Safe Version 14.8 Released
VirusHelp Denmark announced the release of version 14.8 of the virus detector
Safe. The detector finds viruses, but cannot remove these!
Update of the Stock Exchange Software Bonds
Bonds is a financial software fitted for share management.
The software is in especially fitted for the financial market of Germany and
best handles shares traded within Germany.
Another update of Bonds will be released on weekend. Several small enhancements
have been implemented, again some bugs were fixed. New is a version check via
the Internet. The import filters have been reworked, a new filter allows to
import stock quotation data from www.stockwatch.de, where historic quotations for
German shares are to find.
Work on the depot manager proceeds, a finished version is expected for the next
weeks. Also the manual in PDF format is about to take shape, so the users will
have a properly manual at hand in the future.
(ps)
KickSoft Established
The Kickstart Amiga Group have established a seperate website under
www.kicksoft.co.uk for sale of software.
On this site users can purchase commercial high-quality shareware software using their credit card.
At the opening there are 2 x DrawStudio2 for win in a contest.
(ps)
Shared ZLib-Library for PPC
At the Aminet there now is a shared library for the popular ZLib compression (gzip)
running on 68k as well as under WarpOS! The archive can be downloaded from Aminet
under
util/libs/zlib-library.lha.
The library is freeware, source code and developer stuff for the StormC compiler are
included for interested people.
I would be pleased if the library were supported by Xarc programmers and others.
According to the PPC used speed can reach about 5 MB/s (unpacking) or 1 MB/s (!!, packing)
at packing rates up to 75% (text)!
The zlib.library also will be utilized in the new version of Digital Almanac III, cause
this will give executables about 30kB smaller than before.
(ps)
GFX Lists Update
Thanks to the help of many Amiga users the lists with Amiga games and demos
supporting graphics boards could be enlarged with many entries. The layout
of this site was enhanced and designed more predictable, too.
Moreover there is a new list on the site (Amiga section) listing programs
supporting multiple CPU's (on installation). Since one often doesn't remember
which programs offer an optimized version e.g. for the 060 after the computer
was accelerated this list might be helpful.
(ps)
Payback in Progress
In the current status report #18 Apex Designs announced that the new game
´Payback´ will be in trade in about two weeks. At the same time a playable
demo version will be made available for download.
In an interview with the Amiga-Future the programmer James Daniels described
Payback as follows:
"The player takes the part of young driver on the run and tries to become a
big gangsters' boss. The game is completely non-linear. To finish a level
the player simply has to collect a certain amount of points. How to achieve
this is up to him-/herself.
You can act on the local Kingpins' advice, uncover secret missions or join a
gunfight. There are a lot of hidden surprises to discover, so one must play the
game several times to find all of the extras. The game was inspired by Grand Theft Auto,
but I invested much effort into the game to make sure it will lick GTA in all respects."
(ps)
Heise: Met@box in the Deep Red
»Sometimes things come more worse than expected: Recently in September
last year the Met@box AG from Hildesheim, Germany, announced to incur a loss
of around 15 Mio DM in the business year, instead of realizing profit. Now the
manufacturer of set-top boxes notified a loss of about 19 Mio DM.
According to preliminary calculations volume of sales was at 50 Mio DM the company
disclosed on this Tuesday.«
More details under the title link (German).
(ps)
Golem: Sega Knells the End of Dreamcast
»After rumours around the end of the Dreamcast console looped the loop
during last days Sega now puts an end to speculations. In the context of a
corporate reorganisation the former Japanese video game giant wants to
focus on video games contents in the future.«
More details under the title link (German).
(ps)
New Aminet Uploads
As the recent list output (new uploads) has changed and unfortunately there is no
link in the middle of the overall-subdirectories any more, we've listed the
main directories above the new uploads for easier finding of alternative
programs.(ps)
Descent 2 Port for Amiga
Some time ago I've started a Descent 2 port for the Amiga
(WarpUP and 68k version). Unfortunately I'm not able to
finish this port due to lack of time, cause among other things
I'm working on commercial games for the Amiga :-).
(And these are yet more important than porting an old game).
An interested programmer who would like to finish this port
may contact me at any time and receive the current source code.
Current stage:
The code was compiled with StromC-gcc or gcc-WarpOS.
Amiga Fire Looking for Editors
The Amiga online magazine 'Amiga Fire' is looking for support by
people wanting to write news, previews, and reviews about Amiga games
for the magazine. If you are interested, contact
rune.keller@amigafire.com.
(ps)
Heise: Forbidden to Despair ;-)
»Who wants to vent one's displeasure by the emoticon :-( risks a draconian punishment.
Wrongdoers have to write a thousand times: ":-( is a registered trademark of Despair, Inc.".
Albeit the punishment claimed already indicates the satiric character of this action –
reality beggars all presiflage. The Despair company
really has booked the trademark ":-(" – in dependence on the smiley ":-)"
pronounced as frowny – at the US patent office
in 1998. And the office in point of fact
granted this
application in May 2000.«
Complete article under the title link (German).
(ps)
Poll by Chrystal Interactive Software
Crystal Interactive Software is a marketing company for games software (e.g. Bubble Heroes).
To be able to better estimate which genre is in demand a poll has been started in which
you can participate under the title link. JavaScript[TM] must be enabled.
(ps)
Following the complete press release:
January 29, 2001- Happy Machines releases the second preview of their
next generation video compression technology called 3ivx. Small file
size and high quality video is one part of the 3ivx advantages, the
other one is the truly multi-platform nature. This is great for video
conferencing, video-on-demand, broadband content providing,
interactive television but also for UMTS (or G3 mobile phones)
implementations.
