga Club Steinfurt (Germany, titlelink) and at Aminet (/biz/dbase) Christoph Kirsch has released a new beta version of the spread sheet program DataM II.

Beside numerous bug fixes this time in particular the possibility of viewing external files (via Datatypes) has been implemented.

[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 06:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


NRNF: Pure Nostalgia ! Old Advertising, Show Flyers....
On the No Risc No Fun site now a nostalgia area has been created. On this page from now on you will find Commodore/AMIGA advertising, show flyers, old articles, and many more, and more to come.

[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 06:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF


New and IMPORTANT HyperCOM 2.96B4 Update
With this update smaller problems of being unable to print via HyperCOM parallel port under certain circumstances are fixed. Additionally little changes has been made necessary to use our current VMC-ISDN software along with the current HyperCOM drivers.

Download site

[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 02:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
Marc Albrecht on ANF


ACT: FAQ on Sponsoring Stop

  • The domain names will not be canceled for the time being, but either will be released exempt from charges to the sponsoring receivers or will be sold in early/middle 2001.
  • I beg you to refrain from offering adoption of certain sites to me via e-mail. Contact persons are the web masters. Since the domains will not be canceled, the web space could be hosted "anywhere". I would like to care for DNS changes.
  • Our partners, and ourselves of course will continue to host sites at our usual conditions, if desired by the web masters. It just doesn't match our future business plans to operate this special area for free.


[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 02:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF


New Mailing List for Amiga Vendors
Amiga has started a new built-up mailing list especially for Amiga vendors. Vendors can register to this list on this site.

[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 02:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF


Pro Linux: Linux World Conference & Expo Starts
«The conference schedule makes reading like the "who is who" of the branch. Beside popular speakers like Bob Young, Dirk Hohndel, and Arthur Tyde Jon "maddog" Hall from Linux International will perform as keynote speaker. Exclusively for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Linus Torvalds will be guest at the event. This trade fair which will take place from October 5th to October 7th 2000 will be the first business-to-business event focusing the Linux operating system, and Open Solutions in Europe. About 10,000 visitors, and more than 100 attending companies on over 9,000 m2 exhibition space are expected for the premiere.»

[News message: 05. Oct. 2000, 02:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
04.Oct.2000
Adrian Siemieniak on ANF


New Mentat 0.5.2 (english2english Longman dictionary)
There is a new version 0.5.2 of Mentat - english2english dictionary, based on Longman Natural English dictionary. New in this release - search options for single/group of words, localization, 2 languages guide and plenty of fixes.

[News message: 04. Oct. 2000, 12:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
04.Oct.2000
Michael Lange on ANF


FUBAR - New War Simulation
The new game "FUBAR" by Rosande Ltd. is distributed by Blittersoft and will probably be released in November 2000. But it can be ordered in advance in the shops from now on! At Q-Lab you can buy a cd with musics of FUBAR. FUBAR is a war simulation. The scenario of the game shows you what happens if a war begins, and forces you as the player to take all necessary steps to finish the war. The conception of the game is to rule the whole world, all countries, and all people. To be successful you can slip into different roles, because ruling the world is not an easy task.

You will be the general of thousands of armies, the president of the whole mankind, but in addition the leading scientist, manager, diplomat, and banker. Each of this roles is in touch with the military, civilians, research, financial world, and has got connections to other competitors who are striking for the same goal as you do.

[News message: 04. Oct. 2000, 12:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
04.Oct.2000
Michael Jurisch on ANF


John-Sinclair-Encyclopedia-CD-ROM
The very extensive John-Sinclair-Encyclopedia by Bastei dealing with the most successful series of horror stories of the world can be ordered on CD-ROM. Because this encyclopedia is fully based on HTML (optimised for IE, but can be viewed using any other browser) AMIGA-Users are able to use this, too. In addition the CD-ROM offers the radio-book "Daemonenhochzeit" for listening as mp3 file, a composed version of the JS-Comic, short texts for each novel, pictures of the title of the magazins, and of the paperbacks, and much much more. You can order the CD-ROM at the title link in the seperate Online-Shop.

[News message: 04. Oct. 2000, 12:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
04.Oct.2000
Piotr Pawlowski


Exodus - The Last War
As already reported on 26th of September the polish group "Zloty Skarabeusz" will publish their new game "Exodus - The Last War", soon. You can look at some first screenshots at the titlelink. The game is in the process of making and supposed to be finished within one week. The company "SLAND MEDIA" is the publisher, which is directly connected to the group. Which company will be responsible for sales in Europe has not been decided, yet. For further information have a look at the provisional site. This site is still completely written in polish. An own domain and English sites are likely to follow.

[News message: 04. Oct. 2000, 07:21] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
04.Oct.2000
Jarmo Laakkonen


Version 1.5 of ADoomPPC Released
Jarmo Laakkonen has published version 1.5 of ADoomPPC. The WarpOS version now supports Tooltypes, too. Saving is now compatible to version 1.3 while it is no longer possible to use savings of version 1.4. In order to increase the speed it was added a new option (nojoy), meaning without joystick. Download: ADoomPPC.lha - 551 Kb

[News message: 04. Oct. 2000, 01:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
04.Oct.2000
AudioLabs


ProStationAudio V4.00 Finished
The new version of ProStationAudio V4.00 was finished. V4.00 now supports two CPUs (split interface on two graphics boards and two monitors). There are two different versions for choice: Millenium und Remix. Download site

[News message: 04. Oct. 2000, 01:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
04.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Initiative Bill against Internet-Patents in the USA
Howard Berman and Rick Boucher, two congressmen of the democrats, have introduced an initiative bill which is supposed to restrict the possibility to patent business methods in the USA. Above all the Business Method Patent Improvement Act addresses the rapidly increasing use of patents for business methods. Crucial point of the act is the declarative statement, that implementation of so called "Real-World"-business processes on computers does not worthy being patented. In addition the representatives want to establish the possibility of raising an objection against patents without being forced to bring such action at law. See titlelink for full article (German).

[News message: 04. Oct. 2000, 01:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Microsoft Aquires 25 Percent of Corel
«By a 135 million USD investment, Microsoft supports the stumbling Canadian software manufacturer Corel. As Corel announced on Monday, the software giant from Redmond purchased 24 million non-voting shares at 5.625 USD each. Those can be converted into fully voting shares; holding almost 25 percent of the entire capital stock would make Microsoft one of the largest shareholder of Corel.»
Full article (German) at the titlelink.

[News message: 03. Oct. 2000, 11:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
DataM_II.lha         biz/dbase  777K+Spreadsheet using MUI (German only!)
MuYaReq.lha          comm/mail   31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
uprc.lha             comm/misc   80K+Generates Aminet upload readme files
speak_freely.lha     comm/net   1.3M+Internet Phone application with source
SMSEngineerMUI.lha   comm/tcp   297K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.3 - *
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   424K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
TRSI-DEAD.lha        demo/aga   420K+Our 4th and final intro for TRSI 
ExtrasLib.lha        dev/c      366K+Link library
tox.lha              dev/c       13K+Tokenizer for XML
GradientSlider.lha   dev/gui      7K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.6)
MultiDesktop.lha     dev/gui    416K+An incomplete *Open Source* GUI library 
MusicBox-2.1os.lha   disk/cdrom 264K+Most powerful CDDA player and CD manager
VCDGear.lha          disk/cdrom  79K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
DVD-RAM.lha          disk/misc   62K+DVD-RAM FFS/SFS/CrossDOS/FAT95/Allegro D
RDBrecov.lha         disk/salv   16K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
Aakt1000GFX.lha      docs/mags  264K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1000GUIDE.lha    docs/mags   84K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1000HTML.lha     docs/mags  211K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
alem_0027.lha        docs/rview   4K+ALEM's 1084 monitor guide v1.0 (FR)
TV-Logo.lha          gfx/misc    73K+Small but capable logotype display
ATUtilities.lha      misc/emu   919K+ATUtilities 4.0 - Replacement for the CB
TTU.lha              misc/emu     5K+Create TAP images with Amiga
imdbDiff000922.lha   misc/imdb  1.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
pie_dprs.lha         mods/hardc 687K+Speedcore By Dj Pie / Lunatic 2k
Pegase.lha           mus/misc   202K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
ltools13_demo.lha    text/misc   76K+Dictionary and Document Translator
ltools_engwrd.lha    text/misc  507K+Basic english word collection
ModeProSrc.lha       util/cdity 691K+Source code to the Screenmode Promotion 
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   38K+Test and identify wb-program
RAWBInfo_SI.lha      util/sys     2K+Slovenian catalog for RAWBInfo v1.18
aafont.lha           util/wb      3K+Antialiased fonts on wb (1.0)
DirScanner.lha       util/wb     74K+V2.12: Small but powerful filefinder. (M
Image2Icon.lha       util/wb     27K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.1


[News message: 03. Oct. 2000, 11:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Oct.2000
Thomas Wuergler on ANF


Earth 2140 Work-In-Progress Report
At AmigaFire, the new Online Game Magazine, you will find a detailed status report about Earth 2140, the real-time strategy game for 68k and PPC Amigas, which is being ported by Pagan Games and will be distributed by Epic Interactive.

[News message: 03. Oct. 2000, 11:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Oct.2000
Dirk Schneider on ANF


IFusion Soon with Screenshots
The homepage of Microcode Solutions has changed again. IFusion seems to be finished shortly.

[News message: 03. Oct. 2000, 11:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Oct.2000
Pawel Filipczak on ANF


TaskiSMS Update
Version 2.01 of TaskiSMS has been released. Some bugs have been fixed, and the sending sub-routine was reworked and updated.

Download from Aminet: TaskiSMS.lha or directly from the Taski FTP server (titlelink).

[News message: 03. Oct. 2000, 11:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF


VMC-ISDN Configurator To Come Soon, First Screenshot Online
The VMC-ISDN product site was a little bit reworked, currently a first screenshot of the VMC-ISDN Configurator software has been added, which is currently being worked upon.

Please write us if you have ideas or suggestions of what to add to this configurator GUI, or to add to the product site.

[News message: 03. Oct. 2000, 11:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Oct.2000
Individual Computers


Modification of Hypercom 3plus Module (Goldsurfer) for IOBlix Emulation Mode
The new Hypercom software (v2.96+) can emulate the IOBlix parallel ports, so parallel-port scanners and ZIP-drives can be used with the Hypercom. The Hypercom Zorro cards are already primed for this, however the modules for the A1200, Buddha, Catweasel and the X-Surf (also sold as "Goldsurfer) need a minor technical modification. At the title link, you will find a detailed technical description including pictures.

[News message: 03. Oct. 2000, 07:07] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Oct.2000
Jan Andersen via e-mail


VirusExecutor Version 2.06 Released
Name: VirusExecutor v2.06
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Author: Jan Erik Olausen
Archive size: 223.630 bytes
Info: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library


[News message: 03. Oct. 2000, 05:32] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Oct.2000
John Chandler at Suite101


Of Set Top Boxes and Internet Devices
Once a month, John Chandler posts an article on subjects concerning Amiga at Suite101. For October, he had a look at the current announcements concerning new hardware.

[News message: 03. Oct. 2000, 05:32] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Oct.2000
Eternity


Eternity - New Distributor of the MAS-player
Since October 1st, 2000 Eternity took over the distribution of the MAS-Player in cooperation with Dirk Conrad. The MAS-Player is a hardware MP3-player that can be used with every Amiga parallel interface. The program plays MP3's in 18bit and 44kHz with very low CPU usage and is therefore the best and cheapes solution for playing MP3-files with an Amiga computer.

A techpage will follow. Eternity will ask Thomas Wenzel if he would support the MAS-Player with his AmigaAmp. Eternity will offer a 6 month guarantee.

Examples of Usage:
  • Amiga 4000/A1200 with MAS-Player. Listen to MP3-music without using the PPC or 68k processor. Your processor is available for other tasks
  • Amiga CDTV with MAS-Player could play MP3's directly from CD.
  • Amiga 500/600 with MAS-Player could be a replacement for your hifi-radio. The integrated MP3-player-software uses PAL. There for you can use a TV.
  • Amigas located in professional soundstudios could encode MP3 (using the processor) and play MP3's at the same time (using the MAS-Player)


[News message: 02. Oct. 2000, 11:47] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Oct.2000
Sonic Pulse


SoundFX Status
What is build in and what is planed for SoundFX version 4.1?
  • The MPEG-Saver were totaly rewriten (now with own presets)
  • Enrico Meyer compiled the new version of LAME without using libSoundFile thats why it works with SoundFX now.
  • The author Stefan Kost encoded the first whole CD by using the batch-processor.
  • The SoundFX-menu contains now a MRU-list (MostRecentUsed).
  • And a lot more bugfixes (thanks to the SoundFX-mailinglist).


[News message: 02. Oct. 2000, 11:47] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Oct.2000
Alternative Audio Page


New LAMEbeta Version 3.87
New LAME beta version 3.87! Ok, first off, since version 3.87 LAME no longer works with SecondSpin without changing the code and recompiling, thus LameSpin no longer works, and is no longer included, sorry! :/

On the good note this version is slightly faster, especially the PPC version! ;) (Note, WarpOS still has problems .. this is most likely either ppclibemu or WarpOS's fault since it works fine with PowerUP and MorphOS) From now on the 060 and PPC version use LAME's internal mpglib for decoding, so if you still want to use mpega.library (which is much faster), use the 040 version...

Download: LAMEbeta.lzx - 500 Kb

[News message: 02. Oct. 2000, 11:47] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Oct.2000
Stefan Martens im ANF


Completely New Homepage ONLINE
Stefan Martens revised and updated his homepage that contains the Amiga User List and #AmigaFun.

[News message: 02. Oct. 2000, 09:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Oct.2000
A. Laaser at ANF


New CD-Rom for Movieshop
Starding today the 3rd issue of 'Space-Effects' is available from Elastic Images. The CD contains video sequences that can be used in (mainly Movieshop) video productions. The scenes are available as Movieshop's own sequence format and as single-frame-sequences, so you can use the clips with every Movieshop version.

Every clip can be integrated in a currently opend Movieshop project directly from CD. A short preview is available at the homepage at 'Software/Video-CDs'.

[News message: 02. Oct. 2000, 09:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Oct.2000
VMC: Harald Frank on ANF


VMC-ISDN V3 Timefix Update
The recovering of a bug now proved our software being forward-looking. When current system time was set via ISDN additional 25 years were added ;-). Thanks to an extended bug-report via e-mail this error was located and fix very quickly.

Download page

[News message: 02. Oct. 2000, 09:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Oct.2000
Robert Wahnsiedler via eMail


AmiWolfenDoom Website Moved, and one Appeal
The AmiWolfenDoom homepage has moved and is now available at www.antibyte.de (titlelink). Robert Wahnsiedler is still on the hunt for a person that is able to modify the ADoom-engine for making Ninja-, Simpson and Batman-Doom possible. According to the downloadrates of AmiWolfenDoom the interest of the users is very high.

For the modifycations you must have C/Assembler skills and you have to read the docs. There are no major changes to make but the DEH support must be revisde (patch of the internal graphic/sound/textroutines by using a Ascii-file with commands). For example there is no recognition of text. This causes games that use these kind of functions to crash.

appeal
Furthermore Robert Wahnsiedler is looking for someone who is willing to modify the game Imperium Terranum II for the Amiga community. The sourcecode is public available and there is an absolutely resourceful StarTrek addon available. The main problem is that it does not run very good on graphics boards, the only way is to use a tool like NewMode, but this is a not very stable solution. If you are interested, please contact Robert Wahnsiedler.

[News message: 02. Oct. 2000, 05:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Oct.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail


Amiga Arena News
The TextLoaderNG keyfile is now freely available for all Amiga users! Every visitor of Amiga Arena can download the keyfile. After releasing it for Amiga Arena CD ROM users Pascal Gisin agreed to release the keyfile for all users. I would like to say thank you for doing so!

TextLoaderNG is a Hex editor with many functions, for example:
  • Filter for Word, Wordperfect, MSWork, ANSI, FinalWriter, Wordworth and many more
  • HTML-code removing
  • converter
  • text encoding

The development of TextloaderNG will go on and the program will run without a keyfile in future.

[News message: 02. Oct. 2000, 05:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Oct.2000
Deftone at ANF


New SMSEngineerMUI Version
Once again, there is a new version of SMSEngineer available at the Aminet. Version 1.0.4

Supplement: 03 Oct 2000 - SMSEngineer Mailing-list
We are also organizing a mailing-list for SMSEngineer, now. Just send an empty e-mail to bengineers-subscribe@egroups.com, and then you will reveive further information. This mailing-list is meant for bug-reports, comments, and exchange of information.

[News message: 02. Oct. 2000, 05:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Oct.2000
Arcadia


New Demo of Bubble Hero
Arcadia released a new compilation of the Bubble Heroes demo as RTG version. These demos require the rtgmaster-library version 40+ which can also be found on the Download-page of Arcadia.

Download:BHRTGDemos.lzx (4290K)

[News message: 01. Oct. 2000, 08:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Oct.2000
CyberGFX


Voodoo3 Driver is Pre-Release for now
The present Voodoo3 drivers, by CyberGFX, are pre-release show versions, which are not thought for daily work. A date for the complete drivers is at present unknown.

The Virge- and VirgeDX drivers are ready for delivery and the archive will be released before long.

Lists with the supported boards can be seen on the Mediator Page and on the CGX supported graphics boards page.

[News message: 01. Oct. 2000, 08:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Oct.2000
Olaf Köbnik via email


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Burning Business!

Free TextloaderNG Keyfile online
With the permission of Pascal Gisin the keyfiles for Textloader and TextloaderNG (registered for Amiga Arena) are available for free download for all users of the AMIGA ARENA CD Rom Edition!

Amiga Arena - free keyfiles and full versions!

The Amiga Arena presents:
Imperium Terranum II keyfile
Space strategy economy simulation

BallMaster full version
Puzzle game like Logical!

SHARKS! - full version
Save treasures from the ground of the sea, but beware - sharks make life hard!

Matrix Hunter - full version
Little shooter!

MusicmanIII - registration free!
Complex data base to manage CDs, MCs, LPs and more.

TextLoaderNG - keyfile
Complex texteditor with filters for converting different formats! Free for all users of the Amiga Arena CD Rom Edition!

[News message: 01. Oct. 2000, 06:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Oct.2000
Hynek Schlawack at ANF


New Version of DirScanner
Hynek Schlawackhas released the version 2.12 of the file search program "DirScanner" on September, 30th. the program allows any number of search paths and offers name, lenght, comment, date and content as search criteria. This version contains internal changes which make the program faster and smaller.

Download: DirScanner.lha (75K)

[News message: 01. Oct. 2000, 04:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Oct.2000
Amiga Flame


Amiga Flame: new articles
On weekend several texts appeared on Amiga Flames which deal with the Amig's future.

The Future of the Amiga handles the question why this time everything should be different. Future AmigaOne Game Releases lists the games announced for the AmigaOne. And in two interviews Fleecy Moss and Gary Peake have the floor.

[News message: 01. Oct. 2000, 04:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Oct.2000
Amiga Flame


Majesty for Amiga
The strategy game Majesty by Cyberlore will be ported to the AmigaNG. The licence has been acquired by Titan Computer. The conversion of the game will be done by Hyperion Software. The release is set for 2001.

The message of Amiga Flame contains graphics and a game description.

[News message: 01. Oct. 2000, 04:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Oct.2000
ANN


ImageFX Filters by Andrew Buckle
The website of Andrew Buckle's ImageFX filters has been integrated into Amiga Resource. The 62 sets with more than 1000 filters can now be download there.

[News message: 01. Oct. 2000, 04:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Oct.2000
Richard H. Poser via email


AmigAIM Beta V0.9393
On September, 26th 2000 the version 0.9393 of the chat client for the AOL network "AmigAIM" has been released on September 26th, 2000. The following changes have been made:
  • Bugfix: It seems that AIM had been changed so that the online-timer-system had to be adjusted.
  • New: The bubble help, the Buddy List, has been extended with a capability display.
  • Change: No auto-deny file requests anymore, at the moment such even can't be received.
  • Change: A small change at the socket connection, which should not be noticed.

Download:


[News message: 01. Oct. 2000, 04:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Oct.2000
Trogladite Software


DreamCDguide Update v0.98 Released
The AminetCD navigation system has been released as version 0.98 which now contains, besides some error corrections, the German localisation and documentaion.

