Confusion about Proceedings Against Met@box
»Currently a report of the stock exchange information service Prior produces some confusion.
Referring to this the public prosecution Frankfurt investigates the set-top-box producer Met@box
from Hildesheim because of the suspicion of manipulation of the stock exchange.
Already at the beginning of the year the business offices of the company has been investigated.
At inquiry the public prosecution Frankfurt referred to their colleague in Hildesheim; the supreme
public prosecutor Seemann confirmed that a proceedings was carrying out but refused to give
further information.
Instead of that he referred to the public prosecution Hannover which did not make a comment as well as
Prior himself: "The chief is in vacancy", was the answer at inquiry from Heise online.«
For full article see title link (German).
(ps)
New PlayGUI Version and Special Version
From my homepage (Amiga/Projects/PlayGUI) a new version of PlayGUI can
be downloaded from today. (Unfortunately still not from the PlayGUI page due
to a server problem.)
PlayGUI is a all-around play GUI for mods, midis, Mp3s, and samples with many
features which can be embellished with skins and themes.
Changes:
Moreover there is a 7MB special version of PlayGUI on my homepage containing
the latest version and additionally all of the skins and themes available
at this time. 90% of these are not to find at Aminet.
(ps)
X-CELLENCE Wanting....
The young developer team X-CELLENCE still is wanting reinforcement for there
AMIGA department. There already are three PC projects under development which
are to be developed for the AMIGA simultaneously. This concerns the following
projects:
Applications can be placed at the given URL.
(ps)
Opinion Poll at AmigActive
In order to adapt much better the content of the Amiga-magazine ´AmigActive´ to the reader's wishes
AmigaActive carries out an
opinion poll.
(ps)
Haage&Partner News PowerPC World News
The PPC World does not only offer news and
software lists entries, but also an improved layout. So, just drop by.
ArtEffect colourful
Did you think of the tool symbols of ArtEffect looking a little bit colourless and dismal for a 24 bit
picture editing program, did`nt you? Then you will like the new one because it offers 256 colours - even
matching the packing: Download.
(ps)
New Strategy Game Planned
Alien Imperium is supposed to become a network and Internet game which is supposed to support several
operating systems, because it will be programmed in Java. It will be made in co-operation of
Amig@lien with AccM Software Allianz.
In this space strategy game you have to be superior in technology and tactics to other races.
For instance you can invent a lot, but you can also enter alliances as well as other contracts.
Everybody who liked Imperium Terranum will be fine with this game. This game will be delivered on CD-ROM
and will certainly be released for the AmigaOne, but also a classic-Amiga version is planned. We hope
you are already excited.
Here is a hint for all who cannot wait for it: We hope to be able to show a graphic and sound presentation
to the computer revolution 2001. (Ricco Clemens)
Those ones who want to support the project "Alien Imperium" should mail to AccM or Amig@lien. We are
grateful for each help! Manfred Rauer (POI)
(ps)
opendivx.library Finished
opendivx.library, which is a shared library for 68k and WarpUP systems for replaying OpenDivX animations,
has been finished and can be downloaded on www.projectmayo.com.
It has been already released a special version of Moovid which uses opendivx.library (because Moovid is
commercial, this special version only plays OpenDivX; you must have the full version for playing
different formats).
The opendivx.library archive contains also information for programmers how to use opendivx.library in
own projects.
(ps)
New Developer in NetBSD Team
Jukka A Andberg has been included in the NetBSD-team. He has written a first (still incomplete) version
of a wscons[1]-driver for NetBSD/Amiga and will now complete it.
Wscons is the console driver interface which does not depend on the machine and which is already in use
on many NetBSD-architectures. It enables virtual switching consoles and makes the simultaneous use of
text consoles and X11-screen(s) possible which is a characteristic not included in the ite- (Internal Tty-Emulator)
system which is used in NetBSD/Amiga, so far.
Appeal to Rainboot Users
There will be some decisive changes in the next version of Rainboot for users of graphic boards. Because
I have not a CGfx or a Picasso96 system and I have got some messages that there are still some problems
with Rainboot. Though it works generally, I ask all who are still having problems with Rainboot on Cgfx/P96
to contact me in order to be able to fix those. Thanks a lot!
(ps)
Nemac 4 Homepage Online Again
I want to announce that the Nemac 4 support page is online again. This homepage
is my tribute for a very good AMIGA game that is developed from PD level. This
page is for everyone who likes this game.
(ps)
27 Feb 2001
Diverse Sources
Software News
SoftCinema
For registered users is a new beta version 0.12 of the movie player available for
download. It provides you an optimized OpenDivX decoder and supports MPEG audio
layer II/III for decoding AVI- and Quicktime files. Download:
SoftCinema_012b.lha
RC5-client Amiga RC5 Team Effort:
The client version 2.8012(build 466) contains a bug, that
maybe gives wrong results of the keys.
»Obviously there is a bug in all 2.8012 clients (build466) that put out wrong results.
D.Net recommends to use version 2.8010(build 463). It is unknown if this bug is
in RC5, OGR, or both. It is also unknown if the latest Amiga client 2.8011 contains
this bug, too. At this time I recommend to use build 463 from this
download area.
More information will follow wen available.«
SecondSpin
Version 2.15 beta of SecondSpin was released.
Many minor and some major bugs were removed but the prefs window will still cause
a system crash on some systems. SecondSpin is an audio converter to convert several
audio formats to MPEG. Also you can convert MPEG-files to AIFF format with it.
(ps)
Haage&Partner News
New Colleague
We almost forgot to tell - since the beginning of the year we have a
new staffer. Martin Steigerwald, known fom the organization of OS3.5 and 3.9 beta tests,
is now responsible for several projects and their beta tests.
The H&P Team
GNU sources of StormC
The new StormC compiler system version 4 uses especially customized versions of
GNU projects GCC and CVS. The source code for these projects is available for download.
(ps)
New Aminet uploads
Unfortunately my number code for the recent upload list again failed, meantime;
therefore today only a part of the new uploads since February 23rd can be listed.
(as)
26 Feb 2001
New AmigaPlus-Forum
There is a new forum at AmigaPlus. Now there is a second possibility, beside of the amiga-news.de
forum, to discuss the future of the Amiga or to look for and find cheats and solutions for your favorite game.
Check it out!
(ps)
AmigaImpact.com Changing Server
Due to a moving of AmigaImpact.com to a new server the site will not be online for a few days.
If you want to contact us please mail to amigaimpact@ifrance.com.
(mj)
+++ INUTILIS NEWS +++
There are to new links concerning Gothic at the Records
area of Inutilis. Also there are some interesting facts about
Moonlight. Moonlight now has a own email-address,
Moonlight@inutilis.de, and a Norwegian radio-dj mailed
me and asked me if he could use moonlight-material for broadcasting. This special broadcast about
Gothic has nearly 300,000 listeners.
I decreased the photo gallery out of order because
my memory on the server is running out.
(ps)
New Caricature: Up high
The new caricature is about a 'new' innovative firm with interesting plans...
You are invited to publish your oppinion about the caricature at the forum.
(td)
26 Feb 2001
Diverse Sources
Software News
Software for MorphOS
There are two new programs at the filearea of the MorphOS-Project
ColorWheel 45.5 by Sigbjørn Skjæret -
ColorWheelPPC455.lha - 34 kB
NList 0.90 by Gilles Masson & NListtree 18.7 by Carsten Scholling - Download
Aqua
The new adventure Aqua by
Emerald Imaging is available now.
Crystal Interactive is the
distributor of this new game.
Aqua requires a 68020 cpu, 8 MB ram, AGA or graphic accelerator and a CD-ROM-Drive.
DirOpus 4.15i (Beta) Jacek Rzeuski released the beta-version 4.15i of DirOpus.
DirOpus is a filemanager by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software.
In 1999 the sourcecode of version 4 were released under the GPL. Downlaod:
DOpus415ibeta.lzx - 360 kB
Image2Icon Stephan Rupprecht released version 1.16a of Image2Icon.
The program offers the posibility to convert pictures to icons. Download:
Image2Icon.lha - 57 kB
PureBasic Fantaisie Software released verison 2.10 of PureBasic for
Windows x86. Version 2.00 is the topical version for the Amiga. PureBasic is a compiler.
WOW
There is a new unstable beta-version (0.08) of WorkbenchOnWin
available for download. WOW gifs you the look & feel of the Amiga on every Windows-desktop.
(ps)
SoundFX 4.1 Nearly Finished
The important new feature is the batchprocessor. It makes it possible to convert whole directories.
Something I want to know - is there anybody out there who is still using SoundFX without a
math-coprocessor? If you do so (that means that you have a 68000, 68020, 68030 without 68881/882)
please mail me.
(ps)
Play!Amiga - Server Problems
Due to some serverproblems Play!Amiga was not available the last two days. Now everything should work
fine again. Thanks for your understanding.
(ps)
Amiga Arena News Amiga Arena - Toadies campaign!
In co-operation with Thilo Koehler there is a special about Toadies with a big interview, the
update and a Toadies-survey. Toadies is one of the best 'Worms'-clone available.
Amiga Arena - Toadies Computer enemy survey!
Unfortunately Toadies only has a two-player-mode but Thilo consent to develop a computer-enemy if
there are enough interested users.
SimpleMail v0.4alpha
On 25. February 2001 Sebastian Bauer has released the alpha version 0.4
of the email client 'SimpleMail'. Among other things SimpleMail now supports
several POP3 servers in this version.
