• Die Icon-Texte der Schnellruf-Gadgets werden jetzt beim Verschieben korrekt entfernt.
• Bei der Darstelllung der Toolbar-Gadgets auf Grafik-Karten kommt es nicht mehr zu Farbverfälschungen.
• Die GUI-Routinen sind jetzt zu etwa 90% in das externe GUI-Modul ausgelagert worden, um so die Voraussetzung für die Unterstützung anderer GUI-Engines zu schaffen.
• Weitere Änderungen siehe ReadMe

• Neu: MDEC-Filme können nun in Graustufen dekodiert werden, was einen Geschwindigkeitsvorteil ergibt. Aktiviert wird diese Option mit -g.
• Neu: Unterstützung für 24Bit-PSX-Screens. Damit sollten MDECs so wie auf der Originalkonsole aussehen.
• Änderung: Der CD-Code wurde geändert. Es wird nun CMD_READ statt direkt SCSI benutzt. Dies sollte mit allen CD-ROMs funktionieren. Allerdings werden nur Sektoren mit 2048 Bytes unterstützt. Spiele mit anderen Sektorgrößen werden nicht sauber laufen.

• fpse008r5.lha (Binary)
• fpse008r5_src.lha (Sourcecode)

• Brutal: Paws of Fury
• Case of the cautious Condor
• Dennis
• Der Seelenturm
• Diggers (single CD version!)
• Exile
• Football Glory
• Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia
• Guiness Disc of Records: Second Edition
• Humans 3
• Impossible Mission 2025
• Insight Technology
• Jet Strike (single CD version!)
• Legacy of Sorasil
• Lost in Mine
• Mitre Soccer Superstars
• Pinky
• Sabre Team
• Speris Legacy
• Star Crusader
• Super Loopz
• The Clue
• Thomas the Tank Engine Pinball
• Tower of Souls
• Trivial Pursuit
• Turrican
• Turrican 2
• Wembley International Soccer
• Whale's Voyage

• dnetc464-amigaos-68k.lha
• dnetc464-amigaos-ppc-wos.lha
• dnetc464-amigaos-ppc-pup.lha

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Date: 25-oct-00 14:15:42
From: Michael Czajka MC-1@bigfoot.com

Subject: [ACE_2000] ACE 2000 Official show report

Hi,

ACE was enjoyed by almost everyone and most people want to see it run again
next year.

Many vendors transacted not only business but networked and set up strategic
alliances with each other and the user groups. User groups worked
brilliantly together. Sponsorship, demo's and lots of other things are going
to occur as a result of this show. I know a few of the attendees spent until
the wee hours locked in a room discussing how to leverage strategic software
and hardware innovations.

The show was very much about software innovation although although a lot of
innovative hardware also took centre stage (RiscStation & VR21 spring to
mind).

AUSOM took out the most professional stand hands down. They also had the
biggest stand having an entire room to themselves. People loved the kind of
one-to-one they got with the most powerful of mac's.

CAUS took out the most innovative amongst the Amiga groups. It was a shame
we couldn't get their web cam on-line.

Bill McEwan took out most attendees at any seminars, followed closely by Ka
Ping Yee.

Most creative seminar goes to Tony Paterson who spoke about video editing on
the Draco and gave some excellent examples.

Most active stand for the user groups probably goes to LUV who were so busy
they had to get in another table although AUG spent a lot of its time pretty
busy.

Most active stand for the dealers probably goes for Symmetry Innovations
(QNX) who did seminars, demo's and had 4 people on the stand who often
couldn't keep up with the interest.

Most friendly stand goes to Ebay who spent the entire show showing us how to
use the net to trade better. I think the user groups showed them a thing or
two as well.

Most active Amiga stand goes to Vince Morton from Computer Magic. He had the
most up-to-date hardware and software and some absolute bargains! A $1000
SCSI scanner for $400! Wow!

