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13.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


AmiTradeCenter Beta from 08/13/2000
Changes: Changes.txt
Download: ATC_beta_13082000.lha

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13.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


Stricq V0.1731
Changes: history.html
Download: stricq1731.lha

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13.Aug.2000
Aminet


New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha     biz/dbase  114K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.3)
iris.lha             comm/mail  326K+Email client (SMTP/POP3) V2.2
IrisUpdate.lha       comm/mail   67K+Update Iris V2.1 to V2.2
palette.lha          gfx/misc    20K+Color, Palette, Farbe Setup with 5 value
Frogger.lha          gfx/show   886K+Ultimate MPEG video player (MOS|PUP|WOS|
flamingo.lha         misc/emu   154K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.50, 68k & PPC
MoonDial.lha         misc/sci    35K+Graphically shows the moons phase. V1.5
SIL51_WB_MacOS.jpg   pix/wb     172K+Workbench Screen grab of  MacOS 7.5.5 on
CodeLocker.lha       util/boot   56K+Code-Locker (Pass-code protection progra
TurboVal.lha         util/boot   17K+The best validator for FFS (v1.5)
zee_inilib.lha       util/libs  210K+Library for ASCII-based settings files! 
simpleclock.lha      util/time   16K+Version 1.4 of the analog clock (OS3.5)
Safe.lha             util/virus  21K+Safe v13.8 - virus dicovering system
MagicMenu_II.lha     util/wb    202K+THE Intuition Menus Enhancer (V2.30)


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13.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News


Amiga Interactive Guide - Update
To celebrate the 15. anniversary of the Amiga 15 MB of new data has been added to the Amiga Interactive Guide and a fresh new glance.

Since the last update 6 new Amiga prefigurations, and 9 conception designs has been detected and various new devices has been added to the AmigaNG pages.

The Guide offers an immense richness of information and documents out of Amiga's history.

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13.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


InstallKit V3.8 and Locale for NewInstaller
Airsoft released version 3.8 for the InstallKits and an update for the locale files for NewInstaller V1.5 on August, 13th 2000.

The CD32 Games Install Kit now supports some additional games and is now significant more flexible in booting. Furthermore many loaders have been overworked.

Version 1.6 for NewInstaller will keep us waiting for some more time, thus there is a single release of the updated translations by ATO, at the first.

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13.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


SViewIV als ImageFX-Loader
All owners of a keyfile for SViewIV can now use SViewIV as loader module for ImageFX V2.6+ due to the SuperView IFX loader module. By the use of the optional PPC module, the SuperView library, download time can be reduced notedly. SViewIV supports more than 30 graphics formats.

Anyone who owns a valid keyfile for SViewIV now also can utilize the
new "SUPERVIEW" IFX loader module with ImageFX 2.6 and above - it's
distributed as part of the main program, but add-on wise.

Additional ultra-speed can be achieved through SuperView-Library's
optional PPC modules - which are working completely transparently.

Additional information on SViewIV/PPC can be found under
http://www.ar-kleinert.de - including download links to
Aminet and to the RegNet creditcard-based online registration site.

If you can't wait, here's some more information.
SViewIV comes with the following SVObject loaders for images:

- IFF-ACBM         - Windows,OS/2 BMP   - PNM (PBM,PGM,PPM)
- IFF-ILBM         - JPEG (JFIF v6)     - IMG (GEM Graphics)
- IFF-DEEP         - PhotoCD            - WPG (WP Bitmaps)
- IFF-FAXX         - TIFF               - MacPaint MAC
- IFF-PBM          - PCX                - EPS (Header/PS)
- IFF-RGB8         - Atari Degas        - C64 (Koala, Doodle)
- IFF-RGBN         - Spectrum ZX        - TIM
- IFF-RGFX         - XWD                - FBM
- IFF-YUVN         - Windows Icon       - CDR-Previews
- QRT/POV Raytrace - Mac PICT-2         - SGI
- SPP              - SVG                - Targa
- Pictor/PCPaint   - SunRaster          - UtahRLE
- PNG              - CVP (passphoto)    - Icons (WB/Magic/New)

as well as all OS3-Datatypes
and 24 Bit DataTypes (picture.datatype V43).

Many formats with 24 Bit-Support.
Reads XPK- and PP20-packed data via Unpack.svobject.

Writes C-Sourcecode in chunky/RGB notation.

Together with external third party programs also the
following file formats seamlessly can be embedded:

File Format        needs program   also needs support for
---------------------------------------------------------
- AMF                MetaView        (ILBM)
- CLP                MetaView        (ILBM)
- DXF/AutoCAD (tm)   MetaView        (ILBM)
- FIG                AmiFIG          (Postscript)
or:   MetaView        (ILBM)
- CGM                GPlot           (Postscript)
or:   MetaView        (ILBM)
- IFF-DR2D           MetaView        (ILBM)
- IFF-DRSD           MetaView        (ILBM)
- Limbo              Limbo 4.0       (PNM)
- Postscript (TM)    Ghostscript     -
- WPG-Vector         MetaView        (ILBM)
- WMF                MetaView        (ILBM)


(*) attached you find a preview copy of the IFX loader for
convenience

(**) in the current version, all images are imported
as 24 bit for quality. If there's demand for colormaps
or a SAVER module, this would be an option for
future releases.


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13.Aug.2000
Håkan Parting via E-Mail


AMarquee V.52.0
Håkan Partin has released version .52.0 for AMarquee. In ths version a serious bug inside the Shared Message Port feature has been fixed. Version numbers of amarquee.library and rexxamarquee.library are incremented to 52.0.

Download: (sd)

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13.Aug.2000
REBOL-ML


REBOL Books
The REBOL Book "REBOL Official Guide" is on postition #14 of the hitlist of July's new releases. The book was released in the third week of July.

REBOL for Dummies, by Ralph Roberts, was announced for September 2000.

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13.Aug.2000
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


Safe V13.8 and New Addresses
A new update of Safe v13.8 has been released, you can find this update on any of the Virus Help Team's site's. Here is some more info about the release:

Name         : Safe v13.8
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 21.153 bytes
Release date : 13 August 2000
Programmer   : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Install info : Needs the xvs.library v33.23


News in v13.8
  • system friendly, non resident, can discover new link viruses
  • TCP newshell guard option
  • ANTISTEALTH abilities and HEURISTIC vector check option
  • `Safe VECS` allows You to REMOVE ANY patches from LoadSeg and NewLoadSeg vectors!
  • build in memory removals for NeuroticDeath1&2, HNY99/IOZ, rexxfunc trojan, PolishPower (Thanks to Jan Andersen)
  • removed motaba-3/8x8 memcheck because new xvs.library can recognize it

NOTE THAT SAFE IS VIRUS DETECTOR - NOT FILE CHECKER OR CLEANER! IT ONLY INFORMS ABOUT ATTACK AND REMOVES VIRUS FROM MEMORY IF POSSIBLE!

Download:
Safe.lha (21K), readme

The new team in VHT "Virus Help Team Canada" has changed there URL and Charlene has changed the email as well, here is the correct URL and email:

URL to VHT-CAN: http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org/
Email to Charlene: vht-can@mailandnews.com

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12.Aug.2000
Amiga Fresh


Amiga Fresh Interview with Gary Peake
A very detailed and informative interview with Gary Peake, Director of Support Amiga Inc.

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12.Aug.2000
Amiga Fire


Sin Preview
Based on the WIndows version, Thomas Würgler wrote a Sin preview at Amiga Fire. Hyperion Software is currently porting Sin to the Amiga.

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12.Aug.2000
amiga.org


Vote Jay Miner for the "Computer Hall of Fame"!
"The Hall of Fame Nominating Committee is preparing to induct the next class into the Computer Hall of Fame. Up to a half-dozen inventors, innovators and others whose contributions helped make the computer revolution will be honored in San Diego in September, and will join the current 10 members in the Hall."

Jay Miner is one of the nominees. Place your vote!

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12.Aug.2000
Mario Cattaneo via eMail


MagicMenu with Own Domain and New Version 2.30!
Finally, MagicMenu has its own domain, too. The homepage is available at www.magicmenu.de (titlelink). To celebrate, there is also a new (non-beta) version 2.30 (08/07/2000)! This should be available from Aminet, too.

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12.Aug.2000
amiga.org


MyAmiga: AmiWest Report
It has been some days since the AmiWest, but MyAmiga nevertheless posted another interesting report from the show, documenting the mood of the show with many pictures. Towards the end there is an interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion done by Aram Iskenderian.

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12.Aug.2000
Coyote Flux on ANF


New PPC680x0 Promo and 3D-engine information
The latest promotional edition of PPC680x0 is now available on the website of Coyote Flux. It will appear on the Aminet soon.

Also available on the website is some more detailed information about a 'super-software-3D-engine' which is going to be used in the forthcoming game Burnin' Rubber 2000.

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11.Aug.2000
Aminet


New Aminet Uploads
LameOpus585.lha      biz/dopus    1K+Opus5 buttons for Lame V3.85 mp3 encoder
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha   comm/irc   478K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Dreamforge
TATty.lha            comm/misc  107K+Internet Dial Cost By Mak41 V2.1 Italian
Charon_Spa.lha       comm/net    19K+Spanish localization for Charon v1.2
MiamiGraph.lha       comm/tcp     7K+Graphical traffic display for Miami
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   204K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
Apt-lp2.lha          demo/euro  110K+Lost Puppy 2 By Apathy In 2000
Apt-mega.lha         demo/euro   84K+Mega Scroller By Apathy In 2000
APX-Elec.lha         demo/intro 151K+Electricity by Appendix,released at ASM'
APX-Electricit.lha   demo/intro 151K+Electricity by Appendix,released at ASM'
AsmPro.lha           dev/asm    162K+Asm-Pro V1.16g mc680x0 macro assembler
BlitzLstJul00.lha    dev/basic   68K+Blitz mailing list archives for July 200
ColorWheel.lha       dev/gui     26K+Hi-/truecolor colorwheel.gadget (44.3b)
GradientSlider.lha   dev/gui      6K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.3)
FD2Pragma.lha        dev/misc   123K+V2.107 creates pragma, inline, ... files
VWorksPricelis.lha   docs/hyper  13K+Virtual Works pricelist August 2000
AmigaTimes15.lha     docs/mags  731K+German Mag in HTML 03/00
PictrisDemo.lha      game/demo  2.6M+Demo of an addictive new puzzle game
WormWars.lha         game/misc  786K+WormWars 6.3: Advanced snake game
SvIV-1.lha           gfx/misc   356K+SViewIV V9.10 (7.8.2000) - Part 1/8
SvIV-2.lha           gfx/misc   219K+SViewIV V9.10 (7.8.2000) - Part 2/8
SvIV-3a.lha          gfx/misc   142K+SViewIV V9.10 (7.8.2000) - Part 3a/8
SvIV-3b.lha          gfx/misc   222K+SViewIV V9.10 (7.8.2000) - Part 3b/8
SvIV-4.lha           gfx/misc    43K+SViewIV V9.10 (7.8.2000) - Part 4/8
SvIV-5.lha           gfx/misc    60K+SViewIV V9.10 (7.8.2000) - Part 5/8
SvIV-7.lha           gfx/misc   127K+SViewIV V9.10 (7.8.2000) - Part 7/8 (opt
SvIV-8.lha           gfx/misc   222K+SViewIV V9.10 (7.8.2000) - Part 8/8 (opt
SvIV-PPC.lha         gfx/misc   650K+Update for SViewIV/PPC V23.8 (PPC)
SvIV-WOS.lha         gfx/misc   343K+Update for SViewIV/PPC V23.8 (WOS)
number.lha           misc/math   30K+Convert Arabic numerals to many language
airwalk.mpg          mods/mpg   4.8M+Airwalk - an MP3 by Ganja/Nerve Axis. 8t
crystalc.lha         mods/pro    16K+Crystal Clear - a PT mod By Ganja/Nerve 
funktion.lha         mods/pro   163K+Funktivation - a PT mod By Ganja/Nerve A
introtne.lha         mods/pro    21K+An Intro Tune - a PT mod by Ganja/Nerve 
lunarlng.lha         mods/pro    29K+Lunar Lounge - a PT mod By Ganja/Nerve A
pussymag.lha         mods/pro   252K+Pussy Magnet - a PT mod By Ganja/Nerve A
af-autodrive.lha     mods/techn 311K+DBM 8ch ->Acid Frog<- min.techno 143bpm
af-supertonyk.lha    mods/techn 366K+DBM 6ch ->Acid Frog<- detroit-min.140bpm
latenigh.lha         mods/xm    2.5M+Late Night Session - an XM By Ganja/Nerv
AampPlaylistCo.lha   mus/misc    35K+Converts AmigaAMP 2.8 playlists
AmpRemote.lha        mus/play     5K+CD32 controller plugin for AmigaAMP
Flushka.lha          util/cli     3K+Remove unused stuff from memory-coded by
WoW.lha              util/conv   26K+Free text converter (Html, Ww6, Rtf, Asc
akJFIF-dt.lha        util/dtype 232K+AkJFIF-dt V44.81 (JPEG, 68000-060, PPC/W
akJFIF-PPC.lha       util/dtype  56K+AkJFIF-dt PPC plugin V44.81 (JPEG)
akJFIF-WOS.lha       util/dtype 143K+AkJFIF-dt WOS plugin V44.81 (JPEG)
akPNG-dt.lha         util/dtype 247K+AkPNG-dt V44.81 (PNG, 68000-060, PPC/WOS
akPNG-PPC.lha        util/dtype  79K+AkPNG-dt PPC plugin V44.81
akTIFF-dt.lha        util/dtype 243K+AkTIFF-dt V44.82 (TIFF, 68000-060, PPC/W
akTIFF-PPC.lha       util/dtype  94K+AkTIFF-dt PPC plugin V44.82
akTIFF-WOS.lha       util/dtype 106K+AkTIFF-dt WOS plugin V44.82


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11.Aug.2000
Stefan Falke via eMail


EZP@gerNG Classic Edition V1.2 Available
There's a new update of the paging software available for download on the SFXSoft homepage, which corrects some inconsistencies in the message sending from Workbench and offers a few minor improvements. For more changes see the ReadMe.

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11.Aug.2000
Bernward Hofmann via eMail


iBrowse 2.3 in the Works
The iBrowse team has informed all customers via email that Stefan Burstroem is already working on iBrowse 2.3 with AmiSSL support :-).

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11.Aug.2000
Rüdiger Engel via eMail


Frogger Version 1.6 Released
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has finished new versions of the MPEG video-player "Frogger" for WarpOS and PowerUP as well as for MorphOS.

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10.Aug.2000
WHDLoad


WHDLoad Version 12.0 Released
WHDLoad, the harddisk installation packet, was released as version 12.0. Many elder disk games can be installed on harddisk with WHDLoad.

Download: WHDLoad_12.0_usr.lzx - 107 KB

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10.Aug.2000
WoW


WoW V1.10 Released
Version 1.10 for the convertion application WoW was released. WoW is able to do the following convertions:
  • Ascii -> Ascii
  • AmigaGuide -> Ascii
  • HTML -> Ascii
  • PDB -> Ascii
  • RTF -> Ascii
  • Postscript -> Ascii
  • Word -> Ascii
  • Wordworth -> Ascii
  • Ascii -> HTML
  • Wordworth -> RTF

Download: WoW.lha

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10.Aug.2000
amiga.org


amiga.org editorials by Dave Haynie and James Russell
Amiga.org Editoral: Dave Haynie speaks on Virtual Processor (VP) code
Amiga.org Editoral: James Russell: Amiga and the decentralization of man

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10.Aug.2000



H&P Press Release: PageStream/SoftLogik
Glashütten, August, 10. 2000: SoftLogik has consigned distribution of PageStream to Grasshopper LCC. Thus the SoftLogik team lead by Deron Kazmeier, the owner of PageStream, are now able to focus on the development.

HAAGE & PARTNER continues to be the exclusive distributor for German speaking countries and they are qualified for offering PageStream for Amiga/Mac/Windows worldwide.

The next (free) update prospective in the next few days. All registered H&P customers can subscribe to an eMail allocator and will thereby automatically recieve news and access data for updates: request@haage-partner.com.

Unfortunally the English manual for PageStream 4 is not available, yet. But SoftLogic has promised this within the next 6-8 weeks. Moreover we will soon be finishing the German manual and German localization. We will inform all customers, as soon as there are news.

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10.Aug.2000
Colin Ward (Hitman/Code HQ) on ANF


New Versions for WarpMAME, WarpNeoMAME and WarpMESS Released
Hitman/Code HQ has released new versions for WarpMAME, WarpNeoMAME and WarpMESS.

Hitman/Code HQ is pleased to announce a new version of WarpMAME, WarpNeoMAME and WarpMESS. New features in this version include:
  • Based on the latest PC sources (v0.37 Beta 5).
  • Paula based Audio support
  • Support for AGA displays
  • Support for 16 bit screenmodes
  • Multi-button joystick support
  • Correct "auto frameskip" operation
  • A 68k parallel processing system, for offloading processing for things such as AGA c2p onto the 68k and reducing context switches
  • Numerous blitting optimisations, able to be activated at the user's discretion
  • A mailing list for discussion about WarpMAME, WarpMESS and everything related to emulation on the Amiga
  • A promise from the author of no more long delays between releases!

Please visit Code HQ at http://www.powerup.com.au/~cward (titlelink) to download and join the mailing lists!

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10.Aug.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


New Interview and Jobs @ NoRiscNoFun
At NoRiscNoFun you can today find an interview with Stefan Schulze from Dreamworlds Development. Furthermore they are looking for honorary co-workers. More information at the "Job@NRNF" section.

The layout of the website has been changed for better clarity. If you have more suggestions for enhancements your are invited to announce them at this IRC channel: #risc-amiga at irc.germany.net. There will be regulare meetings there soon.

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10.Aug.2000
Felix Schwarz via eMail


Innovaitve goes on Holydays
Innovative goes on holydays for two weeks until 08/28/2000. During this period of time we will not be reachable by phone. Of course you can continue to send us eMails and letters. For ordering during our holidays, please use the online shop, this eMail address: order@innovative-web.de, registration forms or letter post. After the holydays we will be there for you, again.

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10.Aug.2000
Jürgen Beck via eMail


Preview of Gilbert Goodmate
At the titlelink you will find an English preview of Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria Preview. This adventure is beeing developed by Prelusion and will be released as PC version, at first.

A Classic Amiga version for »Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria« is only planned, if »Dark Millenia« sells well, and when this will happen is not clear, yet.

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09.Aug.2000
GeoWorld


GeoWorld News
To give GeoWorld users a little handsel of the upcomming update 12 a small preview file has been released at the download section. The final release of the next update anticipate for end of September.

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09.Aug.2000
Grasshopper LLC<


Page Stream News
Seemingly PageStream found a new distribution partner named Grasshopper LLC. Already next week there shall be the new version PageStream 4.0 R8 for Amiga, Macintosh and Windows available for download. Additionally there will be packets for interested programmers wanting to develope filters, printer drivers (for Amiga only), location modules, bitmap effects, scanner modules and more for PageStream.

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09.Aug.2000
AmigaAMP


AmigaAMP 2.8 Beta-7 Available
Version 2.8 BETA-7 for the MPEG audio payer AmigaAMP has been released. This version supports AIFF and WAV now, too.



Download: AmigaAMP28b7.lha

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09.Aug.2000
amiga.org


Issue # 3 off the Satiric Magazine "the Amigan" Online
Issue # 3 off the Satiric Magazine "the Amigan" has been published.

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09.Aug.2000
amiga.org


Computer Channel Newsticker: new Amiga computers with Matrox graphics cards
«Amiga wants to revitalize the legendary computer of the 80th: "We want to bring the Amiga-One to the markets in November", said Petro Tyschtschenko, CEO of Amiga Germany. But, according to information available to Computer Channel the manufacturer seems not to be able to fulfill this intention. The new computers might be anticipated not until spring 2001.

For the bringing onto the market there also should be new Amiga games and an image processing application too, these shall be running on all computer platforms, such as Windows, Linux, and Mac.»
For the entire article follow the titlelink, please.

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09.Aug.2000
Apex Designs


New Payback Status Report
In the status report the process of development of Payback was discribed. Among many small enhancements currently much time is beeing spend on new levels and a new town. On the website one can admire new screenshots, too.

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09.Aug.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail


Virus Help Denmark - New Website
Virus Help Denmark has completely overworked their website and with this turned down frames, which doesn't harm navigation and clarity. All the important informations are available by just one click.

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09.Aug.2000
Amiga Future


Amiga Future: Only five days more!
"Only five days more!" is written on the Amiga Future website, unhandsomely. Unfortunatly Andreas Magerl was not to convince to tell what great surprise can look forward to from Amiga Future after five days more. We are corious about it. :)

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09.Aug.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Pictris Released
APC&TCP today has released a new game. Pictris is available directly from APC&TCP from now, and after a few days from the Amiga specialized trade, of course. Pictris is kind of a puzzle game. The player's job is to mark the right boxes on the screen by mathematical hints, in order to uncover the picture as fast as possible. The faster this has been done, the higher the score gets. All in all there are 240 different puzzles with different skill levels availabel.

A demo version of the game is available on the home page, and of course also at Aminet. A few days ago a subsequent demo version of SeaSide was released, which was available since November 1999.

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09.Aug.2000
Jens Schönfeld via eMail


XSurfIDE Update
Unfortunatly a mistake creeped into the archive from August, 4th. I have forgotten to add the .info file to the archive, hence Binddrivers of course wasn&180;t able to start the driver

Download: xsurfide.lha

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09.Aug.2000
Tobias Walter on ANF


Amiga Team gained Postion #1 in OGR-25
Today, the Amiga Team achieved position #1 in the OGR-25 competition in both, the overall statistic and the statistic of the day. In the shortly finishing OGR-24 the team keeps position #3, in RC5 they are at position #7.

This comptetion is about to solve a difficult mathematic problem by the cumulative calculation power of many networked computers. Background informations on OGR and RC5 are to find at distributed.net, informations on networked computers in general also are to find in issue 32/2000 of the SPIEGEL magazine.

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09.Aug.2000
Amiga, Inc.


New Executive Update

August 8, 2000 - Greetings to the Global Amiga Family

It has been a hectic several weeks, and we are moving even faster this week.

There will be some new announcements in the next few days that should be of interest to everyone as we work hard to expand the members of the Amiga family.

I would like to say a big "Thank You" to everyone who attended the show in Sacramento California, and another special thank you to John and Jan Zacharius and the rest of the SACC team. They did a great job.

I am writing this letter as a quick answer to some questions that I have received in the last 48 hours.

As mentioned before, if you hear something that you need to confirm, ask. Every member of the Amiga team is more than willing to answer questions. It gets somewhat tiresome to constantly get rumors sent to us after they have been out there for several days or even weeks.

Here are answers to two rumors that need to be addressed immediately:
  1. Once you sell the remaining A1200's you are pulling out of Germany.

    Answer: No. We have no plans of pulling out of Germany. In fact we are looking at ways to increase our presence in all of Europe, Asia, South America, and even here in North America. There are several ideas on the table, and even some names have been attached to the ideas. There will more information available when we are ready to share the plans.

    We are certainly not going to disregard the business in these markets. We are a growing company and very excited about the future.
  2. You are going to begin selling new A4000's and there are already 1,000 of these new A4000's being built.

    Answer: Who came up with this one? There is no manufacturing of any Amiga except the new desktop, notebook, and handheld in the works.

I have asked before, and now I will ask again, please stop these rumors. If you hear one, contact any member of the Amiga Team directly, and we will answer you.

Thank you for your continued support.

Kindest regards,
Bill McEwen, and the rest of the Amiga Team (ps)

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08.Aug.2000
Aminet


New Aminet uploads
QuickFile_3.25.lha   biz/dbase  298K+Powerful, fast and easy database.
LedA17.lha           comm/misc   85K+On-line timer/application launcher hybri
AMarquee51.lha       comm/net   312K+V51.4 TCP Data Broadcast System (library
facts.lha            comm/tcp    81K+Rel4a NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
MR_Classes.lha       dev/gui    194K+Reaction classes
Euro2000_guide.lha   docs/hyper  18K+Guide about Euro2000
Aakt0800HTML.lha     docs/mags  285K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
ACNews_24.lha        docs/mags   43K+E-zine focused on Amiga News: #24-August
up-lowin.lha         docs/misc  390K+Up Rough LowerIntentions by Skope&Spot
cathangband.lha      game/role  716K+CathAngband 2.9.1.1 - Roguelike solo RPG
MahjonggTiles.lha    game/think 456K+V1.0 MUI based Shanghai type solitaire g
PfPaint_prw.jpg      gfx/edit   177K+PerfectPaint V2.0 Snapshot
up-ad001.lha         mods/inst  261K+Up Rough Analogue Drums Collection vol.0
up-anthm.lha         mods/techn 210K+UpRough!Anthem by Skope DNB from Icing98
up-disko.lha         mods/techn  57K+Up Rough Disko Divas. Fresh House from C
up-ndrnt.lha         mods/techn 189K+Up Rough Underneath our home by Spot fro
DeliTracker232.lha   mus/play   1.2M+Final Amiga Version, now Freeware
Blossom.jpg          pix/misc   108K+Almond Blossom with Bee
OS35InputImg.lha     pix/misc   104K+OS3.5 Input Prefs remplacememt images
up-kevin.lha         pix/trace  119K+Up Rough Kevin traced pic by Plus8 #2 at
text-dt.lha          util/dtype   9K+V44.4 of the text.datatype replacemnet
Gurus2000_Guid.lha   util/wb    179K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
Gurus2000_Html.lha   util/wb    521K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
WB2000_14.lha        util/wb    352K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)


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08.Aug.2000
Andreas Kleinert via e-mail


Software updates by Andreas Kleinert
In recent days, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX has released the following updates:
  • akJFIF version 44.82
  • akPNG version 44.82
  • akTIFF version 44.82
  • SViewIV version 9.10
  • SV-PPC-Module version 24.8

Aside from the usual code maintenance, small and large speed improvements could be achieved everywhere, with differing results on low- and high-end systems (depending on CPU power and memory bandwidth). All programs can be downloaded from the website at the title link.

