• The major changes concern a new set of options activated with right mouse button.
• fixed bug in the procedure of hiding mouse pointer
• fixed bugs in ADD and DEL functions
• added PPM P6 and JPEG savers
• displayed TV images can be used as Workbench background
• selection of favourite channels
• minimizing the main window can be obtain from the GUI level
• minor change in the method of saving configuration files

• Added subtitle support (.srt and .sub files) with automatic subtitle loading
• Added subtitle command line options and tooltypes (font name/size, position, colour) and a new subtitle menu to allow loading/closing of subtitles
• Added animated dithering algorithm to 16-bit modes to improve quality (apparent colour depth) and added NODITHER tooltype and command line option
• Volume slider could be updated by audioboost in fullscreen mode where it does not get put into the window leading to a crash
• Added possibility to use system fonts in DvPlayer Skins; updated the skin documentation to include information about this new feature
• Fixed a memory leak bug in the avi code
• AudioBoost now doubles the volume too, instead of just extending the volume range
• Fixed a bug causing wrong window size when skin was changed while a movie was stopped

• Titel: Fkrent Story
• Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
• Stil: Tribal
• Spiellänge: 7:50
• Format: mp3 (160 kbps)

• added Auto Update feature, if enabled checks for new updates every x minutes
• added Groups, it's now possible to organize Channels into groups
• when removing a Channel, now deletes all related files and directory
• added iso-8859-2 encoding support
• the config file is saved in XML format
• improved html entities parsing and stripping
• improved GUI handling
• bugs fixing

• Die Sitemap kann für Google-Sitemap im XML-Format auf Wunsch mit Dateidatum und Wiederbesuchszeitangabe (stündlich bis jährlich oder nie) nach Verzeichis oder Einzeldatei erstellt werden
• Bei der Sitemap werden automatisch HTML- und TXT-Dateien zum Eintragen herausgefiltert
• Die Probleme mit dem Start-Requester zur Verzeichniswahl unter WinUAE wurden behoben
• War die Zeilenlänge einer HTML-Datei bei der Index-HTML-Generierung größer als 10240 Bytes/Zeichen, dann konnte es zu Abstürzen kommen; der Puffer wurde auf 1 MB angehoben (manche HTML-Generatoren generieren HTML-Code ohne Zeilenumbrüche, d.h. die HTML-Datei besteht aus einer Zeile mit bis zu 20.000 und mehr Zeichen)

• Fixed a bug which caused crashes when trying to step between images at the same time as when the info line or mouse was blanked
• Selecting only a directory in the file requester didn't work
• Fixed problem with buffered events, which made the image zoom/rotation slower and less responsive

• den internen Gameport des AmigaOne (µA1) - nur MIDI-OUT
• Creative Soundblaster Live!-Serie (mit Emu10kx-Soundchip)
• Creative Audigy 1 & 2
• Terratec Phase28 und ESI Juli@ (Envy24ht-Soundchip)
• alle USB-MIDI-Geräte, die dem USB-MIDI-Standard entsprechen, über einen universellen CAMD-USB-MIDI-Treiber

• Incoming file transfers with spaces in the filename is accepted now
• Pause while selecting text fixed
• Tab switching works properly under OS3 now
• Outgoing /notice and /msg appear in the currently viewed tab again
• Split up the Incoming and Outgoing DCC File Transfers Window into two separate windows, to take up less space when not needed.
• No longer creates empty logs (0 bytes) when logging is disabled
• If you start a line with "//" it sends that text normally. It wont try to use it as a command anymore.
• /join no longer requires a '#' preceeding the channel name
• Added basic command alias support. e.g. /j can replace /join
• Added a /say command to speak in the current tab. Could be useful in conjunction with an alias
• Tabs now have a black square in them to show theres been no activity, and have been made more compact
• Tabs sit in a virtual group now, so that the window isnt forced to be as large as the amount of tabs you have open

• Die AROS-Live-CD lädt die PowerPC-Version des gleichnamigen Betriebssystems, einer quelloffenen Reimplementation des AmigaOS 3.1
• Die Freevo-Live-CD lädt ein Heimkino-System auf Ihrem Pegasos
• Das Mac-On-Linux-Archiv stellt ein bootbares Mac-On-Linux-System zur Verfügung, das Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), CD/DVD-RW-RO, USB und AC97 unterstützt