(sd)
AmIRC v3.5.9beta
On 25. February 2001 Oliver Wagner has released the beta version 3.5.9
of the IRC client 'AmIRC'. This version contains various bugfixes and can only
be used with keyfile. Compared with the version 3.5.6 the following has been
changed among other things:
GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH has been active as distributor for
Amiga software since 1987 and supplies a worldwide network of dealers.
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe Gesellschaft für Software mbH has been one of
the leading publishers of Amiga productivity software for over than 13
years. The two companies have co-operated closely and successfully since
1994 and have contributed to the lasting establishment of the CD-Rom medium
within the Amiga software market.
With effect from 1st March 2001, both companies have agreed to intensify
their co-operation further, with GTI Gmbh taking over the operating business
of Schatztruhe GmbH. All publishing activities of Schatzruhe will be
re-located to Waldshut-Tiengen and continued in undiminished scale as a
business division of GTI GmbH.
The change will be handled as simply as possible for customers, suppliers,
and other business partners of Schatztruhe GmbH, only contact information
being changed to the following as from the 1st March 2001 :
Album '2000 B.C' by Bobby Clark
For those of you who were into the module scene a few years ago, you might
remember B.C. (aka Bobby Clark, the guy who filled up Aminet mods/med with
heaps of music) ... B.C. now has recorded a debut album, which is purchasable
at http://www.mp3.com/2000bc
The debut album is titled 2000 B.C. It features mainly electronic and new age
based tracks, as well as a couple of re-makes of aminet Octamed classics.
The album may be purchased online from http://www.mp3.com/2000bc, and there
are sample mp3 tracks on the site which may be streamed or downloaded.
The album was made with the help of an Atari 1040ST running Steinberg 12, and an
Amiga 1000 (YES! A 1000!!!) running good old Octamed 4.0!
(sd)
Boingworld: Payback review
On 24. February 2001 Adam Waldenberg has released a comprehensive review of the
game 'Payback' by Apex Designs on Boingworld. among other things, the review
enters into the points graphics, sound, stability and the playability.
(sd)
akDatatypes v44.95
On 23. February 2001 Andreas Kleinert has released the version 44.95
of his datatypes. Updated were akJFIF.datatype (JPEG), akPNG.datatype and
akTIFF.datatype.
Via the title link you can download the 68k and PPC versions. The PPC version
runs with the ppclibemu
by Frank Wille under WarpOS.
(sd)
Diskmaster v2.5b10
On 24. February 2001 Rudolph Riedel has released the version 2.5b10
of the directory utility 'DiskMaster' as well as the DM2.guide v1.95 and
DM2_deutsch.guide V1.95.
Against the previous version the following has changed among other things:
Precise information about the changes are contained in the file 'DM2beta.readme'
of the beta archive.
This version will hopefully cure the crashes with Hot Syncing, which have plagued previous versions.
Please see the included archive documents for a complete summary of changes.
NListtree Final! Version 18.7 final
After many beta versions now the new version of NListtree is available under
the title link. NListtree is a MUI class basing on NList capable of
predictable displaying data in a tree pattern in different ways.
Among other software NListtree is utilized by
AmiTradeCenter, NewsCoaster, Charon, RxMUI, Workbench 2000,
SimpleMail, etc. This list is continuously growing.
For faultless function the latest version of NList v0.90 (19.98)
is needed, which is available under the title link form today, too.
NListtree works only constricted or not at all with elder versions of
NList.
And now an appeal: I would be happy about information which other programs are using
NListtree.
Have fun with it,
Carsten Scholling
(ps)
Trogladite Award Winners Determined
The winners of this year's Trogladite Software Award have been determined.
All in all there were five awards give for the following categories:
bplan GmbH announce the first
Pegasos prototypes
to be available. The fist hardware line is currently in progress at
DCE and after technical clearance will be
utilized for system software verification purposes.
According to bplan a first official presentation of a working system is to be expected
for early May, already. At the same time developer systems for software companies will be
available. As for possible operating systems for those machines
Linux as well as
MorphOS are supported directly.
In those systems the bplan GmbH for the very first time makes a platform available
including the virtue of an open system like Linux, as well as direct support for existing
Amiga® software.
Contrary to alternative basic approaches MorphOS is capable of running existing Amiga®
programs in a native PowerPC environment. The synergy effects between
both operating systems (Linux/MorphOS) as a result of this let the Pegasos systems be
interesting for both, developers and users.
(ps)
GFX-Database Now With Own URL
The GFX-DATABASE (a database for games and demos supporting Amiga graphics boards)
now is accessible an own URL and has got own server space. So who wants to find
out if one ore the other game or demo also runs on graphic board, just would
type in the easy to learn URL http://gfxbase.tsx.org (title link) in the future.
The site also has been reworked and some link problems have been fixed.
(ps)
Land of Genesis Available from Dealers
The new game 'Land of Genesis' by Crystal Interactive Software is available
from dealers! In this game, you play the role of Jan, a government special
forces agent, who is sent to Mars to eliminate any trace of a secret
experiment where test subjects were cloned and genetically modified.
The experiment was performed on Mars and the manipulated humans have taken
over the planet. (ps)
Amiga SDK Survey
There's a survey on the Amiga SDK website which asks you what kind of
modem you are using for internet access. Currently, 33.6/56k baud modems
are leading, followed by ISDN. (ps)
AmigActive News
The popular English print magazine AmigActive has put a distribution list
online from which you can see where in the world you can get AmigActive.
(ps)
Heise: Microsoft would like to Sell Their Corel Shares
»According to an announcement at the U.S. market supervision (SEC) Microsoft
obviously would like to sell their Corel shares. The U.S. software giant obtained
25 % of the Corel shares at the price of 135 mio. USD last October, thus saved
the Canadian company from crashing.«
Complete article under the title link (German).
(ps)
22 Feb 2001
Diverse Sources
Software News
AHI pre5
Already several time ago
AHI pre5 by Martin Blom
was released for MorphOS.
AHI is a hardware independent audio system for Amiga.
Report+
Report+ has been released in version 4.3.
With Report+ you can easily create bug reports, readme files for the Aminet,
documentations, and similar. The program is freeware and bases on ReAction and
GadTools.
Download: report.lha - 279 kB
Tales of Tamar
Version v0.33 R4 for registered beta testers of the online game
Tales of Tamar has been released containing
bug fixings for the trading screen and new sounds.
Image2Icon and wav.datatype Stephan Rupprecht has made available
for download new versions fo Image2Icon and his wave datatypes on his homepage.
With Image2Icon you can create thumbnail icons from pictures. Both programs
are available in versions for 68k and PPC processors.
Download: Image2Icon.lha - 56 kB wavdt41.lha - 15 kB
(ps)
CUCUG: Status Register February 2001
The Status Register is the monthly released newsletter of the
Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group dealing with current and important information
regarding Amiga, Macintosh, and PC, as well as the computer industry.
(ps)
AIO - Amiga Information Online
The disk magazine 'AIO - Amiga Information Online' will publish thier
new issue #44 on the alt.WoA which
will take place this weekend (24.2.2001) in Huddersfield, UK.
(ps)
Kicksoft News
In their branch Kicksoft the user group
Kickstart now also offers software
for sale. No on offer were taken the MPEG Player 'RIVA' and the program 'Spitfire2'
for Palmtop desktops.
Kicksoft will be present on the alt.WoA on
Saturday.
(ps)
100%AMIGA @ alt.WoA
The CD-Rom magzine ´100%AMIGA´ for the first time will be officially presented on the
alt.WoA. The magazine you will not need to read, but
you will be able to hear and see. Read the original press release:
100%AMIGA - The magazine you don't have to read, will be making it's Amiga
Event debut at the alt.woa (alternative world of amiga) Show this Saturday
24th February. The new magazine will have it's first presentation to the
Amiga public as well as having the March edition available for sale. The new
March edition will have all the very latest news and previews as well as
containing demos of Payback and Octamed Soundstudio 2 and much much more...
(ps)
More and more often people ask me, if they can use future
versions of Airsoft Softwair programs uncrippled if they own
the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM. This
is true! A personal keyfile is generated by the CD-ROM if the
owner enters his personal registration code. With this keyfile
all future versions of our Shareware programs can be used
uncrippled!
(ps)
Amiga2001 - Press Release
There are still tickets for the Amiga show taking place from March, 30th to April, 1st in
St. Louis, USA. Read the complete press release by Bob Scharp, the organizer of the show:
"When future generations talk about where they were when specific Amiga
events took place. In computer annals, all previous events will pale.
This will mark the beginning. This will be the epic Amiga event that all
Amigans will relate to. Previous Amiga shows, will pale in comparison
when all is revealed at the Amiga2001 show. This will give you something
to brag about for years. Something to tell your grandchildren about. Don't
miss Amiga2001. This is the show where dreams come true." Order your
tickets today!
Two day admission (Sat. & Sun.) ... $17 ($20 at door)
One day admission (Sat. or Sun.) ....$12 ($15 at door)
Banquet-Petro ROAST & Bill McEwen speaks ... $35 (advance only)
Class tickets sold at show.
Friday is the Developers Conference - Tickets at door.
Please mail your check or money order, in U.S. funds, for tickets
to Amiga2001 and the banquet Saturday evening to this address:
Amigan-St. Louis
c/o Amiga2001
P.O. Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044
U.S.A.