True mutli-platform support means that it is available for
Windows: Windows Media Player plug-in or QuickTime plug-in
MacOS: QuickTime plug-in
Linux (x86, PPC) & Solaris: XAnim
BeOS: Media Player plug-in
Amiga: WarpUP (MooVId for 68k & PPC) and PowerUP (SoftCinema)
The decoder is available on the site
right now. For the moment,
however, the encoder is reserved for 3ivx partners.
"Quality and multi-platform is one thing, but particularly important
for the movie studios is encryption, watermarking and Digital Rights
Management" said Jan Devos, President of Happy Machines. "That's why
we made sure our 3ivx codec is standard compatible with most of the
encryption and DRM systems available"
"I was amazed by the quality" explained Mr. Alan Redhouse, Chairman
of the Eyetech Group.
"That's why we are bundling this codec with our
next generation AmigaOne hardware".
The current release is 5 to 20% better than the most efficient codecs
out there. In comparison with MPEG-2 that means a ratio of 1:12 while
near DVD quality. This indicates that the 3ivx video codec, while
still in development, is already one of the best.
There is a lot of interest in such a high performance codec. The 3
million page views on the 3ivx.com web-site after the first preview
release in December show that very well.
Happy Machines also referred to as the Think-Tank is a small Belgian
company representing an extremely creative team and a large
international network of inventors, software and hardware developers,
designers in various fields such as imaging, satellite
communications, artificial intelligence, machinery etc., which has
contacts with top-manufacturers worldwide. The company is also member
of the MPEG-group and is an Inmarsat partner. It is orientated on
project development and related intellectual properties.
More Details on zAMilo
As already reported,
"AmigaDE zAMilo V0.098" is running as http server on a test server
at Amiga, Inc..
Christoph Dietz has asked Gary Peake and Goetz Ohnesorge for more information
about the http server ´zaMilo´ utilized on
test.amigadev.net.
Read the short interview under the title link.
(ps)
GFX Lists
On my homepage there are two lists showing an overview of Amiga games
ad scene demos running on graphics boards. I would be happy to be able
to continue the lists with support of the Amiga users. Moreover there
are 12 new skins for CoolCALC on my homepage and some news on
programs planned. (ps)
Heise: Head of Gateway Resigns
After Gateway beeing in the deep red
in 4Q/2000 Jeff Weitzen, chairman of the board of management of the PC manufacturer,
resigns. Ted Waitt, president of management, who founded Gateway in 1985, will line
up for succession.
More details are to find under title link in the official
press release from Gateway.
(ps)
Chip: Napster to be Subscription Service in Summer
»The Bertelsmann e-commerce group (BeCG) wants to attach fees for the use of
the music exchange Napster from June or July, according to what the head of
Bertelsmann, Thomas Middelhoff, said.«
More details under the title link (German).
(ps)
New Amiga Emulation Mailing List
Since a couple of days there is a new mailing list 'Amiga-Emulation'
on Gary Peake's OWLNET.net-Server. Who wants to subscirbe may send a
mail to majordomo@owlnet.net
with subscribe emulation in the body of the mail (text field).
The mailing lists ´Team Amiga Mailing List´, ´Sofa-list´, ´STRICQ-list´,
and ´Arexx-list´ are also hosted there. More information are to find
in the Mailing Lists section under the title link.
(ps)
Play!Amiga Needs Your Help
Soon the reworked version of Play!Amiga shall go online.
There are some data from Amiga users still missing! Please,
send the titles of three of your favourit games as soon as possible to
Juergen Theiner for creating
a chart list.
Very important: a ´,Fist Aid Database´ with tips and trick all around
installation and running of games is to be created. If you have a hint such as,
"to insall the game XY first you have to manually set the assign ´XY´",
please sent it quick. Thank you very much for your help.
(ps)
GameSpy Interview with Bill McEwen
James Hill from Gamespy, Inc., the popular game portal, has done an interview
with Bill McEwen. Read this interview under the title link.
(ps)
Big Book of Amiga Hardware updated
´Big Book of Amiga Hardware´ was updated. There are 20 more or less big
changes and additions. To be up-to-date Ian is always looking for new pictures and
informations! It would be grate if some of you could mail new material to
Ian (german or english).
(ps)
The "Source Code Release" is only some kind of "Add-on-Source-Code". That means that
this release does not contain the 3d engine, but only parts of the game-logic to make
the programming of add-ons easier. To use these add-ons you need the windows or linux
full version of the game. These sources cannot be used to port the game to the Amiga.
(ps)
GAUHPIL Millennium Info
GAUPHIL is the biggest Amiga user-list available at the internet. Since 1994 Dietmar
Knoll is collecting the names of Amiga-users all over the world. He publishes these
names at his homepage. Today the list contains 995 users from 38 countries. If you
want to be a member of the list mail your personal informations to
dknoll@myokay.net
(ps)
New Background Pictures for AmigaOS 3.9
Markus Lück wrote:
First of all I would like to say thank you for the positive reactions that
followed the release of os39wallp.lha (Aminet). Today the second archive is
available at the aminet (os39wallp2.lha).
Will there be a third archive? This depends on the quality of RealSoft3D and if
I have the money to by it. The raytracers I am using at the moment are old and
not very fast and especially Cinema4D has many bugs.
MAS MPeg Device v1.0
Since today, Chris Hodges offers an MAS MPeg Device on his homepage for the
MAS3507D player by Dirk Conrad (which is connected to the parallel port).
This finally enables people to use all software which uses the standard
commodore mpeg.device, such as AMPlifier, Frogger or MPegMovie.
FormAldiHyd v2.0 Beta with WacomIV Support
On 1st of January Chris Hodges has updated his tablet driver software for
the Aldi/Tevion/Medion and AipTek/HyperPen tablets and included an
experimental WacomIV mode. As he does not own such a WacomIV tablet himself
and had no time to continue development due to lack of time, he depends on
the response and feedback of users with WacomIV tablets who test the new
driver and tell him what works and what doesn't.