• Neue Klassen:
  • Einfache MIDI-Keyboard-Unterstützung für Tracker-Programme
  • EGalax-Touchscreen-Treiber
  • Treiber für Synchronisation mit Palm-PDAs
  • Bluetooth-Interface-Treiber (ein Bluetooth-Stack liegt allerdings nicht bei)
  • IrDA-Treiber (auch hier liegt kein Stack bei)
• Erweiterungen bestehender Klassen:
  • Die HID-Klasse bietet jetzt die Möglichkeit, ein automatisch generiertes Bedienfenster zu öffnen, mit dem HID-Geräte mit Ausgabefeatures gesteuert werden können
  • Die HID-Klasse unterstützt nun Wacom-Tabletts, indem sie die proprietären Daten in HID-konforme Items umwandelt, die mit der üblichen Flexibilität gehandhabt werden können
  • Die HID-Klasse wurde um einen proprietären Startup-Code für AipTek-Tabletts ergänzt
  • HID enthält jetzt eine Erweiterung der lowlevel.library, die analoge Joysticks direkt unterstützt (bzgl. Spec einfach anfragen)
  • Die HID-Klasse kann jetzt auch zu Bootzeiten verwendet werden; Bootmouse und Bootkeyboard sind damit hinfällig
  • Die Massstorage-Klasse wurde überarbeitet und bietet bessere Fallback-Modi, bessere Partitionserkennung und Automounting; optional können Partitionen nun auch automatisch nach Abstecken des Geräts entfernt werden
  • Die Printer-, SerialPL2303- und CDCACM-Klassen wurden überarbeitet und verwenden jetzt die Poseidon Stream Extension (TM) mit höherer Performance und Stabilität
• Trident wurde massiv überarbeitet:
  • Grafisch aufgemotzt mit schönen Ampelsymbolen für den Zustand
  • Geräte können jetzt vom User umbenannt werden
  • Stromverbrauch wird angezeigt, Powermanagement
  • Konfigurationsmanagement, um Einstellungen zu löschen, kopieren, exportieren oder importieren
  • Online-Support: Registrierung, Bugreporting und Updates direkt über Trident
• PoPo: Einstellbare (also mittelbar nervige) Informationsfenster mit konfigurierbarer Soundausgabe beim Einstecken und Entfernen von USB-Geräten sowie bei Fehlerwarnungen; Konfiguration und Aktionen direkt aus diesen Fenstern heraus möglich (ohne Trident starten zu müssen)
• Konfigurationsänderungen werden jetzt automatisch erkannt und auch in Echtzeit an die Treiber (und bestehende Bindungen) berichtet
• Power Management, Erkennung für tote Geräte, Low Power-Warnungen
• Liste der Hersteller aktualisiert
• Massive interne Änderungen im Enumerationsprozess, Vermeidung von potentiellen Deadlocks
• Viele Fehlerbereinigungen und Optimierungen

• ReAction
• UTF-8
• Tab chars
• a lot of new config options
• new and fixed hotkeys

• Fixed reading of some files which could have crashes 8SVXtoXXX
• Added CLI support

• BackUp no longer creates empty directories for dirs in the skiplist
• Better CLI support
• Fixed a possible crash when pausing a backup process

• Added p96_vmem and cgx_vmem_scale video modes
• Added the new SIL devices to VCD/DVD choosers

• Added buttons for copy and paste
• Fixes a few bugs

• 15.12.05 new: Indigo (Psygnosis/Stephane BELIN) done by CFOU! (Info,Image)
• 14.12.05 fixed: Flink CD³² (Psygnosis) blue button with joypad is working now (Info)
• 14.12.05 improved: Dragon's Lair: Escape from Singe's Castle (Visionary Design) can be installed together with base game (Info)
• 12.12.05 improved: Quest For Glory 2 - Trial By Fire (Sierra) supports another version (Info,Image)
• 12.12.05 updated: Yolanda (Vectordean) imager improved (Info)
• 12.12.05 improved: Red Baron (Dynamix) supports another version, swaps fixed (Info,Image)
• 12.12.05 new: Eskadra (LK Avalon/SUN Production) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 05.12.05 new: Yolanda (Vectordean) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 04.12.05 new: Renegades (Infernal Byte Systems) done by Necronomfive (Info)
• 04.12.05 new: OsWALD Of The Ice Floes (Centaur) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 03.12.05 new: Hyperion (Black Lengend/Offence software) done by CFOU! (Info)

