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31.12.2001 Amiga Update Newsletter
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31.12.2001 Amiga.org News
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Amiga.org has been updated with site progress report.
"Now we are stepping back and will rewrite the entire site from scratch. Bad timing, and the
community suffers, but blame the morons responsible."
Amiga.org website
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31.12.2001 Prices: Instantly Euro only
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From now on all our prices are in the new European currency EURO. The new currency
also caused a slight reduction of all prices. For that we just opened our new
online shop that also got some more features. Please have a look yourselves:
H&P-Euro-Shop
Haage&partner website
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31.12.2001 dynAMIte V1.9 available - True official #amigazeux press release
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"We know that it has been months since you have heard anything official from
anyone outside #amigazeux. This is not because of lack of ability; in fact,
lack of initiative. [..] The Amiga Bomberman-clone dynAMIte 1.9 for
AmigaOS3.x is now ready and shipping :-)!"
Read more
dynAMIte homepage
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30.12.2001 Quake Movie on the Amiga
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"Quake redone Quick" has been released as a seperate Amiga version yesterday.
This is a slick movie build upon the Quake-engine, and which shows an amazing
run through the game on the highest skill-setting, additionally refilmed and
polished with gags and some music.
You will requrie a registered version of Quake and 40/64 Mb harddisk-space to
watch it. For more info visit
http://www.planetquake.com/illmind/.
Aminet-mirror will be available within a few days.
Ingmar Poerner
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30.12.2001 First results according compatibility of the HIGHWAY USB
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29.12.2001 Aminet CD 46
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Aminet CD 46, dated December 2001, contains almost 600 Megabyte of (uncompressed)
software in over 600 archives. Since the release of Aminet 45 numerous new software
has appeared. The current edition includes the full game - Virtual Karting 2.
Read more
Schatztruhe GTI website
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29.12.2001 Microcode Solutions announces PowerPC emulation release date!
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Microcode Solutions is pleased to announce that they will be demonstrating
their new PowerPC based Macintosh emulation at the Tokyo Macworld show in March.
Microcode Solutions website
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29.12.2001 Interviews
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Exclusive Interview of Matthew Kille,
the author of the best AmigaDE game: Planet Zed. (English /
French)
Daniel Miller translated the interview,
that amiga-topcool made with Petro Tyschtschenko.
The most interesting part of the interview:
amiga-topcool: Now that a certain amount of time has passed,
how would you evaluate your time with Amiga Inc.?
Petro: To speak honestly, it was my most awful experience. Of course we must
differentiate between the years of Gateway and those of Bill McEwen.
The time with Gateway was very positive for me. The developments later, that
Jim Collas was unable to avoid, those were a turn for the worse. And then
the time with Bill McEwen began... Here in Germany I was kept completely out
of the loop. I had to hunt down information on the Internet, which of course
was very aggravating. I always had this nagging feeling that they wanted to
be rid of me, that they were jealous and envious that the community stood with me.
Boing Attitude website
Daniel Orth, amiga-topcool
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29.12.2001 clickBOOM's S-FILE 15
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Happy Holidays everyone! On behalf of clickBOOM I wish you a happy 2002.
Just to remind you all that our "play and don't pay" offer ends on Jan. 1.
So, if you wish to get your hands on some of the killer clickBOOM games,
don't wait! Defender of the Crown is basically finished. It is currently
being tested against bugs. In the last few weeks we added a whole new type
of game play to it - missions. Basically, if you accept, and fulfill
a mission, you get a reward during the game. Missions range from defeating
a certain lord, to rescuing damsels, etc. Rewards can be additional gold,
soldiers, and more. It plays very nice and adds a whole new dimension to the
tried and tested original Defender game play.
clickBOOM website
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29.12.2001 AIO Issue 54 is out
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Issue 54 of AIO is now out, including exclusive interview with Zeneo!
Catch it soon from Aminet or the site
www.aioworld.com.
AIO website
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29.12.2001 Bubble Heroes and Payback For The Amiga DE
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Virtual Programming, which recently took over Blittersoft has revealed that
Bubble Heroes and Payback will be coming to the Amiga DE.
Bubble Heroes, developed by Italian developers, Arcadia Developments is a
puzzle/ adventure game in the same style as the popular Puzzle Bobble or
Bust A Move serie.
Payback, a Grand Theft Auto style game has already proven to be one of
the most successful and talked about Amiga games in years. The author James
Daniels further improved Payback by adding PPC and Warp3D support.
Both games are sure to receive much attention when they are released for
the Amiga DE. It is perhaps of interest to note that Payback is going to be
ported for Macintosh and Intent gamers, while an Intent version of Bubble
Heroes is currently being worked on.
http://www.amigaflame.demon.co.uk/amivirp.htm
Amiga Flame website
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28.12.2001 Freespace shipped
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28.12.2001 Quantum Leap: Pictures from a visit at Amiga Inc.
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28.12.2001 OS4 support for G-Rex comming
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David Scheibler posted on the G-Rex ML that Hans-Jörg Frieden, Senior Software Engineer
- Software Developer for Hyperion Entertainment (VOF) told him:
"Hans-Joerg Frieden told me that GRex will be supported by OS4."
CyberGraphX homepage
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28.12.2001 Amiga Information Center: 2nd birthday
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The most famous russian language news site for amigans -
Amiga Information Center is 2 years old now.
Congratulation!
Vlad Vinogradov
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28.12.2001 Amiga Arena - PuzzleBOBS News
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28.12.2001 xsurfadsl.device: Snowflake-Bugfix
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A new update of the PPPoE-driver for our networking card X-Surf can be found in the
support-area of this
website. The last bug in the core routines has been removed, so a connection to the
internet is stable at full transfer rates for several hours. Since this version has
only been tested shortly, it remains in beta state. The archive contains an English
readme file for the first time.
The driver is free for owners of the X-Surf
ethernet card. It lets you connect to DSL and cable modem services that use the
PPPoE-standard without the need to buy expensive additional software. In Germany DSL
is marketed as T-DSL by the deutsche Telekom, but smaller providers like 1&1, Hansenet
and some local services also offer this broadband technology.
Read more
individual Computers website
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28.12.2001 Software Hut NewsLetter
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This is our last NewsLetter of the year offering some new "In-Stock" products.
We would also like to wish everyone a Healthy, Peaceful and Prosperous New Year!
Read more
ANN website
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28.12.2001 Computer club: APC&TCP dissolved
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On 23rd December 2001 APC&TCP announced officially that the computer club
AP C&TCP was dissolved. The APC&TCP distribution continues to exist.
Amiga-news.de website
APC&TCP website
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28.12.2001 Software News
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David 'zapek' Gerber updated zvnc v1.1
with the following: fixed port and cx_priority arguments not being honoured and also updated the
documentation with some more faq entries.
zvnc is freeware VNC client for AmigaOS 3.x/2.x and MorphOS which, unlike the others, has no
display support. Its purpose is to be able to control another computer which has a real monitor
and the main advantage is that the network data transfered is minimal. The mouse/keyboard
control is really smooth.
Michael Siegel released new BurnIT master drivers for CDR writers. The following models are
supported: Yamaha2100, Plextor1210S, Ricoh7200A+S, Traxdata2410, Yahama8824S.
V3Portal website
>Titan Computer website
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27.12.2001 New TaskiSMS
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New (2.59) version of TaskiSMS has been released. News in this release:
updated DiAx plugin
updated ICQ plugin
updated Idea plugin
updated EraGSM plugin
updated PlusGSM plugin
added 12sms plugin
added VLF plugin
Using this program you can send SMSes to cellular phones to over 160 countries
around the world. You can download demo version from
TaskiSMS home page or from
AmiNet.
Pawel Filipczak, TaskiSMS
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27.12.2001 Amiga Arena News
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There a two new Interviews in English online!
First you can read a Interview with "Darius Brewka" the developer of the
great Startmenu "AmiStart".
Second you can read a interview with "Steffen Nitz" the developer of
"CLMV" a Database and the German Simulation "Bürgermeister".
The Software from "Steffen Nitz" is for free and full registered available
in the Amiga Arena!
Amiga Arena website
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27.12.2001 Games & Software News
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Hans-Joerg Frieden send another screenshot
of the Quake 2 port in action to AE. Enjoy!
A new update of Safe v17.6 has been released today.
You can get the update Here.
readme
Version 4.0.1 of MySqld archive for 040.
Note that changes made for amiga are now commited in the official source archive.
Some modifications to configure and makefiles are still missing in the official
archive, so if you need to compile MySql, contact me at sixk@ifrance.com.