Best graphical hardware was the VR21 3D glasses. I don't know how many they
sold but I do know that at least a couple of people went home interested in
developing for them.

Most bulletproof software was the RiscStation Point of Sale solution.
There's nothing more robust than an OS that goes on a ROM. 4Mb only!

Most eyecatching machine was the Amigatech A4000 Towerminator a plastic and
chrome monolith with a set of innovative thin film light emitting panels
that make it stand out even better in the dark. Unfortunately it's
temporarily out of production.

Best software utility must go to Greg Perry for his invaluable DirOpus. It's
a shame that he didn't do any seminars at this show.

The penultimate exhibitor award has to go to APANA who arranged to attend
and confirmed at something like 2am Friday morning.

Most embarrassing moment at the show: Has got to be when Amiga users Steven
Howard and I think it was Steve from CAUS didn't recognise the CEO of Amiga
Bill McEwen. Shame guys shame!

I'd also like to take the opportunity to thank all volunteers who helped
make the show a success. It was very much a user group effort.

In particular I'd like to thank Steven Howard who manned the door in a
competent fashion so that I really didn't worry about that aspect of it.

Tim who simplified my life with the food van (that was a Latrobe effort:
well done guys).

Guy Nathan (Cyberwolf) who pitched in just about everywhere as required.

Peter Margerison who helped print up all those nice badges, put signs on all
the tables so you'd know where to go and then helped as required.

Ewen Bell who did a fantastic job on our web site. Seona too for the help
she gave us in its genesis.

Dianne and Keith who manned/womanned the AUG/MAUG food stall.

Merv Stent who helped control the door at the dinner.

Erik and Janne who did an excellent job looking after the seminar room.

Jeff Dunn and all those other people (Latrobe) who hung around late on
Sunday and took home whatever garbage was left over from the show.

If I've forgotten anyone I apologise. If anyone didn't get contacted we're
sorry. I think we did work the volunteer list fairly hard. However often it
was a case of turning up and asking what to do.

All those others who just pitched in and did things when either I or Greg
asked... thanks! If either of us were not polite we apologise.

I tried to say hi to as many of you as I could at  the show but, I'm
disappointed that I couldn't touch base with more people. I'd have liked
that. Maybe next time? Or perhaps you'll catch me at one of the user group
meetings? Either way it was great to meet you all.

An examination of core costs established that the event did turn a profit.
Therefore such an event is financially viable. Unfortunately overall the
event made a loss. Despite this the organisers feel that ACE was well worth
holding. We had a great time, met great people and learned a great deal.

We think that the effects of the show may be far reaching. We know that many
people went away with each others numbers and are collaborating on "stuff".
It was a definitely a user based show (but what powerful users!) and had the
zing that most of our larger exhibitions seem to lack.

If I haven't mentioned something I ought to please e-mail me and I can do an
update.

We thank you for your participation and hope that you'll be back for more
next year.