Download (65 KB)

[News message: 01. Oct. 2000, 04:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
Eyetech


Eyetech: Website and eMail Problems
From September 22nd to September 29th both, website and mail server of Eyetech were down time to time. If you have sent e-mail to Eyetech within this period, you should send your mail once more. The following e-mail addresses are available:

Sale Requests sales@eyetech.co.uk
Technical Support tech@eyetech.co.uk
Other Requests info@eyetech.co.uk

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 12:25] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF


Missing VMC-ISDN Archive Online now, too
Unfortunately by a little mistake the VMC-ISDN archive wasn't copied to the VMC server, which now was corrected and the new software was tested and is ready for download.

Download site

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 12:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
Trogladite Software


SENDER V1.0 - AMIGA Program with Windows Touch
'SENDER' is a small freeware program to move or copy any file to any directory from the Workbench. It leans on the WINDOWS send menue, but uses a handy AppIcon.

'SENDER' is easy to install (I just tried it successfully) and one can further configure it for his needs after the basic installation.

The titlelink leads you to a short description of the program, and to the download link (80 KB).

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 12:05] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
Stéphane Campan on ANF


Interview with Ben Yoris from Hyperion
At Amiga Impact there is an interview with Ben Yoris, PR manager at Hyperion Entertainment, in French language. It can be translated to English language using GoTranslator.

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 12:05] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
Stefan Falke via eMail


EZP@gerNG V1.1 Available
The full version of EZP@gerNG is available now. Contrary to the classic edition the full version is also capable of sending short messages to mobile phones (SMS) directly beside many other additional features.

Other features of the full version:
  • Support of the German mobile radio networks D1, D2, EPlus, VIAG Interkom
  • Sending e-mails via internet
  • Sending messages via CLI-/WB arguments possible
  • Active ARexx port with 20 commands
  • Futher information

The unregistered version is available for download from now on. Registrations are possible via online SSL connection, telephone, fax and (snail)mail. Several possibilities of payment are available.

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 12:05] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
Horst-Uwe Kroll on ANF


Astrology & Chess
New to the Amiga market is the online chess magazine "Chesschecker". In this magazine even friends of chess will find anything about chess and board games. Issuer of Chesschecker is Horst-Uwe Kroll. (Website in German only.)

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 10:20] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF


VMC-ISDN V3 is now Online Officially!
Thanks to the many friendly beta-testers we now are able to offer an official version for the new VMC-ISDN software for all of the interested, and each owner of an Amiga ISDN board.

Though this version still doesn't has all the features VMC is currently working on, but it fits to make users realize there is no faster driver for ISDN boards for the Amiga. This version also contains complete example configuration files for every German Call-by-Call internet providers, and Miami or MiamiDeluxe.

Since like all the time users have been asking for prices, functions or limitations of the drivers an extensive AmigaGuide document was included, which hopefully answers all these questions.

Download site

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 10:20] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
FSCP_Txt.lha         biz/dbase   51K+Farscape StarBase-Text (40)
REDD_Txt.lha         biz/dbase   16K+Red Dwarf StarBase-Text (52)
DOpus4Plus.lha       biz/dopus   42K+The ultimate AddOn collection for DOpus4
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha   comm/irc   486K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Dreamforge
AKTaskiSMS.lha       comm/tcp     6K+YAM-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 + better
Chronos.lha          demo/euro  637K+A nice demo by T. Hoyssa
EuroChart41a.lha     demo/mag   692K+The Official Eurochart #41 by DEPTH & IR
EuroChart41b.lha     demo/mag   831K+The Official Eurochart #41 by DEPTH & IR
PureStyle.lha        demo/track 310K+Demo Pure Style by Arise
TCS.lha              dev/misc   684K+Fast 8-bit Chunky TrueColor on AGA
AmigaInfo.lha        docs/hyper 298K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Settembre 2000
BuffyGuide.lha       docs/hyper 323K+Buffy The Vampire Slayer Guide v2.2 (79)
FSCP_Gde.lha         docs/hyper  51K+Farscape Guide (40)
hof-html.lha         docs/hyper 1.2M+Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame September 2000
hof_html.lha         docs/hyper 1.2M+Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame September 2000
STEP_Gde.lha         docs/hyper 263K+Star Trek Guide (620)
AaktInt0900.lha      docs/mags  302K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt0900GFX.lha   docs/mags  459K+International infotainment magazine (gra
AFD-Files1-18.lha    docs/misc  161K+Standard Copyright Note in 18 languages
BruceLee.lha         game/2play 559K+BruceLee V1.2
jb_pace.lha          game/data  1.2M+Hip Hop gfx/sound patch for James Bond.
NapalmSG05.lha       game/hint   72K+Napalm Saved Games 05 - Missions 10 & 11
NapalmSG06.lha       game/hint   66K+Napalm Saved Games 06 - Missions 12 & 13
NapalmSG07.lha       game/hint   74K+Napalm Saved Games 07 - Missions 14 & 15
PD_Cheater_V26.lha   game/hint  822K+PD_Cheater / Cheats for PD Games (german
amiram.lzh           hard/hack  309K+An idea of how to get A4000 RAM to STAY 
distance.lha         misc/sci    13K+A program to compute the distance betwee
VartiMods2.lha       mods/chip    6K+4 new AHX tunes by Varthall
lnsM28_ClorEp2.mpg   mods/mpg   6.4M+After we have gone - slowbeat techno (Cl
TIM_0035.lha         pix/3dani  251K+TIM's rendered animations (Cinema4D)
TinyGICollecti.lha   pix/icon    39K+GlowIcons - archive size doesn't matter 
Amiga5kpics.lha      pix/illu   356K+Official pics of the new Amiga 5000
JaseDarren.jpg       pix/irc     53K+Dave and Jay (D from #Wasteland, UNet)
recoilwb01.jpg       pix/wb     218K+*recoilBENCH 2000* 1024x768x16bit Picass
ltools_cdct.lha      text/misc    6K+Catalog description for LangTools
CAF_10.lha           util/rexx    4K+CommentAminetFiles v1.0 - Rexx script to
RAWBInfo_SI.lha      util/sys     2K+Slovenian catalog for RAWBInfo v1.17
VEPatchBrain.lha     util/virus  17K+PatchBrain v1.19 for VirusExecutor v2.xx


[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 08:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
javosoft Computer


New Mroocheck Driver Version 15f21
For the PC mice adapter for Amiga, Mroocheck, a new driver version 15f21 was released. The archive contains the freeware program "FreeWheel 2.1" by Alastair M. Robinson.

Download: Mroocheck15f21.lha - 91 KB

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 02:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


County Court Cologne confirms "Explorer"-Dissuasiveness against Heise
«In the quarrel about the use of the "Explorer" term the county court Cologne confirmed their dissuasiveness against the Verlag Heinz Heise by a just pronounced judgement.

The publishing house will immediately appeal to this not so surprising judgement by the county court Cologne, and they intent on having better chances of success at the next instance, especially at the background of the recently "Explorer"-decision in Duesseldorf. Furthermore the Verlag Heinz Heise in the meantime applied at the German office for patents and trademarks the erease of the disputed trademark "Explorer".»

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 02:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
Markus Holler


New Songs by Markus Holler Online
Markus Holler, known by his musics for Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike or The Holy Trinity, has published two of his never before released songs for download at mp3.com. These are "Heart of the Jungle", and "The Dark Ages".

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 01:21] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
Felix Schwarz via eMail


fxSCAN SE No Longer Part of ScanQuix 5
RBM decided some time ago not to purchase serial numbers for fxSCAN SE versions from us, any longer. As a result of this the at this time delivered and long before produced ScanQuix CDs admittedly come with fxSCAN SE, but without a serial number cause RBM no longer owns a license for these. Due to this we beg you to refrain from asking us for free serial numbers, cause these were not payed by RBM and will not be deliverd by us afterwards. Because of that fxSCAN from now only can be purchased as a full version. Please, refrain from using serial numbers from other people, cause this would be unlawful.

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 01:06] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Sep.2000
Darek Smietana via eMail


Voodoo3 is Coming!
At the at this time in Empoli, Italy, occuring Pianeta Amiga 2000 you can see the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 bus-board working with Voodoo3 PCI graphics board using CyberCrahphX at the booth of Power Computing.

Mediator PCI 1200 can be purchased at this booth.

[News message: 30. Sep. 2000, 01:06] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
29.Sep.2000
Amiga Inc.


New License Agreements
The redesigned license agreements of Amiga Inc. regarding the use of Amiga Inc. resources, copyright, and trademarks are now available online and for download in various formats. The documents are:
  • Amiga Inc. License Agreement
  • Amiga Inc. Trademarks Usage Guidelines
  • Amiga Inc. Code of Conduct
  • Privacy Statement
  • Procedure for Claiming Copyright Infringement



[News message: 29. Sep. 2000, 06:06] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
29.Sep.2000
Active Technologies


Active Technologies surrenders STFax and Genesis to H&P
Active Technologies and Haage & Partner have made an agreement that the distribution rights of Active Technologies' fax software STFax Professional and the internet software Genesis will be given to Haage & Partner.

In the press release which you will find at the title link, Jürgen Haage comments: "Genesis and STFax are strategically important products for H&P and we are glad that we can care for their future development and porting. A first result of our efforts will be the release of a new update of STFax by next week. We are also planning a new look for Genesis - you will be surprised."

Supplement:
Please also read the press release by Haage & Partner.

[News message: 29. Sep. 2000, 05:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
29.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding


Earth 2140
Paolo D'Urso from Darkage and Thomas Steiding from epic interactive will present the demo of Earth 2140 for the first time at the Pianeta Amiga 2000 which takes place in Empoli, Italy, this weekend.

Earth 2140 is the conversion of one of the most successful realtime strategy games for PC up to this date. The original PC version was released by Topware. Earth 2140 requires an Amiga with graphics board, an 68040 minimum, and 24 MByte RAM. PPC and more RAM are supported of course.

In two weeks, the 25 MB large demo will be available for download on the epic interactive website.

[News message: 29. Sep. 2000, 03:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena exclusively presents two more special price offers. Both of these tools are proper indispensable for every Amiga user. Please, support the developers!

xadmaster.library at Special Price!
In a co-operation with Dirk Stoecker Amiga Arena makes possible xadmaster.library at a special price valid until 10-31-2000. By the use of xadmaster.library you can unpack any feasible data files, and disk archives. With a GUI, e.g. Vodoo-X, xadmaster.library is indispensable for the dayly use of archives.

VisiualPrefs at Special Price!
In a co-operation with Massimo Tantignone Amiga Arena makes possible VisualPrefs at a special price. VPrefs is the system tool to prettify your Workbench, and offers numberless possibilities to design windows, buttons, etc. Without that tool the Workbench appears "old-fashioned".

Amiga Arena Interview Project!
A new interview with Massimo Tantignone (VisualPrefs) is online.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 11:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
MorphOS


NetHack 3.3.1 for MorphOS Released
Teemu Suikki has ported the game NetHack 3.3.1 to MorphOS.

Download: nh331mos.lha - 1,5 MB

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 11:21] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
Jens Troeger on ANF


New Version of InstallerNG
On the "Official InstallerNG Site" there is a new version for the well known Installer replacement, the InstallerNG, available for free download. A number of small bugs were fixed, and a new function was added. Attention: the support for MEDIA functions basing on datatype still is under development and therefore might be buggy. Furthermore the example scripts were worked over, and the manual was adapted.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 11:13] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
amiga.org


AMIGA-RC5-Team-Effort News
Who ever is interested in the OLYMPIC GAMES? There is no AMIGA team after all. They are to fight brave in the thrilling competition of cracking the RC5 secure keys.

Who wants to learn more about this project, who wants to know percentage of already calculated keys, and who wants to know the AMIGA team's position - click on titlelink and surf the website!

And who doesn't know what this competition is about at all, will find all the necessary basic information there.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 06:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
H&P


Haage & Partner Reachable Again
During works on the company building telephone line was damaged. Due to this from Thursday to Monday H&P wasn't fully reachable, and most of all they could not receive e-mails. Now everything is working again and H&P now has a DSL connection, too.

H&P used the "free time" to do some changes of their homepage. Impressum, copyright, and data secureness are new sections accessible via text links in the footer. Many other pages have been overworked and updated, e.g. most of the FAQ pages giving answers to frequently asked questions.

On the start page of the shop from now on is to find the bargain of the week.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 06:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
amiga.org


ImageFX at Special Price
The award winning graphics software for Amiga, "ImageFX" by Nova Design, at this time is available at an extreme attractive special price. Further information are to find at the titlelink.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 06:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
Comdirect


Metabox Share Free Falling
Metabox, once stock jobber' favourite in the new market, were not able to fulfill their volume announced early this year. One was talking about orders amounting to millions, that time - in fact just declarations of intent by anonymous, but bulk purchasers from foreign countries. After that the Metabox share shot up, and was the favourite of every risk loving investor, all summer.
Since several days share is in the red continuous, and today for some time went below -50% after the company from Hildesheim, Germany, released a profit caution. The initial volume forecast of 198 Mio. DM was audited to 70 Mio. DM. At this time the share is at a price of 7,- EUR. Top price was converted into euros (due to share split) 45,80EUR in July. Metabox beside internet boxes for TV-sets also produces G3 boards for the Mac, and had announced an Amiga version of these boards, the "AmiJoe". If AmiJoe ever will be released is doubtful, now.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 05:58] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
KDH-Datentechnick


Business Plays Trickily ;-)
Selling of both, Amiga soft and hardware is stagnating - that's nothing new. But new is an idea of KDH-Datentechnik to bridge this depression in trade with party-gags. What is being offered? This things ist called "Orgasmatron", looks like a big beater, and should knead the scalp catering for unstressing, and a sense of well-being.

"Hushes while waiting for PPC boards, new Amiga games, PCI boards, AmigaOne, etc.", concludes KDH - what at least is evident for the proper portion of humor they own.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 02:48] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
Hellcoder


BruceLee Update
Hellcoder has released an enhanced version of the C64 classic "BruceLee" with 1-4 player mode for 68030+ and AGA computers. Instead of two, now 12 opponents are possible.

Download des Previews: BruceLee.lha - 572 KB

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 02:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Amiga Future: Backing Wanted
Amiga Future (German Amiga print magazine on games) urgently are looking for backing of their team. Wanted is someone who will energetic support our layout designer from the first issue, already. Please contact the editorial office as soon as possible.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 02:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
ML AmiOpen


Problems with Amiga SDK in conjunction with RedHat 7?
There seem to be some smaller problems with this distribution in conjunction with the Amiga SDK. Details are to find at the titlelink.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 01:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


Free Advertising for Your own AMIGA Site!
Andy Mills, carrier of AMIGAResource (on the internet since the end of '99), offers free web-space for advertising, banners, etc. pointing to AMIGA related sites, commercial or private (AMIGA related HomePages).

More information, terms of use, and contact at the titlelink.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 01:40] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
Carsten Schroeder via eMail


Amiga aktuell International 09/00 Online
AMIGA aktuell International 09/00 is online (http://www.aakt.de). In addition to the latest Amiga news, software tests and many more there is a detailed summary of the current edition of AMIGAs online-magazine «Amiga World», as well as the results of the survey from AMIGA aktuell International 06/2000. Furthermore as it is in each edition of AMIGA aktuell International there is a list with the available AmigaNG software.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 01:40] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
Bayona on ANF


Gary Peake: Statement on the AmigaSDK for Windows
We have, as our first concern, developers. Developers need to be able to make money or they stop developing for a platform as we have all seen. Windows currently holds 85% of the desktop market.

Having said that, envision a run-time environment that is so small you can sell a CD of YOUR applications, games, etc along with this run-time environment and know that it will load and run on Windows, Linux, etc.

How valuable is this to a developer?

Once the AmigaDE takes hold and as market share increases, then we have even more opportunity for our developers (who are all hungry or should be after a 9 year drought).

On the up side, there is this list, where new Linux SDK users may get the assistance they need to remain un-shafted, and Amiga Inc. continues to work and partner with more factions of the Linux and Open Source communities.

And our commitment to open source won't waiver. It takes BOTH kinds of development to enhance a platform.

--
Gary Peake
Director Support
Amiga Inc.
http://www.amigadev.net
http://www.amiga.com

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 01:40] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF


Heise: Motorola shrinked the G4
«Motorola introduced an new version of the G4 PowerPC with smaller structure and lower needs of power. The new one is called MPC 7410, is equiped with AltiVec as well as the the MPC 7400, alias G4, and should also be fully multi-processor capable (SMP). With the new system bus, MPX, transfer rate is up to 6.4 GBit/sec. The L2 cache can alternatively be used as high speed memory (Private Memory Mode).»
Entire article at the titlelink (German).

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 01:40] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


WarpGIF: Rectification
If many voices are emphasing the same suggestion, so you start to believe this suggestion, even if it isn't true. If fell for this well known phsycologic phenomenon myself.

Contrary to the opinion of many users the gif-subclass of the picture.datatype is not capable of viewing animated GIFs within browsers. Many users claimed the original OS3.5 gif.datatype to able to do that. Unfortunately I cannot validate this.
Therefore also with the WarpGIF.datatype only the first image of an animated GIF is viewed! The animation only can be viewed by the respective PlugIn of the browser.

[News message: 28. Sep. 2000, 01:40] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Sep.2000
KDH on ANF


Movieplayer MooVID Pro 2 Available from Today
Version 2 of the popular movie player MooVID Pro 2 is available at KDH Datentechnik from now on. The new version of this program supports PPC accelerators.

