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31.3.2001 Boing Bag #1 for AmigaOS 3.9
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Just in time for the Gateway Computer Show Amiga 2001 Amiga, Inc. and H&P are able to release Boing Bag #1 for OS 3.9.
The most important feature is AsyncWB, which adds asynchronous copying and delete functionality to Workbench. In addition,
it includes the new GenesisPrefs, updated HDToolBox, AMPlifier, ViNCEd, WBRun, UnArc, RAWBInfo, BenchTrash and some other
enhancements. download (~5MB),
readme
Added an entry to the Compatibility page and one to
the Miscellaneous page.
Updated the following
entries to reflect the release of Boing Bag 1 & the revised OS 3.9 CD-ROM (second edition):
Installation Tips ...... 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14
Icon Operation ......... 2
Compatibility .......... 5, 6
Internet Applications .. 1
Undocumented Features .. 5, 7
Miscellaneous .......... 1, 2, 4, 7, 8
AmigaInc. website
Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ page
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31.3.2001 Amiga OS 4.0 for PowerPC Announced
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Bill Mc Ewen announced that AmigaOS is being fully ported to PowerPC. Amiga OS 4.0 for PPC is being
developed by Haage & Partner and Hyperion. Amiga OS 4.0 PPC will require AmigaOne PPC
motherboard. A production AmigaOne board was shown by Eyetech. Detailed information expected soon...
Fleecy Moss says:
"I should point out that H&P and Hyperion are just two of the contractors being used, and that
we are using quite a few others. I should also point out that a lot of the work is being done
internally, by Amiga itself. This is represents Amiga taking back ownership and control of the
AmigaOS as we develop it forwards to be a key part of our future technology solution.
Haage and Partner have done a good job of looking after it for us over the years, but as we move
forwards, it will be brought back in house, allowing us to fully take on our responsibility as owner."
Fleecy writes: "AmigaOS4 will only
run on hardware that conforms to the zico specification - currently that is the Eyetech AmigaOne (which
also offers full backwards compatibility with AA chipset access applications) and the bPlan AmigaOne,
which will run AmigaOS4 apps and older apps which use retargetable coding. We look forwards to other
Amiga hardware companies developing zico based solutions and are actively talking to them."
Amigart website
ANN website
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31.3.2001 AMIGA works with SHARP to develop content for ZAURUS
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ST. LOUIS, MO, March 30, 2001 - Amiga Incorporated, a pioneer in the development of multi-media
and content, today announced a long-term partnership with Sharp Corporation, a worldwide developer of
innovative products and core technologies in electronics, in which Amiga will develop content for
next-generation Sharp handheld computing devices.
In March, Sharp announced its plans to market the
Zaurus PDA in the United States and Europe as one of the world's first Linux-based handheld device.
The Linux operating system is gaining wider acceptance in the computer server market because its
underlying code is freely distributed on the Internet. Easily adaptable for different hardware devices,
the Sharp handheld will be able to run software written in Sun Microsystems' versatile Java software
language that supports different operating systems.
In this partnership, Amiga announced that its
developer community would either develop new content or adapt existing content for PDA applications,
using their reputation for innovation and leadership in gaming, 2D, 3D, animation, video, and music
applications. Amiga-developed content can be downloaded directly through wireless networks, using
desktop computers, or ported directly into the new device.
Read the press release here
Luca Diana: "Photos
of the Sharp/Amiga PDA are available on Quantum Leap."
AmigaInc. website
Sharp Corporation website
Quantum Leap
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30.3.2001 Amiga2001 St. Louis reports & pictures
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31.3.2001 Quick report from Bill McEwen's speech
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At the Amiga 2001 show in St. Louis, Amiga announced the future of the Amiga platform:
All new Sharp Zaurus handhelds will ship with the Amiga DE.
Psion will ship in about 2 months with the Amiga DE.
Amiga DE runs on the Pocket PC. Just buy the memory module and plug it in, when available.
Classic Amiga OS is being ported to PPC (Amiga OS 4.0). AmigaDE will not be released as a
desktop solution for the AmigaOne computer, but will instead be coupled with and folded into
future versions of the Amiga OS (probably OS4.2).
Eyetech is releasing their proprietary Amiga One spec.
Amiga One may ship in time for AmiWest.
Rob Iacullo, AMiga Users Society Eastside
Bill McEwen, AmigaInc.
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31.3.2001 Amiga 2001 Show WebCam
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31.3.2001 Payback reviewed
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Apex Designs' Payback is finally here. Read the most thorough
review
available anywhere right here...
Amiga Fire website
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31.3.2001 Blittersoft Voodoo procurement problems
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One of the members on Amiga-Mediator ML posted
a email he got from Blittersoft telling of their procurement problems with Ingram Micro in getting Voodoo3 cards:
"In order to maintain the price, we have had to source a supplier in Germany. Our usual supplier was Ingram
Micro, who I am sure you will know are a huge UK concern. Unfortunately, their stock of 350+ boards have been
placed on hold, and they will still not release any. Their reason is that Voodoo III is considered an obsolete
part since the buyout from nVidea, and whilst there is still a demand, the powers that be have withdrawn it.
Despite assurances that they would have this sorted, it still has not been so we have a shipment from Germany in
transit." Read the complete post here.
CyberGraphX homepage
Blittersoft website
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30.3.2001 New Song by Psyria
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Psyria is a music project which produces songs exclusively with the AMIGA. After about seven weeks,
the Psyria homepage was updated.
Dennis Lohr: "First of all, a new song (MP3) is available for download in top quality. The song
'Sleppy Miriam' was transformed by request of the original composer "Techno Overdose" into a club
mix. The original song is available at Techno Overdose.
Further, I am negotiating with my "old" record company again. Soon, there will be a new contract.
The release of the first record was (if all goes well) aimed for summer 2001 on "Masonic Records
distributed by Virgin Europe". (Keep your fingers crossed :-))
Also, I'd like to remind of the other songs which are available for download, as well as the forum
and guestbook. Everybody can post his comments on the songs, the homepage and anything else there."
Amiga-news.de website
Psyria homepage
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30.3.2001 New software for MEDIATOR PCI Busboard
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* pci.library ver.3.0
* Voodoo.card ver.2.0
* MediatorNET.device ver.2.0
The new pci.library ver.3.0 enables access to the Config Space, I/O Space and Memory Space
in PCI cards directly in the address space of the turbo card processor. Access to the PCI
Memory Space is executed through the continuous 1.7 GB area.
The new Voodoo.card driver ver.2.0 enables full control over the memory of the graphic card
used as a frame buffer by the P96 system. This allows using the maximum resolutions
offered by the Voodoo3/4/5 cards...
Read more
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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30.3.2001 "PC-on-a-Card" to be shown at St. Louis
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Mr. Hardware (a computer dealer in Rocky Point, NY, USA) will introduce 2 new "PC on a cards" for the Amiga
market at the Amiga show in St. Louis this weekend."I had a chance earlier in the week to do a quick IRC
interview with the guys at Mr. Hardware and talk about the PC on a card they will be showing there.
You can read the interview here. Also on the
page is hardware specs and pictures of the cards.
CyberGraphX homepage
Mr. Hardware webpage
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30.3.2001 G-REX 4000 pictures
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There are some pictures of the G-REX in Amiga4000D.
It replaces the Z3 daughter board and gives 4 PCI slots in line with 4 Z3 slots and one video slot.
Technical Details: - New Riser Card Design
- 4 * PCI 2.1 Slot, 4 * Zorro 3 Slot, 1 * Video Slot
- All PCI Slots with full DMA
- Ready for the new "DCE G4 PCI ACCELERATOR CARD"
- Comes with full driver support for Graphic, Network and Soundcards. Drivers for TV Cards, USB, and 100 Mbit Network Cards are coming soon
AUG99 website
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30.3.2001 Elbox points out whats wrong with G-Rex
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Darek Dulian: "We have received a number of inquiries about whether the SharkPPC G3/G4 card
could be used in the G-REX busboard. Here is the response to clear up these doubts:
"Complete lack of support for the busmastering (DMA) between PCI slots (the lines controlling
busmastering - GNT#, REQ# are not physically connected to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th G-REX slot).
This makes the operation of PCI cards impossible..."
"Lack of a parity control system (the PAR parity line is not physically connected to the control
logics of the busboard)."
"Reduction of the interruption system from 4 to 1 - the interruption lines (INTB#, INTC#, INTD#) are
not physically connected to PCI slots."
"We are not in the habit of commenting devices or software, but here we make an exception, as the
level of misinformation in the ML like this one reached its critical level." -- "I am really
embarrassed to read letters from people who -- having no idea about hardware -- give their opinions
on various products or designs."
Read the complete answer here
Darek Dulian, ELBOX COMPUTER
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30.3.2001 K4: The Kickstart Amiga Show 2001 announced
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Kickstart announces K4: The Kickstart Amiga Show 2001 heralds a new venue and the biggest show yet!
The Kickstart Amiga User Group is proud to announce the details for K4: The Kickstart Amiga Show, in
association with Eyetech.
The Date: Saturday May 26th 2001
The Place: Banstead Youth Centre, The Horseshoe, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 2BQ
The Time: 11am-5pm (to be confirmed)
The web site: http://www.kickstartshow.co.uk
Read the complete pressrelease
Chris Green, Kickstart Amiga User Group
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30.3.2001 St. Louis Pre-Show Party
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Harv Laser: "We're at the Sheraton Lakeside Chalet Ultra Brougham Ghia Plus Hotel in St. Louis, MO.,
for the Amiga 2001 Show and the place is starting to fill up with luminaries and even space ships
and space people (obscure Jimi Hendrix reference..).. Tonite four doors down from my room, show
organize Bob Scharp and his wife Diana hosted a pre-show party for exhibitors.. [..] I shot a
whole bunch of pictures of these folks and will put them up on my web site somewhere probably
tomorrow when I get my 2500/060 set up at my booth on the show floor..."
Read More.
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30.3.2001 Amiga: St Louis classes and chats
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Gary Peake writes:
"We will have three classes in St Louis. The first will be intermediate VP programming by Rudi Chiarito, the second will
be beginning VP programming by Rudi and myself, and the third will be by Bill and myself on what we are doing and where
we go from here as a company."
He then adds:
"We will have the classes taped and they will be available shortly after the St Louis show. We will be using the #developer IRC channel immediately
after each class and at various times during the show to pass on information and developments."
Ray Akey posts details on where to connect
to join the chats.
ANN website
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30.3.2001 AROS News
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Status update: "We have almost completed 75% of the original AmigaOS. 138 developers are registered.
At the time of writing, the AROS sources were 55 MB (that includes all changes ever made to AROS)
and we have 38.5 MB of contributed software (also with changes) plus several MB of screenshots.
Our webpage has almost 80k hits.
AROS homepage
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30.3.2001 Pagestream 4.0.9 For AmigaOS
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PageStream4.0.9 Amiga, Macintosh and Windows is now available for download from the secure download
section of this web site. Improvements include PDF compression, more language modules and language
dictionaries, faster and more robust spell checking and hyphenation, improved font handling,
printing fixes, better window handling and more.
"March 30-April 1, 2001 - Grasshopper LLC will have a spot at the Gateway Computer Show. Come visit
with Deron and catch up on the latest PageStream news. Purchase a copy of PageStream or a PageStream
addon, and get Deron to sign it. The signature might not be worth much, but you will love the product!"
Grasshopper LLC website
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30.3.2001 Voyager-PPC 3.3.92beta
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The first version of Voyager running natively on PPC is available here.
Enjoy the improved speed. MorphOS 0.4 or higher is required and it's highly recommended to install
MUIPPC as well. This version doesn't require a keyfile to run, everyone can try it...
V3Portal
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29.3.2001 "Prometheus" is not a fake
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A mailinglist has been setup on YahooGroups for the Prometheus. You can Join Here!
Photo of Prometheus PCI Board
Nicolas Mendoza, the creator and editor at polarBoing did a mini-interview on IRC with
one of the Matay guys about the Prometheus just now.
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewski: "PCI cards will not just "hang on their slots". There will be a bracket includer to screw them on it."
- "Prometheus can be much faster than this, but is limited by Buster design. For example on A3200 card (EC030/25) it achieves about 7100 kB/s."
Grzegorz Juraszek, Matay: "Matay's been selling Amiga software in Poland for a year. This is NO fake or joke, the boards are very real
and will sell in May. Look at the photo, does it look like a piece of render? ;)" You say everybody does a PCI solution now. So why so many people are
not satisfied yet? The project started LONG BEFORE Elbox annouced their PCI board. It's no piece of cake to design and make such board. We did not
spoof until the cards became real. No promises, no yet-to-be-released surprises. Isn't it the better way?" - "It ALSO fits the desktop case without
the lit. And no card is swinging in the air, there are holders to, echm... hold ;) them. And the extension cords to attach them to rear panels.
Everything is explained at our site in plain (I hope so ;) English. We will soon photo it inside an Amiga with the holders for those that prefer
seeing as believing." - "Would you like us to wait "for another nine months" like Petro T. said at Amiga Show'98? ;-) I joking, at April 1st or any
other day." - "Too early to speculate on that. Prometheus will hit the shops in May, so currency rates we strictly depend on can change. About 550 DM
for now, but do not take it as a promise. We don't like promises, we've had too many of them."
Ben Yoris, Hyperion Entertainment: "This is no fake. This product exists and has been tested. Hyperion is in relation with Matay for a while.
As for the fitting in an A4000D or A3000D, please read the Matay website where it is explained."
CyberGraphX homepage
Amigart website
Grzegorz Juraszek, Matay
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29.3.2001 dynAMIte Update
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New dynAMIte (v1.1) Available! Used another GSL now.
dynAMIte is a GREAT freeware bomberman/dynablaster-clone that can be played (only) over internet (TCP/IP)
by up to 8 players!
Opened dynAMIte forum for your comments!
dynAMIte homepage
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29.3.2001 Software Hut's Gateway Specials
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"Well, it's here! No, not the 'Mothership' coming to take us home, but the 'Gateway 2001 AMIGA Show'
in St. Louis. Each of them are out of this world, but the GATEWAY show should be more interesting.
We are anticipating many announcements for the benefit of AMIGA's future as well as some new product
releases...
For those of you who are coming to the show, be sure to check out:
http://www.amiga-stl.com/sched.html for the latest
weekend agenda. For those of you who can not come, but feel left out, we have something for you!
We have released our annual "GATEWAY SPECIALS", located at:
http://www.softhut.com/stlspecials.html.
The specials listed are effective until April 4, so do not delay! We hope this message finds
everyone well and we hope to see you at the show! Have a great weekend!"
Amiga.org website
Software Hut website
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29.3.2001 New version of TaskiSMS
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New version of TaskiSMS (2.51) is now available. News in this release:
- fixed some bugs in main program
- new plugin for Switzerland (DiAx)
- new plugin for Czech Republic & Slovakia (D1cz)
- more sending informations
- updated Polish translation (other translations will come soon)
Using this program you can send SMSes to cellular phones to 112 countries around the world.