According to Blittersoft iFusion has been successfully tested on 060/PPC
systems. Now just the 040/PPC combination (BlizzardPPC) is undergoing some
tests. (sd)
F1: eBay Client and 2 New Games
F1 Software has released detailed information about their announced eBay client
'AmiBud'.
This runs on AmigaOS 2+ and faciliates the use of eBay.
Additionally two new games are announced. These will be developed in C++ and
shall come out for Windows, Amiga, MacIntosh and possibly for AmigaDE. Further
details regarding these games do not exist yet.
(sd)
JST v4.5b
On 28. January 2001 the version 4.5b of JST has been released.
JST makes the installation of games on harddisc possible and offers patches that
improve the compatibility of games in relation to more up-to-date Amiga systems.
In this version was a bug fixed with regard to the Phase5 68060 libs and the
Silkworm loader updated (OS 3.5 icon and other things).
AmigaOnlineGames Update
On 28. January 2001 three more games were added to the AmigaOnlimeGames site and
therefore the site comes to a number of 34 games that can be played on the Amiga
via different networks.
Hints to further games and information can be sent to
AmigaOG@web.de.
(sd)
Searching for Retailers of CD32/CDTV Hard- & Software
The CD32 Allianz wrote:
As it becomes more and more difficult to get hard- & software for the CD32
& CDTV I'd like to ask those retailers who still have articles for these
systems in their stocks to contact me so I can let the users know it in the CD32
corner.
New Version (V.44.50 beta 7) of the HSMathLibs
Again there is a new version of the HSMathLibs for MC68040 and MC68060 for
registered users. Many bugs were fixed and some smaller optimisations were
done. The most significant enhancements in this version for sure are full
compatibility with OS3.9 and support of (hopefully) all special cases of
the math-libraries. (ps)
CUCUG: Status Register January 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer
User Group. It handels current and important information regarding Amiga,
Macintosh and PC, as well as the computer industry.
(ps)
Specifications for Handheld Software under SDK
Amiga Inc. released the specifications for developers to create software for Palm/Handheld/PDA computers
on the official AmigaSDK developer list [AMIOPEN-ML]. Following the data:
QVGA (240*320 Pixel)
16 Bit Color
16 Bit Stereo (audio available form SDK-Version 1.1)
Controls via 2 buttons (a+b) and one Game Boy typ
Directional Device
Shall be smaller than 2 MB.
Suggestions for game genres:
scramble/defender types
space invaders/galaxians types
platformers
puzzle games
sports stuff
To make this possible create a standard AVE window and add a
16 bit 240*320 pixmap.
Gary Peake thinks this also to be another way to get more
experience with the AmigaSDK.
(ps)
AIO Issue 43 Released
Issue #43 of the online magazine 'AIO' (Amiga Information Online) has been
released. Still more authors of articles and reviews are wanted.
Hyperion: Shogo: Progress Report
Thomas Frieden wrote in the status report that Shogo now officially has
entered beta test stage. This means that everything has been integrated to the
game and the only task left is to find possible bugs. Read the entire
report under the title link.
(ps)
SoftCinema and How to Get New Codecs
Sebastian Brylka from Fun Time World did a summary of a Polish article
(see title link) which we review here by his agreement.
«Jacek Cybularczyk, author of SoftCinema, released an article about the origin
of new codecs for the video player on Amiga.com.pl.
This article was written in Polish, thus here only the most important details.
Meantime the program SoftCinema can read the two formats OpenDivX and
soon 3ivX, too. Still missing e.g. is MPEG-4 support and several other not
quite legal codecs. The problem about those is that sources of the formats are
not free available. But there are some possibilities to fix this problem, too.
Though there are codecs for MPEG-4 and DivX on Macintosh, but due to missing
documentations of the Macintosh resources and extensions this all might be
difficult, somehow. The authors also don't seem to have a PowerMac for disassembling.
In case of the second possibility the author wrote that many might think this to be
moronic, but the thing works. You take the Windows dll's for help. Work started about
two month ago. The technic used is called "binary translation". First the x86 code
gets prepared for the C preprocessor in form of a macro instruction. Much of the
work takes the program TX86 which can read the dll's (comparable to Amiga libraries)
and convert them to C code. This isn't done total automatically, so you still have to
correct much yourself. The this way created code is compiled and can be executed under
a Windows emulated environment called WIN32ENV. In this a part of Win32 and some
important libraries are emulated. This all works on a PowerPC native only. Though all
possible codecs run, but speed is at flabby 1 FPS.
To get things somehow faster the code, which contains about 17,000 lines of macro
instructions, must get optimized. Unfortunately without optimization 72 MB are not enough
to compile, thus the rest of the work were done under APUS with a 200 MB SWAP file. For
an optimized compilation a 1 GB SWAP file was needed. The procedure took about 13 hours.
But the effort was worth while, meantime everything runs much faster. Next the dll's
will be converted to assembler to gain even better speed. This is possible after
analysing the C codes and using what GCC has generated. Later on everything will get
optimized once more. After profiling often used program parts either will be re-written
or more heavy optimized.
(ps)
Amiga-Community.net: Writing Race...
Since one might have to offer more than one Euro for 4 opinions Amiga-Community.net
decided to organize a small competition. Who will write the most opinions until
Thursday, 12:00 am MET will win a price:
1. price - Amiga OS 3.9 CD
2. price - Fondation Gold Ed. CD
3. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy
4. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy
5. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy
Important:
For the form item "Member" fill in your e-mail address. But this is only
applys to non-members! Members will fill in their membership number, cause
by this their points will be double credited.
Some days after the competition expired winners will be announced on
the site and informed by e-mail. Opinions will be rated in my discretion,
so don't write only 10 words. For more questions ask:
xandiy@amiga-vip.de.
