wARPgATE to be in German only
Due to editorial reasons wARPgATe is to be continued in German only from 01. Dec. 2000.
Background: Because of rather low response in spite of much efforts, and recently number of vistors per day
on the WarpOS news pages decreased to 300, unfortunately our editor left the wARPgATe project. Also the
future of WarpOS rather is unsettled with view on the change to a new Amiga era whith the AmigaOne. Not to
completely shock the users we decided to continue the site as it is from 01. Dec. 2000, and to expand it
as the case may be. But we are only able to do that in German, so the site will not be continued in
English after it's 21 month lasting existence. We ask you for your understanding.
Warp9 Editorial Staff
(ps)
Elbox Interview at No Risc No Fun
At NoRiscNoFun you can find an interview
with Mariusz Wloczysiak from ELBOX. Find out all about the drivers and by MEDIATOR PCI board supported cards.
(ps)
IRC-Log - 73 KB
Markus Lunk has sent us a log file of the chat with Jochen Becher. You can download
it using the title link (mixed, German and English).
(ps)
Back to the Roots Amiga-News
Back to the Roots worte:
It's not necessary to mention that we are making more scene demos available for
download, but it is to mention that our legal and free available Amiga software
mission now also is supported by Acid Software. With Skidmarks we are able to
offer a real highlight. Furthermore there are four adventure rarities by Infocom, and
a lot of other games for download.
We are happy to be able to provide a review on the music CD "Merregnon", a truly astonishing CD
offering a sound experience of special kind thanks to musicians like
Chris Huelsbeck (Turrican), Allister Brimble (Superfrog), oder Markus Holler (Tales of Tamar).
Moreover there is an interview with the Amiga demo group Reason expressing their misgivings on
how the demo scene might look like on AmigaOne.
(ps)
Hyperion on WoA 2000, too
Also Hyperion Entertainment will be present with their own booth at the WoA 2000, which
will happen on 9th and 10th of December 2000 in Cologne's Mediapark 6 and 7. Hyperion will
not only place some fantastic announcements, but even will present Heretic 2 in a way never
seen on an Amiga computer.
The games ´Shogo:MAD´, and ´Freespace: The Great War´ will be presented at
Hyperion's booth. The Hyperion team will be available for any kind of questions, and they will
accept pre-orders of Shogo, and they are hoping to meet you in Cologne within less than two weeks!
(ps)
New in this release:
- ARexx interface (4 commands)
- ARexx scripts to connect Mentat with CygnusED, AWeb, IBrowse
- Printing
- Spanish and Czech localization
- Visual improvements
- some tiny opimizations (ps)
Big update at www.kultpower.de
In the last weeks many extensions happened at www.kultpower.de. Meanwhile there are 52 PowerPlay-Covers,
26 ASM-Covers, and 14 VideoGames-Covers online. Presently in the PowerPlay-data base you can recall 229 test
results, find 30 scanned test reports, as well as 35 advertising announcements of games from old Powerplay issues.
Who is looking for a certain test report of a game can use the search function. Who participated in the golden Powerplay- and
ASM-times will be interested in the new opinion polls. Have fun!
(ps)
ProStationAudio T8 Released
T8 includes all the features of Millennium in an 8-stereo-track/16-channels layout.
Support for dual CPU, dual monitor, dual graphics cards,
realtime multitrack disk-streaming and DSP processing (multiple plugins
on multiple tracks), mixing automation, faders control from external
MIDI mixers and hundreds of other features.
(ps)
TX-ButtonEd Version 1.1 Released
The programm by Christian Effenberger helps to make (antialiased) text-buttons in Jpeg-format via "jpegtool".
TX-ButtonED is part of the project SiteWay. TX-ButtonEd is now able to use the full Workbench palette
instead of merely using the fixed pen-entries. In addition to this there is an own outline colour and
the possibility of reflecting the pictures around the horizontal and vertical axis. Requirement: cando.libary
and jpegtool.
Schatztruhe GmbH on the "World of Amiga" in Cologne
In this year Schatztruhe GmbH also will be represented at the wintry fair event in Cologne from 9th
to 10th of December. As known from former fairs we will offer interesting products again and will offer
them at our low fair prices.
We will have the fresh burned Aminet 40 which you can buy directly at our booth. Until this time
the new OS3.9 also will be available, and you will be able to buy it at our booth.
It will really be worth visiting the fair, because Bill McEwen will be present and will inform us about
the future of Amiga, as the management of the fair said.
The fair will take place from 9th to 10th of December from 10 am to 6 pm on each day. Location is the
MediaPark six and seven in Cologne (not the fair halls in Cologne!). For more information, please
have a look here.
You can also find detailed information on how to go there (also by public means of transport) there.
(ps)
osOpinion Article about Amiga
osOpinion have posted an article about Amiga which you can find under the title link. The title is
called: "Wanted: A Modern-Day Amiga".
(ps)
Metabox: Big order from UK
ZDMet: "Metabox International, which is a subsidiary of the company Metabox in Hildesheim, will deliver
at least 100,000 set-top-boxes to UK from May 2001. It is planned that the devices will be placed
at british household's disposal for the use of a T-Commerce-platform from the third quarter of 2001, said
the company. The partner to the contract was not mentioned by the company."
See title link for full article (German).
(ps)
November issue of Amiga World Published
November issue of the magazine Amiga World of Amiga Inc. has been published. In this issue you can find
a summary of first impressions of the AmigaSDK.
(ps)
Work on Operation: Counterstrike in Progress
You can read on the new designed website of BlueBlack Solution that the first unplayable and not
official demo version of Operation: Counterstrike will be ready to be given to the press, soon.
(ps)
WoA 2000 News
Haage & Partner, which is the organizer of this year's WoA 2000 taking place on 9th and 10th
of December 2000 in Cologne's Mediapark six and seven, has made a special
news site
with all fair highlights.
Hendrik Höner informed us that he is doing to prepare
a IRC-conference for UGN again. The IRC-conference will take place on Saturday the 9th December of 2000
between 1 pm and 6 pm. Here the provisional speakers list:
Participant
Company
Time
Mick Tinker
BoXer
13:00:00 CET
Ralph Schmidt
MorphOS
14:00:00 CET
Alan M. Redhouse
Eyetech
15:00:00 CET
Bill McEwen
Amiga Inc.
16:00:00 CET
Jürgen Haage
Haage & Partner
17:00:00 CET
The channel will probably be #WoA2000 on AmigaNet. You can find further information and changes at
http://ugn.amiga.org, soon.
(ps)
29 Nov 2000
ALD Problems Solved
Today we accidently noticed that Amiga Link Directory worked, but it was not possible to make new
entries. Caused by the move the rights have still not been set completely right. We have corrected
this error, and now we are hoping for many new entries.
(ps)
Camd-Player Update
Martin Endress has reworked his OPL3 Camd-Player for PicassoIV, since sound
playback with OPL4 was buggy. The new version Opl3 player v1.2 is available
for download.
SEAL Meeting Report
A pictured report of the SEAL meeting on November 23rd, 2000, is available at the SEAL website.
(ps)
28 Nov 2000
CCC-ML
17th Chaos Communication Congress - 27.-29.12.2000
For the 17th time, the Chaos Communication Congress will take place. Hosting
the event, as in the last two years, is the "Haus Am Koellnischen Park" in
Berlin. Date is, as always, December 27th to 29th.
All Congress information is available in two languages this time. The website
uses your preset language - if you want to switch, there are buttons on the page
which you´ll find intuitively. The website
has everything you have to know, and will be successively extended in the weeks till
the Congress. For spreading the news by mail and news, again there is a detailed
HOWTO/FAQ in ISO-ASCII.
The Congress has some entertaining on schedule again, which is summarized in this
event overview. If you are planning
to participate in the Hackcenter this year, you should have a look at the changed
requirements. Moreover, a registration is necessary.
(ps)
New Updates to narr.tsx.org
There are two minor updates to my projects 'ShowGUI' and 'WorkON'. Installation
of ShowGUI requires the ShowGUI v1.0 archive.
ShowGUI is a picture viewer (with database) utilizing datatypes, which can be
configured to use existing external viewers. New in v1.1:
WorkON is a small System Enhancer. New in v0.5:
(ps)
Alternative-Games.de will start on December 1st, 2000
Lately there were an increasing number of cooperations and joint-ventures of firms that only
released for one of the alternative computer systems until now. We want to support the activities
of these firms by establishing a portal for users of every alternative system. This portal will
contain news, reviews and much more.
From the start there will be an Amiga and a Macintosh section. For additional sections we are
missing people who are willing to help us to make the project a success. We are looking for
section managers for Linux, BeOS and Milan (Atari). But we still need some persons for the
Amiga and Mac sections. If you would like to help us with reviews and reports, please mail
to info@alternative-games.de.