For hotel reservations, call the Sheraton West Port - Chalet Hotel
at 191 West Port Plaza Drive, in St. Louis, MO. at: 314-878-1500. You
must call between 8 am - 10:30 pm CST Monday thru Friday. Ask for
the reservation desk and tell them that you are going to Amiga2001
so that you get your discount. If you call at any other hours
or on weekends, you will not be able to get ahold of the hotels
reservation desk and the people answering will not know about the
Amiga2001 show. So please call between 8 am - 10:30 pm CST,
Monday - Friday.
(ps)
Query about Double-Buffering
These are no true Inutilis news, but it's a cry for help. I'm just about to
change the double-buffering system of the game Ermentrud. Unfortunately I'm
not that skilled in that, so my question:
Does anybody know the ropes of the intuition functions
AllocScreenBuffer,
ChangeScreenBuffer,
and anything along with these? Who ever has coded an intuition-friendly double-buffering,
please contact Timo@inutilis.de.
If you cannot help even, but know somebody knowing about that, it would be kind, if you
would forward this message to such person. I appreciate every reference.
(ps)
Innovative: Important Changes
Innovative has new telephone and fax numbers as well as a new bank account. Please use exclusively these
numbers in the future because the old ones and the old bank account will expire soon.
New fax number: 049 9132/73284-3
New telephone number: 049 9132/73284-4
New bank account:
Account number: 7060971
Bank code: 20090500
Bank: Netbank Hamburg
(ps)
New version of MainPrefs
Version 2.1 of the preferences program MainPrefs was released. Besides of some bug-fixing many new features
have been added which offer new possibilities or make the use still easier.:
For example appwindow-function, extended program- and file list, better editing possibilities for variables,
extended help, compatibility with HappyENV.
(ps)
News from the NARR Site
Unfortunately a wrong version of the PlayGUI update was on my homepage and on the PlayGUI-site. The right
one you can now find under the title link. There you can also find the GFX-games-database with a new
layout. There is a news-site, links, the sections were put on different sites and besides this you can
download the last registered games and graphic board patches.
(ps)
Exodus Update 1.1 Released
The update 1.1 for >Exodus has been released. The update contains the following changes/improvements:
You can again download the update at NoRiscNoFun officially.
(ps)
RiVA v0.40 MPEG Video Player for the Amiga
(Stephan Fellner asked me to share the following news on his behalf):
Stephan Fellner would like to announce the release of RiVA v0.40, a very fast
MPEG Video player for AGA, Picasso96, or CyberGraphX-based Amigas.
This latest version adds the following features:
Stephan is actively improving it and adding new features (see the archive's
AmigaGuide documentation for details).
RiVA is shareware; your registration will encourage it's continued development.
The demo version of RiVA 0.40 is available for download from Aminet:
RiVA.lha
Digital Dreams Entertainment - Changing Server
As I was noticed via e-mail by a DDE team member (Raymond) the DDE site currently
is offline due to changing server. Supposedly there are problems in holding the URL.
Also the business e-mail addresses are closed. DDE became known to the Amiga world from
games like 'Wasted Dreams' or recently 'Codename Hellsquad'.
(ps)
This site goes official for the Alt-Woa Show in Huddersfield, UK.
Amiga Forums.com is a joint effort between AmiBench, Amiga Resource and
Striatum.org.
Our main role is to provide support and information for worldwide Amiga users.
Currently we have the following forums available.
Classic Amiga Forums
Next Gen. Amiga Forums
AmiBench Forums
Amiga Resource Forums
We would like to welcome you all to our forum, and hope you enjoy using
our Community based service!
With warm regards,
Mark Wilson, Tudor Davies, and Andy Mills - The Amiga Forums Team
Visit us now at http://www.amigaforums.com
NB: The Amiga Forums is a partnership of the following;
Amiga2001 Computer Show Supplement: Next but one weekend sure was wrong. Corrected appointment. :-)
(ps)
The Amiga2001 which will take place in St. Louis form March, 30th to April, 1st promises to
become really interesting. With the current press release Bob Sharp, organizer of the show,
submits a message from Bill McEwen announcing the following:
"... Amiga2001 is going to be exciting!
Amiga news you have never heard before.
Amiga products you have never seen before .
Amiga announcements you have been hungering for.
Whatever Amiga shows you have come to before,
whatever shows you missed, this is the Amiga
show you don't want to miss...."
Bill McEwen
President & CEO Amiga Inc.®
Producers of the Gateway Amiga Shows... the best Amiga
shows in the Americas! For more information, check out
http://www.amiga-stl.com
Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey
Sheraton West Port-Chalet, St. Louis, MO. USA
Friday March 30 thru Sunday April 1, 2001
Now featuring companies like: Amiga, FWD Computing,
Merlancia Industries, Compuquick Media Center, Dan's
Deals, Cloanto, individual computers of Germany,
the Gateway Amiga Club Inc., Bounce-back Videos,
Amigan-St. Louis, Mr. Hardware, the PC Journal,
G & G Publishing - producers of The New Amigan Magazine,
Brewster Productions, AmiTech Dayton Amiga Users Group,
Amiga Active Magazine of the UK, Nova Design Inc.,
NAG - Northwest Amiga Group, Charles Marks, a noted
artist of Claw Marks Productions. He is coming from
Jonesboro Arkansas to exhibit his lithographs at his
booth. Mr. Marks is also designing the limited edition
Amiga2001 show shirt for Amigan-St. Louis as well.
Other exhibitors are: Legacy Maker Inc., Downix, Inc.
Newest additions to the exhibitor list include
the St. Louis Computer User, AmigaZone (Harv Laser's
famous Amiga site) and SACC (the Sacramento Amiga Computer
Club). More exhibitors are being added each week, so
check the web site.
New InstallerNG Archive
Since there were some problems with the last InstallerNG archives I re-compressed
everything once again and made it available. Additionally two small errors have
been fixed, too (see history). Have fun..... Jens
(ps)
New Forum at the ICQ-userlist and ICQ-FAQ
Because the provider of the (old) ICQ-forums will stop his service soon I opened a new
one and moved all entries (unfortunately not that much) to the new forum. Additionally
the first version of the ICQ-FAQ is now available.
(ps)
19 Feb 2001
Diverse Sources
Software News
Install SAMBA 2.0 Beta is available at the file area of the
Samba-Mailing List
You have to be a member of the ML to access this area.
AmiATLAS
Because there were not many news about "AmiATLAS" in the last months
Thorsten Schölzel asked Andreas Regul,
programmer of AmiATLAS, about whats going on:
"You are right, there were no news about AmiATLAS lately. But now we found someone
who wants to develop the program. That is why I have the strong believe that there
will be a version 6 in the foreseeable future. But I do not know any details about
when or even if it will happen."
Everyone who wants to help the new programmer with the development can write to
amiatlas@gmx.de.
WorkbenchOnWin - WOW
The website of WOW has moved and is now available at
http://www.commodore-ale.com/wow/.
The topical version is 0.04a build on 11.02.2001. The program gives you the possibility
to add the look and feel of the Amiga to every Windows desktop.
vlink - pasm - wosdb Frank Wille has updated some of his programs.
There are new versions of 'vlink' - a portable linker for several files -, 'pasm' -
a portable PowerPC assembler - and 'wosdb' - a simple WarpOS debugger - available.
(ps)
Amiga2001 - Press Release PRESS RELEASE: Amiga2001 - February 17, 2001
Attention Exhibitors and Advertisers,
Bill Griffin of G&G Publishing Enterprises has informed us that he is
willing to extend the deadline for the advertising in the March issue
for Exhibitors at the Amiga2001 show. This is the issue coming out
just before the show. Make a big impact, let people know you will be
at the show, advertise in the NEW AMIGANS magazine. The new deadline
is February 21, 2001. So contact him immediately for ads or subscriptions!
Pricing is listed below in the press release number 4, dated January 6,
2001. Bill's phone is: at 219-315-2794, or you can email him at:
wd8izh@beanstalk.net
Bill Griffin, G&G Publishing Enterprises
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PRESS RELEASE: Amiga2001 - February 11, 2001
Attention Team Amiga members and interested Amigans,
David Stevens, of Team Amiga, has announced that Team Amiga
members will gather for a luncheon and get together on Sunday, at
10 am at the Amiga2001 show. Team Amiga members and anyone
interested in this Amiga association, will meet in the Lucerne
Restaurant of the Sheraton West Port - Chalet Hotel. This is located
just off of the main lobby of the hotel. David advises that this will
be an informal gathering, and is sure to be an event worth
attending. Individuals are required to pay for their own meals.
If you need more information, or you wish to advise David that you
will be attending the luncheon, please contact David at:
dstevens@cityscape.net.
Now featuring companies like: Amiga, FWD Computing,
Merlancia Industries, Compuquick Media Center, Dan's
Deals, Cloanto, individual computers of Germany,
the Gateway Amiga Club Inc., Bounce-back Videos,
Amigan-St. Louis, Mr. Hardware, the PC Journal,
G & G Publishing - producers of The New Amigan Magazine,
Brewster Productions, AmiTech Dayton Amiga Users Group,
Amiga Active Magazine of the UK, Nova Design Inc.,
NAG - Northwest Amiga Group, Charles Marks, a noted
artist of Claw Marks Productions. He is coming from
Jonesboro Arkansas to exhibit his lithographs at his
booth. Mr. Marks is also designing the limited edition
Amiga2001 show shirt for Amigan-St. Louis as well.
