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08.Jul.2001
AMI Sector One (ANF)


AMI Sector One: Airbus A320, Airball, Amiga Soccer...
At 'AMI Sector One' the zivil flight simulator 'Airbus A320' by Rainer Bopf is available for free and legal download. Flight physics, navigating and flying skills are focal points of this realistic simulation.

Also another game by the programmer of 'Airbus' never released before is available: the 'JU-52 Flight Simulator', again a very complex flight simulator.

With permission of the former employees of 'Microdeal' the oldies 'Airball' and the seldom 'Amiga Soccer' are now online, too.

Of course there are more games, music disks, applications, as well as cover scans. Closer information are directly available on AMI Sector One. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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08.Jul.2001
ANN


Jobs: Bonehead Development - help wanted
Newly founded Bonehead Development needs help for High-End Amiga game.

Yes, thats right! The newly founded game developer Bonehead Development is seeking help for their new and first project. We need all kind of people working with us and don't think twice about sending in your work to us. Please mail us soon!

Wer are a very small group of people who want to aim high on the gaming market with our first project called "Z-Squad" which is a mix of horror, 3d action, humour, beat 'em up, and strategy. We are early in development, in fact that early that we need help to get it going and we need GFX artists, coders, sketch artists, musicians, sound artists, and maybe some more. We hope that the game will be released both to Amiga and PC, cause we're seeing very serious in the matter and were not doing it out of good will. In other words, if there's no money there's no game. We want your work, but please don't mail us your 20MB demo before letting us know, cause our mail-server is a bit slow.

PS: It's an advantage if you live in Sweden, but no demand. So now, send us your work and we will answer all of those who will mail us.

With Regards Fredrik Robertsson Game Designer and in charge of this project

Contact address: Fredrik Robertsson (sd) (Translation: mj)

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08.Jul.2001
ANN


Game: Short interview about PaybackPPC
On 7. July 2001 a short interview with James Daniels, Apex Designs, about the PPC version of Payback was published on amipal.

Among other things the current frame-rates accomplished by James Daniels can be taken from this interview. Indeed these lag behind of what Jack Daniels was hoping for. The memory bandwidth appears to slow down.
  • 30 fps on 320x240
  • 17 fps on 480x480
  • 12 fps on 640x480
(sd) (Translation: mj)

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08.Jul.2001
3ivx


3ivx: Changing server
Due to changes of server locations it might happen that the web- or mail-server of 3ivx is temporary not available. (mj) (Translation: mj)

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08.Jul.2001
Heise Newsticker


Heise: Linux developers planning .NET as Open-Source
According to reports on TechWeb and Wired the Linux company Ximian is about to announce an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET frameworks.

Read the full article under the title link (German).

There is an article (English) regarding this subject on ZDNet, too. (mj) (Translation: mj)

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08.Jul.2001
BoingWorld


Game: BabeAnoid Screenshots
Richard Fhager released some links to screenshots of his BreakOut clone 'BabeAnoid' on BoinWorld.com. (mj) (Translation: mj)

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08.Jul.2001
ANN


Events: AmiWest 2001 Rides
Who is looking for a ride to the AmiWest 2001 in Sacremento, California, U.S.A., (28th to 29th of July at the Holiday Inn) might sign up the guest-book on 'AmiWest 2001 Rides' (title link). (mj)

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08.Jul.2001
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)


Graphic Adventure Engine: Inga Beta
Timo Kloss wrote:
The developer pack for the graphic adventure engine 'Inga' was finished, more or less. Thus I'm now wanting beta testers.

Since the engine itself was not finished, yet, testing will focus the tools and manual. The following shall be checked:
  • Are the developer programs bug-free?
  • Do these run on any machine?
  • Are there suggestions for the tools?
  • Is the manual complete and plain?
  • Of course also the runability of the engine shall be tested.
If you are interested, please contact Timo@inutilis.de and provide close information about your configuration (hardware, software, versions, etc.)

The people elected will then receive the developer pack as digital version, only, (that is to say without the printed manual, but with a text file) and are enabled to purchase it at the half price on release. You will be allowed to go on using the digital version, anyway.

