20.Nov.2002
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla
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AROS Website down during the weekend
Aaron Digulla writes:
I'd like to notify everyone that www.aros.org will be unavailable
a couple of times during the weekend of the 23./24. November 2002
because the system is upgraded.
You can reach the website during this time at
http://aros.sourceforge.net
and the other mirrors. (ps)
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20.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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Event: Photos from the Amiga meeting in Lodz 2002
On Saturday the 16th of November 2002, the Amiga meeting 2002 with the attendance of Thendic-France, X-Soft, eFUNZINe, Matay and others was held in Lodz, Poland. Thendic-France has published some photos and links to several more photos, which will give an impression of the event.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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20.Nov.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: Forum update / Abakus-Design: note
Forum update
Today the Amiforce forum was brought to a new version. The update was done within a few minutes and brought some positive side effects with it.
The data base seemed to be fixed through the update and even the upload of avatars works without problems again. Furthermore there were some bugfixes with the update, an example given might be the possibility of a dial in without using cookies now.
The forum can be used now with all features again. Who might detect a bug is pleased to report it.
Abakus-Design
Obviously some people seem to have a problem with offering us their name and email before the download of AMHuhn. We emphasize again that we will not give these data to anyone else but are collected by us internaly only. Nobody will receive adverts or anything else.
Unfortunately there were some really bad form mails received.
To remember: AMHuhn is without any cost and we gain no profit with it. We are not sponsored by any advertising agency and spread no spam. AMHuhn and everything belonging with it took all our spare time and the webmaster recently had to pay real money, because the traffic limit was overridden.
Thank all of you, who are caring.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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20.Nov.2002
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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HCC-Commodore-Club NL: Little Update and Events
Hello all C= friends,
We are again present on the HCC stock exchange from 22 till 24 November at
the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, standnumber 10E068, Hall 10. We are one of the only
groups that are present from the beginning! Also we have a few updates on
our homepage:
There is some "new" news, a new
photo collection to give you an impression of our C= show activities and a
little report with pics about our birthday present for Jeri Ellsworth
(she's the lady from the CommodoreONE project). For those who can read a
little bit Dutch, there's a fine article about the C64 scene at
http://www.boomcha.nl/.
Greetings and keep the C= scene alive!
Ron van Schaik
(ps)
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20.Nov.2002
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: Letting the World Know (Executive Update)
November 19, 2002 - With the AmigaOne now shipping and AmigaOS4.0 in
its final stages of development and testing, the time has come to begin
letting the rest of the world know the good news, that the Amiga is alive,
well and ready to let the World have fun with computing again.
We all know that the current hard core of Amiga users is not enough to build
a sustainable and thriving community. We have to appeal to those who, for whatever
reason left the Amiga months and years ago but who still retain a fondness for
their old platform. Whether disillusioned with their existing offering, looking
for a new way or simply wanting to return, the marketing for the reborn Amiga
must concentrate itself on these people, the five million or so who once owned
an Amiga and who could do so once more.
The last six months has seen us experimenting with presence at various multi-format
shows and nurturing relationships with TV, web and paper publications
in order to test the waters and to set out our stall for the big push
forwards. Even in this informal process, the response has been fantastic,
whether in the US, the UK, Europe or Australia. People remember the Amiga
and want it back.
We have taken all this research and, in conjunction with Amiga developers,
retailers, user groups, publications, Amiga Inc, Eyetech and Hyperion
have decided that we will concentrate on four official large scale multi-format
shows around the globe, in order to maximize our presence, message and
exposure. This will compromise a show roughly every quarter, one for Europe,
one for the US and Canada, one for the UK and one for the Antipodes (Australia,
New Zealand and Asia).
The first of these shows will be the official launch of the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.0,
to occur at the CeBit show in Germany in March (and before anyone asks,
this does not mean this is the release date for AmigaOS4.0, it means that
CeBit will be the public launch of it). With the huge exposure and attendance
that CeBit brings in, and being in Germany, one of the spiritual homes
of the Amiga, we think this an appropriate and exciting venue.
In addition we will support several other important national shows on a cooperative
basis with the dealers, user groups and organizations in those countries.
Commitments have already been given to attend the SINTEP show in Toulouse,
France in April 2003, and at least one of the Micromart shows in Birmingham,
UK.
We will also support local dealers and organizers of the main Amiga user
group shows worldwide (subject to fitting in with the schedule of the
larger shows above) such as the Alt-WoA and WoA-SE shows in the UK, as
well as the main shows in France, Germany, the USA and Canada. If you
currently - or would like to - organize such a show during 2003 and would
like Amiga Inc, and/or Hyperion and/or Eyetech to attend please contact
us as soon as early as possible during the planning stage. Given the limited
resources we all have, and the cost and complexity of planning for the
quarterly shows, we cannot guarantee attendance but we will do our best
to support the community wherever it gets together to enjoy the Amiga
platform.
So much for 2003 - what about the remainder of 2002, and in particular the
Aachen show? We have all, both as individual companies and together, thought
long and hard about this show. It has been decided that the timing could not
be worse from our respective points of view.
Eyetech is committed to delivering the Earlybird systems for Christmas that
week and Amiga Inc is fully occupied fulfilling an AmigaAnywhere contract, and
product launch. Whilst visiting with all of you is important, we believe that
it is more important to ship products right now, and we simply can not work
the show into our schedules.
We wanted to share this with you because many in the community have asked the
same questions that we have asked ourselves. How will the community grow and
thrive? It can only do so through increased sales, and that means increased
awareness. As we move from survival mode to growth mode, the small, local shows,
however much fun cannot provide this level of exposure and awareness. By marching
proudly and strongly into the mainstream shows, and taking the community with
us, we are announcing that we are back, once and for all.