We do not supply benchmarks, because we think they are worthless unless everybody could verify them on his own (e.g. by using an open source benchmark program, freely available graphics files and a clear system description).

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08.Aug.2000
Martina Kramer


Picture Service
The design company C&C Logo offers a new picture service. If you need a special picture for your internet presentation or some other occassion, in high resolution, C&C Logo will find it and take it for you. This service is not free.

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08.Aug.2000
Jens Schönfeld via e-mail


Catweasel ISA Available Again
Today, the first Catweasel ISA boards from the current production run have been shipped. Despite major supply problems we were able to keep delays within limits, the deadline was exceeded by less than a week. The stongly increased demand can now be fully satisfied. To keep the board producable in the year 2000, the "Y2K edition" recieved some cosmetic canges. The board looks different, but is fully software compatible with the 1996 model. It now fits better, and a protection against floppy cables attached in the wrong pin order has been added.

With the Catweasel for the PC you can read Amiga disks as well as all other formats the Catweasel knows, and uses them in emulators. For exsample, the usual formats for all Amiga and C64 emulators are supported. Catweasel works with the usual PC disk drives, so you don't need "original" drives like the 1541 from the Commodore C64.

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07.Aug.2000
Sebastian Bauer


text.datatype Version 44.4 Released
Download: text-dt.lzx

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07.Aug.2000
Oliver Roberts


WarpJPEG.datatype Version 44.12 Released
Since the last version for WarpUp PPC-Systems the datatype now works 10% faster on decoding of pictures. The datatype were recompiled with VBCC 0.7d beta.

Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha - 40 KB

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07.Aug.2000
Peter's Amiga Homepage


History
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Amiga Peter published the interesting history of these years. You will find the link in the news section.

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Ref: News 15.07.2000 - New Virus Discovered
On 07/15/2000 we published a message by Andre Gobet. This message was wrong. The authors of the concerned CD Techno DataBase 00 put our attention on that.

The problems were not caused by a virus but by the replacement of some systemfiles during the automatic installation process. These lead to some incompatibility with the installed OS 3.5. If Andre had read the manual he had known that there was the posibility to make an installation by hand.

We and Andre Gobet are very sorry for this failure

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07.Aug.2000
Håkan Parting on ANF


AMarquee Version 51.4 Released
Today the version 51.4 of AMarquee was released. This update includes some minor bugfixes and rivesed versions of the amaruee.library and the program executable. Some new functions simplify the network-programming. Further informations are available in the ReadMe.

Download: AMarquee50.lzx - 187 KB

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07.Aug.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


New Amiga Search Engine: amigasearch.com
A new AMIGA search engine is online! amigasearch.com supports keywords and offers search requests to other search engines. I would like to please all webmasters to register their webpages.

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07.Aug.2000
Jens Tröger via eMail


New InstallerNG Website Published
Apart from a new version and the splitting of the whole archive into a number of smaller ones there is a new support-homepage for the InstallerNG. At the moment the page still looks simple but we are working on it. You can find the page at the titlelink or at the following URL.

Download of the whole archive: iNG_usr.lha

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07.Aug.2000
ATC


ATC: New Public Beta Released
A new public beta of the ftp program ATC (AmiTradeCenter) is available for download. At the file Changes.txt you find all the modifications that were made.

Download: ATC_beta_06082000.lha

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07.Aug.2000
AmiDog


FPSE Version 0.08 Rev. 2
Revision 2 of version 0.08 of the "Free PlaxStation Emulator" FPSE was released. At the moment the amigaport is not very fast.

Download: fpse008r2.lha

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07.Aug.2000
CD³²-Allianz via eMail


CD³² News
The second and last issue of the CD³²Outside will be published in a few days. CD³²Outside were the last only CD³² magazin. Alltogether we have 14 newsmessages, 4 reviwes, a big workshop about the CDXL-format and about 23 forum entries plus a new AmigaNG program overview.

We the CD³²-Allianz would like to please you to help us to make the second issue of CD³²Outside to something special. There were and still are many games for the CD³² still waiting for a review of one of you in our last issue. Very welcomed would be reviews of games such as Microcosm, AlienBreed Tower Assault, CannonFodder2, Pirates Gold!, SensibleSoccer, AlienBreed3D, Zool 1 and 2 and many more. It is the last issue !!!

It is even the last posibility to advertise for the own game, a cheats-guide or an emulator. Because of the publishing on different CD-ROM you have the posibility to reach a big group of users. We still accept ad's.

We would be very happy about comments on the first issue of CD³²Outside. We will publish the best ones of them in the preface of the last issue.

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07.Aug.2000
Richard H. Poser via eMail


AmigaAIM BETA Version 0.9385 Released
These are the changes to the previous version:
  • Mainly a release for a few small changes that occured to me, just after releasing Version 0.9384
  • Modified Message area in Mail Check Window to show Messages/Total Size
  • Slight modifications to make Log files a bit more readable for human eyes.
  • Main Archive now should contain latest Sounds and Icons (MWB and Newicons)


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07.Aug.2000
CS&E


CS&E
CS&E informs that they are no longer able to support the Classic Amiga Platform and that all projects for the Classic Amiga were stopped. But the new Amiga will be considered.

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07.Aug.2000
Carsten Schröder via eMail


Amiga Aktuell 08/00 online
The German online magazine AMIGA aktuell 08/00 is online. Apart from up-to-date Amiga-news, topical softwaretests and many more we have this time a report about the Amiga-User-Meeting in Wolfenbüttel and a review of Heretic II. Furthermore we monthly publish a list of all available AmigaNG-Software.

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07.Aug.2000
Stefan Robl via eMail


Horrible Expense to flash PC-BIOS chip
Stefan Robl wrote: You are wrong if you believe that a PC-BIOS-Update is that easy in any case like performing a flash update on a CyberStormPPC. I documented the strangest update of all times at my homepage. :)

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07.Aug.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


"Scene Archives #1-8" available
For some time APC&TCP offers the CD-ROMs "Best of Scene Archives" and "Scene Archives #9". For a few days "Scene Archives #10" too. Some users asked us if the numbers 1 to 8 are also available, because it is a risk to mail 120 DM to australia. But these is not possible because we do not think that the slaerates would be high enough to cover our costs.

But APC&TCP we tried to find a solution. We negotiated with the australian author and decided to make some kind of collecting-order.

Further detailed information are available on our newspage.

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06.Aug.2000
Olaf Köbnik per E-Mail


Amiga Arena News
Olaf Köbnik wrote:

PhotoAlbum/Cybershow reduced prices
Helmut Hoffmann gives all visitors of the Amiga Arena a discount of 30% for the PhotoAlbum/Cybershow packet and 50-66% for additionally ordered modules.

35DM can be saved when ordering the packet with all modules.

I can recommend this software every user for his picture collection.

Amiga Arena Interview Action!
New interviews with Martin Blom (AHI) and Andre Beer (GeoWorld) online!

Amiga Arena CD Rom Test!
In the latest release of AmigaAktuell there is a test of the Amiga Arena CD Rom Edition.

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06.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


AmiWest 2000 Report by David Crawford
David Crawford talks about the BoXer, and in conjunction with Hyperion about the high costs of PPC-cards in the USA (up to 1200 USD for 200MHz and 060).

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06.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


Publisher for Drake
The team of the 3D-game Drake, which orientates oneselves on Microprose's Pirates! seems to have found a publisher. It isn't named for now, because the contract isn't signed yet.

By now, the 3D-engine gets many improvements. More physical laws were added for more realism.

The Drake-Team consists of Oliver Gantert, Andreas Hippauf and Tobias Lutz. The homepage (link) contains some information and screenshots of the game.

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06.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News


REBOL/Express
REBOL/Express is a system which simplifies information exchange between salesmen and their customers, partners, resellers and employees. It consists of the products REBOLink, REBOL/Service and REBOL/Author and replaces customary communications like eMail and WWW by a direct communication-channel, which works in both directions. This offers the possibility to inform customers directly about new products or updates.

All possibilities are described in the productinformation, available at the title link.

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06.Aug.2000
ANN


Comparison between AmigaOE and Microsoft's .net
In his article Jonathan Clark compares the AmigaOE-System by Amiga/Tao with the .net-system by Microsoft.

Both systems use a virtual processor but have huge differences, too. AmigaOE always uses the little Endian-display, Microsoft offers depending on the processor little or big Endian. In addition, .net contains more type-information in its VP-code. AmigaOE offers a complete OS with Java which can run independently while .net will strongly depend on the WIN32-API and makes operation difficult on Unix-systems.

This and other points are described better in Clark's article.

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06.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


Interview with Emerald Imaging
At the homepage of the Amiga Future again is an actual interview. This time with Emerald Imaging who work on the 3D-adventure Aqua at the moment. At the homepage of the game you can find screenshots.

In addition there is a new request at the start page of Amiga Future, asking "How do you like our Homepage?". The result of the PPC-request can be found in the actions-area. 53,37% of the participants said, they already own a PPC-card, 20.5% want to buy one.

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06.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News


Amiga in Doctor Dobb's Journal
The september release of Doctor Dobb's Journal contains an article about Amiga titled "Paradigms Lost and Regained". The article reports quite positive about the original Amiga and partly about AmigaOS. Some lines later the article also positively talks about the new Amiga and the new Os based on Tao':s system. It also brings out the fact that the new OS is really something NEW with the words: "this is not the AmigaOS that Amigausers know and love".

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05.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News


AsimWare Continues to Offer Amiga Products
On 1. August 2000 CZech Amiga News already quoted Greg Scott, AsimWare Innovations Inc., who set clear that AsimWare continues to be in the Amiga trade. Just development of AsimCDFS has been stoped, but development of MasterISO will continue.

There is the http://amiga.asimware.com/ link especially for the Amiga area.

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


Bugfix: Amiga SDK with RedHat 6.2
Due to problems with the Ncurses packet Amiga SDK does not run on an unmodified RedHat 6.2 installation. Therefore a Ncurses fix done by Daniel Robbins is ready for download.

Simply unpack the archive amiga-ncurses.tar.gz under Linux using the following command:

cd /usr
tar xzvf amiga-ncurses.tar.gz

Now type in "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/amiga/lib" and then the Amiga SDK can be started with "intent_shell".

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05.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News


Voyager 3.3 Alpha as well as Spurious Offers
Oliver Wagner released an alpha version of Voyager V3.3 on August, 4th 2000. This version is presentating the new layout engine. This alpha version is not ought to replace a running browser, due to essential features are still missing such like FORMs (objects are created but have no function yet), FRAMES, IFRAMES and JavaScript (code is present but not active yet). Sending in bug reports, missing features or similar therefore is not necessary.

At shareit.com spurious entries of Vapor programs at immense prices were made. These entries were not made by Vapor and hence should be left ignored.

Vapor belongs to the MorphOS alpha testers and there might be a V-port, but at the time beeing there are no fixed plans of doing one. Concentration points on finishing the new version for AmigaOS.

Download: v_33_alpha24.lzx (204K)

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


Aminet-CD #38 Available
Aminet-CD #38 from August 2000 is available. It contains decrunched allmost one gigabyte of data. Since Aminet-CD #37 500MB of new data has been added. As special highlight a full version of Personal Paint 7.1b is included on the CD.

The news archive of amiga-news.de also is content of this CD (German and English) and can be viewed directly from the ReadMe using the browser comming with the Aminet-CD.

Content of Aminet-CD #38

Verzeichnis  Umfang       Archive    Inhalt

    biz           27 MB       37         Geschäftssoftware
    comm          30 MB       96         Kommunikationssoftware
    demo          45 MB       33         Demos
    dev           12 MB       62         Entwicklungssoftware
    disk           7 MB       15         Harddisk Tools
    docs          18 MB       61         Dokumente
    game          79 MB       90         Spiele
    gfx           23 MB       30         Grafiksoftware
    hard           3 MB       13         Rund um Hardware
    misc          36 MB       40         Verschiedenes
    mods         313 MB       125        Musikmodule
    mus            5 MB       30         Musik Software
    pix          156 MB       215        Bilder
    text          10 MB       23         Texte
    util          25 MB       121        Utilities


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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


AmiWest 2000 Report by Jim Szutowicz
Jim Szutowicz published his AmiWest 2000 Report and pictures at the titlelink.

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


BetaScanMustek V0.44 - 1.0.92
There is version 0.44 - 1.0.92 of the driver for Mustek scanners available at Aminet.

Download: BetaScanMustek.lha, readme

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


DocDatatypes V39.50
On 4th August 2000 Amarpreet Singh Munde released version 39.50 of the DocDatatypes. This update includes numerous enhancements. The following formats have been added: Psion Word, TextED and WindowsCE Pocket Word wherewith DocDatatypes supports more than 20 formats, yet.

Download:


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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


EZHome-Demo Update
On 5th August 2000 a new demo version of the home automation software "EZHome" was released. This Update fixes the 060 processor problems.

Download: EZHomeDemo.lha

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05.Aug.2000
Fun Time World


FPSE V0.08
Version V0.08 of the Playstation emulation ",FPSE" for Amiga computer is available for download. With this version display is not that dark as with the previeous one and via shell one can choose the options USA/Japan and Europe.

Currently no 3D hardware is supported, hence the emulations is not very fast. The emulation runs on PPC Amigas with 32MB of RAM, WarpOS V4+, and CGFX V3+. Additionally the PSX BIOS is required.

Download:


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05.Aug.2000
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Haage&Partner - Raffle 666.666
The counter of the Haage&Partner-Website is running to 666.666. The winning is a software packet from H&P.

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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


Jobs in the BoXer Project
Anit-Gravity has job openings in the BoXer project and accepts application for an employment online with this form.

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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


PhatEdit for AmigaOE
Richard Collier released PhatEdit, a text editor with GUI and all primary features for AmigaOE. PhatEdit is 2K in size.

Download: phatedit.lha

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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


REBOL for Elate (SDK)
A beta version of Rebol(V2.4beta) is now available for Elate/Intent, too. This version runs on the current Amiga SDK.

Download: core271.tar.gz

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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


REBOL: The Official Guide
The official guide for REBOL is available. It has 752 pages and comes with CD. The book was written by Elan Goldman and John Blanton and is a step-by-step introduction to the development of e-commerce applications using REBOL.

The table of content and one chapter of the book are available at the titlelink.

The book was publish by REBOL Press together with Osborne/McGraw-Hill. (ISBN 0-07-212279-X)

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05.Aug.2000
amiga.org


wfmhcybergfx_r3d Open Source Now
The plugin library "wfmhcybergfx_r3d" for Real3D including source code was published on condition of a licence similar to BSD. With this the library is freeware, too (was shareware).

This library allows 24bit rendering inside of GUI windows.

Download: wfmhcybergfx_src.lha

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05.Aug.2000
Pulse Publishing via E-Mail


Amiga Pulse #15
Amiga Pulse issue 15 was finished and has gone to press. It will be released on August 15th with a coloured high glossy cover.

Since the release delayed this issue was updated continuously, hence there are twelfe additional pages including one special news and review page, as well as one double page with the index of the magazine for a better overview.

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05.Aug.2000
Richard H. Poser II via E-Mail


AmigAIM 0.9384 Beta
On 4th August 2000 Richard H. Poser released beta version 0.9384 of his AIM "AmigAIM". Since the last release there are the following changes:
  • New: Mail-Checking-System.
  • New "Mail-Check-Window" for sound and notifications.
  • The directory structure was slightly changed and should be readjusted at the first start of the software after the update.
  • At the first start one must select the user the program shall begin with, since this save format changed, too.
  • A Problem in the relogin system was fixed. The start window was send to sleep mode under many circumstanced, even if it realy should not do that.
  • There are still some CyberGuard/Enforcer hits, but those could only be reproduced random, so far.
  • The IO packet window now supports Cut'n Paste, so the last values bevore/after an error including all CyberGuard/Enforcer hits can be sent to the author.
  • Notice: In the case of Miami it is recommended to use at least Miami V2.1p, V3.2b or MiamiDX V1.0c - with those AIM was tested successfull.

AIM requires MUI V3.8 and serveral custom classes.

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05.Aug.2000
Oliver Roberts on ANF


Faster WarpJPEG and -PNG Datatypes
Oliver Roberts has released new versions of his Warp datatypes for JPEG (V44.12) and PNG (V44.7).

According to Roberts pictures now are decoded again 10% faster than before, wereby the Warp datatypes belong to the fastest JPEG and PNG datatypes.

These datatypes require an Amiga with PPC board and WarpOS.

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04.Aug.2000
Distributed.net


New RC5 Clients
New clients for RC5 are available for download at Distributed.net. There are versions for PPC/PowerUp, m68k and PPC/WarpOS. Current version number is V2.8010.463.

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04.Aug.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS News
A couple of days ago, the beta version of MorphOS was published. Now an online bugreport form is available. Please enter all found bugs with as many information as possible. All bugreports will be read, a reply will only be given if there are some questions regarding your report.

There is a AHI-Version by Martin Blom for MorphOS.

Download: ahipre4-morphos.lzh

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04.Aug.2000
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF


Coyote Flux Opens Temporary Website
Since the 68k->PPC assembly porter/language PPC680x0 was finished a little while ago, Coyote Flux has opened a temporary website at www.coyoteflux.tmfweb.nl

PPC680x0 will be released on Haage&Partner's StormC 4 CD appearing in October this year. Take a look at the website to find out more about PPC680x0, Burnin' Rubber 2000, Super Amicon and more...

PPC680x0 is an assembler program which is able to convert 680x0 sourcecode to PPC sourcecode. This could change all 68k programs easily to PPC. The programmers, by the way, are the guys who had to pose as a popular camera subject with their Amiga bobble hats on almost all fairs.

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04.Aug.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF


Release of SAS-C Denied
Marco Frischkorn queried a couple of days ago at SAS America whether there would be the possibility to release SAS-C for the Amiga freely. The query was denied after examination by the legal department.

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04.Aug.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Quarrel about Words: After Explorer and Samba now ASP
«After Explorer, Webspace and Samba now another popular EDP term became the object of trademark quarrels: the specialist book author Volker Jungbluth asked several companies in the last weeks to refrain from using his wordmark "ASP".»

«1998, Jungbluth registered the describing term "Site Promotion" as wordmark and then sent the internet consultor Andreas Roemer a warning plus a cashing up of 1895,21 D-Mark (about US$900) because of alleged trademark violation.»

«The German ASP consortium which represents more than 60 companies, has called upon Jungbluth to draw back the registered trademark. Jungbluth denied this, said consortium speaker Werner Grohmann: ",Now our lawyers become active; currently an expert's report is beeing made."»
For full article (in German) follow the titlelink.

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04.Aug.2000
Individual Computers


XSurf-IDE Drivers for Free!
Jens Schönfeld wrote: "Since today is my birthday, it's my treat today! As a big thank-you to all X-Surf customers, the XSurf-IDE driver is available in the support-area for a free download now (not only today!). This would not have been possible without my retail partners who gave me financial help for this gift:

Software Hut (USA, 15%)
Eyetech (England, 5%)
KDH Datentechnik (Germay, 15%)
Vesalia Computer (Germany, 15%)
Eternity (Germany, 5%)

Please think about one of these retailers if you buy something for your Amiga next time. Special thanks must go to Eyetech again for the friendly permission to include their Samba-install-CD with the X-Surf.

Happy birthday, Jens. May all your wishes come true. :-).

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03.Aug.2000
Aminet


New Aminet Uploads
Charon.lha           comm/net   159K+Download manager
Amster.lha           comm/tcp   472K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI
Apache_1.3.12.lha    comm/www   3.8M+AmigaApache/1.3.12 PHP/4.0.1pl2
SortCopy.lha         disk/bakup  28K+Copy or backup files,directories and lin
PurgeDelDir.lha      disk/misc   11K+Purge PFS .DelDir of useful file referen
AIOV37.lha           docs/mags  454K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 37 (July
Dwarf.lha            game/patch  63K+The Cheating Utility
RotateAnim.lha       gfx/edit     5K+PPaint script for creating animations
Splitmpeg.lha        gfx/misc    71K+MPEG splitter (030/040/PPC)
flamingo.lha         misc/emu   146K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.50, 68k & PPC
twig_guad.lha        mods/med   162K+Guadalope, a tune by DJTwiglet
twig_minc.lha        mods/med   441K+Mince, a tune by DJTwiglet
twig_mung.lha        mods/med   166K+Mungo, a tune by DJTwiglet
rno-r044.lha         mods/misc  746K+Rno-label release no.44 by matrixx (drum
SuperSansSerif.lha   text/bfont   9K+Light and clean ScreenText Amiga Font
JanoEditor.lha       text/edit   55K+TextEditor beta 10
remcmt.lha           util/cli     1K+Remove all comments in directory
HP2TeX.lha           util/conv   12K+Convert HP11C/12C output to TeX
lucyplay.lha         util/libs   14K+AHI Audio Player + Joystick Functions
MonitorTest.lha      util/misc   17K+* Monitor Test v0.7 *
MUISearch13_SI.lha   util/wb      1K+Slovenian catalog for MUISearch v1.3


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03.Aug.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Wave of dissuasions against Open Source Network Software Samba (Update)
«Offerors of support for the open source software Samba are effected by a wave of dissuasions. Several companies part of a list in the web recieved a letter demanding them no longer to offer, advertise for, distribute or utilize Samba for buissnes communiction. Samba is an application which allows to use Unix and Linux platforms for server and client in a Windows network. This free for download program belongs to the most popular successful projects of the open source software area. The name SaMBa comes from the SMB protocoll used in Windows networks.» Entire article at the titlelink (German).


In the meanwhile I have a notion that dissuasions are mutating into a marketing strategy and are no longer ought to enforce rights, but only to serve the purpose to arrest attention. The senders of these dissuasions can be sure of the entire press to jump at this subject. The advertising effect is invaluable, cause even negative advertising is in fact advertising, as already well known. That often very enthusiastic people who worked hard and often without any payment for their project are driven to economic ruin by this, is just the fly shit falling through the grid. :-(

Supplement 04 Aug 2000:
CMG statement on SAMBA
«In the meanwhile emerged the responsibility of name for open source software belongs to an Australian internet company. CMG will contact this company and try to achieve an agreement, so that the in Germany incidentally same name can no longer lead to any misconceptions.

At the same time CMG will stop the dissuasiveness procedure against the contacted companies, which just offer support for the open source software. Also no further dissuasivenesses are planned. After all it is not CMG's intention to harm the buisness of open source offerors or to handicap distribution or use of these products.»


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03.Aug.2000
Oliver Gantert on ANF


UnLZX 2.12 (68k/PPC/486)
On my homepage there is a new version of the LZX decruncher UnLZX available for download. Every bug of the old version has been fixed now. There are versions for 68000/020/040, PPC[TM] PowerUp[TM]/WarpOS and Windows 95[TM] comming with the archive.

Download: UnLZX2.lha

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03.Aug.2000
Carsten Scholling on ANF


NListtree.mcc Bugfix (V18.3)
After the response on NListree more than expected and (unfortunatly) some bugs have been recoverd though, now the update. The following problems have been resolved:
  • MUA_NListtree_Quiet does not work as expected. Fixed!
  • User defined compare- and findname-hooks crashed! Fixed!
  • Now, NListtree is really quiet if MUIA_NListtree_Quiet is set!
  • Reactivation of copied, moved and exchanged entries works better now.
  • AutoScroll when opening nodes now works as expected.
  • Added new config item "Open scroll".

Send bug reports, infos, queries a.s.o. to my address above, as usual.
Download: MCC_NListtree.lha

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02.Aug.2000
Haage & Partner


H&P: New Overview and Search Site
The service of H&P is improving more and more and therefore it is difficult to find the wanted sites. H&P now has created an overview and search site.

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02.Aug.2000
clickBOOM


clickBOOM S-File #5 Online
Nightlong (68k und PPC-version) is near to be finished. The covers are printed, the final tests are about to be done and as soon as Nightlong was enabled the master-CD can be created and the production can be started.