The developer pack runs on: AmigaOS V3.0+, CPU 68020+, graphics board with CyberGraphX. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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08.Jul.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


AmigaDE: CodeWarrior for AmigaDE
Gary Peak, Amiga Inc., did the following expression in a posting on the AmigaOne mailing list (title link):

«As you may or may not know, Code Warrior has agreed to develop a professional IDE for the DE. We are still talking details so I can't give any at this time.»

CodeWarrior is a very popular developer environment available for different systems (MacOS, PalmOS, and more). It is being developed by Metrowerks.

Update 12.07.2001:
Martina Jacobs has compiled more information on this topic:

About CodeWarrior:
The cross-platform-compiler CodeWarrior supports C, C++, Java, and assembly programming languages and is being used by more than 200,000 developers in over 80 countries all over the world to create platforms and applications for desktops and embedded systems.

The open architecture of this integrated development system allows to add new programming languages and computing platforms to it's IDE with relative ease. From the CodeWarrior White Papers you can learn more about this multi-architecture, how to use GNU tools in CodeWarrior and how to import makefiles.

Extent:

CodeWarrior comprises a multitude of developer tools for different platforms / processors. Here you will find a list and detailed descriptions of these tools.

Currently supported:

Standard platforms:
  • Windows
  • Macintosh
  • Solaris
  • Linux
  • PalmOS
  • Java

Processors by Motorola:
  • PowerPC-CPUs, 5xx, 6xx, 7xx and 8xx PowerPC processors AltiVec (7400), PowerQUICC II (8260), MPC 8240, hosted on Windows and Solaris.
  • 68K/ColdFire-CPUs, incl. CPU32, DragonBall, DragonBallEZ, DragonBallVZ, ColdFire 5206e, and 5307.
  • Motorola MCore-CPUs, incl. CMB1200/EVB1200, CMB2080EVB2080, CMB2107/EVB2107, CMB210, and CMB3401 evaluation boards.
  • 568xx DSP (Digital Signal Processors).

Processors by others:
  • StarCore DSP
  • NEC V8xx
  • MIPS
  • Special version for Java development.

RTOS development:
  • Embedded Linux
  • QNX Neutrino
  • Nucleus PLUS
  • 8, 16 and 32 bit architectures

Game consoles:
  • Nintendo
  • PlayStation®/2

CodeWarrior is being developed, marketed, and supported by Metrowerks.

About Metrowerks:
Metrowerks was founded in 1985 in Montreal, Canada. 10 years later the corporate headquarters were moved to Austin, Texas. Metrowerks has offices in Silicon Valley, Europe, India, and Tokyo. In September 1999 Metrowerks became an independently operating subsidiary of Motorola.

They have strategic partnerships with several important companies including Apple Computer, Microsoft® Corporation, Sun Microsystems®, and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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08.Jul.2001
amiga.org


AmigaDE: AmigaDE Interface FAQ
The 'AmigaDE Interface FAQ' has been released on teotwin.com. This FAQ contains tips on how to customize the AmigaSDK together with the PartyPack. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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08.Jul.2001
Carl Sassenrath (REBOL-ML)


REBOL: Build Package
Carl Sassenrath has released the utility 'build-pack' for REBOL on 06. July 2001. This utility comes in handy for bigger REBOL programs existing of many files, but are to be distributed as one single file.

A list of files gets assigned to this tool, being merged to one single and compressed script. Beside of the program code binary files - like graphics and sounds - are supported, too.

The script can be downloaded from the Util section of the REBOL script library.

Download: build-pack.r (sd) (Translation: mj)

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08.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News


Magazine: The Crypt #18
Issue #18 of the English online magazine 'The Crypt' was released, yesterday. This issue contains tests of the jump'n run game 'Furball' and of two Amiga ports for Windows - Warblade ('Deluxe Galaga') by Edgar Vigdal, and DOpus 6.

In the article 'A wooden Amiga tower case' Fisherking introduces his wooden Amiga tower case and shows several pictures.

Moreover there are other articles, news, stories, and graphics.

Download: TheCrypt18.lha (2,8M) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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07.Jul.2001
Richard H. Poser II


Messenger: AmigAIM BETA version 0.9427
The latest version has been uploaded to the normal locations, on the webpage and descriptions on the links section of the mailing list have been changed.

History Extract of AmigAIM...