[News message: 27. Sep. 2000, 12:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
STEP_Txt.lha         biz/dbase  251K+Star Trek StarBase-Text (620)
OpusGIFlags.lha      biz/dopus  144K++180 Flags NewIcons in OpusGIBar's forma
XADopus.lha          biz/dopus   23K+XADopus.module 1.2 - browse XAD archives
eGroupsScanner.lha   comm/mail    4K+Strips eGroup adverts, with GUI.  V0.13 
MuYaReq.lha          comm/mail   31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
MLogBook.lha         comm/misc  509K+HAM Radio LogBook with CallBook (v0.40be
SMSEngineerMUI.lha   comm/tcp   246K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.2 - *
SRTG.lha             comm/tcp    58K+Simple Router Traffic Grapher for MiamiD
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   385K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
JavaSScrollTex.lha   comm/www     1K+JavaScript Scrolling Text Aweb3.3 IBrows
Tidy.lha             comm/www   133K+Tidy your HTML - fixes common HTML error
WebYAM.lha           comm/www    13K+Web interface for YAM
nebula.lha           demo/aga    19K+V1.01 - Real-time creation of galaxies a
TRSI-Ear.lha         demo/aga   229K+Ear Brothers Promo-tro by TRSI in the ye
TRSI-Porky.lha       demo/aga   474K+Porky's Disco promo by TRSI in the year 
TRSI-Shane.lha       demo/aga   234K+Shane-tro by TRSI in the year 2000 
wla_dx_020_6.6.lzh   dev/cross  209K+WLA DX v6.6 - GB-Z80/Z80/6502 Macro Asse
adfblitzer.lha       disk/misc   23K+A program to write & read adf-files!
DVD-RAM.lha          disk/misc   61K+DVD-RAM (2.6, 4.7 GB) FFS/SFS/FAT95 Driv
BuffyHTML.lha        docs/hyper 403K+Buffy Guide HTML edition v2.2 (79)
AIOV39.lha           docs/mags  1.2M+Amiga Information Online, Issue 39 (Sept
FunnynessRel6.txt    docs/misc   26K+Funnyness release 6. Some jokes and comp
Fnurr2000.lha        game/actio 137K+Simple game by DawnBringer
amigo5_7.lha         game/board  81K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
AMono_source.lha     game/board 770K+Source code for AMonopoly
ChaosLite.lha        game/board 5.4M+World's Best Board Game! 1-8 players! Fa
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (25 Sept
PiH.lha              game/think  39K+People in History Revision
GfxCon.guide-i.lha   gfx/conv    16K+Translation into Italian Language of the
mccontrol.lha        hard/hack  413K+V1.51 PSX MemoryCard Reader
TestGear1.lha        hard/hack  325K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 1.
TestGear2.lha        hard/hack  330K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 2.
TestGear3.lha        hard/hack  194K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 3.
vtxthack.lha         hard/hack    6K+At the I C BUS adapts the signal lengths
Juggler.lha          misc/antiq 241K+The famous Juggler ray-traced animation 
RoboCity.lha         misc/antiq  44K+The famous "Robo City" animation demo
DarcNES.lha          misc/emu   136K+NES/SMS/GG/PCE/SG1000/CV emulator v9a091
cutquotes.lha        misc/imdb   12K+Patch 'quotes.list' for MovieMUI 3.5a (1
imdbDiff000915.lha   misc/imdb  3.3M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
TheSender.lha        mods/atmos 411K+Orchestral DBM with guitar by R.KAPP
asphmix.lha          mods/blkha 153K+Protracker mod by blakkhar
crazyphasemix.lha    mods/blkha  93K+Remix Protracker mod by blakkhar
getrennteZeite.lha   mods/blkha 559K+Protracker mod by blakkhar
likdamind.lha        mods/blkha 210K+Digibooster mod by blakkhar with DSP-Ech
Str_elec.mpg         mods/elbie 7.5M+Stripped Electronique [Synth] by ElbiE^t
sbf_ls2k.lha         mods/misc   20K+Little Song 2k - sbf/phx
crs_brd.lha          mods/techn 2.5M+CRS00056: hardcorrosion :: brain damage
tek_vacum_mmx.lha    mods/techn  64K+Vacuum mmx - minimalistic stomp
SampleZ.lha          mus/edit   117K+16Bit HD-Edit SampleEditor successor of 
Timidity270.lha      mus/midi   1.9M+TiMidity++ 2.7.0 -- MIDI to WAVE convert
BileLeague_Rai.lha   pix/boot   535K+BileLeague Rainboot config
Bile_Rainboot.lha    pix/boot   433K+Bile Rainboot config
ALEM_0032.lha        pix/misc   2.2M+ALEM's ScalaMM Digitized Backgrounds
HexShow.lha          util/cli     5K+Shows files as Hex
EasyConvert.lha      util/conv   21K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc   60K+Report+ 3.4: 9-function utility
ReqAttackUpd.lha     util/misc  200K+Rel6: ReqAttack1.3, RAPrefsMUI 1.64, Req
NewSearch.lha        util/sys     7K+Open-source replacement for "C:Search".
VEPatchBrain.lha     util/virus  17K+PatchBrain v1.18 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
VirusExecutor.lha    util/virus 218K+VirusExecutor v2.05
MagicUser.lha        util/wb    552K+MultiUser System for the Amiga Workbench
WB2000_16.lha        util/wb    411K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)
Workbench2000N.lha   util/wb      4K+Norwegian catalog for Workbench2000


[News message: 27. Sep. 2000, 08:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Sep.2000
R. Kuehn on ANF


Help Wanted
Robert Kuehn is looking for support for graphics for, and programming of his AmiGay-Website to whip it into shape again in some degree! People who are interested may contact webmaster@amigay.de4all.de.

[News message: 27. Sep. 2000, 08:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Sep.2000
Individual Computers


X-Surf Ethernet Driver for Linux
In the news section of Individual Computers Jens Schönfeld announced:

Geert Uytterhoeven from Belgium has coded a patch for his Ariadne II driver. With this patch the driver can be used for X-Surf. The patch has not been tested, yet. Thence we ask you for a short message from everyone who has tried the patch! The patch is to find at the Support-Area.
Geert recently had a knee surgery and therefore cannot work at the computer on the next days. We wish him to get well soon!

[News message: 27. Sep. 2000, 02:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Sep.2000
DirOpus Support Page


DirOpus 4 Plus (AddOns) Available
Jacek Rzeuski has continuous developed the source code of DirectoryOpus 4, which was made disposable by GP Software. Now he has made DirOpus 4 Plus available for download. The archive contains a collection of AddOns for Directory Opus 4 consisting of 20 ARexx scripts for several uses, and two CLI tools.

Download: DOpus4Plus.lha - 40 KB

[News message: 27. Sep. 2000, 02:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


Digital Almanac and WarpGIF News
Digital Almanac:
Due to low demand for DA III production of an English version is doubtful, at this time. The final decision on this subject will not be made until the end of this year along with the decision if DA III will be further developed or this project will be completely stopped.
Every soled CD from now on will come with the enhanced version 1.2.

WarpGIF:
At this time support for animated GIF images on OS3.5 (picture.datatype V44) is being worked on. This should then make viewing animated images with AWeb possible.

[News message: 27. Sep. 2000, 02:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
26.Sep.2000
Torben Mueller on ANF


GUI for AMOS 1.3
A versatile graphical interface is available for the AMOS 1.3 programming language. This way, AMOS programs can be quickly developed using a GUI. All functions are included as AMOS procedures, so they can be adjusted to every program. Informations and screenshots available at the titlelink.

[News message: 26. Sep. 2000, 12:48] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
26.Sep.2000
Arexx Scripts - Ron Goertz


FW and Pagestream Applications
Creating calendars with FinalWriter v4+ or PageStream v3+? No problem - this link leads directly to the macros.

This very interesting site by Ron Goertz moreover offers numerous other ARexx scripts and applications for the Amiga, e.g. the "family tree". Try it!

Download: FWCalendar.lzx

[News message: 26. Sep. 2000, 10:31] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
26.Sep.2000
Paul Nolan


Photogenics 5.0 Release Candidate 2 for Linux
Photogenics - THE graphics and image manipulation software, first developed for the Amiga, has also been ported to Linux by the author Paul Nolan.

A manual for the installation, in addition to screenshots and a detailed description of the new features, is available at "Paul Nolan's Photogenics" (titlelink).

Download Linux version 5.0 Release Candidate 2:
PhotogenicsB101Setup.tgz - 1.8 MB
Tutorials.zip - 1.7 MB

[News message: 26. Sep. 2000, 10:31] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
26.Sep.2000
Andreas Etzrodt on ANF


ADFBlitzer Verion 2.0 Available
Since yesterday, version 2.0 of the popular ADF program ADFBlitzer is available from my homepage. Magnus Lundin, author of the first versions (up to v1.2) gave me the source code and permission to continue development.

Currently there are mainly visual improvements. However, since almost everything has been turned upside down internally, it might not run as expected. Therefore I ask for your e-mail feedback if it works - or doesn't work.

Sorry but currently the only way to download the program is by the direct link (titlelink), because my homepage has not yet been updated.

[News message: 26. Sep. 2000, 01:37] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
26.Sep.2000
LinuxInfo.de


RedHat Linux 7.0 Available
Since yesterday, the latest Linux distribution is available from RedHat, Inc.. A first review is available at www.linuxplanet.com.

[News message: 26. Sep. 2000, 01:26] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
26.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


QNX Real-Time Operating System for Free Download
get.qnx.com is the download site for the QNX Realtime Platform (RTP). You can now download QNX RTP free for non-commecial use. There are a self-installing exe file for Windows (24MB) or a CD-ROM image (91MB). Or you can also order QNX RTP on CD for $29.95 US. Don't forget to consult the Supported Hardware section for a full list of platform-compatible hardware.

[News message: 26. Sep. 2000, 01:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Andreas Rief on ANF


AsimWare Stops Support for Amiga
Asimware announces at the titlelink that they will discontinue the development of, and support for Amiga-products and that Software Hut still has some Amiga-products by Asimware on stock.

«All Asimware Amiga products and technical support have now been discontinued. Asimware announces, with great regret, that they immediately discontinue all sales and development of all its Amiga-related products. There will be no more product patches or updates for Amiga products. Technical support for Amiga products will come to an end on September 6th, 2000. All remaining information for Amiga products can be found at: http://amiga.asimware.com If you are still interested to purchase of any of Asimware's Amiga products, Software Hut http://www.softhut.com still has some left on stock.»

At the Asimware contactpage you can find the following hint:

«Questions or problems with an Amiga Product? Asimware Amiga products and technical support are now discontinued. This does not affect our product line for the Windows platform. amigasupport@asimware.com <- not for HotBurn 2»

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 10:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Andrew Elia on ANF


AmigaSoc Activ Again
«After several months worth of unscheduled silence, AmigaSoc is back! In fact, we were never really gone! The primary reason for our apparant absence was lack of time.

The company two of AmigaSoc's founder members are shareholders of has grown from a staff complement of five to nearly fifty and has recently received first round investment. Squeeze in the purchase and renovation of houses, and a bit of marriage and you might begin to see where we've been! Our user group mailing list (and a couple of others) had to be shut down at very short notice owing to security issues beyond our control.

Rest assured that we haven't given up and we'll still support the Amiga community the best we can in the future.

The plethora of unanswered E-Mails and lack of updates to the website are now being dealt with (including our popular "Lookalikes" section), and we will aim to be back on form as soon as possible. We'd like to thank those who have demonstrated understanding and patience throughout this time and we look forward to once again making our contribution.»

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 10:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Richard H. Poser via eMail


AmigaAIM Beta Version 0.9392
The new betaversion 0.9392 is available now and downloadable at the wellnown locations. The changes are the following:
  • Finally located and removed a tough to find bug which would occur when the Directory Info on the Server and Client didn't agree. It now only asks for a decision if the data on the Server isn't empty. Otherwise it just sends the current data to the server.


[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 10:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Graphics Artist and Musician Wanted
APC&TCP is looking for a graphics artist and a musician for a game developing project that are able to do the following things :

The graphics designer has to paint 21 maps of towns showing buildings, streets and parks depending on the dimensions. One version with 256 colors for AGA and graphicboards and one version with 32 colors for ECS (resolution: 640x480). Furthermore he has to paint backgroundpictures for windows and the screen.

The musician has to produce at least 4 modules of the type protracker matching the genre of tradesimulation.

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 10:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail


Epic Interactive Website with New Layout
The Epic Interactive homepage was completely redesigned. The webside is graphicly more attractive and more open now. Altogether it is a great improvement.

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 10:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Thorsten Schoelzel via eMail


AmigaNG Programs Overview Updated
The AmigaNG Programs Overview was updated and contains now 74 programs for the new Amiga. All the programs are downlaodable directly.

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 10:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
AmiDog


AMP 2 Version 2 pre 5 Released
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund released a new prerelease of his program AMP2. Some parts of the MPEG audio decoder were rewriten and the MPEG video decoder were optimized.

Download: AMP2pre5.lha

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 10:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
GoldED Studio 6


Last Week of GoldED Specialoffer
If you are looking for an editor with special addons, for example for programming or HTML-design purposes, you are maybe interested in GoldED Studio 6. Until the 09-30-2000 there is a specialoffer for upgrading from the publicversion 5 to the new version 6. By following the titlelink you can find out more details on the specialoffer.

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 10:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Manuel Weinert on ANF


Amiga NG - Microsoft is Planning this for Years.
Microsoft, Redmond, USA.
Microsoft is developing a technic called IL (Intermediate Language) for years. The underlying concepts are amazing similar to the AmigaNG! There is no JustInTime compiler but the IL-modules were preloaded and compiled into native code at runtime (with corresponding hardwareoptimizations). All is integrated in Windows and will be released with VisualStudio 7.0 and C# in 2001 or 2002. This is another way for MS to other hardwaresystems like mobile phones or handhelds. Even games will be available for different hardwaresystems by using IL and a core-kernel.

Annotation of the author: AmigaNG still have chances: it is smaller, does not depend on a special OS, faster available for different devices and not a product by Microsoft.

Further informations are available at the titlelink.

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Deftone on ANF


Aminet Upload Problems
SMSEngineer v1.0.2 was not uploaded due to some reasons. I uploaded it again and I am hoping, that it will be in the recent area. Once again I bag your pardon.

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Amiga Update


Amiga Update Newsletter (23.09.2000)
======================================================================
   _    __      _     <>_   __      _    ||
  /\\    |\    /||    ||   /  `    /\\   ||  A M I G A   U P D A T E
 /__\\   | \  / ||    ||  || ___  /__\\  ||     -News and Rumors-
/    \\_ |  \/  ||_  _||_  \__// /    \\_||   (An Occasional e-mail
         "SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW"         ||        News Source)
======================================================================
        AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
000923

            M E T E R N E T   A N D   A M I G A   T E A M

           A S   D O   A M I G A   A N D   H Y P E R I O N

        C O N C E R N   O V E R   P E T R O   B U S I N E S S

         P L A N S   S T A R T   F O R   A M I G A   2 0 0 1

 F I N N I S H   U S E R S   G R O U P   A N N U A L   M E E T I N G

             T E X A S   G R O U P   F L E A M A R K E T

                   A C E   I N   A U S T R A L I A

      N E W S   F R O M   C R Y S T A L   I N T E R A C T I V E

               H A A G E   &   P A R T N E R   N E W S

               E L B O X   A I R S   C O M P L A I N T

            I N N O V A T I V E   M O V E S   O N   . . .

         . . .   A S   D O E S   E P I C   M A R K E T I N G

                 . . .   A N D   A S I M W A R E   ?

            M R .   M Y S Z A   M O U S E   A D A P T E R

          T H E   P R E D A T O R   F R O M   E Y E T E C H

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 There's a stong dichotomy in this issue's stories. There are a number
of items showing a clear move forward on Amiga's part into the future
with its new generation of software and hardware standards. There's an
equally clear picture presented by other stories of the Classic Amiga
market shutting down.
 We don't think there will be any problem with those of us dependent
on classic machines surviving until there are new computers with new
software to move to, so there's no reason for panic. There is,
however, every reason to see the transition as real and happening now.
 It's about time, but we can't deny it's always a bit frightening to
move into a new existence and see the door to the old closing behind
you. Keep in mind it's an entire community making the transition, and
we're all in it together. You will also find in this issue many
stories showing just how strong our Amiga community remains.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
----------------------------------------------------------------------
E-mail to the E-ditor:


27 Aug 2000

Brad,

 I was glad to see that some users out there still have the A2000 and
A3000! Mine are not in operating mode at present. No fault of mine. An
expensive tradesman repair gone sour. But perhaps there is hope. I
loved those Amigas! I thought these old favorites would be left in the
dust of the 1200, and the new products I saw displayed by Bill McEwen
on The Screensavers TV show on ZDTV! Quite an impressive introduction
to the new Amiga.

Lee
~~~~~~
Lee,
 Hang on, things are just starting to roll out for the new Amiga. As
noted in my comments above, you can really see the transition from the
old Amiga to the new taking place right now. At the moment, though,
the A2000s, A3000s and beyond are still working very well for many
Amigans, including me.
 Brad

======
28 Aug 2000

Tell Johan that we're working on getting up more Music-x stuff, there's a
bit up on our site in the meantime in the Music section:

http://www.amigau.com/

Kevin Orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com
~~~~~~
Kevin,
 Message delivered, and we've included your note for the benefit of
anyone else interested in Music-x.
 Brad

======
28 Aug 2000

 Thank you for the continued newsletters. I'm still an active Amiga
user and any Amiga news is greatly appreciated. My "other computer" is
a MacIntosh and news/tips having to do with Mac/Amiga interaction
would be of interest. (File exchanges via Consultron's CrossMAC
program allows some things on a Mac and Amiga to work very well with
each other).

 Has anyone used Castlewood's Orb drive on an Amiga? I hadn't found
any information regarding that yet and was wondering if their
headerless approach presents special problems for developing an Amiga
driver, or what special considerations might exist for implementing an
Orb drive on a SCSI-equipped Amiga (like my A3000UXD).

 My experience with the Orb drive on a MacIntosh system is positive so
far. It seems to work equally well on the Mac's standard SCSI or from
an Ultra SCSI card. The price of the drive and the media are certainly
reasonable enough to make it an attractive option for Amiga owners if
it could be made to work on one.

 Thanks for any information you may have.

-- Dave --
~~~~~~
Dave,
 As I do with any topic I'm not fully familiar with, let me throw this
one out to the readership. Can anyone help Dave?
 Brad

======
27 Aug 2000

 I have an A4000/060 with an internal CD-ROM drive and an A500/030 and an
external ZIP drive (now, also a 2Gb Jaz drive).
I just copied the OS 3.5 data onto a ZIP disk, moved the drive over
to my A500 and installed from there.

Gary
~~~~~~
Gary,
 Thanks for the suggestion. We hope this information can help some of
those at least who've asked us about installing OS 3.5 on systems
without CD/ROM drives. It'll require finding someone else with an
Amiga, a CD/ROM drive and a Zip or similar, but looks like it can be
done fairly easily.
 Brad
----------------------------------------------------------------------

           M E T E R N E T   A N D   A M I G A   T E A M

Snoqualmie, WA - Reno, NV-September 20, 2000 - Business Wire - Targeting the
millions of computerless and offline consumers worldwide who will soon be
broadband enabled, Amiga and MeterNet have teamed to develop and deliver a
series of broadband SimpleBox Internet Devices powered by the next generation
Amiga.

MeterNet's SimpleBox Program is dedicated to bringing best of breed solutions
to their embedded platforms and target markets. Each device incorporates a
tailored SimpleBox User Interface (UI) on top of rugged solid state hardware
with no moving parts. Along with providing simple navigation and operation,
the SimpleBox UI offers optional feature-packed integrated web based eMail
that is optimized for display on TV and VGA screens.

The initial Mid Class product to be released powered by Amiga is the
SimpleBox Java Internet Device (JID) model wb8616JID. The Simplebox wb8616JID
is value packed with a robust v4. browser, audio/video streaming, instant
messaging and fast ethernet for easy broadband connection via cable, dsl,
satellite and local area networks.

Unlike other currently available devices from America Online (AOL), Microsoft
(MSFT), Ravisent (RVST), Web-2U (MUCP) and others, the SimpleBoxJID powered
by Amiga contains a Sun Authorized Virtual Machine, a very high performance,
memory efficient solution for running JavaTM technology based media content

MeterNet and Amiga are also developing a low cost Internet Radio Device for
worldwide consumer markets targeted for release early 2001.

Amiga Incorporated is the emerging leader in multiplatform, multimedia
Operating Systems. The Amiverse offers a multi-media digital environment that
provides developers with a true write once run anywhere opportunity. Amiga
has both leveraged and expanded upon its rich 15-year history of industry
leadership in the development of what we know as multi-media.

MeterNet Corporation develops and markets broadband Internet devices,
turn-key services and tailored integrated programs. Past satisfied clients
include Ziff-Davis, America Online, Alta Vista, Shopping.com and IBM. Since
12/99 we have shipped our SimpleBox Entry Level wb6400 series worldwide.
Phase One SimpleBox wb8616JID production is limited to 10,000 units with
shipments to commence in early December.

For more SimpleBox JID program information and to place an email order
reservation visit: http://world.simplebox.com

All Trademarks are the Property of their Respective Owners.
All Rights Reserved. ##
----------------------------------------------------------------------

          A S   D O   A M I G A   A N D   H Y P E R I O N

Snoqualmie, WA. Aug 30, 2000

 Amiga Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment are pleased to announce a
long-term alliance to bring Hyperion's impressive list of award
winning games to the Amiverse.

 Hyperion's games are a testament to the high standard set by the
Amiga community. Much like the New Amiga, Hyperion has raised the bar
to a higher level. We are proud to include Hyperion in our future. We
are equally pleased to see such a steady stream of notable developers
validating our platform.'' Said Randy Hughes, Vice President Sales and
Strategic Alliances at Amiga Inc.

 The initial list of titles being developed for the Amiverse include:

 Heretic II: Already released for Classic Amiga PPC, Heretic II is a
gothic-style first-person shooter.

 Sin: A super realistic ego shooter in a not-too-distant future with
an intriguing plot to solve and many levels to "clean-up". Sin is due
in Q3 2000.

 Shogo: Fight with your Mobile Armor Division Mech through futuristic
cities and natural sites. Face a civil war in Mech mode or Soldier
mode in this award winning ego shooter, written with the famous
LithTech 3D Engine by Monolith. Shogo is also slated for Q3 2000.

 Freespace: Development has already begun and is to be completed in Q4
2000. Freespace offers many space flights combats and mission for this
space opera among stars and nebulas. A great simulation for a great
story of space war.

 Alien Nations: Development is just under way. In the style of Age of
Empires II, Alien Nations will allow you to lead your people to
survive attacks from your enemies. Live long and prosper in the levels
of this great Real Time Strategy game.