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02.Aug.2000
Olaf Köbnik via eMail


Amiga Arena news
Amiga Arena CD Rom Update!
For those who have got the Amiga Arena CD-ROM edition there is a keyfile for Imperium Terranum 2 for download. With the keyfile which is registered to "Amiga Arena User" the demoversion on the cd can be changed into a full version of IT2.

Hint:
The keyfile version of IT2 is not freeware. Forwarding of the IT2 keyfile version is not allowed. It is just allowed to forward the IT2 archive which is free for download. The Amiga Arena CD-ROM version is available with the next edition.

Amiga Arena interview campaign!
New interviews with Pascal G. (TextLoader) and Thomas W. (AmigaAMP) online!

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02.Aug.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Amiga Future interview with Epic germany
Right in this moment on the homepage of Amiga Future in the "Aktion" section an interview with Epic Marketing Deutschland was published (German). Among other things in this interview Epic is talking about estimated release dates of thier current projects (Simon the Sorcerer 2 within this month, Dafel Bloodline and Earth 2140 not before October) and about their point of view on Amiga. Epic is comlaining about the big amount of piracy copies, too.

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02.Aug.2000
Amity


DelfInit Version 2.1 Released
The utility for initiating the Delfina soundcard was updated and was now released as version 2.1. New: The program recognizes the Delfina Plus which formerly was done as Delfina Lite+, instead of the intern memory it is now shown the extern one.

Download: DelfInit.lha - 40 KB

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02.Aug.2000
Moo Bunny Forum


Moo Bunny Forum: AmiWest Reports
In the forum of Moo Bunny some users have posted several interesting AmiWest 2000 show reports.

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02.Aug.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF


Set Up of SDK and AmigaOne Webcircle
Marco Frischkorn is thinking about to set up a link collection/webcircle for the Amiga SDK and AmigaOne. Those of you who have news, reports, tutorials, webpages etc. on this topic at hand would send this matter via email to Marco. Existing webpages will be linked by Webring, if needed all other things will get hosted. Why all this? Did you ever tried to get informtion about SDK?

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02.Aug.2000
Martina Jacobs on ANF


Amster version 0.7a Released
The Amiga Napster client "Amster" as version 0.7a is now available at Aminet. Napster is a project for sharing MP3 files using a special client with special features such like chatting, searching, download, newsletter and more. Among other this client version for Amiga offers multithreaded downloads with the opportunity of selecting priorities. The application requires AmigaOS3.x, MUI 3.8+, MCC_NListtree 19.97+ and MCC_Lamp 11.1+.

Download: Amster.lha - 472 KB - Amster.readme

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02.Aug.2000
Torsten Dudai


New cartoon: Sweet dreams




Bill McEwens's announcement of Amiga going public next year gave Torsten the inspiration for this new caricature. By the way, our opinion poll concerning the cartoons is still going on because we want to recognize your wishes in a better way.

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02.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga news


AmiBench Moving
Caused by a switchin to another server AmiBench currently is reachable at http://amibench.nop.org.uk/. The usual URL http://www.amibench.org/ is accessible after changing the Domain Name Server in the next days.

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02.Aug.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS Starts with Public Betatests
In order to participate on the public betatests, fill out the form at the titlelink, download the MorphOS archive, install it and studiously write us bugreports, if you find any bugs. Requirements: Reading the documentation and the following system equipment:

System Requirements:
  • OS3.1
  • 32 MB RAM
  • A1200 / A3000(T) / A4000(T)
  • CyberStorm PPC or Blizzard PPC

Recommended:
  • 64 MB RAM (more won't hurt)
  • CyberVision/BlizzardVision PPC with CGX4 installed for maximum performance
  • Fast PPC since 680x0 companion CPU does not have any impact on system performance
(ps)

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01.Aug.2000
Charon Page


Charon Version 1.4 Released
Version 1.4 of the download manager "Charon" is ready for download. Charon is shareware an can get registered online at the titlelink.

Download: Charon.lha

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01.Aug.2000
AROS-ML


AROS Status Update
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:00:20 +0200
To: AROS Announce mailto:aros-announce@aros.org
Reply-To: aros-announce@lists.hepe.com
Subject: [AROS-Announce] Status update

BGUI has been completely ported to AROS, now. This means that the library
can be compiled and that all demos run. Cudos go to Stefan Berger.

Michael Schulz is working on making mice work on AROS Native/i386.
This includes work on a PCI.HIDD, an IRQ.HIDD, the VGA.HIDD and the
Serial.HIDD plus an IDE driver. Trackdisk is there, too, so the
next thing is to find a filesystem to use. We try to get SFS because
it seems one of the best filesystems for the Amiga at this time.
The SFS developers seem to be very positive to this, we'll see what
comes from it.

As for the Sowatec AG hiring
developers for AROS, all I can say at this time is that we had several
job interviews and things look quite good. The only thing that might
break it at this time (as I see it) is that we get not enough people.
We figured that we need four developers and last I looked, we had three
and one interview still open. Don't hold your breath but press your
thumbs :-)

Nils Henrik Lorentzen has begun to write a framebuffer.HIDD which
uses Linux' framebuffer for rendering. Right now, it's mostly for
debugging (it's a synchronous interface instead of X11s' asynchronous
one) but maybe, there will be a AROS Native/linux-i386, ie. a
version of AROS that will boot with the help of a Linux kernel
but without the need to install a complete Linux system. We'll
see what can be done here.

And I'm diving into the depths of Ami, the SDK for the next Amiga
by Amiga Inc.. As it looks, the
SDK is a bit disappointing because it's very rough and has lots of
holes but on the positive side, Amiga's crew is very helpful and
the developer support is just great. *sigh* Had we just had such
a support in the old C= days. Many thanks for their effort go to
Ray A. Akey and Gary Peake and all the members of the
Tao and Amiga
support staff that I'm bombing with EMails ;-) If they can keep this
attitude, then I have no doubt that in five or ten years, people
will name Ami in the same breath as Windows, EPOC and Linux.
Something really to look forward to.

As for stats, I'm proud that we made 40k hits on our web page and
this year has also been very productive from the EMail side: Last
year, there were about 300KB mails/month in the developer list.
This year, we have 1MB mails/month ! Thanks go to all those
members of the development team that have not been mentioned here
but who do important stuff, nonetheless (in no order): Henning
Kiel and Lars Bischoff for reporting bugs, Georg Steger for
cleaning up after the other developers have raged through the
code and calling me back to earth when necessary, Jaime Dias for
asking "stupid" questions that make us think what we're doing,
Manuel Lemos for trusting us with BGUI, Requin Frederic for
helping Michael Schulz, Tobias Seiler for continuing the NetBSD
port, Bernardo Innocenti for bugging people to allow us to port
their software to AROS and last but not least all those people
who I forgot :-) Thanks to you all; it's your
work that makes this possible.

And at the end, a short note to all those people who started own
ports of the AmigaOS: Good luck to you all. I think you will find
out soon enough why AROS took soo long. The AROS team is still
willing to share their knowledge and code with everyone out
there. And we can do this because of the MPL, the only true Open
Source license :-)

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Sowatec AG,       CH-8330 Pfäffikon (ZH)
Witzbergstr. 7,   http://www.sowatec.com
Tel: +41-(0)1-952 55 55
Fax: +41-(0)1-952 55 66
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Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla, digulla@sowatec.com
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AROS-Announce@lists.hepe.com
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01.Aug.2000
Grabbe via eMail


ANN: Amiga Laptop
According to Joe Torre, the BoXeR development team is also working on a laptop Classic Amiga (about time we got one of those!).

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01.Aug.2000
VMC


VMC: 5D+ Internet Mouse shipping at last!
From today the long hoped for 5D+ Internet Mouse is sent to all the people who preordered and to the vendors. This new model is consequently custom-made enhanced version of the popular 4D+ Internet Mouse.

Since we are able to distribute any desired number of units of this model, at last we are in the position to provide specialized trade with it, too. With this we apologize to every Haage & Partner customer, as well as KDH customer who was forced to wait for a longer period of time.

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01.Aug.2000
LinuxInfo.de via eMail


Initial Testing and Preview: RedHat 7.0 Beta
After the release of the new RedHat 7.0 beta we took a lot at this and report on the first installation and give a perspective on the new features. The report is to finde at the report section (German). More informatin at the titlelink.

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01.Aug.2000
amiga.org


Tech Extreme: Matrox & Amiga in the Shack
Another interesting article in a non-amiga media. By the way, we are collecting such articles centrally for you on our special site External Articles, so you are able to recover interesting articles even after a longer period of time without problems. This link otherwise is to find at "Special Pages".

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01.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News


ACE 2000 - The Alternative Computer Expo
At Albert Parkt in Melbourne, Australia, the ACE 2000 (The Alternative Computer Expo) will take place on 21./22. October 2000. The website on this event is online, now.

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01.Aug.2000
Frank "Morn" Grochut on ANF


StrICQ 0.1731 Released
The latest version of the Amiga ICQ client is online for free download.
  • Re-Compiled for 68020/+ processors
  • Removed Debug option so the executable is only 521ko (200ko gain)
  • Updated the version numbers (nomore "1600 series")
  • Enabled cut and paste in Chat and History
  • StrICQ now uses it's own icon (PROGDIR:STRICQ) as app-icon and no longer Env:sys/Def_STRICQ
  • A lot of fonts are now FIXED so that cut/paste work with MCP
  • Re-worked prefs window: now resizable
  • Updated a lot of borders to ReadList type instead of String to give a closer AmIRC look for chat and list, it is also more MUI styled now and you can configure their look without messing up the input field borders.
  • Improved the look of some frames

Download: stricq1731.lha

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01.Aug.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


"Publius" - The Web against Internet Censorship beeing Tested
«"Share and rule" - the classic formula to ensure one's power now apparently is turning against the governing people. Initiated by computer scientists from AT&T and the New York University a two month lastig experiment of a "censorship resident" publication system starts. On Tuesday 02. August 2000 the distribution of the proxy server shall start up, on 7. August 2000 the testing of the client software will begin.

The Publius named system ensures the promulgation of web releases similar to FreeNet by putting them on numerous servers using the peer-to-peer technique, and under some circumstances this will be done by splitting the files. Hence it becomes harder for potential or existing censorship offices to close documents in this system by carrier liabilities. More over that Publius relies on multible endcoding: It is only possible to decode the pages after all the splitted framents has been put together again. For the carrier of a server those pages are unreadble. For this reason the carrier cannot be hold responsible for content he/she is not able to know.»
The entire article at the titlelink. (German)

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01.Aug.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Mojo Nation: Another new System for File Sharing
«While Napster and Scour (after music the movies) are fighting for their future and one of the atlernative share servers, CuteMX, had closed for the time beeing waiting for the smoke to disapear, which came from the injunction against Napster, which was suspended again in the meantime, Mojo Nation started their test run and touts for users with an amount of features most of the competitors could not offer, yet. E.g. the software even supports it's own micropayment feature, as no other does by now.»

«Those seven cypherpunks believe that they have created the next "killer application" for the internet whith their sophisticated system. "We are a mixture of Napster and eBay", blew Jim McCoy, CEO of Autnomous Zone Industries, his big role models to Wired News.»
Entire article at the titlelink. (German)

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01.Aug.2000
ATC


ATC: Official Beta Available
An official beta of the ftp program AmitTradeCenter is available for download. For this version a lot of little bugs have been fixed and enhancements have been added. Please, get details from this text.

Download: ATC_beta_31072000.lha - 266 KB

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01.Aug.2000
DOpus4 Support Page


Official Directory Opus 4 Manual Available
Dr. Greg Perry from GP Software granted to make the official Directory Opus 4 Manual as AmigaGuide available for donwnload.

Download: DopusManual.lha - 100 KB

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31.Jul.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail


RegNet-Registration
RegNet informed me, that they'd be releasing a new site and that the transfer should be smoothly - however due to an obvious IP address change, http://www.regnet.net currently points to some completely different site (after first only containing an error message and then being down for a while). I would expect, that the DNS server entries get updated soon and would be be glad, if people that have not been able to register since 26th/27th of July would try again in a few days.

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31.Jul.2000
Olaf Köbnik via eMail


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena presents: BallMaster Keyfile Special !
The keyfile for the puzzle game "BallMaster" (AGA, ECS) is now online available. Attention: The keyfile is registered to "AMIGA ARENA VISITOR" and therefor determined just for Amiga Arena visitors ! You are not allowed to distribute this file in any way ! We wish you much fun with BallMaster, Damir A. (Developer) and Olaf K. (Amiga Arena) !

Amiga Arena Interview Special!
There are new interviews with Achim Stegemann (Digital Almanac) and Guido Mersmann (Boulderdash) online available.

Imperium Terranum 2
With the permission of Michael Pfeiffer (VWP) we offer you a free download of the archievs IT2 and Star Trek.

Imperium Terranum 3
If you are interrested in developing IT3 you can contact Michael P.

Amiga Arena CD-ROM Edition!
An other review of the Amiga Arena CD-ROM is published in the actuall issue of Amiga Times.

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31.Jul.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
PureBasic.lha        dev/basic  773K+V1.50 - Brand new powerful programming l
PureBasic_Upd.lha    dev/basic  640K+V1.50 - Update for registered users (fro
MR_Classes.lha       dev/gui    184K+Reaction classes
CopyLockDecode.lha   disk/misc   10K+V1.34 Rob Northen Copylock Decoder
Track2File_src.lha   disk/misc   31K+V1.22 file ripper from NDOS & DOS disks 
fu_psv-e.lha         docs/hyper  67K+Large info about famous football club (E
fu_psv-e_pic-1.lha   docs/hyper 5.3M+Pictures to English version of "PSV Guid
fu_psv-e_pic-2.lha   docs/hyper 5.6M+Pictures to English version of "PSV Guid
fu_psv-e_pic-3.lha   docs/hyper 5.5M+Pictures to English version of "PSV Guid
fu_psv-e_pic-4.lha   docs/hyper 5.5M+Pictures to English version of "PSV Guid
fu_psv-e_pic-5.lha   docs/hyper 5.9M+Pictures to English version of "PSV Guid
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   10K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (30 July
GlowMopoly.lha       game/data  141K+Gfx for HBMonopoly 2+ (AME/DEU/ENG)
PictrisDemo.lha      game/demo  2.6M+Demo of an addictive new puzzle game
IT_2_StarTrek.lha    game/misc    2K+Star Trek version of IT2, german
nts_slamtiltcd.lzh   game/patch   2K+Play SLAMTILT with CD32 JoyPad !! 
ICS.lha              hard/misc  1.6M+V1.10 ICS - professional color correctio
mamegui.lha          misc/emu    68K+MAME GUI
NeoMAMEGUI.lha       misc/emu    41K+NeoMAME GUI
N24-Metabox.lha      misc/misc  2.7M+(german) N24 Met
bass.lha             mods/blkha 282K+Protracker mod by blakkhar
terrortpmix.lha      mods/blkha 250K+Harder Protracker mod by blakkhar
Willi_tale.mpg       mods/elbie 4.2M+Sir Williams Tale [Saga Orch.] by ElbiE^
sad-can-can.lha      mods/hardc 3.4M+160 BPM HardCore by Sadista (DBM 10ch)
bO-027.lha           mods/techn 1.1M+#027 bOhema release - SPEKTRA.
bO-028.lha           mods/techn 188K+#028 bOhema release - XBALL.
Years_ago.lha        pix/misc    84K+[ancor] Sandra and Sarah young
LombiWB.lha          pix/wb     261K+Two grabs of my WB, one with RTG & one w
clip.lha             util/cli     6K+Manipulate the clipboard from shell (w/s
asyncioppc.lha       util/libs   24K+Asyncio.library with WarpOS functions (V
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc   55K+Report+ 3.22: 8-function utility
Gurus2000_1807.lha   util/wb    615K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)


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31.Jul.2000
Igor Sereda on ANF


Concerns to all Voyager 3.2.12 beta Users
On the 1st August you won't be aible to launch the Voyager (3.2.12) beta. I discovered this by surprise because I had set the system time wrong.

We contacted Oliver Wagner and he assured that he will offer a download to switch the timeout off.

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31.Jul.2000
Jürgen A. Theiner on ANF


playamiga.de is back !
Caused by a harddiskcrash www.playamiga.de was not updated the last two weeks. Now I am back again to supply you with new game information. ACTUAL: The time to enrol for the SWOS tournament ends in the last days of august.

PS: Due to the harddiskcrash I lost all of my online-datas. If you wait for a reply on your mail, please send this mail once more.

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31.Jul.2000
Michael Carrillo on ANF


Epic (UK) supports Amihoo.com
Epic UK have teamed up with Amihoo.com to give away a £10 pound voucher, for the best letter submitted to Amihoo's Talkback section, on a monthly base. To win, write about anything Amiga related. Best letter published in Issue 2 wins the £10 (ukp) Epic Voucher.

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31.Jul.2000
TFA


ASM-One V1.44 will be released in August
Nothing changed during the last weeks on the webside. Now the author announced that he will release version 1.44 of the well known Amiga Macro-Assembler.

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31.Jul.2000
Amiga Inc.


Paul Nolan Joins Amiga
As you may know Amiga Inc. is forming a new developer department at the time beeing. The first step will be to bring together first class designers and developers. Amiga Inc. is excited to announce now to have Paul Nolan, developer of Photogenics, on board, too.

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31.Jul.2000
Sinan Gurkan via eMail


AmigArt Online
After some server problems and a move caused by this, AmigaArt is now back at the well known address http://www.amiga-art.com.

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31.Jul.2000
AIO


AIO Issue #37 Published
Issue #37 of "Amiga Information Online" is now for download.

Download: AIOV37.LHA

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31.Jul.2000
ICS


ICS Version 1.10 Released
With the scanner color adjustment software ICS by Wolf Faust you can reach a nearly professional colormanagement for your scanner.

Download: ICS.lha - 1,7 MB -
ICS.readme

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31.Jul.2000
Michael Pfeiffer via eMail


IT2 - Star Trek Edition
After IT2 the Star Trek version is now freeware and Open Source, too. You can download the update by following the titlelink

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30.Jul.2000
amiga.org


Aliens Vs Predator Sourcecode
Foxinteractive released on July 27th 2000 the sourcecode of the 3D-shooter 'Alien vs. Predator' for IBM compatible computers. At the server you can find screenshots of the game.

Unfortunately the downloadlink points back to the newspage.

Supplement 31.07.2000 (ps):
The downloadlink were deleted because there shortly will be an optimized version of the sourcecode.

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30.Jul.2000
Amiga.org


Screenshot of UAE for SDK
Deryk Robosson published a screenshot showing an UAE-version for the SDK on the AmiOpen-ML.

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30.Jul.2000
Amiga.org


Interview with Moss and Ewen
Daniel Robbins took an interview with Fleecy Moss and Bill McEwen (Amiga) that has been published at IBM in the section "developerWorks:Linux overview:Library - papers".

The interview starts with the Amiga Classic and brings out very positively what it really is. Next, the technology of the new system is beeing explained. Most of this should be known already.

Bill McEwens statement the SDK was sold out after 15 minutes at Neuss, is, as already said by Sebastian Brylka at Fun Time World, wrong. It was available there for a lowered price on the second day, too.

Daniel Robbins is president/CEO of Gentoo Technologies.

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30.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Interview with Ablaze Entertainment
On the homepage of the Amiga Future there is an actual interview again. This time with Ablaze Entertainment. Ablaze has been founded in 1996 and curently works together with ClickBoom.

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30.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


New Blittersoft-Website
Blittersoft has reworked their website.

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30.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Java-MP3 added to SDK-report
Stefan Zivkovic has updated his report of the Amiga-SDK. It now contains benchmarks of Java-MP3, too.

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30.Jul.2000



Pictures from AmiWest
UGN
amiwest2k

Dirk Baeyens
amiwest-1999-Fleecy/index.html
amiwest-2000-Bill/index.html
Boxerboard.jpg
15 Jahre Amiga.jpg

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30.Jul.2000
Dirk Conrad at ANF


MAS-Player 1.21 (Update)
Dirk Conrad wrote:
A little update for the Amiga MAS-Player has been released. The Playlist-function has been reworked.

In addition there is a tool from Nick Clover available on my homepage that manages the playlists.

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30.Jul.2000
ANN


News from AmiWest
Teemu I. Yliselä has listened to the UGN live audio stream of Bill McEwen and basing on his notes (he did not record the stream himself) he summarized the following on ANN.

The target term for the release of the AmigaOne presently is December 2000. AmigaOne will base on Amiga's own motherboard design including not off the shelve components.

Amiga founded their own hardware department leaded by Dean Brown. This department is ought to design custom hardware for various devices, which then will be offered to third party manufacturers for production.

The SDK is selling better than expected. Amiga is in contact with a large number of big consumer electronics and software companies including every important game smithy. Many of them already purchased the SDK. After Bill McEwen's recent two TV gigs the companies' interest increased.

A SDK version for Windows will be available from next month.

From next week Read Hat will distribute the SDK. Sun started to utilize Amiga's software to present Java, too.

It is beeing planed to release beta versions of the OE.

Amiga plans to go public

Paul Nolan will take care of jobs under contract for Amiga.

Licences: No software developer will be forced to pay sums to Amiga. Instead of this there will be the possibility to take part in an unsolicited certification project. This project will offer the opportunity to put the Amiga lable on your own product, and the chance of your product beeing marketed directly by Amiga. This will cost 1,50$ US per sold unit.

Amiga will offer low cost promotion and merchandising products to the users.

At the show Amiga presented a touchscreen basing on the ARM and running with the new OE. The design came form Mick Tinker.

Back compatibility to the Classic Amiga will be carryed into effect by the OE using something which will not be an emulation.

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29.Jul.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
cafe2000.lha         demo/aga    15K+Computer Art Festival 2000 demoparty. Of
LNS-Arla.lha         demo/aga   652K+Arla by Loonies - SM2000 winnerdemo
MWI-SDV27.lha        demo/mag   1.3M+SAVE DA VINYL #27 - packmag by Madwizard
GradientSlider.lha   dev/gui      6K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.1)
fat95.lha            disk/misc   50K+Win95/98 compatible file system
gametracker.lha      game/misc  1.2M+Gameserver browser for QW/Q/H2/Sin/Shogo
PinballFAfrenc.lha   game/patch   2K+Pinball Fantasies Aga FRENCH translation
F1_BEN19.lha         gfx/3dobj  276K+Jean ALESI's Benetton B197 (IOB)
F1_PROST-JS45.lha    gfx/3dobj  248K+Olivier PANIS's Prost JS45 (IOB)
PNG-Box.lha          gfx/conv   295K+PNG generator for WWW graphics V4.32 (68
imaged.lha           gfx/misc   100K+Add your own description to images ! (V2
qt20.lha             gfx/show   391K+QuickTime player for AGA/CyberGFX. V2.0
evax11.lha           misc/emu   727K+VAX Emulator, a "Virtual VAX" for Mac OS
twig_chim.lha        mods/med   176K+Chime Remix, a tune by DJTwiglet
rno-r043.lha         mods/misc   92K+Rno-label release no.43 by tand (monoton
Metabox.mpg          mods/mpg   1.4M+Interview with Metabox on German TV, mp3
DelfMPEG.lha         mus/play   160K+MPEG audio player for Delfina DSP
Rei_02.lha           pix/art     26K+Anime Manga Picture (Rei Ayanami / Neon 
sauvage.lha          pix/misc   154K+Nice / Wild DCTV picture
AKBackPix01.lha      pix/mwb    365K+Greyscale Fantasy WB pix 01 (ROM-Icons c
AKBackPrv01.jpg      pix/mwb    124K+Greyscale Fantasy WB pix 01 - Preview
F1_B197.jpg          pix/trace  421K+Jean ALESI's Benetton B197 (JPG)
F1_JS45.jpg          pix/trace  262K+Olivier PANIS's Prost JS45 (JPG)
BlazeWCP.lha         util/boot   29K+(Big Bug Fix) ULTRA FAST 32bit C2P patch
akPNG-dt.lha         util/dtype 247K+AkPNG-dt V44.80 (PNG, 68000-060, PPC/WOS
WarpPNGdt.lha        util/dtype  48K+PNG image datatype (WarpOS/PPC) V44.6
zee_inilib.lha       util/libs  180K+Library for ASCII-based settings files! 
dofile51.lha         util/rexx   39K+Nice datatype based processfile script
Homebanking.lha      util/rexx   41K+Homebanking mit ADM und Multitermkit (Ge
RAWBInfo.lha         util/sys    83K+ReAction based icon information (1.16a)
Image2Icon.lha       util/wb     13K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.3


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29.Jul.2000
Michael Ufer on ANF


Village Tronic Petition
Untill the end of September votes for the Village Tronic (VT) Petition can be made. This petition intends to persuade VT to place service documents at the disposal of authorized repairing companies to ensure technical support for or repair of VT products. VT still did not state concretely on the subject how to deal with the repair of their products in the future. At this time there is no repair support.

Unfortunatly Paul Qureshi only recieved about 200 votes, by now. So, who did not vote till today either can make this up at the titlelink or can send an email directly to the promoter of the petition.

