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31.1.2001 Final Payback Status Report
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The last status report on the development of Payback
is now available for you to read. Don't forget that Payback is now available to pre-order
directly from Apex Design.
Don't forget to join Apex mailing list to make sure you're among
the first to know about the latest news!
Apex Designs
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31.1.2001 Kicksoft Launches!
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Ray Mccarthy: "This is to inform you that due to the success of the Commercial and share-ware sales
at the Kickstart Amiga Group it has been decided to launch a dedicated company to deal with this
called Kicksoft.
Dealing purely in serious commercial software and top quality share-ware
Kicksoft's aim is to make it easier for the Amiga user to be able to buy top quality software and
the Authors to get the rewards they deserve.
The web site can be found at www.kicksoft.co.uk.
And offers online ordering with Credit Card.
And to celebrate this launch we are offering you the
chance to win a copy of DRAWSTUDIO 2 just by visiting the site and filling out a competition form.
Ray Mccarthy, Kicksoft
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31.1.2001 alt.WoA (Alternative World of Amiga)
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"The alt.WoA show is a little over three weeks away and we are pleased to say that the show stands
are fully booked and advanced tickets (which only cost a pound!) are selling well. Fleecy Moss
will be in attendance together with a host of UK based Amiga User Groups and Vendors. Check out
http://www.alt-woa.org for more details. "
Amiga.org website
alt.WOA page
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31.12.2001 Trogsoft Beta Page
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"This is our BETA site. It's the site we've been working on since christmas. It follows the same basic
layout as the old one, but has been restructured to allow greater expansion in the future and
accomodate new projects, and even new computer platforms! To demonstrate this, we are launching our
Windows section now as part of this beta, although there are no products for Windows yet, there will be.
Don't be alarmed. This doesn't mean we're leaving the Amiga. Far from it. A great deal of effort
has been put into making sure we can continue. Read more
Trogladite Software website
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31.1.2001 Offical Picasso II(+)/IV mailinglist
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Back in mid November 2000 Fred Fish (old Picasso ML owner at ninemoons.com) held a vote to see where
the new Offical Picasso mailinglist would be located. 77% voted for sophisticated-development.
ninemoons.com then was deactivated in the early part of December 2000.
www.sophisticated-development.de is registered
to Klaus Burkert (ex VillageTronic hardware guy) and Tobias Seiler
is helping out and has setup the mailinglist. If you missed the results of the vote read the message from Mr.
Fish below.
"The results are in, and after several recounts, the vote is 14 for Pavel's list and 49 for Tobias' list.
So, sometime later today I will shutdown the picasso@ninemoons.com list and activate forwarding of
picasso@ninemoons.com email to pml@sophisticated-development.de. The forwarding will only be temporary to
give folks enough time to subscribe themselves to the new list of their choice." - "To subscribe to
pml@sophisticated-development.de send an email to "Majordomo@sophisticated-development.de". I believe that
everyone that wants to be on the egroups.com list is already there."
CyberGraphX homepage
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31.1.2001 Protect Your Miggy
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30.1.2001 Short News from CGX page
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30.1.2001 Amiga Survay - Win Bubble Heroes
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"Help us to help you and in return be entered into our prize draw to win a copy of Bubble Heroes."
Click here Go To SURVEY
31.1.2001 midnight
Andrew Reed: "It appears we are having some technical difficulties with our survey, having to work
on the many different versions of browsers out there.
So we have suspended the survey until we
can solve this problem, hopefully by Saturday.
We apologise for this, but we could only find
this out once it was live."
Crystal Interactive Software website
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30.1.2001 Big Book of Amiga Hardware updated
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´Big Book of Amiga Hardware´ was updated. There are 20 more or less big changes and additions. To be up-to-date
Ian Chapman is always looking for new pictures and informations! It would be graet if some of you could
mail new material to Ian (german or english).
Amiga-news.de website
Big Book of Amiga Hardware website
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30.1.2001 GAUHPIL Millennium Info
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GAUPHIL is the biggest Amiga user-list available at the internet. Since 1994 Dietmar Knoll is collecting
the names of Amiga-users all over the world. He publishes these names at his homepage. Today the list
contains 995 users from 38 countries. If you want to be a member of the list mail your personal
informations to dknoll@myokay.net.
Amiga-news.de website
GAUHPIL site
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30.1.2001 New AliendesigN URL
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30.1.2001 3ivx codec for Amiga
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Happy Machines released 3ivX decoder codec for Moovid PPC/68k and SoftCinema PPC.
Read More/Download.
A new special version of MooVId called Thrivx-MooVId for the new 3ivX codec is
available here
(this one is the CGFX fixed version).
NOTE: The current codecs available (3iv1 Delta 2) are still in a very early beta stage, the format is still
under development and will change, the samples are only a demonstration of the high quality and compression
this codec can achieve.
Speed in particular should improve dramatically, the codecs are not optimized as
this is only for testing...
You can download a sample 3ivX encoded movie (2mb) from here.
Amigart homepage
SoftCinema homepage
MooVId homepage
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30.1.2001 New Emulation ML
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On the owlnet.net server a new mailing list about "Amiga-Emulation" is now available.
The ones who would like to enter, please send an email to:
majordomo@owlnet.net and enter in the BODY (thus in the text field) 'subscribe
emulation'. Also availiable are the lists: "Team Amiga Mailing List", "Sofa-list", "STRICQ-list" and the "Arexx-list".
BoingWorld website
owlnet.net
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29.1.2001 Bill McEwen on AmigaDE
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29.1.2001 DoCoMo, Sony To Create Mobile Phone Game System
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"Sony and DoCoMo announced
they will jointly develop on-line games worldwide. Sony, Motorola and JVC have greatly invested in a new
Sun Authorized Java Virtual Machine which is also being used in the new Amiga computer. Founder of the
UK based Tao Group and ex-Amiga developer Mr. Charig just returned from Japan for the launch of DoCoMo`s new Java
technology based i appli service. Interestingly Tao demonstrated its technology
running on the Dreamcast a year ago as well and recently it was announced that Sega is going to make games for new
set-top boxes and mobile phones."
Slashodot website
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29.1.2001 3ivx, ready for global television!
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January 29, 2001- Happy Machines releases the second preview of their next generation video
compression technology called 3ivx. Small file size and high quality video is one part of
the 3ivx advantages, the other one is the truly multi-platform nature. This is great for
video conferencing, video-on-demand, broadband content providing, interactive television
but also for UMTS (or G3 mobile phones) implementations.
Read more
Happy Machine website
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29.1.2001 AMIGA aktuell International 01/2001 has been released
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This edition of AMIGA aktuell International contains:
* the complete test of the MEDIATOR-PCI-add-on
* a detailed feature overview about the various manufaturers of planned PCI bus-boards for the Amiga
* a detailed comment about a possible PowerPC version of the AmigaOS including a comparison with AmigaDE
* latest tests of the emulator package Amiga Forever v4, the astronomy software Digital Almanac III and
the graphic adventure Simon the Sorcerer II
* and many more
AMIGA aktuell International 01/2001 can be
read online on their website or downloaded as
Lha archive.
Carsten Schroeder, AMIGA aktuell
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29.1.2001 Amiga Fire: Writers needed
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29.1.2001 Payback in production!
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Blittersoft are pleased to announce that they have recieved confirmation from Apex Designs
that Payback is complete and in manufacture.
They should therefor have the product in stock within 7-10 days.
You can pre-order
now, with orders processed only on days of shipping. To order securely from their website,
click here.
Amiga.org website
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29.1.2001 Boing.mag delayed
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Swedish Boing.mag will be delayed this month due to that it's author has to work
alot right now, he has no information on when the next issue will be availiable.
BoingWorld website
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29.1.2001 Voodoo5 - Lack of docs - No Warp3D
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Steffen Haeuser, who is on the Programming Staff at Hyperion Entertainment posted to Usenet (comp.sys.amiga.hardware) covering the subject "Re: PCI Opinions" had this to say:
"Please note that due to lack of documentation there are *no* 3D Hardware Drivers for the Voodoo 5 !!! There are such (though not publicly released) Drivers for the Voodoo
3 though. The still slow busses won't profit from a Voodoo 5 more than from a Voodoo 3 though, so I suggest going for the Voodoo 3 (and this Chip definitely is MUCH faster
than the Permedia 2 in the Cybervision/PPC, so it is DEFINITELY worth getting it... 3D Acceleration will not be the same again on your Amiga). Well, at the recent Amiga-show
in Cologne the Warp3D Drivers for Voodoo 3 were shown (Heretic II and for a short time Wipeout 2097), and not only was it much faster, but also it LOOKED much better, as the
Voodoo 3 supports some stuff in hardware which the Permedia 2 does not support. Steffen"
CyberGraphX homepage
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29.1.2001 Warp3D V4 Info
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On Hyperion's Latest Shogo progress page they have: "From the At the moment, our main field of work is the speed of the 3D output.
To achieve this, we're currently working on Warp3D again, incorporating functionality that will later on become Warp3D V4:..." Many think
that Hyperion is doing Warp3D now, including Eyetech Group Ltd.
This topic and "Warp3D to support hardware T&L" was brought up in
a ann.lu thread. Hyperions's PR manager, Mr. Ben Yoris, he sets things stright: "I want to make it clear : though T&L is a future
possibility of Warp3D, the Warp3D team has actually no plan for supporting the GeForce or the Radeon in the close future. The Frieden
brothers explained why : lack of documentation. Moreover this is not Hyperion who's pushing Warp3D beyond its limits, this is the result
of the hard work of the Warp3D team : Sam Jordan and the Frieden bros. I think this had to be set clear."
Thomas Frieden, one of the
Warp3D authors had this to say on the subject: "Hi, What we are doing right now is the vertex arrays. This concept will later be
expanded, so that vertex arrays may be in graphics ram, and are T&L'd before they are drawn. Right now, it's "only" a way to speed up
the data throughput, as the actual move to the graphics chip registers is done in a tight loop, and the amount of register writes can be
reduced..."
CyberGraphX homepage
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29.1.2001 Off-Topic: Bill Gates in Italy tomorrow 30 jan 2001
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Raffaele Irlanda: "Guglielmo Cancelli III "terzo" (italianized name for William Gates III) tomorrow will be in
Italy and will presence a meeting sponsored by young enterpreneurs (a division of confindustria, the italian
confederation of industrials).
The meeting is named Cosa resterà della Net economy? "What shall remain of
net economy?".Persons can write questions that will be made directly to Bill Gates during the conference
by posting to: gi3@confindustria.it.
Site hosting the conference is: http://www.giovanimprenditori.org/punto_su/punto_su.html
at this subsequent frame: Il punto su, New economy.
I think that everybody can made questions...
The meeting will start at 13:30 Central European Time and will finish at 15:00, 30 jan 2001."
Raffaele Irlanda
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28.1.2001 iFusion PPC Update From BlitterSoft
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Blittersoft are pleased to announce that they have received the iFusion code from Microcode-Solutions for final
testing prior to release.
"iFusion has been successfully tested on CyberStorm 060/PPC systems, and we are
currently testing on Blizzard 040/PPC systems."
As soon as these tests are complete, iFusion will be ready
to ship. Expect a full in-depth review in AmigActive soon.
Amigart homepage
Blittersoft website
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28.1.2001 Amiga Forums Online
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28.1.2001 AmigaScne Page
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"This site is dedicated to the Amiga demo scene. [..] To many, the demo is the ultimate form of artistic
expression and the mission of AMiGASCNE WORLDWiDE is to bring together all available Amiga demo scene
related productions and information to anyone interested in taking part or just experiencing this truly
amazing art form."
ANN website
AmigaScne page
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28.1.2001 MAS MPeg Device V1.0
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Since today, Chris Hodges offers an MAS MPeg Device on his homepage for the MAS3507D player by
Dirk Conrad (which is connected to the parallel port). This finally enables people to use all
software which uses the standard commodore mpeg.device, such as AMPlifier, Frogger or MPegMovie.
Download page
Chris Hodges, Platon's NEW Homepage
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28.1.2001 FormAldiHyd V2.0beta
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On 1st of January Chris Hodges has updated his tablet driver software for the Aldi/Tevion/Medion and AipTek/HyperPen
tablets and included an experimental WacomIV mode. As he does not own such a WacomIV tablet himself and had no time
to continue development due to lack of time, he depends on the response and feedback of users with WacomIV tablets
who test the new driver and tell him what works and what doesn't.
Download page
Chris Hodges, Platon's NEW Homepage
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28.1.2001 Amiga Update Newsletter
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28.1.2001 Star Empire 2 News!
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"Attention, attention! The 31st of January will be the official launch of StarEmpire II, the space-strategygame!
This textbased game is being played by email, so you don't need to have a flatrate... We still have some places
free - whoever wants to take part is welcome to subscribe to the game (german only)... Since today there's a
FAQ-site about StarEmpire II (also german), where the most important questions were answered. If you still have
questions, just mail us at starempire@virtualdimension.de."
BoingWorld website
Virtual Dimension website
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28.1.2001 2 New Games Under Way
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F1 Software: "We currently have 2 new games under construction, both being written in C++, and will be made available for
Windows, Amiga, Macintosh, and eventually AmigaDE.
Currently, we are not permitted to give any details on these new
projects, but as soon as they become available, I guarantee that we will have something for you here!"
F1 Software website
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27.1.2001 Amiga Survivor
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CS&E Media is a not for profit division of Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd, set up to provide
a street publication for Oxford and raise money for the homeless and underprivileged. With the lack of
advertising opportunities in the Amiga market, and our decision to leave games publishing on this
format, we are also pleased to be supporting the Amiga and its companies with the first mass market
English language publication since Amiga Format. As fans of the format we are offering our time for
free and also hope to raise some money for charity at the same time.