You can download demo version from TaskiSMS home page or from
AmiNet soon.
Pawel 'Paplo/Taski' Filipczak, Taski
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29.3.2001 Blackpool Amiga Club
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A new Amiga club has started in Blackpool, Lancashire. It meets on the first monday of every
month at the Wings Club in Cleveleys. There is a tutorial and a competition each month and
advice, solutions & sales form a large part of each meeting. For more information you
can ring Matt 01253 820151 or e-mail Barry.
Barry Riddiford via ANN
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29.3.2001 NEW Super Sized Mediator support pages online
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With the O.K. given by Elbox today the New vgr Super Sized Support pages for the Mediator are now online.
Everything from the latest software and hardware status and versions to jumper settings and much, much
more! Many new pictures and FAQs. You can find the largest and oldest Mediator support pages updated
at: Mediator Support Pages.
CyberGraphX homepage
ELBOX website
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29.3.2001 New PCI bridge solution for Zorro III Amiga systems
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Grzegorz Juraszek: "Warsaw, March 29, 2001. We are pleased to introduce
you to our latest product - "Prometheus" card for Amiga.
It is the most advanced PCI bridge adapter available for Amiga computers equipped with Zorro III expansion
slots. With "Prometheus", a world of cheap, standard PCI cards opens before you!
Some features of the product
Highlights: 4 32-bit PCI, drivers for the Voodoo3 (P96, Warp3D), drivers for a sound and network card,
free SDK!
Grzegorz Juraszek, Matay
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28.3.2001 AmigActive Issue 19 Preview
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Issue 19 goes on sale tomorrow. Subscribtion copies have been sent out... but if you can't wait to find
out what's inside, follow this link..
Highlights: Payback! - Smell the burning rubber..., Zoned! - Digital Art, Powered Up! - The latest
on MorphOS, Netted! - The Eye-Surf and Bitmap Bonus! - Paging Mr. Montgomery.
Amiga Active website
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28.3.2001 Amiga University 1 year anniversary
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"Amiga University is one year old! Come by and see what we've done over the past year - We will be at Amiga2001 - will you?
Last year we debuted our site on March 27, prior to Amiga2001. At that time, yes, we were a little sparse on content,
seeking mainly to gain attention and rev up enthusiasm for our site as well as the Amiga2000 show."
Read more
ANN website
Amiga University website
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28.3.2001 Updater v1.3 for The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM
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For the program Updater, which is on the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM
and allows its users to access the updates section, is a new update it. It has the
improvement that the user doesn't need to enter his serial code every time he accesses
the updates section. The update can be downloaded from the update section of the
Airsoft Softwair homepage.
Andreas Falkenhahn, Airsoft Softwair
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28.3.2001 Best Amiga On Earth!
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28.3.2001 New AutoPDF
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Martina Kramer: "Because I've received so many positive emails from you all, We've just upped
a new version of AutoPDF. Some of the improvements:
* You can now change a source or destination directory after program start
* ZIP, LHA or LZX your PDF file automatically
* Verbose option
* Routine improvements
For more details and to download it now, have a look at
www.designburo.nl. Enjoy!"
Martina Kramer, Design Buro
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27.3.2001 AmiBench Needs You!
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Mark 'tecno' Wilson: "Yes! Thats right, We need your help.
For some time now, the AmiBench team
has been working away quietly on AmiBench 2, a major upgrade to the current AmiBench system.
We now need your help to test our new site, and think there's noone more qualified for this task
than you, the users. We've set up a new
"AmiBench-BetaTest" group at
yahoogroups.com, and ask that interested parties subscribe to this mailing list over the coming
week. After signing up, we'd appreciate a quick introductory message to tell us who you are (we do
care!), and any prior experience you've had in web functionality testing. Please - if you don't
intend to help us, don't sign up to the group."
Mark 'tecno' Wilson, AmiBench website
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27.3.2001 More Photogenics 5.0 Info
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Photogenics 5.0 for Windows, Linux, and the Amiga was officially launched last week, and is available
for immediate purchase and download via the Photogenics eStore,
for a price of only $99!
If you have already purchased Photogenics 4.x for the Amiga, there is a free
upgrade to 5.0 available at http://www.PaulNolan.com for download.
For a limited time, you may also cross-grade to the Windows or Linux version of Photogenics for only
$69.30! This offer won't last long, so be sure to take advantage of it while you can.
For more information, please visit.
Paul Nolan, Paul Nolan Software Inc.
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27.3.2001 Aminet CD 42
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Aminet CD 42, dated April 2001, contains
more than 800 MB of (uncompressed) software in more than 900 archives. Since the release of Aminet
41 numerous new software has appeared. The current edition includes the full version of the
SuperView Productivity Suite with an inexpensive way of upgrading to SuperView Productivity Suite II.
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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27.3.2001 Amiga Classix 3 comming soon
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27.3.2001 Voodoo Warp3D status
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Hans-Jörg Frieden posted on the Amiga-Mediator ML:
"The best idea is: There is no Voodoo driver for Warp3D out yet. It will still take some time. If you happen
to come across a file "W3D_Avenger_PPC.library" in your libs:Warp3D/HWdrivers directory, then you indeed have
one and I would have to kill someone that leaked the driver :-)" - "And before someone asks: No, I have no
idea when the driver will be ready. Sorry."
CyberGraphX homepage
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27.3.2001 TDB00 & DPIXELS updates
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Ch. Dezert: "TECHNODATABASE00 (100% Amiga CDrom made with Scala and dedicated to techno + 400 MB
of demos, gfx, texts and music utilities) and DPIXELS (Compilation of amiga-made creations and
utilities) have just been updated. More info on
http://perso.club-internet.fr/chridez/boutik.html"
Ch. Dezert, B O U T I K
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27.3.2001 Aqua demo released
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27.3.2001 The Spirit of the Amiga Lives On
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osOpinion.com: The spirit of the Amiga lives on by Jason Christie.
"But it doesn't just survive under the Amiga brand name. After all, to true aficionados, the Amiga came to represent
everything good about computing: elegance, power, and simplicity. Unfortunately, it also came to represent the downside, as a
beautiful, doomed technology. I often swore I would never fall in love with another OS."
osOpinion.com website
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27.3.2001 Games & Software News
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New version of Tales of Tamar Amiga client V0.34 R1.
Tales of Tamar is the internet based roundgame for Amiga, Atari, Linux/SDL and Windows by Eternity Entertainment Software.
BladeEnc WarpOS v0.94 released to the public. This version is upto date
with the source tree. Some speedup and shorter executable. This version is the same as found in BB3.9 #1.
Tales of Tamar website
Andrea Vallinotto
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26.3.2001 Rebol/Core 2.5 released
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New version of Rebol/Core scripting language was released. It features many enhancements and bugfixes.
You can download new version of Rebol via this site.
There is also new free mySQL protocol available for download.
Just download and "do" the file, it will unpack rebol archive to your local harddrive...
Rebol Technologies website
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26.3.2001 individual Computers at the Gateway Amiga show 2001
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"Just as last year, individual Computers will be present at this year's Gateway Amiga show in St. Louis.
In addition to the known products, the prototype of the brand new VarIO Zorro-board will be presented.
It replaces the totally sold-out Hypercom Zorro boards with some revolutionary new features. A new
software system by Thore Böckelmann that replaces HyperIO and the silversurfer.device, gives new
functions also for users who already own a Silversurfer or a Goldsurfer.
In cooperation with Cloanto Software, the vendor of the "Amiga
Forever" emulator, we'll show the Catweasel ISA controller that lets you read your Amiga disks with
a PC. Further, there will be a class about Zorro-2 hardwaredesign on friday, march 30th. It is meant
for beginners and advanced hardware designers."
individual Computers website
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26.3.2001 User Group Network at Amiga 2001
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The UGN is happy to present live audio, webcam and ICQ from the Amiga St Louis show 2001!
This is only possible with the help of Amiga Inc, Amiga St Louis, NovaDesign, National
Capital Amiga Users Group and AudioLabs.
Read more
Amiga.org website
UGN website
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26.3.2001 AIO issue 45 is now out
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25.3.2001 Amiga Handhelds
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A brief look at the recent anouncements regarding Amiga developer recruitment for a PDA hardware developer..
Amiga Handhelds,
new article by John Chandler on suite101.com.
suite101.com website
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25.3.2001 Amiga Update Newsletter
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25.3.2001 CD32 Games Install Kit v4.2 NG Released
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The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.2 NG was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. In this
version more games (like Dennis) can be installed and there were small improvements (e.g. in
the usage with OS3.9). Like all 4.x versions of the CD32 Games Install Kit, this version can
only be used by owners of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM. All users
with a valid serial code, can log into the updates section of the
Airsoft Softwair homepage and download this update.
Andreas Falkenhahn, Airsoft Softwair
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25.3.2001 Matrox a bit behind currently due to absence of T&L...
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Hans-Jörg Frieden, Warp3D group, posted on the amigaone ML
about Matrox cards: "They are not "crap". They deliver solid performance, although they don't put their stress on 3D
gaming with the G450. They don't throw around buzzwords like most of the competition, and they are a bit behind
currently due to the absence of T&L which NVidia and ATI already have, but then, the G450 wasn't really more than
the G400 MAX plus DDR and higher clocks. [..] From a speed point, they loose against NVidia, but that's no surprise.
I don't see the point, however, in this whole race since most of the time the differences are only slight."
Mr. Fleecy Moss, Vice President of Product Development for AmigaInc. posted on the same list: "We chose them because
whilst they don't have the highest fill rates, their attitude is that there is a lot more you can do - image quality,
bump mapping etc, and they have a lot of new stuff planned. [..] You can bet on it - I can't wait for games with
controls and monitoring on 1 screen and gameplay on another."
'The question is who will write the games supporting dualmonitor solutions...
BTW I prefer one fast 1600x1200 mode with T&L, because another question is how many people got two monitors just
because of gaming?' [ExiE]
CyberGraphX homepage
Matrox website
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25.3.2001 New MasonIcons Archives Summary
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Some new archives are available on the MasonIcons homepage:
ApacheMI - filetype images for the ApacheServer
AudioMI - a toolbar image set for the new version of AudioMaster
CoolMI - a MI skin for CoolCALC
EvenMI - a GlowIcons toolbar for EvenMore
FlagsMI - a collection of flags for the Input and the LocalPrefs
PfPaintMI - a icon set for PerfectPaint
QuadraMI - a toolbar set for DirectoryOpusMagellan
ReqMI - icons, buttons, images and anims for ReqAttack
ShowMI - a image set for ShowGUI
WB2000MI - a image collection for Workbench2000
WorkOnMI - a toolbar image set for WorkOn
For further informations please have a look at the 'Projects' page of
Mason.Home.
Martin Merz, Mason.Home
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25.3.2001 AmigaArena news
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Frogger and Softcinema
Frogger and Softcinema can now be registered at a special discount price directly via Reg.net!
T.U.M.M.Y and T.U.R.R.D
The database T.U.M.M.Y for Magic trading cards and the Relais cards interface software T.U.R.R.D
are only available at a special discount price until 31.03.2001!
Amiga-news.de website
AmigaArena website
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25.3.2001 VHD Support Shop
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"We have opend a Support Shop, where you can buy T-Shirt, Sweatshirt, Mugs and Mouse Pad. It is
the CafePress website that offers this support. VHT-DK will get about 2 US dollar for each sale,
and these money will be given away every January to the antivirus programmer, that the users can
vote for on our homepage. Please support the antivirus programmer, and
go and visit the shop.
Virus Help Denmark Amiga website
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25.3.2001 SimpleMail News
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SimpleMail Alpha 0.5 has been released. New features are:
Configurable mail download selection added.
Supports 8 bit mime mails (if a SMTP Server don't support them they are encoded on the fly).
Improved the readwindow. Now used extensivly the SimpleHTML engine.
Button images are cached now.
Support of the new SimpleMail User Galery.
Introduced the new SimpleMail User Galery
SimpleMail homepage
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25.3.2001 Peter's Amiga Homepage News
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List of recommended printers for Workbench on Download page.
Note that recent Canon BJC printers do not have a text mode, TurboPrint has a GfxTxt feature which will help here.
Printer Information page links verified and updated.
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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25.3.2001 Software News
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The akJFIF, PNG, TIFF and NAIL datatypes have been updated and are available for download from the
Support area of PerSuaSive SoftWorX site.
BadURLlist v0.2
HTMLmails are not just looking better than ordinary ones, they also have the "advantage" of giving
the sender the possibility to watch the behaviour of the recipient (means YOU) in some cases.
The only way to avoid this kind of snooping is not to load down pictures from these internetservices and
to disable the JavaScript interpretation of the browser. Therefore HTMLread gives you the option not to
load down pictures from defined Internet adresses. The only restriction is that HTMLread has to know the
adresses of Internet-services which want to send these bad agents to your computer. For that,
HTMLread uses a database in which are stored all the well-known of these adresses.
AmigAIM 0.9411 BETA - an AIM
Client for the Amiga by Richard H. Poser II. history
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSive SoftWorX
HTMLread homepage
Official AmigAIM Page
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24.3.2001 Amiga Computer legends decending on Amiga2001 show
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Bob Scharp: "Yes, it's true. Not only is Dave Haynie attending the Amiga2001 show, but now we learn
that Leo Schwab another Amiga legend is also attending Amiga2001.
Leo Schwab and Dave Haynie are
both legends in the Amiga community. Let's all make them feel welcome.
If you haven't made up
you mind about attending Amiga2001, the largest Amiga computer show in the Americas, now is the
time to do so. Don't miss this chance to meet some of the finest people in the computer
industry... Amigans."
Bob Scharp, Amiga - St. Louis homepage
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24.3.2001 SpookyTheme
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A new theme for the NewInstaller was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
The "Spooky Theme" was made by Kevin Hansen and can be downloaded now. It requires at
least NewInstaller version 1.5, which is also contained as a full version on the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM.
Andreas Falkenhahn, Airsoft Softwair
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24.3.2001 AmigaOne will support Matrox G450 and 3Dfx Voodoo3
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Mr. Fleecy Moss, Vice President of Product Development for AmigaInc. posted on the amigaone ML
over the subject of what graphic cards AmigaOne will support: "It is the next generation card that Matrox develop. However, all that means is that
for Amiga products, that is the only card we will support WHEN it comes out, and we cannot at this time reveal that information. The G450 will be
supported, and I believe Eyetech have arranged for the V3 to also be supported."
Mr. Moss may be referring to Mr. Alan M Redhouse, Managing Director Eyetech Group Ltd, sublicensing agreement with DCE Computer Service for driver
technology for Voodoo3. Mr. Alan M Redhouse says "I am delighted that we have been able to come to this arrangement with DCE, and via them with VFD
to bring the unrestricted capability of VFD's VooDoo drivers..." - You can read the complete DCE Computer Service and Eyetech Group Ltd Voodoo3
press release here.