AmigAIM 0.9427 Beta (7 July 2001)
  • Found a bug in the Instant Message Windows color system, it wasn't being told to turn on the colors, as it didn't have access to the prefs structure.
  • Also made a small cosmetic change in a couple items having to do with returning from away via the Dock Window's contextmenu.
AmigAIM is a client for connecting with America Online's (AOL) AIM service.
(mj) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jul.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn


Emulation: CD32 emulation for Windows (update)
The first CD32 emulator for Windows, the CD32 Games Install Kit, was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. This emulator works in connection with the famous WinUAE. Exactly like in the Amiga version, patches are applied to every single game. This gives a very good compatibility. Even digital CD audio is already supported. However you will require a custom version of the WinUAE which can be downloaded from my web page. Currently the CD32 Games Install Kit for Windows is only available for owners of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM (download it in the protected update area!).

Update 08. July 2001:
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote in the German comments on this message:
I have had implemented some functions for CD audio handling in the custom version of WinUAE. Indeed those only can be utilized by my sub-system Install2001 which runs on the Amiga part, thus I don't know if the WinUAE team would like to have those functions in every official release. I will inquire it, anyway. But like already told, without Install2001, so without the Install Kit, those functions are just useless....
(mj) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jul.2001
Suite101.com


AmigaOS: AmigaSDL
The cross platform handling of games and multimedia applications is often very difficult. There's a great number of libraries that are supposed to close this gap. Among them SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) seems to come out as the probably most elegant and best supported project of this kind. Thanks to the latest work of long standing Amiga developer Gabriele Greco there's now an AmigaOS port of SDL available.

In his article (title link) John Chandler wrote on Suite101.com why SDL may probably be the best solution in cross platform programming for the AmigaOS and delivers some links.
(mj) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jul.2001
SixK


Webserver: Apache 1.3.20 binary for Morphos
The Amiga webserver Apache (v1.3.20) is available as binary for MophOS and can be downloaded at SixK.

This binary was not compiled with the PHP module but there's a version with PHP in the work. This MorphOS version is for use with the official Apache archive that can be found on amiga-apache.org. To be able to use Apache several more packages of the Geekgadgets project are needed. Please look at the hints on the download page of amiga-apache.org. (mj) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jul.2001
Martin R. Elsner


Tools: ClassAction v4.2 (update)
After a long waiting time it's now time to let the users enjoy: ClassAction V4.2 - The Next Generation!

Many proposals have been implemented, such as configurable icons, more images, better archive handling, easy configuration, many many new options, ...

You will find ClassAction on my homepage and soon in Aminet.

This will not be the last version - I have a list of other features that will be found in V4.3. But for today, accept this version - you can't loose!

Many thanks to all who have contributed to this version - betatesters, translators, and of course all users for their good proposals and encouraging words!

Update 08. July 2001:
ClassAction is a multifunctional file manager for the AmigaOS.
(mj) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jul.2001
Olaf Köbnik


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena full version!
In co-operation with Christian Steiner the Amiga Arena makes the release of "Sharks Multi Version 1.5 Final" possible!

SHARKS! is a skill game playing underwater. Our brave diver is away to search the sea ground for treasures. The area in which he is is full of sharks, though ..., so: BE CAREFUL !!! Collect as many treasues as possible and be aware of the sharks! Because of too little feedback by the users the further development has ceased!

Amiga Arena "File Cutter" code!
Stefan Berge has made the code of File Cutter available to the Amiga Arena!

File Cutter serves to split files. You can e.g. split a file of 8MB (animation, LHA archive) into several small files so that you can put this file with no problem shared over several disks for further transport. On another computer these files are put together to the original complete file again.

Amiga Arena full version
Beneath a Steel Sky: With permission by Revolution Software Ltd. (thanks to Tony W.) the readers CD of the Amiga Future 31 contains the original sales version of the presumably best action adventure for the Amiga until today. Very special thanks to: Jürgen B. who made the archive available to me. (mj) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jul.2001
Rene Stelljes


Amiga users list updated
Rene wrote:
"The Amiga users list was again updated and is now available in version 11.00 on my homepage.

The version change from 10.00 to 11.00 was made because I got erroneously an old version of the list when taking over the AUL. All entries that were made in the last Amiga users list by Stefan Martens are now contained in the new version, too.