Have no doubt that after 8 years of darkness, 2003 will be the year that the
Amiga once again makes the World remember that there is a better way.
Thank you, as ever, for your continued support and commitment.
Bill McEwen and the team at Amiga
Ben Hermans, Hyperion
Alan Redhouse, Eyetech (ps)
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20.Nov.2002
Michael Böhmer (E-Mail)
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E3B: SUBWAY USB controller for Amiga (clockport version) available
E3B is pleased to announce the availability of the USB controller SUBWAY, which has been
presented the public at the Amiga trade show in Cologne 2001.
Unfortunately we were very busy since this trade show with the Zorro USB card HIGHWAY and
its networking module NORWAY, but nevertheless we have not forgotten the "small" module SUBWAY.
Despite the not very good situation on the Amiga Classic market we haven't stopped further
development.
We at E3B believe that Amiga Classic should not drop of the edge of technology, even with the
long forecast new hardware platforms rising finally at the horizon.
As many Zorro card owners asked for compatibility of SUBWAY with common clockport featured
card like the Xsurf, isdn surfer or the Buddha Flash, we consequently improvemented the
SUBWAY design to fulfill these wishes. Due to the different timings and signals on these
non-Commodore clockports only one version of the SUBWAY exists now, which works with these
faster operated clock ports. We would like to thank Jens Schönfeld for supplying us with test cards.
Therefore SUBWAY can also be used in already fully equipped Zorro systems, which have no
Zorro slot free anymore for a HIGHWAY. Also Amiga 1200 users which use PCI as bus solution,
but having no PCI slot free any more or want to spare it for high volume data applications
can use the SUBWAY as USB solution out of the box.
By introducing the world's smallest USB controller SUBWAY E3B is able to offer a complete range
of solutions for USB and ethernet. Together with the USB stack Poseidon (by Chris Hodges) and
its GUI Trident (which both have been proven its feasability in every day work) it is possible
to use up to four modern USB devices from the PC market without any further additional hardware
(like hubs) directly on the Amiga 1200.
Distribution of SUBWAY will be handled by our distributor
KDH Datentechnik.
We at E3B would like to thank all people who have helped us to develop and improve our USB
products according to your wishes. Don't stop asking us.
Anyhow, we want to apologize for the long delay which has been made by us with the introduction
of the SUBWAY.
E3B will be present on the Aachen Amiga trade show at KDH Datentechnik.
You're invited to visit us there and test our USB controllers HIGHWAY / SUBWAY live.
We also are looking forward to meet you there for discussion.
If you are interested in an USB controller for Amiga Classic, feel free to test your
USB devices on compliance there!
(ps)
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19.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)
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Event: Eternity shows T.o.T. on ARC 2002
Eternity, the software
makers from Frechen, Germany, will show the online-strategy game Tales
of Tamar. This is not the hectic kind of game that's being played at
so-called LAN-Parties, but a more "grown-up" game. A central server
analyzes every player's moves that are sent via eMail once per day,
and sends back the results through eMail as well. More information
about Tales of Tamar can be found on
www.tamar.net.
(ps)
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19.Nov.2002
A.D.A. - Amiga Demoscene Archive Website
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A.D.A.: 14 new Original-Amiga-Screenshots
A.D.A., the Amiga Demo Archive databank with search function has released 14 new Original-Amiga-Screenshots, made by Mdw/Encore, of the demo Sulaco/Encore.
A.D.A. is looking for users with a PPC Amiga who can help to take screenshots from demos. If you want to help send an email to z5.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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19.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Fleecy Moss
An AmigaSource interview with Fleecy moss you will find here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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19.Nov.2002
Thylacine Website
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USB-Karte Thylacine: Simple GUI for the Stack
For the driver software of the Zorro2 Amiga USB-card Thylacine a simple GUI is released.
Download: usbgui.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Nov.2002
Various sources
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Different software updates (until 18.11.2002)
On the website of Dirk Stöcker there are now updates for the following Tools available:
Rekonet published new card sets for Klondike.
Michael Christoph released version 45.8 of ToolsMenu. In the file some catalogs are new. Download: ToolsMenu_V45.8.lha (97 KB)
Version 0.8.22R3 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE will soon be available. The following bugs were fixed in this release:
- Ports-tab crash fixed
- joystick handling fixes
- hard drive configuration save fixed
(trailing spaces are now removed from HD ID-string)
- fixed stuck keys when switching between WinUAE and Windows
- sprite fix (some games had flashing sprite garbage)
- thread priority tweaks
- setupapi.dll error when running under Windows 95 (not confirmed yet)
New feature:
- implemented harddisk and CD-leds that flash during HD/CD access
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: Screenshots of Hollywood - AmigaSeeDC
Andreas Falkenhahn:
Today's Hollywood screenshots show AmigaSeeDC, a real application created
with Hollywood. AmigaSeeDC is an image viewer like ACDSee or IrfanView
that are very popular on the PC market. You can select a picture and then
browse through the picture's directory by simply pressing cursor up and
down. AmigaSeeDC is also able to zoom in and out. It took me only 1 hour
to program AmigaSeeDC with Hollywood. And of course this cool example
program is included on the Hollywood CD-ROM. If you've always wanted a
viewer program for your Amiga that is standard on every PC, order Hollywood
now. I also use AmigaSeeDC privately because it's really cool.