Currently European Amiga
companies are starved of professional advertising opportunities. Not only can we offer the highest
quality (as you can see from the attached previews), but also the best value due to offering free
distribution, using an international printer, and of course being a not for profit organisation.
Read more
preview 1, preview 2,
preview 3.
David Connolly, Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
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27.1.2001 Shogo: Final Progress Report
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Thomas Frieden: "Shogo is now officially in beta test stage, meaning everything we wanted is implemented,
and the rest of the work involves fixing bugs, and getting the most speed out of our hardware.
At the moment, our main field of work is the speed of the 3D output. To achieve this, we're currently
working on Warp3D again, incorporating functionality that will later on become Warp3D V4...
Read more
Hyperion Entertainment website
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27.1.2001 Some specs for PDA's
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Gary Peake (Amiga Inc.): "Here are some specs that will get some of you started if you are interested in providing
content for PDA style devices.
This is an excellent way to get some experience with the SDK."
Suggestions and Specs
AmigaSDK.com website
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27.1.2001 AIO Issue 43
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AIO issue 43 is out and available at AIO and soon on Aminet.
New News Editor Wanted For AIO!
"Our long time News Editor Neil Williams at last has to resign. It seems he's gotten
too much of a life lately and can no longer find the time to submit his usual high quality work. Well, we'll miss you
Neil and good luck on everything." If you would like to be new AIO News Editor
read more.
Amiga Information Online webpage
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27.1.2001 Virus Help Denmark News
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What is your favourit Amiga antivirus program ?
* VirusChecker II
* VirusZ
* VirusExecutor
* VT-Schutz
* Non of these
To vote, visit the following web page.
Jan Andersen, VHD: "Our maillist has changed owners from Egroups and now YahooGroups, but
the "Virus Help Denmark Amiga news" is an open maillist, and everyone can join and just have a
look at the maillist and download the newest antivirus programs and warnings. Only VHT-DK can
post mail in the list...
But we have from Charlene (Virus Help Team Canada) been told that
there is a lot of trouble logging in to the group. But if you never visit the pages, but just
have joined the maillist to receive email with news there should be no trouble at all...
But please let me know if there is any trouble..."
Here is the adress for login: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vht-dk
Virus Help Denmark ML
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27.1.2001 F1 Software Announces Details Of Its eBay Client For Amiga
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"F1 Software has updated its webpage with information regarding it's eBay client, AmiBud. The page now has information
on different features, and also announces a version for AmigaDE. For details, visit them on the web at the
projects website. They are also looking for Betatesters to
help with the testing of the product, so if you are interested, why not pay them a visit and drop them a quick email
with your eBay username."
Amiga.org website
F1 Software website
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27.1.2001 Winter Amiga Congress '01 in Denmark
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27.1.2001 Amiga Quake Clan
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Loriano: "This to let you know that there is an Amiga Quake Clan and the website address
is www.geocities.com/amigaclan.
The Amiga Quake Clan has been around for a year now and we have members with various
specs Amigas but also pc :) users.
For joining, or simply taking part in online clan
fights or any other information please visit our website."
Loriano Pagni, Amiga Quake Clan
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26.1.2001 New driver for PCI Ethernet network cards for Mediator PCI released
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Elbox Computer has released today a new version (1.2) of MediatorNET.device
for Mediator PCI for PCI Ethernet network cards.
The new version of the driver enables simultaneous using of several PCI
Ethernet cards in Amiga fitted with the Mediator PCI busboard.
Support of New Style Device (NSD) has been added and operation procedures
have been optimised in order to reach the maximum transfer performance.
MediatorNET.device is a Sana-2 standard driver. This driver is compatible
with all the Amiga TCP/IP software packages which can access a Sana-2 driver
(e.g. Miami, MiamiDx, Genesis and AmiTCP).
PCI Ethernet network cards installed in Mediator PCI are the fastest and the
most cost-effective network cards for Amiga computers at the moment.
Read more
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX Computer
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26.1.2001 68k: Back for the future?
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Motorola Inc. has rolled a floating point unit and other significant enhancements into the synthesizable
Coldfire version 4e processor core, creating a modular design that delivers up to 350 Dhrystone Mips in
a 180-nm (0.18-micron) process.
With the 4e, customers get all the functions of the 68k family and
the enhanced MMU (memory management unit), floating point and MAC cores. The FPU is a 64-bit
double-precision implementation of the MC68060 floating point instruction set, and is IEEE-754 standard
compliant with a software assist. Read more,
68K/ColdFire Overview
Amigart homepage
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26.1.2001 Free Banners on new site
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C&C·Logo and Design has just launched a new website to promote it's postcard printing service.
This site is targeted only at creating and printing
postcards. Promokaart.nl is both English and Dutch.
Since we have always been Amiga-minded we
came up with the following idea for Amiga companies. The site has room for commercial banners. To
promote this we offer a months free bannering on promokaart.nl!
If we receive too many requests, we will open an 'add-page', where more banners can be shown.
For more information, please send us an email at sales@designburo.nl.
Martina Kramer, C&C·Logo and Design
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26.1.2001 LinuxPPC Inc. to become non-profit organization
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LinuxPPC Inc. has formally announced its plans to become a non-profit organization (NPO). The NPO will focus on
the development and promotion of the Linux operating system on the PowerPC processor. It will also be better
able to support the growth and development of the operating system.
Read more
LinuxPPC Inc. website
Petr Jakub
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26.1.2001 AURA 2 for TVPaint User
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Currently there is a special offer for former Amiga user of TVPaint. The original of Aura (PC) formerly was TVPaint.
More than 10.000 pieces has been sold of TVPaint in Europe (Amiga, Windows, SGI). All TVPaint user can update to
"AURA 2 for TVPaint user" to a special price. Requirement: TVPaint serial number.
This offer is valid till 31st of March 2001.
Amiga-news.de website
NewTek-Germany website
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26.1.2001 Amiga Future partnership
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Correction of the 'AmigaFuture printmag' news taken from BoingWorld.
Andreas Magerl: "Our print mag Amiga Future dont search only a partnerhsip in Sweden. We search a partnership
in all countrys. Contact-adress is: redaktion@amigafuture.de."
Andreas Magerl, Amiga Future
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26.1.2001 False Virus Warning
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VHD team: "We have seen some warnings about the DGK-Blum trojan in the file CK-bombfire, but that is a false warning.
There is no virus/trojan in the file. So all of you who have the new issue of Amiga Active CD 17 does not have to
alarmed when the xvs.library reports the "DKG-Blum trojan" in the file. But we think that it is the same programmer
that made both programs. The xvs.library will be updated within the next few days to correct this error.
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA website
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26.1.2001 Exec V44.1 : UnOfficial 68K AmigaOS Kernel Update
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25.1.2001 LightWave V4 CyberGraphX Patch soon ready
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"LightWave4 Unofficial Patch" (LW4UP) is now in pre-beta testing stage the patch is for Layout and the purpose
is to fix most of the CyberGraphX problems. A public beta version will be released on Aminet as soon basic
testing of patch has been done (bug permitting of course ;). There will be two versions, one general, one
for 060. Features
Jonny Svensson
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25.1.2001 AmiBench News
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The Domain Name AmiBench.org may become unavailable over the next few days and even passably the weekend.
This is because they are moving from one Domain Name Registrar to another. During these times the other
AmiBench Domains should work as normal. These are (for those of you who may not know)
http://www.amibench.com
http://www.amibench.net
http://ami.bencher.org
AmiBench team is not one hundred percent sure how long the process will take (so far its taken three days).
Mark 'tecno' Wilson, AmiBench
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25.1.2001 The bundle MiamiDX with X-Surf Ethernet is back in stock
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The bundle MiamiDX with X-Surf Ethernet is back in stock, and available from all retail partners. If you already
have a X-Surf, you can order the license for a special price of 119,- DM directly from individual Computers -
just order via e-Mail. MiamiDX is the only TCP/IP stack that allows
the use of PPPoE based DSL providers, and it has not been available from European retailers for a while.
individual Computers website
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25.1.2001 Lyra in production
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The keyboard adapter Lyra is now in production, the first adapters for A2000, A3000 and A4000
will be available in the second week of February 2001 from all retail partners. The German
company Eternity has already confirmed that Lyra is the first adapter that allows pressing
more than one key at a time. This enables you to play games with a PC keyboard on the Amiga!
individual Computers website
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25.1.2001 Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey News
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Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey - Friday March 30 through Sunday April 1, 2001 Sheraton at West Port-Chalet, St. Louis, MO. USA
Here are the latest highlights of the US's largest Amiga show.
Bob Scharp, Amiga - St. Louis homepage
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25.1.2001 Eyetech Group Ltd first Information posted on ML!
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Mr. Eyetech Group Ltd (egroups@eye-play.com) posted a few bits of info on the amigaone ML:
* What will be first: "... which will be the AmigaOne 1200"
* AmigaOne1200 fit into a 1200 Elbox Tower? "Yes, it is being designed to fit into any tower which houses the Z4 busboard - Elbox Tower included."
* A3000 left out? "We haven't discounted Amiga 3000 owners. However, we do need to concentrate on the AmigaOne 1200 & 4000 first. At a later
date, when it becomes viable, we will monitor interest for AmigaOne boards for other models of Classic Amiga."
CyberGraphX homepage
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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25.1.2001 New amycoders homepage
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tOlkIEn: "After a long break, the new version of amycoders homepage
is available! Still work in progress, but feel free to add articles or news, to take part at the new compo, etc.
Add u in the members section!"
ANN website
amycoders homepage
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25.1.2001 Amiga Elate port of SmallEiffel 0.75b
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Joe Kiniry: "For those of you who are fans of Eiffel, a new port of GNU SmallEiffel 0.75b has been
uploaded to amigadev.net."
Eiffel is an advanced object-oriented programming language that emphasizes the design and
construction of high-quality and reusable software.
Read more
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25.11.2001 Software News
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SoftCinema v0.11 Beta - shareware movie/animation
player for the Amiga equiped with PowerPC processor. This version is for reg users only, wont work without
keyfile. List of latest changes:
QuicktimeVR bugfixes
New AVI codec: DIVX
New QT codec: 3ivX (wont work until 3ivx codec is released, this should happen in a few days)
Fixed some problems with HAM8 display
Fixed some problems with AVI palettes handling
using GRAY option now forces FULLSCREEN to use 8bpp screen
A lot of small changes in most codecs, mostly focused on speedup
INET DIAL v3.838 now includes support for OS3.9
Genesis TCP/IP stack as well as remote email retrieval. INET DIAL is an integrated Internet and remote computer
connection facility which handles 'dial-in' and 'dial-out' connections.
Genesis is provided with a simple
installation facility. INET DIAL now includes support for reading emails remotely which had been previously
automatically downloaded by INET DIAL to your home base computer.
Mini GlowIcons v1.5 - collection of
432 small glowicons style icons. Special version for WB2000 users
(Win98 Menu & Task bar).
SoftCinema homepage
BoingWorld website
MDR Interfaces Ltd website
Synotec website
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24.1.2001 AmigaOne section of the Eyetech site opens!
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AmigaOne section of the Eyetech site opens!
GENERAL INFO
The AmigaOne 1200 & 4000 are 6xPCI + 1xAGP stand-alone G3/G4 boards capable of running the Amiga DE
directly. These boards are designed to fit in Z4-busboard-compatible A1200 towers and Eyetech/Elbox/Power
A4000 towers. However both AmigaOne boards can optionally connect to the appropriate Amiga motherboard
for access to Classic Amiga chipset hardware. In this mode - because it has access to all the Classic
Amiga custom chips - the AmigaOne 1200/4000 can also be used to run the Classic Amiga OS & software
with a very high degree of compatibility. Read more
AMIGAONE TIMEFRAME
The AmigaOne is progressing to schedule, with AmigaOne 1200 boards being released to developers within
a few weeks. Driver porting and software library writing are now underway, and Hyperion Software, who
are porting the Warp-3D graphics drivers, have agreed to provide a games bundle with the AmigaOne to
provide new purchasers with an instant demonstration of what the AmigaOne hardware - and their
software - is capable of. Read more
BETATESTERS
Eyetech are looking for a limited number of beta-testers for the AmigaOne boards. Testers will be able to
buy boards at a substantial discount, before anybody else (from the first production run). Any firmware
/ hardware updates subsequently found necessary to bring these boards up to full production specification
will be carried out free of charge by Eyetech.
Read more
There is now a mailing list at eGroups for the
discussion and support of the AmigaOne 1200 / 4000 boards.
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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24.1.2001 Darkage and Spoletium
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Mod3mski: "We (the Spoletium organizers, and Darkage members) would like to apologize for the virus in the Camel Kaos demo.
We didn't know anything about that virus and when we tested that demo we received on our machines we didn't recognized
anything special. Ofcourse we have nothing to do with those lamers infecting the Amiga scene with lame productions. The
losers email address is bloner@softhome.net (spam here please). Darkage is a legal
Amiga demo group producing demos, intros and the magazine Showtime FREE for the Amiga community, and Spoletium is a FREE
Amiga-only demoparty held every year in Spoleto, Italy.
Mod3mski
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24.1.2001 Formula 1 Manager enhanced.
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"Its not only a manager game for 1-4 playes, original teams, cars, tracks and drivers, but the cd-rom is also
including mp3-videos, backgrounds for the workbench, an amigaguide about 50 years formula 1, a f1-ray tracing
object, a database-programm and an audio-track."
"Beside that it´s a "freeCD", which means that everybody
is allowed to copy it and give it around. You can get order it for 2,5 Euro (plus costs for stamps and sending)
from the FOM-Homepage."