From the next version on I'll update the AUL, therefore I'll verify the entries and delete all non up-to-date entries without replacement! Everybody already listed should check his/her entry and tell should something have changed meanwhile." (cd) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jul.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


Simulation:new Freeciv beta version
A new Amiga Freeciv beta version has just been released on the freeciv page of my homepage. (cd) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jul.2001
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)


Fonts: new Fontutility ports / dictionaries wanted
On my homepage (and soon on aminet, too) can two new ports of font utilities be found that will be of use for the DTP interested and the font freaks. "ttf2pt1" converts TrueType fonts into the Postscript format for use in Pagestream, FinalWriter, Drawstudio, etc. and bases on the latest source codes. "afm2pfm" converts between Postscript fontmetric files. Despite the archive's name it's also possible to convert from PFM files to AFM files. Both programs can be found in the "Font Utilties" area of my website, additionally there's a PowerPC version for WarpOS available of "ttf2pt1".

Furthermore I'm looking for German language dictionary files of all kind (term definitions, thesaurus, foreign word dictionary, ...) for my new project. In contrary to the English there seems to be a real lack in the German speech area, at least regarding free, documented formats. If anybody owns such files or some Duden software out of the PC library series (or something similar) I'd be thankful if he/she would contact me via email. (cd) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jul.2001
(ANF)


Software: The Other Amiga World
Biggest public collection of Amiga demo-scene material. Available via (cd) (Translation: wk)

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06.Jul.2001
Andreas Magerl (e-mail)


Amiga Future: Interview with Matay
An interview with Matay was published today on the Amiga Future homepage. The English translation can be found in the English section of the homepage. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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06.Jul.2001
DirOpus 4


File manager: DirOpus 4.16j
Jacek Rzeuski has released version 4.16j of the file manager 'DirOpus'. DirOpus now contains the following localizations: Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish. The most recent changes and improvements can be found in the history.

DirOpus is a file manager, programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software. The Windows version is now available in version 6.

The sourcecode of version 4 was released 1999 under the GNU Public License. Jacek Rzeuski then started to work on the program and improve it.

Download: DOpus416JRbin.lha (873 KB)

Mirror: http://dopus.free.fr/
Alternative download: DOpus416JRbin.lha (ps) (Translation: rh)

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06.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News


Action: Interview with Rob Northen
Action has made an extensive and interesting interview with Rob Northen. Rob Northen wrote the copy protection for dozens of Amiga games. Action will make more interviews with VIPs from the Amiga scene. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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06.Jul.2001
Sven Ottemann (e-mail)


Tool: Contextswitch
Sven Ottemann writes:
A new version of Contextswitch is available at the titlelink. This tool is monitoring the number of context switches between PPC/68k on WarpOS. It was originally developed by Haage & Partner and is contained for example on the StormC4-CD.

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

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06.Jul.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)


GFX-BASE:Interview with the programmer of DiamondBOX
Richard Kapp writes:
Yesterday, Nikolaj Thygesen has released a new version of his excellent layer-based paint program 'DiamondBOX'. Maybe you have already downloaded the program - but maybe you want to learn more about the author. Just at the right time you can now read a current interview with Nikolaj. He reveals and explains the new features of the current version, talks about new plans, the creation of DiamondBOX and much more. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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06.Jul.2001
Richard H. Poser (e-mail)


Messenger: AmigAIM 0.9426 beta
The new beta version 0.9426 of AmigAIM, the AOL Instant Messenger for Amiga by Richard H. Poser, is available. All AmigAIM text files such as AmigAIM.guide, custom.txt and history.txt were updated and are available for download as well.

Changes:
  • Implemented the apparently forgotten about Notify menu items...
  • Added a Reset Connection menu item.
Download:
AmigAIM_Beta - full archive
AmigAIM.lha - update
AmigAIM.guide (ps) (Translation: rh)

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05.Jul.2001
Nikolaj Thygesen (E-Mail)


Paint program: DiamondBOX Version 1.12
Nikolaj Thygesen has released version 1.12 of his Amiga paint program 'DiamondBOX'. This program is CGFX compatible and requires at least AmigaOS 3.0, 8 MB RAM, 1 MB harddisk space, an Amiga with 68020 CPU and of course a little creativity. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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05.Jul.2001