Other exhibitors are: Legacy Maker Inc., Downix, Inc.
Newest additions to the exhibitor list include
the St. Louis Computer User, AmigaZone (Harv Laser's
famous Amiga site) and SACC (the Sacramento Amiga Computer
Club). More exhibitors are being added each week, so
check the web site.
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THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-R v1.0.4
Since version 1.0.1 the following websites were added to the Kickstart Archive:
Furthermore some sites were updated and some new parts and pictures were added
to the Amiga Patent History.
(ps)
PlayGUI Update
A new update for PlayGUI is now available. The update (to version 3.c) fixes some bugs and
adds minor improvements. The correct installation of PlayGUI 3.0 is required.
PlayGUI offers you a GUI for some music players. The look & feel can be changed by using skins and themes.
(ps)
Samba: Tango v1.1
Soeren Forsberg has released the version 1.1 of Tango, a GUI
for Samba and the SMB handler. Samba is a
Open Source implementation of the SMB protocol.
This allows accessing drives and printers of other computers via a network.
Since the previous version of Tango the following has been changed:
The GUI offers the folowing features:
MPEG: Frogger v1.64b3
On 17. February 2001 Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has released a new beta
version of the MPEG players 'Frogger'. This is by name the version 1.64b3 of the
MPEG player.
The player supports MPEG-2 and runs on 68k and PPC Amigas with at least an
68030. The PPC versions are available for WarpOS and PowerUp. The download of
the single versions is possible on the download site.
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Clubbed Magazine #7 Released
The issue #7 of the magazine 'Clubbed' by SEAL (South Essex Amiga Link) is now
available.
The latest issue contains 48 DIN A4 pages with news, features, reviews and
tutorials.
Under features a first glance is thrown on AmigaOS V3.9, the products fxSCAN
3.0, ScanQuix 5, ArtEffect 4 and EZMouse PS/2 had been tested and under support
'Back to Basics' handles the writing of shell scripts.
The complete summary
and extracts from previous issues have been released on the SEAL homepage.
Subscribers get the magazine sent in the next days. In addition this issue will
be available at the SEAL booth at the WoA show in Huddersfield, Great Britain on
February, 24th.
Via the SEAL site
you can subscribe to the not-for-profit magazine or order a test issue.
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Coyote Flux: 3d Engine Running and PPC680x0 v2.0
After long delays the 3d engine developed by Coyote Flux now works. It supports
antialiasing and very high resolutions. Two early
screenshots showing the
terrain renderer of the engine have been released today on the preliminary
homepage of Coyote Flux. Further pictures will follow soon.
The version 2.0 of the 680x0 to PPC assembler 'PPC680x0' is almost ready. It
offers a new conversion model, an internal cache for optimizations, full point'n
click porting and further features.
8 New Games at AmigaLand
Because of the license of Lankhor there are immediately new games available at
AmigaLand.
These are by name the following classics:
Additionally a game by Ascaron: On the Ball (simulation).
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Official Exodus Update for Download at NoRiscNoFun
A new update of Exodus is available. Among other things it removes memory
problems with some SFS configurations. The update is offered with the friendly
permission of Sland Media. Have fun with while playing.
(ps)
NARR Site Reworked
Today the NARR site has been reworked graphically and several links
have been put to categories, so that hopefully it becomes more easy to
find the GFX lists, programs, reviews, etc.
There also is a gallery with some of my cartoons now, created with
Amiga drawing programs like PPaint or DPaintIV. Also the AGA demo
'Ayrton' by HITMAN is to find in the projects section, for which
I contriuted the music.
Furthermore I advice my anims section for those who like witty cartoon animations.
(ps)
17 Feb 2001
Software News
Diverse Sources
Pagan Games has created a website
for the new strategy game Earth 2140 on which
press releases
and reviews about the game are to be published.
Heise: Microsoft Fires Contra Open Source
«How does the evil come to earth? With Open Source, if one wants to
believe Microsoft's chief for Windows, Jim Allchin. Open Source could
smother each and every innovation; it "destroys intellectual property",
said Allchin, and politicians would have to recognize this danger.
Open source would be the death of any inducement to invest in research and
development. Allchin "cannot imagine anything more worse for the software
business". Withal he equates open source like the free operating system
Linux with music exchange services á la Napster - an argument which immediately has
been intensely offended by the open source community.»
Complete article under the title link (German).
Does somebody suggest business competition facing him? Supposedly yes.
I wonder what you think about that. Personally I see great chances in open source to
realize great projects. The Internet is best evidence for that and Linux meantime
has got a huge community of rooters.
(ps)
17 Feb 2001
Now Reading News Groups via Google
As reported before Google completely took over the news groups archive of
DejaNews. Under the following links you can access the old news groups entries,
but also find the current ones. This list does not claim to be complete; it
only contains news groups we found at first go.
(ps)
Mekka Symposium 2001 Homepage Online
From today the homepage of the Mekka & Symposium 2001 is online!
The MS is one of the biggest demo parties in Europe and has 1,200 to 1,300
visitors yearly. Among other things there are demo competitions for Amiga, C64, and
PC, and the well known and popular party feeling (who's got big ***** ?).
(ps)
The software deals with integrated site and content management.
The bundle consists of small window tools. All programs listed
here can be downloaded as single archives from the
Amclust site.
The partly required external resources (ixemul.library 48.x,
jpeg.library 5.1, jpegtool) can also be downloaded from the
Amclust site
or AmiNet.
Programs contained in this archive:
Programs NOT included in this archive:
(ps)
16 Feb 2001
Diverse Sources
Software News
An updated file of all available servers
for SMSEngineerMUI
(SMS = Short Message Service), with which you can send short messages to mobile
phones, has been released.
Version 5.2 of the compression tool XpkMaster for MorphOS by Sigbjørn
Skjæret is available for download on the MorphOS
website. Download: xpkmaster52_mos.lha - 183 kB
Oliver Roberts has version 1.5 of his compression library
xpkBZP2.library
available for download. Download: xpkBZP2.lha - 79 kB
Version 0.1735 of the Amiga ICQ client StrICQ can be downloaded at
the StrICQ support site.
The version was entirely recompiled and the executable is now only 360 kByte in size.
The bug that the chat- and filewindow did not appear was fixed, just as the bug
with the missing ICQ logo (flower).
Download: stricq.lha - 128 kB (Programm) stricq_cat.lha - 135 kB (all catalogs)
For registered betatesters of Tales of Tamar
there's version v0.33R3 for the Amiga client available with bugfixes regarding
the trade screen.
The FAQ on the
e-mail based turn game Star Empire was updated by Virtual Dimension.
(ps)
New Version of Emperor Released
Emperor (download by clicking the title link) is an object-oriented programming
language which combines extensive features with a high level of user-friendliness.
Emperor opens up a higher quality of software development on Amiga computers
without having to deal with complex system structures.
The easy user interface provides a clear overview of the components of your own
program.
Emperor knows the most important system components like windows, requesters, menus and
ASL requesters, but also gadgets of many different kinds. All common Reaction and
GadTools gadgets are supported.
With Emperor, you can develop programs based on AmigaOS 3.5+, as well as for
AmigaOS 2.0. There's also the option to generate a program which contains both
parts (OS 3.5+ / OS 2.0) and adapts to the system booted.
Features of Emperor:
Version 3.6 of the program is available in the Aminet directory "dev/c"
(download at the title link).
(ps)
CINEMAWARE Release old Amiga Games
The Amiga versions of "King of Chicago" and "Lords of the Rising Sun"
are now offered by Cinemaware for free download. (ps)
New HTMLread Version
A new HTMLread version (V1.00) is available for download at the support site
(titlelink).
HTMLread is an extension for YAM. YAM is a marvellous mailer, but it's not
able to display e-mails that have been written in HTML code as they are sent
by Netscape, Eudora or Outlook. HTMLread discovers, converts and sends these
e-mails to an HTML viewer.
Some changes have been made in the new version:
Installer, better support of status gifs, better <base> tag
handling with web graphics, nowebbug fixed, picturename bug fixed,
no picture bug fixed, better multi window support, only one HTML mail is
stored in t:, multiple ARexxPort support (AWeb), the binary is now compiled
with the stormamiga.library (smaller, faster, more secure). HTMLread has
now internal support against e-mail espionage (please read on that topic
»Espionage through HTML-E-Mails« in the documentation).
(ps)
15 Feb 2001
Diverse Sources
Software News
On Peter's Amiga Homepage
a new printer driver for the HP Deskjet 870c (version 40.12) is
available for download. This new version now also supports 68040 processors
and the HP Prefs. Download:
HP_Deskjet870C.lha
Payback by Apex Designs is
ready on CD-Rom and thus suppliable. You can draw the game either from Apex Design's
online shop directly or from the vendor of your choice.
In this game the player takes the role of a young driver on the run and in this
tries to become a big gangster's boss. The game is completely non-linear. To finish a
level the player simply has to collect a certain number of points. It is up to the player
how to reach this. There also is a FAQ
available for the game.
Demo: PaybackDemo.lha - 2,94 MB
KOSH News
There were no news about the ´KOSH [Kommunity Orientated Software Hardware]´ organisation
founded by Fleecy Moss, since September 2000. The group reorganized and nominated the
following speakers:
If you would like to join the group you can register
here
and if so support other speakers.
SVM
Many thanks to all who've contributed to the discussions on the SVM Simple
Virtual Machine. Even greater thanks to Timo Suoranta for getting the whole
thing rolling and Marcus Petersson for providing valuable feedback.