(ps)
New YAM-extension: HTMLread
YAM is not able to handle mails written in HTML-code. It is very difficult to read
these mails with all the tags.
HTMLread fixes this problem. It automatically recognizes such mails and sends them to the
HTML-viewer of your choice. Every HTML-viewer is supported. You can choose from a predefined
list or make you own one. The predefined list contains: MultiView (mit HTMLdatatype),
SimpleView, HTMLview (Demo), OpenUrl, Voyager, IBrowse, AWebSE (OS3.5) and AWeb.
HTMLread will easily be installed using the installer.
HTMLread is freeware.
(ps)
DigitalArGrafix - The GayArt Galery
From now on there is a GayArt Galery available at the title link. Pictures, paintings,
drawings or DigitalVideoArt are welcomed. We are focusing on "the men as an object of the art".
Please mail your contributions for the gallery to INFO@2IDs.de.
The copyright of the exhibited art remains with the artist.
(ps)
NetBSD-1.4.3 Released
The NetBSD-project announced the release of NetBSD-1.4.3.
This release fixes problems known from former versions, increases stability
and adds support for additional hardware.
NetBSD-1.4.3 is a patch release of the NetBSD-1.4-branch. The new 1.5-branch
will be released as a main release soon. The 1.4 release contains some new features
imported from the NetBSD-development branch:
Many more bugs were fixed - altogether about 70 problems.
A complete list of the changes from NetBSD-1.4.2 to -1.4.3 is available at:
CHANGES-1.4.3.
Please read the INSTALL-guide for your system; there you can find out more about
the supported hardware, installation, and known problems with this release.
Amiga Active Christmas Issue
On November 30th, 2000 the Christmas issue of the British Amiga magazine 'Amiga Active'
will be released. Among other things this issue will contain features about the
AmigaOne announcement which will take a look at the system's future and the at this time
62 announced games.
There will be a test of ClickBoom's Nightlong and the magazine will also take a look
at 'Descent. Freespace' which is being ported to Amiga by Hyperion.
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AmiChurras Millenium Show
On December 3rd, 2000 the 'AmiChurras Millenium Show' will take place in São Leopoldo, Brasill.
According to Daniel Mealha Cabrita this is about to be the most important Amiga show in South America.
All of the Amiga users from Brasill and from near countries like Uruguay and Argentina are invited to
the show.
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AmiBroker V3.37
On November 24th, 2000 Tomasz Janeczko released beta version 3.37 of his stock exchange software
'AmiBroker'. The following has changed since V3.36.
The update includes the files needed most. Documentation and similar are content of the
complete archive of version 3.20.
SimpleBox wb8616JID-FAQ Updated
On November, 24th Meternet has updated the SimpleBox FAQ. Among other things the FAQ contains information on
hardware and software of the box, now.
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Streamer V1.02
Streamer is a shoutcast player which allows to listen to MPEG encoded radio programs via internet.
In this update all of the known bugs are fixed and a timer is build in.
This player supports shoutcast server clusters - in case of a taken server the next one will be tried -
and it allows to save the audio stream.
Streamer works from AmigaOS V3.0, MPEGA library, AmiTCP/MIAMI and it supports the OpenURL library.
AMIGA aktuell International 11/2000
In addition to the latest Amiga news etc. there are many test reports and
previews in this edition. In the games section we take a close look on
Bubble Heroes, Exodus, Earth 2140 and ACSYS. As each month you will also
find a list of the available AmigaNG software in this edition of AMIGA
aktuell International.
(sd)
Tester for SMB-Filesystem Wanted
Olaf Barthel wrote:
I created a counterpart to my Amiga Samba port. A filesystem to share files
with other SMB servers. With knobs on I need some help: who would like to test this
filesystem, may please get in contact with me via e-mail (olsen@sourcery.han.de).
It is about to find errors and to enhance functionality of the filesystem. Experiences with Samba and debugging tools for
Amiga (Enforcer, Sashimi, Wipeout, etc.) are presumed.
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AmigaSDK: i hate yellow V2.0
Because he dislikes yellow Thomas Claus matched the AmigaSDK's facing to his personal demands. Screenshots
of this assimilation are available via the title link. The 'i hate yellow' packet' includes a script which
cares for the necessary settings.
AmigaSDK: Atoll
On November, 25th 2000 Jarno van der Linden published the alpha version of the
developer tool 'Atoll'. This tool converts C link libraries, like libpng.a or libjpeg.a almost
automatically into a tool set (tool sets on AmigaSDK "match" to the libraries on other systems).
Up to now is has been tested successful with libpng.a and libjpeg.a (part of gfx/misc/libjpeg-6a.tbz2).
To use Atoll knowledge of VP assembler is necessary, and knowledge of sed and regular expressions are
useful. Atoll itself additionally needs the
gd.tgz-Archiv.
The documentation for Atoll declares how to convert libjpeg.a into a tool set. To try this example
the
gfx/misc/libjpeg-6a.tbz2-Archiv
is needed.
Digital Almanac III News
Because of positive request from abroad for an English version of DA3 the program
will be translated to English language during the following weeks. The earliest
release date will be about late January 2001.
The Christmas update will be released on schedule end this year and will inherent some new and
interesting features. The English version as a matter of course already will include the
christmas update.
Within the next days initial screenshots of the new features will be shown on the DA3 homepage, as
well as the definite release price of the English version will be announced.
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AGE and Metal Combat
AGE (Advanced Graphics Environment) is an AGA + game graphics library for Amos
programmers, that we were working on a number of years ago. It's not complete,
and it's not likely to be, so we've decided to release it as it is. Also, we've
released our "Metal Combat" speed test engine and source for what was to be a
simple A1200 Virtual Fighter clone, that we were working on in '95. Note it's
NOT a game, just an engine demo, it was possible. We just could make the
characters at that time. Maybe somebody else can do that today...
(ps)
Executive Update by Bill McEwen
In the new Executive Update by Bill McEwen, the main subject is OS3.9
(sales lauch on the WoA2000), and the SDK. According to McEwen there is a
possibility of another classic AmigaOS Update (4.0). Good sales of OS3.9 are
the condition to this however. (ps)
Amiga Forever 4.0
Amiga Forever is the all-in-one Amiga emulation and connectivity environment for PCs,
officially licensed by Amiga International. We are pleased to announce the
release of Amiga Forever 4.0. This new version includes version 3.1 of the
Amiga ROM and OS files and AGA support under WinUAE. Additional pre-installed
programs and features, like for example Personal Paint, DirectoryOpus 5.5,
TurboText, drag-and-drop LhA de-archiving, and the ToolManager dock have been
updated.
This version additionally includes an archive with a new,
ready-to-run PowerMac version. This emulation is currently the only way of
having an Amiga laptop (if we assume that you install it on a PC laptop or on
a Mac Powerbook/iBook)
New features of Amiga Forever 4.0:
Amiga Forever 4.0 - Overview
Amiga Forever contains state of the art software to satisfy two major needs
of many Amiga users: to share data between Amiga and other systems, and to use
their existing Amiga software and data on non-Amiga hardware.
Additionally, software, tutorial and reference files which are likely to be of
interest to any Amiga enthusiast are included with the CD-ROM. More details.
(ps)
AROS Update
From November, 3rd 2000 to November, 19th 2000
following information about the evolution of this AmigaOS compatible
open source OS have been added to the AROS homepage.
Joerg Dietrich added a ppm.datatype for PPPM graphics, and the
dtdesc tool. This tool allows to create and analyse datatype
descriptions. Georg Steger used it to improve the FTXT datatype.
The binary.datatype has been ported back to AmigaOS V3.5 by Joerg Dietrich.
Tobias Seiler fixed a long standing bug in the keyboard initialization of AROS
Native/i386, so PS/2 keyboards should work now.
Georg Steger first added a port of reqtools.library, and then ported more and
more programs which use Reqtools and fixed a lot of bugs in the code. The port
of Reqtools should be finished, soon. He finished gadtools.library. He also
committed rewritten routines for the DOS functions MatchFirst(), MatchNext(),
and MatchEnd(). These should work in all cases, now. This fixes all the related
bugs, like List C:. He also fixed some bugs in the
graphics.library-to-HIDD driver and the workbench.library as well as renamed
the OO Routines into something more easily distinguishable from BOOPSI (the
OO system also used DoMethod(), etc. which could cause confusions).
Johan Alfredsson worked on DOS commands (Info, Status, Execute, Which) and
fixed a lot of bugs in the dos.library. He ported the C:Search utility written
by Neil Cafferkey to AROS.
He added the nvdisk.library. He added and finished the nonvolatile.library.
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Warp3D and CGFX for G-REX
Already on November, 22nd 2000 information about "G-REX" support have
been posted on the CyberGFX page.