BoingWorld website
he Faces of Mars - Amiga software page
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24.1.2001 Amiga Advice - Trade
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http://sheffieldxchange.cjb.net is an interactive forum for advice
and tips on Amiga products. Help with software and hardware is given and there are plenty of oppurtunites to buy,
sell or trade any of your unwanted items.
Apoc@lypse
Sheffield X-Change
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24.1.2001 Quake Deathmatch by "The Spirit of AMIGA"
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On Friday 26th, 2001, ´The Spirit of AMIGA´ will organize their first Quake deathmatch. This match will take
place on an official server to see how the response will be. ´The Spirit of AMIGA´ wants to bring together
AMIGA online players and possibly later on to found a clan and/or open an own server. Everybody who would
like to participate is heartily welcome to this match. No special software is needed for this server.
Details on how and when you will find here. (german)
Amiga-news.de website
The Spirit of AMIGA website
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24.1.2001 Blittersoft page redesigned
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24.1.2001 Amiga Active's Active Media
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Not content with bringing you a selection of the finest DVDs, CD-ROMs, books and other media inside the magazine each month,
Active Media now has its own section on the Amiga Active
web site, where you can read past reviews and buy the items over the web, if you so desire.
Don't forget, if you've got
any suggestions or requests for items to be reviewed in Active Media,
e-mail active.media@amigactive.com and they will look into it!
AmigaActive website
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24.1.2001 Inutilis News about Ermentrud
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Ermentrud is a new adventure game under development at Inutilis. More information and screenshots are
to find here (german).
Timo Kloss, programmer of the game: "Ermentrud (Amiga)´ accidently now has got an interactive ´dialog system´ using
the common multiple choice method. Since also the inventory system is finished the next demo version will almost
(almost (almost (...))) show a completed engine, already. Unfortunately this demo doesn't exist for now, but
arguably will do somewhere down the road...
Originally we would have liked to already take the ´tavern scenes of
the movie´ last weekend, but we didn't... This weekend (or even the following Mon/Tue) we are to proceed, really!"
Amiga-news.de website
Inutilis Software website
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24.1.2001 AmigaFuture printmag
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The German printmag 'AmigaFuture' are planning to expand into Sweden. They are currently searching for a partnership
with someone in Sweden for taking care of the translation etc. Soo, if you or someone you know is a potential partner
for AmigaFuture, don't hesitate to contact Andreas Magerl for more information!
BoingWorld website
AmigaFuture website
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24.1.2001 Amiga Arena News
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Amiga Arena - UAC Design Bonus!
"The Hunting Games" by Frank Abbing ready for download. There are the following games:
´Plakat schiessen´, which works similar to the Moorhuhn game principle, cause one should shoot as much
signboards as possible within one minute, but of course not the hunters!
In the case of ´Scheiben drehen´ you shoot on plates until all of them face into the same direction.
A plate hit will always do one quarter rotation more than the others. Who will make the best time?
Amiga Arena - UAC Design Updates!
There are several updates online for games Frank Abbing from UAC Design made available to the Amiga
Arena. The quiz game Awaking AGA/ECS is now there as executable version. The game can be played
directly from harddisk, no longer .adf format. Risiko v1.7 is now there as the freeware version.
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga Arena website
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24.1.2001 NightLong review
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24.1.2001 Darkage News
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Ialian company Darkage have available for sale the two latest Epic Interactive's games, Earth 2140
and Simon2, respectively at 89.000 and 79.000 italian lire. To buy them, visit their
shop page.
Darkage Software
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24.1.2001 Computer Connection - 'I Love Amiga Deals!'
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This deal ends Friday January 26 @ midnight pst.!
1. Buy OS3.9 @ $39.95 and get AmigaWriter 2.2 for $49.95
2. Buy AmigaWriter 2.2 @ $59.95 and get Amiga Classics II (cd set) for $10.00
3. Buy a ZIV PCI Board for your A1200 @ $125.00 and get OS3.9 for $35.00
4. We have four Techmagic 060 cards for A4000 $400.00
5. Amiga Classic Software Grab Bags $20 gets you ten titles
6. Get Scan Doubler w/Flicker Fixer for $95.95 when you buy OS3.9 @ 39.95
Louie Dituri, compAmiga.com
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23.1.2001 Interview with Bill McEwen
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23.1.2001 Alternative World of Amiga Show
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Ian Aisbitt: "Just thought I`d add a few words to tell folks about the Alt-WOA event on 24th Feb - it`s being run by those
nice chaps at HAUG - all the details are on the site http://www.alt-woa.org - all the
space has been taken, prizes kindly donated by Petro and its only a month away now :-) - one of the joint sponsors Eyetech
has promised to bring new and interesting things we have all been waiting for :-)"
Amiga show will be held on Saturday 24th February 2001 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Doors open at 12.00 noon and the
show closes at 5.00pm.
Ian Aisbitt, alt.WOA
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23.1.2001 There is a virus on Amiga Active CD 17
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The file AACD17:AACD/Demos/Spoletium3/Demo/2.CamelKaos-Bombfire/CK-Bombfire.exe is infected with the
DKG-Blum virus.
This virus is detected with version 33.24 of xvs.library, but that library wasn't
released until two days after AACD17 was mastered. The previous version of xvs.library failed to
pick up this virus.
We recommend you do not run this demo and apologise for any inconvenience this
may cause. However, we hope you understand that we were unable to detect this virus with the tools
available at the time.
As always, we check each CD before mastering, but cannot guarantee to be
able to detect all forms of virus infection.You can always find the latest antivirus programs and
xvs.library on Virus Help Denmark Amiga page.
Neil Bothwick, Amiga Active Magazine
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23.1.2001 More details about CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 NG
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Because of many people asking about it, here's a more exact list, what has changed in the release of the Install Kit v4.0:
- Install2001 supports RTG mode now for users of gfx boards
- there's now a gadtools AND a MUI interface for the Install Kit
- many new games can be installed / emulated
- Install2001 uses now nearly half the memory than before; this increases the compatiblity alot
- both interfaces have been greatly improved and are much user-friendly now
- more settings can be configured now
- the CD-ROM support has been significantly improved
- the inbuild emulator supports now much more CD32-specific things
Additionally there were many bug fixes and other improvements of course. The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 is exclusively available
on the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM which is available for only 29.95 DM from me.
Andreas Falkenhahn, Airsoft Softwair
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23.1.2001 3ivX and DivX Codecs
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Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz: "there seems to be a lot of misundarstandings bout all those mpeg-4 codecs,
so Ill try to explain it bit more (in case someone still feels dizzy ;)"
Read more
[ExiE] I am really sorry about possibly misleading information published about this topic in last few days...
Amigart website
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz via TVision ML
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23.1.2001 ProStation Documentation
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The ProStationAudio documentation is now available also in Adobe Acrobat format. Material edited by the US partner,
Experimetal Media Research Lab located in Sacramento, California.
The archive is available for downloading here.
AudioLabs website
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23.1.2001 AmigaONE Polls
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Vincent Perkins: "A number of polls have been set up on, the AmigaOne. Questions like, What interface should the AmigaDE should have?
Workbench look/ Windows look etc, or Should the AmigaOne look like the Amiga MCC/ Walker etc. Vote on the following link
http://members.tripod.co.uk/new_amiga/polls.htm."
ANN website
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23.1.2001 Shark PPC ?
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Shark info round-up: Back on October 12th, 2000 Elbox release a SHARK ATTACK press release
stating: "The first SharkPPC G3/G4 cards for developers will be available by end of November, with production planned to commence in January 2001." Pat
Blackburn via Amiga-Mediator ML: "I dont think anyone can claim to know the situation, but when I
spoke to Power Computing last Friday they said the Shark is due at the end of March or April. Of course last time they
mentioned those dates was a year ago and talking about the fabled Amijoe accelerator."
Harald Kanning Amiga-Mediator ML: "I spoke with them on WOA2000. Thy told me that the SharkPPC is
aimed at the AmigaDE. WarpOS has no priority, but if H&P want do do a driver then that's OK. They wanted to speak with Mr. Haage on th show (Don't klow
if they did). But the reason why it's delayed is that thy have to redesign the SharkPPC to be compatible with the AmigaDE for PPC, that's what they told me."
CyberGraphX homepage
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23.1.2001 SimpleMail got new URL
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23.1.2001 Directory Opus 4 News
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Jacek Rzeuski is back to work on the program again. A new beta version was released today (see below).
Paul Huxham decided that he does not want to cooperate with Jacek and started his own
DirOpus 4 project.
The latest beta release of DOpus (4.15f) - improved
version of great filemanager from GP Software. Changes
The beta version contains only the files that changed since the last public release.
Directory Opus 4 Support Page
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23.1.2001 Games News
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Registered Nightlong users can find in the Portal
Nightlong upadete 1.2 beta for 68K. It addresses RTGmaster problem that occurs on some systems.
If you don't have such problems then you don't really need to get the update.
clickBOOM's Portal
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22.1.2001 Innovative now again is the direct distributor of Ultraconv NG/Special offer
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RBM Digitaltechnik has given back the international distributionright for Ultraconv NG 4.0 to Innovative.
From now on Ultraconv NG 4.0 can directly be ordered from us again. For this being a "reintroduction" we
offer Ultraconv NG 4.0 timely limited at a sporty price of only 69.- DM/ ~35.- US$. (89.- DM/ ~40.- US$
before). Ultraconv NG 4.0 page
Innovative website
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22.1.2001 Earth 2140 News
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Some people were experiencing problems when trying to run Earth 2140 on little-endian graphics cards such as the Pixel64 and Mediator Voodoo3.
Pagan Games have created a work-around for the problems until the companies write proper big-endian drivers for their products. This update
will allow Mediator Voodoo 3 boards to run the game although it won't be anywhere near as fast as it could be if only the Voodoo 3 driver
supported big-endian modes. You can find the update here.
Amigart reviewed Topware/Epic Interactive/Pagan Games 's new realtime strategy game Earth 2140 for Amiga. Read
Earth 2140 Review here.
Amiga Fire website
epic interactive website
Amigart website
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22.1.2001 Aminet CD 41 Available Soon
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Aminet CD 41, dated February 2001, contains more
than 800 MB of (uncompressed) software in nearly thousand archives. Since the release of Aminet 40 numerous
new software has appeared. The current edition is expected to include the full version of the fantastic
beat'em up game Capital Punishment.
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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22.1.2001 OnePowerWeek Updated
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For french-speaking people only !
Ben Yoris: "OnePowerWeek is THE news website for french-speaking people. Every week you'll find the latest
news about the Amiga in general and the french Amiga community in particular.
The latest edition is
online and contains news about DIVX on the Amiga and software/games news.
This week also, 9 new members
in the AFLE association! Please visit the AmigaPower website for
more information."
AmigaPower is the leading french printed Amiga publication with nearly 300 readers. AmigaPower is
edited by the AFLE Association.
Ben Yoris
AmigaPower website
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22.1.2001 VHI Studio was added to the "Kodak Third Party Solutions Catalog"
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22.1.2001 AmigaDE Software Requests From Amiga
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Amiga (Gary Peake) has posted a small list of some of the applications they are getting requests for.
"I am getting several special requests for particular types of applications here so I thought I would
start a list going of these. If any of you have special talents in a particular area suited to coding
any of these special requests, we would be most grateful." Read more.
Read more
Amiga.org website
AmigaInc. website
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22.1.2001 Exotica News
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Added the following scans to the Games Gallery. This brings the gallery to a total of 1026 scans.
1st Division Manager, 3D Pool, Dragon Stone CD32, Dune, Darkseed (Action Sixteen Budget Version), Deep Core, Demoniak, Disposable Hero, Donk, Dune 2.
Updated the Game Information Database on the Info Section.
Added the following game tunes from Allister Brimble to the BP-SoundMon Section:
1st Division_Manager, Mean Machine, Monopoly Deluxe USA, Seymour Goes Hollywood, Super Grand Prix.
Revamped the MXTX-MaxTrax section. Improved filenames, new rips and added credits.
Added the previous Xmas logo to the Intro Logo Gallery.
Exotica website
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22.1.2001 The Big Book of Amiga Hardware Moved
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The Big Book of Amiga Hardware has now moved to a 200MB Hosting Account with the new URL
www.amiga-hardware.com.
´Big Book Of Hardware´ is a really extended hardware reference website. Here you can find a whole lot
of information about almost any Amiga hardware. Few days ago many sections of the website were updated.
Most Recent Updates
Big Book of Amiga Hardware website
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22.1.2001 Amiga in the German press
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The Editorial of the technical magazine "Computer Video" dedicates itself completely this month to the Amiga.
It is dealt briefly with the history of the Amiga etc. The possible successor (AmigaOne) were welcomed and
hoped to be just as innovative in the video area as the old Amiga was.
BoingWorld website
Computer Video website
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22.1.2001 MooVId page updated
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Laszlo Torok: "I would like to inform you, that my MooVId page is updated. Now you can see
the screenshot of the first Amiga
AVI/MOV player, which one support the new 3ivX codec. My page's address:
http://www.dfmk.hu/~torokl"
Laszlo Torok, MooVId
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22.1.2001 Workbench 3.5 Guide by Peter Hutchison
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On 20. January 2001 Peter Hutchison has released his "Workbench 3.5 Guide" in Englisch language.
The guide covers the subject: Reaction, preferences, Workbench, CacheCDFS, Internet, FastFileSystem, ROM patches, printer drivers, PowerPC support,
colour icons and third party utilities. Besides the online version there's an AmigaGuide version available for
download.
Amiga-news.de website
Peter's Amiga Home Page
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21.1.2001 Happy Birthday, Olli!
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Oliver Wagner is now 30 years old. Czech Amiga News wish Oliver Happy Birthday and enthusiasm
to keep on coding. To Oliver: "Don't panic, this was just the first half!"