(ps)
VirusHelp Denmark with New Mailing List
VirusHelp Denmark has created a new mailing list at YahooGroups, which will
replace the old ML at eGroups. The new mailing list will be public, so
everybody will be able to read it. Postings will only be accepted by VHT
themselves.
All members of the old mailing list at eGroups were already subscribed to the
new mailing list at Yahoo and should trouble-less receive the announcements via e-mail,
as usual. Though it's advisable to subscribe again at Yahoo to be able to
take part in e.g. polls.
More information on how to subscribe/unsubscribe can be found under the title link.
(ps)
New Exec V44.1 public beta 1 and New MapROM
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has made available for download version 44.1 of Exec as
official beta version on his website. This is about a non-official Exec version
optimized and faster than the official one, according to himself. Use at your own risk.
Furthermore Piru published version 1.24beta5 of his MapROM tool 'BlizKick' for
phase5/DCE acceleration boards.
WB2000 Images Update V1.5
Since the last archive about 90 new images for users of the startup tool
WB2000 were added - the archive now contains about 390 IFF images.
(ps)
ICQ User List
The ICQ user list's sign-up form didn't work for some time. Sadly, this has
been noticed only just today because of a hint. The error was fixed immediately.
All those who have tried in vain to sign up, please try again.
(ps)
Andreas Kuerzinger HP Updated
Andreas Kuerzinger has made available version 1.1 of his
AKCatalogs (35 catalogs for various programs) on his homepage. Also the
Amiga links page was finished and many other pages updated.
(ps)
Elbox: Version 1.2 MediatorNET.device
Elbox has released a new version 1.2 of the MediatorNet.device for Mediator PCI
for PCI ethernet network cards, today. Changes in the new version:
The new version of the driver enables simultaneous using of several PCI
Ethernet cards in Amiga fitted to the Mediator PCI busboard.
Support of New Style Device (NSD) has been added and operation procedures
have been optimised in order to reach the maximum transfer performance.
MediatorNET.device is a Sana-2 standard driver. This driver is compatible
with all the Amiga TCP/IP software packages which can access a Sana-2 driver
(e.g. Miami, MiamiDx, Genesis, and AmiTCP).
You can find further details at the title link.
(ps)
26 Jan 2001
Reader on ANF
nectarine * looking for host
A regular listener of the demo radio station 'nectarine *' wrote:
"Hi and hello, as regular listener I have sad news which could still be turned into a
story with happy end until end of February.
What is Nectarine? At nectarine.ojuice.net/index.htm
you'll find a very special internet radio. They broadcast music of game classics
and well-known sceners. Further, you can upload tracks as a small home producer.
This all results in an interesting music mix which clearly stands out from the
usual droning.
Well and now, where's the problem?
Nectarine needs a new HOST... here's the original message:
Why Nectarine can close at the end of February
- For now, Nectarine is friendly hosted by the company where i work
(http://www.poliris.com) as Orange Juice
webserver etc.. They help us a lot with hardware, technologie and prices for
LTP (remember the travel for Amiga competition at LTP IV). They paid every
month for an Easynet 12 mb/s ATM line but in March they will pay only for the
bandwith that the company needs. So, as nectarine isn't a company project i
can't ask them to pay for us. Maybe you noticed that they didn't ask for any
adverts at all.
- Nectarine needs a new host (best is in Paris) where i can put the 2 computers
of Nectarine Radio. The total amount of bandwith needed could be a very stable
1.5~2mb/S or more and we can find relays everywhere to reduce the total amount.
In exchange we can promote the company who host us with banners, jingles etc...
If you think that you can help us then just send an email to me.
Every emails will be answered.
For now, those peoples try to help us: Scene.org ! Audiorealm ! SonicBox ! and lot
of Nectarine lovers ! thx
ciao THOMAS SiEGEL aka d!RT!e (Organiser of mOOdS.2xs.de)"
(ps)
VirusHelp Denmark: New TCP Trojan Found
A new ´TCP´ Trojan was found in New Zealand. So far it isn't known what
installs the trojan, but Zbigniew Trzcionkowski, the programmer of Safe, has already updated
his virus detector so that the Trojan can be found in memory.
The TCP Trojan replaces "c:mount" by a 7484 byte long file and creates a new file "c:f".
The new file c:mount is a clone of the Vaginitis virus.
VirusHelp Denmark: Safe V 14.7 Released
Version 14.7 of Safe has been released. Safe is a virus detector, the program can
only find, but not remove viruses.
Greg Donner's OS3.9 FAQ Updated
The official OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), maintained by Greg Donner, was updated.
The sections 'undocumented features', 'internet applications', 'known bugs' and 'miscellaneous'
were made up-to-date. (ps)
Motorola COLDFIRE® Processor News
As the manufacturer was criticized continuously by the current 68k users because the
currently available COLDFIRE® processor has neither FPU nor (sufficiently 68k compatible)
MMU, the engineering team has designed a new ColdFire (4e) which contains both FPU and
MMU and is supposed to replace the 68k generation.
Motorola wants to take this step to "untie" their current customers from the (apparently
still sold in huge amounts) 68k processors. The soon to be released, ABSOLUTELY 68k compatible
ColdFire 4e is supposed to take their place and replace the old processor family in future.
test.amigadev.net Runs on AmigaDE
The test page created by Amiga Inc. test.amigadev.net/
runs according to a http:// request issued by telnet on a server "AmigaDE zAMilo V0.098".
Looks like the FTP server would be running on wu-ftpd (it's possible that it may be ported
to AmigaDE).
The server reacts to "finger", but nobody was logged in. www.amigadev.net and test.amigadev.net
are at least hosted in entirely different nets, not on the same computer.