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
x-cellence (ANF)
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Demo: Huhnvasion3D
Huhnvasion3D, which is under development for Amiga PPC for one year, was
published now as Freeware for the PC. It is a technology
demo for Wintel computers, which was developed, in order to find a
Publisher for the financing of the further development of the AMiga PPC version. Since this did not
succeed since early 2001, the demo is now made available
as Freeware for Wintel systems.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 16.11.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were
originally made only for use with disks. The following packets have been
added or updated since our last message:
- 16.11.02 new: Silent Service 2 (Microprose) done by JOTD
- 16.11.02 new: Populous (Bullfrog) done by Psygore
- 16.11.02 new: The Guild of Thieves (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
- 16.11.02 improved: Future Wars (Delphine Software) protection and sound fixed
- 16.11.02 new: Fish (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
- 16.11.02 improved: Cruise for a Corpse (Delphine Software) supports German version, music improved
- 16.11.02 new: Corruption (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
Bill Griffin, G&G Publishing Enterprises (ANF)
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Print magazine: 'the NEW AMIGANS' has lowered its prices
"the NEW AMIGANS" magazine (the only Amiga-centric magazine still
printed in the US), has lowered its prices. From now until December
31, G&G Publishing Enterprises is offering one-year subscription to
their magazine at a $5.00 discount. For more details check out our
website at the title link. (ps)
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18.Nov.2002
The Legacy
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The Legacy: Extension for the Game forum integrated
The Legacy is the game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC,
Schneider/Amstrad CPC, which supplies the readers with screenshots,
cover scans and information about the developers. A small extension for
the Game-Forum
was integrated. The last forum entries can now be displayed in the
Sidebar of the Mozilla browser and will be updated every 15 minutes.
This can be activated on the front site as well as in the game forum.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New fxPAINT 2.0 benchmark page
On the fxPAINT-page you can now find benchmark results that document the
speed gains through native support of x86 and PPC. The routines, already
very fast on 68K, run - depending on the effect/operation - more than 7
times faster on an 180 MHz PowerPC, more than 40 times faster on Amithlon
running on a 850 MHz Athlon.
fxPAINT is an award-winning graphics program for AmigaOS, MorphOS, Amithlon,
PowerUP and WarpUP covering many different fields of graphical applications.
Besides others, more than 90 high quality effects for image processing,
natural painting tools, image-managment, batchprocessing- and numerous
Internet tools are available to you. More information on fxPAINT can be
found on the fxPAINT-homepage.
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Game: ArTKanoid V2.0
A strongly revised version 2.0 of ArTKanoid is now available for download at the title
link or in the Aminet.
Main changes:
- 24Bit-Skins (can also be used with 256 colors or less)
- AHI-Sound
- 100% system friendly
- Adjustable framerate, for example 100 cycles per second for "smooth"
Gameplay also on graphic cards
Download: ArTKanoid2.lha
Much fun thereby, bug reports and suggestions are welcome.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Game: AMHuhn Version 1.1 and news
Franz 'CjStroker' Schlick and Telemar Rosenberger found a new name for their programming activities. The name is Abacus Design.
For AMHuhn and future projects a page was created, which is accessible at the title link. The page is a subpage of Amiforce and also uses its forum. Appropriate boards were also created. Updates on AMHuhn version 1.1:
An update of AMHuhn version 1.1 is now available. With the
update some problems are fixed. This update can only be downloaded after a
free registration. We ask all users, that are interested in the update,
to be honest. After input of the data the download starts automatically.
Changes:
An English version of AMHuhn version 1.1 is now also available. The guide is likewise included in German and English. For more detailed information please read the guide, which is on-line available in a HTML version.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Elbox Computer
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Elbox: MediatorUP 3.5 & MM CD UP 1.19
The MediatorUP 3.5 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI
1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV has been made available today.
The update includes the new version of:
Changes:
pci.library ver. 5.9 - the PatchInt variable added
The MM CD 1.19 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI
4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX,
Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV busbords, who are registered
owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been released today.
The update includes the new version of:
Changes:
FastEthernet.device ver. 1.7 - code optimization
Info on the current versions is available in DOWNLOADS | Mediator section. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox Statement: Elbox against piracy
Under the title link you find a detailed statement of Elbox computer
concerning the discussions and various statements about the Spider USB drivers, RDB and RDSK strings in drivers.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
AmigaZone (ANF)
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AmigaZone: StAHG update available
StAHG (the Standard Amiga Help Guide) has received an update (version
1.1). This update is free, and replaces the previous version.
Bugfix: This version corrects an error in which some documents could
be missed during the scanning process.
StAHG is a free utility from AmigaZone as a gift to the Amiga
Community. It scans the HELP assign for various forms of
documentation and builds a single "WorkBench.guide" with links to each
document. The Workbench.guide is accessable by pressing the "Help"
key under AmigaOS 3.5 or higher.
We hope you enjoy StAHG,
Targhan
Programmer, AmigaZone
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Catweasel Software Updates, X-Surf News
The Windows-drivers for the Catweasel ISA have been extended by some
features. Mainly support for the new Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper has
been added. Also in the archive: a driver for Windows 2000 and Windows
XP that makes use of a keyboard that's connected to the Catweasel MK3
PCI/Flipper.
Download: cw_win_pci.zip (108 KB)
The Amiga-version of the driver has also been adapted to the new
controller, the new multidisk.device V3.62 now supports the Catweasel
MK3 in a Zorro slot, or on any clockport of an Amiga. This device is
prepared to support the Catweasel MK3 in a PCI slot of an emulated
Amiga (for example Amithlon or Amiga Forever).