V3Portal
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21.1.2001 Directory Opus 6 for Windows coming soon
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Over the last 10 years, Directory Opus has become established as the most popular file management
and directory utility on the Amiga. With the all new Directory Opus for Windows, the tradition of
excellence in design and performance continues! Opus for Window provides a complete replacement
for the traditional Windows Explorer file manager and harnesses the power of the Opus design like
never before. Directory Opus 6 for Windows will be on sale around March 2001. Cross-grade
discounts will be available for registered Amiga Opus 5 users.
Read more
Amiga.org website
GPSoftware website
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21.1.2001 sKulpt W3D
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Stephane Guillard: "I'm the author of sKulpt W3D. There has been a mess in the latest upload to Aminet,
because the readme's were not upadted from the previous October upload.
The new features are:
* compiled with StormC4 (GCC), thus faster and smaller
* localized. Delivered with French builtin, and an English catalog which anyone can translate (then return me the translations, I will add them to the future archives)
* bug fixing
At the moment, I did not compile it for the PPC so only a 68060 binary is available, I will make a PPC version in the following days.
Future upgrade path is:
* parallel multitasking w/68K and PPC so that Intuition message handling does not slow GUI in PPC version
* complete locale support in dialog boxes (only partial at the moment)
* animation support (in the original Sculpt4D spirit)
* doc upgrade
Stephane Guillard
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21.1.2001 Software News
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MainPrefs v2.04 - program to configure your
system under AmigaOS3.5/3.9; it concerns: managing assigns, editing config files, starting preference programs and changing
environment variables...
Changes since V2.0:
* removed several bugs (no more "dh1:log", late assigns are now shown correct, "assign" with empty gadgets will no more reboot your amiga ... )
* additional tooltypes "HELPFILE" and "PREFSFILE"
* help key shows help, string gadgets can be cycled via TAB
* Spanish, French, Turkish catalogs
RxTD v1.2 - converts ToolsDaemon prefs file into an Arexx script
to add the menus to os3.9 in a system legal way. readme. Changes:
* Improved documentation
* ToolsPrefs menuitem is no longer removed
* Added submenu item hotkey support
* Added prefs section to RxTDCreateMenu (Menu script path)
* Cleaned up all the scripts and added more comments
MainPrefs homepage
John Nelson's website
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20.1.2001 Amiga Flame's Top 10 Games Of 2000
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Philip Cosby: "Amiga Flame gave gamers an opportunity to select their favourite title
of the year and thus show their appreciation for the work of development teams. The
results of the vote have been compiled and checked, with it now possible to reveal
the Top Ten Games of 2000."
Amiga Flame's Top 10 Games Of 2000
Philip Cosby, Amiga Flame
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20.1.2001 New Silencer demo
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"We're the Extraterestrial developing team and we've just released Silencer v0.2 demo version (Crusader clone).
It runs in 640x480 with 256 colors and requiers at least 16MB RAM and 15MB on HDD (archive is just 713kb long).
We're currently looking for publishers. Check out our homepage and download the demo at
http://in.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/gatewaycourt/148/.
If you think our work is worth something, please put us on your demo list (it will help us to get some publishing offers).
Send us your comments... In Amiga We Trust."
Extraterrestrial's SILENCER project
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20.1.2001 Fire & Ice - Now for free and legal at AMI Sector One!
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AMI Sector One has the following news at the beginning of this year: First of all the company 'Jester Interactive'
- which is now copyright holder of a lot of old Amiga games - has allowed us to offer the Amiga games from the
cult company 'Graftgold' on our site: Of course the first free 'Graftgold' game is the classic platform game
'Fire & Ice' which every Amiga games fan should know. Besides there are many other downloadable commercial
games and PD perls like 'Magic Forest 2', 'Seek & Destroy', 'Mayhem' etc. Also, the first version of the
new 'Amiga Applications Compendium' is now online. It enables the user to search for more than 300 Amiga applications,
companies and coders. Nostalgic disk magazines and cheat disks complete this first update in the new year.
AMI Sector One site
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20.1.2001 Calling All Developers...
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#Developer needs you! If you're an AmigaDE developer then come to #Developer on Amiganet.
If you are sick of the offtopic posts on the mailing lists and just want to get down to coding, then please join us. We hope
you will all come and help make the AmigaDE the best operating system on the planet.
Amiga.org website
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20.1.2001 Realsoft 3D Version 4 Review!
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If you are one of thoose people wondering what the upcoming rendering package for Amiga is offering, Planet3DArt has a
review of Realsoft3D V4.
"Realsoft Graphics is a 3D software development company out of Finland. Their latest software, Realsoft 3D version 4
is a 3D modeling/animation/rendering package that rivals other high-end packages at a very attractive price of US$700.
Featuring many heavyweight tools that are only available in much more expensive packages, Realsoft 3D exuberates with
true "bang for your buck" factor."
BoingWorld website
Planet3DArt website
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20.1.2001 The Best Of The Amiga Scene CD goes free at mp3.com
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Fredrik: "5 years ago Me and 2 friends of me decided to make an Audio CD containing the BEST Amiga songs made ever.
The CD sold quite well. Now we only have 2 pcs left of it. Even if there still is a slight demand for this CD I
reconned the price for making new ones is far too high. So, last week I decided to make MP3's out of this CD and
put it on the net. Not all the songs are available yet, but I'm uploading them as fast as I can. The songs are
free, and you may of course download them and enjoy them."
Visit: http://www.mp3.com/tbotas to download it.
"IF the response is good, I will remaster the songs directly to MP3 to gain soundquality.
IF the response is even better, well a TBOTAS #2 may be under it's way :)"
Amiga.org website
mp3.com website
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20.1.2001 Pictures
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Frogger/SoftCinema author published a screenshot of SoftCinemaPPC playing DivX ;-) movie on Workbench.
In the comments to 'Mediator A1200 case in wood' message on Amiga-news.de, Dennis 'Hurrican' Pauler referred us to this
drawer computer by Atroxis from Virtual Dimension.
Another interesting solution!
Amigart website
Amiga-news.de website
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19.1.2001 4th Simon the Sorcerer II update
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The Macintosh version of Simon 2 has now been completed. Many changes to the game code were made and some new features
were added including French Language support. The latest Amiga update has not been heavily tested so I'm prepared to
make a further update in the following week. Amiga Update 4:
* Rebuild of Amiga exe based on the latest sources from the new Macintosh version of the game.
* Added French Language support.
* Fixed many problems with extra long German text phrases.
* Added the missing F10 feature.
* Speech with Text is now fully bug-free and is a recommended mode. Remember that now the 'V' key will turn on/off Speech and the 'T' key will turn on/off Text.
Simon the Sorcerer II Support Page
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19.1.2001 MASPlayer hardware MP3 player for any Amiga now in stock
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Eyetech: "We are now stocking the first hardware MP3 player which operates with all Amigas from the A500 upwards.
The MASPlayer uses the same high quality hardware decoder chip used by the award-winning Diamond Rio MP3 players.
It plugs into the parallel port, has a 3.5mm mini stereo output jack and draws its power from a pass-through connector
on the serial port. In use it makes very low demands on the CPU as it is only requiring the spooling of relatively low
volumes of data from hard drive or CDROM to the Amigas parallel port.
The MASPlayer supports all bitrates (including
variable bitrates) when used with an '020 CPU or above and gives excellent sound quality. It's ideal for turning your
old Amiga into a sophisticated MP3 player, or simply as an addon to your existing configuration.
The
MASPlayer is available to buy online right now for just £69.95 inc. VAT."
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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19.1.2001 Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site Address Changed
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19.1.2001 nV News OS Poll over
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nV News' "Which is your prefered operating system" poll is over. 58.40% of 4788 people
voted for Amiga. (13.05% - Windows 2000, 6.79% - OS2/ Warp, 6.29% - Windows 98, 4.91%
- BeOS, 4.47% - Windows Me, 3.17% - Linux, 0.90% - MacOS, ...)
nV News: "The Amiga vote would be suprising if it were for the fact that almost 60% of
all the voters were referred to the poll from Amiga fan-sites anyway."
nV News website
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19.1.2001 Screenshot from 3ivx for Amiga
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Christoph Meier: "The availability of the MPEG 4 encoder 3ivx for Amiga will be very soon. You can find
a screenshot of 3ivx running on the workbench here."
Amiga.org website
3ivx homepage
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19.1.2001 Hyperion short Q&A
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BW: "What is the current status of Hyperions game ports to the Amiga?"
Hans-Joerg Frieden, Hyperion: "We're still alive, although I admit that the website hasn't been updated in quite a while.
Shogo is still on track, and we hope to have it finished by the end of the month, and in the shops early february.
We're currently working on quite a large number of projects, and some of them will be released RSN (i.e. in 1Q2001),
among these are Shogo, Freespace, SiN, and probably Majesty, although with the latter I cannot really be sure.
Also, the Realsoft3D port is currently being worked on."
BoingWorld website
Hyperion website
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19.1.2001 AQUA - brand new Amiga adventure
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19.1.2001 ELBOX responds to "lack of drivers" charge
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Nic Andrews: "[..] it has come to my attention that there is a severe lack of drivers for the Mediator."
Read the complete ELBOX responce text here.
Worlds first complete roundup list of Mediator Drivers in order of release date brought to you by vgr:
CyberGraphX ViRGE (86C325) & ViRGE/DX (86C375) PCI 2MB & 4MB (by:VFD)
Networking SANA2 driver for 10 chipsets (by:Elbox)
CyberGraphX Voodoo3 2000 & Voodoo3 3000 Alpha Driver SGRAM/SDRAM (by:VFD)
P96 Compatible Voodoo3 2000 & 3000 Driver SGRAM/SDRAM (by:Elbox)
Cybergraphx homepage
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19.1.2001 AmigaDE will run on a Handheld-PC
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19.1.2001 Exploring MP-Like Solutions
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19.1.2001 Haage&Partner News
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Sale Of The Week: STFax 4.5
The main intention of STFax 4 is to offer advanced features, yet retain ease of use, supporting a number
of different communication mediums, such as fax, voice, and data... H&P are now offering STFax 4.5
for 69 DM, update: 49 DM.PPC World News
Finally there is a bunch of news on PowerPC software. Just have a look at PPC World.
Haage&Partner website
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19.1.2001 Software News
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New beta release of ATC (AmiTradeCenter) is finally ready
for download. changes. ATC is still under development, but
another project requires much of developer team's attention!
Some new MI archives are available on the MasonIcons homepage:
3PMguiMI - a new skin for 3PMgui based on AppMI
AmiMDCMI - a GlowIcons toolbar for AmiMDC800
AudioMI - a toolbar image set for AudioMaster 2k
DataMI - a complete set of icons and toolbar images for DataM-II
For further informations have a look at the 'Projects' page of Mason.home.
ATC homepage
Martin Mason Merz, Mason.Home
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18.1.2001 New Distribution of QNX Realtime Platform Available Now!
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QNX Software Systems releases the new distribution of the QNX® realtime platform (RTP), featuring an upgrade
to the core OS and a host of functionality enhancements.
This distribution of the QNX realtime platform
includes version 6 of the QNX RTOS, based on the Neutrino® microkernel and the Photon® microGUI. The QNX RTP
now supports SCSI systems and features a new package manager that allows you to upgrade right from your
VoyagerTM web browser.
For multimedia applications, the new distribution offers streaming audio and video
support, and reduced CPU load during MPEG and other audio playback formats.
Read more
QNX website
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18.1.2001 Eye-Surf - complete Plug-and-Play Internet solution for your TV
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The Eye-Surf is a complete Plug-and-Play internet solution that works entirely independantly of your Amiga
(or other computer). It has a built in modem, SCART RGB/composite output and pass-through sockets,
a printer port, an infrared keyboard and SCART and phone extension leads.
The Eye-Surf has full SSL
support built-in for secure web site ordering. Best of all we are offering 10% off the list price of any
Amiga orders placed using the Eye-Surf within 6 months of its purchase!
The Eye-Surf is available now at just £78.95. Check it
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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18.1.2001 PureBasic 2.00
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Frederic Laboureur: "We're happy to announce the official release of PureBasic 2.00 for the
AmigaOS. Just check the news!
The PureBasic web
site has now moved to www.purebasic.com.
The Windows x86 version is avaible for free to any Amiga registered users! Just send us
a mail to get it! Happy New Year!"
Frederic Laboureur, Fantaisie Software
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18.1.2001 www.djnick.com and www.d-tronic.com sites available again
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djnick: " 7 days ago US server crashed and many accounts were accidentally deleted, including our
2 presentations. Finally, server is fixed and www.djnick.com
[music site] and www.d-tronic.com [amiga
gfx agency site] are available again."
[djnick]
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18.1.2001 4 issues of amiga.topcool for free
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If you buy AmigaOS 3.9 for 89 DM, you get 4 issues of the german Amiga-magazine amiga.topcool
for free. If you allready have OS 3.9, you can take the game Earth2140, CandyFactoryPro or ArtEffect 4 for 89 DM with this free
amiga.topcool-issues.
Daniel Orth via ANN
amiga.topcool
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18.1.2001 Planet IT Inteview: Amiga Stages A Comeback
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In this exclusive question-and-answer session with Amiga president and chief executive officer Bill McEwen,
Planet IT senior editor Dave Johnson discusses the reborn OS company and its plans for the future.
Read more
Planet IT website
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18.1.2001 New Cybergraphx ML
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DyeingSwan: "There's a new Cybergraphx support and general
discussion list on egroups, started in December 2000. It's not yet mentioned on the vgr.com mailing
list page, which contains references to a number of dead lists. Come sign up and share your
repository of knowledge on this powerful but complicated RTG system!"
Read more about the list here.