For those who wants to use special character set, just have a look at the startmysqld script and
mysql:language/charsets/ directory.
For more informations about changes in this version, look at the official
MySql Site.
AmigaExtreme website
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA website
Da SixK Port Page
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26.12.2001 Status of Quake 2 Port
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Steffen Haeuser: "Asides from missing sound and missing software renderer the port
is complete already. And Hans-Joerg is currently working on Sound and
Software-Renderer a bit (also in his freetime, so not sure when it will be done).
Myselves I even did a 68k version additionally to the PPC version."
Amigart website
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26.12.2001 AmiGathering 4: The Flickering Party
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For the fourth time since 1997, the most prominent Amiga user meeting in Greece will
take place, this time in Thessaloniki (Perseos 2 str, Ano Poli), on January 4, 5
and 6 2002.
Attendance is free and everybody is encouraged to bring his computer
along (anyone wishing to do so should contact
kaliviotis@mac.com to reserve desk space).
Attendees have the chance to win keyboard and mouse adaptors in the Shogo, Heretic
2 and Sensible Soccer tournaments.
Presentations include the G-Rex, MorphOS,
Mediator and Hyperion's latest game, Freespace: The great war.
Crash courses include Amiga to PC/Amiga networking (Samba, VNC, Envoy). Anyone
wishing to sell his used hardware of software is welcome to do so For hotel
reservations please visit .
For more information please email
kaliviotis@mac.com.
Alkis Tsapanidis
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25.12.2001 Merry Christmas...
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"The team of Haage&Partner wishes all AMIGA fans a Merry Christmas and a ... Happy New Year!"
Haage&Partner website
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25.12.2001 AmigaPassion Competitium
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"Marry Christmas and Happy New Year from AmigaPage.
I want remember you that AmigaPassion Competition is going to the end with the last
day of this month. If you want to partecipate simply, send a grab of your workbench
desktop to kanuka@ciaoweb.it."
Marco Lovera, AmigaPage
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25.12.2001 CAPS special christmas gift to the Amiga and Emulation communities
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Abandoned Places 2 - The "remastered" edition - a CAPS Christmas gift to the Amiga
and Emulation communities. This is a special recompiled version of the game from
the original author. In other words, he has now made it availiable for free
download! - He also happens to be the founder member of CAPS... Get it from
here: http://www.caps-project.org.
Kieron Wilkinson, CAPS
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Czech Amiga News Team Wish You
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24.12.2001 XMas Greetings
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KDH Team: "We wish all our customers a happy and peaceful christmas 2001."
The team from CyberdyneSystems wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone from us here at AE. Hopefully
the new year will be full of cool things like; AmigaOnes, Doom 3s, AmigaOS4, AmigaDE
... Well, you catch my friggin' drift. Looking back at last year (amiga-wise)
I can easily say 'it could've been better', but what the heck, we're not in it
for the money, right? Anyways: MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
"Merry Christmas and a happy new year from all the Darkage Software team! See you
next year with the release of two exciting products for Amiga, Mac, Linux and Pc!"
KDH - Datentechnik website
Cyberdyne Systems website
AmigaExtreme website
Darkage Software website
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24.12.2001 Latest Executive Update from Bill McEwen & the Amiga Team
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24.12.2001 Back to the Roots Amiga-News 235
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This time we are happy to announce the biggest update in the history of
Back to the Roots!
After upgrading our system a bit we can offer you some additional services,
this update's highlights are an Aminet full mirror and an anonymous FTP server.
Due to extending our team we are able to present you more than 500 (!!!)
new games in our download archive. We can't list all titles here, but please
visit BTTR if you'd like to play games like Airbus A-320, Armour Geddon, Blue
Max, Chambers of Shaolin, Karate Kid II, Lethal Xcess, Ports of Call, Skweek,
Pinball Dreams, Car-Vup, Subwar 2050 and hundreds of other software pearls.
As usual for each update you can download lots of new AGA, ECS and PC demos
as well as tons of new music files and pictures (this time cover scans!).
There are more surprises, so just come by and see!
Back to the Roots website
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24.12.2001 Merry Christmas from Kicksoft ltd
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Kicksoft ltd would like to thank all those who have given us support this year
and a special thank you to all of our customers.
And to celibrate we are running a free to enter prize draw for 2 bottles of
Chapagne on our web site.
Goto www.kicksoft.co.uk for details.
ray mccarthy, Kicksoft
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24.12.2001 Third issue of polish e-zine "Amiga Minus"
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The third issue of polish e-zine "Amiga Minus" has been released at 24th
November 2001. Magazine is avaiable at
http://www.amigaminus.prv.pl.
Issue contents: report about Amiga viruses and AV software, description of
Exodus, Payback and Chimera (music album by Amiga musician), report of Amiga
Meeting 2001 and Symphony Festival scene party, interview with Bernd Meyer
- author of Amithlon, poll results: what polish users think about new Amiga
and PCI cards and slots, review of AminetCD and PurePasic, some competitions
for readers with prizes like Amiga games, books and CDs.
Slawomir Wilk, Amiga Minus
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24.12.2001 Innvative: Merry christmas and happy new year!
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"We wish all AMIGAns, customers, friends and business partners a merry
christmas and a happy new year!
Looking back we must admit that 2001
was a year with not much visible action from our side. However, behind
the scenes we were quite busy and are already looking forward to next
year when we have the great pleasure to present you the results of our
hard work!
Though we have to ask you for some more patience you may
already look forward to an exciting year full of innovations and great
news!
If you don't want to miss the news, don't forget to subscribe
our newsletter (at the top of our newspage). Also don't miss our fxPAINT
special christmas offer (you save approx. 26 US$!!) that ends in 7 days
(until 31.12.01!).
Innovative website
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24.12.2001 ScummVM
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Ruediger Hanke: "First of all a Merry Christmas to everyone here :-)
[..] However, it's Christmas so I've got a little SDL port which I discovered
some days ago and which really made my day and probably yours too if you're
an old school adventurer and are sick of the 3D boom or scowl at the
it's-a-joke-but-at-least-we've-got-rendered-graphics type of game.
So ... if you feel like that you may check it out at:
http://www.muenster.de/~tomjoad/svm.html."
ScummVM is an interpreter for the great old LucasArts SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac
Mansion) adventures. Games currently reported to work include the Amiga classics The Secret of
Monkey Island, Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis,
plus Day of the Tentacle and (very incomplete - just for a first look) Sam & Max Hit the Road.
Ruediger Hanke via MorphOS ML
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24.12.2001 ExoticA & UnExoticA News
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All entries are in for the Intro Logo Competition and are being judged.
The results will not be available until after xmas.
Many updates have occured in the last month, although I did not had time
to update this news. Sorry.
Updated ExoticA's mirror of the High Voltage SID Collection. This brings
it to version 4.4. The collection now contains 17,730 C64 tunes.
ExoticA offers the music individually via a simple to use
HTML Interface
or you can download them all in one large GZIP'd TAR Archive -
HVSC.tar.gz.
UnExoticA has had
12 updates in the last month, which brings the archive to 4575 files packed into
915 archives. That's 267 megs of great music!
Update to the Demo Scene Reference Manual.
Current version is now 4.11.
Also updated the Compilation Disk Reference Manual
to version 1.18.
I wish you all a Merry Xmas, and a Happy New Year! :)
ExoticA website
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24.12.2001 SimpleMail News
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"Merry x-mas dear users! It's exactly one year since the release of the first alpha
version of SimpleMail and we made a big step in that time. We would like to thank
you for your support during the time and we are releasing the
first beta version of SimpleMail
(V0.14)! The changes are:
ARexx: added lots of commands.
Signatures can now be stripped when replying.
Folder names are now rendered in bold when containing new mail.
Improved the wordwrap while quoting.
Option to not quote empty lines.
Your address is filtered out when replying a multiple recipient email.
Modified the STARTTLS code following the suggestions from Jörg Strohmayer.
Every folder can now have a default recipient address.
Can now import address books from YAM.
Implemented CC support in the Compose Message window.
Hynek Schlawack, SimpleMail
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24.12.2001 Software News
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Release 2.2a of AmigaNCP, the Amiga/Psion
link package, is now available from all the
download sites. Changes include additional
Amiga to Psion clipboard exchange via hotkey, and fixes for setting of remote file dates
and attributes in S5/EPOC32 mode. The 2.2a minor update replaces the broken .lzx archive
of the 2.2 release, and fixes a tooltype setting bug in the prefs GUI application.
A new BETA version of CManager (1.11) is
available for download. The major new
feature is support of .VCF files.