Download: mdisk362.zip (22 KB)
Many people have asked for a picture of the new controller, because
it's hard to imagine how the same board can fit in the Zorro slot and
in a PCI slot. Here's a picture of the controller, taken out of the
running production. It shows the bare board without the metal bracket
and the second joystick connector.
cwmk3.jpg (113 KB)
Good news for all Amiga users who want to bring their computer to a
network: The most successful networking card in the Amiga market has
been updated, and the price will be lower. The reason for the continuous
success of the board might be it's software support: The X-Surf 2 will
remain the only networking card on the market that comes with PPPoE
drivers - these are necessary for most DSL modems. As opposed to the
older model, the new X-Surf 2 does not have a BNC connection any more,
all other technical details remain the same. If you need this connector
you should be quick, because the last boards have already been shipped
to our resellers a few weeks ago.
(ps)
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17.Nov.2002
Patrick Henz (E-Mail)
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FreeCD: Just Football (Amiga), Deimos (Windows)
Patrick Henz has released the CD-ROM 'Just Football' for Amiga computers as
well as 'Deimos' for Windows computers in his FreeCD series. 'Just Football'
contains a large number of football games and other software on that theme,
while 'Deimos' contains games from various genres.
Contents: Just Football (Amiga)
- Add Ons: Brazilian leagues by Ronaldo Figueiró for Eat the Whistle, Goal and SWOS.
- Disks: ADF-versions of Five-A-Side-Soccer, Football Glory AGA, Tactical Manager,
Airball and Amiga Soccer. Thanks to Incagold
and Brad Design.
- Games: Anstoss (thanks to Incagold ),
Anstoss-WM (thanks to Incagold),
BManager, Football Indoor (thanks to Incagold),
Football Business, Football Glory (thanks to Incagold),
FSV Santa Monica (thanks to Frey United),
Hallenturnier (thanks to Frey United), On The
Ball (thanks to Incagold), On The Ball - World
Cup (thanks to Incagold), PSV Eindhoven Manager
(Light Version) (thanks to Frey United), PSV-Guide,
Ruhrpott-Fussball Manager, Airball (thanks to
Brad Design).
- Information: Guides to the European Championships and the World Cup from Pasi Ylinen.
- Tools: ADF, ELFC, FLeagues, Football, Gol, Leagues and Liga 4.
- Online-Games: Football-O-Rama by Frey United.
Contents: Deimos (Windows)
Deimos, the smaller one of the two Martian moons. This CD-ROM includes
lots of cool PC software in these categories: 1982 (classic gaming),
Fantasy, Games, Internet, Languages, Science Fiction, Space, Star
Trek and Star Wars.
All programs have been tested under Windows 98, so they should run
without problems even on new machines.
- 1982: Ant Artic Adventure, Arcadia, Asteroids (Disaster), Bally (Ballist),
Break Out (Aquanoid, Web Breaker), Bruce Lee, Choplifter (Airlift Rescue), Commando,
Defender (Abductor), Galaga (Bugs), The Great Giana Sisters (spm2), Helicpoter Attack,
LCD-Games (Banana Mania, Bartender, Be a Slayer, Cronch, Dunk Candidate, Gasoline, Madman,
Peanut, Smackdown, Soccer, Sydney to Hobart, Uaaah), Lode Runner, Missile (Warhead),
Pac Man (Applegather, Pac Man), Paperboy (DnDelivery), Pong (Cmash), River aid (River),
Robotron (Bendertron), Shanghai (Shanghai Dynasty, Ultra Blast), Space Invaders, Subscan,
Tetris (Bubbles, Flashblox), Trix (Ballist), Tron (Lcycle), Worms (Nibbles, Stanley).
- Fantasy: Games (Cutie Quake, E-Gon 1-3, EgoBoo, Elf Bowling, Reptar, Samurai Asshole,
Sumocarrier Xena BraskOut).
- Games: Action Supercross, Bike Flyer, Black Jack, Bzzz!, Cavity Crusade, Duel,
Final Fighter, Flashgolf, Flashracer, Fun Run, Gubble 2, Hit Him, Super 1 Karting,
Rockpaper, Save the Goldfish, Snowcraft, Speedway, Virtual Startton.
- Internet: ICQ 2002, Mozilla, Zone Alarm.
- Mixed: Banja, Bored Meeting, Stress.
- Science Fiction: Games (Ace Speeder, Backtrak, Canopia, Deadlive, Deadly Weaponz,
Frontier 2400, Probe n Poke, Trick Style, Road Wars, GL Tron, Splatterfish, Starship,
UniBall, Freeride Trash, Horum).
- Space: Celestia.
- Star Wars: Wonder Dweeb, X-King.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
BTTR-Team (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: New games, a.o.t. Karate Kid 2 and scans
With permission of the copyright owners, Back to the Roots puts up original
Amiga games for download and furthermore offers freeware games, demos, musical
pieces, scans of game packages etc. In the current newsletter, Back to the
Roots are reporting about new items on the site. In particular, sports games have been added:
"Now that the summer here is over, we have prepared a couple of sports events
to test your physical shape. Get down to it:
Arms and legs are being exercised with 'Shadow Fighter' and 'Karate Kid 2'.
Thanks to 'Empire Soccer', football skills can be proven. If you want to show
us how skilful you can handle a motorbike, 'Super Hang On' is just the thing.
Btw, thanks to permission of Tynesoft, you can start in a whole lot of
different disciplines with 'Summer Olympiad' and 'Buffalo Bill's Rodeo Games'.
And to avoid the mind rusting in with all those muscle games, we have provided
you with 'K240', 'Millenium 2.2' and lots of other games.