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29.Jul.2000
amiga.org


AmiWest 2000 Online
Today the big AmiWest2000 starts in Sacramento. UGN assigned themself the task to provide the users with information, and pictures via WebCam, and with interviews via audio streams. Several interview partners are at disposal. Using a form you can address up to three queries to the person you request. Further information at the titlelink.

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29.Jul.2000
Tales of Tamar


T.o.T. Update Feature Disabled
Eternity at their news section:
«Unfortunatly it has happened, certain users procured themself unauthorized access to our ftp server. For this reason we were forced to disable the update feature of the Tales of Tamar Demo. We point out that more such trials endanger the release of an Amiga version of Tales of Tamar definitively. We are not keen on working for nothing for four years and we have attached a lot of money to the development. Only our alpha testers are authorized to access our ftp server. Furthermore we point out that definitively there will be no Aminet version of Tales of Tamar free to duplikate. Thus there is no reason for such trials.»

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29.Jul.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


MP3 Exchange Market Napster may Stay Online for the time being
«But the abatement of the preliminary injunction does not mean winning the proceeding raised by the recording industry, at last - the current decision only keeps up the status quo untill the court has dicided on the reproach that Napster would violate the copyrights of the musicians, and the music companies knowingly and purposely. Untill early August Napster has time to comment the charge. The music industry can then answer on Napster's comments untill early September. The judgment is then expectet during September at the earliest. »

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29.Jul.2000
Amiga.dk


New Amiga Game Magazine Online: Amiga Fire
Recently a new online magazine was started in Denmark: Amiga Fire. Rune J. Keller has set his target to provide his readers with extended information all about the Amiga games world. The website is good looking and easy to navigate. There is a search feature in every section enabling easy to find articles.

If this brilliant concept will be followed by good information this page's success is guaranteed. :-)

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29.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Amiga SDK: Version for Windows too
In a posting at the news group c.s.a.m Gary Peake, Director - Developer Support at Amiga Inc., wrote that it will not take much more time untill the release of a stand-alone version of the Amiga SDK (Amiga Software Developer&180;s Kit). Furthermore Peake pointed out, that there soon will be an Amiga SDK version for Windows.

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29.Jul.2000
Detlef Zirpel via eMail


Heise: PowerPC in Reconfigurable Hardware
«Xilinx, the market leader for reconfigurable ICs by cooperation with IBM[1] obtains access to IBM's PowerPC processor design. The PowerPC processor cores shall become connected to reconfigurable FPGA circuits. Thus custom circutis can be integrated directly in the chip - without developing application specific ICs. In general FPGA enables faster development along with fewer costs than with conventional chips. Additionally FPGA basing produkts are more flexible, cause of the real circuit of the ICs can be changed easyly. Xilinx[2] is planning a possibility for updates already integrated into the chips.

Beside the processor core and the aligned CoreConnect-Bus Xilinx gains acces to the current method of copper production, by which they hope to enhance the performance of their chips. IBM with this cooperation targets more promulgation of their PowerPC processor.»
The entire article is to read at the titlelink (German).

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29.Jul.2000
Michael Pfeiffer via eMail


IMPERIUM TERRANUM 2 - War Of The Worlds
The popular space strategy game from now ist available as freeware and open source. The entire source code and all the pictures are content of the download archive. The source code is liable to the GPL (Gnu Public License). As a result registrations are no longer adopted.

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28.Jul.2000
Martin "Mason" Merz on ANF


AppMI - Toolbar Images with GlowIcons Design
AppMI is a huge collection of images and animations for toolbars with the GlowIcons style which could possibly become a standard for the Classic Amiga system. The collection is freely available for programmers and all people interested. To get the archive, a registration is necessary and everyone publishing a product that uses AppMI should send me a copy of the full version of the program.

The registration can be made in the "AppMI section". After requesting the registration form, you should fill out this and send it back to the author. The archive is sent to you immediately via email.

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28.Jul.2000
Stefan Seidel on ANF


Comparade - C64- und Amiga-Szene Meeting
The Comparade homepage was again anewed and some important information like how to get there were added. Those interested can get to the homepage by following the titlelink or can go right to the ticket preorder page.

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28.Jul.2000
Volker Grabbe on ANF


Turboprint for Linux beta sighted!
For all SDK owners, Turboprint is available as an early beta for download. So far, only x86 Linux is supported. 68k as well as PPC are supposed to follow!

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28.Jul.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


Asyncio.library for WarpOS (Bugfix)
From now on, a new version (40.3) of the asyncio.library for WarpOS is available. It fixes some bugs of the previous version which could lead to problems with very long files. Sadly, this bug wasn't fix as assumed in the V40.2. This time, there are no more problems. Download: asyncioppc.lha

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28.Jul.2000
BTTR-Team by eMail


Back to the Roots News
Back to the Roots (http://www.back2roots.org), the Amiga Culture Directory project, was updated again.

The companies Vision Software and Croteam are supporting our little project now, too. Since today you can download the games "Roadkill" and "Woody's World", as well as the brilliant soccer game "5A-Side-Soccer", which is the indoor version of Football Glory.

Also the games Whale's Voyage 1+2, Black Viper, Fightin' Spirit and Spherical Worlds from Neo Software are back online, because the contract with Alive Mediasoft was never valid. Impressions, the strategy experts from the States, are supporting BTTR now for a long time and now we can give you the games "Afrika Korps", "Airbucks" and "Caesar Deluxe" for free.

Demo scene freaks will find tons of new stuff (demos, pictures, mods), too. Some of the new additions from the scene are looking so great, that we can't describe them with words. They're a must see. Especially most of the 64k intros are really fascinating as well as all the new eye-candy in the pictures section.

For all those who don't know BTTR, yet: BTTR is a legal web project which attempts to cover all areas of the Amiga (games, demos, tools, pictures, music and much more). Commercial software (games, tools, and so on) are offered for free download only with permission of the publisher.

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28.Jul.2000
Stefan Kost by eMail


New Webpages for SoundFX
My Amiga webpages have a new home (and a new outfit) on http://www.sonicpulse.de (titlelink). The pages are not quite finished, but you can already have a look around. Please change your bookmarks.

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28.Jul.2000
Stefan Sommerfeld by eMail


Repulse News
There are news from the Repulse soundcard. AudioLabs will present the prototype of the Repulse soundcard live. In the meantime, the preparations for series production run at full speed. There will be a press release with all details soon.

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28.Jul.2000
Sinan Gurkan by eMail


AmigArt temporarily with different URL
AmigArt currently is not accessible at the usual address amigart.com. Please, during the meantime either use

http://guvenck.hypermart.net or http://amigart.cjb.net

AmigArt will attempt to solve the problem as fast as possible.

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28.Jul.2000
EASys


EASys! CD Pirate Copies ?
To protect our customers from purchasing pirate copies of the EASys! CD, we have now put a Scan of the CD-ROM on this page. The EASys! CD should come as a pressed silver CD (no CD-R!) in a jewel case with 4 color cover (color cannot be smeared with a wet finger) and CD art in two colors (rasterized black/dark pink). Should your CD not match one of these criterias, it is most likely a pirate copy. Please email us in this case when and where you bought this CD!

Only dealers that got our CD through the distributor GTI should be in the possession of originals. The same is of course also true if you ordered the CD directly on our homepage or by phone from Eternity.

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28.Jul.2000
Petra Struck


amiga-news.de Now Also in Spanish
We are very happy to announce that our news from now on are also translated into Spanish, thanks to the Spanish Amiga usergroup AGUA. Under the coordination of Tomás J. Cantó, the news will be translated two to three times a week. Great, because amiga-news.de is now available in all the eight languages :-)

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27.Jul.2000
TUMULT


New NListtree.mcc from Carsten Scholling
Carsten Scholling has finished a new MUI application "NListtree.mcc" version V18.2 and provides it for download. New features:
  • the converting of listtree based sourcecodes to nlisttree is extremely simple
  • MUI-conform hook calls
  • supports multichoosing of entries
  • shift and copy of entries with complete tree structure at target

Download: MCC_NListtree.lha

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27.Jul.2000
Ateo Concepts


AteoPar driver update
ateopar.lzx - ateopar.readme

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27.Jul.2000
CD³²-Allian via email


SHARKS!-wbesite reworked
"SHARKS!" is a game that takes place underwater. Aim of the game is to collect treasures with a scuba diver and to get them to your boat. You have to pay attention on sharks. A little arrow, at the right upper corner, points to the treasure. In later levels are appearing jelly-fishes that touches are not deadly but decrease the score. Electric eels do the same. SHARKS! is available since May 2000, the CD will cost 30DM (for shipping outside of Germany add 5DM for postage) and can be ordered from:

Christian Steiner - Hansastraße 65 - 48465 Schüttorf
Tel: +49 5923/ 50 18 - Fax: +49 5923/ 50 18
eMail:C-Steiner@t-online.de


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27.Jul.2000
Hyperion Software


FAQ update
The help pages containing frequently asked questions, problem solutions, and tips was updated.

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27.Jul.2000
Amiga Future [News]


New Operating System in Development
"Amber" is the name of the new OS which is said to be an opersting system for PowerPC-based computers that are sourcecode-compatible with the AmigaOS. The Power Macintosh will be the starting platform.

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27.Jul.2000
Amiga.org


Anti Gravity: New website Online and Joe Torre Employed!
Joe Torre, a former engineer of the hardware developing department of Amiga will now work for Anti Gravity on the development of the BoXeR system. Joe Torre is a former motorbike street races champion.

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27.Jul.2000
DocDatatypes HP


DocDatatypes Version v 39.50 Released
With this datatype-bundle many document formats like DosWord, WinWord, MacWord, WordPerfect, RTF and many more are readable for Amiga with Multiview. This datatypes are shareware. New in version 39.50 are datatypes for PsionWord, Text Ed Windows CE Pocket Word formats. All other datatypes have been updated.

Download: docdatatypes.lzx

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27.Jul.2000
Torsten Dudai


New cartoon: Fleecy!




Torsten Dudai: I'd like to thank all the people who wrote to me. Although I didn't reply to each email, I was pleased about them.Your reactions to the caricatures help me to improve the quality. Now I invite you to vote for your favorite caricature in our new poll and also to decide if further caricatures should be blackwhite or colored.

The home of the Amiga caricatures, the "Amiga Park", is now available in English. You can find the new site at http://english.dudai.de. I'd be glad, if you' visit my new guestbook and if you' participate my poll.

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27.Jul.2000
Petra Struck


Amiga Link Directory (ALD) News
Because of some more news about activities in different Amiga chat channels we have established a new category. You can enter your website about special Amiga chat channel in "IRC/Chat". In this way we can provide an overview for all users on which cahnnel is when and where active. You can enter FAQ sites about IRC in this category.

If you do not have a website for your IRC-channel, maybe you can think about to create a little site about how to reach your channel, what to expect and when to meet ;-).

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27.Jul.2000
Eternity via email


Tales Of Tamar Demo Available
We have decided to release the latest demo to the Amiga Community at Aminet. Please note that it will take some time to download because of the archive size 11MB. We wish fun, and maybe we meet at the ToT-onlinechat.

Download: ToTDemo.lha - 11 MB

Addendum:
Andreas Magerlvia email:
If downloading 11 MB is too much to you, the T.o.T. demo will be on the Amiga Future #26 CD.

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27.Jul.2000
Joachim Nink via email


GoldED Studio 5 Available for Free
A special version of GoldED Studio 5 is exclusively available from the above mentioned website for free download. You achieve with this download the possibility to test this program intensively and get a advantageous chance to upgrade to the latest version. The free GoldED Studio 5 package is a fully functioning version with some addons,e.g for creating websites, C/C++ coding, developing of install-scripts and Rogets Thesaurus.

Downloadpage

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27.Jul.2000
Torsten Dudai


Met@box
On N24 (news station of Pro7 - a german TV station) in the broadcast "Chefsache" the chairman of Met@box, Stefan Dommeyer, talked about the company. He mentionend the Met@box' with Amiga and that their development bases on Amiga know-how. Amiga was mentionend very commendatory.

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26.Jul.2000
Aminet-Recent


New Aminet Uploads
QuickFile_3.25.lha   biz/dbase  288K+Powerful, fast and easy database.
AmServ.lha           comm/irc    30K+V1.33 IRC Fileserver / FServe for AmIRC
SimpleFTP.lha        comm/tcp   392K+SimpleFTP v2.70 - Powerful and easy to u
IBSearch.lha         comm/www     7K+V1.03 Search IBrowse cache hotlist GHist
ahidefs.lha          dev/m2       6K+Modula-2 definitions of AHI for M2Amiga 
MCC_NListtree.lha    dev/mui    156K+NListtree.mcc V1.1 (18.2) MUI list tree 
SortCopy.lha         disk/bakup  28K+Copy or backup files,directories includi
Annuaire-Amiga.txt   docs/anno    3K+Annuaire Amiga Francophone (french only)
AmigaPoWeR.lha       docs/hyper  69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
cd32outside1.lha     docs/mags  1.5M+CD32 Outside No.1 - German CD32 magazine
ToTDemo.lha          game/demo   11M+Tales of Tamar Demo V0.29
go64.lha             game/gag     2K+V1.00 Amiga version of the C128 command 
ChaosCastle.lha      game/shoot 301K+Destroy minerals, vegetals and animals. 
siege_data.lha       game/shoot  12M+Converted Data Files for The Siege
akMPEG2.lha          gfx/show   125K+MPEG player for CyberGfx/AGA V3.10 (68k/
akMPEG4.lha          gfx/show   190K+MPEG player (CGfx/P96/AGA) V4.46 (68k/PP
BetaScanHp.lha       hard/drivr  14K+Driver for HP ScanJet scanners
BetaScanMustek.lha   hard/drivr  66K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
ctb11.lha            hard/misc   19K+Ver1.1 CTB
Munkki.lha           mods/chip    8K+4-channel PT MOD by Tripper 
Preacher.lha         mods/house 180K+Nice DBM Trance/House tune by Tripper 
Wayout.lha           mods/house  30K+DBM hardhouse MOD by Tripper 
ShortDrum.lha        mods/jungl 309K+DBM hard D'n'B MOD by Tripper 
Tikka.lha            mods/jungl 467K+DBM Drum'n'Bass tune by Tripper 
el-golea.lha         mods/pro   110K+"el-golea" by Jedi in 1994
bO-026.lha           mods/techn 330K+#026 bOhema release - XBALL.
AP10Recto.jpg        pix/misc   165K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 9 Cover Recto
AP10Verso.jpg        pix/misc   173K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 10 Cover Verso
jedi035.jpg          pix/misc   106K+A photo of my cool Amiga  :-)
Neuss2000.lha        pix/misc   3.6M+34 photos World of Alternatives in Neuss
Scotscenes.lha       pix/views  428K+Panoramic views of Scottish countryside
CharMap.lha          text/font   72K+Display the whole charset of a given fon
DSLT01.lha           text/print 143K+DrawStudio's Templates for labels 01 v1.
SetPatch_43.6b.lha   util/boot   13K+SetPatch for OS2.x and 3.x
cli2win.lha          util/cli     1K+V1.0 open a WB drawer from CLI  (OS 3.5)
SRename.lha          util/cli   108K+Advanced rename/renumber CLI program.
akPNG-PPC.lha        util/dtype  79K+AkPNG-dt PPC plugin V44.80
ReqAttackUpd.lha     util/misc  132K+Rel5: RAPrefsMUI 1.64, ReqOFF 1.2, ReqAt
ZXLifeShield20.lha   util/misc   84K+ZX Life Shield V2.0
Dev-Handler.lha      util/sys    20K+Un*x like raw device access handler plus
LSClock12.lha        util/time   28K+SHAREWARE clock utility v1.2
WB2000_13.lha        util/wb    335K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)


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26.Jul.2000
Sven Ottemann on ANF


Heretic II Siege Data File at Aminet
The data file of Heretic II Siege now to find at Aminet, too.

siege_data.lha

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26.Jul.2000
Cd32-alliance via eMail


CD32-alliance
CD32`s website was enlarged for some interactive areas. Now the reader is offered a guestbook and a help and discussion forum.

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26.Jul.2000
LinuxInfo.de via eMail


Linux: Safe Userlogin with ProFTPD
In the area of "reports" a new article describes the configuration of ProFTPD enabling more users to have a look at some parts of the filesystem without losing control. It is explained the configuration of the environment of "Changed Root".

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26.Jul.2000
Jens Schönfeld via eMail


New x-surf.device v1.2
Atfer 11 days of faultless tests finally the new update of the x-surf.device is available. Support of several x-surf cards in a Amiga and activitating the fullduplex-mode while opening the driver are the most important changes. In the promisc-mode a small bug was fixed. Download: xsurf.lha

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26.Jul.2000
Pulse Publishing


Amiga Pulse - now Interactive
The website of the print magazine was enlarged for a interactive element, a poll. Readers can vote what aspects they like or dislike. You can win Heretic II if you participate.

The name of the magazine "The Pulse" wad changed into "The Amiga Pulse Magazine".

14th edition offers tests and previews on the following programs: Amiga SDK, Apano Sin, fxPaint 1.5, fxScan 2, Extreme 2. Furthermore a workshop for Lightwave and a solution for Heretic II (part 1) are offered.

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26.Jul.2000
Amiga, Inc.


Amiga and Matrox form Strategic Alliance
Amiga, Inc. has entered a strategic alliance with Matrox, the leading producer of graphics boards.

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25.Jul.2000
Ramboy on ANF


AMIGA OS 3.5 to be won
wARPgATe will send out an AMIGA OS 3.5 package to the first visitor finding our hidden competition site. More instructions there. But it's not that easy :)

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25.Jul.2000
John Zacharias by e-mail


AmiWest 2000 Press Release #9
The timetable of AmiWest is finished. All events and seminars are free.

From:    John Zacharias jzachar@calweb.com
Subject: AmiWest 2000 Press Release #9
Date:    Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:05:50 -0700 (PDT)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AmiWest 2000 Event & Seminar Schedule Posted.

The Event and Seminar schedule has been posted for AmiWest 2000.  You can
direct your browser to:

    http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/

to view the event/seminar schedule.

All seminars this year are FREE.  We will have seminars on AntiGravity's
Boxer (with a working prototype), Audiolabs' Pro Station Audio, the Nova
Design product line, AEMail, and Soft-Logik's Pagestream 4.  On Saturday at
noon there will be a user group meeting conducted by the User Group Network
(UGN).

Kermit Woodall of Nova Design will be conducting an informal developers
meeting at AmiWest 2000 to discuss future development trends on the Amiga.
The meeting will be held during the vendor setup period between 8 pm and 9
pm on Friday evening, July 28, 2000 on the Terrace in front of the main
AmiWest exhibit hall.  Questions concerning the new Amiga SDK will be
entertained and hopefully answered during this meeting.

A special reception for vendors and developers with food and drink and
sponsored by AmiWest will also be held during the vendor setup on Friday
evening.

Remember, AmiWest 2000 is being held on Saturday through Sunday, July
29-30, 2000 at the Holiday Inn, Sacramento NorthEast, in Sacramento, CA.
Classes and seminars will be held throughout the day on both Saturday and
Sunday with the exhibit hall being open on Saturday, July 29th from 10 A.M.
- 5 P.M and Sunday, July 30th 10 A.M.  - 4 P.M.

Admission to AmiWest 2000 is as follows:  two day ticket, $15 and One day
ticket, $10.  All tickets will be available at the door.

There will be a buffet banquet on Saturday evening, July 29th, with Bill
McEwen, President of Amiga Inc., as the guest speaker discussing the
progress made to date on the new Amigas.  Price is $35 per plate.  You must
request banquet tickets in advance but you can pay for them when you
arrive.  To request a banquet ticket you can email jzachar@calweb.com.

You can learn more about AmiWest 2000 by visiting our web site at:

    http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/

You will also be able to purchase the recently announced Software
Development Kit (SDK) for the new Amigas at AmiWest 2000.  The SDK is being
sold by several of the exhibitors at the show.  Eyetech Group Ltd.  will
also be present at the show demonstrating the their Next Generation Amiga
Development Machine coupled with a Classic A1200.  Several other developer
machines will be on display at the show,

This weekend event will again showcase the progress that IS the Amiga
Community.

Hope to see you at AmiWest 2000 on July 29-30, 2000.

John Zacharias, chairperson
AmiWest 2000
jzachar@calweb.com
http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/


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25.Jul.2000
Andreas Kleinert by e-mail


AK Updates
Some updates from the website of Andreas Kleinert:


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25.Jul.2000
Oliver on ANF


Regular IRC Meetings on Wednesdays, 19:00 MET
For about three weeks now there is a regular IRC meeting. Every Wednesday, starting on 19:00 MET (open ended) on IRCnet channel #AOS. This meeting originated in the AmigaOS mailing list. Every Amiga fan is invited. Subjects: Amiga and the usual chatting :->. You can dial in e.g. on the server irc.uni-stuttgart.de.

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25.Jul.2000
Peter "Badman" Weiss on ANF


New Music Site on The Web
By chance - a download from Aminet - I stumbled across a rather new page for Amiga musicians. At the title link some talented composers, which are partially from the scene, offer their sounds in Protracker and Octamed format. But they don't want to just show their own stuff, but invite all interested to write, track or compose themselves. The results can then be published in a series they call "Moods - Music For Your Instincts". Perhaps this is a way to make contact with other projects looking for musicians, and vice versa!

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25.Jul.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


Interview with The World Foundry at No Risc No Fun
On the pages of the AMIGA club "No Risc No Fun" you can find a new interview with Massimiliano Tretene from "The World Foundry (TWF)". TWF are the makers of Maim & Mangle and Explorer 2260.

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25.Jul.2000
IrseeSoft


Turboprint 7.12beta
The printer driver system Turboprint has been released as beta 7.12, including improved HP Deskjet 9xx drivers. Speed has been improved for several Canon and Epson drivers. To make use of this update, Turboprint 7.10 or 7.11 beta has to be installed. Bug reports are welcome.

Download: tp712beta.lha

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25.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


New adventure under development: "Middle City"
This adventure, being developed by an Italian group, is about the secrets of the small town "Middle City", and the murder of Linda Patton which has to be investigated. The graphics of the screenshots show artistic skill, and look promising. A first playable demo is announced for the end of December.

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25.Jul.2000
Amigaactive


Amiga Active #11 at the shops on Thursday
Subscribers already recieved the lastest issue of the Amiga Active, all others can get issue #11 at the shops starting Thursday 27th. At the titlelink, you can read a complete overview of the latest issue's contents.

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25.Jul.2000
Olaf Köbnik via e-mail


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Full Versions Special
In cooperation with Famir A., Amiga Arena exclusively enables the release of the public keyfile for BallMaster! On August 1st, the keyfile will be available at the Amiga Arena! BallMaster is a Logical style puzzle game. Info on the BallMaster homepage.

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25.Jul.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


Amiga Communication Network
A new AMIGA network just went online. Goal is to give AMIGA massive support. It combines several websites under one label. Currently, they are the AMIGA Community Club "No Risc No Fun", the AMIGA 3D-shooter page -/eXpLoSiOn\-, and next will be an Amiga search engine. More sites will follow, and the current sites will be filled with more content. Have a look and support our project.

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24.Jul.2000
Elbox Computer via eMail


CyberGraphX Support for Mediator PCI Graphics accelerator
Elbox Computer and Vision Factory Development announced there co-operation. The goal is to develope a CyberGraphX based Graphicaccelerator-System for PCI-Graphicaccelerators, installed on the Mediator PCI 1200 Busboard.

Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:50:42 +0200
From: ELBOX press@elbox.com
Organization: ELBOX COMPUTER
Subject: CyberGraphX support for Mediator PCI graphic cards


Elbox Computer                 www.elbox.com
Vision Factory Development     www.vgr.com
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For Immediate Release

Krakow, PL - 24 July 2000

Elbox Computer, the developer of Amiga hardware and software,
who have designed and produced the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard,
announced a partnership today with Vision Factory Development,
developer of CyberGraphX, the widely popular graphic system
for Amiga computers.
Elbox Computer and Vision Factory Development will co-operate
to port and optimize the CyberGraphX graphic system for
operation with PCI graphic cards installed in the MEDIATOR
PCI 1200 busboard.

CyberGraphX V3 will be available with the MEDIATOR PCI busboard.
CyberGraphX V4, the extended commercial version of this system
may be obtained from all the CyberGraphX distributors; it will
enable even more comprehensive use of the PCI graphic chipsets
capacity.

Support for new graphic chipsets will be developed for
both versions (V3 and V4) of the CyberGraphX system.

Current information on drivers available for MEDIATOR will be
reported at http://www.vgr.com, the official CyberGraphX website.

CyberGraphX

The CyberGraphX standard is being supported by all major Amiga
software vendors worldwide. CyberGraphX was designed to define
an independent graphics standard for Amiga graphic boards.
Continued work on Workbench emulation was also an important
issue. Over 7 years of experience in developing graphics board
software was employed in making Workbench control screens
with all the existing Amiga graphic cards.
CyberGraphX is based on hardware-dependent monitor driver and
hardware-independent libraries. This solution has many advantages,
one of these being bug fixes in the Workbench card control.
Speed optimization is another benefit available for ALL the
graphic boards supported by the CyberGraphX system.
CyberGraphX works with majority of the most popular applications
on the Amiga and resources of Public Domain and Demo software
available are broad.