:-)
Michael Czajka
ACE 2000

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FAQs-english.lha     biz/haage   55K+FAQs, english version, 27 Sep 2000
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AKTaskiSMS.lha       comm/tcp     9K+V1.3, YAM2-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 +
Clarissa_HTTPd.lha   comm/tcp   114K+AREXX HTTP-Server (german) v1.0
SMSEngineerMUI.lha   comm/tcp   244K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.7
T-Rexx.lha           comm/tcp   106K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
cache2file.lha       comm/www     4K+Makes a directorytree from AWEBCACHES!
SPO3-Invtro.lha      demo/aga   101K+Invitation intro for SPO3! (Amiga-only d
UP-EP003.lha         demo/sound 1.9M+UP ROUGH "Aggression Session EP" feat. S
Emperor.lha          dev/c      358K+Object-oriented programming language
wla_dx_020_6.9.lzh   dev/cross  300K+WLA DX v6.9 - GB-Z80/Z80/6502/6510/65816
perl-5.6.0-bin.lha   dev/gg     6.2M+Perl 5.6.0 for amiga with ixemul.library
fat95.lha            disk/misc   51K+Win95/98 compatible file system
Starmag24_HT.lha     docs/mags  402K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
ALEM_0023.lha        docs/rview 351K+ALEM's Elbox Keyboard Interface Doc (FR)
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (final u
NewNapalmBoot.lha    game/patch   1K+For those of you with problems running N
DA3Demo.lha          misc/sci   2.5M+Demo of Digital Almanac III
ChupaChip.lha        mods/chip    5K+Excellent CHIP modul by Night Knight
MP3Info.lha          mus/misc    19K+Writes the Title, Author, etc into MP3s.
wavetompg.lha        mus/misc     3K+Repairs mp3/mp2 header from broken files
FWCalendar.lha       util/rexx  422K+THE calendar creator for FW & Pagestream
NewSearch.lha        util/sys     7K+Open-source replacement for "C:Search".
VEPatchBrain.lha     util/virus  18K+PatchBrain v1.20 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
yStart.lha           util/wb     18K+Start menu for standard WB icons (v1.1)

• Das Erreichen absolut professioneller Ergebnisse mit einem Raytracing-Paket eigener Wahl.
• Zugriff auf leistungsfähige Hardware. (HighEnd-Amiga, PC oder PowerMac)
• Ausreichende Englischkenntnisse für die Zusammenarbeit innerhalb eines internationalen Teams.

• 6 x PCI slots (on 2 buses) + 1 x AGP slot
• 2 x SO-DIMM sockets for up to 512 MB memory
• 1 x cpu slot to take a Macintosh-type G3/G4 cpu module
• 1 x custom PCI card with USB1.0 (for Amiga DE mouse/keyboard/printer/scanner/floppy disk/Zip etc), UDMA/IDE/ATAPI & 10/100 MBPS ethernet controllers
• A1200/A4000 interface logic, ATX PSU connector and tower system mounting hardware.
• In addition, to run the full, native Amiga DE you will need to add: Next Generation Matrox graphics card
• Creative EMU10K1 based PCI audio card
• 10 GB+ HD
• CD/DVDROM
• 56k modem
• IEEE 1394/Firewire (for video capture/editing)

• CPU: M68020 + MMU M68851, wahlweise mit FPU M68881/2, oder
• CPU: M68030, wahlweise mit FPU M68881/2, oder
• CPU: M68040 oder M68060
• RAM: 8 MB Fastmem (A3000/A4000: nicht Zorro II)
• Eine M68LC040- oder M68040V- CPU funktioniert möglicherweise auch, dies wurde aber noch nicht getestet.
• M68000, M68010, M68EC030-CPUs reichen nicht aus.
• Weitere Systemanforderungen (Plattencontroller, etc.) werden in den INSTALL-Dokumenten am angegebenen Ort beschrieben.

• Preparse-String-Pointer auf MUIP_NListtree_DisplayMessage.
• Drop-Types sind nun öffentlich zugänglich. Es werden dieselben Werte wie bei den NList-Drop-Types verwendet.
• Wenn die Return-Taste gedrückt wird, wird nun MUIA_NListtree_Doubleclick gesetzt.
• NULL-Pointer werden durch den Text "*** NULL POINTER ***" ersetzt.
• Der Multi-Test-Hook wird nun bei der Mehrauswahl in allen Fällen aufgerufen.
• Bugfix: Ein Fehler lieferte bei NextSelected Müll zurück.
• Neu: MUIM_NListtree_PrevSelected.
• Neu: MUIV_NListtree_FindName_Flag_Selected - findet nur selektierte Einträge in MUIM_NListtree_FindName.
• Bugfix bei DoubleClick: DoubleClick auf andere Werte als All zu setzen, hat keinen Effekt.
• Neuer Doubleclick-Wert: MUIV_NListtree_DoubleClick_NoTrigger. Dies bedeutet, dass der Doppelklick auf einen Eintrag ausgeschaltet ist - dies gilt auch für den Trigger(Attribut und Methode).