Something really extraordinary awaits you with 'Exile'. Here you take on the
identity of a fully trained astronaut. And for phasing out after all this sport
the cute 'Tearaway Thomas' is presenting himself, with whom you will be faster
on the way than with Sonic.
This update also contains scans of mostly rare game packaging (e.g. Quik and
Silva, or XR35), as well as two articles about the Amiga demo groups Ephidrena
and Loonies!
Games, demos, music and more. What else do you want? Just have a look into
'Back to the Roots'."
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Maja (ANF)
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Media: Self-destructing DVDs
The American manufacturer MGM has developed a technology by which DVDs become
unreadable after the expiration of a certain time span, e.g. 2 days after
opening the package. In the process chemicals are used which, when exposed to
air, trigger a chemical reaction which can't be stopped.
More about this under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Event: ARC 2002 - Advance ticket sale started
The advance ticket sale for the 'AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002'
fair taking place on 7th and 8th December 2002 in Aachen has begun.
The Web form for the advance ticket sale have been online since today. As of
now, tickets can be ordered with a price reduced by EUR 1,-. This is the first
Amiga fair making use of e-Tickets. Thus you don't have to pay for p&p. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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Emulator: WinUAE.chm V1.8 and Amiga Emulator FAQ updated
After WinUAE V0.8.22r2 having been released on 14th November 2002, Peter
Hutchison has updated his
Amiga Emulator FAQ as
well as the
WinUAE.chm help file
of that Amiga emulator. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Matthew Monsoor (Amiga Open-ML)
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Amiga: Amiga-Logo on Microsoft web site
In the Amiga Open mailing list on 16th November 2002, Matthew Monsoor has drawn
attention to the Amiga logo being listed on the Microsoft web site's
'Enterprise Solution Providers - Partner Logos'
page.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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AGH: Voting form for Nov./Dec. 2002 Amiga Games Hit Parade online
Amiga Games Hit Parade (former Amiga Games Classifying) are bimonthly
determining the most popular games. Currently the form for participating in the
November/Decemter 2002 Hitlist vote is online.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Icons: 60+ GameIcons for all genres by Frank
On 16th November 2002, 'PygmIconsGL_G2.LHA', a new games icons package, has
been published on GamesIcons.info.
This includes more than 60 AmigaOS V3.5 icons for all game genres. The package
has been compiled by Frank.
Download: PygmIconsGL_G2.LHA
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
ANN
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Text viewer: EvenMore V0.60
On 15th November 2002, version 0.60 of the text viewer 'EvenMore' has been
released. In this version the plugin system for the EvenMore preferences
has been updated. Chris Perver writes:
"The new plugin system will allow users to create user settings in the
preference window for their own plugins. EvenMore automatically loads and
saves the plugin settings whenever the main settings are loaded or
saved. This will allow more complicated plugins to be created.
An example of this plugin has been created for the Generic2Text plugin, to
allow you to open a binary file in readable or hexadecimal view.
The other plugins have had to be updated to support a change in the plugin
system and in the EvenMore executable."
Various plugins are available for download on the plugin subpage of the
EvenMore home page.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Heise (ANF)
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PDA: Sharp-Zaurus Enterprise version in collaboration with IBM
Together with Sharp, IBM is developing a version of the Linux PDA Zaurus
especially for business clients. This version's features include software
developed by IBM for wireless access to company networks including
data synchronisation.
The Heise article is accessible through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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16.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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GoldED Studio AIX: service pack 3
For the allround text editor GoldED Studio AIX is since yesterday the
service pack 3 available for registered users. The most important new feature is the integration of the gcc compiler. This complete software package is needed for the C/C++ development with GNU C. Via GED is the programming environment integrated within minutes into the editor using a comfortable setup program.
Because of the huge size of gcc is this update only deliverable as a replacement CD: since the last version have 67 MB just in form of data been added. The costs are 10.- Euro.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Nov.2002
Amiga Filterium
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Tool: Amiga Filterium version 1.14
Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo has released version 1.14 of his flexible and expandable datatype processor and ripper Amiga Filterium (short AFilter). The following changes have been done in version 1.14:
- has extended stringbuffers internally, so module names can be longer
- detailed text output in the case of syntax errors in the configuration files
- xfd plugin does a 'missing header trick' to check for crunchers that lost their decrunch header
- example sourcecode xad.asm is in the archive
Download: afilter.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (tel.)
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Event: Amiga + Retro Computing 2002 - exhibitors list
Since today is the provisional exhibitors list for the Amiga + Retro Computing 2002 that will take place on December, 7th and 8th 2002 in Aachen in the Eurogress online. Out of experience the list will be expanding until the fair's beginning as many companies decide just before the list closing to participate.
The companies are listed in alphabetical order.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Event: APC&TCP and Amiga Future at the Amiga fair
APC&TCP as well as the
Amiga Future will be at the
Amiga + Retro Computing 2002 in Aachen, too. APC&TCP will, if all things go well, introduce and sell the game "Crossfire 2" for the Amiga there.
Besides that it is planned to present the program DigiBoosterPro in a new
version. Of course there'll be many interesting offers, too. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Nov.2002
Glames (Boing Attitude) per E-Mail
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Boing Attitude: Interview with John Harris
You can find an English interview of John Harris, author of Gobbler and
Solitaire on AmigaDE at the title link. (ps)
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15.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: New screen shots from Hollywood
Here are again some new screenshots from Hollywood applications.
This time I present screenshots from a popular application field of
Hollywood: A presentation with random transition effects.