PerfectPaint V2.8
- great FREEWARE ! proggie for painting, animation and manipulating pictures from 1bit
to 24bits. changes,
docs
mpega_libmad r2
- second release of the mpega.library clone for WarpOS with faster speed, better quality
and smaller code size. This version might also fix some rare lockups.
Lame version 3.90 binaries non-beta!
- Lame MP3 encoder (68K/PPC PUP). There's now a NoFPU binary for those unfortunate enough not to have
one (note, this is *really* slow, LAME uses alot of floating-point calculations, which then
has to be emulated)... history,
docs
LamePPC
- Lame MP3 encoder version 3.90 for WarpOS.
sources
VaporWare website
PerfectPaint's page
Amiga Alternative Audio Page
Amiga projects by Jarmo Laakkonen
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23.12.2001 XMas Greetings
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Olaf Köbnik: "Merry Chistmas and all the best for 2002! Thanks for all!"
CAD Technologies would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year!.
Simone 'wiz' Tellini: "Well, as a Christmas present, a new CManager is on its way
toward the release."
Amiga Arena website
CAD-Technologies website
V3Portal
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23.12.2001 QUAKE2 Amiga Port News
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23.12.2001 MRE Christmas Edition
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The first parts of MRE are ready - just in time for a christmas surprise!
StartMenu (former Choowin), ProcessManager (new process managing tool to replace
status and break) and SystemSettings (former MainPrefs) can be downloaded,
installed and used, all together or each as single program. Some parts are still
missing: Locale archives (that will be available as single archives rather than
putting it into the program archive) and guides.
All available on www.martin-elsner.de
or in Aminet.
Merry christmas and a happy new year to the whole Amiga community round the world!
Martin R. Elsner, www.martin-elsner.de
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23.12.2001 DSPSpeed
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"The DSPSpeed page is now on-line with
benchmark results and the software itself, available for free downloading and
verifications.
DSPSpeed, official benchmarking tool for ProStationAudio, provides
accurate speed measurements on any platform capable of running AmigaOS and 68k code."
dr. Maurizio Ciccione, AudioLabs
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23.12.2001 Amiga Arena News
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Amiga Arena - Merry Christmas and Fullversion!
"The Amiga Arena wishes all Amiga Users a merry Christmas and would like
to say "Thank you" to all Supporters! As a little Christmas present the
Amiga Arena brings you with the permission from "Applaud Software"
the nice Puzzle Game "Blockhead I". In the Future you will find more
Games from "Applaud Software" in the "Amiga Arena"!
The Fire still burns! - regards Olaf K."
Amiga Arena website
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23.12.2001 Software News
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NetInfo v2.11 fixes the "multiple ping reply"
bug introduced in 2.10, and can now deal better with the V3 RIPE database replies.
NetInfo is GUI Traceroute/PING/Network Info Viewer.
VaporWare website
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22.12.2001 QUAKE2 Source Code Released Under GPL
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"The Quake 2 source code is now available for download,
licensed under the GPL.
You should read the entire license, but the gist of it is that you can do anything you want
with the code, including sell your new version. The catch is that if you distribute new binary versions, you are
required to make the entire source code available for free to everyone.
The primary intent of this release is for entertainment and educational purposes, but the GPL does allow commercial
exploitation if you obey the full license. [..]
All of the Q2 data files remain copyrighted and licensed under the original terms, so you cannot redistribute data from
the original game, but if you do a true total conversion, you can create a standalone game based on this code.
As with previous source code releases, the game data remains under the original copyright and license, and cannot be
freely distributed. If you create a true total conversion, you can give (or sell) a complete package away, as long
as you abide by the GPL source code license. If your projects use the original Quake 2 media, the media must come
from a normal, purchased copy of the game.
And what about Amiga port? Steffen Haeuser of Hyperion is already working on it in his freetime:
"My Quake 2 Port is now this far that I have to actually install the datafiles and test (do not ask too soon to be
betatesters, guys, it is possible that it will just crash or display datafiles once I installed the datafiles - in
case I did something wrong... if not than this would be the fastest game-port I ever did... one day of work until
now :) ). Status is that all features except Sound, CD Audio and Texturecache and Software Renderer are present."
ANN website
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22.12.2001 SoftCinema 0.16 beta 1 released
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SoftCinema 0.16b1 was released today, you can download it from
http://softcinema.amiga.pl or
http://highantdev.de/softcinema/.
Changes in this release:
- Fixed AGA display for YUV221111 based codecs.
- Fixed display scaling on CGFX for YUV221111 based codecs.
- Added support for MP3 hardware decoders, added MP3HW CLI/tooltype argument.
- Added PUBSCREEN CLI/tooltype argument.
- Fixed 8-bit window display for YUV221111 based codecs.
- DITHER is now default direct color emulation mode for 8-bit display.
- VIDEOCHANNEL and AUDIOCHANNEL CLI/tooltype arguments.
- Some speed improvements in DivX;-) codec.
- Added DEPTH24 CLI/tooltype argument for 24-bit output on fullscreen.
- Few bugfixes in QT parser.
- Fixed crash on last frame on animation.
- Fixed some problems in RainbowRunner codec.
All new parameters/options are described in newoptions.txt file included
in softcinema archives.
SoftCinema homepage
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22.12.2001 AmigaOS 4 News
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Ben Hermans: "One of the features of OS 4 is "WarpInput" (working title) which is an
analog to DirectInput allowing a programmer to use the same API to address different
kinds of input devices: analog and digital joysticks, keyboard and mouse, PSX port,
gamepads, trackballs etc."
Steffen Haeuser: "[..] lowlevel.library is - limited. It for example lacks in the API
concerning Analogue devices (such a thing is just not possible with it). There will
be a new API in OS 4 though, which is as powerful as InputSprockets (Macintosh) or
Direct Input (Windows). This new API is called WarpInput. WarpInput will support
*everything* which makes sense to support, on the other hand, including USB."
Ben Hermans and Steffen Haeuser via ANN
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22.12.2001 The Cryptmas issue (21) is now out
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It's Cryptmas Time! And do we have a present for you! We have a WORLD EXCLUSIVE!
Vision Design is making a NEW Classic Amiga! All the pics and interview with Xan
from Vision Design. Have a look and make up your own minds.
With this issue, Santa has really brought out his bulging sack! There are 5 disks
worth of articles/pics and our HTML version for all to enjoy.
Read more
Steve Evans, The Crypt Amiga magazine
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22.12.2001 XMas Greetings
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Matay would like to wish all our customers very merry and wonderful
Christmas and a happy New Year. Please stay with us and Amiga.
All the best to you!
e.p.i.c. interactive wishes everybody a merry x-mas and all the
best for 2002!
Stefan Kost: "I wish a succesful new year 2002 to us and the AMIGA."
Matay website
e.p.i.c. interactive website
SonicPulse website
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22.12.2001 AmigaNCP 2.2 released
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Release 2.2 of AmigaNCP, the Amiga/Psion
link package, is now available from all the
download sites. Changes include for
additional Amiga to Psion clipboard exchange via hotkey, and fixes for setting of
remote file dates and attributes in S5/EPOC32 mode.
VaporWare website
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21.12.2001 SDK Updates & New AmigaDE Windows Player
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New SDK Updates have been posted in the SDK Updates
section of the site. Also, SDK Updates and all other web-only downloads are now resumable. To take advantage of this feature,
you must have a browser or download manager that supports HTTP Resume (Getright, GoZilla!, Caitoo, etc).
A new version of the AmigaDE Player for Windows has been released. Version 1.1 is now available for download from the AmigaDE
Shop at http://de.amiga.com. Log in to your account and select the Downloads link. Just
download the AmigaDE Player for Windows as you have done before.
Installation overview: After you have downloaded the AmigaDE Player Installer, run it once to remove the old AmigaDE Player.
Then, run the installer again to install the new player. Additional help can be found by clicking on the Help button on the
AmigaDE Shop website.
Amiga Development Network
AmigaDE Shop website
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21.12.2001 Virus Help Denmark Amiga News
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The vote for the antivirus programmer that has done the most for the Amiga scene,
has only 10 days more to go, here is the current vote statistics:
Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - xvs.library : 254 votes
Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor............... : 213 votes
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe.................. : 46 votes
Alex van Niel - VirusChecker II................ : 19 votes
Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ III..................... : 11 votes
Heiner Schneegold - VT-Schutz.................. : 8 votes
Total votes: 551. You can still place your
Vote Here.
New virus translations added to the
Amiga Virus Encyclopedia.