• Better recognition of WAV files
• Decoding engines recompiled from a common codebase

• ADDED: excellent DirOpus4 configuration created for AmiKit by Pavel Pok
• ADDED: GMPlay 1.3 + GMPlayMUI 1.2 + gmtones + MidiFiles
• ADDED: XPK packing options to DirOpus5 User Menu
• UPDATED: FlashPlayer 1.2
• UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.17
• UPDATED: MMKeyboard enabled by default. Adjust your PC keyboard to your needs by AmiKit:Utilities/EXPANSION/MMKeyboard/MMKeyboard
• UPDATED: AmiKit.exe warns you if the name of your Win partition is in conflict with AmiKit
• UPDATED: handling of DirOpus5 XPK and XFD filetypes
• FIXED: bad recognizing of DirOpus5 Sound Module filetype

• für C64: 44-polig im Rastermaß 2,54mm
• für VC-20: 44-polig im Rastermaß 3,96mm
• für C16/C116/plus-4: 50-polig im Rastermaß 2,0mm
• für Apple II: 50-polig im Rastermaß 2,54mm

• Deathbed Vigil DVD, signiert von Dave Haynie
• 5,25 Zoll Disketten double-sided, single-density
• cartridge-Gehäuse für C64-Module
• Doppel-CD Commodore Billboard und Funet archive

• MakeCD 3.78 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• makecdromfs.module 45.10 (12.05.2003)
• ReadWrite.module 16.1 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• SCSISupport.module 16.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CDR_Panasonic.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CDR_Philips_2000.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CDR_Philips_2600.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CDR_Sony.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CD_ATAPI.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CD_NEC.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CD_ROM.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)
• CD_Toshiba.driver 15.0 public beta 11 (Nov 21 2005)

• added recognition of Yamaha CRW8824S/CRW8824E, Teac CD-W512SB, Plextor PX-W4012S, PX-320A, PX-W4824E, PX-716A
• removed restrictions in ISO image creation for all registered users
• fixed invalid memory access when importing .cue file (caused crash under OS4.0)
• allow setting and writing of indices in data tracks:
  • needed for some VideoCDs
  • only supported by CDR_SCSI_ATAPI.driver
• added scanning of data tracks for indices:
  • needed to copy some VideoCDs correctly
  • only supported by CD_ATAPI.driver and CDR_SCSI_ATAPI.driver and if the drive itself supports reading sub channel data

• Es wurden fast auschließlich Änderungen, an der Funktion der Index-HTML-Generierung vorgenommen.
• Es kann jetzt genau angegeben werden, welcher Meta-Tag bei der Index-HTML-Erstellung ausgelesen werden soll. SN-ListDatei ist dadurch nicht mehr nur auf den Meta- description-Tag beschränkt.
• Verzeichnis (z.B. http://meineseite.de/) kann bei der Index- Erstellung angegeben werden
• Dateigröße kann in Bytes, Kb oder Mb, mit oder ohne Nachkommastellen in den generierten Index mit eingebunden werden.
• Korrekte Sortierung des Index: Umlaute werden jetzt korrekt einsortiert.
• Umlaute und Eurozeichen werden beim Index in HTML-Code Konvertiert
• Kleine Gesamtstatistik kann dem HTML-Index hinzugefügt werden (Anzahl der Dateien, Gesamtgröße und Durchschnittsgröße)
• Anzeige in der Titelleiste von Listenfenster, wieviele Dateien nach dem Löschen von Einträgen noch gelistet sind

• Grafische Oberfläche
• Umfangreiche Einstellungsmöglichkeiten
• Starten und Stoppen des Webservers
• Visuelle Anzeige zum Webserver-Status
• AmiDock-Einbindung
• Lokalisiert: Programm auf Deutsch und Englisch verfügbar

• behebt einige kleinere Probleme der Newlib-Version
• Editieren des EXIF-Kommentarfeldes nun möglich
• Bilderreihenfolge veränderbar (mit der "+" und "-"-Taste)
• AppIcon- und AppWindow-Unterstützung
• Updates der Lokalisierungen
• Optionales Double Buffering für das Hauptfenster möglich
• AmiDock(AppDocky)-Unterstützung eingefügt
• Ein Bild kann direkt als Workbench-Hintergrundbild verwendet werden
• Sowie einige GUI-Verbesserungen.