Ben Yoris, PR-Manager of Hyperion Entertainment Software, wrote to the G-REX
mailinglist that Hyperion plans to support the G-REX since they definitely will
need the power of Voodoo3 cards for future games.
Vision Factory Development informed that G-REX will be supported by CyberGFX
V4, the software already has been finished.
(sd)
The Vendor.txt has been updated on 19th of November 2000. The version from
August, 10th is included in the Mediator1.1-archive. Since then approximately
20 new boards have been added or updated. There have been no changes to
Mediator board specific things.
The networkcard list has been expanded by more cards.
THe CGFX3 list has been expanded by 3 tested Virge boards.
A table now shows the differences between Voodoo3 2000, 3000 and 3500
including information about memory.
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25 Nov 2000
Guenter Horbach tel.
KDH Datentechnik will attend the WoA2000
After an initial refusal, KDH-Datentechnik now decided to attend the
WoA 2000
as an exhibitor. All the customer calls which asked KDH to participate were
decisive factors for this decision.
We really appreciate that KDH finally decided to attend, because we
believe that the wider the offers are, the more people will be interested in
visiting the fair. (ps)
New Screenshot AMIGA OS3.9
As a beta tester of OS3.9 I am
not allowed to disclose anything about this nice and new OS, but I managed to
get the permission from Juergen Haage to present you a
screenshot (296 KB)
of my OS3.9-Workbench. (ps)
Amiga Arena News Amiga Arena - In Union We Stand!
Dear friends of the Amiga the time has come in which the Amiga Arena wants to thak
all the users who visited the Amiga Arena in the year 2000. As a thank you
lots of Amiga goodies, as well as Amiga Arena CD-ROM Editions will be raffled.
To further stay active a poll about this subject has been started. The
following prizes will be raffled under the participants:
Amiga Arena wants to heartily thank Andreas Magerl of
APC&TCP, who made the CD-ROM Edition available for Amiga Arena, and Petro
Tyschtschenko for the Amiga Goodies. (ps)
DiskMaster 2.5b9 released
The beta version 2.5b9 of DiskMaster, the popular filer, contains a lot of
bugfixes and changes. For details check the history. Compared to the former
version the following changes have been made:
KDH Advent Calendar with Surprises
From 1st to 24th of December 2000 (except of 8th to 11th of December) KDH
proposes a top deal at a very interesting price every day. So there is a new
daily highlight from 1st to 24th of December. Click on the corresponding door
of the KDH advent calendar and discover the daily proposition. The best way is
to take a daily look at the KDH advent calendar so you won't miss your dream
deal, since every proposition lasts only for exactly one day. Since we are at
the WoA 2000 we'll have to suspend our deals for that period.
(ps)
New Interview at No Risc No Fun
There is an interview with Mathias "Amigdog" Roslund at No Risc NO Fun which you can
find at their interviews area.
(ps)
News about the WoA 2000
The official letter which is currently sent out by Haage & Partner to
10,000 customers:
Dear customers,
dear Amiga friends
A tradition continues. You still keep faith with your Amiga. It's time that the
Amiga market gets a boost. Help to strengthen the Amiga market and visit
the World of Amiga in the heart of Cologne.
We have decided at short notice, and moved heaven and earth, to present you
the new AmigaOS 3.9 in time for Christmas.
To give the fair a professional but also comfortable setting - the town hall in
Neuss was already occupied -, we went back to the "Cologne tradition"
and discovered a new location: the centrally located MediaPark is
futuristic, offers a comfortable atmosphere and above all the required technology.
Car parks are available in the underground car park below. In the building there
also is a restaurant.
The fair takes place in Saal (300 qm) and Foyer (180 qm) of the Mediapark
No. 7. Two more rooms in the next building offer space for presentations. We
try hard to make the fair as interesting as possible for you.
Take the chance - we'll anticipate your visit!
(ps)
Amiga: AmigaOne Forum closes on December 1st, 2000
In the recent days and in several cases, a large number of insults were posted
on the discussion boards of Amiga Inc. To protect Amiga Inc.'s reputation, the
board will be closed on December 1st, 2000 for indefinite time. It is recommended
to switch over to the discussions at amiga.org.
What is MorphOS?
David 'zapek' Gerber, one of the ´Vapor´ programmers, explains in his .plans
statement of today what MorphOS is. He clearly describes why MorphOS is far
more than a simple 68k emulator. He makes clear that it's rather a full-blown
operating system on its own, which fulfills all demands on a modern OS.
(ps)
GoldED News
GoldED Studio 7 will be released in December. The biggest new feature will be
an integrated 'Distributed BASIC Interpreter' which can take over the functionality
of Rexx applications.
A first beta version of the new BASIC interpreter, which is available as a
shared library, can be downloaded at the title link.
(ps)
ACT: Prelude Z2 Sold Out
Many thanks for the great support! Sadly, we cannot accept any more preorders
for the Prelude Z2. Depending on how many cards we will produce, we will
offer the remaining ones in our online store. Currently, we have to regard
the Prelude Z2 as SOLD OUT.
(ps)
Picasso96 Developers talk about Voodoo3 Drivers
On the CyberGFX site
a press release, and
several postings from the P96 mailing list has been published in which the developers of
Picasso96, Tobias Abt and Alexander Kneer, voice about the unauthorized Voodoo3 Picasso96 driver
from Elbox, and the future of the graphics driver system.
The Picasso96 license allows the development of new and commercial drivers only if one has obtained
a license. Besides the shareware fee this represents an important source of income. According to the
developers of P96 they received only a hand full of shareware registrations during the past two years,
which doesn't warrant intensive P96 development and along with this abdication of free time.
According to the developers of P96 Elbox had got in contact with them in reference to Voodoo3 drivers, and
had asked for the developer kit for P96. This request has been replyed to that effect of that this
kit is available for a fee. From the point of view of the P96 developers this fee was reasonable. But Elbox
stopped communication after this offer and developed the unauthorized Voodoo3 driver. The P96 developers
now are still hoping to come to terms with Elbox.
Further development of Picasso96 continues independent from this. At this time it is being worked on
implementation of the changes sent in by Thomas Richter. Furthermore other software and hardware drivers are
under development on which nothing in detail can be said at this time, cause among other things third parties
are involved in this.
The press release deals in more detail with the here in short mentioned items. More information are inside the
mailing list postings.
(sd)
MorphOS: YAM V2.2
On November 21st, 2000 a version of the e-mail client 'YAM V2.2' for MorphOS/PPC has been published.
This version in additional needs the program version for 68k which is available for download on the
YAM homepage.
In the "Readme.MorphOS" file included in the archive YAM22_MorphOS.lha it is described how to install
the files.
Frogger V1.62 Beta 4
On November 22nd, 2000 Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has published V1.62 Beta 4 of the MPEG-1/2 player
´Frogger´. The play works on 68030+, AGA, 4MB FastRam, and AHI for sound output. System
requirements for further features (CGFX, PPC) including links are to find on the
requirements page.
On the download page
the new versions for Amigas with 68k CPU from 030, Amigas with PPC and PowerUp oder WarpOS
(needs ppc.library emulation) are availabel for download.
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IRC-Interview with Jochen Becher
We at the AmigaOne Chat team took the task to invite one interesting Amiga programmer to our chat each month.
We are excited to have Jochen Becher from Haage & Partner as our guest this month. Among others he is
involved in the following projects: AmigaWriter, OS3.5, ArtEffect, StromC and OS3.9.
Jochen Becher will answer your questions on 11-28-2000 from 21:00 GMT at the channel #amigaone,
server irc.germany.net, Port 6667.
(ps)
Photos from DreamMeeting
Warp9 have put some photos from the OldScholl-Amiga Meeting ´DreamMeeting´
online, which took place on 11-11-00. You can find the pictures at the title link.
(ps)
Shockwave and RealAudio Support Online Again
After finishing the reorganization of Thorty.online.de the support of Shockwave and RealAudio-player
is online again which is especially interesting for users of AWeb.
(ps)
Direction change of HighAnt Development
Marco Frischkorn wrote:
Because of the present situation I feel bound to leave the sector of Amiga. We will finish BATTLE and
will be then no longer at your disposal.
In any case I will not be. The rest of the team probably will keep faith with the Amiga. You can read
further information under the title link.
I wish each one of the few remaining Amiga developer good luck and much fun with it. Maybe I will come
back some day. But this does not depend on me alone....
Yours sincerely Marco Frischkorn, HighAnt Development
(ps)
Possible Failure of Melody1200
It is possible that some Melody1200PRO of the last line has been delivered with a failure. A confusion of
the "Logic" which is in the central controlling chip of the board with the "Logic" of a following board is
the reason for it.
Perhaps it is therefore not possible to play RAW-audio with these boards. But the work with MPEG would not
be influenced.