Videomanage.lha      biz/dbase  1.7M+A Videodatabase
LPx.lha              comm/net     3K+Print scripts for Samba, v1.0
MP-TelekomSI.lha     comm/tcp     2K+Settings for MiamiPhone v1.5
wpz-fun.lha          demo/aga     6K+4kb intro by Whelpz released on Astrosyn
wpz-info02.lha       demo/aga   100K+Whelpz info issue #o2 (january 1999)
MWI-Overview03.lha   demo/slide 2.1M+OVERVIEW #03 by MAWI. party slideshow an
fda-upd.lha          disk/cache  70K+Fixed:OS35 checksums ViNCEd faster compa
fda.lha              disk/cache 352K+Linux' buffer-cache v3.0
dblocate.lha         disk/misc   21K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
AnnuaireAmiga6.txt   docs/anno    4K+Announce for the new http://www.annuaire
WarpGIF-DT.txt       docs/anno    2K+Datatype for GIF-Images with WarpOS (40.
VWorksPricelis.lha   docs/hyper  23K+Virtual Works pricelist 
3DWorldArc0600.lha   docs/misc  104K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 06/00
3DWorldArc0700.lha   docs/misc   48K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 07/00
3DWorldArc0800.lha   docs/misc   36K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 08/00
3DWorldArc0900.lha   docs/misc   10K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 09/00
3DWorldArc1000.lha   docs/misc   20K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 10/00
FatePL.lha           game/role   14K+FatePL - Ultimate Dice Simulator for RPG
nam.lha              game/text  126K+Czech text adventure game
BStones.lha          game/think 183K+BubbleStones 1.4, Bust a Move like
WBsteroids.lha       game/wb    174K+Asteroids-clone in scaleable wb-window
akMPEG4.lha          gfx/show   196K+MPEG player (CGfx/P96/AGA) V4.50 (68k/PP
ASpEmu.lha           misc/emu   127K+V0.76 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha     misc/emu    65K+V0.76 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
stlist.lha           misc/emu    24K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
imdbDiff001013.lha   misc/imdb  2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
JochenHippelST.lha   mods/chip  197K+Atari ST Mods by famous musicians
ThunderBlade.lha     mods/misc  253K+Custom modules from "Thunder Blade"
rno-r049.mpg         mods/mpg   1.9M+Rno-records release no.49 by Tarmslyng/l
atdt.lha             mods/pro   291K+'ATDT' - a protracked MOD by  &.
g-nainenjatotu.lha   mods/pro   404K+'G-nainen ja Totuus' - a protracked MOD 
jehovantodista.lha   mods/pro   253K+'Jehovan Todistaja' - a protracked MOD b
mechno.lha           mods/pro   377K+'Mechno' - a protracked MOD by  &.
suurivalkoinen.lha   mods/pro   251K+'Suuri Valkoinen' - a protracked MOD by 
twinblade.lha        mods/pro   811K+'Twin Blade' - a protracked MOD by  &.
worthless.lha        mods/pro   265K+'Worthless' - a protracked MOD by  &.
EP_PaulSummers.lha   mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "Paul Summers" external repl
plone.lha            mus/play   450K+V1.6 - PlayList AddOn for PlayGui
AladdinBoot.lha      pix/boot   510K+Aladdin Bootup for Rainboot3
BaaackBoot.lha       pix/boot   455K+Baaack Bootup for Rainboot3
BeatboxBoot.lha      pix/boot   227K+Beatbox Bootup for Rainboot3
LionKingBoot.lha     pix/boot   142K+LionKing Bootup for Rainboot3
WSucksBoot.lha       pix/boot   865K+WindowsSucks Bootup for Rainboot3
fomsw22.jpg          pix/henz     9K+C-3PO and R2-D2 (Star Wars)
Rio91.jpg            pix/views   90K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD 
Rio96.jpg            pix/views  107K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD 
Rio98.jpg            pix/views  156K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD 
guidecheck.lha       text/edit   60K+V1.21 AmigaGuide syntax checker (and mor
ascii2jascii.lha     text/misc   35K+ASCII to Japanese ASCII (68k/ppc/wos)
r.lha                util/cli    49K+V1.56 Just in time GUIs for every DOS Co
delfina4.16bet.lha   util/libs   21K+Delfina.library version 4.16 (beta)
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   98K+V1.26 - Test and identify wb-program
XPKPatch18.lha       util/pack   22K+Unpacks XPK, PP & CrM files "on the fly"
Scion2html.lha       util/rexx   33K+WWW browser HTML's from Scion Genealogy 