CyberGraphX homepage
Eyetech's AmigaOne
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24.3.2001 3ivx Delta 3
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3ivx Delta 3 has been released at the CeBIT, including both the encoder
and the decoder this time. 3ivx Delta 3 features the same impressive compression as the Delta 2 release,
with 600% the playback speed. You can download it here (incl
Amiga 68k & WarpUP). Samples are available here...
3ivx homepage
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24.3.2001 17 New Games at Amigaland
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From today due to obtaining the Black Legend license 17 new games are available for free download at
amigaland.de!
Weehlspin - Mega Motion - Hyperian - Kid Pool - Der Trainer - Embryo - Fatman - Football Clory (ECS
and AGA version) - Tactical Manager - Tactical Manger 2 - Behind the Iron Gate - Der Seelenturm -
Tower of Souls - XTreme Racing - Xtreme Racing 2.0 - Xtreme Racing Data Disk - Football Glory Indoor
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga Land website
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24.3.2001 StarGATE Newsletter 03/2001-1
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The brand new, entirely reworked website of StarGATE Software was finished and put online and can
be accessed at http://www.stargate-software.de/.
The essential changes in very short and quickly:
1. Entirely new (hopefully better) design.
2. Easier to use and navigate.
3. Main focus of the site is now exclusively the "Software" area, both for Classic Amigas and the new
AmigaDE and for Java.
4. The pages have been entirely translated into English language.
5. StarGATE now has it's own domain.
As a matter of course some software products are available, too. Among those the initial AmigaDE programms
by StarGATE. I hope you will like the new pages. Suggestions, critism, enhancement proposals, and hints of
course are always welcome.
Finally some words about the software section in general: Since it is measurable that the Classic Amiga
has had it's time and the new AmigaDE or AmigaOne are moving forward new developments mainly will be for
the AmigaDE.
Amiga-news.de website
StarGATE Software website
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24.3.2001 X-CELLENCE News
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1. Changes in staffing level:
'Our team now exists of 10 staffers. Rico Pook took over
the web design for us and we would like to cordially welcome him on this occasion.'
2. Domain:
'X-CELLENCE at last could take their domain and is reachable under
http://www.x-cellence.de, now.'
3. Cooperative team management:
'We separated X-CELLENCE into divisions. Each of the
divisions is working on their project independent from the other teams. This allows maximum of
flexibility which is especially advantageous in the shrinking Amiga market.'
4. Wanted...
'Due to division of X-CELLENCE we are facing a staffing problem. We still
are wanting graphicians and programmers. For those we would prefer people out of the Amiga community.
Graphicians should be familiar with 2D/3D tools on AMIGA and/or PC. They would work in the divisions
"GOLD" and "EAST".I.e.: "SCR2K" (FunRacer) and "NYN" (3D ActionAdventure Shooter). We are exclusively
wanting programmers for the AmigaDE. The Classic market is no longer taken into account by us.'
Amiga-news.de website
X-CELLENCE website
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24.3.2001 Thendic AmigaDE-PDA To Be Released Late 2001
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From Thendic`s Press Release:
"With the launch of SmartBoy Thendic will realise a quantum leap. The
b2b version is launched today,
a consumer version will be ready for distribution at the end of 2001. This product will be
marketed under the label of Amiga DE. Thendic secured the rights for this name recently."
Thendic`s other product CashBoy will be marketed aggressively in 2001. The CashBoy so far used in
Spain, Netherlands, Austria, Turkey, Brazil and Argentina will be distributed in Asia and USA"
Amigart website
THENDIC Electronic Components GmbH website
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24.3.2001 Software News
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ApacheMI is now available on the Aminet.
The archive contents 146 filetype images for the ApacheServer and a ConfigFile. The Images have a size of
24 x 24 pixels and use the GlowIcons design. The ConfigFile was created by Frön. If you think any
filetype is missing please contact the author.
readme
Martin Blom released new version of ahi.device for 68k and MorphOS:
2001-03-11 Martin Blom
* Released ahi.device 5.5.
* Nuked one more m68k assembler source file and moved the code to C.
* Stopped using dprintf in MorphOS.
2001-03-04 Martin Blom
* Released ahi.device 5.4.
* Fixed a bug that caused clicks on every new sound start, if an end-of-sound had been reached and the last sample in that sound was not 0."
Martin Merz, Mason.Home
AHI homepage
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24.3.2001 New TaskiSMS
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New version of TaskiSMS (2.5) is now available. Using this program you can send SMSes to cellular phones
to 112 countries around the world. In new version all code was rewritten from scratch, updated plugins
to sending SMSes and changed program status to shareware. You can download demo version from TaskiSMS
home page or from
AmiNet.
It's also available Polish localization and program documentation.
Pawel 'Paplo/Taski' Filipczak, Taski
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24.3.2001 Status Update for WinUAE 0.8.16
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1. Now have "direct" mode of JIT working thanks to patches from Bernd Roesch, but this
(currently) requires WinUAE to be compiled under VisualC++ instead of GCC/MinGW32, which thus
breaks the bsdsocket.library emulation.
2. Now have virtual Picasso96 screens (Bernd Roesch)
3. Merged in many changes from 0.8.16 core UAE tree (Bernd Schmidt). Note: This breaks AGA sprites completely.
4. Investigating DirectSound vs. WaveOut APIs for audio output, due to SB-Live! issues.
5. Support for multiple mice being added, thanks to patches from Andreas.
6. Fixed old floppy-disk writing bugs (Toni Wilen).
7. Removed NT4 support.
8. Removed 24-bit pixels support.
9. gzip.dll support for handling .adz files (no console window popping up anymore)
10. MIDI input support (Bernd Roesch)
11. New serial-port emulation (Bernd Roesch)
12. Cleaning up source-tree in preparation for release.
WinUAE homepage
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23.3.2001 Guess who's coming to Amiga2001...
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One of the most interesting guests of the Gateway Computer Show Amiga 2001 coming up next week is Dave Haynie.
Dave Haynie: "I will be able to make it to the Gateway show (Saturday & Sunday) this year.
... Should be fun :-)"
Bob Scharp, Amiga - St. Louis homepage
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23.3.2001 GoldED Studio: Specially priced items
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"We have a small remaining stock of GoldED Studio 6 SP 17 CDs produced in June 2000 which
didn't sell at that time and don't have covers. These CDs are fully upgradable: if you
have internet access, the current version is a service pack download away. As a special
offer, these items are now available for 19.90 DM (plus 8 DM for p&p) until sold out.
Order
GoldED Studio homepage
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23.3.2001 Make your own expansion modules for Prelude SOON
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Arpeggiator, digital audio interface for Prelude Z-II, has been sold out. "We will release the necessary
documents for MPEGIt, Rombler and Arpeggiator as soon as possible to enable
Prelude fans to build their own expansion modules.
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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23.3.2001 Tao Group and PSION Announce New Co-operation for Enterprise Sector
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CeBIT, March 22nd, 2001 -- Tao Group and PSION Teklogix today announced a major new relationship
to provide enterprise customers with faster and smarter Java(TM) applications running on EPOC.
This new development will be showcased on the PSION stand at CeBIT, Hall 19, booth D39.
Read more
AmigaSDK.com website
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23.3.2001 Escena's German Pages Updated
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23.3.2001 Games & Software News
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22.3.2001 Amiga Extreme: things are happening...
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Syke: "Amiga Extreme is on it's way back. If you're interested in helping out, please mail me at
syke@amigaextreme.com for more info.
The new AE will aim at becoming the best resource for 3D Gaming and Hardware under Amiga DE,
and the new AmigaOne platform.
Stefan 'Syke' Falk, AmigaExtreme
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22.3.2001 Software Hut NewsLetter
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Welcome to another edition of the Software Hut Newsletter.
The new High-Speed PCI daughter card for the PPC A1200 is now here! Fits in any Towered A1200 system and comes complete with
a driver disk for more popular PCI boards."
Amiga.org website
Software Hut,Inc. website
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22.3.2001 The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM & CD32
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Andreas Falkenhahn: "Some users of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM informed me
that the CD-ROM also boots on a CD32 and asked if I planned that. Well, the The Best Of Airsoft
Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM works on the CD32 with a nice intro indeed, but it cannot be used
completely without an expansion like the SX1 or SX32. If the user has such an expansion he can use
the CD-ROM completely otherwise only the intro is shown."
Andreas Falkenhahn, Airsoft Softwair
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22.3.2001 Tribes 2 source code opened (somewhat)
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Peter Eriksson: "In a rather surprising interview
made by Billy Wilson at Voodoo Extreme, Garage Games President Jeff Tunnell
says the source code of the "Tribes 2" engine (Tribes 2 being the highly acclaimed game for the Windows and Linux
platforms just recently going gold) will be available to anyone for just $100 USD! (AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS would
make suitable platforms)."
ANN website
Tribes homepage
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22.3.2001 Amiga freeCD: VideoTracker 2.0
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Patrick Henz: "With VideoTracker 2.0 you can make a videoclip around a ProTracker or OctaMED module.
You can also let images react to your CD-player, or other audio-input, with use of extra hardware. You can
use pictures, brushes, animations, animation-brushes, palettes, colorcycle, routines (like Plasma,
Rotate/Magnify), texts, objects, vectorobjects, amigafonts, karafonts, landscapes, colorsets. When the
video is finished, you can save the module and video data as a "Vidule". A vidule is a crunchable
executable file which plays the module and the video. You can make a small intro or a big house-demo.
You also can use VideoTracker with a GenLock and, for example, make professional movie-titles with
colorfonts.
When the module plays a sample, VideoTracker shows an "effect" on screen. This effect can
be a picture, brush, anim, routine, etcetra. or a combination of these. You can edit for each of the 128
song-positions the 31 samples and use up to 256 effects in a video. All the explained effects are used in
the example-videos.
VideoTracker works on PAL and NTSC Amigas. The programm was originally released in
1994 as sharware (50 US-Dollar), it is still copyrighted by Peter can Campen, but you can copy it for free.
Because of the age of the programm, it may run unstable on newer High-End-Amigas.
freeCD means that everybody is allowed to copy this cd and also to give it away. The cd is available for
2,50 Euro."
AmigaFuture website
The Faces of Mars - Amiga Software website
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22.3.2001 Battle Duel - CD-ROM-Edition
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Patrick Henz: "We got the idea for BattleDuel when we played 'Artillery Duel' on the C-64.
After some hours of playing we got annoyed by some small bugs and other insufficincies. Soon we
agreed to program an Amiga version.
There are already some games of this type on the Amiga but
they mostly lack good graphics and game play. We wanted the game to be very near to the orginal.
Furthermore we got many ideas about improvements and options that had to be build in :-)
BattleDuel can be played with up to 8 players, offers computer opponents with selectable difficulty,
has 5 play modes: normal duel-mode, 2 tournament-modes, conquer mode and a training mode, has a
team mode: two teams (each with two players) can play against each other, has a network mode:
games with nullmodem, modem, parnet/pronet and TCP/IP are possible, is programmed completely
system friendly, is multitasking friendly, adjusts to ECS, AGA and graphicboards automatically
(only 1 program), has nice graphics and sound-effects and has a nice gadtools interface.
Requirements: Kickstart2.04 or higher and at least 1 MByte chip memory. English, German, Italian
and Norwegian version included.
freeCD means that everybody is allowed to copy this cd and also
to give it away. This freeCD is availabe for 2,50 Euro."
AmigaFuture website
The Faces of Mars - Amiga Software website
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21.3.2001 Latest iFusion Screenshots From BlitterSoft
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BlitterSoft will ship iFusion to customers next week. Meanwhile they published some
new screenshots.
You can see iFusion running Photoshop5, Dreamweaver4, Freehand8, MacQuake, QuarXPress 4, e.t.c on MacOS9. And this is the
iFusion CD Cover.
BTW: According to Blittersoft page, BPPC problem isn't solved. Sam Jordan and H&P are investigating the problem...
Amigart website
Blittersoft website
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21.3.2001 clickBOOM: PLAY AND DON'T PAY" IS BACK!
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If you are EXISTING clickBOOM Customer you can:
1. Order any of their games (as many as you want)
2. Have your game(s) shipped to you immediately
3. But you don't have to pay absolutely nothing until June 1, 2001 !
If you are NEW clickBOOM Customer you can:
1. Order any of their games (as many as you want)
2. Have your game(s) shipped to you immediately
3. Pay only half now and the balance on June 1, 2001 !
This offer ends April 1. Read more
... or you can tattoo either words
'clickBOOM' or 'Amiga' or respective logos on any part of your body and they will send you
every clickBOOM game!
clickBOOM website
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21.3.2001 New UP ROUGH Musicdisk Out Now!
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Johan Samuelsson: "Finally a new so-damn-fresh Up Rough EP is out! The maincode is updated and
supports some new cool features. The EP is called "Another Day EP" and it's packed with four
groovin' house tunes by Jr Fransisco AKA Skope/Up Rough!
Get it now!"
Up Rough Soundsystem website
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21.3.2001 AutoPDF creates PDF files using Ghostscript automatically
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Martina Kramer: "Macintosh has a program called Distiller. This program converts postscript files in a certain
source directory to PDF files in an output directory. We (Amiga) have Ghostscript to create PDF files. AutoPDF
uses Ghostscript to convert postscript files into PDF files. The nice thing about AutoPDF is that it will
monitor a given directory untill files (or just one) are copied into it, then it will convert the file to a PDF
file placing it (and the original file) into a given destination directory. Just run AutoPDF in the background
and it will convert any postscript file placed in the source directory automatically. However, since creating
a PDF file with Ghostscript eats up most of your processor time, conversion will only start after 'activating'
the AutoPDF window.
The program has been uploaded to Aminet, but if you want to
try it NOW... Hope it is as helpfull for you as it
is for us..."
Martina Kramer, Design Buro
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21.3.2001 Elbox answer for the hardware protection feature
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21.3.2001 Over 1500 New Binary Packages for NetBSD - 1.5 for M68k Computers
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John Klos and Bob Nestor have uploaded over 1500 new binary packages
for NetBSD - 1.5 for m68k computers (eg. Amiga) on the ftp server. This is the result of some month of compiling on their computers.
readme
If someone needs more packages, but can not
translate them himself due to technical problems or lack of time please contact John
john@sixgirls.org.
The NetBSD-package system for third party software allows the installation
of precompiled packages or self-made translations, including the management of interdependences (and specific deleting again, later,
or upgrading to newer versions).
Amiga-news.de website
NetBSD/Amiga page
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21.3.2001 Further Development of ClassAction
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The multipurpose program (filemanager) ClassAction will be developed furthermore. After a 3 year delay Martin R.
Elsner took over the development from Salim Gasmi. At the moment the programmer is working on the porting to
reaction. A first screenshot is available here.
There will be a beta version soon. If you would like to be a beta-tester send an e-mail to
email@martin-elsner.de.