Amiga.org website
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18.1.2001 Mediator A1200 case in wood
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Many amigans have for several years been putting Amigas in different kind of boxes, ofcourse the most usual
is putting an Amiga in an existing PC box. Some people chooses to do something really special though, and
a guy from Norway called Fisherking has really done that! If you want to see what he's done (and u do!) you
should check out these photos of his Amiga G4
prototype! It will be really exiting to see where this project will end ;)
Kleng "DuraAce" Hodnefjell
BoingWorld website
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18.1.2001 MeterNet Press Release
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 17,2001 /PRNewswire/ -- EnReach Technology, Inc., a global leader providing infrastructure
software for enabling enhanced services on television, announced today that MeterNet Corporation has selected the
EnReachTV2(TM) Internet access platform to power the new wb7500 series in its expanding SimpleBox entry-level
Internet appliance lineup. Read more
SimpleBox is Java internet device powered by Amiga technology.
MeterNet website
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18.1.2001 Software News
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According to Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz there will be new version of SoftCinema AVI/QT player
supporting DivX ;-) (mpeg-4) movies. There is already preliminary DivX ;-) port playing
384x288 movies 4.99fps on PPC604/200 with 060/50 (codec is compiled without any
optimizations). Author expect something about 20-30% of speedup with all optimizations
turned on.
Vinylizer is a new plugin for ProStationAudio
(any version) for creating vintage sounds by inserting disk artifacts (rumble and dust/scratches) in the
signal flow. It features also pick-up head EQ presets.
The Vinylizer is available for downloading here.
MorphOS ML
SoftCinema homepage
AudioLabs website
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17.1.2001 NewTecniques: Bonus
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The bonus content of the graphic magazine 'NewTekniques' with many interesting workshops, articles, and tutorials
only accessible for subscribers so far, was now made openly available. In the issue for Mai/June 2000 e.g. it is
in detail describe how to create a perfectly animated Boingball with LightWave.
Amiga-news.de website
NewTecniques website
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17.1.2001 Amiga Samba Install Script
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Ulf Bertilsson: "There is now an installer script in development. Head over to www.amigasamba.org
for a download. It will enable you to install Samba in a second, without any techical experience. This version will install properties for
Miami Classic and DLX. Genesis/Amitcp support is in development. Samba is orginaly unix software to enable file/printer sharing with lan
manager clients. In Wintel world, this means your Amiga will show up in "Network Neibourhood" and you can mount PC shares as your local
disks. The Amiga Samba team is looking for motivated individuals to help out with futher development of the samba main archive and the
installer."
ANN website
Official Amiga Samba page
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17.1.2001 Hackers' video technology goes open source
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"The creators of 'DivX' have decided to open their code to other developers. Some are saying the technology could do for
video online what MP3 did for music. Since the release of that technology, the programmers behind DivX have been working
on a new version dubbed "DivX Deux," which they promise will be more powerful. That's not here yet, but they've decided
to throw open their code to other developers on the Net as a way to push the project along."
Read more
ZDNet News
DivX homepage
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17.1.2001 AROS News
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Since child windows seem to be patented, Stefan Berger has removed the support for them again. :-( If someone knows whether this technology can be used freely, we'd like to know :-)
Georg Steger has written an ASL Font Requester
Johan Alfredsson has implemented and improved C:Run, C:NewShell, C:List, C:Dir, DisplayBeep() and some more.
Adam Chodorowski has improved our Workbench and began to port a TCP/IP stack to AROS (ping compiles but there is no code for the stack, yet).
Michael Schulz has begun to work on a new AROS i386/Native core which can load the large AROS kernel. AROS needs GRUB to boot, now.
Flavio Stanchina has improved lots of header and build files.
Check the AROS page for more detailed info.
AROS ML
AROS homepage
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17.1.2001 Software Hut News Letter
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17.1.2001 Seagate ST3660A needed
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In the beginning of January, Allan Odgaard managed to short circuit
his harddisk. His hope is that someone has an identical harddisk, from which he can borrow the control print to
restore his data. "The model is a Seagate ST3660A and the drive parameters are 1057CYL-16HEADS-63SECT-545.5MB."
Also see his original message.
ANN website
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17.1.2001 Response to Memory Protection Questions from Bill McEwen
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17.1.2001 Software News
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WarpBMP.datatype v44.1 - freeware BMP picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
WarpBMP.datatype is a datatype which allows you to view and read Windows or OS/2 BMP image files. A unique feature of this particular BMP datatype
is that in addition to supporting the 68k (with optimized versions for 020, 030, 040 and 060), it also supports the PowerPC processor, with native
WarpOS and MorphOS versions. Even better, it is fast, compact, clean and well behaved - a true plug'n'play PPC datatype. One of the key features is its
superior speed, hence the name WarpBMP. This datatype uses the same engine as used by my other WarpDTs.
Frogger v1.64b2, fast MPEG video player, with MPEG-2 layer support for AMIGAs with fast 68k CPUs (68040/60)
or PowerPC equipped systems. 68k and PPC (WaroOS and PowerUp) executables can be downloaded there.
Mike Carter has updated the Execute Command module to fix which fixes a path problem with the shell launched from it.
readme
It's on the Downloads page.
Oliver Roberts' Homepage
Frogger homepage
Scalos homepage
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16.1.2001 OnePowerWeek Updated
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For french-speaking people only!
OnePowerWeek is THE news website for french-speaking people. Every week you'll find the latest news
about the Amiga in general and the french Amiga community in particular. The latest edition is
online and contains news about Elbox and the Mediator drivers.
Please visit the AmigaPower website for more information.
AmigaPower is the leading french printed Amiga publication with nearly 300 readers. AmigaPower
is edited by the AFLE Association.
Yoris Benjamin
AmigaPower website
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16.1.2001 Commodore Billboard moving
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The Commodore Billboard is temporarily offline, as the site is being moved to new servers.
Subscribe to the NEWSLETTER HERE, and get notified when the site is back online.
I apologize for any inconvenience caused. The site will be back online as soon as possible.
The site is probably back online around mid-january 2001. Expect to find 17 C64 & Vic20 TV-commercials
NEVER before seen on the net. You can email the webmaster at:
soren_ladegaard@commodorebillboard.com.
CommodoreBillboard website
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16.1.2001 Earth 2140 available at Eternity
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16.1.2001 Little note on ASM-One V1.46
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If you have problems with the ASM-One V1.46 RTG version, than make sure you use
a 800x600 screen with at least a depth of 15bits. This will solve any screen
stuff reported untill now. "While working on V1.47 I have added some things
that made me look at PPC assembly/disassembly again. I will soon recheck what
works and what not. So maybe 2001 will be the year of PPC !!! Stay tuned B-)"
TFA homepage
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16.1.2001 QNX Interview on CES - English Translation
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16.1.2001 Virus Help Denmark News
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Jan Andersen: "For a long time I have been receiving email about translations of our website to German, French and so on,
but my German and French and not that good (very bad to be true), so this weekend, I received an email from
Peter Schmidt telling me about the website "Translator.go" so now with a use of a button our website is
translated into either German, French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese. I know that these translations is not
100% correct, but it is better that nothing. But the website will as always start in English."
Virus Help Denmark website
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16.1.2001 AmigaActive Issue 17
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AmigaActive Issue 17 will be on sale January 25, 2001. Highlights:
Amiga's Rivals - It's a technological re-rack - but who'll survive the longest in the 21st century?
Develop on Windows - The latest Amiga SDK reviewed inside.
Linux on Amiga - We show you how.
Amiga Forever 4 - The ultimate Amiga on a PC?
Simon the Sorcerer II - The longest awaited Amiga sequel?
AmigaActive website
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16.1.2001 Experimental 2.4.0 APUS Kernel
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16.1.2001 Software News
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Directory Opus v4.15.4 - another version of
Directory Opus 4 based on Jacek Rzeuski's Directory Opus v4.15d.
Some of the Directory Opus 4.15.4 features include (above the original version):
Popup menus in the directory windows to select sort options
Large disk support
Workbench 3.5 and 3.9 support
RTG graphics compatibility
asyncio.library support
Specify your own appicon
Does not require the DOpus: assign
Renaming files wont overwrite directories
The following feature list
is provided to give an insight into the direction this version of Directory Opus 4 is headed.
Steeple Software
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15.1.2001 Back to the Roots Amiga-News 227
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The first update in the new year at "Back to the Roots"
brings you the "Championship Manager" series for free download. It's very popular especially in
the UK. Another excellent game is "Second Samurai". Vivid Image has allowed us to upload this
classic action game. Want to play Boulderdash? Then you should choose "Emerald Mine", the best
of its kind!
Don't forget to have a look at the other games, which we've added, or you'll
miss some pearls. If you want some candy for your ears, check out our latest additions to the
music section. Many game tunes from the allmighty Jason Page were added. And your eyes will find
some candy at our pictures area, where the best pics from the demo scene and Amiga games are
waiting for them.
Bobic & Hippie2000, Back to the Roots website
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15.1.2001 PowerPC 7450: New G4 cpu!
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"Despite bearing a model number close to that of the PowerPC 7400, the 7450 chip sports a brand-new architecture.
Motorola designed the 7450 chip with higher clock speeds in mind and added
a number of tricks to boost overall performance."
"The most important design feature is a longer pipeline. By
lengthening the pipeline, a structure that prepares instructions to be processed, a chipmaker can boost the processor's
clock speed. The longer pipeline, "really lets us turn up the clock and the performance," Wilke said."
"Motorola upped the PowerPC 7450 design to seven pipeline stages from the four used in its PowerPC 7400 chip. As a
result, the company got a 233-MHz boost in clock speed, initially, and will likely see more jumps in the future. The
chip saw "a significant increase in clock speed, but more importantly, it's a significant increase in doing real work,"
Wilke said."
"The chip is available in four new clock speeds, ranging from 466 MHz to 733 MHz. Cupertino, Calif.
-based Apple is now taking orders on Macintosh desktops with 466-MHz and 533-MHz
PowerPC 7450 chips." Read more
BoingWorld website
Motorola, Inc. website
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15.1.2001 VHI Studio 5.4 News
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The reference in terms of videoboards and digicams on the AMIGA, VHI Studio 5.4, has now
appeared in a new version. The update is free for users of VHI Studio 5.x. Since V5.2 the following changes have been made:
* Driver for Digita-compatible Digicams is available optionally
* Driver for Sony MSAC-SR1 compatible reader is available optionally
* Batch-saving of pictures directly from the camera to your HD
* JPEG-Decoding now supports the PPC (if available)
* MPEG Encoder now supports framerates unequal 25 f/s
* Bugfix in DC240/DC280-Treiber, Update to V1.5
Innovative website
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15.1.2001 nVidia Poll Update
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nVidias "Prefered OS" poll has been running for a while (again) and this time they have an IP-check to prevent "script kiddies"
from voting more than one time. Obviously they thougt that AmigaOS got to many votes last time, probably because of some
multiple voters. But we have proven them wrong! Now, with the IP-check on, AmigaOS is in pos. no 1 with a raging 59.25% atm!
BoingWorld website
nV News website
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15.1.2001 THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES - Release 1.0.1
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In release 1.0.1. of the KICKSTART ARCHIVES beside of some smaller changes in particular the PDF files
of the patent history have been re-converted and can be read trouble-free with Apdf v2.2, now too.
THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES due to quality problems in the beginning will be written on blanks of the type
TDK CD-R74CMEC and shipped in a bubble wrapped envelope.
Since all of the specimen copies are out,
we can now care for the orders very fast.
Thomas Unger
(Kickstart@nexgo.de) is always all ears for hints on
interesting websites still missing on the CD-R. If these match the concept of the KICKSTART ARCHIVES,
he will contact the owners.
Amiga-news.de website
THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES homepage
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15.1.2001 Amiga Arena News
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Amiga Arena - Interview Action!
"Rags" the action game by Shades Production was a little sensation at Aminet, not without a reason!
For all of you still remembering "Beach Head II" on the C64 it's to be said "obligation to download"!
But read the preview of "Rags" and the interview with Shades Production! at the "Aktion" area yourself!
Amiga Arena - Special Price Action!
PhotoAlbum/CyberShow, GeoWorld, and VPrefs are available at a special price only until 01-31-2001!
Amiga-news.de website
Olaf Köbnik, Amiga Arena
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15.1.2001 Amiga-Community.net News
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At Amiga-Community.net you can post your opinion about several
products for the Amiga. For each (rational) opinion of members one will get 1 (one) score. For every 4
(four) scores one will get 1 (one) EURO credit entry. Credits can be payed from 5 (five) EURO!
NOTICE: Unfortunately entries with AWeb don't seem to work and therefore there is a special forum for AWeb
users. IBrowse and PC browsers seem to work. If someone has problem with other browsers, please contact
Xandiy@web.de.
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga-Community.net
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14.1.2001 AmigaOS Changelogs Release Campaign
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Matt Sealey: "This is a petition to gauge support for a move to get Haage & Partner, or Amiga
for that matter, to release the changelogs for and from versions of the Operating System and
included tools greater than Release 3.1.
These logs are practically essential for developing
software to work for the new releases, and can reveal quirks, features and fixes that developers
require to create stable and feature-rich applications.
The logs from 2.0 upwards to 3.1 are
on any Developer CD. Haage & Partner declined to release their contributions to these logs to
their own version of this CD (2.1).
If you support the open release of these logs, then please
sign the petition! Thanks for any support."
Matt Sealey
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14.1.2001 The AAA Awards Bid Farewell
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Stockholm, Sweden - Thursday, January 11, 2001. After a series of successful years, the AAA Awards now leaves the Amiga stage for a time.