Aminet Uploads until 05.07.2001
DOpus416JRsrc.lha    biz/dopus  981K+Great filemanager from GP Software
DigiCamGUI.lha       comm/misc    6K+TritonRexx based GUI for DigiCam v1.01
PinkFloyd.lha        demo/intro 1.7M+Vidi_Pink_Demo
vbcc.lha             dev/c      3.6M+Optimizing ISO C compiler (68k/WarpOS/Po
SetFileSize.lha      disk/misc   14K+Truncate or expand a file
AIOV48.lha           docs/mags  560K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 48 (June
eyangband.lha        game/role  808K+EyAngband 0.3.3 - Roguelike solo RPG
gumband.lha          game/role  975K+Gumband 2.1.7a - Roguelike solo RPG
psiangband.lha       game/role  741K+PsiAngband 1.3.0 - Roguelike solo RPG
vcdimager_077.lha    gfx/conv   535K+VCDImager 0.7.7 Beta (WarpUP and 68k Sup
amifig31.lha         gfx/edit   308K+Structured drawing tool v3.1, Xfig compa
amifig31_68k.lha     gfx/edit   338K+Structured drawing tool v3.1, Xfig compa
mouseps2.lha         hard/hack   12K+PS/2 Mouse conv. No drivers needed! v1.0
mamevg37b16.lha      misc/emu   2.5M+MAME Visual Guide 37b16 Addendum - PDF I
sg-strip_13.lha      pix/misc    48K+[ancor] strip 13 of the online-comic
sg-strip_14.lha      pix/misc    41K+[ancor] strip 14 of the online-comic
ReqToolsLib.lha      util/libs  195K+V39 reqtools.library w/src (AROS back po
ACE-Startup.lha      util/wb     15K+WBStartup-Prog for ACE-Progs
MemoryRemV1-18.lha   util/wb     57K+Clock-Replace, shows actual RAM & Larges
(as)

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05.Jul.2001
Scalos


Workbench replacement Scalos: New Plugin 'Device Filter'
A new module named 'DevFilter' for the extended Workbench replacement Scalos was released. With this plugin drive icons can be blinded out from the Workbench.

Unfortunately the download page currently is not available. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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05.Jul.2001
CodePoet


Emulator: WinUAE Version 0.8.16R4 released (Update)
Version 0.8.16 Release 4 of WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K, and WinXP, was released. The following has changed:

  • FIXED: 50Hz/60Hz switching (B.C. Kid) works again. (Toni Wilen)
  • FIXED: Various Picasso96 issues. (Bernd Roesch)
  • FIXED: F11 should be back-slash again.
  • ADDED: .GZ support in floppy dialog. (Timothy Roughton, aka Inner)
  • CHANGED: Tweaked the sound-code yet again, hopefully will be less choppy.
  • CHANGED: Tweaked the exception-handling code for JIT. (Bernie Meyer)
  • REMOVED: icon1.ico from the source-code archive.
Download: WinUAE0816R4.exe - help.zip (German) - help.zip (English)

Update:
This version was created on 03. June 2001, already.
Sorry for this double message, must be due to the heat ;-). (ps) (Translation: mj)

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05.Jul.2001
Green-Hosting / Ragonsoft (E-Mail)


Web-space: Cheap Hosting for Amiga Sites
From now on Amiga users, devotees, etc. can host their websites at Green-Hosting. There are deductions from regular offers and even free web-space (e.g. for www.yourname.de):

  • Free web-space 50 MB for Amiga relating sites (banners in return).
  • Deduction of 20-30% from existing offers!
  • This offer applies to Amiga users and Amiga sites.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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05.Jul.2001
Wolf Faust (ANF)


Universal-Filter V2.1 Update for PageStream 3.x/4.x
A new version 2.1 of the PageStream universal filter was released. This free universal filter enables PageStream to load many graphic formats, BME or HHV.

This new version fixes a v2.0 filter problem in loading pictures with colour palettes, which could crash PageStream or HHV. It is strongly suggested to install this update.

Beside of the above fix some more small things were enhanced (e.g. new pnglib, lower stack requirement). Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to finish the support for the PhotoShop format. :-( (ps) (Translation: mj)

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05.Jul.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (E-Mail)


Magazine-CD: 100%AMIGA Issue 14
Issue #14 of the Amiga magazine '100%AMIGA' was released - the magazine you don't need to read, but can watch from CD. Read the original message:

»The July edition of 100%AMIGA is now available for sale. This month's magazine features the start of our new monthly "Easy to Understand" Assembly Programming Tutorial. So you think there is not enough Amiga programs? Then write your own or brush up on your skills with this non-technical guide to technical things!