 Soldier of Fortune: The highly acclaimed ego shooter of the year will
come to the Amiga. Designed with the help of SEAL people, SOF is one
of the most realistic ego shooter. Experience fights against
terrorists and criminals, train to be better and always remember to
shoot first.

 "Hyperion will announce new games in the near future, as we negotiate
deals with new licensors including some of the industry's biggest
names. We want to bring the Amiga the hottest and most recent games,
as it was the case in the great Amiga gaming times. With the arrival
of new hardware such as faster graphics cards, the Amiga will enjoy a
new level of performance allowing the Amiga to keep up with bigger and
better games. Keep your Amiga updated, stay tuned and roll on the
Amiga One!" said Ben Yoris, PR Manager of Hyperion.

About Hyperion

 Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian company founded in
April of 1999. Hyperion aims to bring top-class entertainment software
to leading alternative platforms including Amiga. Hyperion
Entertainment has license agreements with many of the top names in the
industry including Interplay, Activision and Monolith with more deals
to be made public soon.

 Whilst Hyperion's primary expertise is in the field of 3D engines
(LithTech, Quake 2), the company has recently been working with its
publisher Titan (www.titan-computer.com) on expanding its line-up with
strategy and RTS games as well as RPG's and simulators. The results of
these efforts will be announced over the course of the next few
months. Hyperion Entertainment is also investigating the possibility
of applying its expertise in the field of 3D graphics to
non-entertainment related areas. For additional information, please
see www.hyperion-software.com .
----------------------------------------------------------------------

     C O N C E R N   O V E R   P E T R O   B U S I N E S S

 A recent posting on the Amiga-news.de website created a mini-uproar
in the Amiga community. The posting stated that Petro Tyschtschenko,
long time bastion of the Amiga community and head of Amiga
Deutschland, had founded a new company in partnership with a Frank
Basta. The company, called Power Service BmbH, appears to be a
supplier of tempory workers for software firms.
 A response  from Petro posted on the Czech Amiga News site indicated
no intent to leave the Amiga community or Amiga itself behind:

"Sorry but I have no plans to quit. I have only invested 50 % in Power
Service, which is a company I believe in. It is no Computer Company and no
competition... Power Service is a Job agency for IT Specialists. I will
continue with my beloved AMIGA. Best regards and thanks for your
mail...Petro"

 Several web sites carried the following quote from Amiga Inc's CEO
Bill McEwen at the time the original announcement was made:

 "I would be shocked and personally hurt to find out that Petro has
not been making Amiga his first priority, and that he has been using
his Amiga paid trips to India for his own personal gain. We pay him a
wonderful salary, we pay for his Mercedes, his cell phone, and his
beautiful offices. He has never spoken to me about any issues or
problems, and if he has truly been using our money and time to promote
his own company I will be extremely disappointed. I hope that
Amiga-News is wrong in their findings."
----------------------------------------------------------------------

       P L A N S   S T A R T   F O R   A M I G A   2 0 0 1

28 Aug 2000

Amiga Fans everywhere,

 Amigan-St. Louis is proud to announce that the next Gateway Computer
Show... Amiga2001, will be held on March 30, 31 and April 1, 2001.

 This exciting event, Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey, will be our best
yet. Due to the demise of the Henry VIII hotel, it's being torn down,
we had to move our venue to a new location.

 The good news is that this place has lots to offer. The show will be
hosted at the Sheraton Westport Plaza. This Sheraton has the same old
world charm that the Henry VIII did, but offers much more. It has
parking for over 3,000 cars. It's location, at West Port Plaza is
really terrific, as that puts it in the middle of entertainment,
restaurants, pubs, shopping, eateries, movie theaters, live theater, a
jazz club and much more. Under cover parking is available too.

 We'll be posting something on our web site by the end of September,
so keep an eye out. In the mean time, get your vacations lined up for
March 30 - April 1. Perhaps you'd like to come early or stay longer
and arrange a little fun in St. Louis. This is an exciting town, and
your family would be certain to enjoy it if you bring them.

             http://www.amiga-stl.com

           Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey

Sheraton at Westport, St. Louis, MO. USA
Friday March 30 thru Sunday April 1, 2001
----------------------------------------------------------------------

 F I N N I S H   U S E R S   G R O U P   A N N U A L   M E E T I N G

 ESPOO, FINLAND - September 21, 2000 - Finnish Amiga Users Group will
host its annual user group meeting on Saturday September 30th from
14:00 to 17:45 in Espoo, Finland. The event will start with a formal
meeting, and an informal part will follow after 15:30 o'clock.

 An Amiga dealer will be present with various Amiga items for sale.
The user group will also demonstrate the Amiga Software Development
Kit on Linux. Other highlights include various Amiga magazines for
reading, demonstration of licensed Amiga mobile phone covers and
plenty of good company. Admission is free of charge and free soft
drinks will be available.

 Please visit http://batman.jytol.fi/~saku/ or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/ for instructions on how to get there,
latest news, IRC coverage, webcam and more. E-mail inquiries may be
sent to Anu Seilonen (thoriel@sci.fi).

 About Finnish Amiga Users Group

 Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a
non-profit organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping
Amiga users in Finland. Also known as Saku, after its e-zine, the
group is trying to accomplish its goals by organizing meetings and by
publishing an e-zine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and its
predecessors have released over thirty issues of the magazine and held
several public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site
and Sakunet, a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related
bulletin board systems.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

         T E X A S   G R O U P   F L E A M A R K E T

18 August, 2000

Flea Market Extravaganza '00

Where: The Brookside Convention Center, Hurst, Texas
When: Saturday, October 14, 2000
Time: 12:00 to 4:00pm
Admission: Free

Background

 This year we are putting on our fourteenth annual computer Amiga
show. So come and join us and show your support for the Amiga.

Amiga Computer Flea Market

 Hardware and Software for Amiga computers, from members and
non-members, will be for sale. The flea market will be open to members
for a fee of 5% on items sold. A fee of 10% will be charged to
non-members on items sold.

 This year tables will be available to rent for the show to
individuals. The cost for one table will be $15.00 for members and
$20.00 for non-members. Please make arrangements in advance, space is
limited.

 o Sellers:

 Items for sale must be turned into a club representative. Prices are
set ahead of time and sales are handled by club representatives.
Arrangements MUST BE MADE IN ADVANCE. Items will NOT be accepted on
the day of the show. There will be no exceptions. For further details
please contact the club or one of the club's representatives. Items to
be sold at the flea market may be turned in at one of the chapter
meetings or you may make arrangements with one of these club
representatives:

Mark Stodola Cedar Hill (972) 299-6824
Ned Kelly Arlington (817) 277-5825
David Owens Fort Worth (817) 847-5486
Dan Stockelman Dallas (972) 985-8522


 o Buyers:

 Cash and checks accepted from members.
 Cash only accepted from non-members.

     Prices will be reduced at 3:00 pm.

Door Prizes

 A drawing will be held at the end of the day. You must be present to
win.

Amiga Computer Dealers

 Space is available to rent for dealers, companies or user groups.
Please inquire on rates.

MCCC Amiga Library

 The entire MCCC library of Amiga computer disks, over 2,000 disks,
will be available.

Special Membership Offer

 13 months for the price of 12. This offer is good for new or renewed
memberships.

Jay Miner Memorial Tape

 The MCCC will be offering a two hour VHS tape of highlights of past
METCOMs and a short club history. The centerpiece of the tape is Jay
Miner's speech and question and answer session at METCOM 89. The cost
will be $9.00 for members and $15.00 for non-members. A PAL version is
also available at a slightly higher price. A limited number will be
available at the show, but if the response is good orders will be
taken.

Directions & Parking:

 The Brookside Convention Center is located at 1244 Brookside Drive in
Hurst. To get to the Convention Center get to Highway 183/121 and take
the Precinct Line Road exit and drive south on Precinct Line Road.
After approximately 0.3 miles turn left (east), on Bedford Euless
Road. Drive 0.4 miles to Brookside Drive. The Convention Center is on
the southeast corner. There is plenty of parking space, and parking is
free.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

              A C E   I N   A U S T R A L I A

Alternative Computer Expo

Including:

Linux - ACE
Amiga Computer Expo
Apple Computer Expo
Acorn Computer Expo
Australian Connectivity Expo

 ACE is about Alternatives.
 ACE is about Connecting people.
 ACE is about Enhancing the user experience.

It's about using computers.
It's about solutions.
It's about the best operating systems.

When:

Saturday 21st October 9am - 6pm
Sunday 22nd October 9am - 5pm

Where:

 The Grand Prix Pits, Aughtie Drive Albert Park Lake, Albert Park (in
the middle of the park!).

 The show makes provision for families, children and those on lower
incomes.

Entry fees:

$10 General
$7 Students & concession
$20 Family
Children under 12 free

Globally the largest Amiga participation.

 While ACE 2000 is being well recieved by the computing public of many
platforms. It is particularly significant for the Amiga community. ACE
2000 is now expected to have the largest Amiga participation of any
show this year. This is easily larger than any Australian Amiga show
of recent times. All Australian dealers of Amiga products are planning
to attend! A number of overseas dealers are also in the process of
confirming.

Power Computing (UK) expected to attend.

ACE to host OS/2 install-fest!

Apple's new OS X to be on display.

Linux install-fest proposed for ACE.

Dozens of flavours of unix to feature at ACE!

 The Australian newspaper published a large article about the show in
their IT section.

IRC

 IRC conferences are planned at regular intervals. Keep an eye on this
site for times and dates. Paul Demark has offered to moderate the IRC
sessions. Email lanky@connect.net.au for more info.

http://www.ace2k.net/
----------------------------------------------------------------------

     N E W S   F R O M   C R Y S T A L   I N T E R A C T I V E

 19/09/00

 Crystal Interactive Software are please to announce that we have
chosen Blittersoft for world wide distribution of our Amiga game
software.

 Blittersoft being an established and well respected company within
the Amiga community will take on exclusive distribution of all Amiga
games we produce.

 Blittersoft can be contacted on +44 (0)1908 225454 or email
sales@blittersoft.com


13/09/00

 Crystal Interactive Software are please to announce our merger with
fellow Hertfordshire based games developers Clearwater Interactive.

 This merger expands Crystal and Clearwater game developments to
almost all computer and console platforms

More information on Clearwater can be found at www.cw-i.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------

             H A A G E   &   P A R T N E R   N E W S

14 September 2000

ArtEffect Workshop reworked

 Due to the development of ArtEffect there were some inconsistencies
in the old workshop, but those are settled now. We also redesigned the
complete website. In 12 chapters you experience the amazing functions
and effects of ArtEffect. Workshop

28 August 2000

Storm C Announcement

 The new version of the well-known development system will be a
quantum leap: Network capabilities, distributed Make, CVS, modified
GCC compiler with Amiga Hund format, global full text search, extended
editor, debugging of tasks and shared libraries and the new StormDOC.

06 September 2000

H&P increases personnel

 In October of the past year, we already hired a new programmer,
namely Markus Poellmann. He mainly cares for StormC, and also works on
AmigaWriter. At the beginning of 2000, a new co-worker was found, Ute
Gottschalk, who takes care of accounting and datatyping. Stefan Robl
has just finished a practical period for his computer studies, in
which he created a new and portable version of StormRexx. At the
beginning of September, Alexander Bramm and Simon Neumann brought two
new co-workers. Their main concern is support, and managing of new
projects.

06 September 2000

Further co-workers wanted

 For proof-reading of our website texts, press releases and manuals we
are looking for an additional English native speaker. A good knowledge
of English grammar etc. is essential. Surprisingly we already got
about 18 applications, but we only need one or two people to help on
this. Thank you very much.

www.haage-partner.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------

             E L B O X   A I R S   C O M P L A I N T

Elbox Computer
Krakow, 21 Sep 2000

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

 We, Elbox Computer company, the company involved with microcomputer
technology for over 18 years, the company with the principles of
reliability, honesty and care for our clients, feel obliged to release
this announcement to protect interests of Amiga users.

 For several weeks now, the Eyetech company has been involved in a
propaganda action against our breakthrough product for Amiga
computers: the MEDIATOR PCI. Eyetech publish and disseminate untrue
views on MEDIATOR, the exceptional busboard, and compare this high-end
product with their announced device.

 It is not our way to comment on others' activities, yet under the
current circumstances we feel obliged to explain this situation and
Eyetech's accusations to Amiga users and to comment on the idea
indicated by Eyetech (or any other company behind the Eyetech
nametag).

BLIZZARD PPC LOCAL BUS LIMITATIONS:

 Eyetech announced releasing a product they called competitive to our
MEDIATOR high-end card. Technical specification of this product has
been announced in such a way that Amiga users would have to misread
it.

 The idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to Blizzard PPC
cards gives worse performance than MEDIATOR because:

1. This solution is only for owners of Blizzard PPC accelerators.
   You have to stick with your Blizzard PPC 603e for ever.
   No change, no open structure, no versatility.

2. Practical average data transfers over the busboard connected
   directly to Blizzard PPC cards will not be higher than achieved
   with MEDIATOR - due to technical limitations of Blizzard PPC
   cards.

3. Connection of a busboard to the connector used for inserting
   a BVision card renders further use of the BVision card
   impossible.


MEDIATOR OPEN SOLUTION:

 The MEDIATOR high-end busboard is the best solution for Amiga
computers to offer high-speed support for PCI cards.

 The MEDIATOR busboard is a well-thought product, with long-standing
history of design development and a vision for its lasting evolution,
to give Amiga users power they have not had so far.

 Our basic idea is that MEDIATOR is an OPEN solution, capable of
hosting ANY turbo cards from the Amiga market. MEDIATOR is not reduced
to a Blizzard PPC-bound concept. MEDIATOR gives you the possibility to
have any turbo card you want.

 MEDIATOR has been designed specifically for all the available cards
and each and every turbo card works with MEDIATOR at the maximum speed
available for the given card.

 MEDIATOR PCI may offer transfer of data from/to any Amiga turbo card
at the maximum speed of up to 132 MB/s. The only practical limitation
lies in the design of the specific turbo card.

 MEDIATOR is expandable, even more: it is ready for any new Amiga
cards that will be available in the future - this gives you freedom
that you have never had before.

 You can use MEDIATOR with any turbo cards: Blizzard 1230, Blizzard
1240, Blizzard 1260, Blizzard PPC, Apollo 1230, Apollo 1240, Apollo
1260, Elbox 1230, MTec 1230, etc. and with any future concepts like
Amijoe and more...

MEDIATOR ADVANTAGES:

 MEDIATOR has been designed optimised for any turbo card type, so that
the maximum possible performance is obtained in the given hardware
configuration.

 MEDIATOR automatically recognises the turbo card type and executes
the best procedures to guarantee the highest performance possible in
this configuration. This is an unrivalled feature.

 This approach is much more time- and effort- and money-consuming than
the concept of supporting Blizzard PPC cards only.

 Besides, the idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to
Blizzard PPC cards does not give you, the Amiga user, any additional
speed gains when compared with MEDIATOR - you will only feel that
Eyetech's design is simpler and possibly definitely cheaper.

 We feel very sorry that Eyetech in this context is apparently
discrediting MEDIATOR's performance while being well aware of their
fallacy.

ABOUT ELBOX:

We have been developing and producing electronic equipment since 1982.
Our superb Amiga designs include:
* E-BOX tower systems and ZORRO busboards for A1200 and A4000
 (also known as Power Tower in the UK and Winner Tower in Germany);
* Elbox FastATA controllers for A1200 and A4000 (known also under the
  name of Power Flyer in the UK and Winner HighSpeed Controller in
  Germany);
* Memory expansion cards for all types of Amiga computers and many
  other minor accessories, e.g. PC Mouse interfaces (Mroocheck,
  Punchinello), others.
Elbox is also the owner of Twin Spark Soft, a company producing
software for Amiga computers (in the Polish language only).
Besides Amiga devices, we design and produce industrial controllers
(e.g. for injection moulding machines) and many other high-end
devices in the fields of radio- and telecommunications (e.g. call
systems, pagers, speech coding devices).

NEW:

Please look for our further releases about ELBOX products for Amiga
computers to be on sale by the end of this year:

1. MEDIATOR evolution line (A4000 and A3000);
2. The TOTALLY NEW breakthrough turbo cards for Amiga computers
   (A4000, A3000, A1200).

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
----------------------------------------------------------------------

          I N N O V A T I V E   M O V E S   O N   . . .

11.9.2000 Innovative announces future plans

 Innovative, known as the developers of popular AMIGA®-titles such as
fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio and Ultraconv today announced the future
plans of the enterprise.

 fxSCAN 3.0 with intelligent OCR-engine (OCR = Optical Character
Recognition) fxSCAN will soon be available in version 3.0. It will
be a major update including the following new features:

  · intelligent OCR-engine
  · Support for free BetaScan-drivers
  · comfortable Copymachine-function
  · reworked user-interface
  · JPEG-files are now loaded via PPC
  · many small improvements

 The price for V3.0 will be at 69.- DM/35 EURO/35 US$. An update from
V1.0/V2.0 will cost 59.- DM/30 EUROR/30 US$. We won't offer updates
from V1.0 SE (ScanQuix-special edition). fxSCAN 3.0 can already be
ordered from Innovative's online-shop (http://www.innovative-web.de/)
and will be delivered as soon as the final product becomes available.
A completly new fxSCAN-website will be online at the time the new
version is introduced.


The present

 Innovative regards the AMIGA®-market as too small to further exist
only from revenues of this market. The enterprise doesn't see any
tendencies towards improvement, as key-enterprises have either left
the AMIGA®-market or went out of bussiness and important hardware-
products are only available as long as they are still in stock.
Faster, more up-to-date or completly new hardware doesn't seem to be
within reach and major improvements of the current Classic-AmigaOS®
are not to be expected in near future. The AMIGA® SDK is a highlight,
but it is not a garantor for the future existance and maintenance of
the new AMIGA®-Operating-/Computersystems.

The current situation forces Innovative to look for new markets and
to no more _exclusivly_ work in the AMIGA®-market.


The future

 After the availability of fxSCAN V3.0, Innovative will intensify work
on a new technology (details are not available due to reasons of
protecting Innovative's intellectual property). Programs developed
with the aid of this new technology (Codename "InNT") will be more
comfortable to use and will have an even more spectacular optic.
Furthermore programs developed with it will be highly portable to
other platforms and CPUs. Indeed porting an application is expected to
take only a few days, cutting down both the amount of development-time
and -money that has to be spent for that task. As soon as the first
version of this new technology is finished we will start porting
already known Innovative-titles to the new technology and a variety of
different platforms. Besides the AMIGA®-market, the Windows®- and
Linux®-market will be target of the developments of the company. It's
also planned to hand out licences for this new technology, but this
still has to be decided. The result of the decision will be announced
in a later, seperate press release.


The AMIGA®-conversions

 We regret to say that our new technology will most probably not be
able to run on 68K-PPC-Dual-CPU-Systems as it is currently used in
some AMIGA®s, as a seperation of the GUI and the program will be hard
to perform and a 68060 definatly seems to be too slow for fluid and
comfortable work. Once the development of the first version of the new
technology is finished, Innovative will evaluate the possibilities of
a portation to MorphOS and APUS Linux and is currently planning a
portation to these platforms. The Tao® Elate®-based new AmigaOS® will
be supported by Innovative as far as it is available. This way,
AMIGA®-users will be able to continue enjoying the high-quality and
highly innovative software by Innovative.


The current products

 It can't be denied that future plans are in conflict with the further
development of the current product-line for AMIGA®-computers.
Nevertheless the currently existing products will be developed further
and updates will be available at a regular basis though not as often
as in the past. As soon as the versions developed with the new
technology are available, users get an update-offer. So everybody
buying an Innovative-product today, buys a product that will be
developed further in future and that he will be able to use even after
switching to other OSes like Windows®, Linux® or "Amiga® NG" as well.


The webservices

 We will stop offering webservices, as the amount of time and money
spent can in no way be justified with the resulting revenues. Existing
contracts will continue to exist for a yet undefined time whereas we
won't do any new contracts. Of course we will continue to offer
special solutions for companies in the future and we'll also keep
updating the "Amiga Link Directory".


Frequently asked questions

Question:

 So you'll stop development for the AMIGA ?

Answer:

 No. Please read the paragraphs "The AMIGA-conversions" and "The
          current products" carefully.