• lirst time a GUI added
• usage of memory banks...
• optimized scrolling (in my opinion to fast... )
• reload of tiles and leveldata...if dismissed the right ones...
• different tileformats..
• realtime byte MOD (first byte will be modified realtime while pressing a key)

• 02.12.05 new: Burntime (Max Design) done by Psygore (Info)
• 29.11.05 improved: Son Shu-Shi (Expose Software) trainer added, new install script, other fixes (Info,Image)
• 28.11.05 improved: The Humans (Imagitec Design) supports another 2 versions (Info)
• 28.11.05 improved: Premiere (Core Design) reworked install, new icons, uses rawdic (Info)
• 23.11.05 improved: Quest For Glory 2 - Trial By Fire (Sierra) increased chip mem requirement to 1 meg for better music (Info,Image)
• 23.11.05 fixed: Nigel Mansell's World Championship (Gremlin) fixed guru in aga version, adapted for whdload 16 (Info)
• 23.11.05 new: Gem Stone Legend (Loriciel) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 19.11.05 new: The Island Of Lost Hope (Digital Concepts) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 19.11.05 improved: Space Quest Enhanced (Sierra) supports another version, access faults fixed (Info,Image)
• 19.11.05 new: Shadow Sorcerer (TSR/SSI/US Gold) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 19.11.05 fixed: King's Quest 5 (Sierra) access faults fixed (Info,Image)
• 14.11.05 fixed: Kid Chaos (Ocean/Magnetic Fields) fixed the illegal slave error on startup (Info)
• 14.11.05 new: Fury Of The Furries (Kalisto/Atreid software) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 13.11.05 new: Kid Chaos (Ocean/Magnetic Fields) ecs version by DJ Mike (Info)
• 13.11.05 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) better fonts in aga menu, install script fixed (Info,Image)
• 12.11.05 new: Liquid Kids (Ocean) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 12.11.05 new: Dragon's Kingdom Demo (GENIAS/GOLDEN TEAM) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 06.11.05 new: Tube Warriors (Dynabyte) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 06.11.05 improved: Heart Of The Dragon (Avatar Consulting) supports another version (Info)
• 06.11.05 new: Blue Berry (Infogrames) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 04.11.05 improved: Vroom Multiplayer (Lankhor) supports another version, better speed (Info)
• 04.11.05 improved: Dr. Doom's Revenge (Empire) various changes (Info)
• 31.10.05 new: Superman: The Man Of Steel (TyneSoft/Subway/First star software) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 31.10.05 updated: Wacus The Detective (LK Avalon/Lazy Artists) manual and cheats added (Info)
• 31.10.05 new: Son Shu-Shi (Expose Software) done by Codetapper (Info,Image)
• 31.10.05 new: Sensible World of Moon Soccer Demo (Sensible Software) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
• 31.10.05 new: Awesome Demo (Psygnosis) done by Psygore (Info)
• 24.10.05 new: Smash TV (Ocean) done by Codetapper (Info)
• 24.10.05 new: Magic Lines (Thalion) done by Codetapper (Info)
• 24.10.05 new: Sensible Soccer 92/93 Meets Bulldog Blighty (Sensible Software) done by Codetapper (Info)
• 24.10.05 new: Unsensible Soccer (Sensible Software) done by Codetapper (Info)
• 24.10.05 new: T-Racer (Virtual Dreams) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 24.10.05 new: Donald's Alphabet Chase (Westwood Associates) done by CFOU! (Info)

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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 Unusual things this month. A new website dedicated to games that 
weren't, the launch of a new Amiga software company (when's the last 
time that happened?) and companies in Germany stopping the selling of 
product due to new laws. Strange things, all those.
 I'd like to say a few words about the last item, the laws that are 
stopping the shipping of some hardware. This is related to the tough, 
new European rules regarding toxic waste. Many people don't know it, 
but the huge increase in electronic devices, especially computers, has 
led to a very serious pollution problem. That is because many 
electronic components contain toxic materials, especially lead, which 
is a very serious health risk if allowed to get into the environment. 
The disposal of these systems is poisoning people when not done 
correctly. This has become a huge problem in many countries around the 
world. Lead poisoning is especially hard on the young, who may suffer 
for their entire lives. Tough new European legislation to track and 
manage electronic devices from manufacturing to disposal is intended 
to tackle this issue. Because the economy is global, this initiative 
is forcing better products world wide.
 In our opinion, this is an excellent thing to do and should probably 
have been done long ago. Computing is fun but poisoning the 
environment and the creatures - including us - who live in it should 
not be part of the cost. "Kudos" to EU for having the courage to do 
something about this before the problem becomes even worse.
 We also strongly hope this is a temporary absence from the hardware 
scene. We trust everyone will understand or at least tolerate the 
situation (not that we could do much about it anyway) and we certainly 
look for the return of these products to the market as soon as the 
companies can comply with the new laws.
 We hope you enjoy this issue.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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30 October, 2005

aGTW is launched (with a simple site). There is only one game so far 
but it's a complete and previously unreleased Amiga game that was due 
to be a commercial title!