Alternatively, browse a great new collection of icons or just sit back and let us take you through a visual tour of the recent K4 Show, Land of Genesis from Clearwater Interactive as well as our usual news and latest previews.« (ps) (Translation: mj)

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05.Jul.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - Update V3.8
The update to V3.8 of the astronomy program 'Digital Almanac III' was released. Again this time some new features were added and wishes of users were taken into account.

The update can be downloaded from the mailing list by Yahoo members. It already was uploaded to the Aminet and should appear there, soon. (ps)

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04.Jul.2001
Mike Bouma (ANF)


Photo report about the Benelux Amiga Show 2001
Mike Bouma wrote:
I've bundled some of my pictures from the Benelux Amiga Show. You can view them on my website. I also put down some English words. :-) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Jul.2001
CUCUG


CUCUG: Status Register June 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group dealing with topical and important information regarding the Amiga, Macintosh, and PC, as well as the computer industry. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Jul.2001
Chaos Computer Club


CCC: Greenpeace seizes the intercepting station
The environment and human rights organisation Greenpeace seizes the US intercepting station Menwith Hill (UK) to protest the utilization of this station for Bush's Star-Wars-plans.

Closer information are to find here, here, and here. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Jul.2001
Fun Time World


Compiler: vbcc V0.8
Volker Barthelmann released version 0.8 of his portable ANSI-C compiler 'vbcc'.

This compiler is open source. There are backends for m68k, PPC, i368, DEC Alpha, c16c, and HC12. Program code for AmigaOS, several Unix variants, and Windows can be generated.

The archive released for Amiga computers contains the compiler, preprocessor, assembler, linker, frontend, message browser, startup codes, C libraries, amiga.lib, replacements, as well as several other tools for generating code for AmigaOS/68k, WarpOS, PowerUp, and MorphOS.

Most of the tools (but not all of them) are available as binaries runnable on 68k Amigas or PPC Amigas with WarpOS or PowerUp.

The following has changed since the prior Amiga version:
  • Bugfix: several bugs fixed in compiler, optimizer, tools, and libraries.
  • Changed: enhanced generating of code.
  • Changed: enhanced optimization, incl. inter-procedural-, cross-module-optimization and alias-analysis.
  • New: some c99 features supported:
    • long long
    • flexible array-members as a structure's last element
    • mixing of statements and declarations
    • declarations inside of the for-loop
    • inline function-specifier
    • restrict-qualifier
    • Vararg-Makros.
    • _Pragma
    • increased translation-limits.
    • stdint.h
  • New: Stack check as well as measurement of the stack size required.
  • New: Documentation in PDF- and HTML format.
  • New: New Attributes like '__amigainterrupt' and '__section'.
  • New: New #pragmas for PPC like 'amiga-align', etc.
  • New: Inline-headers for the WarpOS PPC-native-libraries.
  • New: (Backend-specific) pre-defined makros.
  • Changed: Enhanced libraries and headers.
  • Changed: New versions of Frank Wille's assemblers and linkers.
  • New: Use of a built-in preprocessors.
  • New: MorphOS support.
The developer kit runs on AmigaOS 2.0 and above with at least 1 MB RAM. But to compile bigger programs definite more RAM is required.

To compile Amiga programs the AmigaOS includes are required in addition (Developer-CD by Amiga, Geek Gadgets CD, and similar).

Download: vbcc.lha (3,6M), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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04.Jul.2001
VaporWare


Mail- and Newsreader: Microdot II 1.4.15beta
Yesterday, a new beta version 1.4.15beta of the mail- and newsreader 'Microdot II' was released. Many new features were integrated, for example multiple POP3 folders can be created and display of the head-lines of mails is configurable, now. Moreover handling of mailing list was enhanced and the number of bugs reduced. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Jul.2001
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)


Music: Inutilis News about Moonlight
Timo Kloss wrote:
There are two new listening patterns of Moonlight. These are about extracts from the songs "Fallen Angel 2" and "Night", which do NOT originate from test recordings, but from the original CD versions! This music mainly was created on an Amiga.