The test page currently shows a logo which poses the question: "Can you write multimedia apps
that run in a dozen host environments?" and answers it with the ´Artix logo and "zAMilo http server"
powered by Amiga Digital Environment´.
(ps)
AmiBench.org - Domain Problems
AmiBench.org might be not accessible under the used domain amibench.org during next days.
The reason why is the change of the domain register station.
These days you can use the following alternative URL's:
From now on the X-Surf ethernet / MiamiDX bundle again is available form
all of the trading partners. Who already owns a X-Surf card can purchase
MiamiDX at a special price by presenting his/her bill - simple ordering by
e-mail. At the time being MiamiDX is the only possibility to use T-DSL
(German Telekom) with the Amiga and wasn't available from German vendors
for a long time.
The keyboard adapter Lyra is now under production. The first adapters in versions
for A2000, A3000, and A4000 will be available from all of the trading partners in the first
week of February. The Eternity company already verified Lyra to be the only adapter that supports
simultaneous pressing of several keys. This allows playing games also with a PC-keyboard connected
to the Amiga.
(ps)
CD32/CDTV User List Published
Kindly supported by Henning Schlautmann recently the first
own CD32/CDTV user list has been published at the CD32-Corner.
Now I would like to ask users owning a CD32/CDTV or being interested
in this to enlist. You can enlist online.
(ps)
GlowIcons Update V1.5
From now on the update of the MiniGlowicons v1.5 can be downloaded from
our homepage. Since last version about 90 icons for start-bars supporting
icon.library v44.x were added.
The archive now overall contains short to 430 icons.
Note: The identical archive for WB2000 user with all of the
new IFF pictures will be available from our homepage from January, 27th.
Icons missing? Do you have suggestions or icons which should be converted
to the mini-format? Write to
info@synotec-newmedia.
(ps)
INET DIAL v3.838 Update
INET DIAL v3.838 now includes support for OS3.9 Genesis TCP/IP stack
as well as remote email retrieval. INET DIAL is an integrated Internet
and remote computer connection facility which handles 'dial-in' and
'dial-out' connections.
Genesis is provided with a simple installation facility. INET DIAL now
includes support for reading e-mails remotely which had been previously
automatically downloaded by INET DIAL to your home base computer.
Distributed BASIC
Distributed BASIC is a BASIC-Interpreter released in form of a shared library.
A beta version is available for download. More details under the title link.
Tales of Tamar News
Development of the e-mail strategy game constantly precedes.
As for Tales fo Tamar the players send their moves in form of e-mails
via the Internet to the Eternity server. This method allows
turns from tow to three days and thus a more dense game atmosphere.
Additionally a sort of online chat will support the feeling of togetherness.
The players can directly log-in there and chat with other users or
players.
On 01-19.2001 the chronic of the year 60 were added and today a corrected
version of the German FAQ was put online.
(ps)
SoftCinema Version 0.11 Released
Version 0.11 of SoftCinema is available for download for registered users.
The following changes and enhancements were done for the movie- and animation player:
Download: SoftCinema.lha - 400 kB
(ps)
New MUI-class: ImageDB.mcc
All new MUI-classes are collected and registered at TUMULT. Yesterday, Bodmer Stephan has registered his
new MUI-class ´ImageDB.mcc´. With the help of it images can be loaded into databases using guigfx.library.
Further details.
Besides this there is an update of the GLArea.mcc-class (v0.9).
AmigaOne Website at Eyetech
You can find the new AmigaOne website of Eyetech under the title link which contains information to the
boards developed by Eyetech.
(ps)
muFS patch V45.10 beta
You can find a patch (betaversion 45.10) by Etienne Vogt for the multi-user-filesystem ´muFS´ under AmigaOS 3.5
and higher under the title link. Please read the readme
for further details.
AmigActive goes Active Media
The English Amiga magazine ´AmigActive´ has created a new online area called "Active Media". This area
will inform you about an outstanding selection of DVDs, CD-ROMs, books and other multimedia publications
and it is possible to buy them online. Besides this in "Active Media" there is an area in which you can read
former reviews.
(ps)
Amiga-Community.net News
Amiga-Community.net is looking for at least one sponsor in order to be able to double the bonus for written opinion
and to increase the incentive for the readers. Interested parties may please mail to
xandiy@amiga-vip.de.
Meanwhile the offer of assessments has increased to about 70 products/websites/dealers.
(ps)
New Graphics Board Information
You can find new information about current graphics boards on the website of CyberGraphX.
Among others it is reported there that G3/G4 Power PC-cards (Shark), which has been announced by Elbox
for this January, will not be released before late March/early April. Elbox decided to re-designing the
cards in order to make them AmigaDE compatible.
(ps)
Homepage of Andreas Kuerzinger Online
Andreas Kuerzinger wrote:
"Currently only the "About me" and the Amiga-sites work (in German as well as in English) but the rest
will follow soon.
Among other things you can download my projects like AKIconz, AKBackPix, AKTaskiSMS, some German catalogs
for several programs and something more (ScreenTab-images, WB-Screenshots, etc.) from the Amiga-sites."
(ps)
24 Jan 2001
amiga-news.de Now in Japanese, Too
From now on the messages which are relevant for Japan in amiga-news.de will be translated into Japanese by
AmigaNut which is a Japanese Amiga dealer.
AURA 2 for TVPaint User
Currently there is a special offer for former Amiga user of TVPaint. The original of Aura (PC) formerly was TVPaint.
More than 10.000 pieces has been sold of TVPaint in Europe (Amiga, Windows, SGI). All TVPaint user can
update to "AURA 2 for TVPaint user" to a special price.
Requirement: TVPaint serial number
This offer is valid till 31st of March 2001.
(ps)
Heise: Corel Will Keep Linux Branch as Seperate Company
Following two extracts from the Heise article:
«Except of the new Linux strategy the already for a long time announced company strategy of Corel contains
no big surprises.