Amiga-news.de website
ClassAction homepage
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21.3.2001 Extra Maps Section Added And Payback Update 2 Released
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A few bugs were reported in Update 1, so Update 2 has been released
to fix these problems and add a few new features at the same time. An update is also available for the
demo. A new section containing
extra maps for Payback has also been added, and the
What The Press Said section has been updated.
Apex Designs website
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21.3.2001 Software News
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WarpPSD.datatype v44.1 - the first Adobe Photoshop® picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS).
It can handle Adobe Photoshop® 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 images. Most of the available modes are supported, including 24-bit RGB, Greyscale, Monochrome,
256 colour palette-based and CMYK images. Images using RLE compression are also supported. Highly optimized datatype dispatch engine and PSD decoder,
resulting in a very efficient, compact and quick PSD datatype.
New RC5 client version 2.8014 (build 468) is out! This release corrects the problem reported with 466 which forced a withdraw of builds 464-467 and sports
some other minor improvements. The OGR core in this build is faster than the one in 463, so please upgrade soon :)
See the download page for more details.
Oliver Roberts' homepage
The Amiga RC5 team effort page
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20.3.2001 Photogenics 5.0 Press Release
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Paul Nolan Software Launches Online Store for Photogenics 5.0 using Beyond.com's eStore technology.
San Diego, CA.-March 20, 2001- Paul Nolan Software Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of the
Photogenics eStore, http://photogenics.beyond.com,
and the official launch of Photogenics 5.0 for the Amiga, and for the first time, Linux and Windows.
Photogenics 5.0 is now available for immediate purchase and download via Beyond.com's electronic
software delivery technology. Read more
Paul Nolan, Paul Nolan Software Inc.
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20.3.2001 PS2 Mouse converter
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Dennis van Weeren: "I am writing this post because i need some help on a project that i am building.
I have designed a DIY PS/2 mouse to Amiga mouse converter. The converter is built around a
pic16C84/pic16F84 microcontroller. It uses very few external components (4 resistors and 2 capacitors)
and is therefore easy to build. The converter translates the PS/2 protocol into a fully emulated Amiga
mouse. This means that the mouse works from the moment you switch on the computer. There is no need
for special software running on the Amiga. The converter works with all PS/2 complient mice.
(so far i've tested 2 logitech mice, one of which was an USB-type with an USB to PS/2 converter)"
The hardware of the project is therefore finished and the author is looking for help with
software support of the scroll wheel. Read more
Vit Sindlar
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20.3.2001 Amiga2001 April 1 tip
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Bob Sharp: "Some of you have commented on our Amiga2001 show falling on April 1st. If you are not
familiar, April 1st in the U.S. is called April Fools Day. A day when some pull pranks. To answer
your concerns about the last day of the show being held on April 1st, all I can say is...
The jokes on our competitors. They're going to feel like it's 1985 all over again!"
Anyone familiar with the original release of the Amiga should know how this statement applies.
See you in St. Louis in just over a week. Remember, the Banquet is going to be something special.
We only have a few tickets left, so get your orders in now."
Bob Scharp, Amiga - St. Louis homepage
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20.3.2001 H&P will join Gateway Computer Show 2001
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Like last year, H&P will again take part in the Gateway Computer Show Amiga 2001 in St. Louis,
USA (30. March to 1. April). They will show the latest version of the StormC 4 compiler system and
there will also be a seminar on StormC. .
Haage & partner website
Gateway Computer Show website
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20.3.2001 2nd episode of RAM the *** FRENCH *** fanzine available in PDF
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The PDF (acrobat) version of the french famous aMiGa fanzine RAM published from november 1995
to july 1996 bye "les Editions La Chaise", non profit org based at Arbas (France, 31). More
details (in french) and off-colour jokes based on R.A.M initials at
http://www.noname.fr/ram/.
RAM, the Revenge of (french) Amiga Mutants
Arnaud Danassié
RAM Magazine page
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20.3.2001 New TaskiSMS
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Paplo: " New BETA version of TaskiSMS has been released. If you want to test it, you can
download it from program's home page.
News in this release: all source code rewritten, updated plugins, shareware licence.
Full version will be released when I'll finish translating documentation into english.
If you found some bugs, please report it via e-mail to:
taskisms@taski.com.pl.
Pawel Filipczak, Taski Home
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20.3.2001 Software News
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YACAS v1.0.45 - Yet Another Computer Algebra System. "...is a small
and highly flexible general-purpose computer algebra language. The syntax uses a infix-operator grammar parser. The distribution contains a small
library of mathematical functions, but its real strength is in the language in which you can easily write your own symbolic manipulation algorithms."
readme
Normalize v0.5.2 is used to adjust WAVs volume to the desired volume
level. This is useful for things like creating compilations, where different recording levels on different albums can cause the volume to vary
greatly from song to song." readme
New Xami release 0.4 - an X11 server for Amiga that can take advantage
of hardware capabilities of the graphic system for acceleration. It may be launched from Workbench or CLI, uses the current
keyboard mapping and does not need any extra libraries such as ixemul. Owners of graphic cards that have Picture in Picture
capabilities with Picasso96 will benefit to use the server in a PIP window. So, if you have around you a machine with X11
capabilities such as a Linux or a BSD box, this is the software to have.
akMPEG V4.61 is available for download here.
MorphOS website
DS Home Page
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSive SoftWorX
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19.3.2001 iFusion Release Date (For real this time?)
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19.3.2001 ProStationAudio News
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ProStationAudio 4.05 is being sent to customers (free update) this week.
Drivers enhancement:
* support for native Repulse drivers, beside AHI Repulse drivers.
PowerPC support enhancements (thanks to Frank Mariak of the MorphOS group):
* workaround for mpega.library to allow PowerPC acceleration when importing MP3 files.
* fixed Cyberguard hit on PowerPC startup.
NewTek Flyer support enhancements (thanks to Floyd Diebel of EMRL):
* new scheme for mastering in Flyer audio format.
Dual monitor support enhancement (thanks to Zafer Kantar, Paris):
* new keyboard shortcut (LAMIGA-Z/X) for moving the mouse pointer between two monitors.
RepulseInOut, native driver for the Repulse analog and S/P-DIF digital board. Developed by
the Repulse makers, Alien Design. Alternatively,
ProStationAudio supports the Repulse also via the board's AHI drivers, for maximum flexibility.
The native driver is available in the
download section.
The new ProStationAudio 4.05 demo is available in the
download section, too.
AudioLabs website
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19.3.2001 Back to the Roots Amiga-News 228
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BTTR team: "Yes, it's update time again at "Back to the Roots".
Today we can announce many new permissions for Amiga games, but instead of filling this space with lots
of boring text phrases, we just want to give you a list with the new games, which were included this time:
Air Supply / Magic Bytes
Beast Busters / Activision
Castle of Dr. Brain / Sierra
Death Trap / Anco
Fire and Ice / Graftgold
Gloom Deluxe, Gloom Special Edition 97 / Acid Software
Paradroid 90 / Graftgold
Uridium 2 / Graftgold
Virocop / Graftgold
XTreme Racing / Silltunna Software
...and more!
Don't forget to visit out other sections, because many new scene demos, music files and pictures were
added, too. Also we're happy to present you an interview with Adam "Scorpik" Skorupa, one of the best
scene musicians who's writing soundtracks for computer games now."
Bobic & Hippie2000, Back to the Roots
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19.3.2001 G-Rex and Mediator speed tests.....
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There have been a number of speed test floating around on the G-Rex
and Amiga-Mediator MLs. What most testers don't tell you is
that they are using CGX V3 (V41) version of CyberGraphX, not CGX V4 (V42). The DCE G-Rex (same as Elbox Mediator and
Eyetech AmigaOne) uses the free shipping CGX drivers. They do not have hardware overlay and hardware acceleration
(areafill, ect) support like the CGX V4 ones.
CyberGraphX homepage
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19.3.2001 Amiga Interactive Guide News
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It is over one year since Amiga Format closed. At its peak it sold over 180,000 issues a month,
sinking to just 11,000 towards the end. Amiga Interactive Guide revisits its origins as ST/Amiga
Format and its early struggle as as a single platform title. The latest site update also features
several new Amiga DE devices, the year in perspective, DIY Amigas, and the history of Amiga PPC.
Gareth Knight, Amiga Interactive Guide
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19.3.2001 ASp - Amiga Spectrum emulator
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Straight from the author: "Sometime during this year, Ian Greenway, the author of the best and fastest
(take my word for that!) Spectrum 48/128/+2 emulator, ASp, will make JIT (just in time) version of ASp,
that means more speeeed! Just take a look to JIT UAE for Linux and see how promising this is. The url
to ASp's homepage is: http://www.greew.freeserve.co.uk/ASp.html.
It's also the only Spectrum emulator right now that can reliably run under 68040 and 68060 cpus!"
ASp homepage
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19.3.2001 WHDL & JST News
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18.3.2001 Amiga2001 update: ROAST of Petro
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Petro Tyschtschenko is hosting a celebration at the Amiga2001 show. That's right, Petro has been kind
enough to provide funding for a little celebration of his retirements. Check out the web pages for
this special announcement.
Don't forget, we have a ROAST of Petro lined up for the Banquet. The
deadline for advance ticket purchase and the Banquet have been extended to Monday March 26.
Banquet tickets are only available in advance this year. So get you check in pronto. Tickets are
selling very well. Read more
Merlancia Industries and Nova Design will both be making some astounding announcements during a
joint "Keynote Address". Keynote Addresses to open Amiga 2001
Bob Scharp, Amiga - St. Louis homepage
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18.3.2001 Amiga-Community.net news
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From this day on Amiga-Community.net is split into different sites:
Amiga-VIP.net - The user info portal only for AMIGA
Amiga-Info.net - The portal for forums, auctions and short adverts around AMIGA
Amiga-News.net - The portal for up-to-date news headlines around AMIGA
Amiga-faq.net - The forum for questions around AMIGA, and their answers
Amiga-***.net - The site that is yet in preparation
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga-Community.net
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18.3.2001
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akMPEG V4.60 is available for download here.
(only there, and only for a limited time!)
akPNG datatype v44.96 is now available from
PerSuaSive SoftWorX support site. (68k, PUP). Direct WOS support for this datatype has been dropped as with v44.95.
Use the PPC plugin together with ppclibemu instead.
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSive SoftWorX
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18.3.2001 UAE 0.8.16 Released
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18.3.2001 Scalos News
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The persistant windows plugin has been updated. It now checks for the existance of the device before
attempting to open the directory windows. This should stop the requesters appearing if you had a
window open on a device, but the device is no longer there. Also added is the ability to configure
the delay between opening windows during boot-up. Get it from the
Downloads page.
Scalos website
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18.3.2001 Software News
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PageStream Universal Filter V2.0LE - adds/replaces
many new graphic formats (BMP, DCX, GIF, IFF, JPEG, PCX, PGM/PBM/PPM, PNG, Targa, TIFF, DataTypes) in PageStream V3.x/4.x. It's a real
PageStream filter and not a script. readme
DefIconsCompanion - enable you to extend the DefIcons
to bring up a popup menu with options when a file without an icon has been double clicked.
readme
Aminet
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17.3.2001 Mediator vs G-REX
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17.3.2001 The Ripper - progress report...
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Barry Smith: "Dear Amiga users. I write to you all in an effort to get some help in Re launching "The Ripper"
the online Amiga magazine sponsored by Soft Logik. Some of our writers left the Amiga scene and I refused to
close. I want to survive to help the Amiga Community in any way I can. I need Amiga users who are willing to
help me in writing Articles for the Ripper. SORRY I can not pay you :( as I get nothing myself. But any free
software that comes our way will be given to you! If interested please Email me at
Alba@theripper.org.uk."
Amiga.org website
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17.3.2001 1st G-Rex install pictures and mini-review!
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16.3.2001 Elbox dispels the last rumour on Mediator PCI
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Rumour: If your jumper is set on 8MB and you have 'vertical lines' trashing on the screen, you may have a buggy board.
No, it is not the true.
The fact of appearing 'vertical lines' on the screen is definitely not the result of any fault
of Mediator's board. The presence of 'vertical line' is the result of the hardware protection, which was installed in
Mediator's busboards. Read more
Joanna Mildner, ELBOX COMPUTER
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16.3.2001 The first update for Payback
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The first update for Payback
is now available. It mainly fixes a few bugs that have been reported but a screen scaling feature for slower machines and new graphics have also
been added. An update is also available for the demo, which also increases the time
limit from 3 to 5 minutes. A new section called What The Press Said has been added
and the FAQ has been updated. Remember that you can now buy the game from
secure on-line shop.
Apex Designs website
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16.3.2001 Amiga Oasis Online Updated
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Amiga Oasis Online has just been updated with news articles on Silencer a new game based on the Crusader series (PC)
also features news on Payback, Cinemaware's old games being released for free plus an Exclusive article on
XTreme Racing which has been released to the general public.
For more information go to http://web.ukonline.co.uk/amigaoasis.
John Porter, Amiga Oasis Online
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16.3.2001 VGR and CGX news accessible through the phone
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VGR is proud to be the Worlds first Amiga based webpage that allows access to Amiga News through the Phone!
Now you can catch up on all Amiga graphic card and Amiga expansion news and information at any phone.
TellMe offers this free service for any webpage. They have created an
extension to HTML called VoiceXML. To access the VGR/CGX news page dial toll free 1-800-555-TELL(8355).
When connected say "Extensions" then you can say "67067" or dial 67067 to hear the latest VGR/CGX news.
The toll free number is only good for the USA and parts of Canada(?). Currently for international users
you must dial a TOLL number: 408-678-4465.
CyberGraphX homepage
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16.3.2001 X-Arc future
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Federico Pomi: "I've not been working on X-Arc for long time. Other hobbies, new projects and university have totaly filled my spare time,
that I used to code X-Arc. I still have my Amiga and I use it weekly, even if all my new projects are based on other operating systems.
[..] At the moment X-Arc is not being developed anymore. Pheraps I'll find some spare time to finish some features I introduced in the
latest beta and release a serious stable version. Or pheraps I'll open the sources to the world, so you all may laugh a lot (I'm not
really a tidy-professional developer... it's all mess... with strange and funny variable names...) and then, if someone is interested,
go on in the development of the program. For any kind of information, please contact me at
Federico@X-Arc.com."
Federico Pomi via his .plan
V3Portal
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16.3.2001 G-REX documentation with pictures
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16.3.2001 Amiga RC5 team moves up one place
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Amiga RC5 team have regained 7th spot in RC5-64! After 43.1% of the keyspace done they have overtaken
the OS/2 team and moved up one spot. OGR-24 and 25 are still ongoing with 24 mainly filling out the
last holes.
Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
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16.3.2001 Scalos News
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Scalos team: "We're currently testing a new version of the executable that has a number of bug fixes in it.
We can't say any more, and we can't say when you'll get it, because it needs testing thoroughly first.
We'll keep you posted though."