Since I don't have enough web-space, I only can offer two patterns at once. To enable an overview regardless, the songs will be changed about every second week.

inutilis.de now has got a new start page containing an advertising banner, too. You might be right, if you think that inutilis will be infested with advertising, now, but there will be Moonlight banners on many other pages in return. So please, forgive me!
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Jul.2001
Apple


Apple puts Power Mac G4 Cube on hold
Apple Press information:
Feldkirchen, Germany, 4. July 2001: Apple will put on hold the production of the Power Mac G4 Cube for an indefinitely time. Even though there is little chance to re-introduce this unique computer by an all around renewed model, there are currently not plans to do so.

"Owners of a Cube love this computer, but most of the customers decided in favour of a Power Mac G4 mini-tower, instead", said Phil Schiller, vice president, worldwide product marketing, of Apple.

The Power Mac G4 Cube, only 25% as big as a common PC, represented a completely new class of computers: the power of a super-computer in a 8-inch-cube hanging inside of a glassy casing. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Jul.2001
Heise [Newsticker] / SOL-Invictus (ANF)


Heise: Cell phone manufacturers for 3G game standard
To put developers of games and manufacturers of cell phones into the position to agree to a mutual and open standard for future 3G cell phones, some cell phone manufacturers have started the "Mobil Games Interoperability Forum". Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Siemens will discuss with game developers consolidated.
See Heise's article (German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jul.2001
Amiga Future


Game: New map for Payback
For the game "Payback" from Apex Designs a new and updated map is available in the "Extra Maps" section for download.

The upgrade fo the PPC version is not ready yet because the author wants to release it as bugfree as possible.

In "Payback" you are a young driver on escape and now tries to become a big gangsterboss. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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03.Jul.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


Amiga Future: Interview with Martin Elsner (Update)
A detailed interview with Martin Elsner is published on the interactive section of the Amiga Future homepage. Martin is the author of the program "ClassAction". An english translation of this interview should be available soon.

Update 05.07.2001:
Translation: English (ps) (Translation: gf)

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03.Jul.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


Airsoft Softwair: Online-Ordering by credit card
It is now possible to order my programs with a credit card via RegNet. More information is available on the Airsoft Softwair homepage in the section "order". Especially for all users from overseas this is a real easy method to order for example the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" CD-ROM. RegNet accepts all major credit cards, checks and money orders. Ordering by phone is also possible. Please see the Airsoft Softwair homepage for more details. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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03.Jul.2001
Amiga.org


NEC Corp. uses Boingball
On the website of the NEC Corp. the BoinBall is used as a logo in a shockwave flash (down right) for an announcement of the 'Permeo Technologies'.

If and how this has to do with Amiga, Inc. or if it is a violation of copyright is not known to us, but we will clear up things.

Update: The Boingball is replaced by a logo that is similar to the Windows program "GetRight". (ps) (Translation: gf)

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02.Jul.2001



amiga-news.de via WAP now in english
Starting today, even english speaking users of Amiga News are able to use the wap-service of amiga-news.de. Just point your wap-browser to www.amiga-news.de/en/, you will be redirectet to the wap-version of amiga-news.de. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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02.Jul.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Fullversion of StopMenu
Amiga Arena fullversion
With the permission of Damir Arh Amiga Arena made "StopMenu" available for download. StopMenu is some kind of a start-bar-program with many features.

  • Start programs.
  • Control system for Commodities.
  • Direct access to Prefs-programs (as an substitue for Exchange)
  • Screen-control with Snapshots in IFF-format.
  • Window-control of Workbench-windows.
  • GlowIcon or NewIcon style.
Amiga Arena supplement
Download of "OffColours" fixed. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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02.Jul.2001