Unfortunately it is not known if there are other board with this bug, except of one board which has already
been re-programmed again. Everybody who notices this failure with his/her board should mail to
KATODEV before sending in the board.
(ps)
New Version of Emperor
Emperor is an object oriented programming language which with a programming help enables even users
without any basic knowledge of C/C++ to get master of AmigaOS 3.5, and to programm for it.
Emperor has got multifarious macro elements for menus, requesters etc. which puts aside the need of dealing with
laborious system structures. Emperor is able to generate source codes for AmigaOS 2.0 as well as
for AmigaOS 3.5 (new gadgets).
Advantages of Emperor:
You can download version 3.2 of the programm in "dev/c" at Aminet (see title link).
(ps)
Opinion Poll at techtv
There is an opinion poll at techtv: "Which is the best platform for editing video?". Possible answers:
Windows, Mac and Amiga. At the moment Amiga takes the second position with 37%.
(ps)
Cinemaware publishes "Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown"
A well-known game is to start its comeback on Playstation 2, Microsofts X-Box, and Windows-PC.
Cinemaware will publish "Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown" in spring of 2002. The game bases on the
classical game "Defender of the Crown" from 1986. In all the mix of strategy and action was sold over
one million times on several platforms as on Amiga, too.
The revised version is set to the time of the "Avenger of the disinherited ones". You have to release
England from the clutches of the villain prince John.
In a mail one of the responsible persons said that the game possibly will be ported to AmigaPPC if there
is enough interest.
(ps)
amiga-news.de and Four Partners Agree on Cooperation
amiga-news.de and four well-known Amiga oriented internet services announce their
long-term cooperation. While retaining the souvereignity of all services, we want
to offer our users direct access to the other services, and therefore placed links
to our partner homepages at easy accessible locations.
This agreement moreover creates a new basis for the exchange of contents, which is
already practiced for some time. For the future, we target to intensify this
cooperation.
Surely you already noticed the changes in our horizontal menu bar. Here, our partner
homepages are linked, so you can reach them with a single click. Detailed information
on our cooperation partners is available at the title link.
(ps)
Bubble Heroes Gfx Card Patch
On the website of Arcadia Products, manufacturers of Bubble Heroes, there is a
Bubble Heroes patch for graphic card users (CV64 and CGFX). The patch is said
to run on any system, and it is recommended for graphic card users.
(ps)
AmIRC 3.5.5beta Released
AmIRC is a IRC-Client for the Amiga.
Registered AmIRC-users can download a new beta version. This version contains a new output
environment that works faster and needs less memory.
New Beta-release V0.10 of DataM-II
DataM-II, a new program by Christoph Kirsch, author of MUIVideo,
it is a spreadsheet-program based on a relational databench-system.
The main focus was set on the useability and printing functions.
A.C.SYS Survey
Christian Sobotta would like to rember that only 10 days are left until the
deadline of the survey. Only 50 users announced their interest so far. That
is why we stopped all activities concerning this project. If there won't be any
change during the next 10 days the game (Turrican-clone) will not be released.
The survey is not a pre-order but only the announce of the intention to by the game.
If you still thinking about it please vote.
(ps)
Heise: Amiga Inc. is closing German Office
«Amiga International Inc. announced that they will stop all activities
in germany with the end of the year because of a restructuring and the
focusing on software. Petro Tyschtschenko, vice president, distributor. and reseller-sales,
will retire next march. Tyschtschenko said that it is now time to let the younger Amigans take over the lead.
»
(ps)
AppMI - New Release
4 new AppMI based packages were released in the Aminet: CharonMI, EZPagerMI, MicroDotMI and VoyagerMI.
Every archive contains a complete GlowIcons Toolbar set.
(ps)
BETA V41 hypertext.datatype
There is a beta version of hypertext.datatype v41 by Stefan Ruppert available.
Apart from many bugfixes a preference-GUI was added. You must have OS3.5 for using this.
htdsascii.datatype and a new autodoc.datatype were added as new sub-classes as a replacement
for the developer-files with the same name.
(ps)
30 Years Mouse Patent
Douglas C. Engelbart (born in 1925) counts as a pioneer in the field of the
human to machine interface for computers and is one of the fathers of the Graphical
User Interface (GUI).
Maybe his most decisive contribution was the invention of the computer mouse
notified on June 21st, 1967 by the Stanford Research Institute, for that the
US-patent 3,541,541 was given on the November 17th, 1970 under the title "X- Y
position indicator for a display system". Engelbart was highly awarded for his
work.
(ps)
Amiga Arena News
In cooperation with Christian Effenberger the Amiga Arena makes possible an exclusive
and special discount for the shareware package ´Siteway 1.0´.
The registration fee is 30,- DM instead of 80,- DM.
Siteway is a software package that handles integrated site and content
management.
SiteWay is said to have the following features:
The program package is very extensive. Further information at Amiga Arena.
(ps)
Old Amiga Advertisements
Thomas Neervoort has collected Amiga advertisement printed in old Amiga magazines and
prepared them on his website. To be found under ´Amiga history´.
Besides that a poll has been started on the sub-page ´WoA 2000´
regarding the exhibition.
(ps)
Amiga-software.com Discontinues Sponsoring
On the homepage of www.amiga-software.com you can read the hint that all amiga
sponsoring campaigns will be dropped by the end of November 2000. All webmasters
who could be reached have been informed, but not all replyed until now.
Webmasters who haven't changed their data into a commercial account yet or
transferred to another provider are again asked to contact immediately the
provider of Amiga-Software.com as their data will be deleted by the end of
November 2000 otherwise.
(ps)
Innovative News fxSCAN 3.0 with text recognition
fxSCAN 3.0 will be available from 11-27-2000. New in version 3 is a text
recognision capable of learning, an optimised copy function and support for the
free BetaScan drivers. Besides that many little improvements in detail have been
made and the GUI has been reworked. The new version will be delivered on CD.
From today the fxSCAN homepage with a list of the supported scanners, and
first screenshots of fxSCAN 3.0 is online.
Orders now completely via SSL
Together with the move to a new server a technical innovation comes along: from
now on you can do the complete order via our SSL server or via the normal
web-server by choice. For this choose the corresponding link below the shopping
basket.
innovative-web.de move finished
The move of innovative-web.de is now finished. E-mail should now work again
reliable and without problems and you can use again innovative-web.de as
receiving domain without worrying. E-mails you sent to us between 11-12-2000
and 11-17-2000 are lost because of a complete server crash. Please
send those e-mails because of this once again to us.
(ps)
Amiga-Online.com Online Again
Amiga-Online.com can be reached again via http://www.amiga-online.com. There also can
be found the central for driving possibilities to the
WoA 2000.
(ps)
19 Nov 2000
amiga-news.de Changing Server - The Odyssey
Everything was prepared to move to an own server, which we intended to share with
one of our partners. The interactive areas were closed. Durability of name-server entries
was set to 5 minutes, to be able to switch to the new server at prompt.
But then problems on the new server increased. The server crashed and temporary was not reachable.
The in the meantime applied change of domain data from our former provider KDT to our houser IPX
hit on Saturday, 12 November and flooded the still defective server. That caused the new server
to crash completely. Also e-mail related things were not set up at that time. As then we had to
take the entire computer offline for debugging and re-installation, we decided that our partner
will take over the entire server and we would look for another hoster. This hoster is to be Marc Albrecht
(ACT-Net), whom we thank for his quick help.
There we are running a new virtual server now. Documents for another change of domain data are
ready. We are hoping to be able to finally re-start within the next week.
(ps)
amiga-news.de Changing Server Notes:
Because we are moving to another server at this time not all of the areas are working, yet.
For the time being we completely disabled the interactive part of amiga-news.de for easier
fault finding. Unfortunately currently the newsticker and mailing lists are not working, too.
Supplement 16 Nov 2000:
Unfortunately the new server appears to have a hardware defect. Because of that we are moving again. We are hoping
that amiga-news.de will be reachable again within one or two days. Please, wish us luck :-)
(ps)
Amiga Games Market Poll AmiHoo is organizing an Amiga Games Market Poll.
Among other questions they are asking for the favourite game genre, and the hardware configuration used.
(sd)
RC5-Client V2.8011 Build 464b
On 10 November 2000 version 2.8011 Build 464b of the RC5-client for Amiga was released.
Along with bugfixes and enhancements speed of the version for PPC processors for OGR has
been optimised. Now the client is up to 39% faster on 603e, and up to 70% faster on 604e.
All users of PPC once again can deal with cracking of OGR-24- and OGR-25- sections pass 2,
which are spread now. Sections which have not been cracked yet belong to these. OGR-26 will
be spread if the newly released sections of pass 2 are entirely processed. Furthermore the
statistics are online again.