"We've added the following sub-domains as quick jumps to sections of the scalos.com website":
http://about.scalos.com
http://news.scalos.com
http://download.scalos.com
http://bugs.scalos.com
http://ideas.scalos.com
http://developer.scalos.com
"In addition to the above sub-domains, you can now access the online Scalos manual by going to
http://manual.scalos.com. Please note that this is not the final
manual. We are currently fixing bugs and adding new features, so the manual is likely to change. There
may be broken links in there, and I apologise for that, but I've tried to get it as correct as possible
given our time constraints (most of us are at university, and are developing Scalos in our spare time)."
Scalos website
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16.3.2001 Datatypes News
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akJFIF datatype v44.96 is now available from
PerSuaSive SoftWorX support site (Aminet soon). There should be some noticeable speedup for all
three supported destination environments (68k, PUP, MOS).
WarpJPEG.datatype v44.18 - yet another JFIF/JPEG datatype (WOS/68K/MOS). Changes since 44.17:
Made fast integer DCT method available (approx 10% faster on 68k), and added a switch to toggle fancy upsampling.
Added preferences options to configure the OS3.5/3.9 dithering control feature.
Improved the memory management routines in all versions, bringing a small performance advantage for larger images on 68k (about 2% faster)
The 68k versions could crash if the JPEG stream was corrupt (bug introduced in v44.15) - fixed.
WarpPNG.datatype v44.13 - yet another PNG datatype (WOS/68K/MOS). Changes since 44.12:
Added preferences options to configure the OS3.5/3.9 dithering control feature.
The MorphOS version got broken in v44.11 - fixed.
WarpBMP.datatype v44.4 - datatype which allows you to view and read Windows or OS/2 BMP image files
(WOS/68K/MOS). Changes since 44.3:
Added preferences options to configure the OS3.5/3.9 dithering control feature.
WarpDTPrefs v44.1 - preferences program which allows
you to change and manage the settings of the WarpJPEG, WarpPNG and WarpBMP datatypes.
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSive SoftWorX
Oliver Roberts' homepage
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15.3.2001 Keynote Addresses Announced for Amiga 2001 Show
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Bob Scharp: "Merlancia Industries and Nova Design will both be making some astounding announcements
during a joint Keynote Address that will open the Amiga 2001 show on Saturday, March 31st, 2001.
Details are not available in advance, but both companies promise some great news. The Keynote
Addresses will begin before the opening of the exhibitor floor on Saturday and are open to all at
no extra charge."
ANN website
Amiga St.Louis website
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15.3.2001 "Free Amiga Jobs" Changes
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Köln/Erkrath, Germany, 02-Mar-2001 - In April 2000 the team of amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus founded
"Free Amiga Jobs", the free online employment agency for the Amiga market, filling over fifty jobs
in all fields since its birth and making new Amiga projects possible.
On March 1st, 2001, we
changed the strucure of Free Amiga Jobs. Employers may now feed their jobs into the new, powerful
databank directly, while employees may search for an appropriate job offer filling out several
search criterias. Furthermore, this online job agency is of course still free of charges for
both employers and employees.
"Free Amiga Jobs" is located in the World Wide Web at
http://www.amiga-news.de/cgi-bin/jobs-db.pl,
but may also be navigated to from the websites http://www.amigaos.de
or http://www.amiga-news.de.
Nico Barbat, Free Amiga Jobs
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15.3.2001 G-Rex software note
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15.3.2001 AmigaGames.co.uk and AmigaUtils.co.uk are now 100% AMIGA compatible
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"The newly refurbished website now has 128bit secure on-line ordering - compatible with ALL amiga browsers - (Not just AWeb).
Each site has over 200 Amiga CD titles available, as well as the ability to submit a request for a classic Amiga Game or
Utility, Over 1000 "second-hand" titles available from stock!"
Try www.AmigaUtils.co.uk and
AmigaGames.co.uk.
v.pike@ntlworld.com
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15.3.2001 TermiteTCP
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Oregon Research, developer of TermiteTCP, went out of business a couple of years ago. The final version
of TermiteTCP was 1.60. If you have this or any version later than 1.20 or know who currently owns the
rights to TermiteTCP, contact mark_k@iname.com!
Mark uploaded the demo, patch v1.10 to 1.20 and TermiteTCP Software Development Kit 1.00 to Aminet for
all interested people.
redme
Aminet
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15.3.2001 Espial makes Escape easy to install on AmigaDE
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Escape is a HTML4.01 webbrowser which just happens to work on AmigaDE thanks to its Java support.
Escape is not only small, but fast and loaded with features including HTML4.01, DHTML and more.
The easiest way to install Espials Escape on the AmigaSDK was to simply unzip the *.jar files
to the root. Sadly there was no archive on Espials homepage that made it easy [..] Now they have
added an archive of Escape with the Jar files on their homepage.
AmigaSDK.com
Espial website
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15.3.2001 Crossfire II thrown back
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"After a long time of silence there are at last really good news: Due to a hard disk crash and the chaos
it caused all sources of Crossfire II and our
other projects are gone forever. We were able to recover at least Crossfire II, but we're thrown back to
the state it had before last christmas. Therefore we expect a far later release date.
To have at least one good message we decided to add some new
Screenshots to the
BTL page. These screenshots were actually made for the
german print magazine Amiga Future, but I'm sure most of you still don't know them. Enjoy."
Between the Lines (BTL) is a 3D realtime action RPG.
Dreamworlds Developement website
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14.3.2001 The Ringtone of Monkey Island
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Arcade Tones has recently added some great ringtones for
Nokia mobiles... after many requests music from The Secret Of Monkey Island is available! Not only the
title music but the Ghost Dance, LeChuck's Theme and the Scumm Bar music.
Amiga.org website
Arcade Tones website
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14.3.2001 A Ground-shaking Event
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On February 28th, 2001 an announcement was made to a group of employees, and other well known
technical people within the Puget Sound region.
Moments later a 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook the northwest.
What was said? What was the possible reason for the sudden shift in the earth?
Come to St. Louis and learn the answers. Read more
AmigaInc. homepage
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14.3.2001 Collector's edition of the ** FRENCH ** fanzine RAM in PDF
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The PDF (acrobat) version of the french famous AMiga fanzine RAM published from november 1995 to july
1996 bye "les Editions La Chaise", non profit org based at Arbas (France, 31).
More details (in french) and off-colour jokes based on R.A.M initials at
http://www.noname.fr/ram/.
RAM, the Revenge of (french) Amiga Mutants
Arnaud Danassié
RAM Magazine website
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14.3.2001 Positive input from Brother
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bbrockie writes "I contacted Brother a year ago or so,
asking their permission to develop some drivers for the Brother printer series. A few days later I was contacted by a worker
there, who said yes to the idea, and even wanted to give me all the necesary information to develop the drivers. However my
PPC board fried up and was lost along with the demolishment of Phase5, so I am unable to do it myself.
If you have any interest in developing these drivers for yourself, please do not hesitate contacting either
Brother or me!"
Amiga.org website
Brother Industries,Ltd. website
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14.3.2001 What VHD do with the viruses ?
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"We have added some info about the Virus Test Center in Hamburg. A lot of people have asked what we do
with the virus we recive, well we send them to the Mr. Soenke Freitag at the
Virus Test Center in Hamburg. We also
keep a copy of the virus to do our own virus-test with."
Virus Help Denmark Amiga website
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14.3.2001 AmigaArena news
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Olaf Koebnik: "Since I cannot affect as much as I would like to on my own I decided to take
a chance for a partnership with the Fun Time World! The Amiga Arena homepage will remain
what it is, now, and I hope to be able to act even more effective in this partnership than
before!" Read more
Amiga-news.de website
AmigaArena website
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14.3.2001 Software related news
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Mr. David Misner has setup a mailinglist for the ELBOX ZORRO IV busboard. This could be a good resource
for all ZIV Busboard owners. If you would like to join you can
go here.
The Amster sources are now living on
SourceForge. Interested developers can apply for
CVS access. Amster is Napster clone - MP3 sharing community using a special client.
CyberGraphX homepage
ELBOX COMPUTER website
Amster homepage
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13.3.2001 clickBOOM's FILE 10: NIGHTLONG, TAKE 2
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"Well, believe it or not, we finally got our duplication company to admit they had made an error with
Nightlong CDs! It took us months of going back and forth, and finally they had remastered and
reduplicated all 3 Nightlong CDs.
If you own a faulty Nightlong CD we offer our deepest apologies.
Please go to The Portal and fill out a form (must register Nightlong first). We will soon start the
organizational nightmare known as replacing faulty CDs.
If you had put on hold the purchase of
Nightlong because you heard of the faulty CDs, rest assured things are back to normal, and you can
go ahead, buy Nightlong and be sure to get the usual clickBOOM quality."
Read more
clickBOOM website
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13.3.2001 VillageTronic GmbH webpages partly back online now
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VillageTronic GmbH's webpage was offline for about 1 week.
Looks like they had some type of computer or harddrive problems and are in the process of restoring.
All the Amiga pages seem to be missing still along with many broken gfx links. Does anyone have any
more information on the status of VillageTronic? Please email
vt@vgr.com.
CyberGraphX homepage
VillageTronic website
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13.3.2001 NetBSD/Amiga IOblix - Driver Change
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The NetBSD/Amiga - IOBlix-Zbus driver was changed in a way that the quartz frequency is changeable
via the kernel variable _iobzclock (with binpatch and reboot) or via the kernel option IOBZCLOCK.
Newer IOBlix cards use a 22.1184MHz quartz that allows more standard baud rates, older ones on
the other hand use a 24MHz quartz. Owners of a 24MHz quartz need to set _iobzclock or IOBZCLOCK
to 24000000.
Besides this, iobl* at zbus? is now included in the GENERIC configuration.
NetBSD-current testers are asked for review reports, also about the parallel interface. Details
about the availability of source code etc. can be found at:
NetBSD in general
NetBSD on Amiga hardware
Amiga-news.de website
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13.3.2001 Innovative: Error in routing solved
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Inovative: "Over the last few days we have been reported problems accessing our server. Investigations
have resulted in the detection of a error in routing. This problem has been solved so you should now
be able to access our site without problems again. We are looking forward to your next visit!"
Innovative website
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12.3.2001 Dave Haynie's PIOS One Specification Released
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Dave Haynie has graciously released his PIOS One specification to Amiga Inc. for open access. You can find the
specifications in Documentation
subsection.
James L Boyd
Amiga Support Network
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12.3.2001 Two new products from LegacyMaker, Inc.
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Catalyzer Vol. 3 Tutorial Video for ImageFX
This long-awaited tutorial video focuses on ImageFX version 4.0,
with segments on Layers, Scanning, Printing, Animation, FXForge, and a bonus PanCanvas Tutorial. This 80 minute
tape comes with 3 floppies worth of bonus material.
PanCanvas v2.0 Motion Control Plug-In for ImageFX
PanCanvas is now better than ever. With easier control
panels, improved integration with ImageFX, and Video Toaster FlyerClip direct support, you will fall in love
with the beautiful animations you create from still images.
Amiga.org website
LegacyMaker, Inc. website
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12.3.2001 isdnsurfer.device V1.942 online
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"The new version has no additional features or bugfixes. A new programmer has taken over the further
development of the ISDN-software, and he has started porting the source code to his C-compiler. We
did not find any errors in this version, so we release it as a public beta. The file can be found
in the support-area."
individual Computers website
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12.3.2001 Elbox knows about 1st batch of buggy '8MB defective' Mediators
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A number of people have complained on the Amiga-Mediator ML
that they get 'vertical line' trashing on the screen when they have their Mediator (jumper) in 8MB mode. Elbox have given
reasons like "This is all due to incorrect setting of the "memory window" jumper in your hardware configuration." - First
theory was that it was some type of Elbox P96 driver bitmap alignment problem. Looks like this is not the case... but a bad
batch of Mediators.
Mr. Lindhorst posted on the Amiga-Mediator ML that he wrote a patch to test the bitmap alignment
theory, the patch had "no effects at all". Here is the problem: "To put it in a nutshell, the upper 4MB of the 8MB memory
chunk are, well, buggy. Every 4th byte of this memory range has one special bit set after a write access no matter what
the data written originally was." Mr. Lindhorst goes on to say: "I have contacted ELBOX some days ago asking for a public
clarification. They kindly answered in private and they somehow admit this bug (though they tried to make it sound like
a kind of feature :). More importantly they say that ONLY THE FIRST BATCH (sold by them till 13th dec) of the Mediator1200
is supposed to be affected."
You can read Mr. Lindhorst's
complete post here.
Note: Elbox has not made a offical
public statment on the bug or release a fix so users can use the full 8MB memory window.
CyberGraphX homepage
ELBOX COMPUTER website
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12.3.2001 G-Rex Officaly Out
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12.3.2001 Major updates from OnyxSoft
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New version: DECH (Version 1.38) Info:
- Removed "Stack of executed programs" and replaced it with "Stack of the compiler".
New version: Detris (Version 3.1) Info:
- A lot of changes and added features, mouse/joystick can be used to control the game.
- Two new draw methods for the background etc. etc...
New version: DRemind (Version 1.57) Info:
- Removed a longstanding Enforcer hit.
New version : MultiRen (Version 1.44) Info:
- Fixed the MP3-Info plugin (returned wrong layer).
- Enable what entry the program will sort (secondly) by.
New version : QuickNote (Version 1.4a) Info:
- Fixed the enforcer hits that was introduced in 1.4.
New version : TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.07) Info:
- Added some options for BladeEnc.
- Moved the encoder paths to make the GUI smaller.
Stefan Blixth, OnyxSoft
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12.3.2001 WHDL News
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Bored Seal, creator of many WHDL games installers opened his own page.
There you can find his installers, Curse of Enchantia and many full Zeppelin games to install...
BTW do you remember 'Stag' demos ? :-) If the answer is 'YES', check this page too.
Bored Seal's homepage
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12.3.2001 Software News
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CygnusEd Professional v4.21(a) -
small update to the 4.21 PPC-MorphOS port released before. Fixes the problem with crashing when the HELP
button was pushed.
You need a properly installed MorphOS release as well as the original CygnusED
4 CDROM to install the PowerPC port, the 68k version of the program won't be modified. After installation
you can still use the 68k version of CygnusEd if you plan to install it on the same partition. The updated
ed frontend automatically detects if it's run under MorphOS or AmigaOS and uses the proper CygnusEd main
binary. Please note that you need the original CygnusEd4 CDROM to apply this patch/ppc update.
OrangeFTPd 1.0 - fast and small
freeware FTP daemon. File security derived from DOS protection bits.
MorphOS website
Aminet
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11.3.2001 dynAMIte Released
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11.3.2001 Image Engineer Available (Again)
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Kicksoft ltd are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Image Engineer.
This excellent program will be of intrest to anyone who produces any graphical
work on the Amiga. Rated 8 out 10 by Amiga Active Magazine.
It can be ordered online at http://www.kicksoft.co.uk.