• BugFix: Das Zeichen-frei-Feld funktioniert nun
• BugFix: Das Zeichen-frei-Feld funktioniert mit der gateway.dat-Datei zusammen
• Änderungen des Zeichen-frei-Feldes zu "NochFrei/Möglich"
• Neues Listview für das kommende Adressbuch
• Einige interne Erneuerungen
• Neues Tooltype für die Position der Signatur
• Signaturefelder werden nun nicht mehr angezeigt, wenn SignPos=NOSIGN gesetzt wurde

• ppclibemu.lzx V0.8c(Update - nur Libraries)
• util/libs/ppclibemu.lha V0.7(12.12.1999) (aktuelle Aminet-Veröffentlichung)

• Bars&Pipes 2.5 (deutsche Online-Anleitung, die auch downloadbar ist - alternativ als AMIGA-Guide)
• DB-50XG (mein Hardware-Hack, online und downloadbar)
• TriplePlay3.1 (dasselbe)
  
  noch geplant bzw. in Arbeit:
  
  
• SuperJAM! 1.1 (z.Zt. nur Programm und Styles downloadbar)
• Rules for Tools (Toolsprogrammierung für Bars&Pipes - z.Zt. nur als Downlod)
• Inovatools1 (Intuition-Erweiterung - in Bars&Pipes, SuperJAM! und The PachtMeister verwendet, z.Zt. nur als Download)
• Eigene Musik mit Bars&Pipes - SuperJAM! - DB-50XG
• und mehr

• PlayGUI zeigt nun Playtime an
• Playtime kann ein- und ausgeschaltet werden
• Bugfix (wenn kein mod im Speicher war gab es Probleme)

• Ein Amiga DE-freundlicher Host-Processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
• 64MB+ RAM
• Matrox-Grafikkarte der nächsten Generation
• Creative EMU10K1-basierte Soundkarte
• 10 GB+ Festplatte
• CD/DVD
• USB 1.0
• Firewire
• 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
• 56k-Modem
• Zusätzliche PCI-Slots für Erweiterbarkeit

MCC_Guigfx.lha       dev/mui    172K+Guigfx MUI custom class V19.2
BackUp.lha           disk/bakup  31K+A simple backup tool.. v1.2
dblocate.lha         disk/misc   20K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
ges3b.lzh            game/hint  7.9M+Packet of solutions, cheats cards to gam
WHDShdWarriors.lha   game/patch  23K+HD Installer for Shadow Warriors V1.1
Detris.lha           game/wb     45K+Tetris for WB by Deniil 715!
MPEG_S_LAMEppc.lha   mus/misc   232K+MPEG_S_LAME the MP3 Encoder for SoundFX 
TheMPegEncGUI.lha    mus/misc    81K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
DeliDecrunch.lha     mus/play     9K+XFD/XAD DeliTracker Decruncher v2.1
MRQ.lha              util/cdity 151K+The MUI requester improver, now OpenSour
Cmp.lha              util/cli     4K+Nice and tiny binary file compare tool
HexShow.lha          util/cli     5K+Shows files as Hex
SED.lha              util/cli    13K+Amiga stream editor
MultiRen.lha         util/misc  173K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with 
DRemind.lha          util/time  216K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.56!
CLICon.lha           util/wb    161K+A versatile replacement for IconX

