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30.4.2001 Photogenics Announcement: We need your HELP!
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Urgently Needed: Photogenics Receipts ReviewsAdverts from America prior to 1998.
"I'm fighting a bit of a trademark battle here, and I need to put together hard
evidence that Photogenics was marketed and sold in the US prior to 1998, or risk
losing the name I have become so attached to. My case is sound and I am certain
I will prevail, but your assistance could help to decisively settle the matter.
A receipt showing the purchase of Photogenics 1.x or 2.0 in America would be ideal
evidence. If you purchased an Amiga 1200 or 4000 that came with Photogenics as part
of the Amiga Magic pack, or a CyberVision64 that came with the Lite version of
Photogenics, or even the free version of Photogenics 1.2 that was on the cover of
Amiga Computing, I would be very grateful to hear from you. You can submit your
details at http://www.paulnolan.com/tmregister.html.
Even if you don't have your receipt, your registration will still be helpful."
Read more
Paul Nolan Software Inc.
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30.4.2001 Pegasos Mainboard images
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First images of the full
functional Pegasos development platform.
After successfully running the
internal hardware tests, LinuxPPC was booted as the first supported OS, MorphOS
should be the next...
According to Ralph Schmidt, Pegasos should be available
in the Q3/Q4 this year.
bplan website
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30.4.2001 Unofficial iFusion FAQ Part Two
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30.4.2001 ScanQuix 5 Homepage
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Since February this year the popular scanning software "ScanQuix 5" is no longer distributed
by rbm digitaltechnik. Production and distribution now is done by
Vesalia-Computer. Please, contact Vesalia Computer
regarding questions about ScanQuix.
Recently a ScanQuix 5 homepage was created. There you
will find information about the program's features and a list of supported scanners.
Furthermore you have the opportunitiy to online register yourself as ScanQuix 5 user. This
is to find out about how many active ScanQuix users still exist. Since data of already
registered users were not handed down by rbm, these users should register for Vesalia,
once more.
Amiga-news.de website
ScanQuix 5 homepage
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30.4.2001 Mailing lists for stormamiga.lib and HSMathLibs will be closed
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These lists will be closed at May, 31 2001. Starting with the June, 1st 2001 there will be
an eMail information letter. All subscribed users will receive eMail with general info
about both products (update information, hints, notes how to best use stormaimiga.lib or
HSMathLibs, etc.). All those that have subscribed to the mailing lists, will be subscribed
to this info letter automatically.
If you have any question or comment write to
Matthias_Henze@CyberdyneSystems.de.
Read more
Cyberdyne Systems website
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29.4.2001 Shogo is out
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Ben Yoris, Hyperion Entertainment: "Shogo MAD is finished, shipment will start on Monday (30.04). Shogo requires an Amiga equiped with PowerPC,
at least 64MB RAM, Gfx-board, CD-ROM and 400MB free harddisc space. You can get more information about Shogo
here or on Hyperions
Amiga pages. Please remember: piracy harms the Amiga to death. Don't copy games, unless you want that they totally disappear from the Amiga market..."
ANN website
Hyperion Entertainment website
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29.4.2001 AmigaPage News
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"AmigaPage, Italian news' site, after few weeks of some problems comes back to the normal
service of daily news report.'
Marco Lovera, AmigaPage
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29.4.2001 WarOS version of Payback on it's way!
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According to James Daniels of Apex-designs, a WOS version of Payback should be complete within 1-2 months,
and the WOS version will be free to download for users who have already purchased Payback. For those who
haven't bought this excellent game yet, now would be a good time to do so if you have a PowerPC board.
The WarpOS version was delayed because DCEcom had James Daniels' PPC board for repairs. The already great
game will become, if not already, a must for Amiga users."
Amiga.org website
Apex Designs website
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29.4.2001 WinUAE-Kaillera beta1
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WinUAE-Kaillera enables users of this great emulator to play against another person over a TCP/IP network,
such as the internet. For this it uses the Kaillera engine, a program developed specifically for enabling
emulators to achieve netplay. As Kaillera itself already has proven
its merits on emulators such as Mame and Bliss, this was the perfect choice for the development of this
program. In this first BETA release there is support for (shared) keyboard and 2 joysticks.
Mouse does NOT work yet. Read more or try
WinUAE-Kaillera v0.8.14-Kaillera Beta 1.
KeepItRetro website
WinUAE-Kaillera website
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28.4.2001 AIO issue 46 is now out
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AIO issue 46 is out and available at AIO
or on Aminet. Amiga Information Online requires a new Games Editor. If you think you are up to
the job and would like to contribute to one of the most popular magazines in its category then
why not give it a go. Read more
Amiga Information Online webpage
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28.4.2001 Back to the Roots Amiga-News 229
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Can you remember Carrier Command and Battle Command? Both games are excellent
realtime 3D war simulations and were groundbreaking titles when they were released.
Thanks to Realtime Games, we can now offer you both masterpieces legally on
"Back to the Roots". Other new games are
Valhalla 2, Garfield, Hattrick!, Soldier of Light, Detroit and others.
Our scene sections were updated with brilliant releases from the Mekka&Symposium
demo party. Especially the Amiga demos are very impressive! The scene-pictures section
was updated with artwork from Critikill Acryl and others, while the game-pics section
includes great screenshots from Genetic Species, Land of Genesis and Disposable
Hero. 115 new tunes were included to our music section for people, who like good
tracker music.
Don't forget that this was just a short list of the new included
files. You can read the full update text at our news page.
Bobic & Hippie2000, Back to the Roots
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28.4.2001 Three New Freeware CDs Assembled
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´The Faces of Mars´ has assembled three new CDs:
Paranoia: playable versions of Doom, Genetic Species, Brainkiller, Charly the Mercerer
and Cyber Games. Further on there are many add-ons for Doom and Quake on the CD.
Scorpius: the complete collection of Scorpius Software, beginning with their early
works up to Blade and Burnout.
Classic Revolution: German and English version of the first class dark future graphics
adventure Beneath a Steel Sky. Tested under OS 3.9 for CD, hard disk and disk. There can
further Lure of the Temptress in the disk version be found on the CD.
The price per CD is DM 5.- plus p&p and you can get them directly from FOM.
Amiga-news.de website
The Faces of Mars website
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28.4.2001 Amiga Arena Special Discount Offer: SViewIV, akMPEG
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In co-operation with Andreas R. Kleinert the Amiga Arena makes a special discount for SViewIV
and akMPEG possible. SViewIV is an Amiga picture viewer and processing program, akMPEG is
a MPEG video player. The bundle is available until the 31.05.2001 for a unique special price!
Further information regarding the registration can be found in the Amiga Arena in the area
"Aktionen". TaskiSMS special price!
The SMS sender for the Amiga is only available at
the special price until 10 May 2001!
Amiga-news.de website
AmigaArena website
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28.4.2001 Software News
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New LAME alpha version 3.89!
"[..] since 3.88beta had a few nasty bugs, I decided to release the latest 3.89alpha instead
(don't let the "alpha" deter you, the only changes are some vital bugfixes and a few new
options [..]" The 68k binaries are now compiled with GCC (2.95.2 MorphOS crosscompiler), this
gives us yet another speedboost (not to mention less compiletime for me. ;)) ) .. I've compiled
in stackswap code, so this version should behave just as well as the previous SAS/C compiled
ones, please tell me if it doesn't! history
NOTE: LAME's stack requirements have increased!!!
I logged the 68k binaries going dangerously close to the previous default of 100000
(and the PPC binary downright nuked) at normal operation, so I increased the default to 163840
...this means you prolly won't need to worry about setting the stack for the 68k binaries, but
you *MUST* give the PPC binary enough stack, or else you will crash'n'burn for sure!
A new update of 'VirusExecutor 2.16' has
been released today.
(267.132B) readme
The Amiga Alternative Audio Page
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA website
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27.4.2001 iFUSION Update!
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The new update to iFusion V1.1.1 is now finally available for download from the iFusion section
on the Blittersoft website.
There are two versions of the updater, one to upgrade iFusion 1.0.0 and one to upgrade iFusion 1.0.1.
Check the version on your CD by taking note of the version number reported when you run your current
version of iFusion. Please ensure you download the appropriate updater for your version.
Note that in testing they have experienced some problems with AsimCDFS and certain CD-ROM drives.
These problematic set-up's may have trouble reading certain CD's. Blittersoft recommend you consider
AmiCDFS, which is free and also supports TD_CHANGESTATE, allowing you to detect CD changes on the Mac.
Blittersoft website
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27.4.2001 New Eric Schwartz Comic : The Amiga That Wouldn't Die
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27.4.2001 50 Additional Beta Testers for T.o.T. Wanted
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50 additional beta tester are being looked for Tales of Tamar, which is an internet-based round
game for Amiga, Atari, Linux and PC developed by Eternity Entertainment Software. With the new version
v0.35 the player is able to "annex land" for the first time. By annexing land your empire becomes larger
and the proportion between raw material and population will change enormously. We will see that the high
prices for weapons and arming will go down at the markets and will even out on a normal level.
And we will see how countries will be formed and rulers occupy Tamar. Annexing is nothing different than
leading war which is the fight against the original inhabitant of a country. To that function
Tales of Tamar offers an efficient fighting machine. It assesses armed forces in over 50 points and
then let the armies fight against each other to the rules of the mediaeval fighting strategy.
That fighting machine take note of the following aspects: Arming, Weapons, Second weapons, Experience,
Training, Cavalry, Armies with missiles, Ratio of troops, Morality, Surroundings, Race, Exhaustion.
Amiga-news.de website
Tales Of Tamar homepage
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27.4.2001 Software Hut NewsLetter
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27.4.2001 Elbox, Jim Drew and Joe Fenton working Fusion
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Elbox posted on the issue of Fusion working with MMU version of MediatorUp2.2: "We were in touch with
Fusion authors and they already prepared the Fusion version which correctly works with the MMU Mediator
drivers. This version will be available to registered Fusion owners from Blittersoft."
CyberGraphX homepage
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27.4.2001 Matrox G-550 specs?
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"G550 will be some kind of low-cost G800,using some ideas initially developed for G800.
G550 is a single-chip solution featuring the same doubled rendering pipelines, 128-bit
DDR support, but only a limited form of T&L. The G550 will, of course, feature
Matrox's great eDualHead tech and their renowned 2D clarity.There are enough facts
already proving that G550 will be coming out next month. Of course, it will not cost
much, between $150-$200, and its performance should be nearly level with NVIDIA
GeForce2 GTS."
'Scoop 2: Solid G550 news' article
Papageorgiou Sotiris
The Tech Report website
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27.4.2001 Improve XAD and Win OS3.9 CD
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As already known by many people one can register the decrunching system XAD for a new archive
format by writing an own client. Since XAD is also distributed along with OS3.9, now, Dirk
Stoecker offers a little extra item. Somebody doing something valuable for XAD (as Stuart Caie,
Andrew Bell or Ronald van Dijk already did) will receive a free OS 3.9 CD (and of course an
own keyfile, too). This work can be such like new and valuable clients, a great new program or ...
Amiga-news.de website
Dirk Stoecker's homepage
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26.4.2001 Now BoXeR shipping in June?