Virus Help Denmark Amiga website
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21.12.2001 GetBoinged has new Amiga news section!
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GetBoinged! has created a small news section called "Weekly Amiga News Round-Up!"
where selected news items will appear. This section will feature up to ten news
items for each week. So if you only have time to check the news once a week, you
only have to go one place.
To check it out point your browser
here. A link off the home page will take
you to the new section.
Paul J. Beel
GetBoinged website
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21.12.2001 MediatorUP 2.7
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The MediatorUP 2.7 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV
users has been made available today. The update includes the new versions of the
following drivers:
- pci.library ver.5.0
- MediatorNET.device ver.2.4 (Ethernet 10Mbps PCI cards)
- Voodoo.card ver.2.10 (Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3/4/5 PCI graphic cards)
- Virge.card ver.1.4 (S3 ViRGE, S3 ViRGE DX PCI graphic cards)
All the above drivers have been redesigned so as to automatically detect the busboard
type and to provide the appropriate support.
Darek Dulian, ELBOX COMPUTER
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21.12.2001 Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.10
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The MM CD 1.10 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV
users, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been released by
ELBOX Computer. The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- sb128.audio ver.4.5 (SoundBlaster PCI128 sound cards)
- Voodoo.card ver.4.11 (Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 PCI graphic cards)
- mixer.library ver.1.3 (SB128, FM801, SB Live!, SB Audigy sound cards)
- tv.library ver.1.5 (TV tuner cards)
- FastEthernet.device ver.1.4 (10/100Mbps FastEthernet cards)
All the above drivers have been redesigned so as to automatically detect the
busboard type and to provide the appropriate support.
Darek Dulian, ELBOX COMPUTER
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21.12.2001 It Came from the Desert and It Came from the Desert II: Antheads Disk Images Available!
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Cinemaware proudly presents the pulp sci-fi classics It Came from the Desert and its
Europe-only sequel Antheads: It Came from the Desert II.
The sleepy California town of Lizard Breath is in for a giant surprise. At this very
moment, swarms of enormous radiation-crazed insects are descending upon the tranquil
burg. Battle giant, mutant insects in Cinemaware’s salute to 50's monster movies,
It Came from the Desert. The game is available in Amiga and PC formats. Plus,
as a special bonus, we have the never-before-seen Sega Genesis version.
The sequel, only released in Europe, returns to Lizard Breath five years after the
events of the first game. The town has tried to forget the horror, but some problems
won't go away. Is the nightmare beginning again? Find out in Antheads: It Came from
the Desert II. Antheads was only available on the Commodore Amiga.
The games will only be available to a limited time so head to the vault to download
It Came from the Desert
and Antheads!
Cinemaware website
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21.12.2001 comp.sys.amiga.morphos passes 178:31
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"Beside the obvious reasons why and why not this group should be created,
or if it would have been better to have comp.sys.morphos.* or any other
of the possible alternatives, I think it's interesting to see who voted
'Yes' or 'No': Alan Buxey, Andreas Kleinert, Daithi O'Cuinn, Randy Vice,
David Scheibler, Kermit Woodall, Ralph Schmidt, Paul Burkey and many others
voted 'Yes', Bill Hoggett, Conor Kerr, Dave Haynie, Wayne Hunt and
considerably less others voted 'No'.
[Note: These were completely deliberate and sometimes random choices, copied
over because their name rang a bell, not necessarily because of some ulterior
motive that I might or might not see behind their vote]"
Read more
ANN website
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21.12.2001 AROS News
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Merry christmas to you all!
Georg Steger has made some fixes to the graphics.library.
Stefan Berger is working on a port for Palm Pilots. So soon we'll be able to take AROS with us.
Adam Chodorowski did further bugfixing on Python, and has also done an impressive job at updating copyright notices.
Fabio Alemagna is thinking hard about a new OOP framework.
Johan Grip is working on a PCI driver system.
AROS homepage
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21.12.2001 Amiga RC5 Team Effort News
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"As of today member list updates are on hold until the 6th of January due to
vacation (you can submit forms of course, they will be processed later).
The mailinglist will be down as well due to a dying fan in the list machine
that might cause problems if left unsupervised.
Have a nice xmas and a cracking new year everyone!
Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
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21.12.2001 Software & Games News
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ahi.device 5.20, AHI prefs 5.3 and AddAudioModes 5.2 for m68k, ppc and ix86 are
now available here.
tuxPuck v0.41 - Clone of
Shuffle Puck Cafe, using SDL. Score has been added.
StreamRA updated!
The new RAPlay (v3.0)
doesn't really work with AUDIO: anymore, so the StreamRA script had to be updated to
use the new (and better) RAPlay arguments... also it now makes sure to supply
sufficient stack for RAPlay.
Martin Blom
Da SixK Port Page
Amiga Alternative Audio Page
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20.12.2001 Payback Update 6 And Updated Maps Available
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"A small but annoying bug has been found in the version of the Map Editor that was
included in Update 6. A fixed version has been added as a seperate download to the
Payback Updates Page."
Apex Designs website
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20.12.2001 individual Computers: Our .COM domains are moving!
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20.12.2001 Video of fair 'Amiga 2001' ready
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Virtual Dimension has completed its fair report about the Amiga 2001. The crucial
points of the video are AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Ben Hermans of Hyperion and Gerald
Carda of bplan report about the status and visitors of the fair are also asked.
Besides this the video which lasts 25 minutes reports about the newest hard- and
software and short report about the Atari-park has also been added.
Additionaly this up to now most extensive fair report will be available in English.
Download:
amiga2001s.mpg (160x120 pixel, 25:07 min., 39 MB)
amiga2001.mpg (352x288 pixel, 25:07 min., 139 MB)
Amiga-news.de website
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19.12.2001 Payback Update 6 And Updated Maps Available
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"Payback Update 6 is now available here
and an updated version of the demo is available
here. There are also two updated maps
available on the Extra Maps Page.
The visual appearance of certain parts of the site has also been improved - please feel free to
let me know what you think."
Apex Designs website
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19.12.2001 Mediator PCI 4000 and more
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This message must be a good news for all the owners of A4000: As of tomorrow
Mediator PCI 4000 is being shipped to our distributors.
Read more about Mediator PCI 4000.
And another news for all those who use A4000D and have no E/BOX 4000 Tower with the Elbox
Zorro III/PCI busboard: Along with Mediator PCI 4000, you can now acquire the Elbox Zorro
III/PCI busboard. And a great news for owners of A3000D: In January we commence production
of Zorro III/PCI busboards for Amiga 3000D. These busboards may also be obtained together
with Mediator PCI 4000 cards. More information soon to be read in our website.
Now we start producing Mediator PCI ZIII, the card dedicated for A3/4000 computers where
replacement of the daughterboard is impossible. This Mediator model will be on sale in
January. Read more about Mediator PCI ZIII.
All those faithful Amiga fans who have been long waiting to be able to have new models of
Mediator: Please accept our apologies for the delay. Be ensured that the waiting was really worth
the final product. Mediator PCI 4000 is technically the best PCI solution for A3/4000 computers,
and it has the most comprehensive PCI driver pack available in the Amiga market. The delay in
starting the sales of Mediator PCI 4000 resulted from a long-term period of collecting an
appropriate number of orders to justify the large-scale production. Mass production has the
advantage for the prospective busboard owners that we can offer a very attractive price level,
run professional support and to dynamically develop more superb quality software. Expanding the
Mediator PCI busboard series for all the main Amiga models enables us to start producing the
SharkPPC G3/G4 (SharkPPC+) processor cards, which will be a hardware item common for all the main
Amiga models. More information soon to be read in our website. Amiga + Mediator provided with
a specific SharkPPC card will give you the chance to make your dreams come true -- Amiga will
again be a common word for a modern, fast computer.
We are working on VHI drivers. They will be soon available."
CyberGraphX homepage
Darek Dulian, Elbox website
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19.12.2001 Digibooster Professional Community IRC-Meeting
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The Digibooster Professional Community invites you to an IRC meeting. On Thursday
the 20.12.01 at 8 o'clock PM is an IRC-Channel under these options availble:
Server: ie.altnet.org
Channel: #digiboosterpro
Port: 6667
In this Channel we are talking about all around the Digibooster Professional.
We would be very happy if you joining us.
Dennis Lohr via ANN
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19.12.2001 Retro Replay: Reservations cancelled
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In the past few days, our stock of Retro Replay cartridges for the classic computer
Commodore 64 dropped strongly.
Starting today, only one reservation per person
will be taken. It will automatically be cancelled after one week. Only five
cartridges per reseller are shipped to prevent an artificial monopoly.