(ps)
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15.Nov.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)
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MorphOS in detail
Nicholas Blachford of Thendic France has published an English text about the basic concepts of MorphOS
under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Copy of WoASE-speech of Alan Redhouse
The copy of the speech is available under the title link who which hold Alan Redhouse (CEO) of Eyetech)
on the World of Amiga Southeast 2002.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT at the AMIGA- and Retrocomputing 2002
IOSPIRIT will be present with an own booth at the
AMIGA- and Retrocomputing 2002
in Aachen on 7th and 8th December 2002.
On 12 m² visitors to the fair will have the possibility to see all
IOSPIRIT-products in action and to buy them. Besides the current versions
of fxSCAN and VHI Studio this will also include the brandnew fxPAINT 2.0.
Updates from older versions are - with the exception of VHI Studio -
available without having to present the original medium.
Depending on the progresses made during the weeks until the fair, up to
two new products will be presented.
We are looking forward to your visit!
(ps)
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15.Nov.2002
AmigaMARK LPA Website
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Benchmark-Tool: AmigaMARK LPA almost finished
The Austrian Rupert Hausberger has worked for some months on a new Freeware benchmark-tool called
AmigaMARK LPA. The author has now announced that the program is ready to 98%. Currently the program is in
beta test. The first release will be only published in some time because the documentation still
has to be written.
AmigaMARK LPA (Lowlevel Preformance Analyse) is an application which determines the perfomance of the
computer on which it runs. The performance is measured in three sections:
Processor, memory and harddrive. Then a detailed report will be put out in HTML or TXT. There is the
possibility to compare the results with the help of a graphic display with other computers.
There will be defenitely versions for 68K and MorphOS. If there will be also a version for AmigaOS4
is uncertain and depends on it if the author will get developer information.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New screenshots of Crossfire 2
New pictures of Crossfire2 have been published on the the Amiga Future homepage.
The game is supposed to be published still this year at APC&TCP.
The game is a mixture of Stardust, X-Out and Wing Commander. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Antivirus program: Mill version 0.79
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski has just released a new update of his new
antivirus program "Mill". Here is some info about the new update:
- Name: Mill
- Version: v0.79
- Archive name: Mill.lha
- Archive size: 222.067 bytes (lha packed)
- Release date: 14 November 2002
- Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - zeeball@interia.pl
News: Mill v0.79
- 0. Better late than never :)
- 1. Please begin from one of 'Readme'. You can choose
English, Italian, Polish, German, Spanish, Greek,
Czech and Bosnian version of this file.
- 2. You can choose sample to play when virus is found
from another archive called 'mill-media.lha'...
- 3. Get TestVirus.lha to see how
MILL deals with viruses...
- 4. "How about Safe?"
- Integrity and/or Notifier (used well) beat Safe.
- Safe is frozen due to lack of bugreports/ideas...
- 5. Please get from Aminet newest xvs, xad and xfd!
- 6. VHT-DK is online again! Temporarily in quite limited
form, but it's back!
- 7. I am looking forward to see your bug reports. Especially
bugreports concerning:
- filerequester of MILL (is there any problem?)
- strange quarantine behaviours
- crashing on file-check even with XFD slaves OFF...
Fixes from previous public version:
- added Czech doc - thanks to Boleslav Kristen and Vaclav Kalas
- added Magyar catalogs - thanks to Marton Dosa
- added French catalogs - thanks to Pascal Rullier of ATO
- MILL: removed About gadget from GUI
- MILL: tried to fix known bugs
(reported by Voytec and Michael 'DMX' Bagmaijer)
- added OS35 style icons (thanks to Martin Mertz!)
- MILL: removed internal Neurotic installer detection
(included in xvs - thanks to Georg Hoermann)
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus: Up-to-date Online
Every day new software for Amiga and Amiga-compatible systems appears, whether commercial,
sharware, or freeware. AMIGAplus summarizes the new things of the last few weeks, so read "Up-To-Date"
either online or each month in the current AMIGAplus. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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14.Nov.2002
Gunnar Bernhardt (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.22 R2 released
Today the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 0.8.22 R2 by Toni
Wilen.
New features:
- Kickstart 1.3 RDB and regular hardfile autoboot/automount support.
KS 1.3 regular (non-RDB) HDF autoboot requires FastFileSystem from WB1.3:L in KS roms-directory.
- Keyboard/mouse/joystick handling rewritten for DirectInput.
Windows keys are now 100% usable as an Amiga keys and SHIFT-keys don't get stuck anymore.
- Mouse speed configuration.
- All keyboard keys (even special "multimedia keys") are available in input-tab configuration window.
- Configurable floppy drive type (3.5"DD/3.5"HD/A1010 5.25"SD).
Following features require Windows 2000 or Windows XP:
- "Unlimited" hardfile size (2G limit removed),
uaehf.device now supports TD64 and NSD -style 64-bit addressing.
NTFS filesystem required for >4G hardfiles (FAT32 max file size is about 4G).
WARNING: Make sure installed AmigaOS is new enough (OS 3.9 recommended).
- Ability to mount real harddisks with full RDB automount/autoboot support.
- Amithlon partition support.
Bugs fixed:
- Slow harddisk, CDROM, etc.. performance in non-CPU idle mode.
- CPU idle tweaks, defaults to off, config file support.
- Disk emulation improvements.
- Added missing configuration file entries.
- Better compatibility with old config files.
- 68000 "more compatible"-checkbox works again.
- Fixed uaehf.device crash with older HDToolBox versions.
- Custom chipset fixes (Chaos Engine AGA/CD32, Obliterator, Terrorpods etc..).