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jgirvan posts: "It had to be a short chat my phone card was running out. Anti says they have finished
the aaa logic and are sure that the copper wlll be alot easier and at the rate they are moviing they
expect the preordered boxers out in June this year - If they run into no other log jams. They think
the thorniest logic problems are behind them. This just verifies the New Info post. with the addition
of a month and year."
Full post on Moo Bunny.
CyberGraphX homepage
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26.4.2001 NewInstaller 2
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In near future Airsoft Softwair will release the long awaited update for NewInstaller, the NewInstaller 2.
This version will be capable of running as the standard Installer (Sys:C/Installer) but it will support
all NewInstaller extensions like background pics, sounds, Internet support and so on. An exclusive preview
version will be out soon for users of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM. Also the
final version will be available as a full version for owners of this CD-ROM. NewInstaller 2 will start
a new era of installations: With NI 2 it will be even possible to create software packages with just one
installation exe which is already standard on other platforms. More details will be released soon. People
who do not own the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM may have a look at some screenshots
of it which will be added to the Airsoft Softwair homepage on next Monday.
Andreas Falkenhahn, Airsoft Softwair
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26.4.2001 AmiaOne Dealer mallinglist
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Alan M. Redhouse, Managing Director Eyetech Group Ltd posted: "We have set up an invitation only
mailing list for (potential) A1 dealers to answer/discuss dealer issues relating to the
AmigaOne-1200.
"If you are an Amiga dealer, and wish to distribute the Eyetech AmigaOne boards, you can join
AmigaOne dealer mailing list.
To apply to join, please email us at
a1dealerapp@eyetech.co.uk
with 'A1Dealer List Application' in the subject line."
CyberGraphX homepage
Eyetech's AmigaOne
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26.4.2001 Amiga demos on DivX
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"Amidemos is a collection of Amiga demos and intros,
captured from an Amiga and uploaded to the web as DivX
encoded videos. Particularly useful for people who want to watch Amiga demos, but don't own or
emulate an Amiga."
Amiga.org website
Keep It Retro website
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26.4.2001 Software News
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Lame v3.88 MP3 encoder for PPC/WarpOS.
sources
SnoopDos v3.7 - well known system monitor.
The 3.7 release fixes mainly some cosmetic issues.
readme
hserv is a HTTP/1.1 conditionally compliant server written in AREXX.
hserv 26.0 supports persistent connections, is MUIed by RxMUI and no longer has problem with Netscape and MsIE.
hserv is now totally controlled from a very nice gui, where you can start it, stop it, configure it and break
all active connections. Here you can try server running hserv/26.0.
Amiga projects by Jarmo Laakkonen
Aminet
hserv homepage
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25.4.2001 Tales Of Tamar News
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New version of Amiga client V0.35R1 available.
Tales of Tamar is the internet based roundgame for Amiga, Atari, Linux/SDL and Windows by Eternity Entertainment Software.
Tales Of Tamar homepage
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25.4.2001 Software News
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A new version of DocDatatypes released. The major changes from the previous version is the support
of Mac Text files and the saving of Palm db TEXt docs. Also the MS-Word support has been updated
and the MS-Word datatype also handles Unicode files. Problems with some non standard RTF files have
been fixed as well as problems with uncompressed Palm Doc files.
The list of supported formats
include: MS-Word(Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar
2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc(pdbdoc), First
Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text.
DocDatatypes homepage
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24.4.2001 iFUSION update
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"We are pleased to make a new update available to iFusion users. This upgrades iFusion to V1.1.0
and fixes some issues reported on the first release regarding CD mountlist, Direct mode on hard
drives, and memory issues.
There are two versions of the updater, one to upgrade iFusion 1.0.0
and one to upgrade iFusion 1.0.1. Check the version on your CD by taking note of the version
number reported when you run your current version of iFusion. Please ensure you download the
appropriate updater for your version. The above files will be available shortly."
Blittersoft website
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24.4.2001 Virus Warning
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A new link-virus has been found, the installer is still unknown, we are looking for it.
This new virus will add 460 bytes to every file that is opened or executet. That also
means that even an antivirus program (that the virus is unknown to), will infect every
file it checks for virus. The new virus patches dos.library ExNext function to spread
it self. The new virus has been given the name "BOBEK", this is the text you can read
in the end of every infected tile. At this time there is no cure to this virus, but we
hope to have an update of VirusExecutor ready later today, to fix this virus. You can
read the hole warning, with a
click here!.
If you find the installer, please send it to us...
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA website
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24.4.2001 REBOL/View Released - A New Era of Distributed Internet Applications Begins.
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Ukiah, CA - April 24, 2001 - REBOL Technologies today announced the release of REBOL/View,
an Internet software technology that launches the next generation platform for distributed
Internet applications. REBOL/View enables everyone, regardless of budget or staff size, to
rapidly create and deploy custom network applications for collaborative, groupware, and
peer-to-peer purposes. Read more
Rebol Technologies website
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24.4.2001 Tales Of Tamar News
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"Ladies and Gentlemen, dear players,
we are pleased to announce today the future cooperation
between the team of Tales of Tamar and the "Ruestzeug"-Team.
The "Ruestzeug"-Team are
specialists for manufacturing of medieval weapons and armors. It is also a LARP organization
using the world of Tamar, too. Take a look at the excellent weaponry on this site:
www.ruestzeug.de. Shortly, we will publish more details
on the first official CON for Tales Of Tamar."
Tales Of Tamar homepage
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24.4.2001 Back In Time Live!
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Back In Time live is going to be the biggest event of the 2001 C64 calendar!
Birmingham's "retro-futuristic" DNA nightclub has been hired to host the event, and all your
favaourite C64 celebrities will be going, Jeff Minter, Rob Hubbard, David Whittaker, Allister
Brimble and many more!
C64 tunes will be playing all night on a 1:1 ratio with 80s synth,
dancing girls, an amazing drinks promotion, three bars, free entry for the ladies and the
official launch of the third Back In Time CD will make this a night to remember!!
Keep It Retro has teamed up with the event organisers to get you into the club, and VIP launch
of Back In Time 3 for free!! You'll get all three Back In Time CDs, a poster from the event
and a Back In Time leaflet signed by loads of your C64 heroes.
To enter this amazing competition, you want to see our
Back In Time Competition feature.
Keep It Retro website
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24.4.2001 WarpSNES is *not* dead
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Steffen Haeuser: "As I did not release a new version of WarpSNES many people thought it "dead".
Luckily this is not true. Actually I have it running on the basis of the latest version of
SNES9x (1.37c) in the meanwhile, while WarpSNES 5.0 bases on 1.29. The problem is, the SNES9x
people included a much more accurate sound Emulation, which causes the new version to slow
down to 50% speed if Sound Emulation is emulated."
Read more
Steffen Haeuser via ANN
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24.4.2001 Kicksoft news
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Kicksoft are pleased to announce the avaliablity of Frogger PPC and SOFTCINEMA PPC.
Both can be ordered online at: www.kicksoft.co.uk.
Ray McCarthy, Kicksoft
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24.4.2001 New TaskiSMS
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New (2.55) version of TaskiSMS has been released. News in this release:
- made some optimizations in plugins code (reduced RAM usage, little faster)
- added Jumpy plugin (Italy)
- fixed bug in "bug report routine"
- updated documentation
Using this program you can send SMSes to cellular phones
to over 160 countries around the world. You can download demo version from
TaskiSMS home page or from
AmiNet (soon).
Pawel 'Paplo/Taski' Filipczak, Taski
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23.4.2001 Amiga Update Newsletter
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23.4.2001 JabberWocky AmigaOS Jabber client in Development
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JabberWocky - a jabber client for AmigaOS is now in development. Detailed information about
the availability and features of the client will be announced by the author when it is ready
for release. Click here for a screenshot.
What is Jabber ?
"The first application of Jabber technology is an instant messaging
system focused on privacy, security, ease of use, access from anywhere using any device, and
interoperability with IM, phone, and web-based services. Jabber is fully based on XML, so it
provides an extensible architecture for creating the next generation of services and
applications on the Internet. The benefits of using Jabber include presence management,
transparent interoperability, and real-time routing of structured information."
Amigart website
Jabber.org
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23.4.2001 Big Book of Amiga Hardware Updated
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22.4.2001 iFUSION News
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Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft:
Blittersoft will be sending an update to all registered users of iFusion in the next day or two.
"We inadvertantly placed a version of iFusion on the release CD that was not the latest one
supplied by Microcode Solutions. Since discovering this, we have received an even newer version,
which is the one that will be sent.
This also includes an updater program. Please ensure you
register your purchase as detailed on the release CD, or visit
Blittersoft website."
Fusion ML
Blittersoft website
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22.4.2001 AROS News
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Iain Templeton made datatypes.library build when linked against a version of c.lib/amiga.lib which
contains debug code. AllocSignal() spends now less time in Forbid(). Using an uninitialized
semaphore will now throw an AN_SemCorrupt alert. And he improved the code of Procure() and Vacate.
Fabio Alemagna added a new tool which allows to do something similar to DICE's __autoinit__ feature
(call functions automatically at startup). This allows AROS' startup code to automatically open all
libraries which are used by a program.
Henning Kiel and Fabio Alemagna began to implement all missing functions of the ANSI C library.
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla continued to work on the web site. All thumbnails are generated
automatically, so they were deleted in the CVS. All screenshots were sorted into subdirectories to allow
automatic generation of the screenshots page. Plus many pages have now Tables of Contents and a lot of
old docs were ported.
Peter Eriksson has improved his Font preferences. Now it has all the menus of the original
(except for "Create Icons?").
AROS homepage
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22.4.2001 Apocalypse3 pre-invitation
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"Apocalypse3 - The Next Batch" will be held at the same place, in Brandys nad Labem, "Na radosti" pub,
The Czech Republic, because many people wanted to have this party at this small comfortable place with
small garden again. The date was still not set on, but you could count with rather begin or middle of
September 2001."
Radek 'lahve' Hrdlicka, ^reason^madwizards
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22.4.2001 Software News
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JST v4.7b - JOTD startup for HD installs & degrader. Changes:
Fixes for WHDLoad emulation.
A new version of ClassAction is now available. V4.1 now supports LHA and ZIP archives and uses improved listers with date and
protection bits that can be sorted. In addition some bugs have been removed and the popup window has been reorganised.
The Amiga Ultimate Patch & HD Installers Page
Martin R. Elsner
ClassAction homepage
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21.4.2001 iFUSION News
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Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft:
1. Blittersoft have purchased the rights to the Amiga version of iFusion.
2. This includes the possible port to Elate (AmigaDE).
3. It is our intention to work continuously with Jim/Joe on the further development
on the Amiga version of iFusion.
Blittersoft are committed to the Amiga platform, classic and AmigaDE. We are committed
to enhancements and will work with Microcode Solutions to see bug fixes made a pay for
new features. All this has been agreed.
There was an error on the version of iFusion on the first CD release. However, MS have
already provided an updater and a new version (even newer than the one I missed!)
So as can be seen, support will be there."
Fusion ML
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21.4.2001 CyberGraphX 4 soon available for G-REX
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"Also available shortly from Schatztruhe will be a special version of CyberGraphX 4
for G-REX with the latest drivers. Supported are all the known included CGX4 tools
and the video overlay features of the appropriate graphics boards. In case of the
Voodoo boards you'll also receive enhanced graphics speedup. The first included PCI
drivers are for S3 ViRGE (DX), Voodoo3 2000/3000, Voodoo4 4500, Voodoo5 5500 and
Permedia2.
