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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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