Question:

 You're always talking about a new technology, what is it ?

Answer:

 Our intellectual property. Therefore no information on this will be
 made available to the public on request (please don't send us EMail,
 letters, call or fax us) but exclusivly on our own initative via our
 website. Any information not found on our website isn't true.

Question:

When   will   you   have  finished  works  on  the  new  technology  ?

Answer:

 As we don't want to put us under pressure with this strategically
 important development, we won't release any time-table in near
future.

Question:

Which products do you plan ?

Answer:

 Our information policy doesn't foresee the announcement of new
products
 at this time.

Question:

 I'd like to license this new technology. How much is it for a license
?

Answer:

 We think about handing out licenses at a later time, but we haven't
come
 to a decision on this yet and therefore can't give you prices..

Question:

 I'd like to betatest. Simply send me a beta!

Answer:

 We won't send out betas.

 Disclaimer: AMIGA® is a registered trademark of Amiga, Inc. Windows®
is a registered trademark of Microsoft. Linux® is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds. Elate® is a registered trademark of the
Tao Group. All informations are subject to change without notice. You
can not derive demands/rights from this piece of information.

2.7.2000 VHI Studio reads from Sony® Memorysticks

 Thanks to a new VHI-driver (sony_msac_sr1.vhi), AMIGA®-users finally
can access Sony® Memorysticks®. The driver uses the "Sony®
MSAC-SR1"-reader for the serial port, that is shipped with most
Sony®-cameras. If you want to see Memorysticks® and
Compactflash®-cards compared regarding their size, visit our website
and click on "Press release" below to see some pictures.

EMail: info@innovative-web.de
WWW:   http://www.innovative-web.de/
Phone: +(0)049 (0)9132/735163
Fax:   +(0)049 (0)69/791247970
----------------------------------------------------------------------

   . . .   A S   D O E S   E P I C   M A R K E T I N G

12 September, 2000

 Epic Marketing Germany waves goodbye after 4 years on the Amiga
market, our company is set to close on septembre 30. But this is no
reason for despair. After October 1 there will not be one but two new
Epic companies in the market.

 Epic Interacticve Entertainment software will primarily focus on the
development and distribution of top notch games for the Apple
Macintosh market. The Amiga One and the Atari Milan computers will be
supported once they see the light of day.

 Epic Multimedia will enter the market in October too. You will find
information on their products, which will include games, infotainment
and edutainment for various computer systems (Apple Mac, Windows,
Linux, Amiga One, Milan) on our webpage from mid octobre.

 For the Classic Amiga Epic Interactive will develop and distribute
the titles "Simon The Sorcerer 2", "Earth 2140" and Dafel: Bloodline".

 Whether they continue to support the platform in the future is
heavily dependant on the success of these titles. "Earth 2140" can now
be preordered for DM 89.95 until October 15th. After that it will cost
99.95.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

             . . .   A N D   A S I M W A R E   ?

 {The following item was found on the Czech Amiga News site, a
resource which can be counted among the most reliable. Brad}

22.9.2k Asimware discontinues Amiga Support

 Len Carsner: "After recently purchasing MasterISO 2.6, I emailed
Asimware with a question concerning a problem I was having. I received
a form letter which stated "Effective September 6th, 2000 all
production, development, and support for Amiga products is
discontinued. Sales of MasterISO will still be available through
Software Hut. Our Amiga products will NOT be released to the public
domain. Thank You for eight great years." At the end was a statement
promoting their PC software."

Len Carsner via ANN
ExiE
----------------------------------------------------------------------

           M R .   M Y S Z A   M O U S E   A D A P T E R

3 September, 2000

 Merlancia Industries is pleased to announce the upcoming release of
the Mr. Mysza PS/2 Mouse adapter. Finally! After all this time, all
Amigans can now share in the world of PS/2 devices made for IBM/PC
compatible systems! From the super-cool Crystal Trackball to the
Kensington optical mouse, you now have a full range of up-to-date,
current, mice and mice alternatives.

Specs:

 The Mr. Mysza also supports up to four buttons and the scroll mouse
(utility drivers included) for additional ease of use. The Mr. Mysza
is fully "plug and play". Just plug in the Mr. Mysza, and your choice
of literally thousands of PS/2 devices and you are set to go! All you
need is the adapter and a PS/2 mouse device to get up and going. There
is no need for additional software to use Mr. Mysza! (Except to use
features such as the scroller on scroll mice.)

Price:

 The Mr. Mysza will be be at about the $25 mark, much less then the
current serial mouse converters. There will also be bundles of Mr.
Mysza and the Crystal Trackball available for about the $50 mark.

Availability:

 The Mr. Mysza will be available in about 7 to 14 days. The first
batch of Mr. Myszas is almost complete...

What is included?:

 Included in the package is the Mr. Mysza adapter, a disc containing
the software to use the scroller on scroll mice and additional buttons
on 3+ button mice, and a manual.

 Also upcoming is the RedBoard adapter, and infa-red keyboard adapter
for Amiga computers. A separate press release will follow with
information about the RedBoard.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

         T H E   P R E D A T O R   F R O M   E Y E T E C H

3 September, 2000

From The Eyetech Group Ltd

 The Predator: 3xPCI + 1xAGP + SDRAM expansion with direct PPC
processor interface for the A4000 desktop and towered A1200

 As part of our ongoing discussions with top end games developers, one
of their major concerns is how to get sufficiently fast graphics cards
on the installed base of A1200 / A4000 PPC machines. The Permedia 2
chipset, although still the best graphics solution currently available
on the A1200, is now quite dated in its 3-D performance. The Elbox
Mediator is a partial solution, but is severely hampered because all
A1200 accelerators - including the Blizzard PPC - only bring 24
address lines out to the edge connector meaning that all data transfer
has to be carried out within the 8MB Zorro2 address window. For modern
graphics cards this will inevitably involve 4 fold or greater
multiplexing thus crippling the transfer rate between processor and
graphics card. In addition, PCI graphics cards themselves are now
increasingly hard to obtain and will be obsolete in a few months time.

 So what are we doing about it?

 The Predator expansion bus will come in separate versions for the
A1200 and A4000 desktop (an A4000 tower version will be produced later
if there is sufficient demand). Each will come equipped with 3xPCI
slots and 1xAGP (graphics card) slot (with an additional regular A4000
video slot in the A4000 version). In addition there will be a single
SDRAM (PC100 DIMM) socket for up to 256MB. As the bus is fully PCI 2.1
compliant, including bus mastering and DMA facilities, this SDRAM can
be used directly by either or both of the PPC CPU and the AGP graphics
card.

 By directly connecting to the expansion connector on the BlizzardPPC
and CyberstormPPC the expansion bus has the full 4GB of address space
of the PPC CPU without the penalties of any existing Zorro 2 conflicts
or address space multiplexing. The bus itself runs at 66MHz x 4 bytes
wide for unprecedented transfer rates (for a classic Amiga) both
between cards (using bus mastering and DMA) and - more importantly -
between the AGP connector and the PPC CPU.

 The board has been designed as a full multilayer PCB with 2 ground
planes and signal path length equalisation. Work on porting the
Voodoo-5 3D drivers (to be shipped with the board) is already
underway. And the best news of all is that this state-of-the-art
expansion bus will be available ub late September / early October at a
target price of just £169.95 including VAT.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Amiga Update on the net:
 All back issues available at:
    http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright 2000 by Brad Webb.    Freely distributable, if not modified.
======================================================================
                 _    __      _     <>_   __      _
   A M I G A    /\\    |\    /||    ||   /  `    /\\      A M I G A
  U P D A T E  /__\\   | \  / ||    ||  || ___  /__\\    U P D A T E
              /    \\_ |  \/  ||_  _||_  \__// /    \\_
                    amigaupdate@globaldialog.com
======================================================================


[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 07:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
DocDatatypes


DocDatatypes V39.60
A new version of the DocDatatypes by Amarpreet Singh Munde were released on 09-22-2000. A new datatype for Mac Write-files were added. The MS-Word-datatype were updated and supports now older Word-fileformats (before version 6) better then the former version. A new feature is the now included Filefinder supporting searches by name, size, date and filetype.

Download:


[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 07:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Haage&Partner


H&P: Telephone Line Damaged
The damage were caused by some works in the Haage&Partner-building. Because of this they had no connection to the internet since thursday last week and they were not able to receive Emails and could only offer a limited telephone support. H&P hope that the Deutsche Telekom will solve the problems until tuesday or wendsday.

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 07:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
CUCUG


The Status Register - September 2000
The Status Register issue 09/2000 by CUCUG is available online now. It contains some Amiga related news and a SEAL-O-RAMA-report by Gary Storm.

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 07:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha     biz/dbase  116K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.4)
StarBase_CLI.lha     biz/dbase  104K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v3.7b)
StarBase_SCR.lha     biz/dbase  109K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v2.1b)
xtm-twirl.lha        biz/dkg     71K+Additional texture for Extreme
Dopus4Manual.lha     biz/dopus   98K+Official Directory Opus 4 manual
OpusMIAll.lha        biz/dopus  1.3M+OpusMI and OpusMIupd in one Archive
XADopus.lha          biz/dopus   14K+XADopus.module 1.0 - browse XAD archives
CandyPro103b.lha     biz/patch  747K+Update CandyFactoryPro V1.03b (15.12.99)
MCP_v1.33_fix.lha    biz/patch    2K+MCP v1.33 install fix
DalWatch.lha         comm/irc     3K+Interface to Server-side Notify on Dalne
attall.lha           comm/mail   23K+Infos about attachment in yam e-mail
attinfo.lha          comm/mail   24K+Creates a logfile from selected mail
TruncateMail.lha     comm/mail    9K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
YAT.lha              comm/mail  510K+Yet Another collection of Taglines for Y
amigalog.lha         comm/misc   51K+Simple Amateur Radio Logbook 
lcr-i.lha            comm/misc  109K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
lcr.lha              comm/misc  112K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
AmFTP191.lha         comm/tcp   335K+AmFTP - ftp/Archie/ADT/ADT-Find Client, 
NullTCP.lha          comm/tcp     6K+Amiga<->Win9x TCP/IP using null-modem.Up
T-Rexx.lha           comm/tcp   105K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
TcpSpeed.lha         comm/tcp    23K+Measure the TCP throughput of a TCP chan
UMSLaberFilter.lha   comm/ums    16K+Filter out uninteresting messages
GuiSGML.lha          comm/www    79K+SGML/HTML Templating Tool, Graphical Mar
Lynx.lha             comm/www   790K+WWW Browser,v.284dev9 (works with m68k)
wpz-frozen32.lha     demo/aga   616K+Frozen#32 - Fuck Ya Party Edition
wpz-frozen35.lha     demo/aga   941K+Frozen#35 - LTP4 Party Edition
znn_lowb.lha         demo/aga   123K+Short intro by khaos of zenon
ltx-intros.lha       demo/intro 245K+Bugfixed intros from Latex (a must for C
qtz-SMOS.lha         demo/intro   2K+Quartz-Sensible Moon Of Soccer cracktro
DLL.lha              dev/basic   42K+Dynamic Linked List Sources for Blitz
PureBasic.lha        dev/basic  572K+V1.60 - Brand new powerful programming l
PureBasic_Upd.lha    dev/basic  523K+V1.60 - Update for registered users (fro
ShapesFix.lha        dev/basic   18K+Replacement for buggy shapes commands
Emperor.lha          dev/c      491K+Object-oriented programming language
65816_20.lzh         dev/cross  189K+65816 (SNES) assembler & disassembler
checkstack.lha       dev/debug   33K+CheckStack tool for WarpUP including Sou
audio_in_e.lha       dev/e       17K+Audio examples using audio and ahi devic
mpega_in_e.lha       dev/e        5K+Example how to use mpega.library with Am
ColorWheel.lha       dev/gui     27K+Hi-/truecolor colorwheel.gadget (44.7)
GradientSlider.lha   dev/gui      7K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.5)
Regina.lha           dev/lang   111K+Alternative REXX interpreter, major upda
FD2Pragma.lha        dev/misc   126K+V2.112 creates pragma, inline, ... files
mrq_library.lha      dev/src     79K+Fast C2P + CGX procedures for games, dem
xad_ar.lha           dev/src      9K+Ar(1) xadmaster client
xad_bzip.lha         dev/src     14K+Bzip xadmaster client
xad_CAB.lha          dev/src     43K+Cabinet (CAB) xadmaster client
xad_DImp.lha         dev/src     11K+DImp xadmaster client
xad_MSA.lha          dev/src      7K+Magic Shadow (MSA) xadmaster client
xad_ZAP.lha          dev/src      9K+ZAP xadmaster client
reindeer.txt         docs/anno    1K+A distributed rendering project
BuffyHTML.lha        docs/hyper 393K+Buffy Guide (HTML) v2.1 <FIXED> (79)
gadget45.lha         docs/mags  429K+German Freeware Magazine
Starmag23_HT.lha     docs/mags  424K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
EuroChamp.lha        docs/misc   33K+Statistics of soccer Euro Champs '60-'00
F1Champ.lha          docs/misc   59K+Statistics of Formula One '50-'00
jaaug00.lha          docs/misc   78K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of 
jajul00.lha          docs/misc   71K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of 
WorldCup.lha         docs/misc  115K+Statistics of soccer World Cups '30-'98
AtomicTetris.lzh     game/2play 198K+AtomicTetris PC clone
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (11 Sept
JB_HellRaiser.lha    game/data  2.0M+Hellraiser total conversion for James Bo
SWOSpl_11.lha        game/data   16K+SWOS - Polish League AND some advertisin
xfirelevels.lha      game/data  272K+Alternative levels for the game Crossfir
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  216K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
NapalmSG01.lha       game/hint   62K+Napalm Saved Games 01 - Missions 2 & 3
NapalmSG02.lha       game/hint   68K+Napalm Saved Games 02 - Missions 4 & 5
NapalmSG03.lha       game/hint   65K+Napalm Saved Games 03 - Missions 6 & 7
NapalmSG04.lha       game/hint   71K+Napalm Saved Games 04 - Missions 8 & 9
bauer.lha            game/misc   85K+Farm simulation (German necessary)
KC.lha               game/role   93K+Create your hero for RPG Krysztaly Czasu
LordIII.lha          game/role  2.4M+Lord of Alcandria - chapter III
PureBrain.lha        game/think 162K+Put back the symbols in the right order.
SameGame.lha         game/think  15K+Addictive puzzle game with coloured ball
simplepac.lha        game/wb     74K+Version 1.2 of the simple WB Pacman Game
WBArmy.lha           game/wb    211K+Like Scorched Tanks, but in WB window.
vlab_macro.lha       gfx/conv    52K+VLab-Macro V 1.1 Convert YUV + VLAB to I
PfPaint_ENG.lha      gfx/edit    29K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha      gfx/edit    32K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
PfPaint_V22.lha      gfx/edit   900K+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
PhotoMI.lha          gfx/edit    21K+GlowIcons toolbar for Photogenics
cnetdevice.lha       hard/drivr 134K+PCMCIA Network Card driver. V1.4
pcmser.lha           hard/drivr  14K+PCMCIA modem driver. V0.15. PD w/ src.
Mentat.lha           misc/edu   199K+Mentat 0.5.2 english2english Longman dic
Mentat_data.lha      misc/edu   842K+Mentat 0.5.2 english2english Longman dic
ChipEm.lha           misc/emu    71K+Chip 8 v0.4 Emulator by Balrog Soft
GBE.lha              misc/emu    79K+GameBoy/GameBoy Color emulator for WarpU
Nostalgia.lha        misc/emu   201K+THE Multi-Emulation system (1.8)
cutquotes.lha        misc/imdb    9K+Cuts 'quotes.list' entries down to Movie
imdbDiff000901.lha   misc/imdb  4.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff000908.lha   misc/imdb  2.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
lotto-v8.lha         misc/misc   94K+UK National Lottery Database v8 inc. 
ArtiAmiga.lha        misc/sci   693K+Artificial Intelligence simulator
DA3Demo.lha          misc/sci   2.6M+Demo of Digital Almanac III
rno-r045.lha         mods/misc  562K+Rno-label release no.45 by kure&stefan (
Eldorado.mpg         mods/mpg   5.1M+Eldorado County by Vincent & McGahey
rno-r046.mpg         mods/mpg   3.3M+Rno-label release no.46 by FarFar (Chill
tek_mtone.lha        mods/techn  57K+Monotone - minimalistic stomper
tek_pnoia.lha        mods/techn 227K+Paranoia - psycho intelligent drum
tek_vacum.lha        mods/techn  58K+Vacuum - minimalistic move
Pegase.lha           mus/misc   203K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
rsss.lha             mus/misc    75K+Realtime Sound Synthesis System (preview
EP_MFP.lha           mus/play    10K+EaglePlayer "Magnetic Fields Packer" ext
PlayGUI.lha          mus/play   574K+GUI for HIPPO,MPEGA,PLAY16 AND GMPLAY!
Granade.mpg          pix/3dani  6.1M+Animation of a hand granade
shoot.lha            pix/anim   2.3M+Working on our latest film.
tek_aos35.lha        pix/boot   516K+AmigaOS 35 - rainboot2 config (upd2nd)
tek_aos35_prv.jpg    pix/boot    33K+Amigaos 35 - rainboot2 pview (upd2nd)
tek_rwb85.lha        pix/boot   1.4M+Workbench 85 - rainboot2 config (upd2nd)
tek_rwb85_prv.jpg    pix/boot    90K+Workbench 85 - rainboot2 pview (upd2nd)
crazyGranny.lha      pix/mpg    529K+Mpeg anim of my granny playing football
scene3.lha           pix/mpg    2.1M+Scene from the set of an upcoming film.
SarajevoNight.jpg    pix/views   54K+768x512, Sarajevo at night (2000)
Zagreb.jpg           pix/views   71K+768x512, Zagreb (2000)
FreeEd.lha           text/edit  190K+This is a simple text editor. (It has a 
ascii2jascii.lha     text/misc   17K+Converts ASCII to Japanese ASCII
Kill0D.lha           text/misc    2K+Remove PC CR+LF End-Of-Lines and replace
DSLT02.lha           text/print  20K+DrawStudio's Templates for labels 02 v1.
AntiBlanker.lha      util/blank   9K+A tool that disables your screen blanker
PPS.lha              util/boot   48K+Password Protection for your WB / No mor
Rainboot3.lha        util/boot  864K+Multimedia Has Got A Name v3.0
RandomScenery.lha    util/boot   15K+More than just workbench backdrops
TurboVal.lha         util/boot   17K+The best validator for FFS (v1.9)
Scheduler.lha        util/cdity  33K+Schedule manager and viewer, v1.8
DiskLED1.2.lha       util/cli    15K+DiskLED V1.2 + Source(asm), Moves the LE
HexShow.lha          util/cli     4K+Shows files as Hex
InitPPCLib.lha       util/cli     2K+InitPPCLib: brings ppc.library back
SED.lha              util/cli    13K+Amiga stream editor
ilbmdt44.lha         util/dtype   8K+Improved ilbmdt (44.21)
RGFX-DT.lha          util/dtype 126K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (43.14)
RGFX-DT35.lha        util/dtype  51K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (44.2)
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) 
WarpPNGdt.lha        util/dtype 131K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) 
muitoolkit_src.lha   util/libs   48K+V1.1 - The MUI Toolkit library SRC (FREE
Resistor.lha         util/misc   50K+Code&Decode the color rings at resistors
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   28K+Identifies your Amiga
arc2arc27.lha        util/rexx    4K+Convert any archive format easily
cdmp.lha             util/rexx   22K+Helps to create mp3 from CD's (german)
Dev-Handler.lha      util/sys    22K+Un*x like raw device access handler plus
StringSnip.lha       util/sys    12K+Much better editing features in string g
TransPrefs171.lha    util/sys    15K+Translator Prefs (German) 
simpleclock.lha      util/time   17K+Version 1.5 of the analog clock (OS3.5)
Safe.lha             util/virus  18K+Safe v14.2 - virus dicovering system
vht-vg31.lha         util/virus  85K+VirusWarning.Guide v3.1 (VHT-DK)
BosnianLocale.lha    util/wb     27K+Bosnian AmigaOS 3.1 localization v2
CopyIcon44.lha       util/wb      6K+CopyNewIcon clone for os3.5 (44.3)
DefIcons44.lha       util/wb     64K+DefIcons clone for os3.5 (44.6a)
Dynamite.lha         util/wb     57K+Start button and explorer in one. Fast.
Ico2Info.lha         util/wb      5K+Converts .ICO to .info (44.5)
IconLink.lha         util/wb     23K+Creates Links to icons (OS 3.5 only!)
Image2Icon.lha       util/wb     19K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.8
tv-prog.lha          util/wb    306K+(PL/CZ) TV programe on computer! [v0.80]


[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 02:00] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Tom Duin at ANF


BindAssigns Released
BindAssigns is a little shell-program that can replace the MakeDir and Assign entries in the Startup-Sequence. Furthermore it can replace the MUI-assign entries in the User-Startup.