Read more
individual Computers website
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19.12.2001 MorphOS Software News
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Gabriele Greco: "If someone is intrested I've upload some morphos related
files to Aminet sunday and they are finally available:
gammapatrolmos -
A nice vertical scroll shooter that runs in true color 640x480 with parallax scrolling,
really nice gfx. Very playable here on MorphOS, it was almost implayable on 060...
ZipMOS -
Port of ZIP/UNZIP, with crypt support, about 1.5 faster than the powerup version.
LhA-mos -
Port of the unix lha. VERY fast, use the unix syntax instead of the Boberg's lha one.
SDL-Amiga v1.2.3
of SDL, also available in .zip format at
http://www.libsdl.org.
Olivier Fabre: "Well, if someone is interested, my screen blanker "Matrix" is available
for MorphOS at http://off.free.fr/matrix/.
Get the 1.6 archive, then update it with the 1.7 exe. Docs are missing."
Gabriele Greco
Olivier Fabre
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18.12.2001 Interview with programmer of Exodus
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Today, the Amiga Future released a german and english interview
with Andrzej Bugajny - programmer of strategy game Exodus.
Andreas Magerl, Amiga-Future
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18.12.2001 Games & Software News
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Mures - a ChuChu Rocket
like with openGl, using SDL.
Network support untested.
Descent FreeSpace: The Great War demo
containing all the updates is finally on Aminet. The demo gives you 4 playable game-levels to get a glimpse
of the full-game. Both 68k and PPC versions are included in the demo version.
AmigAIM 0.9438 Beta - an AIM Client
for the Amiga by Richard H. Poser II. history
Da SixK Port Page
Aminet
Official AmigAIM Page
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17.12.2001 XAD Unpacks ZIP Archives For VirusZ/VirusChecker To Test
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"For quite some time, VirusChecker and VirusZ have been unable to unpack and virustest
any ZIP archives. I have now managed to unpack .zip archives quite nicely with Dirks
XAD shareware package.
Please remember to support all our excellent Amiga programmers,
even if their particular program has gone from shareware to freeware. You may not
realize what a God-send they are, until something goes wrong. Thanks!"
Read more how to setup your
VirusChecker or
VirusZ
The Virus Help Team Canada website
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17.12.2001 Hosting troubles for Amiga Impact
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"The French Amiga website Amiga Impact currently have some hosting troubles,
which will hopefully be resolved on this monday evening. Don't hesitate to
subscribe to our
announce mailing-list to be informed when the site will be back online.
Thank you very much."
Stéphane Campan via ANN
Amiga Impact website
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17.12.2001 ex-Amiga Active: New name, new web site
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"For those who aren't already aware, we'd like to draw your attention to our new web site
for digital. It's located at
www.digitalmagazine.co.uk.
The old Amiga Active site will remain online for the foreseeable future, basically to
provide information on the contents of all issues of Amiga Active and allow anyone who
would like to complete their collection to order back issues and/or PDF CDs."
Amiga Active homepage
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17.12.2001 Software News
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PNG-Box v2.51 and SViewIV v9.25 were uploaded to Aminet today.
Changes: updated PNG codec (both), PSD loader included (sview) and maintenance (sview).
ppc.library
v0.9 - emulation of the ppc.library and the PowerUp kernel under WarpOS.
readme
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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16.12.2001 Aminet: New Interface
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There is a new WWW-Interface available on the Aminet site US-Site.
The Interface has a white background. On the left-hand side there's a narrow blue command panel and on the
right-hand side the chosen information is presented. On the homepage these are the uploads of the last seven days.
In the command panel you'll find the search option, links to information about Aminet as well as links to each
single category. After having clicked on a particular category, its content will be shown on the righ-hand side
and at the top the subcategories will appear, by which means a quick search is possible.
Amiga-news.de website
US Aminet site
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15.12.2001 Eyetech site hacked!
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"Within the last 90 minutes our web site (actually our ISP) has been premeditatedly
hacked and a new home page put up by 'BL4F' (at least thats what the new directory
he created said). This is the same guy who hacked the amiga.com website earlier
this week. From the content he is clearly a supporter of bplan/morph OS.
It will take a little time to put right as all our access passwords to the site,
includind email access have been hijacked and changed. Our ISP is working on this
but it may be an hour or so before the site is back to normal.
Eyetech has been trading continuoisly in the IT field for over 18 years - any
malicious rumours of our demise are wishful thinking by friends of our enemies.
Any help in tracing the perpetrator would be gratefully received - but only
after normal service has been resumed. We will prosecute whoever is responsible in
our own war on cyber terrorism.
Thanks for your help - and please help spread the word to other lists.
Alan M Redhouse, Eyetech Group Ltd
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15.12.2001 Obligement 30 is now out (special 5 years birthday issue !)
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Issue 30 of the famous french e-zine is now available. You can read in this issue:
latests Amiga news, interviews of Gilles Bourdin (ex-Amiga Technologies) and
José Grilliere (from Amigazette), report of the Koln Amiga Show 2001,
article about MorphOS and Pegasos, review of Earth 2140 Mission Pack and
lots of others interestings articles !
Download it from the website:
http://obligement.free.fr.
Obligement website
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15.12.2001 New xsurfadsl.device and appp.device
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A new archive with the PPPoE-drivers for our networking card X-Surf can be found
in the support-area
of this website. The CPU-load has been lowered, and some parts of the appp.device
have been prepared for further debugging. The performance is already a bit more
stable on some setups, so we can release this last version before Christmas for
a public test.
individual Computers website
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15.12.2001 CDTV.org.uk 1st Birthday
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"The Commodore CDTV Information Centeris now 1 year old, and as a present I redesigned
the site, Unfortunatly I didnt finish it on time but 90% is up and running and the
rest will be finished before christmas. One of the new additions to the site is a CDTV
Users Club that will be up and running in a few days (Which will have CDXL files,
Backdrops, Installation guides and trouble fixes plus a monthly electronic magazine).
The site is dedocated to the Commodore CDTV and CDTV CR Prototype and I'll help anyone
with CDTV problems for free. So come and have a look around and get that CDTV out and
start using it."
Commodore CDTV Information Center website
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14.12.2001 Repulse price drop
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The new price for the Repulse Gold soundcard is now 179 euro. You may order it at
ALiENDESiGN's onlineshop now.
Merry Christmas!
ALiENDESiGN website
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14.12.2001 Pegasos developer area opened
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"Due to the fact that only a limited quantity of developer systems is available
for shipping, we might contact you regarding your application and/or project.
The development platform includes a pegasos mainboard with CPU card + MorphOS
development environment. Start of shipment is january 2002 and is in order in the
sequence of registration."
Pegasos developer platform registration page
bplan website
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14.12.2001 New PR for Hyperion Entertainment
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13.12.2001 Amiga OSXL Review
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Rick Rudge: "Our Amiga users group put on a demonstration of the Amgia
OSXL (and Amithlon) and here is a review of this great program.
Check out the "December 2001" link at our users group web site
news section.
Rick Rudge, NWAmiga.org
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13.12.2001 Amiga Arena News
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"PuzzleBOBS" is a brand new Puzzle Boble Clone from Nexus Development!
The Amiga Arena talked with Emanuele Cesaroni about the development
and the past, present, future!
Amiga Arena website
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13.12.2001 AmiBlitz Version 2.21
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BlitzBasic2 has been updated and is now released under GPL. It's now called AmiBlitz2
and has lots of new features including optimisations, faster compiler, PPC and FPU
assembly and many bugfixes. A full distribution will be worked out soon, but for now
you will need to get this and use some files from a previous Blitz installation
(the demo might work).
Please, send bugreports for the program to the Blitz mailing
list, rather than to the uploader, to prevent doubble reports.
To subscribe to the mailing list send an e-mail to
blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
To unsubscribe send an e-mail to
blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
Amiga-news.de website
Blitz Basic 2000 Initiative website
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13.12.2001 Interview with the Schlachtfeld-Team
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13.12.2001 SoundFX News
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SoundFX: what things are done or in development for Version 4.2
Stefan Kost: "I have finished the changes of the saver API to allow saving
ranges. Now I'll update the other saver modules. Furthermore there are
a few new menu-points (in help-menu). A few more bugs have been squashed
too and the docu has be improved futher (FAQ is nearly ready)."
SonicPulse website
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13.12.2001 Turboprint 7.21 beta: new drivers
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12.12.2001 Kicksoft news
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Kicksoft ltd are pleased to announce that Amiga OS XL, the emulation
package and Mediapoint are now avaliable.