• Neu: PlayerControl
• Neu: DeliTracker Support
• Fix: Speichern funktioniert jetzt wieder richtig
• Change: Kleine Änderung am PlayList Format vorgenommen
• Neu: Support für die neuen PlayGUI Funktionen (Midi/MPeg)
• Neu: Skin.txt-Support
• Neu: Interner (sample/midi) und mp3 suffix filecheck
• Neu: mp3 TAG Support (bisher jedoch ohne Genre)
• Neu: Play16 Support + Prefs
• Neu: MPegA Support + Prefs
• Neu: GMPlay (midi) Support + Prefs
• Fix: Add Directory Funktion gefixt
• Neu: Es gibt die Grafiken lv_pic und op_pic als Defaultbilder. Das heißt, dass ein Skin nun auch nur aus dem Hauptbild bestehen kann.
• Neu: Startet Hip/DeliTracker wenn nötig selbst
• Neu: (Noch) einfache ASCII Export Funktion
• Neu: Samples können nun auch einen Kommentar bekommen
• Neu: Es können jetzt Trennlinien eingefügt werden
• Neues Installerskript
• Neuer Skin

• Butterfly 1.1 ist ein graphisches Frontend für das MprphOS-Startprogramm. Das Programm kann von überall gestartet werden, jedoch nimmt die Standard-Prefsdatei an, das Butterfly im User-Verzeichnis liegt. Neu hinzugekommmen ist ein ResetLevel-Schieberegler, da in manchen Konfigurationen die Standard ResetLevel-Einstellung nicht funktionierte. Lesen Sie bitte die Startup.doc Datei für mehr Details. Das Archiv erhalten Sie hier:Butterfly1.1.lha (38K).
• Ghostscript 5.10 wurde für MorphOS/PPC portiert. Die Installation benötigt den 68k-Modus sowie die IXEmul-Archive. Die Datei steht unter folgendem Link zum Download bereit: gs510.lha (690K).
• Sound eXchange 12.17 wurde nach MorphOS portiert. Das Programm konvertiert zwischen 20 verschiedenen Sound-Formaten. Das Archiv zum Download finden Sie hier: sox 12.17 morphos.lha (104K).

• bgui.lha (352K)
• bgui_dev.lha (285K)

• Bugfix: Enforcer-Hit/Crash im ttfmanager.

• util/libs/ttflib68000.lha, Readme
• ttfsrc.htm

Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:16:48 +0200
From: ELBOX press@elbox.com
To:   amiga-news.de ps@amiga-news.de
Subject: INSIDER REPORT

INSIDER REPORT 
ELBOX COMPUTER
http://www.elbox.com
Krakow, 17 Oct 2000

In brief

In July 2000, ELBOX Computer and Frank Mariak (VFD) negotiated and 
agreed upon writing drivers for MEDIATOR PCI busboard.

Frank Mariak agreed to write the software with hardware and technical 
documentation provided to him by ELBOX Computer as requested by him. 
He had never asked for cash reimbursement and never asked for making 
cash-based contract.

Frank Mariak was to write drivers dedicated for ELBOX hardware, 
to the order of ELBOX, based on an agreement between ELBOX 
and himself. 

Frank Mariak's long-term benefit was spreading and popularising 
his commercial product: CGX4.

Ultimately, Frank Mariak sold rights to these drivers in exclusive 
form to a third party, who are not affiliated with ELBOX Computer 
in any way. This transaction, with the following use of confidential 
ELBOX documentation within third-party agreements is clear-cut 
breach of commercial law in any country in the world.

This step was thought to block developing highly-demanded software 
for Amiga computers. 

ELBOX Computer decided to clear this situation up in the following 
report. 

The last part of the report announces software solutions to make 
good the damage caused by Frank Mariak's decisions.