Case 1 - Son Shu Shi

Legend tells of a breed of Amiga games that never crawled out of the
primordial development swamp of their early existence. Games that 
never stood blinking in the sunlight of the gaming world. Games that 
were never devoured by predators of the Amiga jungle. They are the... 
Amiga Games That Weren't.

Some 5,000 Amiga games were released commercially. However, there are 
a significant number that were never released. The aim of this site is 
to find out what happened to them and (if possible) allow them to be
released. Expect many to be lost forever. It'll be an interesting
journey nonetheless.

Amiga Games That Weren't is a companion site to Frank Gasking's 
Games That Weren't 64 and Timo Weirich's PC Games That Weren't 
sites. The data on unreleased games is primarily based on information 
from the Hall Of Light.

http://www.gtw64.co.uk/
Games That Weren't 64

http://pcgtw.retro-net.de/
PC Games That Weren't

http://www.softpres.org/
The Software Preservation Society

<http://www.whdload.de>
WHDLoad

http://www.winuae.net/
WinUAE

http://hol.abime.net
The Hall Of Light
     
http://agtw.abime.net/
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29 November, 2005

Three Counties Amiga Group

Our first Meeting is This Coming Sunday, 4th of December 2005:

Meeting Time: 11:30am till 3:00pm

Location:Wolloston Road, Westwood, Peterborough
Round the corner from where Big Bash Shows are held

Everyone welcome!

Please visit our website for further information: http://www.3cag.net

Fee: £3.00 Per meeting

Conveniences: WC, Tea Coffee etc, Nearby: Grocers, Cash Till, Chinese, 
Chip Shop, etc one minutes walk from Venue. 
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24 November, 2005 

 Germany's E3B and individual Computers, which became famous for 
innovative and powerful hardware expansions for classic Amiga 
computers, are forced to stop selling hardware until further notice 
due to changes in German law. No hardware is being shipped within the 
EU, not to resellers, nor to direct customers.

According to the national implementation of EU-directive 2002/96/EG
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2003/l_037/l_
03720030213en00240038.pdf into German law *(Bundesgesetzblatt 2005 
Teil I Nr. 17)* http://www.stiftung-ear.de/content/e47/e572/e580
e594/050316elektrog_ger.pdf, every vendor in Germany must be 
registered with the Stiftung EAR http://www.stiftung-ear.de/. For 
vendors from outside Germany, the importer must be registered, in case 
the vendor is not registered in Germany. This law applies to all 
electronic products that are mentioned in rule EAR 03-011
http://www.stiftung-ear.de/e129/e145/regeln319/Geraeteart_ger.pdf, no
matter what country they come from - within or outside the European 
union.

The new law aims at vendors and importers, who need to take
resposibility for the electronic devices if they are discarded at the
end of the product's life. Putting electronic devices into circulation
without being registered (indicated by a trashcan symbol) is against
German law as of today. Violators can be penalized with a monetary 
fine of up to 50.000 EUR.

Due to the complicated implementation by German authorities, it's not
easy to estimate the consequences and the new obligations created by
this law. In addition to that, the extremely high administration 
effort goes with high fees that must be paid to the Stiftung EAR - 
especially smaller companies' existance is endangered by the fees that 
are more than one hundred times higher than the recycling cost itself.
individual computers http://ami.ga and E3B
http://www.e3b.de/usb, who have been developing and producing in
Germany for many years, are now evaluating possibilities to comply 
with the strict rules in a close cooperation, so customers all over 
Europe can continue to buy top quality products from Germany. Both 
companies want to act responsible and sustainable in this regard.

Many issues are not yet resolved, therefore both companies cannot
continue to deliver hardware to customers and resellers within the
European union. Customers outside the EU are not affected by this 
decision.