Information on the SVM proposal as it currently stands is available here -
please read, enjoy and contribute your thoughts. For those who missed the
beginning of this fascinating task, the original document is available here.
This isn't exactly a light discussion and some understanding of assembly
language coding would aid any participants - but don't be intimidated!
(ps)
MorphOS V0.4 with WarpOS Emu
Version v0.4 of MorphOS, an emulation for PPC Amigas, has been released.
This version supports the AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 ROM update modules, but external modules,
too. Thus theoretically everyone may write and use his/her own ROM update modules.
Now also the WarpOS emulation is supported, so for example you can play
Warp3D supported HereticII under MorphOS, too. You will find an extended documentation
of the improvements in the
readme file.
Additionally the ´PPC MUI 3.9 Public Release 1´ is available which is the second
MUI archive for PPC for MorphOS. (MorphOS V0.4 suggested).
New Version (V.44.50 beta 1) of the HSMathLibs for MC68881/82
Again there is a new version for registered users of the HSMathLibs.
Some bugs have been fixed and some smaller optimizations have been done.
For sure the essential enhancement in this version is the complete
compatibility with OS3.9 and support of (hopefully) all of the special cases for
the mathe-libraries.
(ps)
14 Feb 2001
Diverse Sources
Software News
Of the tool Report+ with which you can
draft various reports (bug reports, Aminet readme-files, documentations, and something like this) version
4.24 has been released.
Download: report.lha - 279 kB
Richard Kapp has finished version 0.6 of WorkON and has provided it
for download. ´WorkON´ is a small system enhancer for AmigaOS. In the new version a lot of
bugs has been fixed, many improvements has been made, new images of Martin Merz has been integrated,
and the surface has been improved.
Download: WorkON.lha - 579 kB
On his website Andreas Kleinert has provided new versions of two of his datatypes
for download (which are available on Aminet since
04th February of 2001).
The akJFIF.datatype and the akPNG.datatype were updated which are available in different processor versions.
(ps)
Tales of Tamar: New FAQ and Chronicle
There is a new FAQ in German and in English and the chronicle of the year 65 of the online strategy game
'Tales of Tamar' which is still in development.
(ps)
Markus Holler: New Site at mp3.com
From now on there is a new site at mp3.com with music of Markus Holler. He works as a free musican
on various projects. First of all he composes soundtracks for computer games (for instance for
Tales of Tamar or Operation: Counterstrike),
but he also set videos to music (e.g. the presentation of the company
Visum Informationssysteme GmbH
or he set the fair reports of Virtual Dimension) to music,
and composing of music pieces is one of his work.
Markus Holler has made up his mind to remaster his last MODs (with EQing, panorama, effect, compressing, etc...)
to give them a studio-like quality. Under the title link you can certainly listen to some music in
the next time! Check it out!
(ps)
Amiga Future: Interview with Jacek Rzeuski (DirOpus)
There is an interview with Jacek Rzeuski on the homepage of Amiga Future who is the programmer of the
GNU-version of Directory Opus 4. The interview has been published in German in the area ´interactive´
of the homepage of Amiga Future. You can find an English version of the interview in the English part
of the homepage.
Besides this the Workbench-screenshot-site and the cheat-database were updated. Reports for the help guide
are being wanted and free jobs are available.
(ps)
AmigaJoker Area at Kultpower.de Opened!
Because of the great demand the AmigaJoker Area at Kultpower.de was opened. There is a introduction-site
and four AmigaJoker-cover. This will be changed as soon as possible. Everybody who is interested in
building up the cover-area can contact me via email.
Beneath AmigaJoker there are still areas for Powerplay (over 150 covers, over 180 test reports), ASM (
over 50 covers and 50 test reports) and video games (22 covers).
(ps)
Also an Amiga-IRC-channel
An AmigaChannel at irc.euirc.net with the topics BBS, Amiga and mutual user help is possible. Can be also used
as Amiga market. Main emphasis of me is to build up PMBS for the help or at least clearing starting
problems. The channel #humpis is already available for a while and has some regular users.
If you have questions or problems please send a mail to
Jochen@Humpis.insider.org or
humpis@t-online.de.
Remark of the editor:
We recommend all chatters to create a website about their channel and the main topic (which Amiga topic
is discussed mainly) as well as the data for logging in and then to enter this homepage in the category
"IRC/Chat" in our Amiga Link Directory. In this way interested persons can find their channels long-term.
(ps)
Golem: The world of Voodoo-graphic Boards is Open to Amiga
»From now on all Voodoo-graphic boards in Elbox Mediator PCI busboard are usable for Amiga
The Amiga-hardware producer Elbox has completed the "Voodoo.card ver. 1.0 driver" for its Mediator PCI
bus boards. This driver makes possible the use of all obtainable PCI-Voodoo-graphic boards - up to Voodoo5 5500 PCI -
on Amiga-1200-computers which are extended with Mediator.
There has been a driver for Voodoo3-PCI-graphic boards and corresponding Mediator-bundles since the last year
but now also the other Voodoo-graphic boards can be used: Voodoo Banshee 8 MB, Voodoo3 2000/3000 16 MB, Voodoo4 4500 32 MB and
Voodoo5 5500 64 MB. The driver which has been developed by Elbox itself are supposed to offer full
hardware acceleration but which is restricted to 24-bit-graphic mode at Voodoo4-and Voodoo5-graphic boards.«
See title link for full article.
(ps)
Heise: Google Purchases Deja.com's Usenet-Archive
»Google, carrier of the web searching machine of same denominator,
took over Deja.com's usenet archive. Beside of the usenet database of
the news groups in Internet Google purchased the names deja.com and dejanews.com, too.
Both of the partners keep silence about the price. Who tries to visit the Deja.com homepage
at www.deja.com is already forwarded to the beta version of Google's usenet search.«
Complete article under the title link (German).
(ps)
I wanted to let you know, that we have opened a new website in Italy
dedicated to the AmigaNG and future tecnologies. The site is called Quantum
Leap and contains the Italian version of Amiga Inc.'s AmigaWorld, this is
the only authorized Italian translation of AmigaWorld. The site is also
enriched by proprietary articles, interviews, news, authorized translations
from other Amiga sources of information, courses on the VP language and much
more. Very soon we will also have news in English to make the website
accessible to a wider audience. Thank you for your attention and best luck
with Amiga future.
Our website address is: http://ql.programmazione.it (title link).
(ps)
Elbox Press Release
With their today's press release Elbox announce that all of the Voodoo cards
work with the new driver 'Voodoo.card' version 1.0 in the Amiga. Read the complete
message under the title link. (ps)
Heise: Compaq Coming Up with a New Alpha Processor
»According to Compaq it's available from yesterday: the new Alpha processor
21264 with 833 MHz. By Compaq's account the
fastest industrial processor of the world runs in the new AlphaServer ES40. This
server was especially designed for database applications doing a high degree of
calculations, such like e-business solutions basing on Oracle Software.
According to Compaq in Oracle Application Benchmark the ES40 slapped the opposers
IBM H70 and Sun E450 with more than twice the results. Also in the case of other
benchmarks like the SAP Business Warehousing and the SPEC CPU2000 the new
admiral would be clearly ahead.«
Complete article under the title link (German).
(ps)
Mystic Island Demo and Interview Online
An extended interview with the developer of MI Martem is online at Amiga Arena and
a demo version is ready for download!
(ps)
#AmigaFun IRC Channel Moved
The #AmigaFun IRC channel has moved.
You can find us on the following servers, now:
Always use port 6667 for the channel #AmigaFun.
IMPORTANT: don't write irc. in ahead. The above servers are
complete, simply use them as they are for addresses.
The #AmigaFun homepage has been enhanced and updated.
Most important: the help pages have been enhanced. In particular
the English help pages included many errors which now hopefully
have been fixed. Just drop in at the title link.
(ps)
Browser Survey
Amiga SDK is organizing a survey regarding your favourit browser.
AWeb, Internet Explorer, Lynx, IBrowse, Netscape, Voyager, Mozilla,
Opera, AMosaik, and "others" are nominated. (ps)
13 Feb 2001
Diverse Sources
Software News
VirusHelp Denmark announce that
version 14.9 of the virus detector ´Safe´ has been released.
Here are the data:
Name: Safe v14.9
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 20.936 Bytes
Date: 12. Februar 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: needs xvs.library v33.24
The famous car racing game XTreme Racing
including data disk is available for free download. The authors would be pleased with
15$, anyhow.
For a littel foretaste to the upcoming
GeoWorld update 13
Beer Productions publishe a preview, today. The next update in main will contain an
enhancement of the nature and climate data for the countries. Release of the update is
to expect for end of March 2001.
Heise: Napster Must Not (Completely) Go Offline
»Though the music exchange service Napster must not completely go offline, but
has to stop illegal copying of copyrighted music. The court, which had to decide about
the injunction in the context of the music industry's claim against Napster, confirmed
this injunction meaning that Napster violated copyrights, but wants to have it changed.
Because this decision to take Napster offline completely would have overshot. According
to the current decision Napster has to stop the exchange of songs in the case of violation
of copyrights. Until the injunction got changed it was delayed. But in fact this is about
to withdraw Napster's foundation - except for they will come to terms with the owner of
the copyrights before the injunction becomes effective.«
Complete article to find under the title link (German).