Ray McCarthy, Kicksoft Ltd
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11.3.2001 Amiga Polish Translate Team
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Three days ago new Amiga user group in Polan was born. The goal of this group will be translation
of Amiga games or programs to polish language. The first game they are going to translate is
Payback. If you have a game/program to translate to polish contact them.
They are also looking for new members...
Pawel Stefanski
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11.3.2001 Warp3D status for G-Rex & Mediator
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Thomas Frieden: "Ok, here's the situation: As soon as the drivers are finished, they'll be
released. "Finished" in this respect means the features of Warp3D V4 are implemented (they are
99% finished), the support for G-REX is in it (it is), and the support for Mediator is in it
(started, but not finished yet). For the G-REX, there should be no problem at all, Mediator users
may have troubles because of the limitation of the current P96 drivers (they only use 8MB, IIRC).
Right now, the driver is not finished. The problem is that the documentation of the Voodoo 3 is
very vague, and at times wrong, when discussing the command FIFO. Right now, we are using direct
register access. Although this works, there's a major drawback: There is a small buffer that can
take up to 32 registers, after that, the buffer is closed until the current primitive is
rendered. 15 registers are needed per triangle (stripped, separate, it's even worse). So after
just one or two triangles, the chip shuts drawing operation. This has the effect that the
drawing speed decreases with growing resolution. Currently, the performance delivered by the
Voodoo 3 is very bad (it's still much better than the Permedia 2, but not what can be reached),
especially at high resolutions. So we would like to take our time to get the drivers to work
flawlessly. Regarding the "simultaneous" release: We will not delay the release "unduly" just
becuase we have problems with one board or the other. But, and I think everybody should be able
to understand this, we of the Warp3D team are somehow caught up between the front lines. I hope
this clears up any misunderstandings. I would like to apologize if I misworded something, english
is not my native language after all."
CyberGraphX homepage
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11.3.2001 HTMLread v1.1
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A new HTMLread version (V1.1) can be downloaded from the support site http://www.htmlread.50g.com.
HTMLread is an extension for YAM. YAM is a wonderfull Mailer but it is not able to handel EMails that are written from Netscape, Eudora
or Outlook in HTMLcode. HTMLread detect, convert and send this EMails to youre favourit HTMLviewer. There are some changes in the new
version: HTMLpharser rewritten (faster, more compatible, full «base»-tag support), problems with space inside names fixed, new statusgif,
better error-handling, HTMLreadPrefs rewritten (now with MUI-Gui).
Gunter Hinrichsen, HTMLread
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11.3.2001 ANCOR: TLS status
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"We know, it looks like the project "TLS" is cancled, but it isn't so? We have at the moment some
little problems. The first is that the PPC board of our leading computer is defective and there
are some problems with the fixing/replaceing of it. The second thing is that Roman is now in the
armee for 15 weekes. The third and maybe the bigest is that c++ isn't easy to learn. So we hope
that someboby can help us, who can answer some questins and maybe programming some little
routines. If you can help us, so send an email to me
sascha@ancor.ch. And one was the final examination of the
school for Roman. But we don't give up, we want to finish this game and maybe more."
TLS - 'The Last Seal' is a Sci-fi-Adventure for Amiga Computers.
AmigaFuture website
Ancor website
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11.3.2001 Software News
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SecondSpin v2.16Beta - fully working giftware
project to give the complete conversion sollution to mpeg audio. Latest changes:
Changed OS recognition code.
It may have failed under some VERY, VERY rare circumstances.
Changed the www.cddb.com support to freedb.org! This should fix the CDDB problems!
readme
ppclibemu v0.8f - emulation of the ppc.library and the PowerUp kernel under WarpOS.
New in V0.8f: CandyFactoryPro-Demo worked, when setting the new environment variable ppclibemu/IgnoreNOCACHEM68K to "1".
JST v4.6b - JOTD startup for HD installs & degrader.
New in this version
- NOSSWAP enforces no os read/write again (useful for OSEmu)
- Fixed potential crash on startup for users who have a SSP remap utility
- Fixed display which could cut the last pixels sometimes
SecondSpin homepage
Frank Wille's homepage
The Amiga Ultimate Patch & HD Installers page
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10.3.2001 Amiga Based PDAs Are Coming, Community Content Needed
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Its official, Amiga based PDAs are on their way. Amiga today announced that two devices from a yet
unknown company will be using AmigaDE software for its content. So far only basic specs are
available to the public
- Screen Size: 240x320, 65k color, 3.5" reflective-TFT
- Screen Size: 176x220, 65kcolor, 3" reflective-TFT
There will be no announcement until St Louis, but Gary Peak is still looking for people who will
develop commercial-quality software for the PDA's.
Read More.
There is also more information
from Amiga on Amiga Support Network.
Amiga.org website
AmigaInc. website
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10.3.2001 Ast - New PDA Game Development System Coming To AmigaDE
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Ast is a new PDA game for AmigaDE. The game uses the gm game engine to provide developers with easy access
to the basics needed for PDA game development. The release of Ast and gm to the public is a way off yet
but in the mean time heres a picture of beta Ast.
The picture was taken before the addition of the final graphics set.
Amiga.org website
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10.3.2001 Will Sonique 2 be available on platforms other than Windows?
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"Yes. Sonique 2 is VERY portable and currently runs on Windows and Linux. It has run on BeOS
(although doesn't currently) and will run on OSX for mac and we hope the new Amiga OS
(cuz Amiga R l33t!). We hope to have Sonique 2 running on as many different platforms as
possible." Sonique is a audio player capable of handling M$ Windows Media files, MP3 files,
audio CDs, and more.
Amiga-News.de website
Sonique homepage
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10.3.2001 Amiga Flame: Land of Genesis Released
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"Crystal Interactive Software has released their last game for the classic Amiga - Land of Genesis.
This game is the creation of author, Maurizio Gemelli who has spent over 3 years developing this
shoot'em up platform game.
Land of Genesis is about a secret government experimentation, into
genetics and cloning, going wrong with its test subjects, genetically modified humans taking
control of the Mars base where the experiments were being conducted. You play the character Jan,
an "Eliminator", a government special forces agent, you know the ones they use to clean up their
mess is as though it never existed. Jan is sent to Mars to "Eliminate" any trace of what went on
and to prevent any cross-world contamination."
Read more
Amiga Flame website
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10.3.2001 Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ Updated
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10.3.2001 Amiga Arena News
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In cooperation with Guido Mersmann the keyfile for the best BoulderDäsh conversion of the C64
original BoulderDäsh is available for download exclusively for the Amiga Arena!
Some claims to fame:
1:1 Clone of the original game.
Runs in multitasking.
Online help.
Locale support.
Commodore Styleguide conformable programmed.
Fully graphics board compatible.
The program BoulderDäsh is located at the Aminet. Note: The keyfile comes exclusively from
Guido M. registered to the Amiga Arena and may not be offered to others as download or copy!
Amiga-News.de website
AmigaArena website
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10.3.2001 Joystick Adapter Survey
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Is there anybody interested in an adapter to connect an Amiga joystick, e.g. for use with UAE,
or does anybody know a manufacturer already producing such? An old Amiga freak has developed
such adapter and would start a small batch production if enough people will contact. If you
are interested, please participate in the survey
(click on the "Umfragen", the page is whole in german).
Amiga-News.de website
Amiga-society.de website
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10.3.2001 X-CELLENCE goes AmigaDE
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"We will not develop our games (SCR2K, FirePower and New York Nights) for the Classic-Amiga.
For us this was not easy to decide, but the limited possibilities of the PPC/3D system the
AMIGA can offer for the time being don't meet our requirements.
Since we all are AMIGA users from the very beginning, we didn't want to put down our
ambitions regarding the AMIGA, thus we came to the conclusion to develop for the AmigaOne.
We hope for your understanding." Your X-CELLENCE Team
Amiga-News.de website
X-CELLENCE website
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9.3.2001 Repulse: Delivery announcement
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"There is a delivery delay for the REPULSE sound card. We hope to be able to deliver the product
in the first quarter of 2001 as planned. The production is still proceeding."
Repulse homepage
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9.3.2001 #Amirc - IRC channel is back!
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Barry Smith: "I'm happy to inform all list members that the flagship Amiga IRC channel#Amirc on the
undernet network is now back after some time out of action. The channel
homepage is under construction for the main part.
But channel info and Contact addresses and such can be found on it.
This is a great place for all members to meet other Amiga users online!"
Barry 'StIlSkIn' Smith, #Amirc channel management
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9.3.2001 Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone
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According to this message, a forwarded
message by Gary Peake, Amiga Inc. are looking for content, and more specifically, for 5k-10k cell phone
games and 400k-500k PDA games. They have "two potential companies looking to [them] for content", and
they want "a demo to show either of these gents".
Update: Randy Hughes posted this
comment that says:
"those creating content will obviously be compensated for their contributions in the form of licensing
agreements".
ANN website
AmigaInc. website
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9.3.2001 Heretic II competition
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HAUG are pleased to announce that the Heretic II prize which was unavailable at alt.WoA is now offered
as an online free draw. Enter the competition here.
The competition ends and winner will be announced on 1st May 2001.
Huddersfield Amiga Users Group, alt.WoA
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9.3.2001 VillageTronic GmbH gone?
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VillageTronic GmbH's webpage has been offline for a few
days now.. giving the error "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server." Their
domain is good until 20-Oct-2001. They are running Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_ssl/2.7.1
OpenSSL/0.9.6. It may just be a config problem with the .htaccess file. Does anyone have any
information on the status of VillageTronic? Please email vt@vgr.com.
CyberGraphX homepage
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9.3.2001 World of AMIGA 2000 video
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9.3.2001 FastATA & AllegoCDFS News
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FastATA v.2.4 is a common version of software designed for:
* FastATA 4000 Controller (A4000 Power Flyer) for A4000, A3000 or A1200 with ZORRO III busboard
* FastATA ZIV Controller (A1200 ZIV Power Flyer) for A1200 with ZIV busboard
New in this release:
FastATA software version 2.4 improves HDD reading procedures and the bug
in nosplit disk identification process, which could make difficult the change of the way of HDD
installation (SPLIT/NOSPLIT), was fixed.
ELBOX COMPUTER website
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9.3.2001 Games & Software News
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Frogger v1.64 for 68k (030,040,060) and PPC (PUP,WOS,MOS) released.
Frogger is the ultimate fast MPEG video player, with MPEG-2 layer support for AMIGAs with fast CPUs.
Most important improvement is speed increase, 1.64 is up to 25% faster that 1.63.
What's new
Morphtris v.2 is a simple Tetris clone.
It can help you waste your time. It is system friendly and runs in a window on the Workbench screen. There are both a 68k-AmigaOS and a
PPC-MorphOS versions (selected automatically).
Digital Almanac III: The binaries are finished, just a few pages of the
docs are missing! Added some more English pages to the DA III documentation.
Frogger homepage
MorphOS website
Digital Almanac homepage
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8.3.2001 G-Rex bootloogo showing tommorow
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With the G-Rex shipping tommorow from DCE,
here is a quick snap of the 'G-Rex - Light my fire' boot logo.
Shipping drivers: Voodoo3 2000/3000, Voodoo4 4500, Voodoo5 5500, Permedia2, ViRGE & Realtek 8029.
CyberGraphX homepage
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8.3.2001 Interview with Thomas Knäbel, pblan GmbH
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8.3.2001 Warp3D for Mediator will not work with Elbox P96 drivers! Unless they become offical
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Thomas Frieden posted on ann.lu "Regarding Warp3D on Mediator boards:
I will not judge the legality of the Elbox P96 drivers, I'm not a lawyer, and I think this is
something only a lawyer can really decide. It is true that we will release Warp3D drivers for the
Mediator. We will, however, only actively support official P96 drivers. I personally think that this
is the best way for us, as it will be the middle way. Regards, Thomas"
This might not be such a big deal as Elbox has stated they will do all drivers themselves. "Our
developers have taken over the task of writing all the key drivers." - The key here.. does Elbox
consider a Warp3D driver a "key driver"??
CyberGraphX homepage
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8.3.2001 Amiga Arena News
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Amiga Arena - Toadies Action
The Final Version 8.0 of Toadies, the best (Freeware) "Worms" Clone, is now online on the Amiga
Arena and Toadies Homepage. Toadies now feature only 2 players game but Thilo will sevelop a
computer opponent if tehre will be at last 30 interested players! Visit the
Toadies Homepage and vote if interested!
Toadies will be released then as Shareware and there will be a special offer by Amiga Arena!
AmigaArena website
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8.3.2001 Amiga gets IEEE cover story
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Joe Ralph: "The Amiga is featured in the current edition of the IEEE (institute of electrical
and electronics engineers) Spectrum. Spectrum is a monthly publication put out by the IEEE
and reaches all members. The IEEE is the largest professional organization in the world.
An Amiga 4000 desktop is on the cover. This is great news for the Amiga community. "
Amiga.org website
IEEE Spectrum Online website
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8.3.2001 TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation
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TAWS is a JavaScript project with the aim
to convert the look & feel of our beloved Workbench to a browser. Many Amiga-related sites
use the l&f of the Workbench for navigation, so I had the idea to perfect it.
Feedback is wanted; author is interested in others
point of view and if he should go on with the project or not...
Amiga-News.de website
ruppzuck pages
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8.3.2001 Games & Software News
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New version of Tales of Tamar Amiga client V0.33 R6 with several bugfixes
and new sounds available.
Tales of Tamar is the internet based roundgame for Amiga, Atari, Linux/SDL and Windows by
Eternity Entertainment Software.
Asm-Pro V1.16i - mc680x0/6888x/68851 macro assembler/disassembler/linker
with integrated editor, monitor and debugger.
readme
Tales of Tamar website
Aminet
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7.3.2001 Phoenix Website
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"On behalf of the Phoenix webteam we would like to announce that the
Phoenix Developer Consortium website has been launched and is now
operational. Browse around, and if you are a developer, picture news of your products or services
-- or articles you have written -- becoming a part of this living developer support site."
Phoenix Developer Consortium website
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7.3.2001 MorphOS Commercial Status (and the future)
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"Why not sell a key to unlock the 2 hours timeout in the next beta ?"
Ralph Schmidt: "That would require us to build up the business side now, deliver support
and general contract obligations while we need the time for development. I'm no fan of
selling "obvious" beta software...that only creates problems."
"There are also other things going on which may change things....like Amiga Inc.'s
repeated threats to sue us lately and play power games. How we react on these issues may
also change the status of MorphOS."
That is the reason why I don't like announcements like the Fleecy's one. [ExiE]
MorphOS ML
MorphOS website
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7.3.2001 AS10 amiga magazine screenshots
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Amiga users will probably be interested to see amiga magazine entirely designed & layouted using Amiga programs.
This is the case in creating AS magazine [issue10] by DTronic studio. We used PageStream4, ArtEffect4 and
Ghostscript. Check out some of magazine screenshots at:
[www.d-tronic.com/indexe.html] presentation.