We're hoping to proceed with the necessary steps in a timely manner.
Unfortunately, the "Stiftung EAR" cannot cope with the bureaucracy
created by their own rules, so our registration number is not yet
assigned. We are of course interested in continuing to offer 
innovative products, and will do everything to keep the shortage as 
short as possible. We're asking for your indulgence for any 
inconveniences.
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             D I G I T A L   U N I V E R S E   N E W S

 The following post about Digital Universe was found this month on the 
excellent Amigaworld.net site. Brad
    
28 November, 2005

*Some more positive news for AmgaOS4.

I did ask from the Digital Universe maintainers about the "promised"
version for PPC amigas, and I got a quick reply. I will not copy the
whole questions/answers list here, but the most important part. Also I
do remind you, that the plans are not a finnished product yet.*


Quote:

news for the Amiga is actually brighter. We have made arrangements 
with a third party to continue to update the Amiga to bring it on a 
par (or better than) the current Mac release of the software. In 
addition to bringing it up to date with the current release of the 
Amiga OS, new capabilities (like the Hubble Guide Star catalogue) are 
expected to be available in the future.

I did ask the permission to share this information, if I let you also
know that: Quote:

I have no idea of an ETA at this time, but the Amiga release is 
actually the only version currently in active development at the 
moment.

And finally: Quote:

we have no estimate as to when it might be available.

Esa Haapaniemi
University of Oulu
Finland
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*Wehrheim, Germany, the 14th of november 2005.
Alinea Computer is proud of presenting itself as a new company for
Amiga-Software. We are an enterprise which concentrates it's work 
mainly on the development and the distribution of AmigaOS4-
applications and -games. Besides, we offer support services like 
CD-production, webdesign and dataprint.

The following Amiga-Software is now available: *

ANotice 2 - a memo programme

ANotice 2 is a memo programme for your workbench. It will help you to
manage your notes, dates, to-do-lists or other important information.
You can easily and fast change the notice and export it into different
text-formats.

ANotice 2 can manage up to 13 notes and each note can be designed
individually with 13 different background and text- colors, 7 
textures, different fonts and 4 text attributes.

Besides the large reaction-prefs which can controll all functions,
ANotice 2 includes a network-function with client-server-programme, so
that distributing a to-do-list in an enterprise can easily be done.
ANotice 2 was programmed as a commodity and runs totaly system 
friendly. It operates on each Amiga with at least AmigaOS 4.0. You do 
not need any other libraries or additional programmes.

ANotice 2 is delivered by E-Mail and costs 5,95 Euro only.

AmiPhoto - a quick and comfortable photo-manager

AmiPhoto is a photo album for your digital photos and pictures. It's
easy handling and attractive GUI will convince you. You can manage up 
to half a million pictures in 500 albums at the most. You can show the
photos on the surface or by multiview. Because of a direct support of
the Amiga OS4.0 datatype-system, it is possible to use all
picture-formats which exist as datatype. AmiPhoto can further select 
and show the EXIF-dates of your digital photos.

For adapting perfectly on your workbench-skin, AmiPhotos uses it's own
Bitmap-skin-system. The 17 skins you find on your CD will help you to
style your AmiPhoto surface. You can certainly create your own skins. 
We would be proud to present your skin on our website.

AmiPhoto is programmed totaly system friendly. It supports the
application library and does not need any additional libraries.

AmiPhoto is delivered an CD and costs just 19,95 Euro.


Freeware

The main ambition of Alinea Computer is to support the Amiga market.
That's the reason why we will continue releasing programmes free of
charge, so that the existing lack of Amiga-Software can be repaired. 
We hope you can use our software and we would be happy to hear some
feedback concerning our products.

On our website: http://www.alinea-computer.de you'll find more
information.

You can buy all our products in our Alinea-Shop. As a dealer, please
address yourself via E-Mail.

We would be glad to welcome you as a new customer!
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               A M I K I T   F O R   P C   U S E R S

26 November, 2005 

*To be brief, AmiKit is all you need if you
want to experience a high-end Classic Amiga system on your PC.
AmiKit turns the default AmigaOS installation into a completely 
renewed and fresh environment.

More than 20.000 files are included and pre-configured for immediate 
use!

AmiKit is available at *http://amikit.amiga.sk**

Exclusive features:

- Directory Opus Magellan II used a Workbench replacement!!!

- Special versions of AmiStart, GlobalTrash, ReqChange, ShowAmiga96 
and FullPalette!