(ps)
MI News - FlagsMI
FlagsMI is now available on the Aminet. The archive contents country and
keymaps images in the GlowIcons design for the Locale and Input Prefs of OS
3.9. If you think any country is missing please contact
Martin Merz.
Software News
Andreas Kuerzinger announces that a
preview version of his icon-collection "AKIconzGold" is
now available at his website.
The icons are made of 32 colors and are based on an
expanded MagicWB and RomIcons colors.
Beside of many icons for directories and programs there is an icon for the new game
"Payback" available. There are also two Amiga-logos for
the Siemens S35i cell phone available for download in "S35i_Amiga".
Version 0.04a of WorkbenchOnWin
is now available for download. WorkbenchOnWin can
give every Windows-desktop the look&feel of an Amiga-workbench.
Download: wow.zip - 744 kB
Amiga Future now also in English
On the Amiga Future homepage an interview with the programmer of Workbench
2000 has been released today. The interview can be found in the section
INTERACTIVE of the homepage (was AKTION).
Besides, the Amiga Future homepage is available also in English from today on.
The homepage has been translated 'by hand', not using a translator tool. Of
course, there's an English version of the interview in the English part of the
Amiga Future available. There's also a poll on the English start page and much
more.
For expanding the English homepage the editorial staff is still looking for
users which could translate the German texts every 1 - 2 weeks into the English.
In the English section there are two buttons: the first stands for the normal
and very up-to-date news of the Amiga Future that are translated online into
English using a translator tool, and the second leads to "real" English news,
powered by BoingWorld.
(ps)
V³ v3.3.79beta
On 11. February 2001 Oliver Wagner has released the beta version
v3.3.79 of the web browser 'V³'. It contains bugfixes, improvements and
enhancements. For using this version a keyfile is needed. Besides this, Oliver
Wagner points out that it is a beta version that contains several bugs and so
mainly serves illustrating the actual state of development.
Compared against the version v3.3.75beta dated 4. February the following has
changed (among other things):
The complete list of the changes is content of the readme.
SharkPPC Delayed
In the beginning of October 2000 Elbox announced the G3/G4
card 'SharkPPC'. As release date for the developer version the end of November
was named and for the user version it was January 2001. On the
Shark PPC price site
of Power Computing the end of June 2001 for the developer version and the second
half of 2001 for the user version are given as release dates.
(sd)
Supplement 12.02.2001:
Today the completion date for SharkPPC G3/G4 on the SharkPPC site
of Power Computing was changed to the end of March 2001.
(ps)
CD-ROM: Amiga Toons
This CD-Rom contains all the known Eric Schwartz animations but also images by other
Amiga artists. Besides that there's the Holiday Gallery that contains pretty
pictures for Eastern, Valentine's day, Christmas and Halloween. For users of OS
3.5 and 3.9 there's a directory with toony Glow Icons. Furthermore there are the
comic adventures of Sabrina Online and the Simpson edition of Monopoly.
Browser: Opera 5 Beta 6 for Linux Released
A free version for Linux of the browser 'Opera' is available, now.
This version is for free, because it is sponsored by advertising banners.
Two versions, one for Intel and one for PowerPC, are available.
(ps)
CNet Review of the Linux Version of Photogenics
CNet has done a review of Photogenics 5.0 for Linux and gave the program 9 of 10 possible points.
"This is a must-have program for graphic designers and users who appreciate high-end graphics software".
The complete review is to find under the title link.
(ps)
New InstallerNG
I just uploaded a new version of ´InstallerNG´ to the support site.
There are some little function fixes and the "Cancel" button for copying
works proper now (of course better than in the old Installer, which cut short
installation immediately....). Have fun!
(ps)
Tales of Tamar News
Version v0.33 of Tales of Tamar is available for download for registered beta
testers. If you also would like to become an alpha / beta tester, please send
an e-mail to this
address.
The necessary documents then will be send to you promptly.
In version v0.33 trading for Tales of Tamar has been enabled. Hence trading between
an unlimited number of players is possible, for the first time. Type, number, and
price of a country's produced goods are defined by that country's natural resources.
Those natural resources are defined by the player's estate.
Thus estate in the mountains automatically produce goods different from estate e.g.
in the woods. It can be dealt in weapons, raw materials, mercenaries, herbage, corn,
and ships. But you only can deal with people already known by you or you got to know
from your scout on the map.
(ps)
09 Feb 2001
AmigaOS3.9 Mailing List
First OS 3.9 Updates Available
The first OS3.9 updates are available on the Amiga OS3.9 homepage.
One is the ReAction based preferences program for Genesis, and the other
one an updated locale files. Almost all languages were updated and
completed. The new Genesis preferences has a complete ReAction interface
and does not require MUI, any longer.
Develop External Libraries for CanDo?
Hereby I offer all programmers a development kit which allows the creation
of external function libraries for CanDo.
The library support was written in SAS/C, but can be adapted to
Maxon or Storm with little effort. Both, synchronous as well as asynchronous
function execution (by sub-task), are possible. An example is included which
illustrates the way it works.
The library gets opened from CanDo by the command...
TrogSoft: New Amiga Software in Preparation
Trogladite Software announce miscellaneous new software products for Amiga
for which descriptions can be found under the title link.
(ps)
Eyetech AmigaOne 1200/4000 News
The FAQ on Eyetech's AmigaOne website was updated and it was confirmed
that Warp3D, which
was developed by the Frieden brothers and Sam Jordan, will be present on
the AmigaOne. (ps)
New Drivers for NetBSD
NetBSD-current, the development branch of NetBSD, was extended with drivers
for some more ISDN cards.
Currently are supported:
(1) also in NetBSD-1.5 + isdb4bsd
These drivers are in NetBSD-current and thus will be shipped in NetBSD-1.6.
Testers are asked to test the new drivers on their experimental machines (as
far as possible); production machines should still run NetBSD-1.5 (with the
isdn4bsd package if necessary).
Lucy's New Versions
lucyplay.libray 4.0 and Dwarf 0.50 now are available for download on my page.
The library offers functions for loading and playing samples (only WAV a.t.m.)
via AHI, joystick control via lowlevel.library, and a best mode function for
CyberGraphX/Picasso96 or AGA/ECS/OCS. Dwarf is a TrainerMaker or Cheater like utility.
Soon updates of my other programs will follow, too, e.g. Orbit, UnLZX, UnRAR, and
of course news about Drake!(ps)
08 Feb 2001
Diverse Sources
Software News
Version 1.4 of the Palm desktop
Spitfire²
by Ralph Torchia has been released.
Download:
Spitfire2.lha - 779 kB
Payback Demo Available
Playing Payback the player takes the role of a young driver on the run and
in this tries to become a big ganster's boss. A demo version of the game
is available from today.
Amigas at the NASA
Boingworld discoverd a website summarizing on what occasions the Amiga is utilized
by the NASA, this very day. Though this isn't new, it's very interesting.
(ps)
100%AMIGA CD Magazine Published
The new and English Amiga Magazine called '100%AMIGA CD MAGAZINE', which is published on
CD-ROM only, is available form the vendors, now. The CD-ROM has got it's own graphical
surface guiding you through the magazine. More information under the title link.
(ps)
St. Louis Show - Amiga2001
On 30 March 2001 the biggest Amiga show of America will start, the Amiga2001.
The show will take place in the Sheraton hotel, West Port-Chalet, St. Louis, MO.
The organizer Bob Scharp told us that there will be many high-lights and interesting
news on the show, and he is inviting everyone to still take care to get a ticket for
the banquette. You will find more information under the title link.
(ps)
OpenDivX for Amiga
After implementations of the "state-of-the-art" video codec 3ivX available for the Amiga,
another modern video codec will come to the Amiga. Within the following days the opendivx.library
will be released, a mixed-binary (WarpOS and 68k support) library capable of decoding and encoding
OpenDivX animations. Player support already will be available. The opendivx.library along with
developer information will be to find at Aminet.
Note: OpenDivX is not DivX :-) compatible, but it is possible to convert both of those similar formats
one into the other on a Windows machine.
(ps)
07 Feb 2001
Software News
AudioLabs now offers ProStationAudio
bundeled with AudioLab16.
On the TFA Homepage
you will find a small status report about the development progress of the
'ASM-One' assembler. (ps)
New Article by John Chandler
After a longer break John Chandler at Suite101 wrote a new article titled
´This Is Reality Control´.
In his new column John Chandler deals with a new low-cost PPC computer.
This computer is about the
RealityStation by
Ideas2Reality.
This is a A500 like device at £300 with the following features:
For operating systems QNX RTP and Linux will be utilized. But the
company also is interested in other operating systems and for this
hands over to third-party companies the system documentations.
More information can be taken form John Chandler's text under the
title link.
(sd)
The ICQ User List has got a Forum, now
Since there are more and more registrations from people apparently not knowing
what ICQ is about, Markus Schmidt has set up a
forum which
hopefully will be used lively.
It is planned to create an ICQ-FAQ from the postings but at the time being
time and information to do that is missing. Thence all ICQ users (and such about to
become one) are asked to drop by time by time and use the forum.
(ps)
An investigation on different behavior in reading of print and online issues
of the NYTimes complains about missing visual indicators and detention to
pure value of the new inside online media.
How does on read news? Contrary to a newspaper, which is bought as a whole and normally
you run over the pages in part at least, whereby you possibly occasionally recognize
something you originally maybe didn't want to read, you single out much more when you
read online. But this maybe also would mean that little by little your point of view
takes in more and more, even more by personalized offers.«
You can find the complete article by Florian Roetzer under the title link (German).