Also Christmas price reductions on:
Turboprint 7
GoldED6
Aminet set 11
and on other products.
Go to kicksoft.co.uk for details.
ray mccarthy, Kicksoft
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12.12.2001 French & ItalianAmigaOS 3.9 manuals
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12.12.2001 Delivery date for VarIO
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The last acknowledgments of orders from all suppliers arrived today, now it's only
a matter of parcel services if pre-ordered boards arrive on december 24th or 27th.
Our international partners shall most probably not receive the boards until next year.
individual Computers website
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12.12.2001 20 Years of Usenet
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Google, who bought out the online Usenet archive DejaNews has put up a page
which highlights notes of the last 20 years of the Usenet. This includes the
first mention of the Amiga, and the Commodore 64, as well as several world
shaping events. You can find the full page here.
Amiga.org website
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12.12.2001 MotionStudio info
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Ingo Kleefeld, the programmer behind the video app MotionStudio
answers some questions about the features of the product. Aparently MotionStudio will be released with the Pegasos and will imho
continue the tradition of video software on the amiga. Questions are edited.
Read More
ANN website
Titan Computer website
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12.12.2001 Tales Of Tamar: New Amiga version 0.39
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"Version 0.39 for the Amiga introduces the so called BardsTale screen.
BardsTale is a new feature to improve the atmosphere in the first few turns of ToT.
It shows stories about the development of the realm. But it is not only able to
show simple texts, but enables us also to create "playable stories". Maybe some of
you remember those "game books" where you could decide how the story ends.
This is possible with BardsTale, too. Theoretically, we could create huge fantasy
stories where the decisions of the player have an influence on the realm.
But why is it called BardsTale? This is a tribute to the original "Bards Tale",
back then when games were judged by story and atmosphere and when graphics were
of minor importance. BardsTale and the new port are created by our artist Carsten
Fuhrmann.
Again, we'd like to invite a Amiga users to join the "Beta Test".
On the last exhibition, somebody said that the ToT community would be the biggest
Amiga club in Germany :-) We think this needs no further comment..."
Tales Of Tamar homepage
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12.12.2001 AmigaOS XL: amigabest.com
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12.12.2001 Games News
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Xrick - A Rick Dangerous game using SDL. Work for 68k and Mos. (Except if you have a Mediator + P96 like me for Mos)
Supertux - A platform game using SDL. Don't remember if it works, but it should.
Sdlroids - An asteroid clone game using SDL.
Mangoquest - A GL game using SDL. (not fully tested)
Glaxium - An openGL game using SDL.
Da SixK Port Page
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11.12.2001 AmigaDE Shop Holiday Sal
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Now through December 24, 2001, our existing AmigaDE Player Customers will receive
a discount on participating applications purchased through the AmigaDE Shop.
Customers who have not purchased the AmigaDE Player will receive a free AmigaDE
Player for the platform of their choice with the purchase of regularly priced
applications through the AmigaDE Shop.
Customers who receive a free AmigaDE Player will not receive a discount on any
products purchased.
AmigaDE Shop
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11.12.2001 Tao Group intent® Development Portal
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11.12.2001 Amiga Expo call for Exhibitors and User Groups
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"Amiga Expo's currently discounted booth and table rates will be going up
at the end of December, 2001 - if you're a developer, reseller, or user
group planning on exhibiting at Amiga Expo please get your reservation in
before the end of this month in order to take advantage of these low-low
rates!
If you're planning on attending Amiga Expo the advance-ticket
prices for the show will be going up as well! Please call and order your
tickets soon. Buy 'em Christmas gifts for all your Amiga friends too!
While you're at it - be sure to book your hotel room reservation before
they run out!!"
Kermit Woodall, Amiga Expo
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10.12.2001 SUBWAY & HIGHWAY
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Amiga USB controllers:
SUBWAY: Clockport controller for Amiga 1200 compatible clockports
HIGHWAY: Zorro II controller card for "big" Amigas
SUBWAY and HIGHWAY were developped by E3B (Michael Böhmer, hardware) and
vmc (Harald Frank, software).
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10.12.2001 Amiga Arena News
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Amiga Arena - Interview Action
Do you remember the demo of the adventure "The last Seal"?
Yes it was released in 1999 but today the developer "Ancor"
are still busy! Read the Interview and visit
www.ancor.ch for more information
about the point&click Adventure "The last Seal"!
Amiga Arena - BangBoo Update!
A new archive with the BangBoo game is online!
Amiga Arena website
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10.12.2001 Birthday competition at KiR
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Keep it Retro are celebrating their first birthday by running a
pre-christmas competition.
Answer a few simple questions and you're in with a chance of winning
Cloanto's Amiga Forever 5, Guildhall Leisure's Blitz Basic, Revenge
of the Mutant Camels 2, Gridrunner and Ancipital (all for the PC...)
and Paul Kubizsyn's excellent Commodore 64 audio CD, Chemical Rock.
Amiga.org website
Keep it Retro website
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10.12.2001 AmigaOS 3.9: More locale files
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"We just uploaded the latest collection of locale files for OS 3.9 including:
Bosanski, Catala, Czech, Dansk, Espanol, Francais, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands,
Polski, Portugues, Portugues-Brasil, Russian, Slovensko, Srpski, Suomi, Svenska, Turkce.
The files are named "39locale_name". Please download the files you need from this
ftp drawer."
AmigaOS 3.9 page
AmigaInc. website
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10.12.2001 Software and Games News
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A new beta version of Scalos has been uploaded. This is version 40.16 and fixes
a number of reported bugs. As always, the
Downloads page
is the place to visit :)
New Amiga version 0.39R1
of Tales of Tamar the internet based roundgame for Amiga, Atari, Mac, Java, Linux/SDL
and Windows released.
Scalos homepage
Tales Of Tamar homepage
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9.12.2001 Annuaire Amiga Francophone #11 / December 2001 available
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9.12.2001 Amiga.com hacked
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9.12.2001 Amitopia update news!
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1. Amitopia needs at least 23 more subscribers, before the magazine will be sent out!
So visit our website!: www.amigaworld.org
and order your copy if you are from Norway or Sweden!
2. Amitopia will be available in Sweden from 15th of December 2001!
3. Amitopia will be expanding onto Denmark next year. More news about this will follow...
And... Amitopia wishes every Amiga user a "Happy christmas, and a happy new year!"
ANN website
AmigaWorld website
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8.12.2001 100%AMIGA CD magazine issue 19
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The Christmas issue of 100%AMIGA is out now. Inside the magazine this month
we have a totally festive theme for Christmas including some free Xmas games
and a whole bunch of seasonal clipart, music and animations. We also show
the results of last month's reader survey on the future of Amiga and take a
light hearted look at some future Amiga products (mostly fictional) sung to
the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas. You can also listen to the out-takes
in the 100%BLOOPERS drawer. The new Directory Opus/OS3.9 utilities
collection D.O.O.N. is shown in the Hot Off The Press section and of course
we bring you the top Amiga news stories in the only magazine that has News
Presenter reading them to you. Available from
Amiga Online Superstore or
100%AMIGA website
FORE-MATT Home Computing website
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8.12.2001 Amiga Arena News
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With the permission from Michael Taupitz you can now download
fullversion of the very nice Puzzle Game "Bangboo"!
Amiga Arena website
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8.12.2001 VirusTest file (BE WARY)
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W A R N I N G !!! - [ These testfiles are not for the faint of heart ]
Zeeball (Anti-virus programmer of Safe), and Dirk Stoecker (Programmer of CheckX
and other Amiga programs), have released a
VirusTest file. This archive
includes a set of testfiles for virus checkers. These files will be reported as
virus infected if your anti-virus system is properly installed. As Zeeball and Dirk
says, if your software does not report back that the files are virus infected,
you should update or change your system. If you are ready to test how well your
anti-virus stacks up, follow the subject link above.
Be sure to read everything her first.
Virus Help Denmark Amiga website
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8.12.2001 Virus Warning
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Two archives found on Aminet, contains a new trojan.
Trojan archive : AME-DSD.lha
Archive size.. : 6.927.166 bytes
Archive info.. : Dog Star Descends by Amnesty (CGX&AHI compatibile)
Trojan archive : PSL-KMJ.lha
Archive size.. : 5.530.365 bytes
Archive info.. : Kiss My Jazz by Pic Saint Loup (AGA/CGX)
You can read all about the trojan archives
right here.
And please spread the archive as much as you can.
Virus Help Denmark Amiga website
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8.12.2001 Virus Warning #2
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A new virus is found (Bobek-3). We do not know if this virus has been spread.