This is due to lack of staff and support. Our homepage www.aaa-awards.org will stop functioning
soon. We will maintain a homepage at www.amiga-cg.se/aaaa/. Thanks to all of you for your
support! Read more
The AAA Awards may return in some form in the future. It is up to the community and AMIGA. If you have any views on this, please e-mail
f98-msa@f.kth.se.
The AAA Awards page
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14.1.2001 Elbox answering...
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Elbox has answered a few questions dealing with Voodoo3 and TV/Overlay stuff brought
up by Mr. Abt "Hack" responce. Read the ELBOX complete "Hack" responce Q&A here.
Voodoo3 1.2 driver from Elbox out Monday or Tuesday.
Why there are no 100Mbit DMA NIC drivers?
Tobias Ab wrote: "The reason is that all publically available 100 Mbit chips need to do DMA to the
system memory which is AFAIK not possible with the Mediator."
Darek Dulian, Elbox: "No, this is not true. There are no technical problems
whatsoever with MEDIATOR PCI working with the Ethernet 100 Mbit cards operating solely in the DMA mode. As an example of a PCI device working
in the DMA mode in MEDIATOR, we presented a TV tuner card based around the BT848 processor in the WOA 2000 fair."
ShowConfig broken?
Tobias Abt: "Funny that they also use the manufacturer ID of another company. Is there anything they do themselves and
could take credit for it? :-))"
Darek Dulian, Elbox: "Yes. We take credit for everything that we do. And you may be sure that whatever we do is
ALWAYS fully compliant with the law. Our lawyer consultants take care to make all our activities legally flawless. Manufacturer ID Number 2206
was granted to the Elbox company by Commodore International Services Corporation in 1994. We do not take responsibility for mistakes in
software, which has not been authored by us. Also, we do not follow a habit of publicly expressing our disapproval when we find mistakes /
errors in other software. We have sent a request to ShowConfig software authors to make the mistake good, so I hope the next version of this
software will have this mistake corrected. Apart from ShowConfig, majority of software identifying hardware can recognise the Elbox
Manufacturer ID properly."
CyberGraphX homepage
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14.1.2001 New Swedish Amiga News-Site
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AmigaRulez.org is a new Amiga news-site, however it's swedish only. It uses the PHP-Nuke web-site system
like Amiga.org or Polarboing.com.
BoingWorld website
AmigaRulez.org
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14.1.2001 ANN: Advertisers needed
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Christian Kemp: "In a recent MOTD, I stated that the advertiser situation was bad, but I didn't expect
to make less than 5$ in 13 days. So I decided to pull the only remaining advertisement banner, but I
am hoping to find an alternative means of at least covering my online cost (various virtual servers,
phone bill, etc.). I haven't given up the hope that Amiga companies (Amiga, Haage&Partner, and
many others) will finally understand that the market would be even less alive without Amiga news
sites, and finally decide to make suitable contributions to the news sites they've been using for
years to post their press releases and announce their products on."
ANN website
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14.1.2001 CDTVTools v1.0
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Andreas Falkenhahn: "I released something very interesting for Commodore consoles fans today - A bundle of tools
which go back to functions of the CDTV. I converted several functions of the core library of the CDTV
("playerprefs.library") to standard commodities that can be used on every Amiga. So you can use now the original
CDTV screen saver, audio cd player, preferences and some other stuff! Ain't that cool? Download this cool piece
of software right now and send me some feedback or show me your
support by ordering the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" CD-ROM. Thank you!"
Andreas Falkenhahn, Airsoft Softwair
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14.1.2001 Software News
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WHDLoad 13.1 usr &
dev archives - AmigaOS
friendly Harddisk-Install package. Contains some fixes and improvements.
The promised update to Digital Almanac III v2.3 has been released. Following bugs have been fixed:
* Center function of asteroids now works again.
* The bug in the pixelcheck function used together with CGX 15/16/24bit modes, that caused permanent crashes, esp. in the PPC version, has been fixed.
* Drag&Drop of planets in the solar system window works again.
To install the update, you require the installed Xmas update !! Installation is similiar to the Xmas update.
Please note: Only German catalog is supplied ! To receive the English or French catalog, write to author.
WHDL support page
Digital Almanac homepage
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13.1.2001 The Quantum Leap: StormC 4
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The new version of the well-known development system will be a quantum leap: Network capabilities, distributed Make,
CVS, modified GCC compiler with Amiga hunk format, global full text search, extended editor, debugging of tasks and
shared libraries and the new StormDOC.
The most important feature of the new developers system is the step
forwards towards the new AmigaOS. At the moment everything still runs on the Classic Amiga, and that is how it will
be presented, but everything was developed anew with easy portability in mind.
Read more
Haage & partner website
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13.1.2001 Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ Updated
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Greg Donner has updated his Official Amiga OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions):
updated status of bugs in Known Bugs section, added an entry to the 3rd Party Utilities page,
Disk File Operation page and Undocumented Features page, revised Compatibility page
and Disk & File Operation page.
Greg's Page
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13.1.2001 Norwegian News
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The norwegian language Amiga site #1 Polarboing.com is back online.
So if you live in Sweden, Norway or Denmark or for any strange reason can understand norwegian, You might
like to check it out. www.wafercard.com is a norwegian page buying
and selling PSX, Amiga etc. Just look at this: Right now they have 55 A4000 with 030/25MHz, 4+2MB, 125HDD
to 210HDD, Kick. 3.0 Rev.B for as low as 2500 to 2550 Norwegian crowns! (That's about $290) and a lot more.
BoingWorld website
Polarboing.com website
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13.1.2001 Ultra Violent Worlds Hits Retail
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13.1.2001 Amiga-Community.net Looking for Sponsor(s)
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Since finally a possibility was found to give bonus for written opinions one or more sponsors (with banner) are wanted.
Interested people may please contact xandiy@web.de.
From now on there will be
scores. Everybody who is registered for the Community will get scores. First register and then wait until your
member-number gets mailed to you, then you can score. One score for every message. What one can do with his/her scores
will be announced during the following days.
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga-Community.net site
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13.1.2001 Infomedia Network and Tao group join up
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13.1.2001 Software News
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Safe v14.6 (size: 19.779b) - virus dicovering system.
readme It's not file checker or cleaner. It only informs
about attack and removes virus from memory if possible!
RxTD v1.0 - ToolsDaemon prefs converter.
Converts ToolsDaemon prefs file into an Arexx script to add the menus to os3.9 in a system legal way.
readme
New address of XBase site is www.o.k.pl/~xbaze/.
XBaze is a powerful database editor for AmigaOS.
Virus Help Denmark website
Aminet
XBase homepage
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12.1.2001 Offical P96 V3 drivers coming!
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P96 author had this to say, on the Amiga-Mediator ML, about a question
refering to VGR's 10-Jan-01 post on how the ELBOX BT848 TV Drivers are over a fourtene night late.
"I am not Robert, but maybe I can explain... For something more than just the hack that they showed on the WOA, they need to
implement functions in their Voodoo driver to use the display overlay. This information they do not have, because it is not in
our DDK which they do not have either (at least from us). Trying to understand what has to be done by resourcing the PicassoIV
driver is probably not sufficient and certainly a pain in the ass to do. And this will be a waste of time for them to do because
once our own driver will be ready, nobody will want to use theirs anyway. I can promise that our driver will be much better
overall. Ok, we can not speed up blitter functions they already use, but the rest will be much better. PIP features will
certainly be supported by our driver (maybe not in the first release, but...). (The hack they showed so far was that they simply
blasted the TV data into the screen bitmap which is completely inacceptable for real use, because of screen trashing
and lack of system conformity.)"
CyberGraphX homepage
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12.1.2001 Photogenics News
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Paul Nolan: "Welcome to the new site layout. The Linux and Amiga sections have been unified to make room for the latest addition,
Photogenics for Windows. The demo version will be available for download shortly."
Photogenics homepage
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12.1.2001 The Amiga RC5 team still needs more members
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The Amiga RC5 Team effort completed 533,809 blocks yesterday
at a sustained rate of 1,658,487 Kkeys/second! We have 2113 members. We are ranked #6 for yesterday. we need at least 2000 members
extra if we want to win this contest.
Amiga.org website
Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
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12.1.2001 Eternity News: MPG Video-card / USB for AMIGA
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Eternity: "We are looking for some developers for the realising of an MPEG-Video-card or a USB-card for the Amiga in co-operation with Kato Development:
Programmers that develop drivers and host programs, based on Linux-sources, for the Amiga. We consider the following suppositions:
The intention to develop something 'New' for the Amiga.
There has to be some time available.
You have to know that you wont become a millionaire by developing for the Amiga.
Will for co-operation.
C and C++
Know about the Amiga-hardware.
With the knowhow of Kato and some other persons we will try to develop one of the above mentioned products. We make no promises!
Additionally we are looking for distributors that would like to support the investment and will get better conditions.
And last but not least we would like to come in contact with other projects of this kind,
cause if there are already projects like this running, we will renounce ours.
Amiga-news.de website
Eternity website
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12.1.2001 Scalos 1.2d
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All OS3.4+ owners will be pleased to know that a new Scalos exe has been released! The fixes are a combined
effort with the original source from Jurgen and the dedicated effort of Dave for sloggin' it out through
late nights! Until the website is updated later today you can grab the new executable only archive from
here.
Install instructions
Amiga-news.de website
Scalos homepage
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12.1.2001 Software News
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WarpJPEG.datatype v44.16 - freeware JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS). Changes:
* Fixed a bug in the new startup code, which caused images not to be loaded in some cases - e.g. IPrefs failing to load WB backdrops
* The 68020-040 versions were completely broken in the previous release - forgot to rebuild one of the link libraries
* The 68k versions are faster again - moreorless back to the speed they were in 44.14
WarpPNG.datatype v44.10 - freeware PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS). Changes:
* Fixed a bug in the new startup code, which caused images not to be loaded in some cases - e.g. IPrefs failing to load WB backdrops
Oliver Roberts' Homepage
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11.1.2001 Voodoo5 is a stupid idea
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P96 author had this to say, on the Amiga-Mediator mailinglist, about the Voodoo5:
"Going for the Voodoo5 is a stupid idea. Even if it will be supported by CGX or Picasso96, there will probably be no Warp3D driver because the
3D setup of the two VSA100 chips is too complicated. And it does not make sense to waste your money on some marginal speed-up in 2D."
CyberGraphX homepage
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11.1.2001 Free web mail at boing.net
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A.Scott Pringle: "You can now get a free web based email address at boing.net.
Click on the mail link in the menu to sign up. This will get you an address of username@my.boing.net.
A JavaScript enabled browser is required (I have successfully tested IBrowse2.2, Aweb3.3 and AWeb3.4).
Keep boinging..."
ANN website
boing.net website
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11.1.2001 Vote for demogroups in the EuroChart 42
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The official Amiga scene chartmag, the EuroChart, is about to get released
for the 42th time since 1989. They need votes and other support, as usual.
If you like what the scene is producing for
the Amiga, please go to the EC homepage and vote. If you feel like
contributing with clipart, articles, modules or other stuff, throw a mail to one of the maineditors,
Darkhawk. Deadline is the 25th January, and upon release, the mag will be available
via aminet, www.irishq.dk, and other scene sites. That's it :)
Amiga.org website
EuroChart homepage
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11.1.2001 Vesalia & KDH Specials
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Vesalia Specials
You can order Mediator PCI-Board for Amiga 1200 (DEM 429) and Winner Z4 Board (DEM 199) on Vesalia website.
Games special at KDH Datentechnik
German dealer KDH Datentechnik has an attractive offer for games priced between 10 DEM - 39 DEM.
Titles include Eat The Whistle, Zombie Massacre, Virtual Karting II, Tales From Heaven, Imperator Mutantology, Sixth Sense investigations,
Foundation Mission CD, Foundation Directors Cut, Best of Gremlin and Virtual Grand Prix.
Amigart website
Vesalia website
KDH Datentechnik
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11.1.2001 mFTP is "back from death"
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mFTP 1.3 - finally appeared in a new version after one year
without update. mFTP is Amiga FTP client with ADT and multithread support, and is developed by
Vapor. You can download this latest version
here.
Vapor FTP server
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11.1.2001 Nvidia OS Poll problems
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And the three most prefered operating systems of all time are : Win 2K, AmigaDos and BeOS!
Well no, not really. Some script kiddies... errr... I mean "L33T h4x0R D00Dz"... voted
thousands of times and invalidated the poll. The poll is unavailable until further notice.
Tonight the poll is back, but the resuls are reset to zero. Multi-voters will in future have
their IPs black listed.
nV News website
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11.1.2001 Software News
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A patch for the current EASys! version 4.8.4 (has to be installed!) under OS 3.9 is available on the
servicepacks page.
Please have a look at the readme-file before installing this patch!
Perfect Paint v2.4 - great FREEWARE ! proggie for painting, animation
and manipulating pictures from 1bit to 24bits. Requirements 030 + FPU, AmigaOS 3.x, CGX or P96, Render.library, Jpeg.library
and XPKmaster.library. Changes since v2.3
EASys! homepage
PerfectPaint's Page
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10.1.2001 Earth 2140 now shipping
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Earth 2140, a game originally produced for the PC by Topware Interactive,
is now shipping for the Amiga. Earth 2140 was ported to the Amiga by Pagan Games in comission from e.p.i.c.
interactive entertainment. The game will require an Amiga with a graphics board, 24 MB RAM and at least
an 68040 to run. However, a PPC is highly recommended to get the best from this great Real Time Strategy
game. The latest demo version can be downloaded here.
If you want more information on the game, you will find it here.
If you want to order the game directly from us or want information where you can buy it, e-mail us.
epic interactive entertainment website
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10.1.2001 New Simon the Sorcerer II update in two days
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The Macintosh version of Simon 2 has now been completed. Many changes to the game code were made, some new features
were added including French Language support. In approx 2 days time there will be a new Amiga update for the game
which will be built using the latest game sources from the Mac version. There is also an Audio problem that is
unique to the Amiga version which will be addressed in the new update.