On Saturday, 14 Oct 2000

community of Amiga users were informed that an agreement was signed 
by virtue of which Mr. Frank Mariak (Vision Factory Development) 
transferred exclusive rights to Voodoo PCI drivers written by 
himself to a third party.

We, ELBOX Computer, feel obliged to make the entire situation clear 
to Amiga users world-wide, as the circumstances around this event 
are twisted again and again and give false image of the situation 
to public opinion.

Please find the below report as the clarification of what has been 
transpiring in the recent weeks behind the scenes. 


Background

On 24 July 2000, Elbox Computer and Vision Factory Development 
jointly released an announcement on concluding an agreement, 
by virtue of which VFD undertook to develop support for PCI graphic 
cards installed in the MEDIATOR PCI busboard. 
(See http://www.vgr.com/mediator/pressrelease1.txt )

Before this agreement was concluded, both parties negotiated 
and finally decided on some specific terms and conditions of 
co-operation as follows:

  The key point of the agreement was that support for PCI graphic 
  cards in CGX3 was to be devoid of hardware acceleration, which 
  was to be fully developed in the CGX4 commercial version.

The parties decided to make the following commitments:

1. ELBOX Computer shall make the developer's documentation for 
   the MEDIATOR PCI busboard available in order to complete the 
   agreed work.

      The developer's documentation was transferred to 
      Mr. Frank Mariak on 14 July 2000.

2. ELBOX Computer will provide Vision Factor Development with 
   computer hardware for preparing drivers for PCI graphic cards 
   installed in the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, which Mr. Mariak 
   needed at that time.

      ELBOX Computer sent the hardware: Amiga 1200 in E/BOX tower 
      with the developer's MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, 1240 turbo 
      card, FastATA 1200 controller, a hard disk and other necessary 
      add-ons as well as S3 ViRGE and Voodoo3 PCI cards to 
      Mr. Frank Mariak on 07 Aug 2000. Another computer hardware 
      set was delivered to VFD team last week.

3. Vision Factory Development shall develop support for graphic 
   cards operating in the MEDIATOR PCI busboard. Support for 
   S3 ViRGE and Voodoo3 chipsets was agreed upon as the minimum.

      S3 Virge:
      ELBOX Computer received a test version of an S3 ViRGE card 
      driver (enabling starting Workbench in the S3 ViRGE PCI card) 
      from Vision Factory Development on 18 July 2000; 
      S3 ViRGE drivers are currently available.

      Voodoo3: 
      ELBOX Computer received a test version of Voodoo3 drivers 
      for MEDIATOR PCI for presentation purposes (allowing for 
      operation with Workbench) on 29 Sep 2000.

4. ELBOX Computer, after starting the production of the MEDIATOR PCI 
   busboard shall deliver a bundled free package of CyberGraphX v.3 
   along with drivers for all the currently supported PCI graphic 
   cards.

      ELBOX Computer is now selling the MEDIATOR PCI busboard 
      through the network of its distributors world-wide. 
      CGX3 is bundled with MEDIATOR PCI. This is an excellent 
      advertising move for the commercial CGX4.


Before the agreement

ELBOX offered Mr. Frank Mariak that our programmers would prepare 
drivers for various graphic chipsets, including Voodoo3 PCI, for 
working with CyberGraphX. Such drivers would then be transferred in 
the form of source codes written in assembler for Mr. Frank Mariak's 
authorisation and distribution. We expected only making available 
some developer's information related to CGX in return. 

   However, Mr. Mariak decided he would himself write the drivers 
   if we supported him with hardware and documentation. Which we did.


False information

in the announcement on selling rights to Voodoo drivers included 
alleged expected technical problems related to implementation 
of 3D drivers with our MEDIATOR PCI busboard. 

   Please note that none such problems exist. On our request, 
   Mr. Mariak was to report to us any possible problems related 
   to his development work… and he remained silent all the time.