- GUI's screenshot-button was always disabled.
- State file restore fixes (CPU type is automatically restored correctly and more).
- Switch from fullscreen/no-vsync to vsync-mode crash fixed.
- Filesystem "ghost"-file bug fixed (but filesystem emulation still have some bugs left..).
- Bsdsocket emulation compatibility fixes.
- Fixed serial and printer port defaults.
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
T.o.T. (email)
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Game: Tales of Tamar - New Amiga version 0.46
Version 0.46 is the first official (and of course free) update for Tales
of Tamar. As promised, we'll keep improving and expanding the game.
Since the release of the CD version, quite a few things have happened:
New features:
- Title screen reconverted. Antialiasing improved
- Diplomacy: Personal messages can be sent and received
- Cheat protection for ARMY, SHIP and MOVE chunk
- Fonts have been reworked by Damaso Dominguez
- Spanish characters are now shown correctly
- ToT is now running on MorphOS for Amiga and Pegasos
- new BardsTale stories
- Ruines added
- new map images for town level 2 to 4
- CGX V5 is now recognized
Bugfixes:
- first level town had incorrect number of inhabitants
- plundered trade ships left their loaded figure in the water. Fixed
- loss of capital caused problems
- fallback mode for screen mode rewritten
- output in FTP routine and diplomacy removed
- Bugfix in chunkmachine
- Bugfixes in stringinput
- Bugfixes in TaverneOfflineChat
- resources display under AGA fixed
- some bugfixes relating to ships
- repair routines for ship
- building screen updated
- gotcha changed from hardware to software
- fadein and fadeout is in software on the Pegasos now
- CGX V5 check
- MorphOS is now detected correctly
- BardsTale now completely in German available
We'd like to discuss three things in particular:
First is the new option to send "intime" messages directly
to another player. The feature allows you to act completely
undetected, you don't have to use a secondary email account
to exchange messages without a third party noticing. A quite
useful addition.
Next is the addition of ruins and different town levels on the map.
Before, all towns had the same image, the one of a small village.
From now on, abandoned towns will show as ruins and the image of a
town will adapt to its size. Major towns will be visible as such to
everyone.
The whole system can be extended as far as adapting the land around a town.
The bigger your town becomes, the more settlement and small buildings
will appear in the surrounding lands. You may see small farms, picturesque
houses by small lakes, or hunters hideouts. Your land can change every turn.
The possibilities are only limited by the capacity of the server and the
number of players. The more players, the more possibilities :-)
Last but not least, we would like to thank some people for helping us
bringing Tales of Tamar to MorphOS. First would be Ralph Schmidt, who
really helped and just talked like other people. And Frank Mariak, whose
fixes to CyberGFX V5 made it possible for Tales to be adapted. Thank you
to both of them!
Tales of Tamar is now running on MorphOS for Amiga and Pegasos. It benefits
from the WarpUP emulation in MorphOS, which seems to be even faster than
the original. Since Tales of Tamar is a mixed binary, the PPC routines
work under MorphOS as well. Animations are even faster there. We will
keep adapting more features to MorphOS in the future.
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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Offensive Elbox driver and consequences for Poseidon
Chris Hodges writes:
Dear Poseidon Users,
in the last few days, there were rumours posted to ann.lu, claiming that
the usb.device, that is provided by Elbox Computer Inc. for the Spider USB
PCI card would contain malicious code. This code was posted disassembled
on various websites. This source code, if assemblied into an executable,
would indeed have the ability to kill the RDB (if it was found in block
0). Code destroying data on purpose like this is illegal in most countries
(including Germany) and moreover, is one of the ethically worst things
I've ever seen.
As the source of this security warning was an anonymous poster and
therefore was not reliable, I wanted to check for myself. So I loaded the
usb.device (some friendly Mediator user sent me, as Elbox never offered me
a SpiderCD to check the contents of the CD), let it decrypt itself and
just searched for the 'RDSK' string in the driver (as seen on the
disassembled source code on the websites). No disassembly was used. The
string was found. I could therefore verify that the offensive code is at
least in version 1.2 of the device, I had here to test (there is
absolutely NO reason why 'RDSK' would appear in an usb hardware device
driver).
I gave Elbox the chance to clear things up in public by posting an apology
and removing the code. They didn't. Instead, they said that all my
"doubts" would be answered in the press statement released yesterday and
ignored the consequences that I already had proposed to them.
Well, my "doubts", which actually are facts, that I could see with my own
eyes, remain. Any Mediator user can check this by using a memory monitor
and searching for the usb.device in memory (after loading up Poseidon) and
see, if there's the 'RDSK' ID string within the next 10000 bytes.
As a consequence, I have to warn Mediator users that their machine is in
danger, when running the usb.device. In the non-memory protected Amiga
environment it might get damaged at any time and then cause the routine
that kills the RDB to become active. The next update of Poseidon will
refuse to load up the usb.device, if it detects malicious code. This is
to protect yourself from damage and myself from being held liable for any
loss of data or damage done.
Moreover, I hereby withdraw the permission to include Poseidon in ELBOX's
software distributions, until they
- admit, that the code was in their driver,
- admit, that they have constantly lied to the users,
- have placed a public apology for the first time in their life,
- and have removed any malicious code.
I don't want Poseidon to be included with third party software, that's
highly illegal and whose originators don't deserve any trust.
I do understand that people try to protect their work from being hacked. I
do this too, but not by risking the data of legal users and I cannot
tolerate this offensive behaviour any longer (I admit, I'm again rather
upset and therefore this statement is not as objective as it could have
been).