...[snip]...
It remains Linux. Corel will not abandon the Linux business as speculated in the last weeks. They still
want to offer a complete Linux solution to the customers. To do so Corel intends to outsource the Linux distribution
into a seperate company, but to continue to work on Linux versions of WordPerfect Office Suite and CorelDRAW themselves.
But there is nothing about .NET for Linux.»
(ps)
New Details about the CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 NG
Due to great demand here a more detailed list of what has changed
in Install Kit v4.0:
Moreover of course there are many other enhancements as well as bugfixes done.
The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 is exclusively available on the
´The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition´ CD-ROM, which can be ordered from me.
(ps)
Amiga Arena News Amiga Arena - UAC Design Bonus!
"The Hunting Games" by Frank Abbing ready for download. There are
the following games:
´Plakat schiessen´, which works similar to the Moorhuhn game principle,
cause one should shoot as much signboards as possible within one minute, but of course
not the hunters!
In the case of ´Scheiben drehen´ you shoot on plates until all of them
face into the same direction. A plate hit will always do one quarter rotation more
than the others. Who will make the best time?
Amiga Arena - UAC Design Updates!
There are several updates online for games Frank Abbing from UAC Design made available
to the Amiga Arena. The quiz game Awaking AGA/ECS is now there as executable version.
The game can be played directly from harddisk, no longer .adf format. Risiko v1.7 is now
there as the freeware version.
(ps)
Inutilis News about Ermentrud
Ermentrud is a new adventure game under development at Inutilis.
More information and screenshots are to find under the title link.
Timo Kloss, programmer of the game, wrote:
´Ermentrud (Amiga)´ accidently now has got an interactive ´dialog system´ using
the common multiple choice method. Since also the inventory system is finished the next demo version
will almost (almost (almost (...))) show a completed engine, already. Unfortunately this demo doesn't
exist for now, but arguably will do somewhere down the road....
Originally we would have liked to already take the ´tavern scenes of the movie´ last weekend,
but we didn't....
This weekend (or even the following Mon/Tue) we are to proceed, really!
(ps)
´Big Book Of Hardware´ Updated
´Big Book Of Hardware´ is a really extended hardware reference website. Here you can find
a whole lot of information about almost any Amiga hardware. Yesterday many sections of the website
were updated.
(ps)
DirOpus is a file manager programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry from
GP Software. In 1999 the source code of the program was
released under GNU Public License rules. Jacek Rzeuski then started to revise and enhance the
program.
Due to lack of time Jacek then wasn't able to work on it that intensive anymore, and
Paul Huxham published new beta versions. Now Paul decided not to cooperate with Jacek in
the running project, but has started his own DirOpus4 project. Paul's homepage is to find
here.
Quake Deathmatch by "The Spirit of AMIGA"
On Friday 26th, 2001, ´The Spirit of AMIGA´ will organize their first
Quake deathmatch. This match will take place on an official server to see how the
response will be. ´The Spirit of AMIGA´ wants to bring together AMIGA online players
and possibly later on to found a clan and/or open an own server. Everybody who would like
to participate is heartily welcome to this match. No special software is needed for this
server. Details on how and when you will find under the title link (German website).
(ps)
Interview with Bill McEwen
Christoph Dietz did an extended interview with Bill McEwen, president and CEO of AMIGA, Inc.
Read the interesting details under the title link.
(ps)
WarpBMP.datatype Version 44.2 Released
Today Oliver Roberts released WarpBMP.datatype version 44.2. The datatype is
freeware and is available for different processors (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS).
(ps)
Earth 2140 Update
There is an update for Earth 2140 for Amiga users available at the download page
of Epic-Interactive. This update adds support for Voodoo3 graphic accelerators.
(ps)
VHI Studio in "Kodak Third Party Solutions Catalog"
Not only more and more Amiga users belong to the people convinced of our software's quality, but
recently also Kodak, who now included VHI Studio to the "Kodak Third Party Solutions Catalog".
Ultraconv NG now Available form Innovative Again
RBM Digitaltechnik handed the international sales-rights back to Innovative.
That's why Ultraconv NG 4.0 is now again available directly from Innovative.
(ps)
The subsystem is able to communicate with DSS1 (Euro-ISDN) mediate-stations. There are drivers for many PCI, PCMCIA,
ISA, ISAPNP, and Zorro-bus - ISDN devices.
At the moment there are drivers for the following Zorro-bus-devices available:
ISDN Master, ISDN Master II, ISDN Blaster.
We are still working on drivers for the ISDN Surfer and on tests with PCMCIA-devices for the A1200.
The subsystem will be available with release 1.6 of NetBSD. Additional help for configuration is available in
the documentation and from the manual
pages for isdn and isdnd.rc.
(ps)
MooVId Screenshot with 3ivX
László Török published a
screenshot of his AVI/MOV players MooVId showing
that the new format 3ivX is playable with MoVId. He didn't said when
a new version will be released.
(ps)
MainPrefs Version 2.05 Released MainPrefs by
Martin Elsner is a program to configurate your Amiga under OS3.5. With the program
you can manage your assigns, edit the User-Startup, set environment variables, and
start the preferences programs. In v2.05 some bugs have been fixed, new tools and
Spanish, French and Turkey catalogs have been added.
The guide covers the subject:
Reaction, preferences, Workbench, CacheCDFS, Internet, FastFileSystem,
ROM patches, printer drivers, PowerPC support, colour icons
and third party utilities.
Besides the online version (title link) there's an AmigaGuide version available
for download.
Auction tool: AmiBud for eBay
On their homepage F1
Software announces an eBay client for the Amiga. There are currently no details
released, but a screenshot.
Everybody who has questions or comments regarding the software might mail to
amigastuff@onemain.com.