(ps)
VirusHelp Denmark: Survey Changed once again
Since the survey by VirusHelp Denmark regarding the mostly used anti-virus program
didn't work 100% with every browser a new survey was set up, which hopefully works
now. Follow the title link to participate.
(ps)
AmigaOnlineGames
4 new games, Armour Geddon 2, Flight of the Instruder, Global Effect, and
Powerdrome, have been added to the list. Have a look at the download area,
too.
(ps)
New Executive Update by Bill McEwen
In his new Executive Update Bill McEwen talks about the Amiga show which will
take place in St. Louis, USA, in six weeks.
"Where is the AmigaOne? Will Cringley (the editor: supposedly Robert X.)
finally eat his words about a new Amiga? What about AmigaDE on PDA's, Set Top
Boxes, Internet Appliances, or even desktops? Will Tom (the editor: Cruise) and
Nicole (the editor: Kidman) stay together or is it over? Is there life for the
AmigaOS after 3.9?", are Bill McEwen's core questions and he promises answers to come
in St. Louis and thereafter.
After further inquiry Bill McEwen told us that indeed it is about Robert X. Cringley who
really is predicting for years that there will be no new Amiga. McEwen continued to write,
"we will prove him to be wrong".
(cd)
The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition Screenshots
On the Airsoft Softwair homepage just some snapshots have been
released at the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" section from
programs published on this CD-ROM e.g. Rainboot v3.1, the CD32 Games Install
Kit 4, and RB2Exe 1.2. There also is the high resolution 1600x1600x24 cover
designed by Pixel Art.
(ps)
Kicksoft present at the alt.WoA
Kicksoft announce to attend the alt.WoA
Amiga show, which will take place in Huddersfield, England, on 24 February 2001.
Kicksoft on the occation of the show is organizing a
contest
in which you can participate online, too. 2 x Drawstudio 2 are to win.
Any one who has previously had problems with valid registrations of
GoldEd 6 from other companies are urged to get in contact with Kicksoft.
(ps)
Amiga Arena News Amiga Arena - Special Price Project!
In cooperation with Bernhard Lindner Amiga Arena makes possible a special price
for T.U.M.M.Y! which is a little specialized database managing a big base of cards
of the card-game collection Magic The Gathering (>6700 cards).
The program's particular fortitude are the extremely powerful search functions
allowing to search for any card by almost any criteria imaginable. Many
enhancements are planned for the future, but strongly depend on number of
registrations.
Amiga Arena - AmiAtlas Special Price Project!
Still until 28 February 2001 AmiAtlas is available for special price.
Andreas Regul did NOT stop development of AmiAtlas! (But he just cannot continue
development himself.) He still is looking for a programmer for further development.
Also hobby developers are addressed by this! If interested please mail to
olaf.koebnik@online-club.de.
(ps)
New Version of WorkON Released
There was a new version of WorkON released on my homepage to be found
in the Amiga/WorkON section. WorkON is a littel 'system enhancer' for
the AmigaOS. Though it is not in beta stage any more, it wasn't finished, yet.
The final version will be released on Aminet, soon. But interested people can
already download the archive now and send bug reports to me.
Software News
At the time being all of the elder versions of ArtEffect can be updated to
version 4 at a low unique price from Haage&Partner.
ArtEffect 4 is a flexible and easy to use painting program for Amiga.
The AROS project's website has been updated.
You can read about progress in detail.
Golem: PDA with AmigaOS Raising?
»Amiga is looking for software developers for PDA applications.
After the SDK's for Amiga's upcomming AmigaDE platforms are available
the company now is looking for programmers to develop organizer applications
for a possible PDA with AmigaOS. But Amiga still is keeping silence about
details on the type of PDA.«
You can find the full article under the title link (German).
(ps)
FinalExecute as Open Source
By order of my son Matthias I've uploaded the last version of
the popular FinalExecute to AMINET including source code.
The source code is available for free, all rights remain with the
author. By doing this Matthias finally says good by to the AMIGA.
(ps)
SPIEGEL: Jenny E. of the New Economy
In the current issue of the SPIEGEL (German magazine), in the context of
an article about the shady scheming of the former hacker Kim "Kimble"
Schmitz, on page 128 the following sentence is written:
"Already as a teenager Schmitz realized that one can do much more than
just playing "Pac-Man" with an Amiga computer. Pretendedly he invaded
the secure systems of the NASA, Pentagon, and Citibank. Soon he got the
aura to be a computer genius. But this version is vehemently mistrusted inside
the hacker scene."
A very interesting article making clear that genius and (megalo)mania
are very close neighbours.
(ps)
Desktop Replacement for Windows
The program "WorkbenchOnWin" (only 364kB) makes it easy to give every
Windows-Desktop the look'n feel of an Amiga-Workbench. The topical version is an
early alpha version and no emulation of an Amiga.
Download: wow.zip
I am very keen on the future versions. With some knowledge of the Windows
registry it is possible to completely replace the Windows-Desktop.
(cd)
05 Feb 2001
ALD - We have a Winner!
As promised, the one who makes the 600. entry for the ALD, will get the game "Simon
the Sorcerer II". Now, we have a winner:
AmiSectorOne made some
elder games available for download again. For example Megaball has been added.
Antony announces that he is
still working on version two of 'Charon', a download manager.
The Dynamite-Website announces
that the Bomberman/Dynablaster-clone 'Dynamite' is still beta.
There is a new alpha version of the e-mail client SimpleMail available at
SimpleMail.
The mail-client has many new features, for example SMTP-Auth, and a
Forward-button.
Download: simplemail.lzx
- 92 kB
A new version of SimpleHTML, a offline reader for HTML-pages, by Sebastian
Bauer is available here.
Download:
simplehtml.lzx
- 30 kB
(ps)
Issue #6 of PLANET Amiga Released
Issue #6 of the french printmagazin 'PLANET amiga' were published. The 40
pages contains news about software, hardware and games; many test, for example
AMP2, Perfect Paint, OS3.9, Diavolo Backup 2000, Mediator 1200, Punchinello
MK2 and Powerflyer; and an interview with Bill McEwen.
(ps)
Alpha Testers Wanted for 'Anim Maker'
'Anim Maker' is a software that makes it easy to create Anime animations. This
software is currently in early alpha stage and testers are wanted.
The testing will be held as some kind of competition. The 10 best alpha testers
get the possibility to become beta testers and the best beta tester will get the
software for free.
Minimum system configuration is an Amiga with cpu 68020+, AGA, MUI V3, toolbar.mcc
and some amount of memory.
EASys! Patch 4.8.4 Version 2
On 3. February 2001 a second patch for EASys! V4.8.4 has been released - the
first patch has to be installed before. Before installing the readme file should
be read.
The download of the patches is possible via the
service packs
page of EASys!.
(sd)
GFX Lists Reworked
The lists of games and demos supporting GFX cards has been largely reworked. The
games entries are now subdivide to categories of name, genre, and - if possible -
size, download link, and URL. The demo entries now give also information whether
the demo runs on 68k, PPC or on both CPU's. Additionally the list has grown
strong because of the help of the Amiga users. Richard would be happy, if
still more entries would be contributed to the CPU list.
(sd)
ASM-Pro v1.16h + Source Code
On 4. February 2001 Mark Reestman has released the version v1.16h of the
assembler 'Asm-Pro' inclusive the source code. The bugfixes and enhancements can
be taken from the history.
Amiga Arena - offline
During the last days I couldn't dial up my provider so no updates were possible.
I hope that all runs as usual now .
Amiga Arena - redesign
The link collection in the Amiga Arena has been restructured and in the future
there'll be more ratings and info to be found.
Amiga Arena - UAC full versions
The strategy game "Belagerung", for two players,
is available for free download as is a tools collection.
These are programs had been published in 1995 as shareware and are freeware now.
Amiga Arena - announcement
I hope to be able to offer special discount actions soon again.
For the time being I have the promise of two further developers of actual
shareware.
I hope you continue to make use of this possibility to register shareware
software for a special low price.
The special discount actions are no matter of course and I hope to be able to
still offer such in the future.
Amiga Arena full version
Talks about further full versions are in progress.
(sd)
Programmers Wanted
Thomas Eichler (E.T.) wrote:
First, greetings to the community!
This way, I'm looking for 2-3 experienced C/C++
programmers on Amiga for our team. We want to produce a realtime strategy game, for now
exclusively for Amiga (PPC and AmigaDE).
Conversions for Playstation 2, Dreamcast and Nintendo are planned
(depending on getting a licence of the respective producer).
Rumors about AmigaZone are Not the Truth
Harv Laser wrote, he was adviced to rumors from unknwon sources saying that his
online service "AmigaZone" would vanish. He puts theses rumors an end and
declares that AmigaZone will not disappear. AmigaZone, he wrote, is quite
healthy, works and serves its members, as it has been doing since 1985.
(mj)
Supplement 02-04-2001:
Further information on this topic
have been released on ANN (Christian Kemp).
(sd)
V³ 3.3.75beta Released
There has been a new beta version 3.3.75 released for the version3 of the Amiga
browser "Voyager".
Information about this new beta are contained in the release note.
Among other things it is pointed out that the versions of the image decoders of
this new version are not downward compatible with older versions.
Image2Icon
On Stephan Rupprecht's homepage there is a new version of his program 'Image2icon'
available for download, with which you can create thumbnail-icons from pictures.