MEDIATOR PCI 1200

The MEDIATOR PCI 1200 is a new-generation busboard for Amiga
1200 computers. The MEDIATOR busboard is fitted with four
PCI 2.1-compiliant slots for connecting PCI devices, thus
enabling expansion of Amiga 1200 with a variety of PCI-standard
hardware products.
MEDIATOR's hardware has been made compatible with ALL the
available Amiga 1200 turbo cards. MEDIATOR PCI opens an immense
wealth of PCI cards for Amiga 1200 owners: network, sound,
modem (ISDN), decoding (MPEG-2, MP3), TV, and, most of all,
graphic cards based around chipsets like S3 ViRGE, Savage4,
Voodoo3, Voodoo5, Riva TNT2, etc.
MEDIATOR PCI enables using the high-end cards based around the
latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors (available in the PCI card form)
in Amiga 1200 computers. When this feature is combined with the
PCI graphic cards, totally new superb possibilities are open
for Amiga owners.

Elbox Computer, Press Department
Mariusz Wloczysiak
press@elbox.com


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24.Jul.2000
Rainer Thieke on ANF


New Entertainment-Online-Magazine (German)
«With "Fireball" we want to revive our former magazine "Amiga 4ever". We set on entertainment (because the field of infotainment is nearly covered by one magazine). The so far editors : Rainer Thieke, Bernd Gucky, Stefan Walter, Melanie Preus, Roman Bujna und Chris Krüger. We still need some more help. If you are interestet feel free to mail to fireballmag@yahoo.de or rainermachine@yahoo.de. The first issue will hopefully be published in september.»

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24.Jul.2000
Stefan Martens at ANF


HBMonopoly via Internet conducted by #AmigaFun
Tonight at 21:30 there will be a monopoly game with HBMonopoly at the IRC Chat Chanel #AmigaFun at the irc.germany.net IRC-server. Every one who wants to join the game has to login to the #AmigaFun channel and must have HBMonopoly 2.4 installed. HBMonopoly.

Further more Stefan Martens wrote: Because of PSF3 I lost the mailinglist containing the subscribers of the Amiga User Liste. I please you to resubscribe.

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24.Jul.2000
Jens Tröger via eMail


InstallerNG Beta 1.5 released
The InstallerNG Beta 1.5 was released. Like the former versions this one is still fully compatible to the old Installer with many bugfixes and some nice new features. In the meantime nearly all scripts are working well; up to 95% of the bugs occuring are caused by failures in the script.

Download: InstallerNG.lha

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24.Jul.2000
Neil Bullock via eMail


Trogladite Awards 2k were Confered
Alltogether awards were confered in five categories. Unfortunately two webpages had to be disqualified because they were elected using manifold reloads.

How about fairness and sportsmenship ? This spoils the joy even of the award winners. I hope that Trogladite Software will use a script with a reloadstop or an other protection for preventing these fraud.

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24.Jul.2000
Paul ExiE Strejcek via eMail


Czech Amiga News is back :-)
"Don't panic ! It was just a joke."
The recipients of this mail know that Wintopia2000 was a joke. We wanted to celebrate our two years of activities around Amiga News a different way :-). What kind of black humor you may say ? The design took as two days. If you overcome your shock you can read ahead...

We wrote our first newsreport on 07/21/1998. But Czech Amiga News started a few days later. But when exactly ?! It is your job to find it out. Mail us your proposal - day and hour of the launch - the nearest one (+/- 2 hours) will win HERETIC II. If there will be a winner he will be published on 08/01/2000. You can mail your suggestion or even greetings via eMail (subject: TIP) to exie@czex.cz

Dear ExiE. It is not nice of you to shock us that much. As explained in our mail we could not imagine that you leave the community after two years of fantastic work just with these three sentences. We even thought of a hack :). We were very happy when we got to know that it was just a joke. We wish you and your team furthermore much fun at work and we are happy that the cloverleafe is complete again ;-).

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24.Jul.2000
Photogenics


New Photogenics 5.0 beta for Linux available
Paul Nolan has published a new Photogenics 5.0 betaversion (release 96). Furthermore he published new tutorials for the Amiga and Linux versions.

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24.Jul.2000
Pagan Games


Preview of "Dafel: Bloodline"
Pagan Games introduces with a 4 pages embracing Special with new sreenshots the game "Dafel: Bloodline". The releasedate is planed the fourth quarter of 2000.

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24.Jul.2000
Directory Opus 4 Support Pages


DirOpus 4.14i (Beta) re
Jacek Rzeuski released DirOpus 4.14i (Beta). This is an extract from the History:
  • removed lots (all?) pre-OS3.0 conditional code
  • removed PowerPacker support completely (replaced by XFDMaster support)
  • XFDMaster.library is opened only when needed and if it has not already been opened by another program. This prevents loading all decrunchers from libs:xfd/ directory. That feature can be overriden by setting FORCEOPENXFD tooltype in program's icon or -x (case important!) argument if started from CLI.
  • fixed canceling "DOpus already running" requester. Now it uses ARexx and requires RexxMaster running to work. "Bring to front" option added.
  • ConfigOpus: removed bug in command list (the list was too long)
  • DOpus_Icon: fixed OS3.5 icon support. NewIcons still do not work :(

Download: DOpus414JRbin.lha - 334 KB

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24.Jul.2000
Sepp Pertl at ANF


Amigatheme updated
«There is a new update for the Amiatheme-homepage. A new downloadarea will be established this week. She will contain Netbabes, module, pics and mp3. If you want to publish your music-modules feel free to mail them to us. We will publish the best modules every month. The same for netbabes and pics. The email address is Drdual@t-online.de

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24.Jul.2000
Hyperion


"The Siege" Addon for Heretic II released
Like "The Heretic Fortress", "The Siege" is just a multiplayer-addon for HereticII. You can find further information and a downloadlink at Raven-Games.

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24.Jul.2000
Kevin Hopkins via eMail


CUCUG: July Status Register
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. It deals with timely and/or significant information concerning the Amiga, Macintosh, and PC computers or the computer industry as a whole.

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24.Jul.2000
CD³²-Allianz via eMail


The CD³²-Alliance is winding up
«With a bad feeling in our hearts we have to announce that CD³²-Alliance will break up on 14. august 2000. We stop our activities after very long 8 months. During this time we build up something special for the CD³². We talking about a place in the internet for this device and even for his users our CD³²-corner. Unfortunately we could not move that much we first hoped we could but we are proud of our delivered work until now. But do not worry the CD³²-corner as you know now will stay online.

If there are any news the CD³² & environmental news-page will be updated. All other parts will be updated in a monthly term. From now on we publish informations about/from greenpeace too.

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24.Jul.2000
Aminet Recent


New Aminet Uploads
pio_icon.lha         biz/cloan   24K+Use PPaint as Icon-Editor with OS3.5 Sup
TAdesivi.lha         biz/demo    50K+V1.0.4 Ticket editor for TurboGest (ITAL
TFat2DEMO.lha        biz/demo   129K+V2.17.0 Amiga Invoice program,(FATTURE I
TMagDEMO.lha         biz/demo   153K+V1.1.0 Amiga storage program,(MAGAZZINO 
xtm-orion.lha        biz/dkg     52K+Additional texture for Extreme
FW_AllInOne.lha      biz/swood  377K+18 free macros for FW - german V3.0
mlrx.lha             comm/mail   10K+Two german RexxScripts for YAM 2.1
tcpscanner.lha       comm/tcp    19K+TCP-UDP-PortScanner with nmap servicetab
vlink.lha            comm/tcp    27K+AmiTCP<->MacTCP via virtual ethernet
nebula.lha           demo/aga    17K+Real-time creation of galaxies and nebul
UP-EP002.lha         demo/sound 849K+UP ROUGH "ElektroCity EP" feat. QWAN
bobsg_all.lha        dev/amos   368K+Bobs Galore Collection - Sprite banks fo
AsyncIOPPCdev.lha    dev/c        5K+Use asyncio.library under PPC (PowerUP) 
MPEGAPPCdev.lha      dev/c        4K+Use mpega.library under PPC (PowerUP) (G
warpcollect.lha      dev/c        6K+Integrates Elf2Exe2 with GCC-WarpUP
SimpTrans.lha        dev/misc    23K+Automatic Translation Tool for .ct files
AaktInt0700.lha      docs/mags  304K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt0700GFX.lha   docs/mags  574K+International infotainment magazine (gra
Ami4ev16_LOW.lha     docs/mags  118K+Amiga 4ever 16 ohne Grafiken
Amiga4ev16HT.lha     docs/mags  1.4M+HTML Version der Amiga 4ever 16
Amiga4ever16.lha     docs/mags  1.6M+Ausgabe 16 (Juni 00) der Amiga 4ever
htsaku33.lha         docs/mags  999K+HTML-Saku #33 (3/2000). Finnish diskmag.
saku33d1.lha         docs/mags  366K+Saku #33 (3/2000). Finnish diskmag. 1/2
saku33d2.lha         docs/mags  325K+Saku #33 (3/2000). Finnish diskmag. 2/2
AmiNetChess.lha      game/2play  64K+ANC V0.9 - NetChess with nice GFX :)
SeaSideDemoD.lha     game/demo  8.1M+German Demo from teh game SeaSide
SeaSideDemoE.lha     game/demo  8.1M+English Demo from the game SeaSide
Legion-exe.lha       game/role  154K+Full english version of the game - Legio
ADoomPPC_14.lha      game/shoot 610K+Amiga PPC port of ADoom v1.4
ADoomPPC_14_sr.lha   game/shoot 468K+Source code of Amiga PPC port of DOOM v1
Creepy_Crawlie.lha   game/shoot 348K+Creepy Crawlies Shootem up
Klotz.lha            game/wb     98K+Classic WB-T*tris, colorful, with sfx
netpbmsrc.lha        gfx/pbm    2.3M+NetPBM 9.6 source
netpbmwos.lha        gfx/pbm    6.7M+NetPBM 9.6 (PPC WarpOS)
gsaview.lha          gfx/show    24K+GsAView - View ghostscript output with a
ctb.lha              hard/misc   16K+Ver1.0 CTB Konverter
flm232.lha           misc/misc  359K+E<->G dictionary (60000 words)
DelfSF.lha           mus/play    27K+Sndfile player for Delfina DSP
gr_flags.lha         pix/misc     2K+Greek Flags for WB 3.5 settings
neurotropic.jpg      pix/misc    10K+Neurotropic Logo
guidecheck.lha       text/edit   60K+V1.21 AmigaGuide syntax checker (and mor
BlazeWCP.lha         util/boot   29K+ULTRA FAST 32bit C2P patch for OS chunky
IcoDT.lha            util/dtype   4K+Dt for .ICO files (43.3)
DelfInit.lha         util/misc   28K+Initialization utility for Delfina sound
warpvers06.lha       util/misc    2K+Reports WarpOS/3D/Mesa libvers+env setti
FreeWheel.lha        util/mouse  72K+Tool for WheelMice + trackballs/3-button
dofile50.lha         util/rexx   38K+Nice datatype based processfile script
safe.lha             util/virus  29K+Safe v13.6 - virus dicovering system
Ico2Info.lha         util/wb      4K+Converts .ICO to .info (44.3)
Image2Icon.lha       util/wb     10K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.1
tv-prog.lha          util/wb    229K+(PL/CZ) TV programe on computer! 


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24.Jul.2000
Bernhard Murmann at ANF


Starmag #22
After a longer periode of silence the issue number 22 (html-version) of the Starmag (German) will be released on 08/15/2000. We are looking for editors, painters and makers of guideversions.

Everyone can send articels, pictures or what ever you think we could need or use to Starmag@gmx.de.

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24.Jul.2000
Ralf at ANF


ACT-command for AmiCom
Unfortunately the packetradioprogram misses the ACT-command. You can use this command now with the new ACT.exe. ACT.exe is still beta. But if you would like to test it you can mail me.

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23.Jul.2000
Tomasz Janeczko im ANF


AmiBroker V3.30 Beta
An update to version 3.30 (beta) for the stock exchange-program AmiBroker has been released. This update is free for registered Users. Only the most necessary files are included in the archive. Docs, guides and other files can be taken from the complete V3.20-archive, that is required additionally. It can be downloaded from Aminet (biz/misc/AmiBroker320.lha).

Changes are listed in the Release Notes.

The program is available for Amiga and Windows-Computers.

Download:


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23.Jul.2000
Gary Peake in AmiOpen-ML


Amiga Needs Alphatesters
Amiga is looking for Alphatesters for their Mesa-Port (OpenGL) and the own Amiga-Object-Model, currently codenamed "Andromeda".

If you are interested, a Matrox G400 Millennium-graphics board and the SDK are required. In addition you have to sign an NDA.

Write to Martin Steigerwald (m.steigerwald@haage-partner.com) or Gary Peake (gary@amiga.com) if interested.

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23.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


DOpus 4 ARexx-Scripts
New ARexx-Scripts for DOpus 4 freeware have been released.

CleanRamDisk deletes all files from RAM-Disk, except 'ClipBoards', 'ENV', 'T' and the 'Disk.info' file.

Under PatternOpus three ARexx-Scripts are assembled, that rename many files at once considering a pattern. For example, it is possible to give a pattern for a filename like "frame?.jpg" and a starting number, like "1".

Download:


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23.Jul.2000
Carsten Scholling at ANF


MUI-Class NListtree.mcc V1.1 Released
Carsten Scholling writes:
This MUI-Class offers a simple way to display list entries in an ordered form, the socalled tree. Tree-structure is used, when files are to be displayed and managed optically separated from each other.

NListtree is interesting for developers as well as for users and easy to handle. If wanted by the programmer and usefull in the special case, this class allows the free redesigning of the displayed list by Drag'n'Drop even with multiple choice.

Now, for the first time it is possible to keep full structures when moving entries. This means, that not only the entry to be moved is inserted in the destination, but, if wanted, all the entries upto the root-list, too. This is also available when copying entries, which is implemented, too.

Features in short:
  • Simple Drag'n'Drop of entries within the the tree.
  • Supports multiple choice of entries.
  • Move and Copy implemented.
  • Move and Copy can recover source structure at destination.
  • Appearence can be easily changed via the localized MUI Prefs program.
  • Pictures can be changed in the chosen style.
  • Some new Pictures especially for the Windows-Style are included.


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23.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Pure Basic V1.50
On July, 18th 2000 version 1.50 of Pure Basic has been released. Many little bugs were corrected and optimizations for 68020 and higher CPU's were added. A new feature is the PopupMenu-library plus changes on the compiler, the libraries and the editor.

The Compiler runs on OS3.0 and higher and supports 68k- and PPC-Amigas.

Download:

The demoversion of version 1.50 is for all. The update-archive can only be used by registered users.


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22.Jul.2000
Kickstart AUG


Kickstart News
On the Kickstart Amiga User Group website, there is now a sharewar registration service available. Interested shareware authors can contact ray@kickstart-amiga.co.uk.

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22.Jul.2000
Mirko Engelhardt on ANF


Three New Games at AmigaLand
After recieving the licenses from the company Ascaron (formerly Ascon), we now offer three games for free download. Those are "Der Patrizier", "Anstoss" and "Anstoss World Cup Edition". All games are available from our server in their German language version!

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22.Jul.2000
GoldED


GoldED Service Pack 18
There is an update (Service Pack 18) available for download for registered users. The update fixes minor bugs. Please have your registration number at hand for download.

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22.Jul.2000
Raven Games


Heretic II Siege Amiga News
Good news from the Amiga frontier. The Amiga Heretic II Siege files have been tested by an Amiga client connecting to the MONSTER server, and everything worked! The Amiga version of the multiplayer add-on "The Siege" will therefore be available soon.

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22.Jul.2000
ANN


Rogue 3D, the new page for 3D artists
Rogue 3D is for 3D artists from all platforms. The user are supplied with news all around the subject 3D, there are tutorials, textures and a gallery where artists can present their pictures.

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22.Jul.2000
Apex Design


Blittersoft takes over Payback distribution
Apex Design announces that Blittersoft takes over distribution of the game Payback. However the game can still be purchased from Apex Design directly.

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22.Jul.2000
Czech Amiga News


Czech Amiga News' second anniversary
We were very surprised to see that the original URL of the Czech Amiga News, www.realdreams.cz/amiga/, is now redirected to www.realdreams.cz/pc/. Here you find PC news and the following statement:

"Just two years ago we brought to you the first Amiga news. Many things happened and we feel it's time to move to the "real world". New Amiga is still nothing more than immagination but it is possible we come back sometime in the future. Thanks for your favour and bye bye..."

Strange, really strange... (ps)

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22.Jul.2000
amiga.org


Amihoo.com online
Amihoo.com, the new Amiga search engine, went online on Friday. Included is Amiga Rediscovery, where older Amiga games are reviewed and offered for download, and a magazine that will be updated monthly.

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21.Jul.2000
Haage & Partner


ArtEffect 4.0 Demo Available
Version 4 of the popular image processing and natural painting software offers many new functions and improvements. Special attention has been paid to the layer functions which are very flexible and powerful now. A new manual and a CD-ROM with fonts, cliparts and workshops round off the package.

Download: ArtEffect4-Demo.lha - 1,13 MB, ArtEffect4-Demo.readme

Currently, H&P offers specially priced software and hardware.

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21.Jul.2000
David Doyle on ANF


#AmigaWorld - The Friendly IRC Channel on Undernet for Amiga Users
AmigaWorld invites to a chat on Undernet.

The purpose of this channel #AmigaWorld is to be the most friendly and helpful channel on the Internet. #AmigaWorld was formed to escape from the insults and immature behavior often found in other Amiga-related channels.

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21.Jul.2000
Sami "letti" Ylönen on ANF


#Amiga on IRCNet
Here an invitation from IRCNet to chat about the Amiga.

Since (once again) the Amiga seems to be considered a platform which could do a Lazarus, we thought it would be good to remind all the Amiga users still out there that there is still a friendly user base at #amiga on IRCNet. There's always someone here to help Amiga users, discuss Amiga related topics, or anything else which is interesting at the time :) #amiga is usually the quickest place to find out whenever there's new software released, or the latest news on our favourite platform, and is generally a very pleasant channel.

A few IRCNet servers:
  • UK - irc.netcom.net.uk, irc.u-net.com, irc.webbernet.net
  • Finland - irc.funet.fi, irc.atm.tut.fi, irc.jyu.fi
  • Netherlands - irc.xs4all.nl, irc.nl.net, irc.sci.kun.nl

Hope to see you all there :), The users of #amiga

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21.Jul.2000
Carsten Schröder via eMail


AMIGA aktuell International Online
AMIGA aktuell International 07/00 is online. In addition to the latest Amiga news, latest software test and many more, there is a workshop about TCP/IP networking between Amiga and the Windows-PC. There is also a review about the »World of Alternatives«. Furthermore there will be a list of the available AmigaNG software in each edition of AMIGA aktuell International.

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21.Jul.2000
Torsten Dudai


New cartoon: loony bin




Torsten takes an aim at the prophets of doom who cannot stop themselves from flooding all forums with anti-Amiga propaganda...

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21.Jul.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail


Massive Support for Eurolinux-Petition
Follow the titlelink to read a summary of the great success of the Eurolinux-Petition. So far, 20000 citizens, among them 300 company executives, signed the Eurolinux petition for a software-patent free Europe since May 15th. The petition aims at the protection of innovation and competition in the European IT industry branch and opposes current plans of the European Commission to legalize patents for program logics in Europe.

An Englisch translation of the summary will follow as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience. (mj)

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20.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Photogenics 5 - beta release 95
Photogenics 5.0 beta (release 95) is now available for download. This version is nearly identical with the last Linux-Beta-Release. The only difference are the nice file requester with preview function. The most important enhances since version 4.5 are:
  • batch file convert
  • new file format for saving of Photogenics projects
  • many new loading and saving formats - PCD, EPS, Pict, Postscript, RAS, SGI, TIFF, XBM, XPM and XWD
  • Alpha-transparency at saving of PNG files is supported
  • a vignette effect for smoothing of special effects
  • enhanced "new picture"-requester, with many preferences
  • new paint modi like Remove RedEye, Sepia, Roll Blur, Rub Tiled, Cross Blur, Star Blur, and Plus Blur
  • dozens of little improvements


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20.Jul.2000
Olaf Köbnik via email


Amiga Arena news
Amiga Arena Remark!
The shareware programs that are available for a special price at the Amiga Arena are still in development. These special prices are not a "sell out"! The Amiga Arena supports the ACTIVE shareware market! The Amiga Arena is a "non profit" Amiga support site, that is developed and supported by me, Olaf K., alone. A little history with some information about Amiga Arena is online!

Announcement
After last years full version of the shareware game Imperium Terranum II was available for a short time, this years summer action will present again a full version! Another game will be released at the Amiga Arena as freeware! Release date will be begin of August! Stay alert!;-)

More special prices to come!
30% off for the gfx-package Cybershow/PhotoAlbum!

Amiga Arena CD-ROM
The Amiga Arena CD-ROM Edition can now be ordered at Amiga Arena! Order instructions and further information you will find at the rubric "cd version".

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20.Jul.2000
Amiga Aktuell


AMIGA president Bill McEwen answers questions of Community (Executive Update)
+++AMIGA-aktuell-Special+++
After some people of the Amiga Community are confused about the implementation of Memory Protection into the AmigaNG operating system, the consideration of the desktop market and the software license, Bill McEwen wants to say something about these points. Read the statement following the titlelink.

Addendum:
Bill McEwens talks about a discussion at the MooBunny forum in his statement. Interesting on this aspect is an article from Squid (07/19/2000): Natural Science

Bill McEwen's statement:

In Response to Community Concerns Posted on MooBunny

We are very excited at the response that we have received in the first few weeks of the Amiga SDK version 1 going out into the world. We have received lots of feedback, mostly good, some not so good, and three particular points have come up that we would like to address before they become common untruths.

Firstly, it is true that the Amiga Foundation Layer which ships on the SDK does not have memory protection. However, this does not mean that Ami™, the next generation Amiga Digital Environment will not have memory protection. A comment made in an article in the last AmigaWorld seems to have been interpreted in such a way as to suggest that this is the case when in fact the point being made was that Amiga is looking at many solutions for providing robustness and security. Ami™ will provide a robust, secure environment and we will use the most elegant and effective means to achieve this.

Secondly, the End User Licence Agreement that made it into the SDK is in error as a result of a legal misinterpretation. There is NO ROYALTY to be paid for any application either created with the SDK or which will run on Ami™. Amiga will be creating a scheme in which third parties can pay a royalty to Amiga in exchange for official Amiga certification, branding and promotion. This provides a revenue stream to Amiga and a value add for the third party. This scheme is entirely voluntary.

The third point has been drawn as a conclusion from the first two, namely that Amiga is abandoning the desktop market. Nothing could be further from the truth. The announced AmigaOne will feature processor options ranging from 600 Mhz to 1 Ghz, with other, even more powerful devices already on the drawing board. The conclusion to be drawn from this is either that Amiga is very committed to the desktop market or that we are going to build one mother of a cellphone.

We are committed to making the Amiga THE best computer system in the world. Yes we are also going to go into other markets, but that does not mean we are abandoning the desktop, the Amiga philosophy or the loyal Amigans who have stood by the platform through the good and the bad.

Amiga Frequently Asked Questions

Thank you,
The Amiga Team

><> Bill McEwen ><>
President/CEO
Amiga Inc.
Tel 425-396-5660
Fax 425-396-5671
bill@amiga.com

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20.Jul.2000
Bill Borsari via email


UGN AmiWest2000 press release
From:         Bill Borsari tekmage@amiga.org
Date:         Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:36:54 -0500
Organization: UGN
Subject:      UGN AmiWest2000 Press Release

For Immediate release:

  The UGN in conjunction with Amiga Inc., AmiWest 2000 and
FortWaynemusic.com is proud to announce the second official live audio
broadcast from an US Amiga show:  July 29th and 30th!  Starting in 1998
from the Amiga International show, the UGN has provided live webcam and
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) from Amiga conventions world wide.  It has been
our goal to enhance our informational feeds to include audio since that
very first show.  At AmiWest 2000, the audio feed will once again become a
reality!

In the past we would ask our guests to join us on the IRC network to field
questions and deliver answers, but, due to the nature of IRC, efficiency
was greatly reduced.  To solve that dilemma, we decided to broadcast the
guests voice over the internet as an Mpeg 3 (mp3) Audio stream.
Furthermore, we decided on the mp3 Audio format due to popularity, and mp3
players are available for nearly every platform.  For the Amiga, we will
provide step
by step directions at ugn.amiga.org on how to setup the StreamMp3.rx, a
freely available mp3 Audio stream player, for Ibrowse, Aweb and Voyager.
 The minimum requirements to receive the audio stream live would be a 68030
at 50 MHz and a 28.8 modem.  It is also possible to use the AudioLabs
ProStationAudio software with iRec, see www.audiolabs.it for a demo version
and directions.