(sd)
News about Linux-APUS/LinuxPPC
Michael Heider wrote:
As reported at Heise some days ago new kernels in version 2.4.0 are ready for
download at linux-apus.sourceforge.net
As this server might probably be permanently overloaded, I will also make the
precompiled kernel available for download on my homepage.
New to report after reading the .config file is that the driver for the
Cyberstorm MK III controller is included in this kernel.
Furthermore, there are again new programs to be found in the download area that
I have shifted to LinuxPPC.
Among others UAE in the version 0.8.15 (new: 68040 cpu emulation) and
Quanta+, a very good HTML page editor with own preview function.
Besides, there will be new and shifted programs regularly appearing on my homepage,
taken from the Linux user magazine, .
(sd)
Fire & Ice - Now Legal and Free at AMI Sector One
AMI Sector One has the following interesting news:
First of all the company 'Jester Interactive' which owns the copyrights of many older Amiga games,
has granted us permission to post many of the games from the cult company 'Graftgold' for free download on our site:
The first free game that is available is 'Fire & Ice' which should ring a bell to every Amiga-Fan.
Furthermore more commercial games and PD classics like 'Magic Forest 2', 'Seek & Destroy', 'Mayhem', and many more
have been made available. The first version of the new 'Amiga Applications Compendium' has been put online. This allows the
user to search for more than 300 Amiga applications, companies and developers.
Nostalgic disk magazines and cheat disks put a nice finish to this year's first update.
(ps)
´The Best Of The Amiga Scene CD´ for Free at mp3.com
Fredrik, also known as ORG* of X-TRADE ^ BoB, and two friends compiled an Audio CD containing the best
Amiga Songs ever five years ago. The CD sold well but now there are only two left and so it was decided
to make the songs available for free download at MP3.
Not all songs are already available, but they will be as fast as possible. Enjoy!
(ps)
Looking for AmigaDE-Developers
#Developer needs YOU! If you are a AmigaDE developer come to the IRC channel #Developer on
Amiganet (see title link). If you are sick of off-topic news in mailing lists, but like to
share your knowledge about coding, #Developer is the place to be. More information about IRC and
Amiganet can be found here.
(ps)
Amiga Flame: Top 10 of the Games 2000 Determined
Every year the online gaming magazine ´Amiga Flame´ starts a poll to determine the best games of the
year and then compiles a top 10 hit-list. The results of 2000 are now computed. Here now the games in
reversed order:
(ps)
New Crusader-Clone in Development - Demo Available
The team arround ´Extraterrestrial Developing´ is currently working on a Crusader clone.
The first demo version 0.2b of the game called 'Silencer' is ready for download.
The game runs on a 640x480 screen with 256 colors and needs 16MB RAM and 15MB on the harddrive.
Amiga Arena News
'Weltendaemmerung' a new strategy game by UAC Design is online. In the game the user plays a character
called Robert Ungar. He must try to stand against the creatures of Dr.Coypu. To achieve this he must
gain control over a army of mutants...
(ps)
WB 2000 Preferences Pics / PlayAmiga Design
On the occasion of the release of WB2000 Images for applications and tools with more than
350 pictures, we have now posted the current archive for preferences with 40 images on our site.
Furthermore there is a preview screenshot in the gallery on our news page of the new design of
Play! Amiga.de.
(ps)
Another Interview with MeterNet
Greg Wible, CEO of MeterNet held an interview with amiga.topcool. There he talks about
his collaboration with Amiga, amongst others.
(ps)
Interview with Greg Wible of MeterNet
Christoph Dietz had an interesting interview with Greg Wible, the founder and CEO of
MeterNet Corp.. MeterNet is the company that delivers, amongst others, the
'SimpleBox'
Follow the title link to the interview.
(ps)
New CyberGraphX Mailing List at eGroups
A new mailing list on the topic 'CyberGraphX' was created at eGroups.
You'll find instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing at the title link.
(ps)
´Aqua´ Released by Crystal Interactive Inc.
As reported Crystal Interactive has become distributor of the new adventure
game 'Aqua' and today they announced it has been completed.
In this game you'll find yourself in a mysterious world and will have to find your
way out. More information and screenshots at
Emerald Imaging,
the programmers of the game.
Requirements: AmigaOS 3.x or higher, an 68020 processor (68030 or better
recommended), 8 MB RAM, AGA or graphics board. (ps)
SMSEngineer NEWS
SMSEngineerMUI has been available in version 1.1beta for about a week.
This version contains the beta tester keyfile which enables the full
functionality and the use of the beta version.
We're also looking for someone who maybe has created own SMS-Gateways
(gateway.dat) and could send us these preferences. The requirement is that
it must work. Servers that set cookies don't work with SMSEngineerMUI.
(ps)
New Image Sets with GlowIcons Design
Some new archives were released on the MasonIcons homepage:
For more information please visit the "projects" page of Mason. Home at the
title link.
(ps)
First Screenshot of 3vix Encoder for Amiga
The Amiga version of the 3ivx encoder will be available soon.
A screenshot of a Workbench on which 3ivx is already running can be found
here.
Supplement 20 Jan 2001: Christoph Meier wrote:
The author of Frogger
has published a screenshot
of the OpenDivX encoder displaying a movie on his Workbench at 352x288 pixels and 14 frames/sec.
(ps)
Amiga Becomes Handheld PC
On video text page 632 of German TV station RTL2 there's the following news today:
«On the CeBIT the "Smart-Boy®", a new miniature PC in handheld format,
will be presented which is equipped with a touch-screen display, chip- and
credit card reader. A consumer device is supposed to follow this autumn which
will be distributed under the label "Amiga(TM)". In the eighties, the Amiga
was the first fully multimedia capable computer for the mass market.»
Simon the Sorcerer 2 - Update 4 Available
As announced, Paul Burkey has released another update of Simon the Sorcerer 2.