Schatztruhe News Amiga SDK for Windows - Software Development Kit
Amiga is back again with the new SDK (Software Development Kit), which enables
developers to create truely portable applications, entertainment software or
utilities. This SDK relieves you from working conventionel and platform dependent, and
takes a giant step in digital medias.
Hosted on a Windows system the SDK contains the revolutionary Amiga Foundation Layer,
developer tools for C, pJava, and the unbelievable VP (virtual processor), as well as
hundreds of documentation pages. The Amiga Foundation Layer is the first product to give
you a first glimps at the digital world of tomorrow at enormous speed, extended multimedia
capabilities, and outstanding binary portability.
If you are a software developer, if you own a x86 system, and if you find those
all-the-time-all-the-same old models of operating-systems boring, then this might
become the beginning of a new life for you.
Important: This product is only meant for use on PCs with x86 processor and an already
installed Windows!
(ps)
Alf's Corner News
At ´Alf's Corner´ again there is something new for AMIGA computer.
DIGITAL - ALBUMS: On each of the CD-ROMs there are high quality photographs from
the following countries: Argentina, Brasilia, Toscana, and Mexico. These albums are
created exclusively on the AMIGA computer and at this time are offered only to AMIGANS.
More details are to find at the title link.
Alf's Corner will try to attend the Cologne show.
(ps)
Amiga: Information about SHEEP
Gary Peake has posted some information about SHEEP on the Open Amiga mailing
list. SHEEP is a programming language in development by Wouter van Oortmerssen
(Amiga E) specially for AmigaDE.
The language can be used as interpreter and as compiler language (VP-code). The
speed of the compiled code is said to be comparable to that of C++/Java.
The pattern matching of SHEEP won't be restricted to strings but can be used on
every data structure. For this the language will contain an own variant for the
pattern matching. In addition to this the kn regular expressions (Perl) will
be supported. It is not decided until whether this will happen as a separate
feature or via utility functions.
The language will offer an interface to write extensions for SHEEP. This will
allow to write them in every language that supports the Amiga-Object-system, for
example VP-assembler or Ansi-C.
(VP is the virtual processor of the Amiga/TAO system)
(sd)
Amiga Archive: Download via HTTP Recommended
Patrick Roberts (Web-Server "zAMilo") has recommended on the Open Amiga mailing list
to use the HTTP protocol for downloads of the Amiga archive. Downloads via HTTP
have the advantage of being counted and displayed directly on this page.
He himself and probably other programmers, too, orientate their priorities for
the software development along these numbers.
At the moment there are many games in the Top 10 of the downloads.
For him this means to concentrate on games for , as this is the software genre
which is most wanted by the people.
(sd)
Lights over Mars v1.03
Patrick Henz announces the version 1.03 of the 3D-objects collection "Lights
over Mars" for the next month.
The CD contains 3D-objects covering the topics science fiction and others
regarding the subjects Babylon 5, Battle star Galactica, Star Trek and Star Wars.
As object formats Imagine, Lightwave, Monzoom, Reflections 4.x and Tornado 3D
are supported.
The complete
list
of objects was released on the homepage.
This CD may possibly already be available at the exhibition in Cologne.
The distribution is handled by APC&TCP.
(sd)
Amiga: Private Mailing List for Developers
the private mailing list for the developers has been installed. Only
registered developers gain access to it after signing an additional NDA.
(sd)
Tales of Tamar v0.32_r2
The version v0.32 r2 of the client and the version 0.32 of the main archive of
Tales of Tamar were released on the 5. November 2000.
A.C.T.: Soundcard Prelude Z2 and Modules
A.C.T announces a small amount of the soundcard "Prelude Z2" for the beginning
of December. Besides a small number of units of the modules "Arpeggiator" (SPDIF digital I/O) and
"Rombler"(MIDI I/O module) are available. The products can be
ordered on the A.C.T.-Homepage. Inquiries
from retailers aren't accepted, but from clubs.
(sd)
Mediator: Version Watch
On the Mediator page at
VGR you can find an additional version watch
table since 9. November 2000, so that you have a fast overview over the
actual state of the drivers.
For the 13. November 2000 Elbox announces the release of own VooDoo3-drivers.
(sd)
Amiga Arena News Amiga Arena full version campaign
The Amiga Arena presents the role playing game "Das Blaue Auge II - Die Schicksalssaege"
in the non crippled full version! Timo Kloss from Inutilis Software who
develops the adventure "Ermentrud" at the moment, has made his role playing
game "Das Blaue Auge II" exclusively available to the Amiga Arena as full
version!
Amiga Arena special bargain campaign
In cooperation with Bernhard Lindner the Amiga Arena makes a special bargain
possible for T.U.R.D. II. Turd II is the relais card interface software for the
Amiga! It is capable of controlling 8-channel relais cards connected to the parallel port,
with or without Centronics protocol, and offers different control methods:
control via lists, time scheduling, music and randomizing, and of course manual
input.
(sd)
Newsletter regarding Excelate Victory
Since 11. November 2000 you can subscribe to the newsletter about the e-mail tool on
the Excelate Victory homepage. With this you are kept informed about the actual
developement status of the software.
(sd)
EZP@gerMI
EZP@gerMI - a GlowIcons toolbar for EZP@gerNG will be available on Aminet
soon. Registered AppMI user will receive the archive via e-mail.
After AWebMI, IBrowseMI and TaskiSMSMI the EZP@gerMI
is the 4th release that is based on AppMI.
Martin Merz
asks for tips if you k other programs supporting different toolbar designs.
(sd)
Demo Version v44.40 of the HSMathLibs for MC68040/060
Matthias Henze wrote:
After a very long time there is a "new" demo version. This version corresponds
to the full version v44.40 from 30.01.1999. Only the installer script and the
manuals, which are available in 14 languages, got a rework.
I've decided to release this little older version because everytime soon after
the release of a new demo version a cracked version of this was available.
To give the honest users a small advantage over the crackers and software pirates
the v44.41 will be available ONLY to registered users for the time being.
(sd)
Amiga Spitfire² v1.3
Spitfire² iss a Palm desktop for the AmigaOS. The software enables a
connection to the Palm computer of 3Com and compatibles. It offers among other
things hotsync functions between Amiga and Palm.
All features of the program are listet on the Homepage. Next to the main archive
there are ClockSync Plugin(V1.2) and YAMSync Plugin(Beta 2) ready for download
for registered users.
MPEG-2 version of the Seminar Video
Kresimir Rogic is releasing the video of Bill McEwen's 1. seminar at the ACE
2000 in Australia little by little in MPEG-2 format on Aminet under pix/mpg. The files
are named from BillSeminarclip1.mpg to BillSeminarclip14.mpg. According to
Kresimir Rogic they can be played on the Amiga by using for example "Frogger".
(sd)
Majesty in 1Q/2001
Hyperion Software has released information about the Majesty port for the Amiga
on 12. November 2000. It is supposed to be released in the 1st quarter 2000. The
game will run on PPC-Amigas (WarpOS) with graphics card and 48+ MB RAM and 300+
MB memory on harddisk. A version for 68060 and AGA was taken into consideration.
(sd)
NListtree v18.6 beta 2
On 12. November Carsten Scholling has released the beta version 18.6 of the MUI
class "NListtree" and together with that an translation package for this class.
The following has been changed with beta 1 and beta 2.
Version 3.0 of the Text Viewer "Next" Released
Juergen Klawitter just finished version 3.0 of his text viewing software "Next". Among others, also
*ix-"man pages" in the nroff-Format, WordPerfect documents, IFF text as well as FinalCopy/Final-Writer- and
WordWorth files are supported. Also, the image viewing routine has been heavily reworked - it is among
others compatibel to the picture.datatype V43. Inspite of many other novelties, this version's archive
is only a few bytes bigger than the former version's 2.9 archive.
(ps)
11 2000
amiga-news.de - Currently changing server
We are moving. Hence there might temorary limitations take place. Please, be patient. Tomorrow there will be
fresh news again.
Supplement: 12 Nov 2000
The bulletin-board works again. Unfortunately the ANF, the guestbook and e-mail doesn't work up to ,
but we are working on this. For this time please send e-mails to
petra.struck@online-club.de.
(ps)
Exodus with PPC Support
Piotr Pawlowski who runs the Polish amiga-news.de site
has received the confirmation of Mariusz Samson, one of the programmers of Exodus,
that there'll be a PPC version of Exodus for certain!
(ps)
Ovate seeking for Developers/Consultants
Ovate is not an Amiga company, but it was founded by Amiga people and employs
Amiga people. If you're interested in a job at Ovate, you can inform yourself
here about further details.
(ps)
Repulse Soundcard
The Repulse soundcard can be preordered. After Jens Schoenfeld has
made it public that he will manufacture the Repulse soundcard, the ALiENDESiGN
website has also been updated. For more information follow the title link.