Major features:

- User-friendly interface that helps you to manage all your files in 
an easy way!

- Internet browsing, mailing, chatting and downloading using various
programs like AWeb, IBrowse, YAM, SimpleMail, AmIRC, AmiTradeCenter,
AmiGift...

- Reading PDF, M$Word, RTF and other document formats with the help of
APDF, EvenMore, Antiword...

- Manage your time and account with the help of Daywatch and HomeBank.

- Music software, net streaming, MP3 creating and sample editing
software like AmigaAMP, AmiNetRadio, EaglePlayer, SymphoniePlayer, 
LAME, TheMPegEncGUI, SampleEditor...

- Displaying (even in thumbnails) and editing pictures with the help 
of PicShow, Thumb, MysticView, FroggerNG, PerfectPaint... Or enjoy the
fractal world through ZoneXplorer!

- Easy handling of archives. They are opened like every other drawer. 
Or some external programs could be used instead (VooDoo-X, MUIUnArc,
XPKatana)...

- Massive FTP support through OpusFTP module. It has a full GUI for 
the Address Book and operational parameters.

- Software for burning and copying the CDs (MakeCD), for mounting
virtual CDs (VirtualCD).

- You can make your AmiKit password protected. Just don't forget your
password

- Pre-configured recognition and processing of many file formats
(through the DOpus filetypes)...

- Various system tools like SysInspector, SnoopDos, Q-Device, 
ShowPatches...

- Antivirus software effectively checks the system files, memory and
archives for viruses.

- Emulation software like ASp for retro ZX gaming...

- Great taskbar software: AmiStart (for those who do not like the
taskbars on Amiga, simply remove AmiStart from WBStartup. Easy!)

- Most advanced Amiga "recycle bin" software: GlobalTrash.

- Visual enchancers and system enchancers like VisualPrefs, Birdie,
TitleShadow, BoingBall, MagicMenu, MCP...

- Warp3D compatibility thanks to QuarkTex software...

- Yes, some games are included as well

...and much more!

AmiKit is available at http://amikit.amiga.sk
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             U P D A T E S   F R O M   J A H C S O F T

28 November, 2005 6:06:30

*My various pieces of OS4 software have been updated in the last week 
or so..

RockBEAT 1.3.1 - Create drumming tracks and export as WAV files!

WookieChat 1.9.1 - Chat on IRC networks! (Internet Relay Chat). 
/Now available for OS3.x again!/

SimplePlay 3.2 - Play OGG, MP3, WAV, MOD, S3M, IT, XM, and MIDI 
files!*

Rockbeat
Recent changes:

- Made less crashy on exit. My timers and AHI iorequests are cleaned 
up properly now.

- Position LED's light up while playing, and scrolls automatically

- You can now switch between drumkits, and it will remember the last
drumkit you used.


Wookiechat
Recent changes:

- When you're holding down the left mouse button highlighting text,
channel messages etc are paused until you let go.

- "Unknown nick" and "Cannot send to channel" messages are displayed 
in their proper tabs again

- Channel lists are no longer sorted alphabetically. It was causing a
huge drain on the CPU when thousands of channels were present. It
sometimes led to a crash.

- No more garbled channel part messages

- "Clear all" button added to the URL Grabber window

- Added code to prevent DCC Transfers window from popping to the front
when you get an incoming file if its already open in the background
somewhere

- 68k WookieChat development has resumed, and it no longer hangs when
recieving incoming DCC sends. A divide by zero bug in the file 
transfer stats function has been removed! (thank you wegster for 
telling me what was wrong)

- Now works with WebChat and DarkMyst networks (homes of #amiga.org 
and #amigazeux). Wookie was doing its connection detection in a 
slightly bad way previously.

- Clicking in the main chat display now activates the chat string 
gadget

- Outgoing swear word filter. use /filter to toggle on and off


SimplePlay

Recent changes:
- Shuffle and Repeat playing modes added.

- Bugfix: after a playing a song located using Jump Find, it plays the
next song in the list now.

- Song name and Elapsed time is now displayed

- Fixed a playlist bug. It was adding the termination character to 
text strings about one character too far. So playlists were able to be
corrupted after loading and saving sometimes.

- Jump find has been improved slightly. Converts _ into spaces 
internally when searching for songs. So for example the song

"Christina_Vidal_-_Take_Me_Away.mp3" can be found if you type in the
words "take me away"

- The default icon priority is now higher to help prevent playback
stuttering e.g. when accessing menus and scrolling in aweb.