More infos about G-REX expansion and CGX4 can be found at
www.vgr.com/g-rex.
Full version DM 49,-
(EUR 25,05 ca. US$ 22,50), Update DM 29,- (EUR 14,83 ca. US$ 13,35)
Complete Schatztruhe press release (german/english)
CyberGraphX homepage
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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21.4.2001 AmigaArena news
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AFind
AFind the Aminet CD search Tool from Guido Mersmann is in the full registered Version 1.61 now Online!
(German/English Guide available)See Button "Vollversionen"
KidHTML
KidHTML the easy HTML Editor is in the Fullversion Online! KidHTML is Shareware!
(German/English Guide avaiable)
Olaf Köbnik, AmigaArena
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21.4.2001 Virus Help Denmark AMIGA Looking For Help
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"We are looking for the installer of the new linkvirus "Bastard". We are not sure what program
or archive that installs this new linkvirus. So if you find any infected files with this
"Bastard" virus or even better the installer, please send them to us. At this time only
VirusExecutor v2.13 or
Safe v15.3 can find this
new virus. The Bastard linkvirus, hacks VirusChecker, so when you think you are checking for
virus, infact the hacked VirusChecker infect the files that is beeing checked.
Click here to read
the test made by 'Zbigniew Trzcionkowski' the programmer of 'Safe'.
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA website
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21.4.2001 Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ Updated (Again)
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21.4.2001 Reworked MasonIcons Archives
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Some reworked archives are available on the MasonIcons homepage and very soon on the the Aminet:
AWebMI - new default images, toolbars and animations for AWeb
CharonMI - a reworked toolbar image set for Charon
EZPagerMI - a GlowIcons toolbar for EZPager
IBrowseMI - a redesigned navigation bar for IBrowse
TaskiSMSMI - a toolbar set for TaskiSMS based on AppMI
VoyagerMI - a image set for Voyager in the GlowIcons Design
For further informations please have a look at the 'Projects' page of
Mason.Home.
Martin Mason Merz, Mason.Home
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21.4.2001 Worm Wars 6.6 and Report+ 4.5 released
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The game Worm Wars has been revised (new creature: 'octopus') and so has the utility Report+
(new function: 'icon processor', also support for OS3.9 BB1). They can be downloaded from
here.
James R. Jacobs, Amigan Software
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20.4.2001 Predator-SE PCI busboard for PPC-equipped A1200
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Eyetech are pleased to announce the availability of the Predator-SE PCI busboard for PPC-equipped A1200's.
The Predator-SE connects to the PCI expansion port on the BlizzardPPC board. It offers 5x PCI slots with
drivers supplied for: S3 Virge (2D only), Permedia2 (2D only), Voodoo3 (Warp3D drivers to be available at
a later date), Voodoo4 (2D only), Voodoo5 (2D only) and Realtek 8029 network card.
Read more
UPDATE: A mailinglist has been setup on YahooGroups for the Predator.
You can join here!
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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20.4.2001 Sheepshaver for Linux/PPC in Beta And Going Open Source Soon..
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SheepShaver V2.1 for BeOS is now available as a free download.
This project is going Open Source soon. It will probably be merged with the Basilisk II Macintosh emulator.
"SheepShaver is a MacOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux/PPC. SheepShaver should run on any BeOS/Linux-ready PowerPC system (including BeBoxen and PowerPC Amigas).
SheepShaver for Linux/PPC SheepShaver/Linux is currently in beta. While you're waiting for it to be released you can have a look at this
screen shot.
Amigart website
SheepShaver homepage
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20.4.2001 Vote for the top ten commercial Amiga titles of all time!
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"That's right. We're asking you to pick out what you consider to be the best ever commercial Amiga
software titles. Why? Well, that would be telling, wouldn't it?
Go here to vote."
AmigaActive website
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20.4.2001 ParaGlide Voodoo Module "would have been worth it"
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Hans-Jörg Frieden posted on ANN about the ParaGlide:
"Shogo would run perfectly on a Voodoo 1. The fillrate of this card is a bit higher than the Permedia2,
and it has all the blending modes required for Heretic II to run at full quality, so yes, not having it
is a loss. I wouldn't be particularily keen on writing drivers for it, since the Voodoo 1 hasn't got
a setup stage (meaning caluclations required like with the ViRGE - not a pretty sight), but the result
would have been worth it, especially since the Picasso IV was an exceptionally good card..."
CyberGraphX homepage
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20.4.2001 New TaskiSMS
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New (2.54) version of TaskiSMS has been released. News in this release:
- added drag & drop of SMSes (only for registered users)
- updated HandyLand plugin
Using this program you can send SMSes to cellular phones
to over 160 countries around the world. You can download demo version from
TaskiSMS home page or from
AmiNet (soon).
Pawel 'Paplo/Taski' Filipczak, Taski
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19.4.2001 AmigaActive Back Issues Still Available, AA20 Out Next Week!
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"Just a quick note to let people know that the list of available back-issues on our secure online
order form has changed recently. Still available are issues 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18 (limited stock!)
and 19 (the current issue)."
Issue 20 is due to go on sale next Thursday (April 26th). Details are due to be posted on the web
site next week...
AmigaActive website
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19.4.2001 Amiga.ca email servers will be moving
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Important news to all ...@amiga.ca WebMail users: Amiga.ca email servers will be moving
on April 24, 2001. The new service is Amiga friendly and will remain free with no
advertising. Please backup all your important email documents before the change!
Use this link to reactivate your existing account...
http://amiga.ca/email.html
downtown-amiga
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19.4.2001 VillageTronic GmbH lays off many workers, P4 ParaGlide Voodoo Module won't ship?
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Randy West posted some information on VillageTronic GmbH and the Voodoo add on module for the Picasso IV
on comp.sys.amiga.hardware: "Talk to a friend that lives by Villagetronic. It's offical Villagetronic
Amiga is more more 80% of the Amiga workers have been laided off. There won't be a Paraglider unless they
sell the prototype board which is the only one that was made."
CyberGraphX homepage
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19.4.2001 Software & Games News
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18.4.2001 Fake PPC Flashrom Updates on Aminet
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Ralph Schimdt (author BPPC/CSPPC flashrom) confirmed that he hasn't uploaded a new version since
FlashUpdate0942000.lha on his own site. He also asked Aminet admins to remove the archive.
DO NOT USE these one and if you had downloaded it errase it quickly!
ean-Francois BACHELET via AmigaOS3_5 ML
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18.4.2001 Prometheus may not go on sale on May 1st
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Matay's PR & marketing guy, Grzegorz Juraszek, posted on the Prometheus ML
about the release date for the Prometheus: "First days of May doesn't mean May 1st. We have two state holidays here in Poland, on May 1st
and 3rd, so don't be disappointed if we don't sell then. The exact date will be announced, please wait patiently."
CyberGraphX homepage
Matay website
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18.4.2001 VirusExecutor News
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Amiga.Org reports that VirusExecutor is now the #1 Amiga virus checker. Its updated often but VE is only
as reliable as its information. If you use VirusExecutor and it doesnt know of some of the patchs you
use then please send in as much information as you can about the error and data in ram to the author.
The more patchs that are known, the higher the chance you will spot a virus on your system. A few examples
of patchs and applications which may need adding includes BlizKick, OxyPatcher, and Miami. If you can help,
Please do.
* VirusExecutor at VHT Canada
* VirusExecutor at VHT Denmark
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA website
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18.4.2001 AmigaStuff launched
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AmigaStuff - a new dedicated amiga site has been launched.
This site has a whole range of Amiga hardware products, and many at very reduced prices. This site
also has a completly compatible amiga shopping cart system along with secure ordering.
Malcolm, www.amigagames.co.uk
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18.4.2001 Unofficial iFusion FAQ Part One
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Amigart have compiled an Unofficial iFusion FAQ from
the questions and answers on Fusion mailing-list. Part One focuses on CSPPC and MacOS problems. Note that:
iFusion doesn't support BPPC yet, Sam Jordan (WarpUP author) is working on a solution..
Amigart website
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18.4.2001 STL for StormC 4
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Raymond Zarling did a port of the Standard Template Library (STL) for StormC 4. The STL is
a extensive set of algorithms and data structures which enables C++ programmer to more quickly
implement their programs. It is also a part of the most recent C++ standard.
The Amiga
sources can be found on Aminet; the original sources are at
stlport.org and the documentation at
sgi.com:
amigastlport.lha,
readme
Haage & partner website
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18.4.2001 Software News
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On Linux-Apus website, you can find 2.4.3 Linux kernel binaries
for Amiga Linux APUS systems.
ReqAttack 1.70 & RAPrefsMUI 1.76 is available for download on jacadcaps.republika.pl
and should be in Aminet's Recent very soon (util/misc). New: new logos by Boris Mattler, some bugfixes, reqtools patch rewritten,
Edit requester function fixes and more...
Choowin is now available as improved version V1.1. The display and handling of the menus has been changed, and the start menu can
handle submenus. Further properties can be configured, especially patterns and text alignment.
Amigart website
Linux-Apus website
Jacek 'Jaca' Piszczek
Martin R. Elsner, MRE Software
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17.4.2001 Mekka&Symposium 2k+1 Results
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This year Mekka&Symposium scene party is over:
| Amiga 4K Intro: | Amiga 64K Intro: | Amiga Demo: |
| 01 Boom | Secretly! | 01 Option | Potion | 01 Perfect Circle | The Black Lotus |
| 02 Brus | Ephidrena | 02 Zeon | Nature | 02 Hotstyle Takeover | Loonies |
| 03 Ocean | Gunnars Farvebio | 03 Melba | Appendix | 03 Amsterdam Blessings | Madwizards |
complete results, download
UPDATE: Amiga demos, 64k & 4k intros are available here!
Scene.org website
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17.4.2001 3ivx, solving the streaming video problem
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Happy Machines releases its third preview version of the 3ivx codec. 3ivx takes video compression
to a higher level. This is the first release which includes a free personal test encoder as
well as a version for MacOS X.
"Streaming video is very important for our customers," says
Marcel Bor of On The Road, an Equant Service Provider "That's why I am extremely pleased with
the quality of 3ivx movies, even better than Real 8!"
The encoder and the decoder are available on the site for immediate download. There are 3 versions
of the codec available, a free test codec, a $10 version for personal use and a $400 version for
commercial use. Read more (pdf)
3ivx.com
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17.4.2001 AROS News
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Status update: "Biggest news is of course our new web site. Some things which were on the old page
are still missing but the new design makes it up for you, I hope :-) The missing old stuff and the
new AutoDocs should be up, soon. Have fun !"
Fabio Alemagna began to port UAE to AROS so we can at least run Amiga binaries slowly.
AROS homepage
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16.4.2001 Payback Update 3 Released And Extra Maps Section Updated
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Payback Update 3 is now available for both the full game
and the demo. The
Extra Maps,
FAQ and
What The Press Said pages have also been updated.
Update 3:
Your character will now automatically walk to the other side of the car if you accidentally try to get in the wrong door.
Redefineable controls added.
Volume control added. Set to 0 to disable audio mixing for an extra speed boost.
Repeat last message feature added.
New engine sound effects.
Vehicles can now be dented.
Added a splashing sound when you walk through a pond.
The game will now change your weapon when the ammo runs out.