In order to give the Amiga community voice, questions will be accepted
through a webpage form on ugn.amiga.org up-until 2 days before the show,
and we will moderate an IRC channel for questions during the interview.  New
for AmiWest we will have ICQ and AIM ability as well. The guests will be
given 1 hour to answer questions and discuss important issues.  Our plan
involves
hosting guests during day and broadcasting the banquet on Saturday night.
Also, we have confirmation that Bill McEwen will be available to us during
the show.

Refer to ugn.amiga.org for the broadcast times and a schedule speakers.

Audio: http://redhat.tc3net.com:8000/listen.pls
ICQ: 82051339
AIM: AmiWest
IRC: #amiwest, Servers: whiterose.us.amiganet.org, linux.tc3net.com,
                        stay free.uk.amiganet.org, kth.se.amiganet.org

Bill Borsari
Director UGN


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20.Jul.2000
Sylvio K. at the ANF


DeepSilence Pre Engine
A pre engine of the manga action roleplaying game is released on the DeepSilence page! Also you can subscribe for a newsletter on the mainpage!

The Manga@Amiga page is also online again!

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19.Jul.2000
amiga.org


Outlook Virus Warning from MSNBC
Several virus warnings have clearly pointed out that Outlook is an unsecure mailing software, as in the begining opening an attachment was enough to give crackeres free entrance.

A bug in Outlook and Outlook Express as well, which occures when the software trys to read malformed datefields in which a long string of GMT is written too (Malformed eMail Header Vulnerability), leads to an overflow error (buffer overflow), which then can crash the application or - and this is much more dangerous - crackers can use this for execution of any program code by sending a suitable prepared mail. Recieving such a mail is enough!

Microsoft offers a patch for this problem. To use this patch the Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 1 must have been installed.

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Tom Neidhardt on ANF


EASys! Registration during my holydays
Hello prospective Easyans, during my holydays, which will last untill 07/25/00, I will not be online (except for this time). Registration codes for installation of the software EASys! during this time are to order at ea1909@fen-net.de

As far as possible software support will be available on the EASys! mailinglist. There you sure will find answers on your questions. easysystem-subscribe@egroups.com. Thank you very much!

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19.Jul.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


SeaSide Demo
From today a demo version of SeaSide is available on the homepage of APC&TCP or on Aminet.

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19.Jul.2000
Michael Pfeiffer via eMail


VWP News
Audio Effects for Casablanca
Together with MotionStudios VWP developed two software packs with audio effects for the video editing system Casablance. The "SoundFX" pack contains several effects for editing, adulterating, enhancing, and mutating the video sound. The "SurroundFX" pack has several features for sound surround decoding. Beside free positioning inside the perception space these effects allow editable and default sound movement, provided a surround decoder (Circle or dolby surround compatible) is connected to the Casablanca. More information here.

BeOS Developer Forum More of a littel experience is the newly set up forum for software developers using BeOS. The forum is to find at BeDeveloper.cjb.net - let's see how many "BeVelopers" already there are.

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19.Jul.2000
Amiga, Inc.


Amiga Inc. and KDH Datentechik Announce Strategic Distribution Agreement
July 19, 2000
AMIGA INC. AND KDH DATENTECHNIK ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

Snoqualmie, Wa. USA - Amiga Inc. is pleased to announce their partnership with KDH Datentechnik of Horb/Stuttgart, Germany, to distribute the new d'AMIGA Developer Machine, the Amiga Next Generation product line as well as the AMIGA CLASSIC products.

"We are happy to ensure high quality standards in Europe for our recently announced d'AMIGA developer machine. Gunter has been a well-known and respected dealer for many years and has gone to great efforts to ensure that the d'AMIGA developer machine will be available to both developers and other dealers in Europe. We are pleased to be able to offer as economical a solution to our community and to be able to bundle additional support from Amiga for our developers. The d'AMIGA developer machine represents significant value to any member of our community. As we have stated in the past, we have bundled additional value to the d'AMIGA developer machine that will not be available elsewhere. If you machine does not have d'AMIGA developer machine badge, it will not be supported in the same manner. We encourage the community to investigate the d'AMIGA developer machine, which will only be available for distribution through KDH in Germany. We equally encourage the other dealers to contact KDH for availability for your customers. We all welcome KDH to our future," said Randy Hughes, Vice President - Sales and Strategic Alliances at Amiga Inc.

KDH Datentechnik, a well-regarded name in the Amiga community, is ecstatic to be a part of Amiga Inc.'s plans for the future. They are excited to have been named the exclusive supplier of d'Amiga development machines in Europe and anticipate that sales of both SDK and Developers machine will continue to enjoy grow by leaps and bounds. Gunter Horbach, President of KDH Datentechnik, stated, "We are very proud to be a part of the new Amiga future and to be able to provide the current Amiga Classic line as well as the Next Generation products to the Amiga community in Europe. A close and fair relationship with our Amiga users as well as the Amiga dealers is the key to our future. Our base of satisfied customers make us one of the largest mail order retailers of Amiga products within Europe. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers worldwide for the opportunity to serve them as well as for their support of the current offerings from Amiga. We encourage the user community as well as the other dealers to investigate the excellent value of the d'AMIGA developer machine and welcome your queries. Our customers have encouraged us to support the Amiga platform over the years and remain vocal in their support of the Next Generation Amiga. Customer satisfaction, friendly and uncomplicated service in concert with the best technical expertise remain the hallmarks of KDH. These qualities as well as the vision of Amiga Inc. ensure a bright future for us all."

Amiga's mission is to provide THE platform, architecture and tools for the emerging Digital Content Universe. In doing so, we will uniquely empower our partners and customers to create products that will deliver on the promise of the Digital Age. The release of our first products, the Amiga software development kit (SDK) and now, the d'AMIGA developer machine, is enabling thousands of developers, tired of the old platforms designed for yesteryear's services, to come over to join with the tens of thousands of existing Amiga developers already working with Amiga to create the content of today and tomorrow, now. For additional information, please visit http://www.amiga.com.

For more information on KDH Datentechnik, please contact:

Randall P. Hughes
Vice President Sales and Strategic Alliances
Amiga Inc.
randy@amiga.com

Gunter Horbach
President
KDH Datentechnik
www.kdh-datentechnik.com
24Std Amiga Online Store

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KDH on ANF


Test person for MAC-emulation needed!
We are looking for an Amiga expert who wants to test a MAC-emulation for use. Experiences with other MAC-emulations and a good knowledge in english are necessary. Please write to one of our known email-addresses. Except big honour and respect you can expect a little payment for your expenditure.

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19.Jul.2000
KatoDev on ANF


Melody1200pro Production Completely Sold to the Dealer
During the next days the full current production will be send to dealer in Europe (mainly Germany). Unfortunately there is a delayment of delivery of four weeks which is caused by a global lack of certain materials. KatoDev thanks for your patience. The homepage of KatoDev will be adapted during the next days because presently KatoDev is buzy with testing, dispatching and development.

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19.Jul.2000
Oliver Gantert im ANF


Orbit 0.7a (PPC) released
On my homepage the new PPC-version of Orbit is ready for download. Unfortunately there is no network support (contrary to the 060 version), but this will be changed within the next weeks.

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19.Jul.2000
Haage & Partner


AmiCamedia for Digital Cameras
Using AmiCamedia you are able to transfer your pictures of the Olympus didgital camaras to your amiga qucikly and uncomplicated. You just have to connect your camera to the serial port, start your software and you are ready. Features: Preview, transfer of one or all pictures, transfer with up to 230400 baud. Details at the titlelink.

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amiga.org


Hyperactive: Interview with Martyn Brown from Team 17
In this exclusive interview Hyperactive elicits information from Martyn Brown which are absolutely new. Get all information about Worms 3D, Alien Breed 3D, Hogs of War, Stunt GP, problems of WormNet, strategies of Team 17, the X-Box, the Amiga, the wheel of pirates of Dreamcast, programming of PS2, the Lamborghini in the garage of Team 17, the origin of the name of "Team 17", soccer-rowdies and much more...

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Brad Webb via eMail


Amiga Update Newsletter 000718
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000718

                D ' A M I G A   I S   D ' T H I N G

                 U P D A T E   F R O M   A M I G A

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

   A M I G A   I N C .   &   S O F T W A R E   H U T   A G A I N

                 . . . A N D   C O M P U Q U I C K

           A M I G A F E S T   M O V E S   F O R W A R D

                    A M I W E S T   U P D A T E

       A M I W E S T   D E V E L O P E R S '   M E E T I N G

              A M I G A Z O N E   A T   A M I W E S T

         S E A L O R A M A   S O M E W H E R E   I N   U K

             O P E N   L E T T E R   F R O M   C S & E

         N O ,   N O T   _ T H A T _   D I G I T A   . . .

          D O C D A T A T Y P E S   U P D A T E   N E W S

                     D E V E L O P E R   N E E D E D !

          A M I G A   J O B S   S T A T U S   R E P O R T

                        G A U H P I L   U P D A T E

              A M I G A   S U R V I O R   -   D O E S

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

          M A S T H E A D   F O R   N E W   A M I G A N S

            D R Y   I C E   I N   D E V E L O P M E N T

            N O T E   F R O M   H O L G E R   K R U S E

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 Fun things this time around. Lots of Amiga shows coming up and a
bewildering blizzard of annoucements and strategic aliances from
Amiga. Hope the items below help to make it all clear.
 First, some AU business. The contest for the Amiga 2000 is over. All
entrants should have received a notice from us by now. In case some
got lost in the mail, here's the note we sent to everyone who DIDN'T
win:

"Hello from 'Amiga Update'

 "I hate suspense, so here it is - the winner of the Amiga 2000
drawing is:

"Gerald B. Gibbons

 "Congratulations Gerald!! You should have already received a separate
note with information on contacting Pat Hammond, the generous donator
of the computer.

 "I'm sending this note to everyone who expressed interest, but will
do so without revealing individual e-mail addresses.
 "We received nine requests from readers who wanted to be included in
the drawing. All names were written on same sized slips of paper, and
placed in an old "AmiEXPO" hat (you have to have been around a while
to remember those shows). The winner was drawn by Mrs. Webb. We held
the drawing at "Amiga Update" World Headquarters on the 4th of July,
allowing a few days from the end of the month in case some late
entries might have been caught in the Internet mail flow.

 "We hope Gerald enjoys the Amiga 2000 for quite a while, and thanks
to everyone who participated.

"Brad Webb,
Editor/Publisher
'Amiga Update'"

 We'd like to give another big "thank you!" to Pat Hammond for making
the computer available!
 And while we're dealing in fun things, we've picked up on a
persistent rumor, which seems to have been repeated word for word in
several places, including supposedly the UK's entertainment industry
publication "MCV". Here are some quotes:


 "The long forgotten Amiga system is to make a comeback.

 "Amigas have been destined to the dustbin of time after the advent of
consoles, and after the ill-fated Amiga CD-32, it was thought that
Amiga would not be resurfacing.

 "However, a new Amiga games machine is on its way - and it's likely to
be some kind of handheld games unit. The machine will use the Amiga OS
but is unlikely to be manufactured by Amiga Inc themselves. Third
party manufacturers such as Dell, Gateway and IBM have expressed
interests in the minature Amiga handheld, while Amiga will supply the
badge and operating system.

 "A new Amiga desktop machine called Amiga One will also be launched in
November this year, and will be targeted at home users. We welcome
back the Amiga with open arms."

 We suggest you don't put too much faith in that "story" but it
certainly is interesting.
 Finally, word has reached us that Sun has announced today the source
for its "StarOffice" product will be made available for others to
port. "StarOffice is an office suite of productivity software much
beloved in the Linux environment and provides the closest thing there
is to Microsoft competition. Anyone out there interested in porting it
to the Amiga?
 We hope you enjoy this issue,
 Brad Webb,
 Editor

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E-mail to the E-ditor:


Dear Friends,

 I think, yours is a very good idea, please keep on and sign me on
too.

 The Amiga used to be my joy, a great machine, especially the A1200
which I bought after my first computer, the A2000.

 Great machines, super interface, the best.

 I left Europe in 1996 to do a 3-year contract on the island of Aruba
and because of my work, (I am an architect working with autocad on
pc`s) and the fact that nobody does the Amiga on that Island, I lost
some track of the Amiga.

 I hope to see a new generation Amiga on the market soon and I like to
keep in touch with some news on these developments. I will be joining
for sure.