(ps)
AmigaOS 3.9 - First Details...
Haage & Partner published the first details of the new AmigaOS 3.9. The list
is preliminary and does not contain all functions, but it gives you a first glimpse.
This preliminary list shows only an extract of the new functions. A more detailed
list will be shortly released. Changes are possible anytime!
System requirements
AmigaOS 3.1 and Kickstart 3.1 ROMs for your Amiga model.
Package contents
AmigaOS 3.9 will be shipped as CD-ROM with booklet in two languages (German and
English). The extensive documentation of OS 3.9 is contained on the CD in
HTML and PDF formats. (ps)
Amiga in the Biggest Swiss Newspaper
Yesterday, the biggest Swiss newspaper, the Blick,
featured an article on the return of Amiga. It was mentioned which outstanding
multimedia possibilities this computer already had in the 80ies and that a
new operating system will be released that's only 5 MByte large and will run on
virtually any hardware.
(ps)
Another Petition against Software Patents
The Linux User Group Switzerland also has started a petition against
software patents a couple of days ago (currently 1082 have signed), and
they have put online some background information. You can find details at
the title link.
The signatures shall be brought forward to the Swiss EPUe-Delegation, who was
to find in the latest 10:9 ballot on the "pro SWPAT" page (10 votes). The next
conference will take place from November 20th to 29th in Munich so there is
quite little time....
(ps)
A new Message about iFusion
Original message:
«We have encountered a few problems with the compiler we were using for
the Amiga. Today, H&P (makers of the compiler) are to email us a new
(corrected) version that should fix the problems that we have run into.
It came to the point where we could no longer make work-arounds for the
compiler errors.
We would like to publically thank H&P for their continued support of
this project! The Amiga version of iFUSION is the base code for the PC
port.»
(ps)
SimpleBox at the Comdex
According to a press release by Meternet the Simple Box basing on AmigaDE should be presented
at the Comdex show, which will take place on November 14th and 15th in Las Vegas.
(ps)
Amiga One Editorial at the Temple Of Technology
Today Vidar Langberget has posted an editorial at ´Temple of Technology´, which you will find
at the title link (non-CSS-version). Here
you can find the editorial version with Style Cheets (CSS).
(ps)
Patch for muFS Version 1.8 Released
A patch for ´muFS´ version 1.8 by Etienne Vogt has been released. muFS is a multiuser filesystem offering
Unix like security if more than one user access a system. Since this patch fixes an important loss updating is strongly
recommended. You will find more details inside the
muFS454p.readme.
Frogger Version 1.62 beta 3 for 68k and PPC Released
The new beta version 1.62 beta 3 of the MPEG1/2 decoder ´Frogger´ has been released, and
for the AC3 decoder ´ac3dec´ there is a little bugfixing as version 0.81.
(ps)
Amiga Arena News
You can order GeoWorld v1.12 for a special price. In cooperation with Beer Productions Amiga Arena
makes a special price for the new version of GeoWorld possible which will be released until weekend.
The extent of the text (data of history) in the update already contains nearly 400KByte.
GeoWorld is a geography program for the Amiga which is continuous developed and fostered.
(ps)
Independent from current sales figures there will there will be a Christmas update about the end of this year.
This update will contain the following features (without engagement):
For those of you interested in an English version ob DA III:
At the moment there are only four advance orders which is not sufficient to make an English version of
the program. At least 30 advance orders are necessary to make an English conversion worthwhile.
(ps)
WOA 2000 - WORLD OF AMIGA Show in Cologne
We have already reported about the fair, here also the official announcement of Haage & Partner which
will be organized by them.
«Now the time has come - the first pure Amiga show since many years will take place in Cologne. From the
9th to 10th of December the modern MediaPark in the heart of Cologne will be target for the Amiga-fans.
The first official presentation of AmigaOS 3.9 and the the start of sale are of course highlights of the fair.
Hourly there will be lectures on AmigaOS 3.9 and interesting Amiga-software and hardware.»
All well-kn dealers and producers have already agreed to attend the show. Of course Bill McEwen also will be at the show
to present his vision of Amiga's future.
(ps)
Satelite 2000 Scene Party
On the FTP-server of the polish magazine eXec you can find
demos, modules and pictures of the Satelite 2000 Scene Party.
(ps)
John Chandler: The Zico Factor
John Chandler monthly writes an article for Suite101.com on the topic "Amiga". This time he he deals with the last
month announced AmigaOne with code name "Zico".
(ps)
ADoomPPC v1.7 and Source Code Released
Jarmo Laakkonen has integrated new serial routines of Arto Huusko in this version which should work
with PC-Doom, too. He asks for your feedback if it works or not. Besides this the patches WAD and
Automap should work with the version for WarpOS.
Download:
ADoomPPC.lha - 552 Kb ADoomPPC_src.lha - 549 Kb
(ps)
New Version 3.1 of Emperor Ready
Emperor is a object-orientated programming language for the Amiga. It is meant to make it possible for
each one who is interested in Amiga to programm something on AmigaOS 2.0/3.5. This is version 3.1 and
it contains the following features:
From Thursday the program is available at Aminet in "dev/c" as version 3.1.
(ps)
Issue 2 of Fireball Finished!
Issue 2 of the magazine Fireball can be downloaded under the title link at the download area. The makers
would be pleased to get to k your opinions if and how you liked the magazine.
(ps)
Two Beta Snapshots of NetBSD-1.5 for 68k Amiga
There are two new beta test versions of NetBSD-1.5 for 68020/030/040/060-Amigas available and we are
looking forward to your test reports:
The official BETA2-snapshot on the NetBSD-server ftp.netbsd.org in directory /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5_BETA2/amiga/
(7th November 2000)
Those testers who have not a fast connection to the net but who have got the possibility of burning
CD-ROMs or CD-RW at the net: a little bit older ISO-CD-Image (27th October 2000) with a snapshot which
was compiled and brought to the form of ISO-CD by Bernd Sieker (thanks to him) with the URLs:
NetBSD-1.5_BETA_amiga.txt NetBSD-1.5_BETA_amiga.iso NetBSD-1.5_BETA_amiga.md5
(ps)
Computer Bild: Amiga wieder da (Amiga back again)
Computer Bild (German comuter magazine) reports in issue 23/2000, page 4:
«After a more than 6 year break, the almost legendary (and considered dead more than once)
US company Amiga has announced the production of hardware. Starting fall 2001, the computer
"Amiga One" will be produced by third parties. This will be running games, music and office
applications. "The best" of old Amiga software will be prepared for the new computer.»
Anja Frese told us via e-mail, that there also is an article
about Amiga on page 60 of the the current issue of Computer Woche (German
computer magazine). (ps)
Homepage Redesign and Start of the Online Space Strategy Game 'Star Empire II'
Virtual Dimension´s new homepage design is online! Together with this new homepage,
we want to invite you to a new round of the Space Strategy Game 'Star Empire II' by
Christian Becker! Star Empire II is a round- and text-based space strategy game with
up to 32 players. Interested? More information and subscribtions at the title link.
(ps)
Early demo of the Adventure "Ermentrud" Released
A first demo version is available for download on the "Ermentrud" adventure homepage.
The game is in it´s early stages of development, but already offers some special
features:
Also planned are CDDA music, speech synthesis and large game scope.
(ps)
Programmer Wanted
Wanted:
A programmer, who wants to take over the further development of the source code (C++, 98% OOP) of SOMS.
It is just about game-programming like story/inventory/bobs, some effects, and resolving bugs. Everything
else is ready and easy to use. You will need an Amiga with min 20MB RAM and a fast cpu (68030+)
for compilation and an installed GNU-C version 2.91.66 (GCC/EGCS) or higher and GeekGadgets.
The programmer does not have to do all of the work. We are planing a cooperation with the actual
programmer because he has not longer the possibility to spent all of his time on the programming
of the engine. The payment will be percentage of every sold game.
(ps)
SerialRipper
Kåre Johansen, author of AHXRipper, released version 1.0 beta of SerialRipper on his homepage.
SerialRipper is the successor of AHXRipper.
(ps)
Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Interview Special
Alfred Knoetig speaks about his first programming experiences and the distribution of
Turbo Racer 3D (special offer), Apano Sin (special offer) and the upcoming
game Proyect Crashsite (Myst/Roleplay) !
(ps)
Change of Server Delayed
Unfortunately moving of amiga-news.de to a new server did not work this weekend.
Will will exchange a hardware component and then will start a second try.
Thus the bulletin-board is open for use again.
(ps)
The #amiga at germany.net becomes #amiga at EuIRC
The IRC channel #amiga kn from irc.germany.net can be found at EuIRC
since today. The name of the channel remains the same, only the server has been
replaced by a server network.