The passengers now scream when you hijack a bus.
Apex Designs website
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16.4.2001 AROS & MorphOS together ?
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Since there has been some confusion, here are some reliable infos about the relationship between AROS and MorphOS.
Aaron Digulla: "MorphOS wants to provide an Amiga clone and they need some code to fill gaps in their emulation
(for example, parts of Intuition). They asked us if they could use our work and, being an open source project,
we "allowed" them to port parts of AROS to MorphOS.
This is exactly the same what we did when Haage&Partner
approached us whether they can use our Colorwheel gadget in OS 3.9 which we "allowed", too.
I say "allowed"
because that is essentially what we want them to do :-) AROS is meant as a test labratory to develop new
technologies which might prove useful for the next versions of the AmigaOS. We do this independently of Amiga Inc,
MorphOS and H&P but always with the goal to provide them with something useful as well as providing
adventurous Amiga users with something that feels quite familiar.
So AROS and MorphOS have not "joined forces"
or become one project. MorphOS just uses part of our work which is what our work is meant for."
Amiga-news.de website
AROS-ML - Aaron Digulla
AROS website
MorphOS website
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16.4.2001 Amiga Inc Closes Down Another Pirate BBS
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According to John Winston "AmigaInc. has closed down the amiga.rulez.org online pirate BBS.
A bit of good news for few companies still selling/developing Amiga stuff."
Moo bunny website
AmigaInc website
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16.4.2001 Big Book of Amiga Hardware Updated
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Following new entries have been added:
ISDN Surfer
Amigo Ethernet
Amigo Serial
Masoboshi MVD-819 realtime digitizer
Scandex Internal
Shuffleboard
In addition to this there are different, smaller updates, new pictures, new and solved mysteries.
The complete list of changes
Big Book of Amiga Hardware website
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16.4.2001 Voodoo3 Warp3D driver status report
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Thomas Frieden: "In fact, we made some progress recently with the Voodoo 3 Warp3D driver.
It's now working stable, no more hangups (even after approximately 3 hours of constant
graphics output). The command fifo still doesn't work, which means the speed is still bad."
CyberGraphX homepage
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16.4.2001 Graphic Adventure Engine 'INGA'
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The graphic-adventure-engine 'INGA' now has now got a homepage at Inutilis which contains technical
information as well as the current development status.
'INGA' is an engine for graphic-adventures
(Amiga) like Monkey Island 3, which has been developed for graphic boards. There is already a game
which is being developed using this system, Ermentrud, and more are planned.
The engine
includes also a comfortable developer-package which is also presented at the homepage. This will
allow everyone to design their own adventures.
Amiga-news.de website
Inutilis website
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16.4.2001 Software News
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An update of the V³ Image Decoders fixing a frequently reported bug: Images not being loaded properly after
a "User Abort", caused either either pressing the STOP button, or by using any of the navigation functions
while a page still loads. Get the archive for
AmigaOS or for
MorphOS.
Please note:
Those image decoders only work with the V 3.3 beta versions, they are NOT compatible with V 3.2
(or V 3.2.13).
"We've uploaded the DefIcons plugin. It's a replacement for the filetypes plugin and lets Scalos display
a default icon for files without icons, depending on their file type. It requires OS3.5 or above. Get
the plugin from the Downloads page."
V3Portal
Scalos website
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15.4.2001 Interview with Hans-Joerg Frieden
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After a long time Hyperion Entertainment started bringing games from big publishers again to the Amiga.
Digital Amiga Dream talked to one of their programmers who told us about the process of porting and
the problems they have during it.
Interview with Hans-Joerg Frieden
Damir Arh, Digital Amiga Dream
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15.4.2001 VirusExecutor - most up-to-date antivirus
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15.4.2001 dynAMIte special CD edition survey
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"We setup a survey to check out the interest in a special edition on CD. Please fill out the form on
survey.amigazeux.com or tell us your comments in the
forum!" Yhe game itself will stay freeware but you will have the chance to purchase a
"bigger, better, faster, more" edition. It needs at least 100 preorders to become true.
"dynAMIte is a gerat Bomberman/Dynablaster-clone that can be played (only) over internet (TCP/IP) by
up to 8 players!
dynAMIte homepage
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15.4.2001 Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ Updated (Again)
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15.4.2001 Finnish Amiga User Group's New Web Site Address
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15.4.2001 Spitfire² - Palm Desktop for Amiga Version Update
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The Spitfire² home page have been updated and redesigned.
Also, the all new YAMsync conduit has been released, which allows the HotSync of email between your
PalmOS handheld and YAM.
Ralph Torchia, Spitfire²
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15.4.2001 What does Zico mean?
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When it was asked how the word 'Zico' was related and what does it stand for, Mr. Fleecy Moss, Vice President of Product Development
for Amiga Inc posted on the amigaone ML: "It doesn't stand for anything - Zico
is the name of a footballer"
To Fleecy: It is stupid, isn't it? [ExiE]
CyberGraphX homepage
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14.4.2001 Imagine 3D suport website with new URL
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"We have now (finally!) registered our domain name. The new address is:
http://www.cadtechnologies.co.uk.
Our email addresses have also been updated to reflect this - simply replace the
'@cadtech.demon.co.uk' part with '@cadtechnologies.co.uk'.
Note: The old web and email addresses will remain operational."
Martin McKenzie, CAD-Technologies
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14.4.2001 1337 A1200 Mediators have the 8MB hardware "key"
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One thousand three hundred thirty-seven A1200 Mediators must use 4MB memory window. If you missed it,
Elbox released the serial numbers of the cards effected by the 8MB window 'key' in MUP2.2 UserManual.
"All Mediator PCI 1200 busboards with serial numbers from 3200001 to 3201338 should have the
"memory window" jumper set to 4 MB."
CyberGraphX homepage
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13.4.2001 Executive Update: St. Louis Announcements, Summary & new Technical Update
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Bill McEwen's latest Executive Update
has been posted with clarification on future direction and a summary of announcements made at the St.
Louis Gateway 2001 show. This latest update also features a new Technical Update detailing Amiga's
technical future direction.
Technical Update part 1,
part 2
AmigaInc. website
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13.4.2001 Software Hut News
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"Hello Everyone! We just wanted to inform everyone of some special SCSI Hard Drives, we have picked up
at an unbelievable price! We have a limited quantity of Seagate Barracuda 4GB and 18GB SCSI II/III
Hard Drives at half the standard market price. This is the perfect time to upgrade your system or
enhance the Video Storage of your Toaster/Flyer System. To take advantage of the special pricing,
please visit the SCSI HD section at:
http://www.softhut.com/scsi.html."
Software Hut website
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13.4.2001 Voodoo3 Warp3D drive progress
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Thomas Frieden posted on the Amiga-Mediator ML
about Voodoo3 Warp3D progress again: "Yes. In fact, we made some progress recently with the Voodoo 3
Warp3D driver. It's now working stable, no more hangups (even after approximately 3 hours of constant
graphics output). The command fifo still doesn't work, which means the speed is still bad."
CyberGraphX homepage
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13.4.2001 Obligement 26 is available
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Issue 26 of the famous french e-zine is available. We can find is this issue a full report
of St Louis Show, interviews of Fleecy Moss, Oliver Roberts and Georges Halvadjian (author
of Perfcet Paint), reviews of Earth 2140 and Payback, and lot more. You can download
Obligement 26 at http://obligement.free.fr.
David "Daff" Brunet, Obligement
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13.4.2001 TaskiSMS News
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New (2.53) version of TaskiSMS has been released. News in this release:
- fixed ICQ plugin and added ICQ UIN/Password settings
- reduced stack usage by about window
- fixed some bugs in program routines
- updated Lycos plugin
- added new plugin - HandyLand
- added "Don't wait for server reply" option that will speed up sms sending process
- added about 50 new countries to support list
- added some missing bubble helps
- Jumpy plugin removed
Using this program you can send SMSes to cellular phones to over 160 countries around the world.
You can download demo version from TaskiSMS home page
or from AmiNet (soon).
English interview with Pawel Filipczak,
the coder of TaskiSMS and StreAmi.
Pawel 'Paplo/Taski' Filipczak, Taski
no risc no fun website
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13.4.2001 Antivirus Update
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12.4.2001 Hyperion does Voodoo RTG for AmigaOS4.0
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Hyperion will do the Voodoo3 driver and Amiga Inc will handle Matrox G450 and NG Matrox cards for AmiRTG
for PPC only based AmigaOne machines needing OS4.0PPC. A page has been setup to keep track of AmiRTG
information. General Info, Supported cards and Mailinglist info can be found on the
AmiRTG page. AmiRTG mailinglist open.
CyberGraphX homepage
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12.4.2001 Amiga Inc and Elbox Working Together for Amiga OS 4.0 and Beyond
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April 11, 2001, Snoqualmie, Washington, USA. Amiga Inc is pleased to announce a long-term relationship
with Elbox Computer Ltd of Krakow, Poland. At the St Louis trade and user show on the 31st March 2001,
Amiga Inc announced the development of AmigaOS4, the latest version of the high performance,
user-friendly operating system that introduced multimedia to the world. To support AmigaOS4, Amiga Inc
also released the Zico hardware specification targeted at PowerPC processors. Elbox Computer Ltd are
working closely with Amiga Inc to ensure that their existing and future products will gain Zico
certification, and thus provide a perfect platform for AmigaOS4.
Read the official press release
AmigaInc. website
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12.4.2001 OnePowerWeek Updated
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French speaking users can read EVERY week an updated version of OnePowerWeek with all the recent news
and the hot links. OnePowerWeek is edited by the AFLE association, the leading one in France.
Ben Yoris
AmigaPower.net
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12.4.2001 Amiga Music Preservation - Major Update
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Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) has got a new design and a lot of new information.
AMP which has been founded by Curt Cool and Crown is a powerful collection of modules of demo scene
musicians meanwhile on 16 (!) CDs in all which additionally offers information to well-known scene
musicians as well as over 200 interviews!
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga Music Preservation website
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11.4.2001 Temporary Aminet Shut Down
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"TROJAN HORSES FOUND ON AMINET. The following four archives on Aminet were unfortunately infected:
util/boot/StackAttack.lha, util/boot/BlazeWCP.lha, util/virus/Safe.lha and util/boot/FBlit.lha.
They contain faked releases of the original software linked with a Trojan horse which sends out
abusive e-mails. On infected systems a process called "zakahackandpatch" will show up. If your
system is infected deleted the software listed above or replace it with older versions and
reboot. As a protest against this abuse of Aminet we will shut down our services on
"us.aminet.net" and "de.aminet.net" until Friday."
Michael Domoney
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11.4.2001 Amiga Inc and Elbox working together for Amiga OS 4.0 and beyond
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11.4.2001 Big EXODUS update
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Andrzej Bugajny: "Welcome everybody. I pleasure announce that we made the special Exodus version for
graphics cards. It's true that a first version working on all graphics cards but very slowly cause
it was emulating different data format required within gfx card. Updated game is now working faster
up to 5 times on graphics cards. Upgrade is only for users who fill and send back registration card.
ExodusGFX will by distributed via e-mail." Check your email twice before sending registration card
back. Any questions you cen send to slandsales@go2.pl
Andrzej Bugajny, SLAND MEDIA
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11.4.2001 S3 ViRGE DRIVERS FOR MEDIATOR
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ELBOX Computer, the company who care about their customers, announces hereby the official
release of their proprietary driver for S3 ViRGE PCI cards to be installed in the MEDIATOR
busboard.