Download: BindAssigns.lha

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 01:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


VirusExecutor V2.05
Jan Erik Olausen released version 2.05 of "VirusExecutor" on September 23rd, 2000. It is easy to use. It analyzes unknown bootblocks automaticly and checks the memory, executables and LHA-, LZX- and ZIP-archives for viruses.

The program runs on all Amigas using AmigaOS 2.04 or higher, reqtools.library V38.11, xvs.library V33.13, and xfdmaster.library V38.6.

Download: VirusExecutor.lha (223 114 Bytes)

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 01:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


ARexx.com is Looking for Scripts
ARexx.com is about ARexx. For their Script-library they are looking for Arexx-scripts. You can send them to scripts@arexx.com. The sections available at the moment are Stricq, Final writer, Voyager, Yam, Cloanto Personal Paint, and misc.

Additional they want to offer tutorials, and to establish a projects-page.

[News message: 25. Sep. 2000, 01:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
Timm S. Mueller on ANF


www.neoscientists.org Online again
The website of Neoscientists is online again.

In the section "binary distillery" there are freeware tools and libraries ready for download. Among others the latest versions of render.library, guigfx.library, mysticview.library and neuralnet.library. Smaller updates exists for the picture viewer Mysticview (1.04) and the mosaic renderer Flickwerk (0.0.4).

The group is now developing more intensively for the new operating system and has established a subsection where first downloads, announcements and developer support is offered.

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 11:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
ANN


AIO Issue 39 Released
On September, 23rd 2000 issue 39 of Amiga Information Online has been released.

Download: AIOV39.LHA

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 11:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
ANN


Amihoo Magazine #2 Released
On September, 23rd 2000 the second issue of the Amihoo-Magazine has been released. It covers the following topics:
  • Review: Bubble Heroes from Crystal Interactive Software.
  • Report: SEALORAMA Show Report.
  • Editorial "Half of Amiga Owners are tight fisted misers"
  • Ross Vumbaca. (Australian Correspondant) Talks about the forthcoming ACE 2k Show in Australia
  • Talkback Let off Steam about the anything Amiga. We want your views! Win £20 for it too!

In addition to this there's a poll regarding the subject "Are the Majority of Amiga Owners tight fisted Misers?".

Amihoo is a link directory especially for the Amiga.

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 11:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
David Connolly via email


Amiga Survivor Update
There appeared technical problems for the Amiga Survivor Magazine:

Amiga Survivor update

Unfortunately the delicate machinery which hosts Amiga Survivor was severely damaged in transit when it was on its way to our layout artist. The result of that is an unavoidable delay while the A4000 that hosts Amiga Survivor is patched up. We are trying to arrange the layout files to be sent to our experienced graphic designer as soon as possible, and two issues are ready to go out when the machinery is repaired. They are Issue 9 (scheduled for August 10th) and Issue 10 (October 10th issue). We are also working on a Christmas special at the moment.

I am happy to have Amiga Survivor on the books and I'm looking forward to producing many fine issues. As soon as is humanly possible we will begin to release issues of AS.

To help the Amiga games scene I am pleased to announce Amiga Survivor will be carrying a coverdisk every issue with a free copy of a recent hit, all for the same price of £3.99 UK, £4.99 Europe or £5.99 Rest of World. We hope to help the existing Amiga games market by working with current publishers and offering them a good income when sales through the conventional routes may have dried up. As a former Amiga games publisher CS&E will offer Max Rally with Issue 9 and the previously unseen Cosmo's Fun Class with Issue 10. Single issues of Amiga Survivor will be available from all good Amiga dealers, while subscriptions are exclusively available directly from CS&E.

Kind Regards,

David Connolly
Publisher, Amiga Survivor.
http://welcome.to/amigasurvivor
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum, Oxford Business Park, Oxford, OX4 2JZ, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 481 421
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 481 482

http://www.CSandE.co.uk

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 09:46] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


AmigaWatchDog now at Amiga Realm
AmigaWatchDog is now part of Amiga Realm. AmigaWatchDog makes it possible for users to rate retailers, so it is easier to find a good retailer using the collected data. AmigaWatchDog was founded by Daniel Hutchinson.

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 09:46] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


BlueBlackSolution is Looking for Speakers
BlueBlack Solution is looking for speakers for their real time strategy game "Operation Counterstrike". In detail the following voices are needed:
  • man: russian accent, english and/or german language
  • man: english/american accent, english language
  • woman: english/american accent, english language


[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 09:46] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


New Amiga Games Site
Epic Direct Ltd., not to mix up with Epic Marketing, offers on www.amigagames.co.uk games news which are also sent via mailing list, a data base including a search function with a multitude of games and more than 500 games on disc and 250+ games on CD for sale.

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 09:46] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
Olaf Koenig via email


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Interviews!
New interviews with Peter Arman (Legend of the Elves) and Elmar Plischke (Klotz) online!

Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
The following shareware programs can be obtained for a special bargain at the moment.

The special bargain is valid until 30.09.2000
Software: JST
Developer: Jean-Francois Fabre
Price: 10 DM

The special bargain is valid until 31.10.2000
Software: PhotoAlbum/Cybershow Paket
Developer: Helmut Hoffmann
Price: 35 DM

The special bargain is valid until 28.02.2001
Software: AmiATLAS
Price: 79 DM

The special bargain is valid unlimited!
Software: SHARKS AGA and Multi
Developer: Christian Steiner
Price: 5 DM

Software: SHARKS CD32 Version
Price: 20 DM

The special bargain is valid unlimited!
Software: Boulderdäsh
Developer: Guido Meresmann
Price: 10 DM

The Amiga Arena doesn't gain any fee from the developers etc.
Only for You - Amiga Arena NON Profit Shareware Support!

New actions to follow!

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 07:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
Manfred Rauer on ANF


The AccM Asks for Your Help
Manfred Rauer wrote:
The AccM is not only a simple computer club where technic enthusiastic computer freaks meet to talk about games. We rather make an effort to develope useful software (and games) and to put them to everybody's disposal.

The club has only one small big problem. They don't have enough capacities in the areas of programming, music, graphics & animations, and 3D modeling.

Therefor we're searching all the time for capable people, who want to support us. But we also want to offer something for this. Everybody who has an idea regarding a project may register it here. It will be presented here, and others not involved have the possibility to take part in it. It shall be a kind of a meetin-place where as many as possible shall take part. It's free and nobody is forced to aquire a membership.

It would be sad and also a big loss for us if nobody could be won over this cool idea. This would mean "Say good bye" to this plan, and again a good thing and a main part of our base idea of which our club is the result would disappear from the scene.

Everbody with questions may write to the POI (Manfred Rauer) and ask for more informations.

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 06:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
The BaYona on ANF


Meternet - Press Release from Amiga
Regarding the Simplebox by Meternet there's a longer press release from Amiga Inc.

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 06:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
Stefan Martens at ANF


Official HBMonopoly Online Gaming at #AmigaFun
Stefan Martens wrote:
On #AmigaFun IRC channel a HBMonopoly online gaming is taking place on Oktober, 1st. The programmer himself will be online too, and he's very interested in your ideas.

Everybody interested in taking part in the game should get by on Sunday evening at around 18:00 h. Please download the latest verion of HBMonopoly from http://hbmonopoly.home.pages.de. It may well be that V2.5 will be released in the next few days. This one is a must then to take part. And you should also already have a look at HBMonopoly and possibly play it OFFLINE against the computer. All further things we'll tell you on Sunday on #AmigaFun! #AmigaFun is to find at:
  • irc.germany.net
  • #AmigaFun
  • Port 6667


[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 06:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
Paplo on ANF


TaskiSMS V2.0
A new version of TaskiSMS has been released. Many new functions are added in version 2.0. Now the program can send SMS to 826 cellular telephone networks in 120 countries worldwide thanks to new plugins.

Download: TaskiSMS.lha, readme

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 06:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
David Cross on ANF


Amiga auctions: AmiBid Version 2.0 online |
AmiBid is an auction platform free of charge specially for the Amiga and now online in version 2.0 - the first version made some problems and some features were missing.

The following has been changed:
  • improved layout.
  • improved cathegories.
  • improved information concerning the pieces on auction.
  • improved forum.

With this update the URL has also been changed. AmiBid can now be accessed at http://server2039.virtualave.net/amibid/cgi-bin/auction.cgi and should be accessible with every browser.

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 05:56] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Sep.2000
Sylvio K. on ANF


Manga@Amiga-Page with New Layout
The Manga@Amiga-Page is engaged in Manga connected with the Amiga. So there are not only graphics and wallpapers ready for download but there's among others a list with Amiga games within the bounds of Manga.

Now this site has got a complete new layout and is accessible via a new domain. It's: http://amiga.2xs.net/. Because of the move there may be some empty links caused by the server. Because of this Sylvio asks to inform him about such links.

To suppress advertising windows Sylvio suggests switching off Javascript.

[News message: 24. Sep. 2000, 05:56] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Sep.2000
Deflone on ANF


SMSEngineerMUI is now E-Mailware
SMSEngineerMUI 1.0.2 has just been uploaded to the Aminet. We have decided to let people register our software for free, because we believe that coding should be fun, now shouldn't it? The same is true for SMSEngineerMUI :), it is fun; and why should anybody have to pay to have some fun.

We are still looking for translators for our software, so please contact us. Comments and ideas for improvement are welcome of course.

Download: smsengineermui.lha

[News message: 23. Sep. 2000, 12:46] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Sep.2000
Schatztruhe


Aminet CD39 - 10/2000 to be Available soon
Aminet CD 39 - Oktober 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (unpacked) of software in thousands of archives. Since Aminet CD 38 over 500 MB of new files have been added. As a special highlight, Aminet 39 contains the fantastic pinballs Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions. The three pinballs can be run from CD or harddrive.

News since release 33 and once more updated: The popular News-Archive amiga-news.de by Petra Struck is now part of every Aminet-CD (in german and english) and may be directly viewed from the readme-file with the included browser. We thank all of their participants for their great informational work for the Amiga-Users worldwide.

[News message: 23. Sep. 2000, 03:31] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Sep.2000
Amiga Impact


A-Zone CD magazine Nº 1 to be Available soon
The first CD-magazine of our french partner-site Amiga Impact will be available for end of september. A complete overview of the contents, which is full of french news, reviews, workshops, demos and much more can be found at the titellink.

[News message: 23. Sep. 2000, 03:31] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Sep.2000
Blittersoft


Bubble Heroes was Finished
Bubble Heroes, a game distributed by Crystal Interactive Software was finished and is available at the stores.

What is this game all about?

Once upon a time... The magical world of Radya is in serious danger. The peacefullness and the joy of this realm is threatened by a dark, evil knight named Gonzul and his bunglers, arrived on floating islands from unknown parts of the universe. Gonzul's aim is to conquer and enslave the world: to gain this objective he abducted the four Nimphs, sources of power and pillars of peace and richness, bleeding their energy and life. The Queen of these Nimphs, Adora, during her kidnapping had spread by her mental powers a message to all the heroes of Radya: to rescue the Nimphs.

All together, the four Nimphs can unite their forces in order to activate a magical weapon, which is the only hope to destroy Gonzul and his floating realm saving the entire world from his evil shadow. Will you be able to follow the heroes in this desperate mission?

[News message: 23. Sep. 2000, 03:31] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Sep.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS News
There are new archives available for MorphOS, an emulation for Amigas equipped with PPC. In detail:
  • Update: ixemul-dev.tgz
  • New release: dvidvi-1.1-bin.tgz, wget-1.5.2-bin.tgz, unixtex-6.1b-bin.tgz, texinfo-3.11-bin.tgz
  • IXEmul Tools and Programs: IXEmul Directory. Make sure to read the IMPORTANT.README file!! NOTE: This section is PPC only files. You must read the IMPORTANT.README file.


[News message: 23. Sep. 2000, 03:31] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Sep.2000
Ron Goertz


FWCalendar Update Version 4.05
Ron Goertz has overworked his Arexx-scripts for creating calendars with FinalWriter.

Download: FWCalendar.lzx and also Installation tips.

[News message: 23. Sep. 2000, 03:31] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Sep.2000
Richard H. Poser by eMail


AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9391 Available
The new betaversion 0.9391 of AmigaAIM, the AOL Instant Messanger for Amiga, is available for download. Changes are listed in the following list:
  • Added Menu Item for starting another copy of AmigAIM
  • Modified Mail Window for Context Menu to select Individual or Several Addresses to be checked or cleared.
  • Mail window can now be set to not open and/or pop to front while Away
  • Added Script capability for Mail checked with Mail on Server
  • Removed problem with receiving one Mac AIM version's Instant Messages
  • Removed bug with ScreenName prefs, should modify on first start after upgrade
  • Added Prefs item to keep Buddy List on top, if open and a Requester isn't opened (Buddy List on top would prevent the Requester from ever being seen)
  • Removed bug with receiving IM from Buddy not on Buddy List, shouldn't crash now.
  • Removed bug with the Idling prefs being totally unused.


[News message: 23. Sep. 2000, 01:02] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Sep.2000
CIS


Crystal Interactive Software announces Partnership with Blittersoft
Crystal Interactive Software announces that Blittersoft will take over the worldwide distribution of their software.

[News message: 22. Sep. 2000, 12:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Sep.2000
AmigArt


Workbench2000 Version 1.6 Released
Workbench2000 is a taskbar which you can use to start programs as you know it from Windows.

Download: WB2000.lha

[News message: 22. Sep. 2000, 12:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Sep.2000
Sebastian Bauer


FreeCiv Developer Version 1.13 Released
Freeciv is a round-based multiple player strategty game, released under the GNU General Public License. You can compare it to Civilization II® by Microprose®.

Download: freeciv_devel.lzx - 821 KB

[News message: 22. Sep. 2000, 12:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Sep.2000
Thomas Dellert via eMail


Press release G-Rex-PCI
We from DCE, leading manufacturer of accelerator boards and accessories in the Amiga market, are glad to announce to the Amiga community that we can satisfy the want for faster graphics boards, good and cheap sound cards, as well as PCI ethernet network cards.

For the entire (German) press release, click on the titlelink.

[News message: 22. Sep. 2000, 06:13] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Sep.2000
Norman on ANF


One more PCI Board for AMIGA?
On the main page of the DCE website is a so far mysterious product announcement. As it appears, G-REX is a PCI board for AMIGA and probably compatible to the Voodoo 3 card. For those interested, there's a PDF file for download. Link see below.

Stay tuned for some BLACK MAGIC...
Voodoo 3 hits the Amiga!
Prepare for G-Rex, the new PCI board from DCE -
and be ready for Voodoo 3 magic on your Amiga!
Curious? Want to learn more? Have a look at our
VOODOO TEASER (PDF)!

[News message: 22. Sep. 2000, 05:38] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Sep.2000
Amiga Realm via eMail


AmigaWatchDog now at Amiga Realm
AmigaWatchDog, the website designed by Daniel Hutchinson, where readers can voice their experiences with Amiga companies and get tips where they can buy their products cheap, is now at Amiga Realm, the Amiga web directory and will be continued there.

[News message: 22. Sep. 2000, 01:23] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Sep.2000
DirOpus 4


Directory Opus 4 Version 4.15a (Beta) Released
Jake Rzeuski has continously developed the free source code of GP Software and has now released a new beta version 4.15a of the file-manager for download. In this version NewIcons and GlowIcons are 100% supported and the size informations of files are listed in KB/MB/GB in listers.

Download: DOpus415JRbin.lha - 334 KB

[News message: 21. Sep. 2000, 12:02] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Sep.2000
Lambda


Development of Lambda "Pauses"
The status of development of the freetime project "Lambda", a high quality 3D spacegame development, was set on "pause".

[News message: 21. Sep. 2000, 12:02] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


The End of ImageEngineer
Czech Amiga News has asked Marko Seppaenen, developer of ImageEngineer, a gfx-package for Amiga, why he leaves the Amiga Community. In his answer Marko said it would be easy to declare software piracy and bad sells as reasons for this step or he could tell a long story about the reasons, but he will not, because he do not want to offend the Amiga Community.

[News message: 21. Sep. 2000, 12:02] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Sep.2000
AmiDog


AMP 2 version V2pre4 Released
A pre-version of the MPEG-Player AMP 2 was released, in which the problem of not functioning slides was fixed. The AC3 decoder can now be used for listening AC3Streams in DVD clips.

Download: AMP2pre4.lha

[News message: 21. Sep. 2000, 12:02] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Sep.2000
BoingWorld


Fnurr2000 Released
With Fnurr2000, an old, funny and very simple game was released. In this new programmed game you have to let small pixels explode. (Avoid homing pixels)

Download:fnurr2000.lha - 140 kb

[News message: 21. Sep. 2000, 12:02] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Sep.2000
Anu Seilonen on ANF


Finnish Amiga User Group Announces User Group Meeting
ESPOO, FINLAND - September 21, 2000 - Finnish Amiga Users Group will host its annual user group meeting on Saturday, September 30th from 14:00 h to 17:45 h in Espoo, Finland. The event will start with a formal meeting, and an informal part will follow after 15:30 o'clock.

An Amiga dealer will be present with various Amiga items for sale. The user group will also demonstrate the Amiga Software Development Kit on Linux. Other highlights include various Amiga magazines for reading, demonstration of licensed Amiga mobile phone covers and plenty of good company. Admission is free of charge and free soft drinks will be available.

Please visit the titlelink or our mirror site http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/ for instructions on how to get there, latest news, IRC coverage, webcam and more. E-mail inquiries may be sent to Anu Seilonen.

About the Finnish Amiga User Group:
Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in Finland. Also known as Saku. After its e-zine the group is trying to accomplish its goals by organizing meetings and by publishing an e-zine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga User Group and its predecessors have released over thirty issues of the magazine and held several public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet, a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.

[News message: 21. Sep. 2000, 08:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Sep.2000
The BaYona on ANF


MeterNet SimpleBox & TAO Press Release
New, Easy-to-Use, Solid State Internet Device Products Powered By Next Generation Amiga Technologies include Java® and Media Streaming Support. Snoqualmie, WA - Reno, NV-September 20, 2000 - Business Wire - Targeting the millions of computerless and offline consumers worldwide who will soon be broadband enabled, Amiga and MeterNet have teamed to develop and deliver a series of broadband SimpleBox Internet Devices powered by the next generation Amiga.

Tao Group: intentTM Official Support Centre to open in Japan

September 19, 2000 - Berkshire-based Tao Group Limited and Fujitsu Aichi Engineering Limited (Fujitsu AEL) have agreed to open an intent Official Support Centre in Japan, to provide technical support services for Japanese corporate users of Tao's intent, an extremely high performance multimedia JavaTM execution environment.
The JavaTM language is becoming increasingly popular in the Japanese consumer market, particularly in PDAs, set-top boxes and mobile Internet devices, and Tao's intent is making inroads due to its minimal memory footprint. intent is also proving successful because of its system-level binary portability across software and hardware platforms - a fundamental factor in the embedded market where there are so many different CPUs and operating systems.

[News message: 21. Sep. 2000, 08:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Sep.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail


Official Annoucement from Elbox
Contents of this pressrelease is a technical presentation (pro Mediator) vs. the Predator PCI busboard from Eyetech.

Because none of both PCI busboards is available at present we can not figure out the truth of this comparison.

Experience reports of users are welcome.

Elbox Computer
Krakow, 21 Sep 2000

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

We, Elbox Computer company, the company involved with microcomputer technology for over 18 years, the company with the principles of reliability, honesty and care for our clients, feel obliged to release this announcement to protect interests of Amiga users.