EuIRC can be reached via irc.euirc.net or irc.hes.de.euirc.net.
Details can be taken from the channel homepage
http://cubique.elge.de/amiga.
(ps)
HSMathLibs v44.41 beta 6 for MC 68040 and -060
After a long time Matthias Henze has released a new beta version of
the HSMathLibs for the MC68040 and the MC 68060. This is the version 44.41 beta
6 which is ready for download for registered users by using the title link.
Non-registered users can download LHA- and LZX-archives of previous versions
there.
The HSMathLibs replace the libraries "mathffp.library",
"mathieeedoubbas.library", "mathieeedoubtrans.library",
"mathieeesingtrans.libray" and "mathtrans.library" and patch the library
"mathieeesingbas.library" with specially for the MC68881/82, MC68040 or MC68060
optimised versions. To reach as much speed as possible these are programmed in
assembler. Compared to the previous version the following has been changed:
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First Version of WorkOn Released
On 04 November 2000 Richard Kapp has released the first version of the system
enhancer "WorkON". WorkON simplifies activities with the Workbench and offers the
following features:
On the homepage
of the tool among other things is to find an extensive description with screenshots.
developerWorks: The new Amiga: VP Assembly Code Demo
Daniel Robbins, president of Gentoo
Technologies, has released his third article regarding the AmigaSDK on the
IBM server in the area "developerWorks:Linux library". It introduces the
assembler language of the Virtual Processor by Amiga/TAO which resembles more
to C than to a conventional assembler language using an example that includes
source code and screenshot...
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NetInfo v2.8
On 04 November 2000 Oliver Wagner has released version 2.8 of the network
tool "NetInfo". NetInfo joins the tools Traceroute, Ping, Whois
and Finger in one GUI. Compared to version 2.5 the following has been
changed:
NetInfo runs with MUI V3.8+ and needs the NList class. Supported TCP/IP-Stacks
are AmiTCP, Genesis and Miami ("bsdsocket.library").
The stacks basing on the "socket.library" like AS225 by Commodore aren't
supported.
Directory Opus v4.15d Beta
On 03 November 2000 Jacek Rzeuski has released beta version 4.15d of the
directory tool "Directory Opus". Compared to the previous version the following
has been changed:
Jacek Rzeuski is continuously developing the source code of "DirectoryOpus 4"
released by GP Software.
AZT-Server Temporary Down
The internet pages of the Amiga Center Thueringen
can't be reached continuously at the moment due to work done by the provider on
their server. For it is unkn how long this will take. The Amiga Center
Thueringen asks for your understanding and will inform you as soon as the pages
can be reached as usual again.
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ATC beta of 03.11.2000
On 03 November 2000 a new beta version of the FTP client "AmiTradeCenter" has
been released. Compared to the previous version the following has been changed:
Download: ATC_beta_03112000.lha (272K)
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ACE 2000: Video
A video of the ACE 2000 Show in Australia has been released.
This video shows Bill McEwen's presentation of the floppy demo during the first
seminar. For the moment the video available as shockwave/flash version - a MPEG
version is announced.
Download: Billseminar1clip6.asf (1,8M)
Correction: The video format is is not shockwave/flash, but .asf-file, thus as a Microsoft
streaming format. To view it a PC with the Microsoft Media-Player is needed.
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RJ Mical at Red Jade Inc.
Sine 01 November 2000 RJ Mical is Vice President
of Software-Ressort at Red Jade Inc. .
Mical will cooperate in determining the technical aims of the
company, and he will be head of the internal as well as the external software
groups which are working on the OS and the device's inbuilt applications of Red Jade.
RJ Mical has already decisive cooperated in development of the Amiga 1000, the
handheld gaming console Lynx and the 3DO gaming console. He was special effects artist
at Williams Electronics.
Red Jade Inc. in Palo Alto, California, is
a star-tup company founded by Ericsson that deals with development of mobile
hardware for the entertainment sector. For this they plan to combine the sections of
video games, music, PDAs and wireless data transfer. The company was founded
in February 2000.
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cnet.device 1.5
Harry Sintonen has released version 1.5 of the PCMCIA ethernet driver "cnet"
on 02 November 2000. This is a SANA2-driver for the PCMCIA slot of the A600 and
A1200 supporting most of the NE2000-compatible cards. A list of the cards and
the assembler source code of the driver are included in the archive. Compared to
the previous version the following has been changed:
The driver runs on OS 2.04 and higher.
Excelate Victory: Info-site Online
Trogladite Software has released additional information regarding the email
tool "Excelate Victory". The tool allows the easy programming of email clients
with 13 commands.
The tool is started via the ARexx port. So every programming language and every
application software with the corresponding interface can use Excelate Victory.
The connection to an POP3 server, for example, is done with:
"CONNECTPOPHOST mail_server user_id password [port]". The there released
example script
contains more commands. "GetMailCount" determines the number of
existing messages and "GetMail" gets an e-mail from the server.
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New Games at AmiSectorOne
At AmiSectorOne new games are available. Ed Mackey has released ´Megaball 4
full version´ and Pete Lyon released ´Karate Kid2´. New are also ´Aquanaut´,
´Death Angel´ and ´Globulus´.
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In this context the second interview of 'Temple of Technology´ with Fleecy
Moos is surely the most interesting. (Hint: you need to switch off background
images to read the interview in AWeb).
Supplement: Mistake: The interview with Fleecy is no second interview,
but the one that has already been mentionned here on Ooctober 12th.
Sorry, tipping error ;-) (ps)
YAM 2.2 Released
At the YAM-Homepage version 2.2 of the Amiga E-Mail client is available!
This is the last version by Marcel Beck, since he stops the development of YAM
due to lack of time. YAM is an Open-Source Project in which developers
can renew and further develope the program.
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Amiga Meeting in Potsdam
Warp9 is inviting to the Dream Meeting in Potsdam. Invited are only Amigans
and nostalgics with C64. We would like to have huge participation. Many kn and
important people from the scene have already subscribed. So if you live in or
around Berlin simply drop by! Don't forget your computer.
When: Saturday 11.11.2000
Where: Potsdam / Bornim, Zur Kantine, Max-Eyth-Allee
Entrance: only 3,- DM
A warm dinner will be provided. Costs: about 6 - 8 DM.
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World of Amiga 2000
As formerly announced, there will be an Amiga-Meeting in the Mediapark in
Cologne on December 9th and 10th 2000, organized by Haage &
Partner. Follow the title link to enter the the official website of the 'World of
Amiga 2000´. (ps)
COOL bits News
World of Amiga
On December 9th and 10th 2000 an Amiga-Meeting will be held in Cologne
(Mediapark). The Amiga OS 3.9 will be officially presented there. Furthermore,
COOL bits will present and offer the new version (3.0) of FX-Scan. This
version will, for the first time after years, bring OCR to the Amiga. Of course,
COOL bits will also offer other software by Felix Schwarz
(FX-Paint, VHI-Studio), even if he will not be able to attend the show in person this time. More
information as well as an own website for the meeting will follow soon. (ps)
Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena in association with Alfred Knoetig (Alfs Corner) is proposing a new
special price action. Apano Sin - The Classic Shooter can be ordered
exclusively at a price of 45DM at Amiga Arena.
Apano Sin is a classic bootleg shooter tha was originally developed in 1993
for ECS computers. But then the development was frozen and for the
Amiga-Meeting in Neuss, Alfred Knoetig was able to present the final version,
after he had taken over the development and sales. Apano Sin can be run on all
of the Amiga models and is only available on disk. An installer is in preparation
and thus soon available! A preview of Apano Sin is also available.
Turbo Racer - The voxel racing game version 1.5
The last 10 original CDs with boxes from the commerce of the racing game Turbo
Racer 3D can be ordered at a price of 15DM at Amiga Arena! Turbo Racer 3D is a voxel
racing game in the 'Flyin High' genre. Required is an AGA-Computer with
68020-68060 CPU and 4 MB FASTRAM.
An interview with Alfred Knoetig and more information about future projects
will follow. The special prices are only valid at Amiga Arena, using the
order form available there.
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04 Nov 2000
Bulletin-Board Closed due to Change of Server
amiga-news.de is moving to another server. Due to this we temporary closed the bulletin-board. We hope that
the board will be available again after two days at the latest, and that our moving will cause no problems.
Phoenix Soft Website is back
The Phoenix Soft Website was completely reworked and updated. Here you find
programs and music by Rolf Roth. Among others
PLone (incl. bugfix and betas), Skinner (with preview of v1.0), small
tools, PMBS (Prometheus Mailbox System) Tools etc.
The music area (Phoenix Sound Studio)
was integrated into the Phoenix Soft site. As the server was changed
again, there should no longer be connection problems.