This driver is 100% compatible with the Picasso96 graphic system.
This is the first Amiga driver for the S3 ViRGE PCI card, which supports full hardware 2D
acceleration in this card.
As usually, this driver is for registered MEDIATOR owners
and will be provided as such with all the new MEDIATOR boards.
With the release of this driver, support for one of the most widely available (and cheapest) PCI
graphic card has been added to the Amiga community. Also: For update on Voodoo.card drivers check
the VoodooGuide.
ELBOX: the company who care
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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11.4.2001 Interviews
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Fabio Trotta talked to Oliver Smiles the author
of the Abode of Golgotha Saga. The AOG Saga is a great single player addon for Heretic II.
On the GFX-Games-Database you can read an interesting and very funny interview (in english) with the AmiSource-Team (developers of ATC, AmiAMP and DynAMIte), in which they talk about the developement of DynAMITE, old and new projects and give their opinion on AmigaDE, MorphOS and lots more.
very enjoyable interview
with the Amisource-team in which they talk about their projects, their addictive game DynAMIte, AmigaONE, MorphOS,
their hobbies and much more in a very amusing way! :)
no risc no fun website
GFX database website
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11.4.2001 Amiga Games Classifying : final result
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Here is the final classifying of march/april 2001:
1. (4) Quake - 116 pts
2. (1) Napalm - 113 pts
3. (115) Payback - 112 pts
4. (3) WipeOut 2097 - 110 pts
5. (35) Earth 2140 - 103 pts
6. (2) Worms/Worms DC - 92 pts
7. (6) Bubble Heroes - 68 pts
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8. (5) Heretic 2 - 64 pts
9. (7) Slam Tilt - 58 pts
10. (9) Exodus - 57 pts
11. (45) The Settlers - 49 pts
12. (26) Sensible World of Soccer - 48 pts
13. (44) Wings - 45 pts
14. (28) Speedball 2 - 44 pts
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15. (21) Lemmings - 43 pts
16. (13) Foundation - 41 pts
17. (46) Pinball Fantaisies - 40 pts
18. (54) Civilization - 40 pts
19. (23) Deluxe Galaga - 38 pts
20. (37) Carton Rouge (Anstoss) - 37 pts
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If you want to take part at this Top 20 at each time, contact David Brunet
at daff1@club-internet.fr.
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11.4.2001 Amiga St.Louis 2001 pics and report
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"The Gateway Amiga 2001 show in St. Louis has become inarguably the most successful Amiga show in the Western hemisphere, and this year was no exception."
Amiga 2001 show report by James Russell. "Mike Rye sent us these 104
pictures (with comments) from the Amiga 2001 show in Saint Louis."
Amiga.org webiste
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11.4.2001 Software News
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Martin R. Elsner: "As add-on to ClassAction, I have made FTPMount downloadable
at my homepage. It is an updated Version (1.3) of the program developped by Evan Scott and Thies Wellpott.
With FTPMount, you are able to access FTP sites as if they were directories on your harddisk."
The new Digital Almanac III update for German users to version 3.1 is available.
Go to the download page and get it from there.
The page also includes instructions for decrypting the archiv.
Martin R. Elsner, MRE Software
Achim Stegemann, Digital Almanac Homepage
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10.4.2001 Hyperion Entertainment officially endorses Amiga 's OS 4 strategy
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"In the aftermath of the recent announcement by Amiga Inc. that the Classic Amiga OS would be ported
to PPC, many users have asked us to comment on the technical merit of Amiga's OS 4 strategy and
what it would mean for games and 3D graphics."
Here is the answer
Yoris Benjamin, Hyperion Entertainment
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10.4.2001 VIRUS WARNING
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A new link virus has been found. The virus is polymorphic and hacks VirusCheckerII in memory to make it
infect all files You check. The virus is very well coded as for the things we see these days.
At this time only Safe v15.1 SE can
find the virus. readme
You can download Warning here.
A new update of 'VirusExecutor' (2.11) has been
released today.
It can find and remove any of the TCP trojan's that was found yesterday.
readme
Virus Help Denmark Amiga
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10.4.2001 Amiga Arena News
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TaskiSMS Special Offer
TaskiSMS is for a limited Time in The Amiga Aena for a Special Price avaiable!
The Registration can make per Reg.net or Post!
Frogger Special Offer
Frogger/Softcinmar The Mpeg Video Player is for a Special Offer and a short
Time over Reg.net avaiable!
ArTKnoid Prerelease
ArTKnorid the Breakout Clone for WB is bevor Aminet in The Amiga Arena avaiable!
TruePaint HD Fullversion
The Full Free Version from the 24 Bit Paintprogramm is now Online in the Amiga Arena!
Olaf Köbnik, AmigaArena
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10.4.2001 ExoticA News
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Updated ExoticA's mirror of the High Voltage SID Collection to version 4.0. The collection now contains 15,342 C64 tunes.
ExoticA offers the music individually via a simple to use HTML Interface
or you can download them all in one large GZIP'd TAR Archive.
There has been on-going development of a new area for ExoticA. It will contain a lot which the current music directory doesn't
- Game Music from games utilising standard Sound/Noise/Protracker or cloned/packed formats of this. More information about this
area will be released soon, but the archive is already close to 100 mb in size!. All are full game rips - and all in their original
game format (Unless thry have original soundtracks supplied by the Author). All tunes are also sorted by Author and ExoticA wil
provide a comprehensive HTML interface to the music.
ExoticA website
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10.4.2001 Adventure Soft's Feeble Files for MorphOS Planned
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e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh has signed a license agreement to port Adventure Soft's cartoon adventure
'The Feeble Files' to the MACINTOSH.
The game puts you to play an alien called Feeble who works for the crop circle division of a dictatorial goverment but
somehow get involved in a rebellion to overthrow the system. But you will quickly learn that Rebellion really has never looked
so pAtHeTiC. The MAC version will require a 180 Mhz PPC CPU, MacOS 8.6 or higher and 32 MByte Ram. The game is scheduled for
release in May 2001. A version for the alternative PPC OS MorphOS is also planned.
MorphOS website
Epic interactive website
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10.4.2001 Shogo Demo Update
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10.4.2001 Update Patches for StormC 4
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There is a first update for StormC 4 that fixes some bugs and improves the support for Mixed Binaries
and Shared Libraries.
Currently there are three StormC 4 master CD ROMs: a first CD ROM was mastered
at 8th december 2000, a second at 19th december 2000 and the third and last at 26th march 2001.
The owners of one of the first two CDs can use the
patches to update their StormC and
StormServer installations to the current state (3rd master).
Haage & partner website
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10.4.2001 Alan Redhouse: "OS4 And Beyond"
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Eyetech CEO Alan Redhouse posted his views
on the announcements in Saint Louis, the direction and goals of his company, and why he
thinks the Amiga 2001 was a turning point for the future of the Amiga.
AmigaOne ML
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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10.4.2001 The GUI Research (TGR)
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"Bringing the next UI design and engineering into the new millinium
...your vote could change the future of Amiga's GUI.
http://www.nextgui.org
Please spread this out to the Amiga Community."
Raymond Zachariasse, TGR
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10.4.2001 Software News
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WarpPNG.datatype v44.15 - yet another PNG datatype (WOS/68K/MOS). Changes since 44.14:
The built-in image gamma value (used when no value is defined in the prefs) was incorrect - fixed.
Gamma correction did not work in the 68040 and 060 versions, causing images to be mostly black or white if the default gamma values were not used.
This was due to a non-working FPU pow() implementation - mathieeedoubtrans.library is now used instead. Does not affect speed.
Oliver Roberts' homepage
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9.4.2001 TROJAN ALERT! VIRUS ON AMINET!
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Four archives with TCP trojan's has been found on Aminet today. The four archives are:
util/boot/fblit.lha - v 3.84 - 142.086 bytes
util/virus/Safe.lha - v14.10 - 20.737 bytes
util/boot/stackattack.lha - v 1.2b - 69.229 bytes
util/boot/BlazeWCP.lha - v 1.8 - 32.862 bytes
If you have installed one or more of these archives, then delete the files you have installed.
All of these archives has a new TCP trojan inside, and the trojan will send an e-mail to Haage
& Partner, with a stupid text.
Virus Help Denmark Amiga hope to have a
cure for these trojan on the 10'th of April, so please check back to their page.
Luca Longone & Michael Domoney
Virus Help Denmark Amiga
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9.4.2001 iFusion now shipping
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Blittersoft are pleased to announce that we have started to ship iFusion,
the New-World PowerMac emulator for the Amiga.
Our priority is to ship the pre-orders that were placed by many people, to whom both Microcode-Solutions
and ourselves express our thanks.
This process will be complete within the next day or two, after which all other orders will be completed.
iFusion is available now - and the product can be registered online at our web site, in order to receive updates.
To order or for more information, please visit here.
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft
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9.4.2001 RebolView 1.0
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REBOL/View v1.0 is now available for many platforms.
REBOL/View extends REBOL/Core with a flexible, machine independent user interface system. REBOL/View is based on
a fast graphical compositing engine that includes a range of special effects and filters. The Visual Interface
Dialect (VID) enables users to easily create interface objects. Both predefined and custom user interface objects
can be defined using a powerful stylesheet methodology.
Read more about REBOL/View.
Rebol website
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9.4.2001 P96 team Voodoo driver 65% done
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Mr. Abt has posted on the Amiga-Mediator ML on the status
of the Voodoo drivers for P96: "It is going well. I would say that it is about 65% done. Although Alex is doing the
driver and I only have second hand information. Needless to say that we are doing the driver from scratch. It is
easier to write a driver based on good documentation - which we have - then reverse engineering one that was written
by someone who doesn't know everything about the inner mechanisms of Picasso96." - " No, the Elbox driver is _not_
perfect. It works. But it is far from being a candidate for a reference implementation of a Picasso96 driver if you
get what I mean." - "We are not yet at the point of benching the driver against another. And even if we were, our
results would probably be not quite like what you would get with a fast system as our A1200 only has a 25MHz 030...
:-)" - "Release date? Unclear. We are currently also busy with other stuff due to various ongoing negotiations."
CyberGraphX homepage
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9.4.2001 Amiga.org is back
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9.4.2001 Digital Almanac III - English version finished
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"After a longer delay, I can finally present the English version of Digital Almanac III !
If you don't know what it is, here is a short explanation.
DA III is a planetarium
program comparable to professional programs you can find under Mac or Windows. It is the
only one left on the Amiga market - after Distant Suns and Digital Universe left the Amga -
that supports modern hardware like PowerPC (under WarpOS) and graphic boards. It offers large
data bases (e.g. internal one million stars, GSC catalog, 100,000 deep-sky objects and minor
planets), high accurate calculations, eclipse calculations, calendar mode, meteorite showers,
complex animation modes, textured planetes and moons etc. Just too much to mention it all here !
Read more about the program on the DA III homepage. There you can take a look at the
full documentation with screenshots online!The CD-ROM contains 600 MB full of data for DA III,
pics, videos and some useful free programs. If you are a fan of astronomy and you like to have
such an Amiga-unique program, Digital Almanac III is the one for you!"