Aminet Uploads until 02.07.2001
DOpus416JRbin.lha    biz/dopus  873K+Great filemanager from GP Software
TaskiSMS_GR.lha      comm/tcp    13K+Greek documentation for TaskiSMS v 2.55+
TaskiSMS_TUR.lha     comm/tcp   155K+Turkey translation for TaskiSMS
DFT_BW2-1.lha        demo/slide 824K+Black'n'White 2 / DRIFTERS - 1992 (slide
DFT_BW2-2.lha        demo/slide 806K+Black'n'White 2 / DRIFTERS - 1992 (slide
FD2Pragma.lha        dev/misc   191K+V2.134 create pragma, inline, ... files
uncat.lha            dev/misc     7K+Create .cd file from running program
FlashROM.lha         disk/cdrom  17K+Amiga tool to change the flash ROM of Pl
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/lists 911K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 06/2001 (Itali
Bdynamite.lha        game/data  308K+A significantly improved style/graphics 
BdynamiteMplb.lha    game/data    6K+A Bdynamite graphics module for the Dyna
F1GP_2001.lha        game/data   10K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (1 July)
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  478K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
zangband.lha         game/role  1.2M+Zangband 2.6.1 - Roguelike solo RPG
vcdimager.lha        gfx/conv   311K+VCDImager (WarpUP and 68k Supported)
x3270_3_2_16.lha     gfx/x11    1.1M+For 3270-access to IBM-Mainframes (requi
Medication.lha       hard/misc  108K+V1.01: A powerfull GUI for Mediator owne
Med_Up.lha           hard/misc   48K+Medication update archive for 1.0 users
imdbDiff010622.lha   misc/imdb  1.7M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
ForbiddenColor.lha   mods/chip    1K+Short chip tune named Forbidden Colours
tek_aosXB.lha        pix/boot   2.9M+AmigaOSX - rainboot2-3 config os2-3.X
tek_aosXB_prv.jpg    pix/boot    87K+AmigaosXboot - rainboot config preview
ltools23_demo.lha    text/misc   47K+Multifunctional dictionary progrM
Voodoo-X.lha         util/arc   121K+V1.5, Supports over 80 archive formats (
vht-vg33.lha         util/virus  99K+VirusWarning.Guide v3.3 (VHT-DK)
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02.Jul.2001
DynAMIte


Game: New styles for DynAMIte
A new version (1.5) of the Dynablaster-clone 'DynAMite' is now available.

Download: Styles (ps) (Translation: sk)

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02.Jul.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)


BAS 2001: Summary and some reactions
On the 23.06.2001 the ´Benelux Amiga Show 2001´, called ´BAS 2001´, took place in Rotterdam. Marvin Droogsma now published all reports and pictures dealing with this show and the reactions of Fleecy Moss, Petro Tyschtschenko and Jürgen Haage at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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


Virus Help Denmark: VirusWarning.guide V3.3
Virus Help Denmark updatet theire VirusWarning.guide with the topical warnings and information.

Details:
  • Name: VirusWarning.guide v3.3
  • Archive name: vht-vg33.lha
  • Archive size: 101.174 Bytes
  • Release date: 2. Juli 2001
  • Programmer: Virus Help Denmark
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02.Jul.2001
Alexander Fritsch (ANF)


New PC Emulator: First Beta-Version available
Alexander Fritsch wrote:
The first official beta version of a new pc-emulator is now available for download at the title link. The program emulates an XT with 8086 CPU and textmode. There are a 68000, 68020 and a PPC-version. Two disc drives and a harddisk are currently support as imagefiles.

The emulator was tested with TurboC 2.0, Borland C++ 2.0, Turbo Pascal 5.0, Norton Commander, LHA, ARJ and PKZIP. Topicaly they are working on the graphic support, at least for CGA-modes. I have to mention that this emulator is a complete new program and not just a port of a program existing on another platform. This means that a further development depends on my own motivation and the interest of the users. Please feel free to report bugs and indications. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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02.Jul.2001
no risc no fun (ANF)


nrnf: AmigaClassix3 MEGA Review !
Fabio Trotta wrote:
Due to my stay in a hospital there were not so much news at no risc no fun. Today I published a very huge review of Amiga Classix 3 and I am sure that this is the longest review I have ever wrote.

Furthermore there are two new Workbench-shots and tomorrow we will publish the results of our surveys "New nrnf-layout" and "AmigaDE GUI-Designs". (ps) (Translation: sk)

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02.Jul.2001
amiga-news.de


amiga-news.de on KDE (v2.1.2)
Since the release of KDE 2.1 (a GUI for Linux-X11) there is a new tool called Knewsticker. This program fetches the news of different news-services and display them in the control-bar - have a look at Picture 1.

We thought that this would be a good service for our users - Picture 2. Please use the following links to fetch our news:
  • www.amiga-news.de/de/backends/news/index.rss (German) and

  • www.amiga-news.de/en/backends/news/index.rss (English)


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