DJNick, D-Tronic Design Studio
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7.3.2001 AmigaSDK tutorials
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Kevin Jackson: "Here are some tutorials which programmers
of the AmigaSDK will find particularly useful. Currently the tutorials are based on the SDK 1.0.1 running
hosted on SuSE Linux 7.0 professional (just to give you some background). Each tutorial or "tut" is graded
based on the difficulty level - 1 easiest, 5 hardest (there won't be many 5's to begin with as I'm learning
the intricacies of the SDK myself)."
AmigaSDK.com
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7.3.2001 Voodoo3 Performance on AmigaOne Board
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Thomas Frieden via AmigaOne ML:
"Obvioulsy, most people highly underestimate the Voodoo 3. It's a graphics board
that's still up to date. The fill rate is enough for 1024x768 at full speed. The
only real drawback at the moment is the lack of 32 bit rendering. Some tests on
some PC sites indicate that it will deliver a performance very close to for
example Voodoo 4."
"You should also keep in mind that on the Amiga, we have a very short data path
from the application to the hardware. On Windows, you have to go through all of
DirectX. Just compare the performance of something like Unreal Tournament's
DirectX vs. Glide renderer: Glide is similar to Warp3D, it has a short data path,
and the performance speaks for itself. Now project that to the AmigaOne: A
high-power CPU that's on par with current x86 chips (and the G4 is on par with
them), together with a Voodoo 3 and nearly direct access of the application to the
hardware, that's a very powerful combination that can literally run rings around
some of the PC hardware out there."
Amigart website
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7.3.2001 G-Rex not out just yet
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"G-Rex has not shipped as of now. Inside sources say today or tommorow for the hardware and then one or
two more days for the press and doc stuff. The software drivers have been ready for a few weeks now."
Vesalia Computer's offical press release: "G-REX 1200 PCI boards made by DCE will be available from
Vesalia Computer on March, 9th."
CyberGraphX homepage
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7.3.2001 Black Legend's games
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On the Classic Fun page you can find six Black Legend's classics games: 3D action 'Embryo' (eng), Jump ´n Run 'Fatman' (eng),
Pool Billiard Simulator 'Kid Pool' (eng), 'Mega Motion' (eng), 'Za Zelazna Brama' (eng), 'Wheelspin AGA' (eng).
The Classic Fun website
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7.3.2001 Trogsoft News
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Trogsoft are celebrating their 5th birthday by offering one person the chance to win everything they ever produce.
That means every commercial product for the Amiga or AmigaOne platforms, and any shareware (registered), will be
delivered straight to your door. Click here to enter
"Trogladite Software hope to have lots more programs coming out soon, and for this reason, we'd like to have a beta
testing team ready. Basically, if you're willing to test, and you have at least a bog standard A1200,
go here to sign up."
Amiga.org website
Trogladite Software
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7.3.2001 FormAldiHyd V2.2
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There's a new version of FormAldiHyd available.
It is a driver for various graphic tablets, including the AipTek HyperPen series, the Medion/Tevion boards from the german
vendor Aldi and all WacomIV compatible boards (PenPartner, Artpad etc).
New since V2.0 is the support for the macro keys
and the option to play back sounds at the press and release of the stylus buttons. Moreover, FormAldiHyd now finally works
with other serial interface boards like the MFC and IOBlix. And of course lots of bugs were fixed and other changes were
made (see ReadMe for more details).
Chris Hodges, Platon's homepage
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6.3.2001 Amiga 1200 PCI Boards
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As of today, the two PCI Boards for the Amiga 1200 (Mediator from Elbox and G-Rex from DCE) are available
at KDH Datentechnik in Germany. Bundle prices, which include the PCI boards and the Voodoo3 boards are
available also. KDH ships Amiga products worldwide. So take advantage of the current Dollar / DM exchange
rate and make your dream come true. The German VAT (16%) will NOT be charged to shipments outside of the
EU countries.
Guenter Horbach, KDH - Datentechnik
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6.3.2001 Amiga Inc, MorphOS and AROS Projects
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"Is it possible that you (Amiga Inc) tell us what you think about all those projects ? Aros, MorphOS..."
Fleecy Moss, AmigaInc. on AmigaOne ML:
"As I said, others stepped in to fill the void of there being no owner and no direction. Now Amiga Inc is
back, and it will set the direction. We have talked to all of the groups informally but there can be only
one direction... anything else is competition. We are working hard to take advantage of a lot
of the work done, but that has to fit into the direction of AmigaInc. itself."
More information on Amiga's future plans will be displayed on Amiga.com,
says Fleecy, but they "don't want to pre-empt St Louis". There "will be one direction that the owner provides,
and that will be revealed at St Louis." "As for the AROS group, it would be nice to roll a lot of their
effort into any future direction."
Amigart website
AROS website
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6.3.2001 Interview with Raymond Cindriæ, DDE
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6.3.2001 iBrowse Beta: Realease or not?
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"Do you think the current beta of iBrowse should be released now? IBrowse users please voice
your opinion. At this time the
votes are about +80% Yes, and -20% No. I think you need to be a member of Yahoo! in order
to vote. I set up this vote because March 23/24 will mark 1 year of no updates for iB, which
is still not finished (as per advertisement) nor bug free. The current beta is said to be much
improved, and appears to be a few months old from posts of the beta tester."
ANN website
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6.3.2001 Geek Gadgets-Server with new IP
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This is an important update concerning the Geek Gadgets' servers. Over the next few days the Geek Gadgets
project will be moving to a new IP address [64.232.230.106]. A temporary disruption in service may occur
due to propagation delays in the various Domain Name Servers, but nothing to be alarmed about. If you do
experience problems, you can use the IP (64.232.230.106) temporarily until the DNS hosts get caught up.
Geek Gadgets (GG) is a project organized by Cronus to produce
and support AmigaOS and BeOS ports of dozens of the most popular development tools and utilities from the
Free Software Foundation (FSF), BSD and other sources.
Amiga-News.de website
Geek Gadgets homepage
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6.3.2001 No time, hardware & motivation for Mediator Warp3D ViRGE
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Both Hans-Jörg & Thomas Frieden, 2/3 of the Warp3D group posted on the Amiga-Mediator ML
about the status of the Mediator Warp3D ViRGE driver and how the ViRGE (CyberVision64/3D) Warp3D driver "was written without bank switching in mind",
"The driver would also need a general overhaul".
Hans-Joerg: "Ahem, yes, a driver :-) Sorry, the current ViRGE driver will only work with the CV64/3D. This is because of the fact that it was
written without bank switching in mind. It should be relatively easy to convert it to a PCI driver, but, as Robert already pointed out, we have
neither the hardware nor the time (and to be honest, no motivation for that either :-). The ViRGE isn't easy to program, since it doesn't have
a setup stage like every chip since Voodoo 2. Also, we have add a heapload of stuff to overcome a few limitations of the chip - although it can do
256x256 textures (I think it even did 512x512), it can't do perspective mapping with more than 128x128, so triangles are subdivided on-the-fly.
The driver would also need a general overhaul, as well as adaption to Warp3D v4."
Thomas: "Another problem would be that the current Mediator drivers are CGX V3, if I'm not mistaken. Warp3D will not run with CGX V3. Before you cry
out that there is a V3 driver, let me explain: The CV64/3D had a special memory layout. If you set the MULTIMEDIAMEM tooltype, it would reserve the
last 1 MB of it's memory for use as video overlay. In Warp3D, we use this 1 MB area as texture memory. When a Z-Buffer is needed, it's allocated in
front of that area, which is a cruel hack. So, you see, the Warp3D driver for CGX 3 depends 100 % on the CV3D's memory layout. Without a Picasso 96
or CGX V4 driver, or at least a CGX 3 driver that can do bitmap caching, the chances for a decent CGX 3 support are slim. There must be a way to
allocate textures and auxiliary buffers."
CyberGraphX homepage
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6.3.2001 SID music takes over UK nightclub
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The ultimate club event for C64 music fans!
"SID goes public taking over one of the UKs most futuristic nightclubs, May 16th 2001.
Can you afford to miss it? You've been waiting decades for this chance: one of the
UKs premier clubs playing C64 club and dance at volumes that'll make you shake...!!"
KeepItRetro.com
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6.3.2001 Amiga Arena News
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Amiga Arena - Special Offer!
Amiga Arena is offering, in cooperation with Thorsten Hansen, a special price for AMPlifier.
AMPlifier is a MPEG-audio player that is also able to play different 16-bit audio-formats.
AMPlifier supports hardware based MPEG audio-decoders and software decoding by using mpega.library.
Features:
Support for Musicam up to layer III, AIFF, MAUD, WAVE and RAW
play, pause, stop, forward, backward, skip back, skip forward
Usage of external visualization plug-ins
Support for WinAMP skins
Support for ID3-tags
ARexx port
Olaf Koebnik, AmigaArena: "I am happy to be able to present a new special offer after long time.
There are some more promises for new offers but the developers are still working on new versions
and thats why I am not able to go into details now.
I hope you will take the given chance and
support the developers. The registration fee goes directly to the developers."
Amiga-News.de website
AmigaArena website
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6.3.2001 Workbench 3.9 guide
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AmigaOS39.lha
- guide for Workbench 3.9 in AmigaGuide format. Covers all the new features since
Workbench 3.1 including: CacheCDFS, Colour Icons, Fast File System, Internet, PowerPC,
Preferences, Reaction, Multimedia, Utilities. Also, includes AmigaOS 3.9 CD content
list and Index to search for words in the guide.
Aminet
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6.3.2001 Software News
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smbfs v1.49 - SMB file system client; complements Samba.
readme
AmiVNC v0.1.0 - Experimental VNC server for Amiga w/C source.
VNC is a truly thin client protocol which enables the use of one computer (the server) from another (the client - Mac, Unix,
Linux, PC, Amiga). readme
Jikes v1.13 - native Amiga port (no ixemul.library required) of jikes,
the free Java compiler from IBM.
readme
Aminet
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5.3.2001 100%AMIGA Issue 10
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The March edition of 100%AMIGA is now available for sale.
This month's magazine contains a review of Earth 2140 and we take a sneak peek at Clearwater
Interactive's upcoming space shootemup Land of Genesis. Spend some time playing the full version of the
adventure Land of Alcandria 3 or demo the excellent Payback and Octamed Sound Studio 2. Plus, of course
all the latest news and reviews in the Amiga world.
FORE-MATT Home Computing website
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5.3.2001 OnePowerWeek Updated
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You may read the updated OnePowerWeek (french only) on the AmigaPower Website.
AmigaPower and OnePowerWeek are published by AFLE, the leading french Amiga association.
Ben Yoris
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5.3.2001 "Amiga Minus" - new Amiga mazine for Poles!
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5.3.2001 Amiga Aktuell's Interview with BPlan (Pegasos PPC)
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Amiga Aktuell made an interview with Thomas Knabel from bplan GmBH.(in German)
Hightlights from the interview:
- Bplan the GmbH is not a successor company of the former phase 5. Also the postal addresses are identical
in no way, as you can see easily on our web page. The original idea to take over sections of the former
Phase5-Ressourcen (also the premises) could not to be taken place in consequence of the insolvency
procedure as planned.
- The planned sales start is Q3/2001.
- The price of a complete system (inclusive HD/DVD/RAM/Mouse/Keyboard) is within the range of 1000 EUR.
- There was already a correspondence with Amiga Inc.
- Sections of the MorphOS team and the bplan staff are identical. As a most well-known " MorphOS" personality I can call you here Ralph Schmidt.
english version (translated by SYSTRAN)
Amigart website
bplan GmbH website
CyberGraphX homepage
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5.3.2001 One more time... No Voodoo4/5 docs, no Warp3D drivers
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Hans-Jörg Frieden, one of the three Warp3D authors posted again on the Amiga-Mediator ML
on the subject Voodoo Warp3D driver:
"Will Warp3D support the VooDoo4 card? (3D): "Not currently, since there is no public documentation available. I had a look at the H5 glide stuff,
but that's a mess (anyone who wants to see programmers arguing over the right way to do something in C comments should check it out :-). No docs
- no support. I'm afraid it is this way. This could change once the docs are available, but who knows if there will still be Voodoo's available by that time..."
Does the Voodoo4 have a "VooDoo3 fallback mode"?: "Not at all. They're as different as they can be. Basically the H5 engine (which is the VSA-100
chip on the Voodoo 4 and 5) is radically different from H3 (Banshee) or H4 (Avenger aka Voodoo 3). Evil pitfall: H3 is Banshee, H4 is Voodoo 3, H5
is VSA-100/Voodoo 4 or 5 :-)"
CyberGraphX homepage
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5.3.2001 Amigan @ ACM1 Show
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Amigan Michael Wright will be one of the featured Artists at 'ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace' March 10
thru 14, 2001 in San Jose Calif. Founded in 1947, ACM is the world's first educational and
scientific computing society with over 80,000 computing professionals and students world-wide.
Read more
Amiga.org website
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5.3.2001 Software News
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AmIDE v0.3 beta - The Amiga Integrated
Development Environment. Its goal is to provide all developers, regardless of which compiler they use,
a good structured graphical project management with a smart interface to each compiler. It will also be
possible to have different projects that are using different compilers/debuggers. AmIDE will keep track
of your depency files and give you the ability to add/remove depency files without changing any makefile
or such a thing. history
AmIDE homepage
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4.3.2001 A body without a head is just stomach and muscles.
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Mr. Fleecy Moss, Vice President of Product Development for AmigaInc. posted on the amigaone ML
over the subject of Zico (no, not the real orginal Zico) to A1 in less then 3 months and the direction of things.
"I wasn't talking about taking charge of the community - that is patently ridiculous. I have always been a firm believer in the trinity
of owner, developer, user, and that is what makes the community. What I mean is that Amiga Inc is now back in charge of being the owner. In the
last five years there has really been no forward direction, no strategy, no path, which is why the developers such as H&P,Phase 5, AROS, UAE
etc stepped in to provide alternatives. Amiga Inc, as the owner, is now back to doing what an owner should do - we started with the Zico, and less
than 3 months later, we are well on are way to having the A1. At St Louis, more of this direction will be explained. As we have seen in the last
five years, a body without a head is just stomach and muscles. Thrashing about, tearing itself apart and going hungry."
CyberGraphX homepage
AmigaInc. website
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4.3.2001 The new version of The Crypt, issue16, has now been released on disk and Online
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Steve Evans: "As usual we have an action packed disk version for you to enjoy. With over
120 articles/pictures to choose from. With the latest pictures and personal reviews from
those that went to Alt-WOA. To our usual jokes and "Wee Boaby" items, and why you will
want to live in Guam!