Achim Stegemann, Digital Almanac Homepage
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9.4.2001 No A4000 AmiagOne? - OS4 on CSPPC & BPPC?
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Mr. Fleecy Moss, Vice President of Product Development for AmigaInc. posted on the AmigaOne ML: "Amiga Inc don't
make hardware, we make software. It is only the ingenuity of Eyetech which iallows such hardware compatability at all.
Having mastered the A1200 version, an A4000 version isn't so difficult but Eyetech have the word LTD at the end of them
- this means they are a company and thus work with the same business considerations as the rest of us in commerical
operation, namely we have to bring more money in in revenue that we pay out in development and production."
Looks like AmigaInc. is giving the ok for AmigaOS4.0 to run on CyberStormPPC and BlizzardPPC's now, and a few
companies are interested in doing the "Zico compatability layer". From another post: "I apologise if I did say that
because it isn't true 8-) We are very happy to talk, and indeed are talking to other companies who may wish to create
a Zico compatability layer so that OS4 runs on older PPC accelerators."
Will Mr. Fleecy Moss sell you a $99 A1200? He points out that is the cost of "a new A1200" is $99. Now where is that
store? :) From another post: "If you want to access all of your old apps though, an A1200 is recommended. Think of it
as just another PCI card - a new A1200 is what, $99 these days?"
Mr. Fleecy Moss and the Apple people, AmigaDE good for Apple. From another post: "Apple users are probably the least
technical, most content centric users in the computing market, so having a new content environment that runs
co-operatively on their existing systems can only be good news for them and for us."
CyberGraphX homepage
AmigaInc. website
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9.4.2001 MotionStudio exclusively for MorphOS
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"Dear Ladies and Gentlmen, TitanComputer is proud to announce that we will fully support MorphOS in our future developments.
One of the first projects will be the videoediting software Motionstudio. Develop by the wellkown makers of Elastic Dreams and ArtStudio Pro.
Motionstudio will be released exclusively for MorphOS, in 4. quarter 2001. The software provides non-linear videoediting, plugin interface,
more than 40 video and audio-effects, innovative GUI as well as firewire-support (e.g. B-Plan
Pegasos-computer). You can find first screenshot under this link
motionsnap.jpg".
MorphOS website
Titan Computer website
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9.4.2001 Games & Software News
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8.4.2001 AmigaOne pictures
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8.4.2001 Software development information for Prelude Z2 and Prelude1200
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First release of SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT information for Prelude Z2 and Prelude1200 released.
You need to know the interna of the used soundchip of both products (which is a Cirrus
Logic "CRYSTAL CS 4231a"), information about how to program this chip is not topic of the
Prelude documentation found here.
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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8.4.2001 United Devices' THINK distributed computing effort
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"We have joined the fight against cancer in United Devices' THINK
distributed computing effort. UD is also the company that employs most of the D.Net programmers. Unfortunately there is no
Amiga client yet, Windows only for now. Mac and Linux clients have been announced however. We do continue to participate
in RC5 and OGR, but if you can spare some of your Windows PC's cycles you are welcome to switch over to THINK. All you
need to do is download the client, which contains the registration (so you get a loginname and password) and visit
this page to join the
Distributed Amiga team. Some more detailed information has been added to the
introduction page.
Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
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8.4.2001 Shogo News
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After two years of hard work by Thomas Frieden and his team, Hyperion Entertainment is extremely
pleased to announce that Shogo:MAD for Amiga featuring the advanced LithTech(tm) 3D engine, has
finally gone gold.
Shogo:MAD can be pre-ordered from Titan Computer.
People pre-ordering Shogo will be eligible for beta-testing of Freespace and Majesty.
Ben Yoris, Hyperion Entertainment
Titan Computer website
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8.4.2001 Mekka & Symposium 2001 co-sponsored by individual Computers
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As we did in the past years, we support the nearly-legendary Scene-party
Mekka & Symposium with hardware prizes worth more than 1100,- DM.
The four-day party takes place annually around Easter in Fallingbostel, located between Hamburg and
Hannover, Germany. Read more
individual Computers website
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8.4.2001 Prometheus in Switzerland & France
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8.4.2001 FMdrivers News
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FMdriver v1.25 - new driver system for the FrameMachine
video-card from electronic-design. FMdriver contains some
very useful enhancements. Now you can save and load several different video configurations (for example for 4:3 and
16:9), make time-lapse animations with FMRecorder. There were also a lot of minor fixes, FMdriver should be now
really almost be perfect... ;-) readme
FMdriverVHI v1.25 - VHI driver for the FrameMachine video
board. This VHI driver bases to 100% on newframemachine.libary which is included on the FMdriver package (you need
to download this for using this driver, too!).
readme
Qbic systems website
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8.4.2001 Software News
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Yet another Voyager³ 3.3.95beta snapshot which comes in 2 versions. Here is the
AmigaOS one and here is the
MorphOS one. The release
notes can be found within the archives or
here.
PCIscan v1.0 for
G-Rex released. PCIscan is a reporting tool for the G-Rex that
will show what PCI card(s) are installed in the G-Rex. It will also show what version of the library
is installed.
MAS MPeg Device v1.2- CBM compatible device
for Dirk Conrad's MAS Player.
readme
The persistant windows plugin has been updated again. Some minor changes to the prefs file, and now, iconified
windows are remembered and re-iconified on startup.
Note from Juergen: Persistant_Windows files are *not
compatible* with older versions, so all windows have to be opened manually after upgrading. Also, re-opening
iconified windows currently looks rather ugly. I tried to use SCA_OpenIconWindow() with the SCA_Iconify tag
but it seems to be broken, so I open the window just as usual and after 2 seconds, iconify it. Get the current
release (V39.10) from the Downloads page.
AmigAIM 0.9412 BETA - an AIM Client
for the Amiga by Richard H. Poser II. history
V3Portal website
CyberGraphX homepage
Platon's homepage
Scalos homepage
Official AmigAIM Page
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7.4.2001 Warp3D v4
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Warp3D release 4 - the driver
system for 3D hardware on the Amiga. Currently, Warp3D supports the following graphics cards: CyberVision PPC
& BlizzardVision PPC (Permedia2 based) and CyberVision64 3D (Virge based).
A driver for Voodoo 3
graphics cards is currently being developed, but isn't finished yet and is *not* included.
readme
Aminet
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7.4.2001 No more Zico projects for now, limited 'resources'
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Fleecy Moss, Vice President of Product Development for AmigaInc posted on the amigaone ML:
"We announced the zico open specification - anyone can create a product to that specification. We then approached Eyetech and asked if they
would create a zico based product, and licence the AmigaOne name for that product. We also offered this to bPlan. Licencing the name costs,
but in return, it shows both the commitment of the company and it also matches to the internal Amiga resources. We only have enough resources
currently to work with two licencees, Eyetech and bPlan (if they ever reply). As we sell more and the market grows, we should be able to
support more products. It isn't necessary but it does give the customer a degree of confidence."
STRANGE! What about Elbox and others ? [ExiE]
CyberGraphX homepage
AmigaInc. website
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7.4.2001 TaskiSMS News
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New version of TaskiSMS has been released (still v2.52) with some small changes:
- updated ICQ plugin
- fixed bug that causes problems with cut/copy/paste to number string in editor window
Using this program you can send SMSes to cellular phones to 113 countries around the world.
You can download demo version from
TaskiSMS home page or from
AmiNet.
In cooperation with Pablo F., the Amiga Arena makes a special price for TaskiSMS possible!
TaskiSMS is an easy to use SMS sender for the Amiga. The special price is 50% of the regular
price and is only valid until May 10th, 2001. You can register at
Reg.net.
Pawel 'Paplo/Taski' Filipczak, Taski
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga Arena website
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7.4.2001 Amiga Flame's Take on St. Louis
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7.4.2001 Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ Updated (Again)
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Greg Donner has updated his great Official Amiga OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions):
Added an entry to the Compatibility page,
and added standard GlowIcons for the AmigaGuide and HTML index file.
"Quite a few people have found that IBrowse 2.2 is actually more stable under OS 3.9, for some reason, than it was with previous OS versions. It's not
bug-free though, and hopefully this will be addressed in IBrowse 2.3, although the development state seems to be a bit "fragile" at the moment. Most
(if not all) of the common bugs in 2.2 have already been logged on the IBrowse bugtrack, so hopefully they will get fixed.
The External Viewers stopped working in OS3.5 BB2 and OS3.9, there is now unnoficial patch for IBrowse 2.2 (also fixes one of the most common crash
bugs), which can be found here."
Greg's Page
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7.4.2001 Big Book of Amiga Hardware Updated
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new entry & pictures - Amiga Desktop Video Master
new picture - Micronik 1200 Busboard
new entry & picture - BSC Ram Expansion
new entry & picture - Xpert Flickerfixer
new pictureS - Rocket Launcher
new pictureS - Access 32
new pictureS - A3500[T]
new entry & pictures - MTec 1230/28RTC
new entry & pictures - Mastercard
new pictureS & UPDATE - Megamix '2000'
major update - A2024
update - ATonce Plus
new mystery - Item #9
mystery solved - Item #7
new entry - VarIO
manufacturer corrections
new entry & picture - Prometheus
new pictureS - DigiView Colour Digitiser
Big Book of Amiga Hardware website
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7.4.2001 Software News
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SoftCinema v0.12 - shareware movie/animation
player for Amiga with PPC.readme
· Finally all external codecs works fine under MorphOS.
· Added QuickTime audio VBR support.
· Added QuickTime OpenDivX support.
· Added window/screen display switch - TAB key.
· Added RGB15PC and RGB16PC pixel format.
· And other small fixes, mostly in AVI/QT parsers.
Martin R. Elsner: "Version 1.0 of the little WB tool Choowin
is now available on my homepage. It now has an improved look, a start menu (!) and a new tooltype FILTER."
SoftCinema website
Martin R. Elsner, MRE Software
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6.4.2001 Updated Boing Bag #1 for AmigaOS 3.9
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6.4.2001 Shogo Demo is OUT
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Hyperion Entertainment is proud to present the Shogo:Mobile Armor Division playable demo.
After long months of patience, hard work and optimisations, here is Shogo for the Amiga!
Discover the universe of Shogo: giant mechas, many weapons, sniper rifles, dozens of enemies
and corridors, an addictive story, soldier or mecha mode combats and much more.
Take a look at one of the best first person shooter for the Amiga ever...
Shogo:MAD will be available in late April through your usual dealers.
Technical Requirements:
* OS 3.0 or higher
* PPC processor (supported through WarpOS)
* Graphics card
* 3D acceleration supported through Warp3D V4 (required for 603, recommended for 604)
* Sound support via AHI or standard Paula sound
* 6x CD-ROM recommended
* 64 MB (more recommended)
Please read the full HTML documentation included in the demo archive.
You may find the demo on the Hyperion Website and Aminet soon (biz/titan/ShogoDemo.lha)
Ben Yoris, Hyperion Entertainment
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6.4.2001 Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ Updated
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Greg Donner has updated his great Official Amiga OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions):
Updated entry two in the Keyboard Shortcuts page, and added an entry to the
Compatibility page.
If you experience problems after instaling BB #1, refer to this page!
Greg's Page
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6.4.2001 Aminet CD 42 available
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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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6.4.2001 DCE webpage updated - G-Rex 4000 added
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DCE updated their English Products Page. They now have
G-Rex 4000 basic info and a picture there.