Simon the Sorcerer II Support Page
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10.1.2001 AmigaZone Logo Store!
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Harv Laser: "Browse our selection of quality goods designed with your mind in mind - T-Shirts, SweatShirts both available
in many sizes including for big folks, Coffee and Drink Mugs (two count'em two sizes! ;).. and Mouse Pads all festooned
with a special enhanced ultra-high-resolution version of AmigaZone's famous logo as rendered by the famous Eric
"DrGandalf" Fleischer using the famous LightWave 3-D.
Folks have been asking me for years if I could offer The
AmigaZone Logo on stuff like this, so here ya go. You order directly from the
online store - it ships directly to you whever you are. Save on shipping
costs by ordering multiple items. All bigname plastic accepted, or you can print out an order form and mail it in with
a check or money order. All goods are guaranteed.
Join AmigaZone and I'll personally send you an AmigaZone Logo Baseball
Cap which is NOT available in our online store.. it's a members' exclusive."
Harv Laser, AmigaZone
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10.1.2001 NVidia OS Poll
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The NVidia news site nvnews.net has got a poll about what your prefered OS is.
You all know what to do ;) We do as amigans always do: We get there and show them the OS with a soul. ;)
Get there and vote on AmigaOS NOW!
BoingWorld website
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10.1.2001 Software News
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Textinput v28.3 MCC which was missing from the last beta V³
is available here.
Major new ICS upgrade V2.01b now available. ICS is
a free AmigaOS Scanner Color Calibration Software.
V3Portal
ICS homepage
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9.1.2001 AmigaOS 3.5 Boing-Bag #2a released
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9.1.2001 AmigaOS 3.9 Credits
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9.1.2001 Voyager³ 3.3.65beta
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9.1.2001 Amiga2001: The seventh Gateway Computer Show
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9.1.2001 AmigaOS 3.9 Offer to Amiga Community
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AmigaOS 3.9 Offer to Amiga Community from Computer Connection: "Visit our new Amiga Web Site by midnight (pst) Friday January 12,
and get Amiga OS 3.9 for $36.95 To take advantage of the offer Click Here! and use our
new secure real time transaction shopping cart."
Amiga.org website
Computer Connection's website
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9.1.2001 Black_Amiga Gives In
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Black_Amiga: "After days of considering hither and thither I have decided to abandon the Amiga. That means that
ATP will be released in its momentarily development state (version 0.9 beta) and also that I offer my Amiga for
sale. More about this on the homepage.
ATP is a address book/organizer software.
Amiga-news.de website
Black_Amiga homepage
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9.1.2001 CD32 Games Install Kit v4.1 NG
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The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.1 NG has just been released on the Airsoft Softwair web site.
This update can only be used and downloaded by owners of the The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM. In this version the
compatibility of the inbuilt emulator has been greatly improved and some important fixes have been made. Owners of the The Best Of
Airsoft Softwair CD-ROM can download this update now with the program Updater which is on their CD.
Andreas Falkenhahn, Airsoft Softwair
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9.1.2001 Software News
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Sigbjørn Skjæret has released the new VCDGear v1.6d for MorphOS.
This is the Amiga port of VCDGear (console version) for creating VCDs on your Amiga. Info on the original project can be found at
www.vcdgear.com." Please read the
VCDGear.readme.
WarpJPEG.datatype v44.15 - freeware JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS). Changes:
* Recoded much of the startup code, with libraries now not being opened on the ramlib context (after advice from H&P)
* Modified internal structure of the WarpOS version, to totally safeguard against cache conflicts (may have been causing rare random crashes)
* All WarpOS benchmarks recomputed, since WarpOS V5 is a little bit faster than V4 (this datatype is upto 5% faster as a result)
* Added benchmarks for MorphOS
* Unfortunately, due to all the internal changes, the 68k version is now a little bit slower (only about 1%) than before
WarpPNG.datatype v44.9 - freeware PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS). Changes:
* Recoded much of the startup code, with libraries now not being opened on the ramlib context (after advice from H&P)
* Modified internal structure of the WarpOS version, to totally safeguard against cache conflicts (may have been causing rare random crashes)
* Changed floating point usage of the 68k versions - the 040 and 060 version now use the FPU directly, while the 020 and 030 versions continue to use the mathieee libs (in a safer manner than before)
* All WarpOS benchmarks recomputed, since WarpOS V5 is a little bit faster than V4 (this datatype is a bit faster as a result)
* The 68k versions are now fractionally faster than before
* Added benchmarks for MorphOS
MorphOS website
Oliver Roberts' Homepage
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8.1.2001 Amiga Survivor
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Amiga Survivor is a well established Amiga magazine, originally published by
Robert Iveson as a paid-for games publication. CS&E set up a media division to relaunch the magazine and continue in
the Amiga market. With the alleged financial difficulties of Amiga,Inc and lack of information or support from them it
is now only viable for the magazine to continue with the support of other companies in this market, since we made a
decision this week not to rejoin the Amiga market for the AmigaDE. While we do not want to abandon a sinking ship, it
really is up to the companies involved to show they are professional enough to advertise. I've enclosed a bit of a poem
at the end which illustrates my point! Read more
David Connolly, Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
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8.1.2001 TrogSoft: More developers needed
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TrogSoft: "Following a loss of motivation of several of our most active developers, we are now in need of more developers.
When you apply, you should include a link to some of your work, or you can attach it to your email either as an LhA file or a
Zip file. Note that we cannot offer you payment unless you work on a commercial project.
We also want people who are going
to be committed to us, and not disappear after a few weeks. We want people who have the initiative to go off and work alone
to make programs to release through Trogsoft, and people willing to work as a team on a multi-person project.
To apply, email neil@trogsoft.org
Trogladite Software website
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8.1.2001 AmigaOS.com domain
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The domain AmigaOS.com is now available again, but this time it's registred by a company called DomainCollection.
This company sells domainnames using auctions. The minimum price for a .com domainname is $1450 with an avarage
bid on $2458!!! So I guess noone will have this domain again for a while :(
BoingWorld website
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8.1.2001 Gary Peake Shuts another Pirate warez site down!
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Pirate warez site http://agaworld.free.fr/ is closed for now due to the following email Gary Peake send:
"Located on YOUR servers is offering the illegal download of commercial software. Several of our licensees have contacted us asking for assistance in
having this web site cease and desist immediately with the piracy of commercial and copyright software.
Therefore, we are asking that you immediately
cause this web site to cease and desist or further actions will be taken against the user personally and your company who is hosting the pirating web
site in question.
Sincerely,
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Gary Peake
Director - Developer Relations & Support
Amiga Inc.
http://www.amigadev.net
http://www.amiga.com"
Michael Carrillo via ANN
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8.1.2001 Another bug in AmigaOS 3.5 BB2 found
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8.1.2001 New Amiga designs
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Jeffrey Ham: "A new (if slightly small) website
is running at the address below containing unofficial designs for new Amigas, by a Product Designer called
Zenon Olenski. They are very good!"
Jeffrey Ham
Amiga Design Centre
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7.1.2001 Coder Required
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The development team behind pc crusader clone, Silencer are currently seeking a coder to work on Silencer and a number of other game projects.
They are planning to produce a Universe/DarkSeed clone, Another World/Flashback clone, Navy Seals/Turrican clone and a Capital Punishment
clone. Each of these games will be based on their legendary role-model, but will have a heap of improvements, regarding gfx, sound and
playability. Ivan Pesic stated, "We assure you that we are very qualified for developing each of these games on a pro-level and commercial
quality, so that gfx and sound development are no risks in any of these projects..." However, they are seeking a talented and dedicated coder
to work as a member of the development team. If you're interested in this opportunity to join a development team then e-mail them at
reject_yu@yahoo.com.
BTW Amiga Flame US Miror closing down shortly!
AmigaFlame website
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7.1.2001 Interview with Francis Charig, Chairman of TAO
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7.1.2001 Little bug in AmigaOS 3.5 BB2 found
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Cris Young via Amiga OS3.5 mailing list: "Hi all, Just discovered a bug in OS3.5 BB2 (possibly present
in other versions). Opening a hidden directory and then stepping back to the parent does not display
any icon for the directory you have come from."
Read more
Amiga.org website
AmigaOS 3.5 homepage
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7.1.2001 Drake News
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The map editor for Drake is written for AmigaOS, using a GadTools GUI. It should be running in the next two or three days
and will enable me to create a demo map for (maybe public) release.
Bad news: Csaba Kemeri alias Unreal leaves our
team. He doesn't have the time to draw the intro pictures. If someone feels like being able to paint for us, please email
to LucyG@t-online.de with some examples of your work.
AmigaFuture website
Lucy's Home
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7.1.2001 Pianeta Amiga 2000 Report (We like late reports!)
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Luca Ognibene: "I'd like to let you know that I put on line on my Web page a report regarding
the Italian fair Pianeta Amiga held on September, 30th and October, 1st in Empoli.
I know it's so late, but I thought an Italian Web Magazine would put it on, but this never
happened (I sent them the complete material one month ago). Anyway the
report it's
availble both in english and in italian and there are many nice photos guys like to see."
Luca Ognibene, OgniX's Web Place
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7.1.2001 Software News
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JST v4.3b - JOTD startup for HD installs & degrader.
Memory leak bugfix existing from v4.2c
Reduced stack usage (SWIV works at least!, and possibly others)
Added CBSWITCH_SET WHDLoad flag for better compatibility (also for OSEmu)
Package contains debugged OSEmu (the write to disk function did not work)
Fixed debug output (registers.dat)
Added traps for addresses $100-$400 (just in case some trouble with PPC boards would be related to that)
Fixed some write cache update stuff (for gamesaves)
The 7th release of OpusMI is now available on the Aminet
and the MasonIcons Homepage. The full OpusMI archive now features over 450 GlowIcons for DirectoryOpus Magellan.
The Amiga Ultimate Patch & HD Installers Page
Martin Mason Merz, Mason.Home
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6.1.2001 Bill McEwen interviewed; Amiga short on cash?
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Corinna Cohn posted a transcript
of an interview with Bill McEwen on Moo Bunny, where
Bill says that AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9 are no significant additions to the Amiga revenue, but not worrysome either.
Apparently, their cash is getting low, but they are working on securing more investment. Bill also said that
Amiga will not be exhibiting at Comdex or CES, but only at Amiga trade shows, but their product will be
available through vendors.
ANN website
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6.1.2001 Just for crazy Amigians
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ClickBOOM: "Im ClickBoom and Amiga number one fan." "We have heard this statement said over and over again!
You know who you are and now wa are going to give you the chance to prove it. We are going to seperate the
truly insane ClickBoom fans from the talkers. How? To prove what a true fan you are, you must tattoo either
words "ClickBoom" or "Amiga" or respective logos on any part of your body!!! In return we will send you
every ClickBoom game! Contact us first!!!!!" Read more
ClickBOOM website
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6.1.2001 Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ Updated
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6.1.2001 Software News
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AMP v 2.01 (010106) - official (shareware) AMP2 (AmiDog's Movie Player) release.
Only a minor update to fix some reported problems with the GUI, the layout has also been changed a little. Any .cfg file from AMP
v2.00 will be ignored with this version since author forgot to add a version string to the file, this version string will be used in the
future to get backward compatibility. Changes since AMP v2.00:
AMP used to free two never allocated signals, fixed
GUI: Now works when started from a partition with a space in the name
GUI: Added a version string to the .cfg file and placed it in S:
GUI: Added DEVS: as default path for the device drivers
GUI: Bumped version to v1.01 due to the changes
AmigAIM V0.9407 Beta - an AIM
Client for the Amiga by Richard H. Poser II. history
AmigaAMP website
Official AmigAIM page
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5.1.2001 Voodoo5 Workbench snapshot!
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Less then one month ago VGR brought you the worlds first snapshots of CGX running on a
Voodoo4 4500 PCI.
VGR now brings you another CGX first, snapshots
of CyberGraphX running on the fastest Voodoo card you can buy. The CGX drivers can take
advantage of the full 64MB on the Voodoo5 5500
and knows about the duel VSA-100 chips on the Voodoo5 5500 PCI card.
CGX website
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5.1.2001 INET DIAL v3.837 now supports OS3.9 GENESiS and REMOTE EMAIL retrieval
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INET DIAL is an integrated control and communication system for the Amiga Computer. v3.837 now includes full support for GENESiS,
supplied with OS3.9, in addition to support for AMITCP, MIAMI and MIAMI DeLuxe TCP/IP stacks.
INET DIAL has also been updated
to support AWEB v3.4 and permanent network connections as well as 'dial-up' and 'dial-in'. Further enhancements include remote
viewing of emails held on your home base computer in addition to remote control facilities of X-10 devices.
Download INET DIAL v3.837 from http://www.mdr.co.uk/mdr/software/inet_dial.lha
Richard de Rivaz
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5.1.2001 Amiga Arena - Risiko full version!
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The Amiga Arena in co-operation with Frank Abbing (UAC Desing) present the full version of "Risiko" as final v1.7, which is not available form Aminet.
Risiko Amiga in this conforms to the common game rules of the original board game by Parker Bros. But Risiko also has included special rules as like
uprisings, earth quakes, and blitz! Both, German and English version! For all of the Amiga friends the best non-commercial version for Amiga is ready
for download!
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga Arena website
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5.1.2001 MAMEgui
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MAMEgui v1.0 is graphical user interface for AmiDog's MAME.
It allows to start games in convenient way, displays screen-shots and flyers, stores list of recently played games, stores
individual settings for every game and for every user (if you have MultiUser installed).