Thanks for being Amigans. John
~~~~~~
John,
 Thanks for writing and welcome! There's a lot going on in at Amiga
Inc. as this issue shows. We hope to bring the highlights to you and
the rest of the Community.
 Brad

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              D ' A M I G A   I S   D ' T H I N G

 July 13, 2000 - Amiga Inc., Snoqualmie, WA, today announced
manufacturing and distribution agreements with Wonder Computers
International Inc. in Ottawa, Canada and Software Hut, Inc. in West
Chester, PA. These agreements will allow the manufacture of d'Amiga
Authorized Developer Workstations in North America.

 Both Software Hut and Wonder Computers are well known and well
regarded figures in the Amiga community. Their involvement dates back
well over a decade.

 Amiga, Software Hut and Wonder Computers share the same vision and
strategy to establish the Next Generation Amiga as the preeminent
media platform and operating environment for the future.

 ``It gives us great pleasure to have released the Software
Development Kit (SDK) on schedule and to follow up with such excellent
value to the community with the d'Amiga Developer Workstation. It
gives us equal pleasure to have the support of Software Hut and Wonder
Computers behind this release. Through this developer machine, we
achieve our goal of providing excellent value in superior hardware to
realize our cross platform binary compatibility promise for
developers. This will no doubt come as great news to those in the
community seeking value of their dollar as they develop for the great
number of target platforms that Amiga supports," said Randall Hughes,
Vice President, Sales and Strategic Alliances at Amiga Inc.

 "We at Software Hut are extremely excited to have been selected as
the official US Distributor for the authorized d'Amiga Developer
Workstation. Many of our customers and dealer partners have been
looking for a machine with all the specifications to run the Amiga SDK
in one bundled package. Our combined efforts, along with Amiga Inc.'s
and Wonder Computers', will ensure that all developers will have easy
and affordable access to the tools needed to develop software that
will revolutionize computing as we now know it," said Joseph Muoio,
President of Software Hut, Inc.

 "We are proud to be a part of this quantum leap forward in computing
technology, and look forward to working closely with Amiga and
Software Hut on this project in the weeks and months to come. The
developer machine is more than just a tool. It represents the first
significant opportunity for Amigans and former Amigans everywhere, to
join forces and help bring about a real change in the way computers
work. The developers machine can also be configured to run Amiga
Classic software through emulation, adding further to its potential
value for anyone considering a purchase," extolled Mark Habinski,
President of Wonder Computers International Inc.

 The developer machine represents unparalleled value, uses brand name
parts of the highest quality, and is bundled with a comprehensive
warranty on hardware and an enhanced level of support from Amiga Inc.
The workstation also includes the Amiga SDK. "We at Amiga are proud to
have our name on the d'Amiga Authorized Developer Workstation," said
Mr. Hughes, in reference to its significant value and competitive
price. Such a price/performance achievement is not possible using
clone hardware. If it does not have the official Amiga Boing insignia,
it is not an authorized Amiga Developer Workstation. Please see
www.amiga.com for full details.

 Other d'Amiga information:

 The d'AMIGA represents outstanding value to our community in its
functionality and support. Feature for feature, it represents the most
affordable performance and comprehensive support available on a
standardized platform to Amigans and other Amiverse developers.

 The d'AMIGA developer workstation is available through your preferred
dealer via distribution of the following, in their respective
territories:

   o USA - Software Hut Inc.
   o Canada - Wonder Computers International Inc
   o UK - Eyetech Group Ltd.
   o Europe - KDH Datentechnik
   o Australia - Unitech Electronics

 Please contact your preferred dealer or the above mentioned
distributors to arrange for delivery and regional pricing of your
d'AMIGA Developer Workstation today!

Following are the system specifications:

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

   o Motherboard Gigabyte GA-5AX
   o CPU AMD K6-11 3D 500Mhz
   o Memory 128 Mbyte SDRAM DIMM PC100
   o Hard Drive 10 Gbyte IDE
   o CDROM 40X
   o Floppy 1.44 Mbyte
   o Sound Creative Sound blaster Live PCI-16
   o Video Matrox G400 Dual Head
   o Speakers 160 W
   o Network Linksys NC100 v2.0
   o Warranty 2 year 'Sealed Case' P&L

Software:

   o Redhat Linux 6.1 PreInstalled
   o AMIGA Software Development Tool Kit
   o Amiga Inc ADN Support Package Trailblazer Level. A $1000 value
      o 24 Hour turnaround on issues, requests, information, tools,
        documents and beta builds from point of availability versus
        7 days to community at large
      o Beta software accessible from the ADN
      o Faq-O-Matic
      o Developer conference discounts 15%
      o Discount on Printed and Softbound documents 15%
      o Searchable database of bugs, beta testers and developers
      o Full listing of issues, status of issues taken from Bugzilla
        and Faq-O-Matic, all maintained in a prioritized online
        database
      o Bugzilla
      o Code Samples
      o All developer materials, the online Developer Mall and other
        Web Accessible tools
      o Message Boards
      o Online developer docs
      o Mailing Lists
      o Internet Messaging
   o IRC with internal Amiga Inc. programmers and senior management
   o Monthly CEO feedback to developers- No more surprises!
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                U P D A T E   F R O M   A M I G A

{Note: yes this story carries a date of the 19th - tomorrow where we
are - but we really did obtain it on the 18th. We just bring you the
news really, really fast! Slightly edited for easier reading in the AU
format. Brad}

Update From Amiga Inc on AmiOpen
(19 July, 2000) - Gary Peake

 I would like to announce that Douglas McLaughlin will be writing his
own version of ICQ for the new AmiVerse.

 License Fees: Contrary to what the SDK says, there will be NO license
fees on any applications, tools, or ports in the year 2000. We are
reviewing this policy for 2001 and beyond and as soon as I have the
info I will post it here. Also, there is and never will be license
fees on open source apps or tools.

 Developer Web Site: Sorry about the delay with the web site. Part of
the delay was waiting to see which ways we would go with certain web
based applications and another part of the delay has been getting my
family situation worked out and all of my family up here to the great
Northwest. That accomplished, the web site updates will begin in
earnest now. Stay tuned for more developments there.

Thanks for your patience

Gary Peake
Director - Support
Amiga Inc.
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        M A T H E N G I N E   T O   T A O   P L A T F O R M

 Oxford and Reading, England - July 4th 2000, MathEngine PLC, the
leader in real time dynamics software - which allows complex,
physics-based interactive simulation - today announced it will make
its technology available on Tao Group's intentTM media platform.

 The intentTM platform is a lightweight, high performance media
platform for running systems and content across a broad range of
digital networked appliances from PCs and game consoles to set top
boxes and mobile phones. This means that developers can write code
that can be easily ported to run on many different current and future
hardware platforms. Example areas of use for MathEngine's libraries
include the creation of realistic physics behavior for next generation
consoles and PC games. By including MathEngine technology in the
intentTM platform, MathEngine is able to make its technology available
in a highly optimised form on this broad range of hardware platforms.

 "MathEngine is contributing a very important suite of high value
technologies to the intentTM environment," said Francis Charig,
Chairman of Tao. "Our recent range of announcements involving
multimedia partners is now further complemented by the immediacy and
reality brought by MathEngine's software. It is increasingly
recognized that only Tao can combine the enabling of true multimedia
content, across many different Internet appliances, with conformance
to global standards. Our partnership with MathEngine will make that
content both different and even more exciting."

 The new Tao environment, including MathEngine technology, will be
available on general release later this year but will be available to
selected partners in advance.

 MathEngine has found Tao to be an ideal partner in the Internet
appliance space. With MathEngine already running its software on games
platforms such as PCs and video game consoles, the relationship with
Tao is one way in which MathEngine can branch out to new markets such
as digital television, set top boxes and smart phones.

 Lincoln Wallen, Chief Technology Officer of MathEngine said,
"Integrating our technology into Tao's intentTM media platform allows
developers already working with our products on PC and game consoles
to make their titles available more easily on other emerging
platforms. The partnership will enable MathEngine to branch out into
new markets and design specific solutions for new consumer devices."
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   A M I G A   I N C .   &   S O F T W A R E   H U T   A G A I N

 Snoqualmie, Wa. USA - On June 17, 2000, Amiga announced a partnership
with Software Hut, Inc. of West Chester, Pa. USA for distribution of
the new Amiga SDK and Classic Amiga products. Software Hut, Inc., the
leading distributor in North America of Classic Amiga products, will
now make available existing Classic Amiga products as well as the next
generation SDK to all Amiga dealers, end users, and developers.

 "We are pleased offer easy access to all our products, both Classic
and Next Generation, through Software Hut. They have been a strong
supporter of the Amiga Community for the past 12 years and have the
widest selection of Amiga products in stock in North America," said
Randy Hughes, Vice President Sales and Strategic Alliances at Amiga
Inc. "Their enthusiasm and expertise will be of great help in
supplying our existing Classic market with products for years to come
as well as developing and expanding our ability to distribute our Next
Generation Products. We join the community in welcoming Software Hut
to our future."

 Gary Peake, Director of Support at Amiga Inc. said, "I am very
pleased to have Software Hut on board as one of our Regional
Distributors for North America! Joe and Trish have devoted the last
eleven years of their life to supporting the Amiga community with
friendly and knowledgeable service, good pricing, and ethical
standards that make doing business with them a pleasure."

 Software Hut, Inc., a well-known name in the current global Amiga
community, is excited about distributing the new Amiga line. Joseph
Muoio, President of Software Hut, commented, "We are extremely excited
to be able to offer Amiga products to the entire community. We have a
great relationship with our dealers and end-users worldwide, and we
hope to further our relationship with them. We thank everyone who has
supported our efforts to remain Amiga-specific in the past and ask for
your continued support as we unite with Amiga Inc. to distribute a
successful, revolutionary new Amiga that will take the by storm."

 Software Hut, Inc. began as a small, family-owned business in 1982,
specializing in Apple products. After the release of the AMIGA 1000,
Software Hut, Inc. realized the market potential of this superior
graphics system and has spent the last 12 years devoting all of its
efforts into promoting and selling the Amiga line of products. The
Amiga's popularity and incredible graphics applications has
transformed Software Hut from its humble beginnings to one of the
largest Amiga distributors in the world.
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                . . . A N D   C O M P U Q U I C K

June 28, 2000
 Snoqualmie, Wa. USA - Amiga Inc. is pleased to announce their
partnership with Compuquick Media Center, of Columbus, Ohio, USA, to
distribute the new AMIGA SDK (Software Development Kit), as well as
the AMIGA CLASSIC products.

 "We are happy to ensure high availability of our Classic and Next
Generation products through Compuquick. Mr. Jesrani has been both a
familiar and a highly regarded member of the community since 1987. It
is both our honor and privilege to be associated with Compuquick. We
aniticipate their continued commitment and expertise, knowing that the
community will be well served. We join you in welcoming Compuquick to
the future of Amiga," said Randy Hughes, Vice President Sales and
Strategic Alliances at Amiga Inc.

 Compuquick Media Center, a well-known name in the AMIGA community, is
excited to be a part of Amiga Inc.'s plans for the future. They look
forward to continued success in distributing the new AMIGA SDK as well
as any other products that may be contemplated by Amiga. Randhir
Jesrani, President of Compuquick Media Center added, "We are very
pleased to be able to offer Amiga products to the community and look
forward to helping the community grow. We have an excellent
relationship with our Amiga friends throughout the world and are keen
to hear from our many friends who have come back to Amiga. Once an
Amigan, always an Amigan."

 Compuquick Media Center has a 10 year legacy of satisfied clients and
is a constant fixture at all Amiga trade shows. Compuquick has devoted
their focus to the sale and service of Amiga systems, software and
peripherals and is the leading supplier of Video Toaster and Flyer
systems. Compuquick has demonstrated their expertise and is a leader
in the sales of Amiga products to the educational and to the graphic
artist communities and count animators at Disney and the suppliers to
the Armed Forces as just a few of their many customers.
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          A M I G A F E S T   M O V E S   F O R W A R D

03 July, 2000


 AmigaFest 2000, the show within a show at Dayton's Fall Computerfest®
is a go!

 AmigaFest will have its own area within Computerfest® and we will
have more control over the layout than last year. Last year we had
about 15 exhibitors and we hope to have many more this year.

 The Fall Computerfest® is Sat. & Sun. August 26 & 27 at Hara Arena on
the northwest side of Dayton, Ohio.

 This show has a big advantage for the Amiga Community because it will
give you access to several vendors who are Amiga specialists and also
well over a hundred vendors selling the general equipment you need,
drives, printers, memory, storage media, etc. at really great prices.
In effect, everything you need and want in one place.

 For Amiga vendors and exhibitors it give you access to a croud of
over 30,000 attendees, and, while most are PC people, an amazing
number of Amiga people will be there. Many are Amiga users who do not
buy the magazines and are not in user groups and are there for the
cheap goodies and will be really happy to have access to Amiga gear.
This also gives you access to a tremendous crowd most of who know
nothing about Amiga and many who once owned one and it will surprise
you how much interest having AmigaFest 2000 within the show will
generate. This is also an excellent forum to let the non-Amiga world
know what is happening. Most important, it is an inexpensive show to
participate in. The cost is $60 per 8 ft. table. This is really a
bargain for a show of this magnitude.

 Amiga, Inc. is providing two A1200s and a selection of other items to
be raffled at the show. We are also planning to have a get together on
the Saturday evening of the show at a restaurant so we can all relax
eat, maybe drink a little, socialize a lot, and generally have a good
time.

 If you are interested in more information on the show, directions, or
being an exhibitor, email me at schwartr@gemair.com or phone/fax at
937-434-2144.

 Ron Schwartz AmigaFest Coordinator/AmiTech-Dayton
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                      A M I W E S T   U P D A T E

05 July, 2000

 On June 6, Amiga Inc. and Eyetech Group Ltd entered into a strategic
relationship for Eyetech to manufacture the first release of the Next
Generation Amiga Development Machine. Eyetech will be coming to
Sacramento, California for AmiWest 2000 and will be showing off the
Next Generation Amiga Development Machine coupled with a Classic A1200
at the show.

 Eyetech is the leading UK developers and Worldwide mail order
retailers of Amiga technology products for the home and for industry.
They are the manufacturers and distributors of the EZDev-Plus and
EZDev-Tower Dev Boxes in the UK and Ireland under a partnership
agreement with Amiga Inc. and parent company of the Eye-Play
(www.eye-play.com) games publishing and distribution for the Classic
and Amiga OE platforms.

 Products at the show will include: EZRack 2U x 380mm 19" rack system
containing a full EZDev and Classic A1200 platform networked in the
same case; EZBoot silicon floppy disk allowing direct booting from
CDROM on all WB3+ Amigas; the AMON low distortion automatic monitor
switcher for the Cybervision64-3D and scandoubled AGA outputs; the
EZLink AREXX-controlled infrared controller 'learning'
receiver/transmitter for all WB2+ Amigas; the EZ-Net 5-click
Linux-Amiga, Win-Amiga & Amiga-Amiga networking software and
installer; the EZ-VGA range of scan doublers and flickerfixers and
much more.

 A rolling presentation under SCALA MM400 will show some of the
products that we physically couldn't bring with us, but regularly send
to the US by mail order. These include: the full range of EZDev
configuration options, the EZTower-Z4 A1200 tower system with Z4
expansion board (3 x Z2, 2 x hi-speed Z2, 2 x 19MB/s Z4, 4 x clock
port slots) and many more products.

 Special dealer and User Group pricing will be available at the show.
Eyetech can be reached on the web at http://welcome.to/amiga.world.

 Remember, AmiWest 2000 is being held on Friday through Sunday, July
29-30, 2000 at the Holiday Inn, Sacramento NorthEast, in Sacramento,
CA. Classes and seminars will be held throughout the day on both
Saturday and Sunday with the exhibit hall being open on Saturday, July
29th from 10 A.M. - 5 P.M and Sunday, July 30th 10 A.M. - 4 P.M.

 Specially priced tickets for AmiWest 2000 are available in advance by
mail. Prices are: two day admission tickets, $12 and one day admission
ticket, $8. If you elect to purchase tickets at the door, the prices
are: two day ticket at the door, $15 and One day ticket at the door,
$10. If you are ordering a one day ticket by mail, please specify
which day (Saturday or Sunday) you are attending.

 There will be a buffet banquet on Saturday evening, July 29th, with
Bill McEwen, President of Amiga Inc., as the guest speaker discussing
the progress made to date on the new Amigas. Price is $35 per plate.
Banquet tickets must be purchased in advance. They will NOT be sold on
Friday nor Saturday due to the hotel needing attendance figures for
planning the banquet.

 You can mail your requests for advanced admission and banquet tickets
to:

 AmiWest 2000
 c/o John Zacharias
 10004 Vanguard Drive
 Sacramento, CA 95827

 Make checks payable to "AmiWest".

 A form for ordering tickets can be found on the AmiWest web page at

http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/ where you can learn more about AmiWest
2000.

 Petro Tyschtschenko, Managing Director, Amiga Deutschland Inc., will
be joining Mr McEwen in attendance at AmiWest 2000. Special hotel room
rates are available at the Holiday Inn for those attending AmiWest
2000. Room rates are $ 79 (Single) and $ 89 (double) if reservations
are made by July 7. You must mention that you are attending AmiWest to
get the special rate. You can phone the Holiday Inn at 1-916-338-5800
or 1-800-388-9284 (Tool Free - Hotel directly) to make hotel
reservations.

 You will also be able to purchase the recently announced Software
Development Kit (SDK) for the new Amigas at AmiWest 2000. The SDK is
being sold by several of the exhibitors at the show. This weekend
event will again showcase the progress that IS the Amiga Community.

 Hope to see you at AmiWest 2000 on July 29-30, 2000.

 John Zacharias,
chairperson AmiWest 2000
 jzachar@calweb.com
 http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/
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       A M I W E S T   D E V E L O P E R S '   M E E T I N G

17 Jul 2000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Developer's Meeting at AmiWest 2000!

 Kermit Woodall of Nova Design will be conducting an informal
developers meeting at AmiWest 2000 to discuss future development
trends on the Amiga. The meeting will be held during the vendor setup
period between 8 pm and 9 pm on Friday evening, July 28, 2000 on the
Terrace in front of the main AmiWest exhibit hall. Questions
concerning the new Amiga SDK will be entertained and hopefully
answered during this meeting.

 A special reception for vendors and developers with food and drink
and sponsored by AmiWest will also be held during the vendor setup on
Friday evening.

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            A M I G A Z O N E   A T   A M I W E S T


(17 July, 2000) - http://www.amigazone.com/

 For the third year in a row, AmigaZone will be exhibiting at the
AmiWest show. (Show location and hotel details and all the other
relevant poop about AmiWest is at http://www.sacc.org/amiwest ).

 Sign up for AmigaZone in person at the show with me and you will be
given a free AmigaZone logo baseball cap!.

 There is a glorious, no-expenses-spared, super 3D rotating
confetti-spewing Playmate-filled *multimedia presentation of the hat
at http://www.amigazone.com/images/cap.jpg *or maybe it's just a lame
picture ;)

 As a special "instant rebate" --> flashing neon --> BONUS <--
flashing neon <-- and while supplies last, to those who join AmigaZone
at AmiWest in person, along with your hat you will be handed a brand
spankin' new, freshly-minted, brilliant uncirculated year 2000 dated
United States "Golden Dollar." (Actual cash value of the dollar is one
dollar :) (For more info on what the new Golden Dollar is, visit

http://www.usmint.gov ).

 You'll be able to demo AmigaZone for your own self, live, online, at
my booth, on my 060 machine in glorious Cybergrafx, on a big monitor
with live modem connection, ask me all the questions you want to
(excet the ones I can't answer, like 'bout birthin' babies..) and just
have a damn good time at the show.

 Please, no pushing and shoving, stand on the throbbing blue line, and
keep your hands to yourself. Thank you! If you are already an
AmigaZone member and joined before I started this whole hat thang, you
may purchase a hat at my booth for $7.50. Non-members may purchase one
for $12.00 unless they ask really really nicely and then maybe they
can have one for $10.00. (See
http://www.amigazone.com/pages/disclaimers.html for the fine print).

 See you at AmiWest, Sacramento, July 29-30, 2000!

 Harv -- Founder of AmigaZone. Supporting Amiga owners since 1985!

Go here for info or to join: http://www.amigazone.com
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       S E A L O R A M A   S O M E W H E R E   I N   U K

 {The story we got didn't say where in the UK. We'll bring you that
information when we get it. Brad}

It's Here!!

 On Sunday September the 10th 2000, SEAL (possibly the most active
Amiga User Group in the known universe), is holding the first ever
SEAL-O-RAMA!

   o Buy Bargains!
   o Win Prizes!
   o Play Games!
   o See Demonstrations!
   o Meet Fellow Amigans!
   o Watch Exhibitions!
   o And So Much More!

 Amiga have donated two Amiga 1200s and loads of other branded goodies
for you to win!

Analogic Computers

 Analogic will be donating some great prizes for the competitions
running during the show. They are also offering free gifts and special
discounts to anyone who subscribes to Clubbed magazine at the show!

 Have a look at the exhibitors attending, and the funky stuff they are
hoping to show off to you. Some of it to be seen for the very first
time!

Times

 The show will open at 12:00 midday and will close at 17:00.

Admission

 Entry to the show will cost £1 per person, which includes entry to
win one of the A1200 Magic Packs.

See you there!
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            O P E N   L E T T E R   F R O M   C S & E

7 July, 2000

Dear friends,

 It won't come as a shock to most within the community that advance
sales of our forthcoming Amiga titles have been disappointing. On the
classic Amiga we are fighting with hands tied behind our backs due to
the lack of new hardware sales and in addition we are being hit below
the belt by piracy. It is with deep regret that I announce CS&E has
cancelled all future games development for this system. This was a
difficult decision for me to make but financially impossible for me to
ignore.

 More positively, remember we arrived on the Amiga scene in
anticipation of a new machine - hence we will develop for the new
Amiga and I have great pleasure in announcing that CS&E will be giving
away development kits free to all Amiga developers who pledge to
release their forthcoming titles through our network. In addition our
£1,000 competition will be carried over to the new Amiga so that
£1,000 will definitely be given away in advance to the developer of
what CS&E judges to be the best software offering, now extended to the
end of 2,000. By taking these steps CS&E is making development for the
Amiga pay and ensuring the best quality in gameplay and service for
our customers. Nothing has changed since we entered the Amiga market
on the back of successful PC releases last year, our quality,
originality and commitment to Amiga speaks for itself.

 Amiga Survivor will play a key role in being one of the most
respected sources of information for the Amiga community through the
launch of the new Amiga. AS has recently been put in the hands of an
independent team of budding journalists from all over Europe and is
the premier independent magazine for Amiga news and reviews. Issue 10
will be the first release in the new format on August 10th, after
which you will get regular bi-monthly release dates.

 Look out for more news at http://www.CSandE.co.uk coming soon!

 Kind Regards,

 David Connolly
 Managing Director
 Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
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         N O ,   N O T   _ T H A T _   D I G I T A   . . .

27 Jun 2000

Innovative brings Digita(TM)-power to your AMIGA!

 Innovative has developed a driver for DigiCams running the Digita(TM)
Operating Environment. Digita(TM)-enabled DigiCams offer much more
flexibility and abilities than everything else currently on the
market. Digita(TM) is used in high-end-cameras of different companies,
runs on PowerPC- and Coldfire-CPUs and allows you to run scripts,
applications and games (incl. MAME!!) on your camera. The developers
of Digita(TM), Flashpoint(TM) (http://www.flashpoint.com/) wants to
make Digita(TM) the standard for DigiCams and specified a standardized
communication-protocol between computer and camera. With the now
available VHI-driver, AMIGA-users finally get access to these amazing
cameras and can download and rework pictures from these cameras.
Currently available Digita(TM)-enabled DigiCams are

        · Kodak DC 220, DC 260, DC 265, DC 290
        · Minolta Dimage 1500 EX, Dimage 1500 3D
        · HP PhotoSmart C500, C619, C912,
        · Pentax EI-200, EI-2000

P.S.: In this case, Digita(TM) has nothing to do with the developers
      of Wordsworth but is the name of a product by Flashpoint(TM).
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          D O C D A T A T Y P E S   U P D A T E   N E W S

12 July, 2000

 The latest version of DocDatatypes, v39.40, is now available. The
main changes from version 39.30 are that the RTF datatype and filetype
descriptor have been updated to support most if not all RTF file
types. A new datatype for First Word(plus) documents is now included
as is full support for WordPerfect 4, including file type descriptors.
A DocDatatypes mailing list also has been created. A working 68000
version of Orbit 0.7 (you'll need a 060) is available. You can also
download a version with networking enabled! The PPC version will get
network support soon.

 http://www.crosswinds.net/~internetpages/docdatatypes/

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                   D E V E L O P E R   N E E D E D !

13 Jul 2000

 APC&TCP search a c++ developer for work with our team on the game
Phönix. please write to: info@apc-tcp.de

thanks,

Andreas Magerl


APC&TCP
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            A M I G A   J O B S   S T A T U S   R E P O R T

28 Jun 2000

"Free Amiga Jobs" - Status Report, June 2000

 Cologne/Germany, 28-June-2000 - The Amiga market is moving. Just a
look at Free Amiga Jobs, the free employment agency service for the
Amiga, shows how many projects are planned or running right now by
established and startup-companies. You can make a contribution to the
development: work for the Amiga!

 Here are the known changes since the last status report:

new jobs (since last update): 18
filled jobs (since last update): 15
filled jobs (overall): 28
open jobs (currently): 36
open jobs (overall): 62

"Free Amiga Jobs" is hosted by Amiga plus and
Amiga-News.de at "http://www.amiga-news.de/jobs/".

Sincerely,

Nico Barbat, Amiga plus
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                     G A U H P I L   U P D A T E

16 Jun 2000

Hi Amigans!

 This is just to let you know about some changes on the Geographical
Amiga Users Home Pages Internet List (GAUHPIL). Most pages are now
bilingual (English & German) and the navigation links have therefore
changed on most pages:

        http://GAUHPIL.home.pages.de/

 I will be on holidays for the next three weeks. Please go on sending
me your updates and hints. I will check them all when I'm back home.
Thanks for your attention and support!

                                                    Dietmar Knoll
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             A M I G A   S U R V I O R   -   D O E S

 The magazine is now under new ownership and has a whole new team of
writers as well as an experienced Graphics designer and Webmaster.

   Issue 1 should be on sale from the 10th of August, priced at
£3.99.  To order your copy, e-mail csande@csande.com, putting "AS
Issue 1  Order" in the Subject line.

  In the meantime, we need readers letters for our "Letters to the
Editor" pages - send them to: editor@asurvivor.freeserve.co.uk.  We
also welcome all comments and suggestions for improvements to the
magazine.

 PREVIEW OF ISSUE 10 - Our "first" issue will introduce the team and
hopefully give you some idea of what to expect from future issues.
 We'll also have plenty of news, reviews of ArtEffect and Pagestream
(and possibly an Amiga Writer Exclusive!), interviews and plenty
 more!

 ISSUE 10 OF AMIGA SURVIVOR - ON SALE AUGUST 10th 2000!
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      A N D   A M I G A   F U T U R E   H A S   E N G L I S H

24 Jun 2000

Now in english.

 The german homepage from the print magazine Amiga Future now includes
a translation tool. The users can now read all our news, interviews
(every week 1-2 interviews) votes, and so on.


http://www.amigafuture.de
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         M A S T H E A D   F O R   N E W   A M I G A N S

16 Jul 2000

 The magazine, "the NEW AMIGANS" will soon be announcing the winning
of their "Masthead" contest. The contest (for subscribers only) is to
find a unique "Masthead" for the magazine and the winner will be
announced at the AmiWest show in Sacramento, California on July 30. To
find out more about the magazine see our website at
http://get.to/t.n.a

 Sorry, I forgot to put the initial contest announcement out through
all the channels. I've been trying to get things caught up to the
point where the magazine makes it out before the first of the month
each month.

Bill Griffin,

G&G Publishing Enterprises

Home of "the NEW AMIGANS" magazine
Ask about our new, US-based, Amiga Magazine
Or check out our website at http://get.to/t.n.a ..
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          D R Y   I C E   I N   D E V E L O P M E N T

{Information for this product is taken from its web site. You can
download "Dry Ice" from the site, but the author points out it's
really to buggy to be used at this stage. Brad}

18 July, 2000

About Dry Ice

 Dry Ice is a graphical web browser for the Amiga. It is being written
especially for the Amiga, there is no bloated code ported from another
platform. The intended features of Dry Ice is to offer full HTML 4.0
support, and full scripting support of whatever is the current
scripting language.


Progress and Current Features

(as of 17 July 2000)

Extensive Feature List
----------------------

Browser features

 + URL parser (complies with URI's in the HTTP/1.1 standard), can
distinguish between an URL and a local filename without the need for
"http://" or "localhost://..." etc.

 + Automatically caches all visited pages in memory, currently there
is no way to purge the memory cache, and no limits on the memory cache

 + When the browser window is resized the page is refreshed from its
cache, this operation is very quick

 + "Back" and "Forward" menu items, the items are disabled when
appropriate

 + "Refresh" menu item, will reload the document from its source
Browser window using BOOPSI gadgets allow for a complete
font-sensitive, resizable user-interface

 + Other windows use a font-sensitive GadTools interface

 + "About" window, displays free memory, and public screen, and TCP
stack

 + Public screen settings, the user can set gadget font, screen font,
any public screen to open on, or Dry Ice's own public screen -
settings are saved automatically on exit

 + The browser window position and size is remembered on exit

 + HTML Font settings, the user can set fonts for Normal, H1-H6, Font
size 1-7

 + Multi-browser windows, achieved through re-entrant code, and a
manager process, can open new browser windows, close them, when the
last is closed the browser quits

 + Multi-threaded HTML Parser, the parser and the layouter run
separately

 + Large pages (ones that are higher than the screen height) are
stored representationally in fast ram, this eliminates eating lots of
chip ram when it came to large pages (this doesn't work yet!)

HTML Support

Text
+ Bold (B)
+ Italic (I)
+ Underlined (U)
+ Headings (H1-H6)
+ Paragraph (P)
+ Break (BR)
+ Variable (VAR)
+ Emphasis (EM)
+ Strong Emphasis (STRONG)

Formatting, font styles
+ FONT
- size, color, face
+ BASEFONT
- size, color, face
+ BODY
- bgcolor, text, link, alink, vlink
+ Horizontal Rule (HR) (this is broken)
- width, height, noshade, align

Lists
+ Unordered lists (UL)
- type
+ Ordered lists (OL)
- start, type
+ List item (LI) (this is broken)
- value
+ Definition lists (DL) (these 3 are very broken)
+ Definition Title (DT)
+ Definition Data (DD)

 Images + IMG (does not support any image formats - will only lay out
the space) - width, height, align

HTML Attribute Values
---------------------

+ HTML 4.0 Multilengths

+ HTML 4.0 Colors

Known Bugs
----------

 + The first time you choose "Select..." from the open file window,
Dry Ice will access location 0 and display 4 bytes in the ASL file
requester

 + Block tags usually start on a new line, Dry Ice's block tags start
on a newline and throw a newline after it's done rendering, this tends
to leave a big gap when such tags are used straight after each other,
it looks particularly bad when nesting lists

 + The list item number on ordered lists is not displayed

 + Using Color values in a text format ("red", "fuchsia", etc..) only
works _sometimes_

 + There are a thousand other bugs

 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/andrewmarkwell/dryice/
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            N O T E   F R O M   H O L G E R   K R U S E

Ukiah, July 15th, 2000


 Some of you may have noticed that I have been rather unresponsive to
email recently. Besides by new job at REBOL, which is keeping me busy
around 60 hours per week, sometimes on weekends, there is also a
technical reason for this:

 In mid-June one of my network-grade uninterruptable power supplies
severely malfunctioned in a manner I still have not figured out, and