Virus name.... : Bobek-3
Virus Type.... : Linkvirus
Virus size.... : about 2.000 bytes (Uses polmorphic engine)
Read more about is right here.
Virus Help Denmark Amiga website
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8.12.2001 SimpleMail News
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Version 0.13 of SimpleMail
has been released! Changes since last release were:
Included a real manual at last. Thanks to David Rey!
SMTP over SSL.
POP3 connections can be made secure with the STLS command now. (RFC 2595)
Primitive ARexx-port.
Support for playing sounds.
Taglines, the last %t in the signature will be replaced by a tagline.
Folders holding unread mails are hilighted now.
Localization.
Hynek Schlawack, SimpleMail
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7.12.2001 Amiga names Frank Wilde as its new Chairman
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7.12.2001 Elbox photos from AMIGA 2001
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7.12.2001 The OOP4A-Project joins forces with PowerD and WizardClasses
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7.12.2001 Back to the Roots downtime for server upgrade
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"Back to the Roots will temporarily go offline this Friday night for upgrades,
but will hopefully back up within one day."
hippie2000, Back to the Roots
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7.12.2001 Apex Designs: Web And Email Outages
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"Apologies for the web and email problems we have been experiencing for the last
couple of days. They were caused by a problem with the domain name which has now
been resolved. If you sent us an email in the last few days and it bounced then
please resend it now."
Apex Designs website
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7.12.2001 Software News
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The preferences program that's included with the Titlebar Clock Plugin has been
updated. It fixes a few bugs and can be found on the
Downloads page.
The modules archive from Bruce Steers has been updated. The changes are: added
large d&d pointer images; fixed a few silly bugs in the amigaini.library;
and re-compiled the programs for the newer library. It's available in the
Downloads page.
Scalos homepage
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6.12.2001 fxPAINT special christmas offer
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Just in time for christmas time we now offer
fxPAINT 1.0 for an incredibly low
price of only 39.- US$ (59.- DM, 30.17 EURO). We hope to allow many users a look
at the power of fxPAINT at a low price and want to shorten the waiting time for
those users that are waiting for Version 2.0 that is currently under development
and will again set new standards. fxPAINT 1.0 is fully updatable to the current
V1.5 and Version 2.0 at a low price. This special offer is valid until 31th December
2001 and only as long as enough fxPAINT 1.0 are in stock. You can place your order
directly via our online-shop.
Innovative website
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6.12.2001 Amiga Games Classifying : November/December 2001
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Here is the final classifying of November/December 2001:
1. (1) Payback - 166 pts
2. (2) Napalm - 147 pts
3. (4) Quake - 125 pts
4. (3) Earth 2140 - 107 pts
5. (9) The Settlers - 88 pts
6. (7) Exodus : The Last War - 87 pts
7. (5) WipEout 2097 - 86 pts
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8. (6) Heretic 2 - 84 pts
9. (8) Foundation - 80 pts
10. (10) Sensible World Of Soccer - 65 pts
11. (11) Shogo - 63 pts
12. (27) Nightlong - 59 pts
13. (21) Extreme Racing - 59 pts
14. (19) Slam Tilt - 55 pts
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15. (18) Genetic Species - 52 pts
16. (12) Worms / Worms DC - 51 pts
17. (15) Bubble Heroes - 50 pts
18. (13) Dune 2 - 49 pts
19. (14) Colonization - 48 pts
20. (17) Civilization - 46 pts
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Next votes (AMIGA GAMES ranking of January/February 2002) will begin in mid-January.
David "Daff" Brunet, Amiga Games Classifying
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6.12.2001 AmigaInc. to attend a career fair
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6.12.2001 Amiga Arena - Interview Action!
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6.12.2001 AIO to interview Bitmap Brothers, Vulcan & Codemasters
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Amiga Information Online has lined up interviews with the Bitmap Brothers
and Vulcan Software. The chance may also come to interview Codemasters.
If you have any questions you would like us to put to either company please
state which company you would like asked and what your questions is. email
to, chris@aio.tp.
Amiga.org website
Amiga Information Online website
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6.12.2001 DTA project mailing list
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There now is a mailing list for the datatypes upgrade project (DTA). Send a mail
to majordomo@thule.no with in the body
"subscribe dta-beta" (without the "s).
The idea is to design and write a new datatypes system to provide lots more
functionality. For example we can expand the system with 'filters' and 'renderers'
or 'viewers' (different methods to display or edit the loaded data) so that,
for example, it would be possible to use Multiview as a fully featured web
browser, file converter, text-editor or even raytracer. In other words, the
datatypes system as it was meant to be.
This mailing list has been set up to first discuss the design of the datatypes
system thoroughly, and only after having set a clear roadmap, start developement
(still discussing design to steer developement of course). This means that also
non-programmers are welcome.
Many thanks to the lads at http://amiga.nvg.org
(Mitchman, kolla) for hosting the mailing list!
Brecht Machiels
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6.12.2001 DocDatatypes v40.30 Released
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DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. The list of supported
formats include: MS-Word(Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works,
AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word,
Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc(pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text.
New for this version (40.30) is the support of reading and writing TEAL Docs
and RichReader Docs. MS-Word XP(2002) is also supported.
Available to download only from
http://go.to/docdatatypes
Amigart website
DocDatatypes Home Page
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6.12.2001 GFX-BASE report of the O.A.S.E. show!
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"Last weekend most of the GFX-BASE members have been to the O.A.S.E. show in Graz,
Austria. Juergen Schober, the initiator of this show, presented in his beautiful
Amiga-shop 'point design' an official Scala presentation of the promised AmigaOS
4.0 features aswell as very interesting Amiga high-end products, like G-Rex PCI,
Mediator PCI (running TV-cards, gfx-cards, soundcards and networkcards), the
AmigaOSXL package, some great games and much more.
We have been there to bring you a detailed and exclusive report on the show with
lots of photos and descriptions of all we have seen.
Click here now for a
virtual tour of the O.A.S.E. 2001 show in Graz. Enjoy! ;-)"
GFX-BASE website
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6.12.2001 Interview with Ralph Schmidt
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6.12.2001 Software News
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A new beta of AmigaNCP v2.2 is available, which might
fix the Amiga2Psion clipboard conversion.
Using NCP, you can link two Psion computers (or a Psion and a different machine) and exchange data.
NCP services include accessing files on the remote machines as if they were on your own.
Digital Almanac Update
The new update V4.6 of DA III is ready to be downloaded
from the Aminet. This will be the last update for this year. Happy Santa Claus!
V3Portal
Digital Almanac Homepage
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5.12.2001 Amiga announces new Vice President of Engineering
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Sanjay Menon has joined Amiga as it's new Vice President of Engineering.
Menon brings 10 years of development and management experience to Amiga.
Read more here.
ExiE: 'Can somebody explain to me, WHY is Amiga Inc. staff still so excited?
Write to exie@czex.cz'
AmigaInc. website
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5.12.2001 AROS News
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"When I write this, AROS has both achieved a major goal and run into a problem.
No, we were not too successful and got sued. We were just too successful. Last
month, 10 GB were downloaded from our FTP server and I had to remove the disk
images. Sorry, folks. Bandwith is free but only within reason. I'm now looking
for a place that doesn't mind 10 GB/month (and probably more). Aminet comes to
mind but I guess Urban doesn't like the idea to have to manually accept our
disk images and the new CD-ROM image every night :-) Anyway, it's sad and great
news and not the end of the world. It's just another speed bumb.
When I got the truck over it, I'll tell you. Until then, watch this space for
my irregular updates. And thanks to all the people who made this possible. To
the developers who made AROS so attractive and to all those who downloaded
our work. As I write this, our webcounter has passed 134'000 hits.
Thank you all."
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla, AROS
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5.12.2001 Vulcan to release MiniSeries to Web
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"Between 1994 and 1997 Vulcan developed and published 10 award winning Amiga floppy
games known as the MiniSeries. They where called the MiniSeries due to their unique
and original packaging. Each game was housed in a 10x12cm full coloured glossy box
with manuals and disks and each title was co-ordinated as part of a set.
Unfortunately these MiniSeries titles are no longer in production and many Amiga
stockists have run out. Not to worry though, we will be putting all of these games
on our website for free download in the coming weeks."
Amiga.org website
Vulcan Software website
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4.12.2001 www.AmigaJoysticks.co.uk Add easier ways to pay
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"www.amigajoysticks.co.uk have now made
it easier for you to order joysticks! We have added several new payment methods to
our shopping cart system. You can now order securly through our Thawte certified 128
bit encryption SSL server, or you can order by PayPal, NOCHEX, Fax or phone."
www.amigajoysticks.co.uk
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4.12.2001 Swap.pD CLOSED!