For several weeks now, the Eyetech company has been involved in a propaganda action against our breakthrough product for Amiga computers: the MEDIATOR PCI. Eyetech publish and disseminate untrue views on MEDIATOR, the exceptional busboard, and compare this high-end product with their announced device.

It is not our way to comment on others' activities, yet under the current circumstances we feel obliged to explain this situation and Eyetech's accusations to Amiga users and to comment on the idea indicated by Eyetech (or any other company behind the Eyetech nametag).

BLIZZARD PPC LOCAL BUS LIMITATIONS:

Eyetech announced releasing a product they called competitive to our MEDIATOR high-end card. Technical specification of this product has been announced in such a way that Amiga users would have to misread it.

The idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to Blizzard PPC cards gives worse performance than MEDIATOR because:
  1. This solution is only for owners of Blizzard PPC accelerators. You have to stick with your Blizzard PPC 603e for ever. No change, no open structure, no versatility.
  2. Practical average data transfers over the busboard connected directly to Blizzard PPC cards will not be higher than achieved with MEDIATOR - due to technical limitations of Blizzard PPC cards.
  3. Connection of a busboard to the connector used for inserting a BVision card renders further use of the BVision card impossible.

MEDIATOR OPEN SOLUTION:

The MEDIATOR high-end busboard is the best solution for Amiga computers to offer high-speed support for PCI cards.

The MEDIATOR busboard is a well-thought product, with long-standing history of design development and a vision for its lasting evolution, to give Amiga users power they have not had so far.

Our basic idea is that MEDIATOR is an OPEN solution, capable of hosting ANY turbo cards from the Amiga market. MEDIATOR is not reduced to a Blizzard PPC-bound concept. MEDIATOR gives you the possibility to have any turbo card you want.

MEDIATOR has been designed specifically for all the available cards and each and every turbo card works with MEDIATOR at the maximum speed available for the given card.

MEDIATOR PCI may offer transfer of data from/to any Amiga turbo card at the maximum speed of up to 132 MB/s. The only practical limitation lies in the design of the specific turbo card.

MEDIATOR is expandable, even more: it is ready for any new Amiga cards that will be available in the future - this gives you freedom that you have never had before.

You can use MEDIATOR with any turbo cards: Blizzard 1230, Blizzard 1240, Blizzard 1260, Blizzard PPC, Apollo 1230, Apollo 1240, Apollo 1260, Elbox 1230, MTec 1230, etc. and with any future concepts like Amijoe and more...

MEDIATOR ADVANTAGES:

MEDIATOR has been designed optimised for any turbo card type, so that the maximum possible performance is obtained in the given hardware configuration.

MEDIATOR automatically recognises the turbo card type and executes the best procedures to guarantee the highest performance possible in this configuration. This is an unrivalled feature.

This approach is much more time- and effort- and money-consuming than the concept of supporting Blizzard PPC cards only.

Besides, the idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to Blizzard PPC cards does not give you, the Amiga user, any additional speed gains when compared with MEDIATOR - you will only feel that Eyetech's design is simpler and possibly definitely cheaper.

We feel very sorry that Eyetech in this context is apparently discrediting MEDIATOR's performance while being well aware of their fallacy.

ABOUT ELBOX:

We have been developing and producing electronic equipment since 1982. Our superb Amiga designs include:
  • E-BOX tower systems and ZORRO busboards for A1200 and A4000 (also known as Power Tower in the UK and Winner Tower in Germany);
  • Elbox FastATA controllers for A1200 and A4000 (known also under the name of Power Flyer in the UK and Winner HighSpeed Controller in Germany);
  • Memory expansion cards for all types of Amiga computers and many other minor accessories, e.g. PC Mouse interfaces (Mroocheck, Punchinello), others.

Elbox is also the owner of Twin Spark Soft, a company producing software for Amiga computers (in the Polish language only). Besides Amiga devices, we design and produce industrial controllers (e.g. for injection moulding machines) and many other high-end devices in the fields of radio- and telecommunications (e.g. call systems, pagers, speech coding devices).

NEW:

Please look for our further releases about ELBOX products for Amiga computers to be on sale by the end of this year:
  1. MEDIATOR evolution line (A4000 and A3000);
  2. The TOTALLY NEW breakthrough turbo cards for Amiga computers (A4000, A3000, A1200).

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department

[News message: 21. Sep. 2000, 08:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Sep.2000
Vincent Perkins on ANF


AmigaNG.com Back Online!
AmigaNG is now back online after a long hollyday away. So please visit the Number 1 web site for info on the next generation of Amiga!

[News message: 20. Sep. 2000, 07:51] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Sep.2000
Marco Dittmann on ANF


Future of Warpgate in the Air
As the webmaster Andreas Wendorf told during an IRC interview yesterday, the future of Warpgate is in the air. He found fault both, the programmers and software companies acceptance, who only support the Warp9 team with news in an inadequate way.

The English news site all around the subjects of WarpOS and Warp3D, which was put online in March 1999 was already stopped once, and then was restarted again in February 2000 after numerous user requests.

[News message: 20. Sep. 2000, 07:51] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Sep.2000
Darkage Software


Darkage Software will Attend the Pianeta Amiga 2000
Darkage Software, the creators of games like "Tales from Heaven", "Powerball", "Extreme", and "Supreme" will attend the Amiga show "Pianeta Amiga 2000 expo", which will be held in Empoli, Itali, 30th September 30th to 1st October. Darkage will present previews of Powerball, and Supreme and also will introduce projects under development.

[News message: 20. Sep. 2000, 05:00] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Sep.2000
Apex Designs


New Payback Status Report
In this new status report the author James Daniels tells that the game now supports two CD playback modes, he mainly dealt with development of new levels, and new vehicles, and some bugs were fixed. Furthermore the game engine was optimized to make it faster, and a lot of graphics were redrawn, professionally.

James Daniels asks, if a support of PSX controllers is of interest, and he would like to get to know your opinion via eMail.

[News message: 20. Sep. 2000, 05:00] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Sep.2000
AmigaAMP


AmigaAMP 2.8 BETA-8 Released
Version 2.8 Beta-8 for the MPEG audio player "AmigaAMP" for Amiga was released. The author Thomas Wenzel notes that this update was done very fast, due to his Amiga needs to be repaired urgently, and it might take him one or two weeks to reply on e-mails.

A new config editor by Daniel Westernberg is available.

Download: AmigaAMP28b8.lha - 560 KB


[News message: 20. Sep. 2000, 05:00] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Sep.2000
Sebastian Bauer


SimplePac Version 1.2
A new version for the Workbench game SimplePac was released. New is the resizeable game window and a hiscore list. Furthermore own sounds, keyboard, and joystick are supported, now.

Download: simplepac.lzx - 73 KB

[News message: 20. Sep. 2000, 05:00] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Sep.2000
clickBOOM


Nightlong at the Duplicators now
In the so called S-File of clickBOOM Sofia announces Nightlong to be at the duplicators now, and the game to be available soon. Furthermore a movie (7 MB) of the toughest Amiga devotee is available for download.

Download: tattoo1.avi - 7 MB - The Toughest Amigan Movie

[News message: 20. Sep. 2000, 05:00] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Sep.2000
Michael Luense via eMail


New Addon for YAM
Michael Luense has finished a new addon for YAM. This is a little Arexx program which opens several requesters for e-mail editing or viewing and saving of attachments. The archive comes with both, an English and a German version.

[News message: 20. Sep. 2000, 03:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Explorer Dissuasiveness: Trial and Net Demonstration
«At the county court Duesseldorf, Germany, today from 10 o'Clock the case Stefan Muenz vs Symicron company will be tried orally. Symicron claims him to have violated brand law by putting a link to FTP-Explorer. Muenz is the author of the widely spread online manual SELFHTML

«Financial support for Muenz comes from Freedom for Links (FFL). This society build from an internet intiative has already collected 50,000 DM of donations, which shall make possible a sample case against Symicron and their lawyer Guenter Freiherr von Gravenreuth through all instances. "Furthermore the FFL organised together with Muenz a net demonstraion. Website carriers are asked to displace their homepages with a ready made Demo-Site on Wednesday, adverting the case", said Uschi Hering, speaker of FFL, during a talk with c't. "There is vast reception. We have the impression that this is the first demonstration in the net working."»
Entire article at the titlelink (German).

Currently there are a number of 428 websites registered to participate. We will report on the case during this day.

[News message: 20. Sep. 2000, 03:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Sep.2000
Freedom for Links


Stefan Muenz Wins a Hop
Stefan Muenz was able to win a hop in the oral trial this morning at the county court Duesseldorf, Germany. The case is Stefan Muenz vs the Symicron company who charged Stefan Munez to have violated brand law by putting a link to FTP-Explorer into his Self-HTML. For details see the previous message on this subject.

The chief judge Dr. Fudickar: "We are tending not to presume a possibility of mistake in name between Explorer and FTP-Explorer."

Dr. Hans-Jochen Krieger: "So we would like to enforce your opinion."


[News message: 20. Sep. 2000, 01:05] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
19.Sep.2000
Andreas Steup on ANF


ParaGlide News
According to an e-mail I recieved from Villagetronic, the Amiga section has been placed into competent hands:

"The Paraglide will be finished and produced by the developers themselves. (...) For more detailed information please ask burkert@sophisticated-development.de.

So perhaps something will happen within this year for the 3D hardware accelerator for the PicassoIV. Blittersoft already accepts preorders for the card.

[News message: 19. Sep. 2000, 11:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
19.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


WarpGIF-Datatype Bugfixes
There is a major bugfix for WarpGIF-DT (v40.2), which fixes most of the known bugs.
  • corrupted pictures resulted in a crash due to a bug in the program
  • transparency now supported, IBrowse displays the correct pictures
  • the first frame should be loaded and displayed for most GIF anims
  • Only the global color palette is loaded right now, the local color palette is skipped
  • the OM_UPDATE method might return an undefined value occassionally, but this doesn't cause troubles until now


[News message: 19. Sep. 2000, 11:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
19.Sep.2000
Thomas-Peter Klug on ANF


WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1
Download:

WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Win9x/2k (DirectX 5):
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.2_build_1_directx5.zip

WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Windows NT (DirectX 3):
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.2_build_1_directx3.zip

[News message: 19. Sep. 2000, 11:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Sep.2000
Martin Merz at ANF


MI-News: AppMI - 2. Update
AppMI is a collection of images and animations for toolbars that uses the GlowIcons-design.

The second update is completed, now.

The archive contains 64 new or reworked images and 4 new animations.

As an special feature we added the toolbar images for Photogenics. The archive will be released at the Aminet, too.

Registered users will get the archive via E-Mail.

[News message: 18. Sep. 2000, 12:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Web Survey: Windows Way Ahead
As an exception we are citing the entire article from Heise.

«With the survey on the best operating system at MSNBX things turned in a wonderfull way. On Friday morning Linux still was ahead with 28% of 18,500 votes, as reported, and now the percentage of votes for the free operating system decreased to 3% of 384,848 votes, untill Sunday evening.

This survey took a curious way: Linux had its grand level at about 03:00 AM with 39%, of the up to that time given 29,100 votes a number of 11,350 belonged to the free operating system. Within the following 20 hours 126,500 votes more were given, of which only 800 voted for Linux (0.6%), stunningly. By that the percentage of votes for Windows 95/98/ME, as well as for NT/2000 was dubbled. Now some are getting suspicious that there must have happened some manipulation. Don't trust any statistics you didn't faked yourself.... »

Supplement 09-19-2000: Andreas Mixich via eMail
Microsoft accepted that the survey was manipulated and in the meantime it was removed leaving the following note:

EDITOR'S NOTE:
Sept. 18 MSNBC has removed the Live Vote originally published with this story due to what appeared to be electronic ballot stuffing. The Live Vote, which asked readers which personal computer operating system they think is the best, received a large influx of votes in the past few days, skewing the results. MSNBC has removed the Vote in light of this. MSNBC Live Votes are not scientifically valid surveys.

[News message: 18. Sep. 2000, 12:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha     biz/dbase  116K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.4)
StarBase_CLI.lha     biz/dbase  104K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v3.7b)
StarBase_SCR.lha     biz/dbase  109K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v2.1b)
DalWatch.lha         comm/irc     3K+Interface to Server-side Notify on Dalne
lcr-i.lha            comm/misc  109K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
lcr.lha              comm/misc  112K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
Emperor.lha          dev/c      491K+Object-oriented programming language
checkstack.lha       dev/debug   33K+CheckStack tool for WarpUP including Sou
FD2Pragma.lha        dev/misc   126K+V2.112 creates pragma, inline, ... files
xad_ar.lha           dev/src      9K+Ar(1) xadmaster client
xad_bzip.lha         dev/src     14K+Bzip xadmaster client
xad_CAB.lha          dev/src     43K+Cabinet (CAB) xadmaster client
xad_DImp.lha         dev/src     11K+DImp xadmaster client
xad_MSA.lha          dev/src      7K+Magic Shadow (MSA) xadmaster client
xad_ZAP.lha          dev/src      9K+ZAP xadmaster client
reindeer.txt         docs/anno    1K+A distributed rendering project
SameGame.lha         game/think  15K+Addictive puzzle game with coloured ball
WBArmy.lha           game/wb    211K+Like Scorched Tanks, but in WB window.
Nostalgia.lha        misc/emu   201K+THE Multi-Emulation system (1.8)
cutquotes.lha        misc/imdb    9K+Cuts 'quotes.list' entries down to Movie
imdbDiff000908.lha   misc/imdb  2.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
DA3Demo.lha          misc/sci   2.6M+Demo of Digital Almanac III
RandomScenery.lha    util/boot   15K+More than just workbench backdrops
TurboVal.lha         util/boot   17K+The best validator for FFS (v1.9)
Resistor.lha         util/misc   50K+Code&Decode the color rings at resistors
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   28K+Identifies your Amiga
Safe.lha             util/virus  18K+Safe v14.2 - virus dicovering system
Dynamite.lha         util/wb     57K+Start button and explorer in one. Fast.


[News message: 18. Sep. 2000, 12:27] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Sep.2000
Amitrix


AWeb-II News
For a longer time there were no news about AWeb-II, a browser by Yvon Rozijn, distributed by Amitrix Development. Today there are some.

Michael Lange informed us about some reports about a AWeb 3.4 betaversion at the AWeb-mailinglist. But he has no informations about new features.

You can find a new norwegian version of the AWeb-II localization catalogues and updateted versions of some plugins. Furthermore they have now an extra page for the AWeb-Mailinglist.

[News message: 18. Sep. 2000, 12:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Sep.2000
GoldED


GoldED Studio 6: Extended Distribution
The following distibutors will offer GoldED Studio:


[News message: 18. Sep. 2000, 12:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Sep.2000
Bright Light Software


Audiomaster2k and AmiMDC800 Updates
At the software area you find updates of Audiomaster2K, a sample editor. The software is shareware and with the alphaversion 0.52a available for download you will not be able to save your work.

AmiMDC-800 were updated, too. The new release has the version number 1.73. You can use this program to control your Mustek MDC-800 and transfer pictures to your computer. Because the software is a commercial product you, will not be able to transfer pictures with the downloadable version.

[News message: 18. Sep. 2000, 12:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Sep.2000
MakeCD Support


MakeCD 3.2d Beta 3 Released
The new public betaversion 3.2d Beta 3 for MakeCD, a CD burning program for Amiga, is available now. The archive contains only the new binaries. That's why you need version 3.2c for installaling the new version (have a look at the History).

Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_3.lha

[News message: 18. Sep. 2000, 12:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Sep.2000
Olaf Köbnik


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
Amiga Arena presents MusicMan III as a special Amiga Arena version. Together with Andreas Mair we made a free registration possible (MusicMan III is shareware. 30 DM is the normal price.) MusicMan III is a software for managing your LP-, CD-, MC- and single collection.

Amiga Arena - E.N.D. Part II
Marko Seppaenen, developer of ImageEngineer, leaves the Amiga ! So, once again we are loosing a developer!

[News message: 18. Sep. 2000, 09:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Sep.2000
Harald Frank on ANF


ISDN-Mon V4 Available
At the time being Dirk Tietke is not able to maintain his homepage and to fix the known problems with broken links. Furthermore it is not possible to say when he will be able to access his webserver with his Amiga computer again, and to provide new updates.

That's the reason why we made the archive available at our own downloadside.

This leads to the download site

[News message: 18. Sep. 2000, 09:26] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Sep.2000
Manfred Rauer on ANF


COMA, Is That a Virus?
NO! COMA is the name of the new clubmagazin (German) of the "Allgemeiner ComputerClub Magdeburg" (AccM). Presumably it will be published on the 7th of october 2000 at our homepage. The first issue will feature a report about the exhibition in Neuss, a HTML-Tutorial and much more. But it should not be a AccM-Magazin only, everyone who wants to write something is invited to write articles. The articles could be about new hardware, commentaries about up-to-date problems, jokes, comicstrips or what ever you would like to write about.

And because we are a general computer club you do not have to write about Amiga the articles can even be about PC or MAC or any other computer or OS. The last date for articles for issue number 2 is the 1st october 2000. But we are still looking for authors for the upcoming issues.

[News message: 18. Sep. 2000, 09:17] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


Pinball Fantasies AGA and advertising games
Among other things you can download original Amiga games at Amiga Land for which an appropriate license is given.

Newly added ist the pinball game Pinball Fantasies AGA and the following advertising games:
Bifi-Snack Zone, Bifi 2-Actionin Hollywood
HelicopterMission
Tony and his friends
Tricky Quicky
Sony Game
Karamalz Cup.

Regarding the emulators the up-to-date versions of WinUAE and WinFellow Alpha 0.4.1 have been added.

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 11:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


WarpGIF-Datatype
The first GIF datatype for WarpOS is now freely available for all PPC-Amigas.

After datatypes for JPEG and PNG under WarpOS (done by Oliver Roberts and Andreas Kleinert) this datatype now closes the gap for the widely spread GIF format.

According to Achim Stegemann this GIF datatype is speedwise around twice as fast as the original Gif-DT of the OS 3.5.

At the moment only OS 3.1 and 3.5 are supported. OS 3.0 follows later on.

For further information (and download) see titlelink.

Download: WarpGIF-DT.lha

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 11:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


Impressions of the d'Amiga
At Fun Time World Robbie Schaefer has published his impressions of the Amiga developer computer d'Amiga. The report (German) describes the given hard- and softwarecomponents.

Fun Time World is pleased about sendings of further experience reports

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 09:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


GBE V0.4.8b
On 17 September 2000 Mathias Roslund has published the version 0.4.8b of his port of the Gameboy emulator GBE for PPC-Amigas. The emulator itself is developed by Chuck Mason and Steven Fuller.

In this version the memory problem has been solved and triple buffering has been added.

The emulator supports all Z80-Opcodes and the Gameboy Color. It runs on PPC-Amigas with WarpUp V4.0+, 8 MB RAM and AGA or CGfX.

Download:


[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 09:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


Report about SEAL-O-RAMA
Gary Storm of SEAL has published an extensive report about the SEAL-O-RAMA, in which among other things he talks about the individual exhibitors. All together around 190 people have visited the show. This number exceeded the desired number of visitors.

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 09:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


PLANET online again
After a break of four months, due to technical problems, the french Amiga magazin "PLANET" is online again.

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 09:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Bernd Gmeiner ANF


AMI Sector One Updated
Bernd Gmeineder writes:

This time we have got permission from the companies "Talking Birds" (known for football manager games) and "Polarware" (once specialised in adventure games) to offer their Amiga game on our site for download. Some of the games of these firms, like "Oo Topos (Adventure, already released in 1986 in the USA) and "Der Trainer" (german football manager with very good reviews in "Amiga Joker" and "Amiga Games") are now ready for download.

Further on other games, for example "Dungeon Krampfer", "Thromulus" and others, have been added.

Besides these credits concerning around 200 more Amigagames were integrated in the searchable database. The music section was updated with new soundtracks of Amiga games like "Lethal XCess", and more.

Around 60 hires cover scans of classic Amiga games are finishing this update.

The URL for all this is: http://www.emucamp.com/amiga/.

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 08:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
SEAL


Clubbed issue #6 out
On 16 September 2000 SEAL has released issue #6 of their own club magazin.

With 48 pages it is teh biggest issue, yet. It contains among other things a feature about accelerator cards, reviews of PageStream 4 and Heretic II and a new hints part.