But this time there is an added bonus! We have now written an
online version, so that everyone can now enjoy The Crypt, no matter what platform
you use. Remember waiting for that disk mag to pop through the letter box? And how much
you enjoyed it? Well, we have created a carbon copy of the disk version for you Online
Enter http://www.thecrypt.org.uk"
Steve Evans, TheCrypt
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4.3.2001 AmigaFlame: Demo of the Month
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AmigaFlame's Demo of the Month is Apex Design's Payback, a 3D gangster warfare simulator inspired
by Grand Theft Auto. Read more
AmigaFlame website
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4.3.2001 Shogo:MAD Amiga News
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Thomas Frieden said on Hyperion ML: "Monolith already Okay'ed the (Shogo) Amiga version and the package
design was already done (and approoved) for the Linux and Mac versions. So there's no additional delay
to be expected." Hyperion plans to ship Shogo for Amiga late March.
Amigart website
Hyperion Entertainment website
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4.3.2001 Voodoo 3 Warp3D drivers info (again)
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Hans-Jörg Frieden posted on the Amiga-Mediator ML:
"Rest assured that there *will* be full Voodoo 3 support. The problem is that it takes time, which is at
the moment rather limited. [..] Of course, it is in Hyperion's best interest that Warp3D drivers for the
Voodoo/Mediator do come out. But as I said, there is little time right now, and the installed user base
of BVisionPPC/CVisionPPC owners is far greater (yet :-). Also, our customers have the right to finally get
Shogo... [..] Also, note again that Hyperion and Warp3D are different parties..."
"Yes, we are working on it. In fact, the driver is already advanced enough to play any Warp3D
supporting game with a few drawbacks (I still didn't get around to fix the fogging, seems my tables are
wrong, but I did have more pressing things to do)."
"Yes, we have a G-REX, as well as a Mediator, and we'll release the driver for both of them
simultaneously if possible (the Mediator driver requires slightly more work due to bank switching)."
"AGP support for the Voodoo 3 is a no-brainer, since there is virtually no difference :-) There are
essentially only two things that the AGP version can do that are not available in the PCI version: Host
memory AGP transfers, and Command Fifo in AGP space."
Mediator driver bank switching: "Yes, that's the catch, and that's the reason why we're primarily
working with the G-REX (plus the fact that I've got an A4000). The bank switching routine is 68k, so
there is a context switch involved which requires a bit of cleverness to avoid..."
Read the complete message here
CyberGraphX homepage
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4.3.2001 Software News
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The new version of the asyncio.library for WarpOS fixes an exception handler hit under WarpOS V5,
when the handler was activated. Download the
archive from here.
It contains the full source code and developer stuff including the StormC project ! An Autodoc-file
is not included, as the PPC-functions are identical to the 68k-functions.
Rainboot v3.2 was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. This update offers now better
support for graphics boards, OS 3.9 support and it is more user friendly. Rainboot v3.2 is currently
only available for owners of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM. Owners of this
CD-ROM can log into the update section with their serial code.
Digital Almanac Homepage
Andreas Falkenhahn, Airsoft Softwair
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3.3.2001 Schatztruhe News
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Many new Amiga products (and some classics) and all items from the GTI Amiga Charts now available from Schatztruhe!
Additional products now available:
Chaos Engine 2 (Disk), Earth 2140 (CD), Exodus - The Last War (CD), Kang Fu (CD), Payback (CD), Simon the Sorcerer
2 (CD), Theme Park (CD), Wasted Dreams (CD), Animatic (CD), ROM 3.1 A1200 (Chip), Extreme Visual FX (CD), fx Paint
(CD), fx Scan v3.0 (CD), MooVID Pro 2 (CD). VHI Studio (CD), Amiga Joypad, Amiga Mouse (white), Boing Ball Amiga
Mouse Pad und DD-Disks (10er Box).
Amiga-News.de website
Schatztruhe website
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3.3.2001 New VirusWarning.guide
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3.3.2001 Digi Booster Pro Add On CD
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Andreas Magerl: "Today we release the Digi Booster Pro Add On CD-ROM."
This CD is the collection of best quality samples, modules, programs for Amiga computers. It was designed for everyone busy
with making any kind of music. Digi Booster Pro is the main program suitable for this collection. It can edit and play all
samples, modules, mp3's placed on this CD.
Andreas Magerl, APC&TCP
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3.3.2001 individual Computers: Insider Section Updated
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3.3.2001 March 3rd update from CompuQuick
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Randhir & Sarla Jesrani of Compuquick Media Center writes: "We greet you on this third day
of the third month of this Third Millennium with good wishes." A special note of their
attendance of the Amiga 2001 show in St. Louis and specials currently being offered.
Read more
Amiga.org website
Compuquick Media Center
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3.3.2001 Amiga Arena News
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Amiga Arena - DITO Password release
By authority of Dirk Holtwick the registration code for the vocabulary system software ´DITO´ is ready for free download.
DITO is built modular and has many features (flexible dictionary, gap-texts, number converter, vocable trainer).
The following languages are supported: English, Spanish and Italian. DITO and all of the additional modules are available
from Aminet. Special thanks to Dirk Holtwick for releasing and to Erik Z. who made this possible and provided the file
to the Amiga Arena!
Amiga Arena - Appeal!
Any further suggestions, tips or possibilities for the release of not further being developed sharware software? Please
contact Olaf Koebnik! This also pertains to developers wanting to
organize a special price project!
Amiga-News.de website
AmigaArena website
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3.3.2001 Software News
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Updated: ColorWheel 45.5a
Sigbjørn Skjæret has updated the PPC/MorphOS version of the ColorWheel to v45.5a.
ColorWheel will now refresh correctly when it's disabled/enabled, and no longer does an unnecessary full refresh when clicked. "This version is based on the AROS based
hi/truecolor colorwheel.gadget from Aminet with the difference that it's been updated/bugfixed to (hopefully) match the OS3.9 version..."
ColorWheel 45.5a for MorphOS needs V0.4 of MorphOS to work. No docs included. Just copy the .elf file to where colorwheel.gadget is kept, SYS:Classes/Gadgets/.
68k cross-compiler v2.95.2 (~3.8MB) for MorphOS. Runs under MorphOS and Generates 68k code.
"It's faaaast, and above all, it works!"
Audiomaster 2000 v0.62 - shareware MUI Sample Editor supporting all AHI devices.
Beta status dropped.
MorphOS website
Bright Light Software website
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2.3.2001 700MHz G3 PowerPC
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IBM has begun sampling a revised PowerPC 750CX, the G3-class processor. The 750CXe primarily adds support for
bus speeds of 133MHz. However, it does pave the way for the 700MHz version of the chip, due next May. It also
uses copper wiring to reduce the part's power consumption. According to Big Blue, the 400Mz 750CXe draws 3.5W,
down from the 400MHz 750CX's 4W.
By then, the 400, 500 and 600MHz parts will be shipping in volume. IBM
said it expects to ramp up production in April.
Fabbed at 0.18 micron, the 750CXe incorporates 256KB of
on-die L2 cache, which not only improves performance - data and program instructions in the cache can be
retrieved at the same speed at which the chip's core runs - but saves Apple the cost of ading an external L2
cache module. A small saving, but not to be dismissed.
The 750CXe is priced at $57, $93.75 and $143.75, for
the 400, 500 and 600MHz parts, respectively. That's in batches of 10,000.
Amigart website
IBM Corporation website
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2.3.2001 Call for Warp3D programmer for ViRGE in Mediator!
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Hans-Jörg Frieden posted on the Amiga-Mediator ML
on the subject of doing Warp3D driver and a call out for a someone to maintain the ViRGE driver:
"Although my brother already wrote an appropriate reply, I would really like you to elaborate on
what you mean by this. We have stated multiple times in the past that we are open to people that would
like to write their own Warp3D drivers. There is no need to make something 'work in BVision emulation mode
or so', since the drivers are modular by design. How would you make something like that work anyway?
Having said this, I want to repeat the call for a maintainer of the ViRGE driver. Due to lack of time and
hardware, we cannot continue the driver, but if someone with a Mediator/ViRGE combination wants to take over,
please contact my privately."
CyberGraphX homepage
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2.3.2001 AROS News
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Another update has been made over at www.aros.org. Check out the details
for a brief summary and batch of new screenshots.
AROS homepage
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2.3.2001 Amiga: The Computer That Wouldn't Die
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IEEE Spectrum Online: "Having outlived a number of its corporate owners, and spurred on by its passionate
users, the Amiga computer is going back to market again--but this time, in very different forms."
Read the whole article
James L Boyd: "It's an excellent, well-written article about the early days and brief history of the Amiga.
Also has photos of the original team in 2000!
ExiE: "It's very well researched article and reveals some infamiliare details from Amiga history."
IEEE Spectrum Online website
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2.3.2001 Airsoft Softwair Homepage News
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2.3.2001 Trogladite Software Competition
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Trogsoft: "The first of our 3 competitions to end the month lets you win 50mb of fast professional webspace for one year (worth £39.99).
If you fancy this, read more." Competition closes March 15th.
Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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2.3.2001 AmigActive CD Problems ?
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If you've got a problem with one of AmigActive coverdiscs... if no-one else could help... you should get yourself
over to the new section of Amiga Active web
site dedicated to solving them!
Amiga Active website
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1.3.2001 Voodoo3 Warp3D drivers for G-REX and Mediator comming, no time frame!
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Thomas Frieden posted on the Amiga-Mediator ML:
"[..] here's the fact: Warp3D *will* support Voodoo boards on the Mediator. In fact, work on the driver is
already underway. I'm not able to give any timeframe yet, but I'm assuming we can have a driver for Mediator
and G-Rex ready in the course of next month. We will of course announce it in due time. And yes, it will
all be in the same driver, so technically, both boards will be supported at the same time."
"I hope this will clear things up. I said it multiple times, and I repeat it here: If you don't hear it form
Hans-Jörg, Sam, or me, it's potentially *untrue*."
CyberGraphX homepage
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1.3.2001 alt.WoA Review By Fleecy Moss
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1.3.2001 Earthquake epicenter was 20 miles from Amiga Inc. headquarters
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"The Seattle Earthquake epicenter was 20 miles away from headquarters of Amiga Inc. The center of
the quake seams to be near Kent, WA and the Amiga HQ is about 20 miles from there." Amiga.Org
reports that "We've got word from Amiga that everyone is fine and no tech was damaged. Phew!"
Amigart website
AmigaInc. website
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1.3.2001 Complete Lista AMIGA archive is back online
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The complete archive of messages posted on Lista AMIGA brazilian discussion group is now online again,
with all 4000 messages posted from 1997 to 2001. The archive can be accessed at Multivitaminas! site
http://nautilus.home.dhs.org.
Alex "Nautilus" Moura, Multivitaminas!
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1.3.2001 Elbox MediatorUP v1.8
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Only 15 days after MediatorUP1.7 was released Elbox has sent out the MediatorUP1.8 (33K) archive today.
You can of course find the MediatorUP1.8 archive at the normal places Elbox releases it. File was sent
at: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:15:25 +0100. If you need the correct archive contact Elbox. Rembember to report
all Voodoo bugs directly to Voodoo@elbox.com!
readme
CyberGraphX homepage
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1.3.2001 Kicksoft announce competition winner
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Ray McCarthy: "Kicksoft ltd are pleased to announce that the winner of the Drawstudio 2 competition
is George Albanidis from Greece. Details on site.
Thanks to all those that entered and look out for more competitions in the future."
Ray McCarthy, Kicksoft website
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1.3.2001 Fiber cut silences SETI@Home
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aMIGA_dUDE: "At about 3:30 AM PST on 27 February an optical fiber cable connecting the U.C. Berkeley campus
with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was cut, apparently by vandals trying to "salvage" copper
from other nearby cables. This of couse nocked out SETI@Home as well.
Now if you would like to see
SETI@Home and have one those other OS then join the
Amiga effort." (When it becomes active again, probably this weekend.)
Andrew "aMIGA_dUDE" Guard
SETI@Home page
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1.3.2001 Scenebook is back
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Skid^Ozone: "Scenebook is back! We're busy uploading all the prods
that were released since the last update (late '99), so please report any broken links to Wavemaker or
Skid. I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to Real Ice of Elerium Core (PC) for the domain, and Gandalf
(Planet-D admin) for providing us with top quality hosting for free. Without them this new Scenebook
wouldn't have been possible.
Scenebook website
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1.3.2001 Amiga Arena News
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Amiga Arena - AmigaKonto full version
By authority of Adreas Regul the program AmigaKonto is ready for free download. AmigaKonto was developed
for management of accounts. Especially for bank giro accounts with many movements one quickly forfeits
summary in verifying recurrent money transfers. Therefore AmigaKonto first of all serves as a special
kind of database for managing the different transfer orders. By various selection and statistic functions
then it is possible to address single positions well directed.
Full benefit is to achieve in collecting account data over several years to have comparison values at hand
enabling you to get a quick summary by use of the selection functions.
Amiga Arena - Toadies Survey supplement
Participation in the survey to develop a computer rival for Toadies is without engagement. With Toadies
belonging to the "most downloads" of Aminet in mind, I'm very disappointed about the results of
participation, so far.
Amiga-News.de website
AmigaArena website
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1.3.2001 New Developer in NetBSD Team
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Jukka A Andberg has been included in the NetBSD-team. He has written a first (still incomplete) version
of a wscons[1]-driver for NetBSD/Amiga and will now complete it.
Wscons is the console driver interface
which does not depend on the machine and which is already in use on many NetBSD-architectures. It enables
virtual switching consoles and makes the simultaneous use of text consoles and X11-screen(s) possible
which is a characteristic not included in the ite- (Internal Tty-Emulator) system which is used in
NetBSD/Amiga, so far.
Amiga-News.de website
NetBSD website
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1.3.2001 X-CELLENCE Wanting...
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The young developer team X-CELLENCE still is wanting reinforcement for there AMIGA department.
There already are three PC projects under development which are to be developed for the AMIGA
simultaneously. This concerns the following projects:
SCR2K: fun-racer in the style of the "StuntCarRacer" classic
FirePower: shooter with best Arcade tradition
New York Night: story-heavy ego-shooter
Applications can be placed here.
Amiga-News.de website
X-CELLENCE website
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1.3.2001 Games News
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The popular shareware game BattleDuel is freeware from today. All of the features are enabled and all
of the background graphics are part of the archive now to be downloaded from the
BattleDuel homepage.
New Strategy Game Planned
Alien Imperium is supposed to become a network and Internet game which
is supposed to support several operating systems, because it will be programmed in Java. It will be
made in co-operation of Amig@lien with AccM Software Allianz.
In this space strategy game you have to be superior in technology and tactics to other races. For
instance you can invent a lot, but you can also enter alliances as well as other contracts.
Everybody
who liked Imperium Terranum will be fine with
this game. This game will be delivered on CD-ROM and will certainly be released for the AmigaOne, but
also a classic-Amiga version is planned.
Ricco Clemens: "Here is a hint for all who cannot wait for
it. We hope to be able to show a graphic and sound presentation to the computer revolution 2001."
Those ones who want to support the project "Alien Imperium" should mail to
AccM or Amig@lien. They are grateful for each help!
Amiga-News.de website
BattleDuel homepage
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