4 PCI 2.1 Slots.
4 Zorro 3 Slots.
1 Video Slot.
32 Bit DMA Mode on all Slots
Data Transfer Rates Up to 40 MB p/sec
1.76 GB of non bank switching adress space
Requires Cyberstorm PPC or Cyberstorm MK III
Comes with a driver package.
Voodoo 3-2000-3000
Voodoo 4-4500
Voodoo 5-5500
NIC 10 MB/sec (Realtek Chipset)
Suits all Amiga 4000 Desktop Cases
CyberGraphX homepage
DCE website
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6.4.2001 Invitation for MS2001 Party Published
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Mekka & Symposium, the traditional demo scene party, on which many demo workers introduce their
demos each year, is coming and the organization enters the final lap. The best demos will be
honored with price money. The MS2001 will take place from 13th to 16th of April 2001 in
Fallingbostel, Germany, in the Heidmark-Halle.
Mr.Vain of Secretly! (aka Thorsten Will) has done the invitation (unofficial mekka^symposium-invitation)
including directions and map and an indication of the youth hostel.
download
Amiga-news.de website
Mekka & Symposium website
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6.4.2001 Matrox releasing PCI G450
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Chris Kelley: "Apparently, Matrox is releasing a PCI version of the G450 at the beginning of Q2/2001.
The target price is $115. This is potentially good news for Mediator/G-rex/etc owners, as Matrox is
pretty open with developer information."
press release
ANN website
Matrox Graphics Inc. website
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6.4.2001 Amigadev.net: bug tracking database
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Gary Peak, AmigaInc.: "Ray Akey has coded our version of a bug tracking database and it is now available for
use by our developers.
Please feel free to go to amigadev.net, log
in, and then go to the developer support page. It is listed on the right hand menu.
Once you get to the bug database front page, it has very clear instructions on how it works."
AmigaSDK.com website
Amigadev.net
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6.4.2001 Software News
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MakeCD32d public beta 6 finally available...
AutoPDF 1.4, with some really nice extra features
* Added a menuoption that creates an additional PNG preview of you PDF file.
This is very handy in case the PDF file is so complicated that a PDF viewer on the Amiga is not capable of viewing it.
The PNG preview lets you exactly see how the PDF file looks!
* Added an undocumented feature to create EPS files with tiff previews that can be used in Pagestream and other DTP programs.
More information can be found at http://www.designburo.nl or soon on Aminet.
isdnsurfer.device V1.943 is now online and can be found in the support-area. Two new features:
EOF Mode: This more efficient method of communication between TCP/IP Stack and isdnsurfer.device should bring a noticable performance boost.
NSD (New Style Device) commands: Now up-to-date with the latest OS versions.
A bug in multitasking that caused loss of performance has been removed.
Development continues, the next update will finally include Sync-PPP!
A new update (v1.28) of the PatchBrain
(21.052B) for VirusExecutor has been released today.
readme
MakeCD homepage
Martina Kramer, Design Buro
individual Computers website
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA website
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5.4.2001 Interviw with Bill McEwen & Fleecy Moss
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5.4.2001 Want to develop games?
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Are you interested in being a part of a new development-team..?
The purpose is to gather talented people, ranging from hardcore programmers to cover-designers,
primary targeting the new Amiga platform, but also other platforms such as the classic Amiga,
with high-quality games.
If you are a programmer, gamedesigner, graphical artist, writer,
sounddesigner, music-compositor or got great ideas for games, don't hesitate to send an email
with some info about yourself to Fredrik Schultz.
Fredrik Schultz
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5.4.2001 AmigaOne: Questions and Answers
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If you would like to know the answers to some of the questions bellow or before asking your own,
read this statement.
1. What's probability to have AmigaOne board bundled with compatible tower case?
2. Will there be preorders, if yes - then?
3. Choise of CPUs available directly from Eyetech?
4. Will the optional hardware (such as sound card) be shipped by Eytech?
AmigaOne ML
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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5.4.2001 Shogo demo out due tomorrow
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5.4.2001 AmigActive: Questions for Amiga?
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AmigActive: "Following the St. Louis show and Amiga's announcements,
we'll bet there are a lot of you wondering just what exactly is happening in the Amiga market these days.
So, if you've got a question you'd like an official answer to, please
let us know!"
Amiga Active website
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5.4.2001 Very sad to report that Klaus Burkert has past away
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Tobias Seiler: "Silence, I just want to inform you guys out there that yesterday, after a major
heart attack on monday, one of the greatest developers of Amiga hard- and software who was my
best friend and mentor Klaus Burkert has died. It was a really big shock for me and so it will
be for others. I don't know what else to say, there are not really words to fit the situation...
Bye Klaus, cu on the other side"
CyberGraphX homepage
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5.4.2001 MRE Software News
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Martin R. Elsner: "ClassAction V4.0 and MainPrefs V2.20 are now available on my
homepage.
MainPrefs now offers also the possibility to create or delete variables, and
assigns can be inserted or removed directly in s:user-startup.
Martin R. Elsner, MRE Software
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5.4.2001 Software News
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Martin Blom released new version (5.6) of ahi.device for 68k and MorphOS:
Fixed a bug in the mixing routine that, when using "anti-click", caused notes to be lost in rare cases.
Fr3dY has ported
'Independent JPEG Group's JPEG Software tools' v62b to MOS.
readme
rdjpgcom: read text from jpeg files & wrjpegcom: write text to jpeg files
jpegtrans: transcode between different jpeg processes
cjpeg: encode jpeg files & djpeg: decode jpeg files
NcFTP 3.0.2 is a UNIX
application program implementing the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) ported to MorphOS. The program
has been in service since 1991 and is a popular alternative to the standard FTP program, ftp. NcFTP
offers many ease-of-use and performance enhancements over the stock ftp client.
readme
Audiomaster 2000 v0.66 -
shareware MUI Sample Editor supporting all AHI devices.
AHI homepage
MorphOS website
Bright Light Software website
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4.4.2001 Reactions to AmigaInc's annoucements
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Torsten Dudai's graphical interpretation of Fleecy's St. Louis explanations. :)
David 'zapek' Gerber, developer of Voyager 3, Shockwave Flash plugin, AmIRC plugins, and others
Vaporware progs answered 'Would you support Amiga"OS" 4.0.' question:
The arguments advanced by Amiga Inc during the St. Louis show make no sense. It's all bogus. [..]
I see no relationship between their views and the Amiga as I know it. Not even remotely.
I will support MorphOS, because it makes sense, it exists and is nicely done. And it's far more
than announcements, it's the real thing."
Read the complete answer
ANN website
www.dudai.de
David 'zapek' Gerber via his .plan, V3Portal
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4.4.2001 John Zacharias - He needs us all right now...
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John Zacharias (author of AEMail, and organizer of the AmiWest shows in Sacramento)
suffered a stroke at the show. The stroke hit right around his muscles that control
the vocal cords. The clot has been found, but they still need to check the heart.
Keep him in your prayers, he needs us all right now...
mail 1,
mail 2,
mail 3
PolarBoing NNTP-portal
c.s.a.m
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4.4.2001 Elbox MediatorUP2.1 released
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Only 4 days after MediatorUP2.0 was released, Elbox has sent out the MediatorUP2.1 (60K) archive today.
You can of course find the MediatorUP2.1 archive at the normal places Elbox releases it.
Rembember to report all Voodoo bugs directly to Voodoo@elbox.com!
What is new? "pci.library v3.1 MMU, pci.library v2.1 NO_MMU, Voodoo.card v1.2. "Both Mediator System
Files versions will be developed and supported. Note: The MMU version requires 68030, 040 or 060 with
MMU. Note: The MMU version does not suppport mixed (68k & PPC) access to the Mediator hardware from
the BlizzardPPC card as yet."
CyberGraphX homepage
ELBOX COMPUTER
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4.4.2001 Shogo News
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According to Hans Joerg Frieden (Hyperion) "Warp3D V4 is due for release" and "The Shogo master is due today."
Amigart website
3DWorld mailing list
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4.4.2001 DCE Microserver G3/G4 + other things!
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Starting at Q3/2001 DCE Computer Oberhausen will offer a G3/G4 PowerPC(r) based PCI card. The so
called "DCE Microserver G3/G4" will give you the complete functionality of a Server System. The
PCI card can be either used as Master or Agent. By this flexibility there are several possible
configurations for this machine to fit the users personal convenience. [..]
DCE MicroServer G3/G4, GREX 1200/4000 as well as the existing PPC board user base will be
supported by MorphOS. This will guarantee that Amiga users can use most of their software with
that system. In the near future there will be a JIT (Just in time) emulation included in MorphOS
that will allow execution times of 68K software far beyond current 68060 50MHz level even on the
existing Phase5/DCE hardware.
Read the complete pressrelease
(german/english)
CyberGraphX homepage
DCE website
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4.4.2001 100%AMIGA Issue 11
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"The April edition of 100%AMIGA is now being pressed. This month's magazine contains the Amiga
statements from the St. Louis Show, a report of the alt.woa show from Fleecy Moss, Payback is
reviewed, a peek at upcoming game Silencer and we take a look at new datatypes plus much more."
FORE-MATT Home Computing
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4.4.2001 Prometheus distributors revealed
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4.4.2001 Amiga.org is currently experiencing technical difficulties.
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Wayne Hunt: "As of Wednesday, 4 April at 11:00 am (GMT -6) Our ISP has removed our access to the
system's database because of excessive usage. This is understandable as we're on a low-cost,
"shared server solution", and we bear them no ill-regard. [..] In essence, this couldn't have
happened at a worse time, but on the bright side, we are currently in the process of locating
and securing a new home for the site and should return (hopefully) within the next week or two."
Amiga.org website
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4.4.2001 Special Amiga2001 Issue
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4.4.2001 Interview with Andreas Falkenhahn
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The D.A.D. website published another interview.
This time with Andreas Falkenhahn (Airsoft Softwair) who recently released a CD with most of his Amiga work.
Damir Arh, Digital Amiga Dreams website
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4.4.2001 Amigart - Finished Project: AmigaOS 4.0 Petition
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"Our project 'AmigaOS 4.0 Petition' which allowed Amigans to vote for AmigaOS 4.0, has finished.
The project started on December 05, 2000 and finished April 02, 2001. During this time period
1526 people have signed the guestbook. Now we will send the messages to Amiga Inc. The messages
will reside on our server. You can always read them
here. We thank everybody who have signed
this project."
Amigart website
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4.4.2001 Amigart - Finished Project: A Tribute To Petro
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"Our project 'A Tribute To Petro' which allowed Amigans to leave a goodbye message to Petro
Tscyschenko, who announced his retirement from Amiga Inc., has finished. The project started
on November 02, 2000 and finished April 02, 2001. During this time period 471 people have
signed the guestbook and said goodbye to Petro. Now we will send the messages to Petro and
wish him the best in the future. He was definately an important color in Amiga Mosaic.
Sitting alone at his desk in Amiga Technologies' office, answering all the phone calls and
emails, he tried to keep the Amiga spirit alive. Now he passed the flag is over Amiga Inc.'s
hands. The messages will reside on our server. You can always read them
here. We thank everybody who have
signed this project."