Szczepan Kuzniarz, MAMEgui homepage
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5.1.2001 Software News
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Sigbjørn Skjæret has released a new 1.22 version of the sndfile.library (Library for reading/writing various sample formats used by
AmigaAMP, DelfSF, Frogger and LAME so far) that has a MorphOS version included. You can find more info on the
libsndfile page.
You can find the latest archive that comes direct from the
Great Sigbjørn Skjæret with a updated and modified archive based on the recent Aminet release with the following updates: added
pre-compiled versions of the examples, and made patchfiles for fpu and noasync versions, here:
sndfile1.22.lha. (252K)
MorphOS website
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4.1.2001 Scala AmigaOne presentation available
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The AmigaOne presentation by Eyetech and Escena which was shown at the World of Amiga 2000 in Köln on the 9th
and 10th of December, is now available.
The presentation is supplied in Scala format, and the standalone player program is in the archive.
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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4.1.2001 Ripper Back to Help Fly the flag!
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Amiga internet magazine "The Ripper" Is now BACK from the dead. With a revamped site they are back to
help keep Amiga users using the Computers they know and love!
Said Owner Barry Smith, "Its a real
boost to be back, especialy since we had requests to re open. How can we dissapoint our readers ?"
So they are back, and Still sponsord by "Soft Logik". They closed due to 2 writers turning their
backs on the Editor (Dirk Harlaar) & owner and Co ed (Barry Smith). This time they need the help
of EVERY amiga user. "The future is in their hands"
- = Alba^ = -
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4.1.2001 EZCam PCMCIA digital camera memory adapter
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The EZCam - released this month by Eyetech - adds hardware logic to allow digital camera cards
(Memory Stick, SmartMedia, CompactFlash) to be read & written by Workbench, when used with
a PCMCIA card adapter (not included).
Read more
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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4.1.2001 Tube Pre Amp: energy maximizer with realtime vacuum-tube emulation
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Tube Pre Amp is a new plugin for ProStationAudio
(any version). It allows to increase the signal loudness up to 15dB without introducing digital clipping.
The legendary warmth of tube-based devices (as opposed to solid state devices) is well know. The basic cause of the
difference in tube and solid state sound is the weighting of harmoninc distortion components. When saturating, tubes
gently compress the signal, producing an harmonic series that falls off quickly in amplitude at higher frequencies.
Another positive effect of tubes is that, due to asymmetrical saturation (the positive half of a waveform saturates
differently than the negative half), the harmonic series generated by soft clipping contains only musically healthy even
harmonics (octaves and well-intoned intervals), as opposed to dissonant odd harmonics. This plugin implements both of the
above features.
AudioLabs website
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4.1.2001 New Year Resolutions
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If you've got any hopes or dreams related to the Amiga for 2001, Amiga Active would like to hear them.
Go and fill in their quick survey!
Amiga Active website
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4.1.2001 S-FILE 8: HAPPY HOLIDAYS
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Firstly, our end of year sale is over. It seems you guys liked the delayed payment option,
so we might have it again later in the year.
Secondly, this is very important -- UK
distributor CS&E bought all of our remaining stock of the original Capital Punishment
and Quake. So, we do not have any more of these two fine games, and they will not be
manufactured anymore. If you wish to buy them, please contact
CS&E, who plan to have them for sale in UK and
Ireland stores.
And finally, we are working on a few new licencing agreements for
some major conversions. More news as soon as it's all ready. :)
Happy Holidays, and a great new 2001!
S-FILE 9
clickBOOM website
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3.1.2001 AmigaOS 3.5 Boing-Bag #2 released
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3.1.2001 AmiBench Need Your Support
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Hardware problems! Server`s "yo-yo" behaviour! Closed web account! Hacked service provider!
Abusing from disgruntled users! Wish you better year 2001 for AmiBench? I hope so, so
support Mark & AmiBench team... Messages of support, feedback, spread the word about
AmiBench etc. are welcome.
Check Mark 'tecno' Wilson's '2000: My Year in Perspective'
AmiBench website
Stepan "Snappy" Chladek
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3.1.2001 It's Offical, OFFICAL Voodoo P96 drivers by P96 Crew
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Mr. Tobias Abt posted to the Amiga-Mediator ML today: "Yes. There will be a genuine Picasso96 driver for Mediator.
I can't give a date right now, but there will be one. Although there are only a handful of registrations right now... What are you waiting for?"
If they have a "handfull" of registrations after only 2 weeks (say 10), and need 300 as stated to do the project... It will take about 60 weeks at this rate to hit the
needed 300. Is Mid-February 2002 the release date? Did the P96 team get a early Christmas present from Poland? Now there will be 3 different Voodoo drivers, will a 4th
show up now?
CGX website
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3.1.2001 Elbox SoundBlaster driver to be released as AHI
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Mr. Wajda posted to the Amiga-Mediator ML: "Fellows from ELBOX informed me that SB driver will be AHI driver.
But there is no release date for that."
CGX website
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3.1.2001 Software News
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The iconsystem beta files
have been updated once more. The third release fixes possible enforcer hits when running OS3.5 and checking
out badly generated icons.
Beta files (experienced users please test) for new icon handling in
Scalos. This has support for traditional Amiga icons, New Icons and the OS3.5 icon format.
A/NES CGFX v1.22 - Nintendo emulator.
readme
Mostly minor fixes, however mapper9 now works close to perfect! A simple screendump function was also added.
Scalos homepage
A/NES homepage
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2.1.2001 SecondSpin Betatesters Wanted
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Lauri Ahonen: "The army is over now and I have lots of time to spare in the next month. However, I've lost
contact to almost all of my betatesters, so I'll need new fresh betatesters to help me iron out some bugs
and give suggestions.
If you want to be a SecondSpin betatester and always have the latest version,
please send me a mail describing your machine and a few words
about yourself. Let's bring SecondSpin back!"
SecondSpin Discussion Forum
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2.1.2001 Service Manager: CSM News
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Colin Wenzel: "I would just like to let you know that "Murphy" struck in the early hours of New Years day.
In my haste to remove all the licensing code from CSM for the Freeware version, I inadvertantly broke
the printing system on v12.20 (:/
So if you have already downloaded v12.20 you can go to the
download page and get the fixed v12.21
Sorry for the teething problems..."
Colin Wenzel, Col's homepage
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2.1.2001 Advertising at Amiga Future
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Exactly as in the last two issues of Amiga Future the editor of the magazine proposes a "commercial" advertising
for "non commercial" products in Amiga Future (1/8 page b/w) for a special price of DM 20,- VTA included to
shareware developers, webmasters and so on. We would like to ask all the persons that are interested in this
offer to contact the editor of Amiga Future as sonn as possible.
The whole editing team of Amiga Future wish
a happy new year 2001 to all of you.
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga Future website
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2.1.2001 The KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-ROM is available
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The CD-ROM contains mirrored web sites and more about AMIGA history, persons, models, clones, support.
Some web sites are offline today. The mirrored sites are republished with permission of the copyright
holder. The Homepage shows the recent table of contents. The subdivision HISTORY contains an essay
about the AMIGA patents in German and English language by the editor.
ANN website
KICKSTART ARCHIVES homepage
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2.1.2001 Grasshopper LLC News
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January 1st, 2001 - Grasshopper (PageStream developers) phones will not be answered for this first week
of the new year. I will continue to answer support questions online this week, and Dan (or maybe Mary)
will be answering sales this week from home, and shipping will continue to be sending orders. Also,
online orders will be continue to be processed as normal. However, mail, phone and fax orders will not
be processed until at least the 5th. If Grasshopper is open on Friday the 5th, it will be in a limited
capacity. Otherwise, I know of at least one person who will be in Saturday to catch up on mail and fax
order entry.
Grasshopper LLC website
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2.1.2001 Amiga Arena - Special Price Deal
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The special price deal of PhotoAlbum / CyberShow will be maintained until the 31.01.2001.
"Together with Helmut Hoffmann, Amiga Arena offers a special price for PhotoAlbum / CyberShow inclusive
all additional modules. The price will be 35,- DM."
Amiga-News.de website
Amiga Arena website
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2.1.2001 Silversurfer does NOT Work with Melody1200
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Joern Plewka: "Since the Cologne fair previous to this year's fair the Silversurfer in it's original
state doesn't work correctly with Melody1200 since the complete clockport is blocked, which is in
contradiction with what the manufacturer states at his homepage. This information isn't even available to
users when they ask for support. Katodev is fed up with fixing Silversurfers without complaining, by now.
Currently it seems that even the software does NOT work with Melody1200 anymore.
If Silversurfer and
Melody1200 can't work together simultaneoulsy it means that Melody can die from bus-collisions, sooner or
later. Please get a guaranty on purchase that Silversurfer does the things you require or use Twister1200.
This makes you preventing a lot of anger, port and time for you and us.
We have reconstructed the layout
of the Silversurfer now. This shows that the IRQ runs over a diode. Those having problems due to this "trick"
should replace the diode by a transistor (e.g. BS170)."
Amiga-News.de website
Kato Development website
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2.1.2001 Software News
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MainPrefs v2.04 - program to configure your
system under AmigaOS3.5/3.9; it concerns: managing assigns, editing config files, starting preference programs and changing
environment variables...
Changes: removed several bugs ("dh1:log", late assigns not shown correct);
additional tooltypes "HELPFILE" and "PREFSFILE"; help key shows help; Spanish, French & Turkish catalogs
ICS V2.01 - professional color correction for scanners.
ICS already is directly supported by ScanQuix, ScanTrax and ImageFX and more.
readme
LE version on AmiNet is crippled because of license and patent issues. For the complete software and manuals
check out ICS homepage
MainPrefs homepage
Aminet
ICS homepage
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1.1.2001 Amihoo Magazine Issue 3 is out!
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Featuring the final analysis of the "Future of the Amiga Games Market" Poll that was recently held.
The results are interesting for Developers and users alike. Add to that the excellent, Robb Perrone
& Ross Vumbaca columns, The Editorial, and the winner to the Bubble Heroes Competition. Are
you the lucky one? Check it out at www.amihoo.com
Michael Carrillo, Amihoo.com
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1.1.2001 Cannon Fodder 2 Demo at Amiga Rediscovery
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Amiga Rediscovery this month features the sequel to
the Classic Cannon Fodder, Cannon Fodder 2. Come along and rediscover what made the Amiga No1 for Games.
Michael Carrillo, Amihoo.com
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1.1.2001 PowerD v0.16, new version of powerful programming language
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PowerD is modern programming language, slightly compatible to AmigaE. Has many features and is very
easy to learn. Requires OS3.0, 020, fpu and some additional memory.
Developing such project is
very difficult and I have only few betatesters. If You want to help me with it, test it or write
examples, modules etc. please email to kuchinka@volny.cz.
If You want more information about it, email me, or visit my
homepage.
Read more
Martin "MarK" Kuchinka, 's homepage
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1.1.2001 Happy Birthday!
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The graphic board pages are now 7 years old today. Also as of today CGX webpages have been hosted on VGR for 5 years.
BoingWorld: "Today is our first web-presence birthday. We came on-line with the very first page January 1, 2000."
CyberGraphX Homepage
BoingWorld website
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1.1.2001 BallMaster source released under GPL
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Complete source code for the game BallMaster (written in Blitz Basic) has been released under the terms
of GNU General Public Licence. Check out damir.gajba.net
for details.
Damir Arh,
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1.1.2001 Party Pictures
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Daniel Mealha Cabrita: "Finally (after 2 weeks the party happened) I could put the
report page online.
(portuguese)
This AmiChurras was particulary disappointing, few people came,
almost of them from the nearby cities. what's happening with the brazilian Amiga users? :("
There are some pictures from The Party 2000
in Aars/DK this week.
Daniel Mealha Cabrita
WarpGate website
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1.1.2001 Miami Deluxe BUG information
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Corey Rhodehouse: "I was on the net today when someone decided to try to FTP into my machine. (Or something.)
So when I checked my log I found this:" 32.12.00 10:07:38 Access from host 208.137.22.6 to port tcp/21 allowed. ^^-- December 32, 2000? ;)
Be carefull! [ExiE]
Corey "Firebird^" Rhodehouse
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1.1.2001 Happy New Year from Compuquick
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Special offers and great tips for the new year from Compuquick. If you have not upgraded to OS3.9,
now is the time! Pick up a spare 1200 while supplies last. There is an additional 5% discount for
all orders over the phone or online.
Read more
Amiga.org website
Compuquick website
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1.1.2001 Software News
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Samba (v1.19 25.12.00) - free SMB client
and server ported to Amiga by Olaf Barthel. Requires: Miami, Miami Deluxe, AmiTCP 4.x (3.x probably too!) or AmiTCP Genesis
Samba is the protocol by which a lot of PC-related machines share files and printers and other information such
as lists of available files and printers.
JST v4.3b - JOTD startup for HD installs & degrader.
Memory leak bugfix existing from v4.2c
Word8-Filter - text import filter for Soft-Logik's DTP program
PageStream. It allows you to load the main text of Word8 documents (Word97-Word2000)
into a PageStream article.
AmigaWriter-Filter - import filter for Soft-Logik's DTP program
PageStream. It consists of two parts: The text filter inserts the main flowtext of your AmigaWriter documents into the current
PageStream article with most of its text formattings. The document filter loads your AmigaWriter documents as if they were
native PageStream documents, retaining as much of your original document as possible.
Aminet
SAMBA Web Pages
The Amiga Ultimate Patch & HD Installers Page
Rüdiger's Amiga Program website
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Czech Amiga News Team Wish
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Happy New Millenium to all Amiga users worldwide!
Thank you for your support during last two years, and we hope you will stay with us for the
NEXT ONE!
Czech Amiga News Team
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