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Is there still any interest in "TheAnswerIII"?
Matthias Sar is looking for all users who still work or have worked
with TheAnswerIII and don't want that such a good POINT program simply
fades away. Please contact Matthias Sar
with your name, who will collect the votes and pass them on to the author.
Sar wants to ask the author (Wegar) to give his project (TA3) into the
hands of programmers who still see some sense in supporting TA3. Alternatively,
maybe the author can be persuaded to release a public keyfile so that all
interested users can use the program.
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EZP@gerNG V1.2 available
The latest unregistered version is available for free since today
in the download area at the title link.
All registered EZP@gerNG users find an update archive there which
you can use to update your registered software from version 1.1 to
version 1.2.
The most important changes in this release:
Further, the current version works together optimally with
INET DIAL V3.827 of
MDR Interfaces Ltd.
INET DIAL is a powerful integrated internet management system for Amiga
computers which supports dial-up and dial-in connections, automated
getting and sending of e-mail, as well as WWW connections and direct
computer connections.
The current version allows the transmission of SMS via the INET DIAL
user interface through EZP@gerNG.
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AmigArt: Farewell wishes to Petro
As already done on other occasions, AmigArt has created a special guestbook "Tribute
to Petro", for your farewell wishes to Petro.
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Amiga Club address collection
Bob Scharp, kn to many users by organizing the Amiga2K show in St. Louis,
is in the process of compiling a list of all Amiga clubs that's as complete as
possible.
He asks every club to take the few minutes time to send him the following data
by e-mail.
Clubs who get listed receive a free video of various meetings for demonstration
purposes. More information will you soon find here.
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wARPgATe Moving
As the wARPgATe ( www.warpgate.org ) changes their server this weekend, the page
won't be updated before monday. So don't be afraid - even if you heard it
somewhere - the page won't shut down!
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New Company: SurvivorOrg
«After the recent news of Crystal Software and Electronics (CS&E) leaving the
Amiga market, and the following news that Dirk Harlaar would be the new managing
director of CS&E, this news has to be rectified once again. Managing director of
CS&E, David Connolly, has decided to stay managing director of his company.
However, CS&E will no longer be active in the Amiga market. A new company has
been founded, Survivor Org., which has gotten the rights to any Amiga publications
CS&E had. Managing director of this company is Dirk Harlaar. (And this is the final,
true news). Survivor Org. will focus on Amiga software, and we hope to bring you
more news about forthcoming releases soon. Please understand that this new company
is still in the very early days. We do have some games signed up already, but it is
much to early to say anything about them yet. Cosmos Fun Class, the educational
program that "came with the inventory of CS&E" will be released shortly by Survivor
Org.» (ps)
Rainer Benda takes off OS-software from net
Rainer Benda has taken off all Kickstart- and Workbench-disks from his
website
by order of Amiga Inc.
Until its bankruptcy in spring of 1994 Commodore(C=) Germany offered in the support-area of their own
mailbox "Combo" some Amiga-software for download. The Amiga-Workbench-disks, -Kickstart-files as well as
ROM`s and utility-disks among other files.
These files were only meant for support and were only allowed to be downloaded to supply some
newer versions of C=`s software or if a disk was faulty. Rainer Benda, former employee of
Commodore Germany, was SysOp of this mailbox.
In 1994 Commodore bankrupted and Rainer Benda first took over these files as far as they were existing
on his own mailbox "Black-Zone" and later on his own website, and offered those under the conditions
of the Combo for free support. In this way Amiga-user could use this offer over a long time without
any problems. He solved legal doubts with the liquidator of Commodore Hembach, and later with
Petro Tyschtschenko (Amiga International, Amiga Germany).
During the last years Commodore was auctioned to Escom, Escom bankrupted and after a while the rights
of Commodore were given to Gateway. During this time there were no doubts on the legal status of the
files neither by the owner nor by the liquidator Hembach.
At the end of 1999 the firm Amino (today Amiga Inc.) founded by Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss bought the
Amiga-rights from Gateway.
In April 2000 first Benda got the request by Cloanto to remove
the OS-files from the website. Together with Amiga Forever Cloanto sells an Amiga-emulation-packet based on
UAE which contains the OS-files with a paid licence. (The reason for this request is explained by
Cloanto generally at Distribution of Amiga ROM and
OS Files. Because there was not a statement of the new owner to the legal status of the files
until this time, Benda did not comply with the request.
Some days later Benda got the urgent request by Gary Peake, Amiga Inc., to remove all software from his
website which is under copyright of Amiga. After some discussions between Benda and Amiga, Benda
removed the AmigaOS V3.1 Kickstart- and Workbench-disks from the net to protect the interests of Cloanto.
Since then there were no other reactions. From the point of view of Benda you can read up this course of events in the part
3.1 of his essay
"Meine Story zum Untergang von C=" (German).
To this time the AmigaPlus CD No. 3/2000 was released that contains the Kickstart- and Workbench-files up to
Amiga V2.0 and nearly all other support-files with permission of Petro Tyschtschenko without paying
any licence. Only the Kickstart- and Workbench-files of AmigaOS 2.1 up to 3.1 are not on this CDRom.
These commercial sales were possible without paying something for the licence without any problems.
Furthermore Kickstart 1.3/3.0 and Workbench 3.0 appeared on the CD of the PC-magazine UAE No. 3/2000.
At the end of October 2000 Benda got a letter of the department of law of the German Telekom with the
request of removing all files from the websites http://home.t-online.de/r.benda/soft2.html, and
http://home.t-online.de/home/r.benda/soft3.html. This request was caused by Gary Peake.
These sites contained the remained Amiga-Workbench-disks, Amiga-Kickstarts as well as BETA-/development-software.
Benda complied with this request that means there is no longer any AmigaOS-software for exchanging
faulty disks for download on his website. Amiga itself offers a corresponding help. If you have got
faulty Workbench-disks or something like that you can contact Amiga
for help.
Another Update of InstallerNG
A new version of InstallerNG has just been uploaded to the support-site. Besides some small bugfixes
datatypes are fully supported and furthermore some small but helpful functions were added.
Have much fun with the new Installer!
Download:
iNG_usr.lha - (full archive) 503 Kb iNG_bin.lha - (only new binaries) 223 Kb
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AmigaDE SDK for Windows perhaps as Cross-Upgrade
At the moment on the AMIOPEN-ML there are discussions with Gary Peake, the leader of the development department of Amiga Inc.,
under which conditions the developer kit (SDK) could be offered as a cross-upgrade for Windows.
(ps)
#amigaone: IRC-Log of the interview with Steffen Haeuser
The programmer Steffen Haeuser talked to interested users on the IRC-channel #amigaone.
You can read the edited record under the title link.
Because of the great reaction other interviews are planned.
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Amiga Arena News
It is a new interview with Henning T. (Assampler) online and new special prices will be prepared.
Two commercial games will be available for a special price in the AmigaArena. More information soon.
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"Amiga RealAudio-Player Support"-Page
RealAudio-Player for Amiga as well as a configuration file of the player for AWeb and IBrowse.
To this time the site is still under construction, but other subject matters will follow during the
next days.
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Fun Time World - Change of Server
Since this morning our site Fun Time World is no longer
accessible. This was caused by the change of the server that happened not completely without any problems.
We truly hope that all problems will be solved today. In the meantime you can alternatively use the
following site: home.t-online.de/home/funtime.
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AmigaWriter-Import Filter for Pagestream
Ruediger Hanke has uploaded version 0.9 of his AmigaWriter-import filter to the web.
The filter loads documents of AmigaWriter version 1.0-2.20 to PageStream. For instance it makes possible:
You can find a detailed list in the section "Technical Notes" which elements of documents of AmigaWriter
can be imported and which cannot, and how conflicts resulting from the different implementation of
some features in AW and PGS can be solved.
For more information, a screenshot and for downloading please have a look at the title link.
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MI News: IBrowseMI Released
Only a small completion to the last press release: IBrowseMI - a GlowIcons toolbar has been uploaded to
the Aminet. Some users asked for this.
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A new Beta of ATC
A new public Beta of the FTP-client ATC (AmiTradeCenter) has appeared. Mainly it has been cleared bugs
concerning NListtree V18.5. From on you can download the newest Beta from ATC @ amitradecenter.net.
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Clarissa-HTTPd
Clarissa-HTTPd is another HTTP-Server which is programmed in AREXX and can be a good alternative to
the giant Apache. If you read the enclosed documentation you can see which operations are possible with the server.
For more information please have a look at the readme-file. But there is still one disadvantage (for some people
it might be an advantage): The current version has been written completely in German as well as the script
of the server itself and the examples of the CGI-scripts.
Download:
Clarissa_HTTPd.lha -
readme
or at the homepage of Clarissa-HTTPd (see title link).
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