as a result three of my computers were damaged: my A4000T (main
development box) and two PCs, including my main Linux server which
runs DNS, email, mailing lists, registration etc. for Nordic Global.
So far the damage seems to extend "only" to the three power supplies,
one of the PC mother boards, two harddisks, and the contents of some
harddisk partitions.

 The good news is: at the moment it seems that no essential data (CVS
repository of Miami(Dx) sources, email database, registration
database) was lost or damaged, but I have yet to do exhaustive
integrity checks on all data.

 Over the last few weeks I have spent many nights and weekends
replacing defective equipment and swapping harddisks between
computers, testing/reconfiguring/restoring/reinstalling/backing up
many things etc., to at least keep the automated systems (DNS, email
reception, mailing lists, registration server, cgi backend of the web
site etc.) going as well as possible and prevent further damage or
loss of data. There have been some outages, but so far they have been
less than two days at a time each.

 This process is still not quite finished. Some of the past changes
were only stopgap solutions, and there will be several additional,
more permanent, hardware changes and reconfigurations over the next
week or two, as the ordered replacement parts arrive and are
integrated. As in the last few weeks, most of the changes will not
affect users, except for temporary outages of my servers, for up to
two days at a time.

 If you see warnings such as "could not send email for four hours" in
response to emails you sent, do not worry. I do not expect outages to
be long enough at a time for email to bounce, i.e. those warnings are
only temporary. Same thing if you get errors "connection timed out" or
"connection refused" trying to access servers: those outages are
temporary, so just try again later.

 On the up side, after the changes are completed performance should
improve significantly, in particular the turnaround time for mailing
lists. As part of the changes the main Linux server for mailing lists
etc. is moving from my old now-defunct Cyrix P-150/48MB box to a
Celeron-333/64MB box.

 For the time being I am afraid incoming email just keeps piling up. I
neither have the time to sort and respond to the over 800 emails that
have queued up, nor do I have enough access to my systems yet to
answer most questions, in particular questions related to
registrations or bugs/features in Miami or MiamiDx, dealer requests
etc. Most of my databases, scripts, etc. are still not operational
again yet.

 I WILL respond to your emails, but it will take some time. Please...

 - ... do NOT send emails repeatedly. This only gives me more work
later. I don't even get to start seeing emails again until (hopefully)
the weekend of July 22th. By then all repairs and upgrades should be
completed.

 - ... do NOT send emails to REBOL. Not only did some of you get my
email address there wrong (and thus unknowingly annoyed our sysadmin
with non-REBOL-related requests), but without access to my systems I
cannot respond to those mails anyway. They only get forwarded to my
main email account and added to the normal mail queue.

 - ... do NOT call me at home or at REBOL. My voice mail is already on
the verge of bursting, mostly with questions that I could not give
much information over the phone on anyway, without access to my
systems.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Holger Kruse
kruse@nordicglobal.com

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19.Jul.2000
Martin Kluge via eMail


Pascal-Compiler
There is an new version of the Free-Pascal-Compilers for various platforms, for the Amiga too (but not the newest one). For more information please follow the titlelink.

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19.Jul.2000
Gary Peake in AmiOpen-ML


Gary Peake about the Subject of Licences
Contrary to what the SDK says, there will be NO licence-fees on any applications, tools, or ports in the year 2000. We are reviewing this policy for 2001 and beyond and as soon as I have the info I will post it here. Also, there are and never will be license-fees on open source apps or tools. Here is Peake's full mail:

Sorry for the delay in posting any updates here. I have just returned from a 2500 plus mile trip in a Rental truck (24 footer) dragging my family and a 3 bedroom house full of furniture to Snoqualmie from Texas.

If I missed any posts, please feel free to send them my way.

If possible, can anyone currently porting an app or utility or whatever please send me an email? I would like to establish an online database for registered developers so these apps can be listed and thus avoid any duplications that may take place.

I would also like to announce that Douglas McLaughlin will be writing his own version of ICQ for the new AmiVerse.

License Fees: Contrary to what the SDK says, there will be NO license fees on any applications, tools, or ports in the year 2000. We are reviewing this policy for 2001 and beyond and as soon as I have the info I will post it here. Also, there is and never will be license fees on open source apps or tools.

Developer Web Site: Sorry about the delay with the web site. Part of the delay was waiting to see which ways we would go with certain web based applications and another part of the delay has been getting my family situation worked out and all of my family up here to the great Northwest. That accomplished, the web site updates will begin in earnest now. Stay tuned for more developments there.

Thanks for your patience

Gary Peake
Director - Support
Amiga Inc.

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19.Jul.2000
Dry Ice


Dry Ice Progress-Report
For a long time we have not heard something about the new browser "Dry Ice" by Andrew Markwell. Now there is a report of the current level of development as well as a alpha-version for download, but which still runs very unstable.

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19.Jul.2000
Amity


DelfInit Version 2.0 Released
The utility for initialising the Delfina soundcard was updated and released as version 2.0. The innovations in this version are three different patch-modi: no patch, patching the delfina.library concerning the procedure of initialising (default) or patching all of the library functions. Download:DelfInit.lha

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19.Jul.2000
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WBPerplexity16.lha   game/wb    646K+The ultimate workbench puzzle game!
MicroPaint207.lha    gfx/edit   492K+Paint program w. effects / BMP support
BetaScanMustek.lha   hard/drivr  65K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
SolarProbe.lha       misc/sci    48K+Shows planetary positions and info V1.5
amigaspeech.lha      mods/blkha 127K+Amiga voice Protracker mod by blakkhar
newsatinavmix.lha    mods/blkha  55K+Neverending Protracker mod by blakkhar
delirium_main.lha    mods/delor 151K+Main tune from and old Complex trackmo
housebrk.lha         mods/house 164K+Piano house by SD
quickmat.lha         mods/house  50K+Piano house by SD
berga.lha            mods/misc    2K+Bergakungens sal by SD
boko.lha             mods/misc   89K+Bo Ko by SD
linderosgris.lha     mods/misc  177K+Vocal tune by SD
nordman.lha          mods/misc  247K+Nordman vs. disktrasa by SD
paket.lha            mods/misc  264K+Fina paket - wicked tune by SD & Philip
sjuk.lha             mods/misc  196K+Old techno by SD - feat. my sister 
whiskas.lha          mods/misc   11K+Whiskas theme by SD
sd-hus.mpg           mods/mpg   2.3M+Old amiga house
sd-mappyland.mpg     mods/mpg   6.2M+Happy happy hardcore
sd-unreal.mpg        mods/mpg   6.6M+Dark drum and bass
tard.mpg             mods/mpg   432K+Mormor lambada
musli.lha            mods/sets  2.2M+Musli - 3 pieces of slow beats by SD
easter.lha           mods/techn  26K+Easter techno by SD
lionking.lha         mods/techn 250K+Sick tune by SD
PlayGUI.lha          mus/play   492K+Nice player-GUI using skins&themes V2.9
disiderata.jpg       pix/misc   136K+Desiderata (a text taken from a 14th Cen
SIL51_Wb2000-2.jpg   pix/wb     173K+Workbench Screen grab 4 on my PicassoIV.
WordCount-CED.lha    text/edit    1K+Fast line/word/character counting ARexx 
lucyplay.lha         util/libs   13K+AHI Audio Player + Joystick Functions
cookietool.lha       util/misc   48K+Clean up your fortunes database, V2.3
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc   55K+Report+ 3.21: Multi-function utility
ReqAttackUpd.lha     util/misc  128K+Rel4: RAPrefsMUI 1.63, ReqOFF 1.0, ReqAt
ViNCEd.lha           util/shell 717K+ViNCEd, the final CON: solution. ^Z, TAB
xvslibrary.lha       util/virus  51K+V33.22 External Virus Support Library


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19.Jul.2000
Ingo Schmitz on ANF


Amiga-forum Temporary Offline
Caused by a change of the provider the Amiga-forum (http://www.amiga-forum.de) (German) is temporary offline. We do our best to get online again as soon as possible. Of course, several improvements will be done. In a few days we will go on. Stay tuned :-)

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19.Jul.2000
Volker Grabbe on ANF


Heise: Sun Officially gives StarOffice to Open Source under GPL
During the last days there was the rumour Sun was going to release their Office-packet source-code under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Even in-house this was called nonsense. But today Sun will be announcing the release of the source-code officially.
The release of the source code Sun will be announcing at the O`Reilly Open Source Convention in Monterey. As the coordinator for the further development of the Office packet the organization OpenOffice.org is to be founded in which are participating Tim O'Reilly, Miguel de Icaza of the Gnome projekt, Brian Behlendorf of the Apache Software Foundation and Andy Hertzfeld, and others. More members Sun will name during the day to which well-known companies belong. Besides the coordination of the sources Open Office is to be responsible for the definition of XML basing file formats, as well as for the programming of intersections. Full report at the titlelink.

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19.Jul.2000
Allexander Wachau on ANF


#AmigaQuake has Moved to QuakeNet
Because of the increasing popularity of Quake on the Amiga we want to point out the movement of our channel. Our small channel still exits since Quake of ClickBoom, but only on the IrcNet.This channel we have left, cause continuous NetSplits, Lags and user-restrictions. For more than one week you can now contact us on the QuakeNet.
Adresses of servers you can find at www.quakenet.eu.org. So, interested users should come there quickly. Newcomers are very welcome. We'll try to help everybody! Addtionally there are three bigger Quake Clans of TeamFortress in which numerous Amiga users take part. One of those Clans was founded by me...:) Hope to see you in the new #AmigaQuake.

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19.Jul.2000
Fore-Matt Home Computing via eMail


FORE-MATT Home Computing with New Website
The english vendor FMHC has completely worked their homepage which formerly contained only a firm profile and now presents a complete website with all software on hand.

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19.Jul.2000
Volker Mohr via eMail


Classic-Computing 2000 News
As already reported a meeting for all fiends of Amiga, Atari, other 68k-computers as well as 8-bit computers will take place on Saturday, 2. September 2000 in the tennis hall Wegmann in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, from 10.00am to 4.00pm. Today the manager of Amiga Germany Petro Tyschtschenko has promised his appearence. From afternoon he will answer all questions. Further information at the titlelink.

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19.Jul.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


Hyperion Interview und Completely New Layout for NoRiscNoFun
From today at the homepage of NoRiscNoFun you can find an up-to-date interview with Steffen Häuser and Thomas Frieden of Hyperion Software.
The layout of the homepage was completely reworked. A first version of the Amiga linklist is available. The linklist is to be getting a very detailed list for Amiga. Furthermore a games forum was established in which you can publish your own ideas of games. So, maybe there will be a developer to become busy to make your dreams come true.

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18.Jul.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail


Six new Rainboot Configurations
Six new Rainboot boot configurations have just been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. There is now a second Britney Spears Bootup by PixelArt, a Shadow of the Beast Bootup or the cool Workbench 85 and AmigaOS 3.5 bootups by Teknique. All are available as screenshots and for download.

If you are using Rainboot frequently, you should think about registering (DM 10 only).

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18.Jul.2000
ANN


ZDTV: The New Amiga


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18.Jul.2000
Nordic Global


Holger Kruse makes a statement
Whoever tried to contact Holger Kruse by e-mail, and did not recieve a reply, should click on the title link. Here, Holger explains why he could not reply to mails.

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18.Jul.2000
Mick Tinker


InsideOut/Siamese PCI on hold
Because the BoXeR is currently being worked on exclusively, the InsideOut/Siamese PCI is actually on hold.

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18.Jul.2000
Czech Amiga News


Amiga Fresh interviews with Bill and Fleecy
Gary Storm did an interview with Bill McEwen for AmigaFresh, which was posted in Clubbed Magazine #5. Also interesting is the short overview over a typical Fleecy workday in the Washington HQ.

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18.Jul.2000
Amiga Inc.


d'Amiga distribution rights assigned worldwide
The new Amiga developer system "d'Amiga" will be distributed worldwide exclusively by the following authorised dealers:
  • USA - Software Hut Inc.
  • Canada - Wonder Computers International Inc.
  • UK - Eyetech Group Ltd.
  • Europe - KDH Datentechnik
  • Australia - Unitech Electronics

For more information, a look at the technical specification of the d'Amiga is very interesting. Amiga specifies in detail how the development system will be equipped hard- and software-wise.

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18.Jul.2000
Sylvio K. on ANF


DeepSilence-Homepage - New URL
The homepage of the Manga Action RPG "Deepsilence - The Secret of my Soul" (German) can now be reached at soms.debox.de (title link)! Please adjust your bookmarks! The Manga@Amiga Page is currently offline due to server problems. We hope to get it back online soon.

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18.Jul.2000
John Zacharias by e-mail


AmiWest 2000 Press Release #8
There will be a developer meeting on the AmiWest 2000 taking place July 29th/30th in Sacramento. Kermit Woodall from Nova Design will host the meeting, and discuss future developments and tendencies:

From: John Zacharias jzachar@calweb.com
To: "Press Release List"
Subject: AmiWest 2000 Press Release #8
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:11:45 -0700 (PDT)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Developer's Meeting at AmiWest 2000!

Kermit Woodall of Nova Design will be conducting an informal developers
meeting at AmiWest 2000 to discuss future development trends on the Amiga.
The meeting will be held during the vendor setup period between 8 pm and 9
pm on Friday evening, July 28, 2000 on the Terrace in front of the main
AmiWest exhibit hall.  Questions concerning the new Amiga SDK will be
entertained and hopefully answered during this meeting.

A special reception for vendors and developers with food and drink and
sponsored by AmiWest will also be held during the vendor setup on Friday
evening.

Remember, AmiWest 2000 is being held on Saturday through Sunday, July
29-30, 2000 at the Holiday Inn, Sacramento NorthEast, in Sacramento, CA.
Classes and seminars will be held throughout the day on both Saturday and
Sunday with the exhibit hall being open on Saturday, July 29th from 10 A.M.
- 5 P.M and Sunday, July 30th 10 A.M.  - 4 P.M.

Specially priced tickets for AmiWest 2000 are available in advance by mail.
Prices are:  two day admission tickets, $12 and one day admission ticket,
$8.  If you elect to purchase tickets at the door, the prices are:  two day
ticket at the door, $15 and One day ticket at the door, $10.  If you are
ordering a one day ticket by mail, please specify which day (Saturday or
Sunday) you are attending.

There will be a buffet banquet on Saturday evening, July 29th, with Bill
McEwen, President of Amiga Inc., as the guest speaker discussing the
progress made to date on the new Amigas.  Price is $35 per plate.  Banquet
tickets must be purchased in advance.  They will NOT be sold on Friday nor
Saturday due to the hotel needing attendance figures for planning the
banquet.

You can mail your requests for advanced admission and banquet tickets to:

      AmiWest 2000
      c/o John Zacharias
      10004 Vanguard Drive
      Sacramento, CA 95827

Make checks payable to "AmiWest".

A form for ordering tickets can be found on the AmiWest web page at

    http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/

where you can learn more about AmiWest 2000.

You will also be able to purchase the recently announced Software
Development Kit (SDK) for the new Amigas at AmiWest 2000.  The SDK is being
sold by several of the exhibitors at the show.  Eyetech Group Ltd.  will
also be present at the show demonstrating the their Next Generation Amiga
Development Machine coupled with a Classic A1200

This weekend event will again showcase the progress that IS the Amiga
Community.

Hope to see you at AmiWest 2000 on July 29-30, 2000.

John Zacharias, chairperson
AmiWest 2000
jzachar@calweb.com
http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/


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18.Jul.2000
Markus Schmidt via eMail


ICQ-Userlist
The annoying popup windows inside the German ICQ-Userlist has been changed to several advertising banners. Now one can rummage in the list without always beeing forced to close or click away other windows. :-)

Currently there are 120 entries in the list sorted by postal code to be able to find users close to you. New entries are liked to be added and can be submitted using an online form.

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18.Jul.2000
Ben Yoris by e-mail


Multiplayer-Addon "TheSiege" for Heretic II
There will be an Amiga version of the Heretic II multiplayer add-on "TheSiege" by "The Shadow Lord". More details at the Siege Homepage. This will enable Amiga users to participate in tournaments soon.

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18.Jul.2000
LinuxInfo.de via eMai


Overview on Cluster Solutions for Linux
At the report section of the free Linux Information Service, LinuxInfo.de (German), from today there is an article on cluster solutions for Linux available. This article features possibilities to adjust Linux systems for high charge and to make them highly available.

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17.Jul.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail


Lost eMails
Caused by a major problem of the email-service GMX I lost all of the eMails that reached me between July 9th and July 15th. Because I was on vacation I was not able to download them before they were deleted. If anybody had send me a mail and have not get a response yet, please write me again. Thanks.

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17.Jul.2000
Fabio Trotta at ANF


New Possibility for Discussions at the No Risc No Fun Mailinglist
The AMIGA Club No Risc No Fun offers you the possibility to discuss AMIGA related subjects at their mailinglist. If you want to subscribe you have to send an empty mail to subscripe-nrfn@egroups.com. For joining the discussion you must send your mail to nrnf@egroups.com. Have a lot of fun while you are discussing. P.S. Once again we are planing many surprises for you.

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17.Jul.2000
Steffen Leistner at ANF


APUS, LinuxPPC and GeekGadgets - Mirror online
At http://www.ironbyte.de ir ftp://ftp.ironbyte.de/pub/ironbyte I installed my own mirrorserver for LinuxPPC, LinuxAPUS and GeekGadgets/Amiga. Due to some requests about HiSoftBasic for AmigaOS I also publish the includes there. The server is connectet to the internet through a 100Mbit-connection. I will update the pages nearly every week. The download-area actually contains 6.4GB of datas. An easy searchfunction helps you to find the file you are looking for. So, have fun.

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17.Jul.2000
Distributed.net


New RC5-Amiga clients available now
Distributed.net invites you to test the new betaversions of there RC5-Amiga-Clients. The following versions are at your disposal:
  • AmigaOS [m68k] v2.8010.463 2000-07-16
  • AmigaOS [PPC/PowerUp] v2.8010.463 2000-07-16
  • AmigaOS [PPC/WarpOS] v2.8010.463 2000-07-16

You can find these versions at the beta-download-page and the author would like to please you to report bugs.

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17.Jul.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


The Internet - Flatrates are changing the behaviour of the users
«The installation of all-included online-access's, so called flatrate, opens the way for a new kind of dealing with offers of the internet. Soon these flatrates will cause a fundamental change of the users behaviour. Some hours or megabytes more or less are no longer important if you use a flatrate. you can left the establishing and canceling of the internetconnection to your computer. Especially if you have an ISDN-connection, where the establishing-procedure just takes a few seconds, the borders between of- or online are vanishing.» You can read the whole article at title link (in german).

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17.Jul.2000
Exotica


Gallery updated
We have just updated the gallery and the Amiga Demo Scene Reference Manual of the Exotica-website. There are 30 new scans Every picture has a complete author information and if there is any music available you will find a link there. The gallery now contains 1016 pictures.

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17.Jul.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail


Virus Help Denmark: New xvs.library
Name: xvs.library
Archivename: xvslibrary.lha
Archivesize: 52.521 Bytes
Releasedate: 17. Juli 2000
Programer: Alex van Niel
Program: VirusChecker II, VirusZ, VirusExecutor, Safe, CheckX, and others
Important notice: These programs need the xvs.library to find viruses. You have to update the xvs.library to have a up-to-date virus-protection.

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17.Jul.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Interview with Jeppe Nieson
You can find an up-to-date interview with Jeppe Nielson (homeland) at the AKTION-page of the Amiga Future website. Unfortunately he was not very communicative but nevertheless you can get some informations. :) Furthermore we have published the results of the Amiga-NG survey at the AKTION-page. At the startpage you can find a new survey dealing with PPC.

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17.Jul.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


APC&TCP: New Newsletter
APC&TCP established a new Newsletter (German) as an substitude for the old one. The new one is hostet by egroups and offers up-to-date informations about new releases, updates and much more about APC&TCP products. You can subscribe via an eMail to this address. (German Newsletter!)

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17.Jul.2000
Patrick Beerhorst via eMail


Small Listing
Patrick Beerhorst has scanned a small listing which he has found by surprise in an old computer magazin. It shows that Ali Goukassian (now the publishing house manager of the Falke-publishing house) was already involved with Commodore 12 years ago. :-)

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17.Jul.2000
Michael Ulbrich at ANF


Computer-Shop Ulbrich
After some problematic organizational and spatial reconstructions the Computer-Shop still exists. The new adress is Bornholmer Street 81, D 10439 Berlin, Phone +94 - 30-445 11 70 and Fax +49 - 30-44 650 726. The webpage is still under construction but I will be there for my existing customers with the new product range too, as before. I beg your pardon for any delay or other problems (caused by the move) you may have. You can find my private homepage here.

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17.Jul.2000
Jörg Thomas on ANF


Survey PPC/G3-Expansion Cards and OS for PPC
We (that is A4EP) just launched a survey about PPC at our Amiga-Society-Page. We want to find out how big the interest in PPC-Expansion Cards and OS's is. The main thing ist to unveil what power they should offer and how expansive they could be. Especially for a new Amiga-PPC-OS it would be interesting to find out what requirements you make on the new system. We hope that many of you will help us and we will publish the meanresults in regular intervals at our webpage.

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16.Jul.2000
Czech Amiga News


BurnIT: Master-Driver V2.72
Titan Computer has released version 2.72 of the Master-Driver for BurnIT. Support for the Teac54i and Ricoh8040 drives have been added.

Download: burnitmaster.lha

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16.Jul.2000
ANN


Mediator-PCI for A4000?
Pablo Peskin asked Power Computing by e-mail if the Mediator-PCI-Board will be released for A4000, too. Answer: In case of a success a version for A4000 will be designed. But, this will not be available before February 2001.

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16.Jul.2000
Paer Boberg via e-mail


Famous Amiga Uses
Paer Boberg has updated his list with famous amiga uses on July 15th 2000.

In this list you can see at which famous occasions, people, companies and movies the amiga is or was used.

Download: FamousAmigaUses.lha

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16.Jul.2000
René Hatje per e-mail


IBrowse in Browserwatch-List
On page 81 of the InternetWorld 8/00 is an overwiew of the Browserwatch-List of June 2000. Highest rank is given to Microsoft Internet Explorer with 25.837 accesses (58,2%). IBrowse is behind Opera on rank 5 with 547 accesses (1,23%).

Browserwatch shows the access for the own homepage. The latest list can be found at Stats Station.

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15.Jul.2000
Andre Gobet on ANF


New Virus Circulating
This infromation addresses all users who recently purchased The "Techno DataBase 00" CD. On that CD there are miscellaneous installscripts for different applications. Obviously with that a new and potential dangerous virus gets installed, too. After installation and rebooting the system it starts like hell. During loading the SetPatch command inside Startup-Sequence the system hangs all the time.

Affected files: datatypes.library - SetPatch - Installer

Presumably more other files on the system partition are affected. Unfortunatly I lacked time to check this out, so far. Trying to remove the virus with VT3.17 failed, cause VT could not find the virus. :-(

For those who are already affected the following advice:
Switch off your Amiga.
Hold down both mouse-buttons and switch on your Amiga to come to the startmenue.
Boot with no Startup-Sequence.
Edit your Startup-Sequence like follows:
;C:SetPatch QUIET

This causes SetPatch not to get executed during startup, whereby the system can be started in some degree, again. It is possible that that virus is not widely spread yet, due to the fact that the CD comes from the French part of Switzerland were it was burned, too.

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15.Jul.2000
Aminet Recent


New Aminet Uploads
mlrx.lha             comm/mail   10K+Two german RexxScripts for YAM 2.1
AmiComSys.lha        comm/net   325K+V1.33 Personal Communicator like ICQ (MU
NetLink3.lha         comm/tcp    94K+Controls Miami/ISP and Calculates Call V
dft-sd2k.lha         demo/aga   1.1M+Summer Dream 2000 by Drifters - requires
SDSTCPLib.lha        dev/basic   34K+SDS TCP/IP Library
amiprodt.txt         docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Ami Pro Documents
firstworddt.txt      docs/anno    2K+Datatype for First Word Documents
msworddt.txt         docs/anno    2K+Datatype for MS-Word Documents
palmdocdt.txt        docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Palm Doc Documents
quilldt.txt          docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Quill Documents
rtfdt.txt            docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Rich Text File Documents
wordperfectdt.txt    docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Word Perfect Documents
wordstardt.txt       docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Word Star Documents
xywritedt.txt        docs/anno    2K+Datatype for XyWrite Documents
TV-Logo.lha          gfx/misc    66K+Small but capable logotype display
appe_v32.lha         hard/hack   37K+PSX pad adaptor (bug FREE)
PcF2AmF.lha          hard/hack   32K+Use 1.44 PC drive as 880k amiga drive.
DarcNES.lha          misc/emu   130K+NES/SMS/GG/PCE/SG1000/CV emulator v9a071
mamegui.lha          misc/emu    67K+MAME GUI
NeoMAMEGUI.lha       misc/emu    41K+NeoMAME GUI
LottoV2.01_BF.lha    misc/misc  434K+Play Lotto! (V2.01, req. 2.0) -Update-
forever.mpg          mods/mpg   4.6M+A dark, quasi-classical piano piece.
bO-024.lha           mods/techn 184K+#024 bOhema rec. release (Teo)
tek_dcell.lha        mods/techn  48K+Duracell - experimental elektro move
tek_ptype.lha        mods/techn  78K+Prototype - progress move (upd 2nd)
tek_sxmat.lha        mods/techn  40K+Sexomat 2000 - sexomatic bump move
amplifier.lha        mus/play   312K+Powerful multiformat audio player (V2.12
sdk-takeoff.jpg      pix/art     18K+Jpg picture with fxPaint
ArtistIcons.lha      pix/icon   112K+64 Colour icon set
SIL51_Wb2000-1.jpg   pix/wb     269K+Workbench Screen grab 3 on my PicassoIV.
Change.lha           text/misc   37K+V2.39 change text/data in all files
DirScanner.lha       util/wb     85K+V2.11: Small but powerful filefinder. (M
SNDMon2.lha          util/wb     35K+Monitor Sound Channels & Switch PIV


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15.Jul.2000
Trogladite Software


Trogladite Software News
TS's website was worked over completely, again. The new layout is predictable and good-looking. By turning down expendable graphics the side is now loaded more quick. The news are arranged predictable on the main site rounding the general view perfectly. :-)

The software-section comes up with news on PCTask - an new patch fixing the palette problem is available. Download: pctaskpatch.lha.
Furthermore "Ned", a brand new texteditor utility enhancing the Workbench "ED", was released.

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15.Jul.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Counterstatement on "c't repels 'Licence-Extortion'
The lawyer Freiherr von Gravenreuth lays claim on a counterstatement on the message of heise online released on 07/07/2000. With this he refers on that Heise releases with this article the following allegation:

"With comparable cases Gravenreuth succeeded to pocket long royalties, ...."

With his counterstatement von Gravenreuth stated that this allegation was incorrect, correct was that he would not have recieved any licence payments in conjunction with the Trademark "Explorer".

Heise on this:
«The liability to release a counterstatment exists regardless if its content is true or not. The editorial office does not mix the term "to pocket" with any allegation on were the payments remained, the more so as cashiers mostly do not recieve sums in person.²

I only can agree with Heise, because of course Freiherr von Gravenreuth did not collect the royalties in person but his manner to "make cash" consists of neat little fee-notes to the licensors whose cases he is pleading, and to the "royalty-violators" he warns or accuses.

The various forum articles at Heise are interesting.


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15.Jul.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail


COOL bits Newsticker
Annual closing of our store form 07/17/200 to 08/03/2000. We wish all of our customers (and of course everybody else too) having nice holydays and would be pleased to be able to wellcome you again after our vacation.

Announcement:
As we will focus more on our workshop in the future, we want to reduce our stock... (more on this at our homepage).

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15.Jul.2000
Stefan Falke


EZP@gerNG Classic Edition V1.1 available
At the SFXSoft homepage there is a new version of this paging software available for download offering the following changes:
  • Using an enhanched protokoll for Cityruf
  • ISDN number for TeLMI usable, too
  • Detection sensibility for faulty connections has been lowerd a bit to reduce the danger of unintentional disconnections.

Note: EZP@agerNG is meant only for use inside Germany with German services. (mj)

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14.Jul.2000
AMIGA, Inc.


AMIGA Inc.: New distributor for North America
The company Wonder Computers International Inc. in Ottawa, Canada, and Software Hut, Inc. in West Chester, PA, have made a deal with Amiga Inc. on the manufacturing and the distribution of the new developer boxes. They are authorized to manufacture and distribute the developer box in North America.

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14.Jul.2000
Michael Garlich via eMail


Heretic II update available
The first update for Heretic 2 is available. Some annoying bugs were fixed, for example it is now possible to save at all times.

Download: HereticII-Update.lha - 1,4 MB

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14.Jul.2000
Eternity via eMail


Eternity News: Exorzist 2000 and new Onlineshop
The Exorcist is available again from now on in several variations. Available is The Exorzist as A1200 in a tower-case with A4000 keyboard, Blizzard PPC 040/25 and PPC 200 MHz and BVisionPPC, alternatively with 060/50. As for a full system, we can offer the following: A1200 motherboard, BlizzardPPC 040/25 and PPC200 MHz, BVisionPPC (8 MB), Winner tower, A4000 keyboard, harddisk 20 GByte and 52x CD-ROM. Alternatively: BlizzardPPC 060/50 and PPC200 MHz.

Eternity is looking for support
We are looking for programming of Tales of Tamar and its ports for:
  • Developer (Linux)
  • Pixler
  • Raytracer (for smaller weapons and other accessories)
  • History writer (Writer of fantasy short stories for Tales of Tamar, creating a chronicle of the current events on Tamar. Must be tester at the same time.)

New online store
As frequent visitors of our website maybe already know, we have an entirely new online shop since a few day which is supposed to make shopping easier for our customers. Also, a new "Search" function was put on the site which should help in more comfortable shopping on our pages.

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14.Jul.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


APC&TCP looking for programmers
APC&TCP is looking for a good C++ programmer for our game Phönix. He is supposed to support our main programmer in his work. Further, another Cando programmer is sought for another game project, also to support the main programmer. Please contact info@apc-tcp.de.

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14.Jul.2000
Marion E. Wyatt on TA-ML


Merlancia's AJE project
Regarding some questions to Merlancia about the AJE project (Amiga Java Engine) for Classic AmigaOS, Marion E. Wyatt has received the answer that programmers are still sought how participate in the project so that it can be realized. For more information, follow the titlelink.

Here the original text of the mail:
«I got an email from the guys at Merlancia in regards to some questions I had about their AJE project (Amiga Java Engine) for the classic AmigaOS. My questions dealt with whether or not a "full" JVM included an AWT or not, and whether or not the JVM would be PPC optimised.

The answer was yes to all my questions: JVM with AWT and PPC optimised if I didn't misunderstand. They do need developers, though. If anyone wants to see a full Java2 VM with AWT for our current Amigas contact Merlancia ASAP. Contact info is available at http://www.merlancia.com/aje/»

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