Amigart website
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4.4.2001 Million Downloads Drive QNX Developer Community
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OTTAWA, April 3, 2001 - QNX Software Systems Ltd. today announced that since their Get QNXTM program
was officially launched in September 2000, the QNX® realtime platform (RTP) has reached another
milestone - one million downloads. Another two million free QNX RTP CDs have been distributed with
trade magazines worldwide. Read more
QNX website
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4.4.2001 Software News
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WarpDTPrefs v44.3 - preferences program which allows
you to change and manage the settings of the WarpJPEG, PNG, BMP & PSD datatypes.
WarpJPEG.datatype v44.19 - yet another JFIF/JPEG datatype (WOS/68K/MOS). Changes since 44.18:
Added an optional 8-bit output mode for non-graphics card users, with a number of dithering and quality settings, which produces a much better image than the dithering method currently offered by picture.datatype.
Added options to control the precision/quality of pen allocations for when an image is displayed on a pallette-based display (8-bit).
Added Spanish strings to the installer.
WarpPNG.datatype v44.14 - yet another PNG datatype (WOS/68K/MOS). Changes since 44.13:
Enabled the gamma correction feature of libpng, and provided some preferences options to control it.
Added options to control the precision/quality of pen allocations for when an image is displayed on a pallette-based display (8-bit).
Unfortunately, the all versions are now fractionally (less than 1%) slower than before, although interlaced images are now decoded a bit faster in the 68k versions.
Added Spanish strings to the installer.
ilbm datatype v45.3b - ilbm datatype for
the PPC, running WarpUP.readme
Included a patch for PlayCD 45.7 that fixes the "crash on startup" problem. Simply run the PlayCdPatch binary to fix this problem.
XAD-Master v10.0 - powerful unarchiving system.
This is a library providing an interface for unarchiving all possible types of file or disk archives.
readme
XFDMaster Rel1.35 -
decrunch packed files (exe/data) The XFD system is for single file decrunching.
readme,
dev archive
The AmigaAMP mailinglist now runs on amigaamp@amigaamp.de
- all members have been migrated to the new location. Apart from the different address you shouldn't notice anything unusual.
Sven Ottemann ported LHA1.14 for UNIX to AmigaOS. There are version for 68000, 020+ and PPC (WarpOS).
Download
Oliver Roberts' homepage
Stephan Rupprecht's Homepage
Aminet
XAD-Master homepage
AmigaAMP homepage
Sven Ottemann
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3.4.2001 iFusion News
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Q: "Will iFusion be delivered the next week - again?"
A: Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft: "We are duplicating NOW! Honestly, we will ship this week.
Please be patient a couple more days."
Paul Lesurf via FUSION ML
Blittersoft website
Microcode Solutions website
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3.4.2001 Amiga2001 Show (& annoucements) Related Links (english only)
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3.4.2001 Another two Cinemaware's classics
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"Due to the overwhelmingly positive response from the last offering, Cinemaware proudly presents TV Sports Football
and TV Sports Baseball Amiga disk images. Take a nostalgic journey back to the birth of the modern sports craze!
The TV Sports franchise was original and new in that it presented the game like it was an actual television
broadcast. They're only going to be available for a limited time, so run to the Vault quickly to download..."
Cinemaware website
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3.4.2001 Will Prometheus PCI card / PPC card combination be able to run OS4.0?
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Q: Darrin01311@cs.com "Following the announcements made by Amiga Inc
at the Gateway2000 show with regard to OS4+ only running on zico compliant PCI systems, will your PCI
card/PPC card combination be able to run OS4.0?"
A: Grzegorz Juraszek, the Matay PR & Marketing: "We will make our best to make it compliant. I cannot
guarantee you that, as the G3 card is still in development. We undestand running AOS 4.0 will be a necessary
requirement for many people to buy our CPU card, yet we don't want to make promises we wouldn't be able to
fulfil in future. Besides, until at least a beta of OS4 is released, there is no certainty. The only solution
is to wait and see. Theoretically speaking - yes, it will run on Prometheus."
Darrin01311@cs.com via ANN
Matay website
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3.4.2001 AmiComSys Looking For a New Server
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The central server for AmiComSys at ACS.hostile.cx is down.
Håkan Parting, the author of AmiComSys, is looking for a new server for his Amiga buddy and chat program.
The program works similar to the known ICQ but exists only for Amiga computers for now. Wanted is an Amiga
online 24h, so it could work as a server. Everybody who could help may write to
hakan@parting.nu.
Original message
Amiga-news.de website
Håkan's Software site
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3.4.2001 Software News
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Rüdiger Hanke compiled Aladdin Ghostscript 6.50 for the Amiga. Upload to Aminet will follow next week. PPC version requires latest WarpOS 5.0!
Downloads: main archive (~3.7 MB),
fonts (~2.7 MB),
sources - StormC (~2.6 MB)
Turboprint v7.17 beta contains preliminary drivers
for TurboPrint 7.16: Canon S 400, 450, 4500, 800; Epson StylusColor 680, 880, 980; Epson StylusPhoto
790, 890, 1290.
There is now also TurboPrint v1.00 for Linux.
The persistant windows pluginfor Scalos has been updated again. Removed enforcer hit when trying to
open non-existent drawer. Also, it now tries to read "ENVARC:sys/def_XXXdisk" when requested to open
window for XXX: device or the associated volume. Note that it does not yet read Scalos prefs or use
the default icons path. This is planned for one of the next releases. Get the current release from
the Downloads page.
AutoPDF v1.3 - probably one of the last updates...
* On request added the possibility to run the program to only convert one file, with an optional packing method.
* Also added a menuitem with the option to delete the sourcefile.
* Again some minor programming updates.
The program is upped to Aminet, but again more information and if you want to download it now, you can find AutoPDF
at www.designburo.nl.
Rüdiger's Amiga Program
Irseesoft website
Scalos homepage
Martina Kramer, Design Buro
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2.4.2001 Zico can come out and play with the Shark
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2.4.2001 Some information on stormamiga.lib and HSMathLibs
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"Personal reasons prevented further development on both projects "HSMathLibs" and "stormamiga.lib" for
about a month. Therefore, all dates of publication will be shifted at least a month into the future.
Please take my apologies for this."
CyberdyneSystems website
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2.4.2001 Amiga2001 Show Related Links (english only)
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2.4.2001 Abode of Golgotha 2
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2.4.2001 young monkey Amiga software ALL free
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young monkey studios is pleased to announce that ALL of its Amiga software is now freely available.
Visit the young monkey studios Amiga software area at:
http://www.youngmonkey.ca/hands/Files_Amiga.html.
Applications include:
Commander-ImageFX - Customizable GUI for ImageFX
GridLock - 2 player game Modem/NullModem/Ami-TCP
HP3PS - PacificPage PS/PCL Mode Changer
ImageFX - various loaders/scripts/etc.
MSE - MIDI SYStem EXplorer - PatchEditor+MORE
SamplerUtility - Disk imager for ProAudio Samplers
TextToBraille - Text To Braille Conversion Utility
TimeKeep - TimeClock Util for Clients-Projects-Invoices
TimeKeepDev - TimeClock Util for Project Development
TimeSpeak - Speaks current date or time
young monkey studios website
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2.4.2001 Amiga.org Clarification
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Wayne Hunt: "Amiga.org is currently down. This weekend we took over 2.5 million hits to the server,
and transferred over 40Gb in two days (mostly because of the Amiga 2001 pictures).
As a result, our ISP suspended our service due to scragging their MySQL server. That means for the
moment that Amiga.org will be unavailable until they either allow us back online, or I gather the
money to move to another ISP.
Simple fact of life, Amiga.org is once again a victim of it's own success (for which I humbly thank
you guys) and anyone who says the Amiga community is dead, obviously doesn't have to pay for it's
bandwidth... :)
We'll be back soon I hope."
Latest News:
Amiga.org is now online again.
"In short, we will be working to minimize the site graphically and optimize the site's database,
but may, at any moment, be shut back down. We anticipate this, and are looking for a new host.
If you have any suggestions we need your help."
Wayne Hunt, Amiga.org website
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2.4.2001 More Coyote Flux 3D-engine screenshots
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Some more screenshots of the 3D terrain-renderer have been added to the temporary website of
Coyote Flux. These are the last screenshots without texturemapping.
Since several people
asked if the engine is voxel-based, they will release some new screenshots soon to show that
this is NOT a voxel. Visit
www.coyoteflux.tmfweb.nl for more information.
R&S.Raghoebardayal, Coyote Flux
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2.4.2001 What to expect in future AmigaOS versions
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AmigaOS4.0 will be launched in the summer, with 4.2 and 4.5 coming out at six month intervals. OS5 will be late
next year.
Fleecy is giving specifications on what to expect
in future AmigaOS versions. A "brand new, written from scratch" TCP/IP stack, "Virtual Memory will come in OS4",
the "Amiga Component Model" will give resource tracking, OS5 will bring SMP, an "ACM and streaming system" will
bring a new datatypes system, "the Audio system will be the best of any system out there. [They] have 5 of the
best audio people in the world working on it." Closely-integrated 2D and 3D API are "already underway, and with
[their] close alliance with Matrox, there will be not only standard high level APIs but GLIDE like low level APIs
to really take advantage of Matrox cards". A new Workbench, an improved intuition.library will come in AmigaOS 4.5,
hardware-independancy and probably a new printer system in 4.2 and a new filesystem in 4.0.
another interesting post regarding Picasso96 dev
team.
ANN website
AmigaInc. website
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2.4.2001 TaskiSMS v2.52
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News in this release:
- fixed bug in editor window that causes problems with ghosted buttons when correct number was entered
- fixed bug in editor window that causes program crashes
- new plugin ICQ for all countries (in unregistered version length of SMS is limited to 60 chars for that plugin)
- removed plugin for Czech Republic & Slovakia (D1cz)
- added new country - Moldova
- added about 450 networks/operators to the support list
- added plugin display priority list (check settings window)
Using this program you can send SMSes to cellular phones
to 113 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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1.4.2001 Another PCI option - Kolla Inc Solutions's 'Kolla PCI' expansion
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Tired of PCI solutions that dont fit inside Your desktop A3000 or A4000 without using a chainsaw
on Your case? Wait no longer! Kolla Ink Solutions presents to You the Kolla PCI expansion that
fits inside Your Amiga and is fun to play with. Using one of the unused and obsolete ISA slots
as mount point it sits really well inside, unlike other solutions. You can even use Your old
Zorro cards as the PCI cards are opposite aligned, just like You can use PCI and ISA cards at
once in a PC. The PCI cards will not fit 100% in the brackets of Your Amiga, but fair not, they
will only stick out slightly more than a centimeter. The finished card will ship with a metal
grid You can fit in the original brackets, that will feature new brackets to support the new
position of the PCI cards, so it will all sit tight and not fall apart as You take Your Amiga
with You on tour. Read more
Kolla Inc website
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1.4.2001 individual Computers makes C-64 Hardware
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In cooperation with members of the C-64 scene, a clone of the popular Action Replay has been developed.
The refit has a 128K Flash instead of the 32K Eprom, and a 32K Ram instead of the 8K Ram. This way
it's possible to use the well-known Rom-versions of the Action Replay, as well as the Rom images of
Nordic Power and SuperSnapshot. The Freeze-logic has been improved a lot by a key-bounce elimination
and close monitoring of the CPU during system halt. The new cartridges will start shipping in june 2001.
individual Computers website
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