Grab them from os4depot.net:

RockBEAT
http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=audio/tracker/
rockbeat.lha

WookieChat
http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=network/chat/
wookiechat.lha

SimplePlay
http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=audio/play/
simpleplay.lha
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       C R O S S F I R E   I I   P A T C H   A N D   D E M O 

28 November, 2005 

An AmigaOS 4 demo version and an AmigaOS 4 patch for Crossfire II have 
been released today.

You can find the patch and the demo on the support pages for Crossfire 
II on the APC&TCP homepage.

http://www.apc-tcp.de

We want to thank Steffen Haesser and Alinea Computer for the 
conversion of Crossfire II to AmigaOS 4.

http://www.alinea-computer.de
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          W A R P V I E W   A T   O S 4 D E P O T . N E T 

14 November, 2005

*A new version of WarpView is available on OS4Depot.Net

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=graphics/viewer/
warpview.lha


Changes in this version:

- Fixed cancelling the filerequester which made WarpView exit even 
when using 'Open' from menu.

- Add .gif to requester file pattern and added tooltype + command line
option for setting the file pattern

- 90 degree rotation is now reset when stepping between files

- Fixed a bug with the Infoline timer that was not retriggered when
stepping between files

- Added drag'n'drop support (can now drag files onto WarpView icon in
AmiDock)

- Added infoline config tooltypes and commandline options (on/off and
timeout)

- Added mouse blanking (with on/off and timeout options)

- Added alphabetical file list sorting

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  N E W   W E T   -   F O R   W E A T H E R   C H E C K E R S 

*Description: * Weather conditions on Workbench 4, AppIcon, Docky
http://www.os4depot.net/share/utility/workbench/wet_lha.readme
*Download: *    wet.lha
http://www.os4depot.net/share/utility/workbench/wet.lha    
*Version: * 4.11
*Date: *    26 Nov 05
*Author: *  Chris Young
*Submitter: *   Chris Young
*Email: *   chris/unsatisfactorysoftware co uk
*Homepage: *    http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk/wet/
*Requirements: *    OS4 pre-release Update 3
*Category: *    utility/workbench
http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=browse&cat=utility/
workbench
*Replaces: *    utility/workbench/wet.lha
*License: * Freeware
*Distribute: *  yes
*FileID: *  1349
    
*Comments: *    23  
*Snapshots: *   3  
*Downloads: *   112 (For current version, not accumulated)

This program retrieves local meterological data from the Internet, and 
saves it in (regulary updating) env-vars to allow you to display it in 
the WB titlebar, as an icon on Workbench, AmiDock or in the GUI.  It 
can show a forecast for up to 24 hours ahead (where available), and is 
fully localisable.

New translations for:
English (built-in)
German
Finnish
Italian
Spanish
Basque

Old or partial translations for:
Turkish
Norwegian
Swedish
Czech
Greek

Previous few version changes:

4.11 (26.11.2005)

* Added AUTORUNAREXX tooltype, ARexx commands to get the data\'s date 
and time and an example ARexx script which logs the observed 
temperatures.
* A certain connection error was causing a recoverable alert.  Fixed.
* Rewrote most of the forecast-related routines, as still having 
problems with bogus data appearing.  Is now greatly simplified and 
hopefully more reliable.
* The date of the last update could show the incorrect month in 
certain circumstances.  Fixed. 
* When cloud height not available, it was being reported as -11100ft.  
Now shows a slightly more correct 0ft.

4.1 (20.11.2005)

* Added a docky icon. (thanks to Stefan Robl for sending me the SDK)
* Will now work behind a proxy server. (even on a direct link, 
specifying a web cache proxy is recommended)
* Now retrieves data with an If-Modified-Since header, which 
significantly speeds up updates, especially if new data is not 
available.
* Can now set the poll interval in 10 minute increments.
* Warnings now automatically suppressed if another app requests 
\"game mode\".
* A saved project icon sometimes resulted in an incorrect ENVPATH 
tooltype.  Fixed.
* Forecasts generated <1hr from midnight sometimes resulted in 
uneventful duplicated times. Fixed.
* Rain and Snow Showers were showing the Showers icon rather than Rain 
or Snow.

Fixed.
* Iconified icon (AppIcon disabled) was not disappearing if the window 
was reopened using a method other than double-clicking on the icon.
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