Bonds V1.80 Available
The complete release of the current version of the stock exchange software
is available on the homepage and at Aminet from now on.
(ps)
Other Companies copy Amiga's and TAO's Ideas Hendrik Mikael Kristensen
worte on ANN that on the pages of the Danish news service
SOL.dk his attention was called to the fact
that possibly other companies are desirous of copying Amiga's idea of the
"write once - run everywhere" philosophy, thus pushing Amiga out of the market even before
they get in there.
The article is talking about QualComm trying
to create a standard operating system called BREW[TM], Binary Runtime Environment,
to be used on cell phones. If you take away Wireless you (almost) have what
TAO Group is doing.
Due to QualComm's particulars this works with every device equipped with their DMA chipsets.
BREW[TM] sits between the chip system software and the application allowing programmers
to let their applications access the cell phone's functionality without having the
chip system source code or a relationship with a handset manufacturer.
QualComm want to electronically certify all BREW[TM] programs before they can run on
consumer products and ask a fee from every of those spreading such programs (cell phone
companies). Hendrik thinks this might be indicating how important this technology
will be for the future.
Read the complete article under the title link.
(mj)
At J.F. Fabre's homepage you'll find
version 4.5c of his HD installer program ´JST´, which makes many disk games
startable from harddisk. Download:
jst.lha
Aminet 41 CD-ROM Available
Since today, the new Aminet CD-ROM 41 is available from dealers. The Aminet CD 41 -
February 2001 - contains more than 800 MB (uncompressed) of software in almost
a thousand archives. Since Aminet CD 40, numerous MB of news have been added. As
a special highlight, the Aminet 41 contains the full version of the beat'em up game
Capital Punishment. (ps)
Unmoderated News at boingworld.com
This morning we activated the first test of our unmoderated news posting!
This means ANYONE can post news directly to Boingworld
for immediate display on the main page! The usual top left icon of the newsitem
will though be an "Unmoderated Icon" and the news item will only be visible for
the people that have chosen to activate this in their prefs.
We (the editors) will of course delete or moderate the postings asap.
(ps)
Interview with Patrick Roberts
Christoph Dietz has done an interview with the programmer of 'zAMilo', the HTTP server
which runs on test.amigadev.net.
Read the details on this and other projects at the title link. (ps)
Fore-Matt: New Amiga Magazine on CD-ROM
The English software dealer 'Fore-Matt' has published a new Amiga magazine.
It will be distributed on CD-ROM under the name '100% Amiga'. The CD-ROM will
feature an own user interface
to guide the reader through the magazine.
The magazine will be published monthly. (ps)
WarpPNG.datatype version 44.11 Released
Oliver Roberts' WarpPNG.datatype version 44.11 has been released on the 1st of
February. The PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) is freeware.
Several weeks ago, I promised you some exciting
announcements. As the first of those, I would like
to introduce Matt Fontenot, Amiga's Product
Manager.
Matt has been with us from the beginning and while
you may not have met him yet, he has been working
closely with many of our third party partners and
has been busy creating many new products, as you
will soon see.
Now for the announcement:
There is tremendous potential for distribution of
your applications, games and other content for one
of the world's largest manufacturers of PDA
hardware. The projection is for more than 7
million units to be sold by the end of 2001 and
there are already several million units on the
market at this time. There will be specific
requirements as far as style, type of
applications, distribution rights and
certification of content. Matt will have more
details on this in the near future.
If you are interested in developing PDA
applications and games for a specific manufacturer
who will use Amiga Inc. for content delivery,
please contact Matt as soon as possible. This is
a serious project for those with an interest in
providing content and we will open a new mailing
list for it - the particulars will be announced in
a few days.
This project is for both open source and
commercial content providers, so no matter what
your choice of development is, you are cordially
invited to apply. To get further details, though,
you must have a signed NDA on file with Amiga.
You can get an NDA form from
www.amigadev.net under the legal menu,
right hand menu bar.
Just fill it out and fax it to my attention at 425-396-5671. Then
send an e-mail to projects@amiga.com that says "I am
interested." You can also contact Gary at
gary@amiga.com or Matt at matt@amiga.com
Sincerely,
Gary Peake
Matt Fontenot
Suplement:
Amiga, Inc. asks you not to send the above mentioned e-mail to projects@amiga.com, but to add
your e-mail address at the bottom of this
original message and
then to send it in using the "I am interested!" button.
(cd)
New AmigaLinkPage Goes into Test Stage
Amigakult.de goes into test stage. AmigaKult.de is a link page sorted by topics.
Every Amiga homepage, no matter whether private or commercial, can be listed
for free.
The aim is to become one of the most comprehensive link pages for the Amiga.
Please be patient if your page is listed some days after you submited it
as all pages are verified. Thomas Wolf will appreciate your help.
(ps)
New Exec V44.1 Public Beta2 and New MapROM
Harry ´Piru´ Sintonen has made version 44.1 beta2 of
Exec available for download as a public beta on his webpage. It is a
non-official Exec version which is according to the author more
optimized and faster than the official version. Use at your own risk.
Also, Piru has released version 1.24beta6 of his MapROM tool ´BlizKick´
for phase5/DCE processor boards.
AMIGA aktuell International 01/2001 has been released
On 28 Jan 2001 issue 01/2001 of AMIGA aktuell International was released.
This edition of AMIGA aktuell International contains
AMIGA aktuell International 01/2001 can be read online on our website or
downloaded as Lha archive.
(mj)
New NetBSD Amiga Drivers
Drivers for Individual Computer's "ISDN Surfer" and Zeus Development's "ISDN Link".
The NetBSD Amiga driver for the Siemens ISDN chip-set got support for two more cards for the Zorro-bus
added.
Up to now already supported:
The interrupt level for the ISDN Surfer is software managed, other cards must be
switched to IPL 2 by jumper setting.
Closer information about the isdn4bsd configuration are to find inside of the included
electronic manual pages (man isdnd) and
here.
Those drivers as well as the entire ISDN sub-system are content of NetBSD-current,
the development part of NetBSD, and will occur in the NetBSD-1.6 release. External testers
are asked to run a release of the 1.5 part until 1.6 has been published; for 1.5 the last
released isdn4bsd-0.96_BETA is available as additional
package (but without drivers for ISDN Surfer or ISDN Link).
(ps)
VirusHelp Denmark: Survey
At VirusHelp Denmark a survey regarding your favourite anti-virus program is taking place.
(ps)
01 Feb 2001
The 600th wins
Shortly we will have 600 entry's in our "Amiga Link Directory".
For us it is a pleasure and the reason to give away one copy of
the game "Simon the sorcerer II" to the person whomes website will make
the 600th entry.
Of course also for this reason our policy to become part of the ALD
will be the same as ever. It's not possible to get an entry if you're
simply having an Amiga at home. To make an entry in the ALD your website must
concentrate on the Amiga subject, (too). E.g. presentation of programs,
developments or your own Amiga computer.
Telling us about your website will not automatically qualify for an entry.
Until the winner was determined no new entered websites will be published
in the ALD to prevent somebody from waiting for #599.
(ps)
Virtual Dimension 10th Anniversary!
Yesterday was a day to party for Virtual Dimension: their 10th anniversary!
To duly celebrate this you will happen to see several things from VD during the year.
At first there is the show-video from the World of Amiga in Cologne, which
unfortunately took some more time to be finished this year due to technical
problems - but meantime the time is right for VD to go to the studios for
speech sampling.
Congratulations to the Virtual Dimension team :-)
(ps)
AmiBench News
Because of fresh server problems AmiBench isn't accessible at the
used address. Currently you can visit AmiBench at this URL:
http://amibench.shagged.org.
The problem should be fixed during the next few days.
(ps)
Report+ Version 4.23 Released
Report+ is one of those small but very useful programs to make user's life
easier. With Report+ you can easily create bug reports, Aminet readmes,
documentantions and similar reports. The program is freeware and basing
on ReAction and GadTools.
Download: report.lha
(ps)
Eyetech Online Ordering now with SSL
The British vendor Eyetech Group Ltd. as enlarged their online ordering system
with SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to take care for the transfer of sensible data like
credit card numbers.
(ps)
PicassoIV / ZorroIII Survey Project
Does one of the above apply to you? Then write to me! Contact address:
Albrecht Kinzkofer.
List as much details as possible about your Amiga hardware, even if it seems to be
unimportant:
Which model, when did you purchase it, which CPU board, which expansion boards,
which modifications done, which RAM equipment, "Buster revision, P4Info-Output, etc.
I have got such a ZorroIII problem and I'm working on a solution and looking
for "companions in trouble". If I was able to solve this problem
(assumedly by replacing two socket chips), I would try to help others concerned
(e.g. by centralized buying).
At the time being I'm doing some "basic research", hence write to me if one of
the above terms apply to you. Thank you very much. Albrecht Kinzkofer
(ps)
Future of SMSEngineerMUI?
The program SMSEngineerMUI (SMS = Short Message Service) for sending
short mails to cell phones is to be enhanced. On the BlitzEngineers website
for this there currently is a survey online. In participating this survey
you can co-decide about how the future of SMSEngineer would look like and
what should be further implemented. The authors would be happy about every
participant.
(ps)
SimonII Update 5
Update 5 for Simon the Sorcerer II is available now and should
fix the known sound and timig problems. But Paul Burkey urgently
suggests to install the game new, cause update 4 might have smashed
some of the data in the ´data/voices´ directory.
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