The Spider users out there are adviced to confront Elbox with the demands
mentioned above, so to allow Poseidon again accept the usb.device driver.
I hope that you believe the facts and my worries and understand the steps
taken.
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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UP ROUGH Releases "The Yard BBS Intro"
Yesterday the Swedish Amiga demo-scene group UP ROUGH released an intro for their BBS "The Yard." The
intro in C64 may be utilized directly from the group's new homepage. Further, older Amiga demos, intros and
diskmags may be utilized in the download area of
diskmag.de. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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14.Nov.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New driver for Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed card
The SpiderUP 1.10 update for the
Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed
card has been made available today.
As anonymous hackers attempted to spread the patch supposed to allow
hacking the code of our driver, we are releasing the new driver version
protected against such attacks.
The usb.device 1.10 requires the
Poseidon stack
ver.1.31 as a minimum.
Info on the current versions is available in the
DOWNLOADS | Mediator
section.
Mariusz Wloczysiak Press Department
Elbox Computer
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Elbox dispels rumours about usb.device
Press release: For long years, our company has been making efforts to make users of our hardware proud that they receive the best software support. This support is also the most dynamically expanded in the Amiga market.
Some persons/companies do not like this situation, as they would like to compete with Elbox. They know they cannot, though: they have no knowledge or employees to work with or determination to provide on-going support for their products. However, we continue receiving signals from various sources on attempts at disassembling and hacking our drivers for the purpose of stealing the results of our efforts and work.
In recent days the Amiga community witnessed rumours related to our latest product: the Spider USB 2.0 card. In order to clarify this we feel obliged to respond officially to them.
Rumour: Using the Elbox usb.device with an USB PCI card other than Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed may lead to trashing the disk RDB.
Answer: Not true.
If anyone is trying to run the Elbox usb.device with any USB PCI card other
than Spider USB 2.0 (for which this driver is dedicated), the only result
is that the driver does not work with this card and a requester window
appears on the screen: 'No Spider USB 2.0 card found.'
Rumour: Whoever has a Mediator may modify Spider drivers so that they support USB PCI cards from other parties.
Answer: No.
The Elbox usb.device is software protected by international copyright law.
Only owners of the Spider card are licensed to use these drivers (the
drivers are bundled with the cards). The only legal way to acquire the
usb.device drivers is to buy the original Spider package. The software
is always licensed for a specific person and only that person. The
licence for using the driver does not give any right to modify the
code (which is property of Elbox).
Rumour: The usb.device driver has some procedures, which may damage hdd RDB if any external program accidentally damages the driver code.
Answer: No.
Elbox pays much attention to protect its drivers against any improper operation in case of accidental damage to their code by any external events. To ensure this, Elbox drivers are encrypted. When run, they automatically decrypt themselves and verify internal checksums to guarantee the maximum security of operation. This is the best way to prevent program crash if, due to any reason, the code is damaged when read from the media.
Obviously, even such protection measures cannot protect the program against a hacking attack, that is against a program, which purposefully modifies the code to make some part of it operate in a way different from the original intention. No software available for Amiga computers, including Amiga operating systems, can be 100% protected against such hacking attacks.
We hope that what we have stated here explains away all the doubts for good. As always, we stand with full guarantee for our software and our registered users have no reasons to worry. We develop and distribute software, which is reliable, efficient and innovative.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
AmigaZone (ANF)
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AmigaZone present StAHG - The Standard Amiga Help Guide
Press Realease from AmigaZone
Presenting StAHG, The Standard Amiga Help Guide
AmigaZone's FREE GIFT to the world-wide Amiga Community..
© 2002 The AmigaZone division of Merlancia Industries
The AmigaZone division of Merlancia industries is proud to present StAHG,
a simple ReAction based tool created for the purpose of making an Amiga's
collection of help files easier to access. Naturally, the first question
to come up is, "What help files?" The answer is, "Exactly!" Or, if you
prefer, all those help files buried deep within the confines of the
"HELP:" assign.
Now, the AmigaZone division of Merlancia Industries is offering a free
program that helps to clean that mess up, and in the process takes
advantage of an overlooked feature of AmigaOS 3.5 (and above).
StAHG builds a list of all of the documents found in the "Help:" assign and
its subdirectories (.doc, .dok, .txt, .guide), then creates "Workbench.guide"
in the propor location to satisfy the requirements for the HELP button to
open the file in Multiview. Once run, "Workbench.guide" is available to
the OS, and StAHG does not need to be run again (unless you want to update
your "Workbench.guide") Directory Opus users may want to note that
"Workbench.guide" does not clash with, or override, the Magellen help system.
StAHG is a free download. This is AmigaZone's gift back to the community
for years of their support. Of course we would like you to sign up for
the free trial period to try AmigaZone.. We'd like it even more if you'd
join AmigaZone as a fully paid member.. We do not, however, require that,
in order for you to have StAHG. There are no pop-up advertising windows,
as this was just a fun way to remind everyone of the wonderful service we
offer.. and have been offering since the Amiga was born in 1985.
StAHG's Requirements:
AmigaOS 3.5 or higher
AWNPipe
RexxTricks.library
ReqTools
RexxReqtools
Author's note: It's not the end-all of applications, but hey, it's free,
right? ;-)
Download: stahg.lha (ps)
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14.Nov.2002
Scott Pistorino (ANF)
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AmigaSource: Interview with Fleecy Moss
AmigaSource is proud to announce its second interview with the big names
in the Amiga Community. Drop on in and read the exclusive
interview with Fleecy Moss
of Amiga Inc.
(ps)
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