Using Developer's Documentation 

for MEDIATOR PCI and computer hardware (including Voodoo3 PCI card) 
provided free of charge by ELBOX Computer as requested by Mr. Frank 
Mariak for writing Voodoo3 drivers, as it turned out, for another 
company is the clearest form of breaching rules of social life 
and business honesty and integrity.


New business vision

On 13 Oct 2000, Mr. Frank Mariak signed an agreement on selling 
the Voodoo3 drivers for benefit of another company. In contacts 
with our company, Mr. Frank Mariak never mentioned any intention 
of this kind on his part, never suggested such a possibility 
and never asked for or negotiated any payment for his software 
writing work. He never contacted us in this issue. 

Then, out of the blue, he surprised us and all Amiga users with 
making a "simple BUSINESS DECISION" (original quotation from 
Mr. Mariak's response to our inquiry for explanation of the 
VFD & DCE's announcement) on making an alliance with a third 
party for selling the above rights. 


We hope this explanation clarifies the situation. 

Please make sure that we refrain from any comments of ethical 
or whatever nature. The above are simple facts to make you all 
aware of the plot behind the scenes.


ELBOX MOVES FORWARD

In the view of the circumstances described above, ELBOX Computer 
hereby announces that our programmers shall prepare software 
for supporting Voodoo3 cards in the MEDIATOR PCI busboards. 
These drivers will be included in the software package for the 
MEDIATOR PCI busboard. We expect completing work on the first 
version of this software within two weeks.


ELBOX Computer
Mariusz Wloczysiak, Press Department 

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• Optimierungen und damit ein entsprechender Geschwindigkeitsgewinn.
• Präziseres Timing.
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SMSEngineerMUI.lha   comm/tcp   216K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.6 - *
simplehtml.lha       comm/www    32K+V0.12 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
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Python16.lha         dev/lang   1.5M+Python language 1.6 (bin+lib)
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  Eine intelligente Cleanup-Funktion wurde hinzugefügt, um überholte Dateien automatisch zu aktualisieren sowie eine Statusanzeige für aktuell laufende Operationen.
• Detris Version 3.0
  Dieses Spiel wurde von grundauf neu geschrieben und bietet einen guten Tetris-Klone mit potentiellem Suchtfaktor. Ein Geheimtipp von OnxySoft.
• DRemind Version 1.56
  Der Programm-Installer ist nun Dank Alexander Döller erhältlich. Repariert wurden einige Programmfehler in den einzelnen Einstellungen.
• MultiRen Version 1.42
  Es ist jetzt durch eine gesetzte Markierung im Setup möglich, #?.info- Dateien automatisch umzubenennen.
• TheMPegEncGUI Version 2.05
  Hinzugefügte Optionen für Pegase und Lame. Die Requester öffnen sich jetzt parallel zum TMPEGUI geöffneten Fenster auf dem Bildschirm.

• Änderung: Leichte Änderung der GUI.
• Neu: Tooltype zur Einstellung der Default Signatur.
• Bugfix: Die Signatur wird nun verschickt.

• Die Anmoderation (300 KB)
• 1. Teil der Sendung (1.7 MB)
• 2. Teil der Sendung (1.4 MB)

• Internes Problem beim Erstellen der Verzeichnise beseitigt.
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• Deutsche Quit Knöpfe übersetzt.

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• Die Toolbar benutzt nun die Info-Dateien der Add-ons. Wenn eines oder mehrere Add-ons nicht in C: installiert sind erscheint auch kein Icon in der Toolbar.

• I think I isolated the problems with the Password being saved improperly, Capitalization and Spacing in ScreenName used for signon should no longer matter - I found that an Earlier built in data conversion was attempting a conversion anyway if spaces were used in the ScreenName in the Signon. I call the problem, the "amazingly growing password"
• I also now restrict the length of the ScreenName and PassWord entry blocks to a maximum of 16 characters (Longest AIM will allow anyway. Not sure why I hadn't done this already)

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