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After nearly five years of trading, the long time distributor of
Amiga Information Online,
Swap.pD, has finally
closed its doors to customers. The struggling PD library started out back in 1996
when the proprietor, Lee Hesselden started to compile PD disks to swap with the
large PD libraries. With his collection growing and growing, Swap.pD was born,
initially just to swap PD, but later to offer cheap PD disks to those without any
PD to swap!
Due to the popularity of the Aminet, and the internet alike, people
were downloading software instead of buying it, this meant less sales for Swap.pD.
Sales continued to drop until it came to a point where one order a week was all that
was shoved through the letter box! Lee Hesselden: "Swap.pD has been very inactive,
I've tried to entice people back by selling boxed games and CDs, but still, I get
few replies. I see no future for Swap.pD, therefore, on Friday 30th November, at
12:00pm Swap.pD will close. Thanks to all who have supported me over the five years.
I wish you well."
Lee Hesselden
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4.12.2001 Freespace Demo Update 4
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Steffen Haeuser has uploaded a new Demo Update (number 4) to
Hyperion website:
- statistics bug fixed
- some instabilities at startup of demo fixed (could crash on startup sometimes)
- some other minor instabilities (could potentially cause crashes) fixed
- Voice and Music Audio Streaming can now be disabled independently (if you want
to disable it - for example due to using VMM - you have to set this in your
FreeSpace preferences new)
- Added the Analog Joystick Adapter building descriptions
- Some more minor changes
A full archive with all updates applied will uploaded to Aminet this week.
Amigart website
Hyperion Entertainment website
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4.12.2001 Electronic Teacher 5 - special offer and more
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W.F.M.H. has launched a new internet site for one of its flagships:
Electronic Teacher 5 CD. The multimedia language tutor home can now be
found at http://eteacher5.com.
Besides, the package can now be ordered at promotional price (even 50% off)!
As publishing house informs, the software is still under heavy
development and among tons of new features (including even animation support)
then new release will bring us, the two new language data CD are expected
to be released as well, with lessons of German and French! Electronic
Teacher 6 is expected to be released at the end of April 2002.
Marcin Orlowski
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4.12.2001 Interview with the Schlachtfeld-Team
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4.12.2001 FreeKey 1.0 for EZKey keyboard adapters
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Eyetech are pleased to announce that FreeKey v1.0 is now available on their website
for download.
FreeKey allows owners of our latest EZKey-XS Mk.2, EZKey-EX and EZKey-IL keyboard
adapters to use the extra 'multimedia' keys found on many PC keyboards.
Read more
Eyetech Group Limited website
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4.12.2001 Pagan Games Web Site
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"The Pagan Games web site will be up and down over the next few days as we change hosting
provider and update the site. We should be back and running in a week or so."
Amiga.org website
Pagan Games website
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4.12.2001 DSPSpeed, the official ProStationAudio benchmark tool
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3.12.2001 Visionary PCI TV Card Software Available
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3.12.2001 VaporWare Euro Regtool
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The offline registration utility has been updated to all Euro now; prices have
generally been rounded down to the nearest full Euro number. The new regtool
is available for download here
and will of course also be included in all new Vapor releases. The online
registration shop provided by Silicon Circus Ltd. continues to operate in UKP;
it provides currency conversion facilities during shopping and checkout, though,
using current currency exchange rates.
VaporWare website
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3.12.2001 SDL Amiga/MorphOS updated to 1.2.3
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"I've just updated the SDL Amiga (68k/MorphOS) port to 1.2.3, this version
is still beta and can be find only on my SDL web page:
http://ggreco.interfree.it/sdl.html.
I need some bug reports from programmers before submitting the changes to Sam Lantiga
to update the amiga sources in the official tree."
Gabriele Greco
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3.12.2001 Interview with Ben Hermans, Managing partner Hyperion Entertainment
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"First of all I wanted to do this to confirm what we all though was possible because
of this advancement in PDA 3D technology. Second of all, theres a lot of people
getting very ansy over not having enough to read. So I hope to bring you a number
interviews to calm your nerves before OS4 is released. :)
Along with Hyperion s Warp3D API for the AmigaDE, a small amount AmigaOS ground is
also covered."
Lets Begin
Amiga.org website
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3.12.2001 Free Advertisement for one Month on GetBoinged!
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Paul Cardwell: "We are offering free advertisments for one month to Amiga development
companies on GetBoinged. If your company is
interested, please email us at
info@getboinged.org for details."
Paul Cardwell via ANN
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3.12.2001 Amiga Forever 5 benchmark
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A performance test
of the Amiga emulator package Amiga Forever 5 from Cloanto.
Result: A 300MHz Pentium is almost enough to emulate a 68040 Amiga with 80MHz,
which means double the speed.
Amiga-News.de website
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2.12.2001 Kicksoft News
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Kicksoft attain Webtrader status
Kicksoft are proud to announce that they have achieved membership of the
WEBTRADER scheme from the UK Consumer`s Association publishers of WHICH?
magazine. This scheme means that Kicksoft meets all legal requirements
of the EU, UK and meet the exacting Webtrader standards aimed at giving
consumers the best service possible.
Its Christmas @ kicksoft
"Our site has had a major update and with the addition of new software titles
and special Christmas promotions its never been a better time to buy from kicksoft,
we will even gift wrap for you !!!"
Visit www.kicksoft.co.uk for more details.
ray mccarthy, Kicksoft
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2.12.2001 Scalos News
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"The scalos.com domain expired and is being held for ransom at namezero.com - so we've
got ourselves a new domain - www.scalos.co.uk.
All contact e-mail addresses have changed to use the scalos.co.uk domain as expected.
Sorry for any inconvenience. Please update your bookmarks."
Scalos homepage
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2.12.2001 Amiga Expo offer to User Groups
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Amiga Expo has posted details of the special table and discount offers for
all (Amiga and others) user groups wanting to exhibit and attend Amiga Expo.
In brief, user groups can not only get a heavily discounted table space
to exhibit and promote their group - plus they can earn free admissions and
bigger discounts by helping promote the show in their newsletters!
Visit the user group area at
http://www.amigaexpo.com/usergroups.html
Amiga.org website
Amiga Expo 2002 website
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2.12.2001 Software News
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Scout v2.13 - tool that allows you to monitor your computer system. It displays
many different things -- like tasks, ports, assigns, expansion boards, resident
commands, interrupts, etc. This is the official continuation of the famous
system monitor from Andreas Gelhausen.
download /
readme
Expat is a shared
library which is based on the opensource project
expat.sourceforge.net and is used to
parse XML (eXetendable Markup Language) documents.
DiRu 2.0 is a
vocabulary-rich free (GPL) Russian<->English dictionary.
The original version is the Amiga OS one, there are ports to other OSes aswell.
PhotoFolio
v2.2 Documentation in Adobe PDF format is now available at the
Updates page.
PhotoFolio is software to catalogue, arrange and view your images.
Aminet
Daniel Mealha Cabrita, DIRU official pag
Steeple Software website
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1.12.2001 Payback To Be Ported To Intent, AmigaDE and Apple Mac
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As you may have already read on Virtual Programming's site, Payback is currently
being ported to several new platforms. Apex Designs are coding the Intent/AmigaDE
version in-house and the Mac conversion is being developed by an expert coder
working for VP.
Finally, three maps (one new, two updated) have been added to the
Extra Maps Page.
Apex Designs website
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1.12.2001 Amiga Update Newsletter
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1.12.2001 AmigaFlame: Demo of the Month
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1.12.2001 Virus Help Denmark AMIGA News
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The vote for the antivirus programmer that has done the most for the Amiga scene,
has only one month to go, here is the current vote statistics:
Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor............... : 169 votes
Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - xvs.library : 168 votes
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe.................. : 18 votes
Alex van Niel - VirusChecker II................ : 9 votes
Heiner Schneegold - VT-Schutz.................. : 4 votes
Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ III..................... : 3 votes
You can still place your Vote Here.
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA website
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1.12.2001 Software News
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ZVNC_1.0, a lightweight VNC client
for MorphOS that controls machines with a monitor. By David Gerber.
ZVNC unlike the others, has no display support. Its purpose is to be able to control another
computer which has a real monitor and the main advantage is that the network data transfered
is minimal. The mouse/keyboard control is really smooth.
(AmigaOS version is available too)
MorphOS website
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