For details regarding the magazin including where to get follow the titlelink.

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 07:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Codepoet on ANF


WinUAE V0.8.14 R3
On 16. September 2000 version 0.8.14 Release 3 of the Windows port of the Amiga emulator UAE was released. Compared with the last version the following things have been changed:
  • FIXED: Stupid bug with GUI (F12) when in full-screen mode.
  • FIXED: Stupid Picasso96 slow-down in Release 2
  • FIXED: Stupid Picasso96 bug with menu painting in Release 2
  • ADDED: French GUI DLL to installer

Download: WinUAE0814R3.exe

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 07:32] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Fabio Trotta on AFN


New Screenshots and Arcadia Interview Translation
Fabio Trotta wrote:
On the pages of No Risc No Fun you can find new screenshots of various games. The German translation of the English spoken Arcadia interview is also online. And a small surprise is waiting for you, too.

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 07:22] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
HArald Frank on ANF


VMC's Technical Library is Online
Harald Frank wrote:
Since today our hardware dictionnary is online at last, where every in our products technical interested user or programmer may find everything what is needed to write drivers for Linux, NetBSD or other operating systems which exist for Amiga.

Should there be a lack of important information or you have some ideas and suggestions concerning these sites, then please write an email to support@vmc.de

If you know a Linux or NetBSD programmer who is capable of porting drivers to one of these systems or, even better, has already written successfully own drivers, then inform him kindly about our new dictionnary pages with the request for a port of the missing drivers. We'll give as much technical help as is possible to everybody who wants to do this.

I think, with your support we'll be able to point all waiting users to new drivers for Linux and NetBSD.

This leads you to the Technical Library.

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 07:08] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Tomás J. Cantó


Spanish Version of amiga-news.de reworked
The spanish version of amiga-news.de will now be regularly updated, again.

The first collected experiences when doing the translation showed that the first system chosen to do the work with was not the best suited to keep the messages regularly up to date. So a new and more dynamic Website was developed.

This can be reached at the known URL: http://www.amiga.es.org/amiganewsde.html. For its use a browser with IFRAME-support is needed.

For the creating of this page help is looked for. Everybody with interest in anticipating on this site can mail to Tomás J. Cantó.

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 07:08] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
CD32-Allianz via Email


AmigaNG Programs Overview Updated
The CD32 Alliance wrote:

And again the AmigaNG programs overview was updated (dated: 17.9.2000) and contains now all programs that were released since the appearing of the AmigaSDK.

Since the last update 3 programs were added, so that now 70 NG programs are registered.

From now on the AmigaNG programs overview will be updated every sunday. I ask you to consider this.

Urgently german owners of the AmigaSDK are wanted to write reviews about some of the already released NG programs or to introduce NG programs.

Furthermore we search owners of the new d'AMIGA to introduce this also with a detailed review.

To speed up the development of programs for the AmigaNG programmers are wanted who can create a comprehensive workshop about the programming using the new AmigaSDK.

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 06:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


Safe V14.2
The virus scanner Safe now exists as version 14.2 and can be downloaded. The documentation is now in HTML. The following has changed:
  • fixed again REBOOT for 040 - I hope for the last time :-P
  • selfname detecting system fixed a little bit,

Name : Safe V14.2
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archice size : 17.927 bytes
Release date : 17 September 2000
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info : Needs xvs.library V33.23

Download: Safe.lha
readme

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 06:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


VirusWarning-Guide V3.1
The VirusWarning-Guide can now be downloaded as version 3.1. New are all virus warnings of the recent time. Besides that some new things were added.

Name : VirusWarning.Guide V3.1
Archive name : vht-vg31.lha
Archive size : 86.531 bytes
Release date : 17 September 2000
Programmer : Virus Help Denmark

Download: vht-vg31.lha

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 06:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Sep.2000
AmigaFlame


Puzzle Adventure 'BUBBLE HEROES' Out!
A new game for the AMIGA - this has become a very rare event nowadays.

The more pleasant is this message from the british WebZine AmigaFlame: a puzzle adventure in the style of 'BubbleBobble' was presented by CrystalInteractiveSoft at this year's SealORama.

Informations about the gameplay, a short summary of the game and some impressive screenshots of 'BubbleHeroes' are to find at the titltelink.

To everybody who wants to buy the game this page also offers an email link to the distributor.

[News message: 17. Sep. 2000, 06:40] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
16.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


New Amiga Designs
At the titlelink, some inofficial design references for new Amiga products by Zenon Olenski are available.

[News message: 16. Sep. 2000, 11:58] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
16.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


Java Developer Tools released by Espial
Espial, a partner of Amiga, releases some developer tools for Java. This should push software development for mobile systems. Devicetop.com is meant as portal for developers of Java based applications, especially for mobile systems. Users can exchange experiences in several forums, for Amiga too.

The following programs have been released:
  • Espial Architect v.3.0 is a visual development environment for Java that enables users to rapidly develop graphically rich applications for smart devices
  • Espial Espresso v.3.2 is a rich suite of GUI components targeted for use in the development of smart device application services and user interfaces
  • Espial Escape v.4.5 is a small footprint full-featured web browser for smart devices that supports all the latest web standards
  • Espial Devicetop v.2.0 is a smart device service platform that leverages the Java language into a powerful service platform

The tools are available for several platforms, and can be downloaded from Devicetop.com: Tools.

[News message: 16. Sep. 2000, 11:58] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
16.Sep.2000
Dirk Baeyens on ANF


Belgium Amiga Newsletter
There is a new version of the newsletter from the "Amiga Club Genk" in Belgium. It is the acgmail nr. 85 and is in Flemish/Dutch.

[News message: 16. Sep. 2000, 09:59] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
16.Sep.2000
AmigActive


AmigActive - online is Back
"We must apologise for not updating the web site or announcing anything on our announcement mailing list recently. We have been extremely busy producing Amiga Active over the last couple of months, and our on-line presence has had to take a back seat for the time being."

"Our new web site is taking shape - but again, work on this has had to take a back seat recently - and you can expect to see it before the end of September. We hope so."

[News message: 16. Sep. 2000, 04:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
16.Sep.2000
Olaf Köbnik via e-mail


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - E.N.D.! (Evil Never Dies)
It's more than sad that the few Amiga users still have to face pirate copies, fake keys etc. taking away the fun! Every pirate copy does it's share in further developments being cancelled! It's a nuisance that you have (are forced to) face this problem on the Amiga. This doesn't really improve motivation! Who Cares? :-(

Matrix Hunter - Amiga Arena Version!
In cooperation with Christian Steiner, the registered version of Matrix Hunter is available for download. Matrix Hunter is a shooter and one of the first games by Christian Steiner, author of Sharks!

Amiga Arena - Burning Business
The special price for PhotoAlbum / Cybershow has been extended to October 31st, 2000!

[News message: 16. Sep. 2000, 04:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Sep.2000
Mick via eMail


OpusGIBar with own Domain
OpusGIBar now also has an own domain and is accessible at http://opusgibar.free.fr/, from now.

[News message: 15. Sep. 2000, 12:03] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Sep.2000
Stefan Ossowski


Aminet Games CD-ROM Released
The Aminet Games includes almost 1 GB (decrunched) of the best games from Aminet inside of more than 1500 archives. Almost every game can be run directly by a simple click, and do not need to installed further!

In addition and as further highlight there are 70 commercial games on the CD: Gloom 3, Max Rally, XTreme Racing, and Gamer's Delight 2. enthalten: Gloom 3, Max Rally, XTreme Racing und Gamer's Delight 2.

On this sepcial CD of the Aminet series every enthusiastic gamer can find what his heart desires. An exclusive selection of the best games of all times, of all genres.

[News message: 15. Sep. 2000, 09:03] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
xtm-twirl.lha        biz/dkg     71K+Additional texture for Extreme
CandyPro103b.lha     biz/patch  747K+Update CandyFactoryPro V1.03b (15.12.99)
MCP_v1.33_fix.lha    biz/patch    2K+MCP v1.33 install fix
TruncateMail.lha     comm/mail    9K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
YAT.lha              comm/mail  510K+Yet Another collection of Taglines for Y
NullTCP.lha          comm/tcp     6K+Amiga<->Win9x TCP/IP using null-modem.Up
T-Rexx.lha           comm/tcp   105K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
GuiSGML.lha          comm/www    79K+SGML/HTML Templating Tool, Graphical Mar
Lynx.lha             comm/www   790K+WWW Browser,v.284dev9 (works with m68k)
qtz-SMOS.lha         demo/intro   2K+Quartz-Sensible Moon Of Soccer cracktro
DLL.lha              dev/basic   42K+Dynamic Linked List Sources for Blitz
65816_20.lzh         dev/cross  189K+65816 (SNES) assembler & disassembler
audio_in_e.lha       dev/e       17K+Audio examples using audio and ahi devic
mpega_in_e.lha       dev/e        5K+Example how to use mpega.library with Am
ColorWheel.lha       dev/gui     27K+Hi-/truecolor colorwheel.gadget (44.7)
GradientSlider.lha   dev/gui      7K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.5)
mrq_library.lha      dev/src     79K+Fast C2P + CGX procedures for games, dem
gadget45.lha         docs/mags  429K+German Freeware Magazine
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (11 Sept
SWOSpl_11.lha        game/data   16K+SWOS - Polish League AND some advertisin
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  216K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
KC.lha               game/role   93K+Create your hero for RPG Krysztaly Czasu
PureBrain.lha        game/think 162K+Put back the symbols in the right order.
PfPaint_ENG.lha      gfx/edit    29K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha      gfx/edit    32K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
PfPaint_V22.lha      gfx/edit   900K+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
Mentat.lha           misc/edu   199K+Mentat 0.5.2 english2english Longman dic
ChipEm.lha           misc/emu    71K+Chip 8 v0.4 Emulator by Balrog Soft
GBE.lha              misc/emu    78K+GameBoy/GameBoy Color emulator for WarpU
lotto-v8.lha         misc/misc   94K+UK National Lottery Database v8 inc. 
rno-r045.lha         mods/misc  562K+Rno-label release no.45 by kure&stefan (
Eldorado.mpg         mods/mpg   5.1M+Eldorado County by Vincent & McGahey
rno-r046.mpg         mods/mpg   3.3M+Rno-label release no.46 by FarFar (Chill
tek_mtone.lha        mods/techn  57K+Monotone - minimalistic stomper
Pegase.lha           mus/misc   203K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
rsss.lha             mus/misc    75K+Realtime Sound Synthesis System (preview
EP_MFP.lha           mus/play    10K+EaglePlayer "Magnetic Fields Packer" ext
PlayGUI.lha          mus/play   574K+GUI for HIPPO,MPEGA,PLAY16 AND GMPLAY!
Granade.mpg          pix/3dani  6.1M+Animation of a hand granade
shoot.lha            pix/anim   2.3M+Working on our latest film.
crazyGranny.lha      pix/mpg    529K+Mpeg anim of my granny playing football
scene3.lha           pix/mpg    2.1M+Scene from the set of an upcoming film.
SarajevoNight.jpg    pix/views   54K+768x512, Sarajevo at night (2000)
Zagreb.jpg           pix/views   71K+768x512, Zagreb (2000)
FreeEd.lha           text/edit  190K+This is a simple text editor. (It has a 
ascii2jascii.lha     text/misc   17K+Converts ASCII to Japanese ASCII
Kill0D.lha           text/misc    2K+Remove PC CR+LF End-Of-Lines and replace
DSLT02.lha           text/print  20K+DrawStudio's Templates for labels 02 v1.
HexShow.lha          util/cli     4K+Shows files as Hex
muitoolkit_src.lha   util/libs   48K+V1.1 - The MUI Toolkit library SRC (FREE
arc2arc27.lha        util/rexx    4K+Convert any archive format easily
cdmp.lha             util/rexx   22K+Helps to create mp3 from CD's (german)
BosnianLocale.lha    util/wb     27K+Bosnian AmigaOS 3.1 localization v2
CopyIcon44.lha       util/wb      6K+CopyNewIcon clone for os3.5 (44.3)
DefIcons44.lha       util/wb     64K+DefIcons clone for os3.5 (44.6a)
Image2Icon.lha       util/wb     19K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.8


[News message: 15. Sep. 2000, 08:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Sep.2000
Harald Frank on ANF


HyperCOM Magic Update with IOBlix Emulation
Beta-test HyperCOM 2.96B1 Magic-Update
With the new HypeCOM update we are making a lot of new functions official at once, hence there is a big chance for problems to occur which we did not realise up to now.

As substitute for the old SilverSurfer software we are now officially offering a support via the hyperCOM1.device from version v2.96B1, which has been enhanced or made faster in all parts compared to the old silversurfer.device.

On of the most important new functions now is an implemented IOBlix software emulation, which allows some programs and drivers to be used with the extremely compatible HyperCOM boards, at last.

Here are some examples on what already works:
  • ScanQuix5 parallel Scanner-Support
  • Camouflage 8x parallel Midi-Interface
  • RBM AmStrong USV
  • IOBlix ioblixzip.device for IO-Mega parallel ZIP-Drives

Within the next days the technical part of the emulation will be enhanced further, so that surely even more applications and drivers can be used with the HyperCOM boards.

ATTENTION!
In order to be able to use the IOBlix software emulation the vmcresource.library must be loaded by one of our drivers (hyperCOMx.device oder hyperPAR.device)!

Download page

[News message: 15. Sep. 2000, 08:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Sep.2000
Amidog


New AMP2-PreRelease
New pre-version for the MPEG-player AMP2 with enhanced search function.

Download: AMP2pre3.lha - 125 KB

[News message: 15. Sep. 2000, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Sep.2000
Amiga Future


New Beta-Version for AmiTradeCenter
A new beta-version for ATC now allows also to save the position of every window. Furthermore some bugs have been fixed. The titlelink points directly to the download (280 KB).

[News message: 15. Sep. 2000, 07:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Sep.2000
AROS-ML


AROS - Status
AROS (Amiga Research OS), the system independent open source new implementation of the AmigaOS is now bootable as the native version, and one can already do mouse moving on the screen. Since there still is no filesystem no programs can be executed. Currently it is being tried to get the source code of SFS; the author was positive about this idea, but first wants to fix some bugs.

More details, e.g. the trial to port AROS to UAE using JIT, you can find at the titlelink.

[News message: 15. Sep. 2000, 02:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Sep.2000
HellCoder of HellHound


Fighter Model for Virtual Fighting finished
The fighter basic model for the Game "Virtual Fighting" is ready for beta testing. The fighting game runs on Workbench and needs a PPC, as well as a graphics board with CyberGraphX. At the titlelink there is also a snapshot of the model.

[News message: 14. Sep. 2000, 11:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Sep.2000
BTTR-Team via eMail


Back to the Roots Amiga-News
With the today update at "Back to the Roots" we are proving that this site is something for everybody worldwide, no matter which land you are from or which language you are speaking - there is something for everybody who is interested in Amiga, Amiga emulations or the demo scene!

We are able to present both of the Spanish adventure games, "La Aventura Original" and "La Diosa de Cozumel" from Aventuras AD. From Denmark comes the funny Troll "Hugo" who might especially please kids, while the French company Lankhor provides us with both, the German and English version of the classic "Mortville Manor", and with "Black Sect" they even gave an absolut rarity in addition. And as a special surprise there now is even the CD32 version of the classic adventure "Beneath a Stell Sky" for free and legal download. And as always, we only told about some of the new games.

Of course, as absolute demo freaks we never would forget the demo scene with our updates. Therefor there are among others two brand-new demos from Scoopex and Spaceballs for the - you listen and are astonished - Amiga500 for download! Furthermore many classic demos and newer demos for ECS+AGA Amigas/emulators were added.

For the friends of music among us there is a big Jesper Kyd Special - the well known musician of the group "The Silents". From Hannes Seifert (Whale's Voyage) or Matthias Stenzhorn (Brainman) comes music from computer games. We even were able to find a remix of the popular music from Monkey Island 2. And the graphisc fetishists should have a look at the marvelous pictures by scene artists like Flood, Nomad or Acryl.

That's all for today. Have a lot of fun with the new "food".

[News message: 14. Sep. 2000, 11:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Sep.2000
Soren Ladegaard on ANF


CommodoreBillboard.com is launched!
The internet's largest collection of Commodore adverts, brochures and TV-commercials has been launched yesterday. The intention is to preserve this valuable material from the early days of Commodore computing, before the originals get lost. High quality, full screen scans only. Great TV-ads and promotional videos. Material in both English, Italian and Danish.

[News message: 14. Sep. 2000, 10:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Sep.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


Last Chance to vote for Jay Miner for the Hall of Fame
As amiga-news.de already reported, Jay Miner was nominated for the Computer Hall of Fame. Unfortunatly he was fallen back to position 16. That would mean that he dropped out! Please, vote for him before it is too late!

[News message: 14. Sep. 2000, 10:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Sep.2000
Eyetech Group Ltd on ANF


Predator PCI / AGP / SDRAM / G3 / G4 expansion board update
We (Eyetech) have released news regarding our Predator board, featuring PCI, AGP, SDRAM, and a G3 / G4 version. Full details are available on our website (see titlelink).

[News message: 14. Sep. 2000, 10:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Sep.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF


Zophar.Net Poll Finished
The survey on the emulator site Zophar.net was finished. The wish to get information about emulators for Amiga with 13% of votes came to rank 3. Here the "official" final results:
  • Which new area would you like to see at ZD?
  • 13% (661 votes) Emulators for Amiga
  • 10% (525 votes) Emulators for Palm Pilot
  • 11% (551 votes) Computer Hardware Reviews
  • 12% (600 votes) Other Music Files (SID, etc.)
  • 26% (1297 votes) I would add all of the above!
  • 25% (1231 votes) I don't need anything of this, ZD shall reside as it is.
  • Votes over all: 4865

The chances are good to get all of the areas added, in future.

[News message: 14. Sep. 2000, 06:31] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Sep.2000
Haage & Partner


ArtEffect Workshop overworked
Due to further development of ArtEffect there were some little discrepancies in the old workshop, which now have been fixed. Furthermore the layout was changed completely. 12 chapters are introducing both, interesting functions and effects of ArtEffect: Workshop.

[News message: 14. Sep. 2000, 01:04] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


European Parlament are giving a favourable opinion on Software-Patents
«The board of directors of the european parlament (EPA) have given a favourable opinion on an unrestricted possibility to patent software. According to the Handelsblatt the authority recommends to withdraw the stipulation that computer applications "as such" are not possible to patent from the European Patent Agreement. .»

«Programmers of free software, as well as smaller software companies are against software patents, cause potential danger of patent suits by big companies would make their work practically impossible. These a days big American companies are already saving a lot of patents on partly trivial developments - they are doing so also to resist against other companies upbraiding patent violation. But free developers and small companies are not in funds to use such a strategy. Thus they have started an Allianz against Software-Patents

I realy recommend everybody, who is interested in that also small software companies can continue to work without allways being afraid of patent suits, to participate in the Petition against Software-Patents by voting. Up to now there have been 38,478 votes! (ps)

[News message: 14. Sep. 2000, 01:04] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
1 118 230 ... <- 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 -> ... 250 251 [Archive]
 
 Recent Discussions
.
Amiga 4000(T)ower for sale
Calvin Harris - Amiga A1200
Amiga basic rewritten for Apple
Volker Wertich interview
Commodore Amiga MYSTYLE
.
 Latest Top-News
.
7-bit: Bluetooth adapter for control pads (25. Apr.)
First stable version of a native 64-bit AROS (24. Apr.)
Print magazine: Amiga Future 174 - Preview and reading samples (24. Apr.)
Emulation: QEMU 10.0 / bboot 0.8 (23. Apr.)
Announcement and pre-order campaign: AmiGUS sound card (19. Apr.)
ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.d for Sam440ep flex and mini-itx (15. Apr.)
Paint program: PolarPaint for all Amiga systems (11. Apr.)
ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.d for Sam460EX, Sam460CR and Sam460LE boards (09. Apr.)
Mining strategy game: The history of "Aminer" (07. Apr.)
Event: Start for ticket sales for "Amiga40" (05. Apr.)
.
 amiga-news.de
.
Configure main page

 
 
.
Masthead | Privacy policy | Netiquette | Advertising | Contact
Copyright © 1998-2025 by amiga-news.de - all rights reserved.
.