Especially in the German version, many bugs have been fixed. French language
support and the F10 feature have been added.
The question was: "Which is your preferred operating system".
4788 people voted:
58.40% - Amiga OS
13.05% - Windows 2000
6.79% - OS2/ Warp
6.29% - Windows 98
4.91% - BeOS
4.47% - Windows Me
3.17% - Linux
0.90% - MacOS
0.40% - Other
0.38% - DOS
0.29% - S-TOS
0.29% - Solaris
0.23% - Windows 95
0.17% - IBMs ROM Basic
0.04% - Windows NT
0.04% - VMS
0.02% - Windows CE
The Amiga vote would be surprising if it were for the fact that almost 60%
of all the voters were referred to the poll from Amiga fan-sites anyway.
(ps)
Creative Amiga Box
´Fisherking´ has built his Amiga, after installing the Mediator PCI board,
in a really creative wooden box. Have a look at some pictures of this
beautiful Amiga at the title link.
Supplement:
In the comments to this message on our German page, Dennis 'Hurrican' Pauler referred us to this
drawer computer
by Atroxis from Virtual Dimension.
(ps)
New Plugin for ProstationAudio Released
A new plug-in named 'Vinylizer' has been released for all versions of
ProStationAudio. The effects of a vinyl record can be applied to sounds.
PureBasic Version 2.00
Version 2.0 0f the compiler PureBasic has been released. It was completely re-written
and now is 4 to 7 times faster than before. For registered users there is an update
and a demo version for non-registered users available. The website has moved and now
is accessible under www.purebasic.com. Technical
details.
The PureBasic web site has now moved to www.purebasic.com.
The Windows x86 version is available for free to any Amiga registered
users ! Just send us a mail to get it !
(ps)
Exploring MP-Like Solutions
Fleecy Moss (Vice President - Development - Amiga Inc.)
talks on the AMIOPEN mailing list about the subject Memory Protection (MP)
in the new Amiga. This discussion rose from the amiga-news.de
interview
with Francis Charig from TAO. Hereupon followed several discussions in the
MooBunny forum:
Heise: DivX Successor "OpenDivX" goes Open Source
«The MPEG4 video codec successor "DivX", which derived some stardom from being in
operation for spreading piracy copied movies via the Internet, may hope to be widely supported.
To gain more programmers to participate in the so called "Project Mayo"
the developers around Joe Bezdek, "Director of Product Definition" of Project Mayo decided
to release the current en-/decoder core of the video format as
Open Source.
OpenDivX is only one step on the way to realize greater goals: a versatile video codec -
named "DivX Deux" by the programmers - offering high quality and being free available at the same time
»
See title link for the complete article (German).
(ps)
Heise: Linux Worm Obviously Spreading Rapidly
«An Internet worm named Ramen is attacking servers running under
the Linux distribution by Red Hat and apparently is spreading quite quickly.
It's activities stood out by augmented scans on Remote Procedure Call Services (RPC).
The worm utilizes two security gaps known long before inside of
FTP-Server wuftpd
and the program rpc.statd, which obviously still not have been remove from
many Linux machines. Already in September 2000 the Computer Emergency Response Team
(CERT) gave warning of
augmented attacks
of this kind.»
See title link for the complete article (German).
(ps)
New WarpBMP.datatype Version 44.1
WarpBMP.datatype v44.1 by Oliver Roberts released. The BMP picture datatype
is freeware and available for download for the following processors:
68k, PPC/WarpOS und PPC/MorphOS.
(ps)
MeterNet® Press Release
At the bottom of the following press release MeterNet announced the
SimpleBox 8600 series (powered by AmigaDE) to be released late February 2001.
MeterNet® Selects EnReach Technology's Easy Internet Access Platform
for SimpleBox wb7500 Series
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 17,2001 PRNewswire --
EnReach Technology, Inc., a global
leader providing infrastructure software for enabling enhanced services on
television, announced today that MeterNet Corporation has selected the
EnReachTV2(TM) Internet access platform to power the new wb7500 series in
its expanding SimpleBox entry-level Internet appliance lineup.
The new SimpleBox wb7500 series will utilize a specially tailored version of
EnReachTV2 that integrates Webmail, TV Lists, and MeterNet's SimpleBox User
Interface. Each SimpleBox wb7500 will ship preconfigured with US Nationwide
access dial-up service for $19.95 per month. Multi-lingual English and
Spanish technical support will also be provided. Initial US shipments are scheduled
for March 2001.
"EnReach's interactive software solution and our new SimpleBox wb7500 series
is an easy to use, low-cost combination that targets 'Late Adopters' seeking a
simple preconfigured alternative to discover the Internet on their home
televisions," said Greg Wible, President of MeterNet.
The EnReachTV2 Internet access software offers companies like MeterNet the
opportunity to supply their customers with a low cost Internet access
solution optimized for television. Advanced smart-fit screen technology and an
embedded browser make this a strong contender in the device marketplace.
"We are pleased to be working with a solution provider like MeterNet, who
was identified as one of the six major stand-alone Internet on TV providers by
The Carmel Group," said Bo Wu, CEO for EnReach."
MeterNet's SimpleBox Program is dedicated to bringing best of breed
solutions to their embedded platforms that target vertical and export markets. Each
device incorporates a tailored SimpleBox User Interface (UI) on top of rugged
solid-state design hardware with no moving parts. Along with providing simple navigation
and operation, the SimpleBox UI offers optional integrated Web-based eMail and
TV Listings that are optimized for display on televisions. The new wb7500
series complements the wb6400 series that have been shipping worldwide for the last
18 months and the new broadband wb8600 series that will be released in
February. (ps)
Here a small extract from the six-pages interview:
Q: It sounds like you have plans to do a lot of things. Where are you concentrating your effort?
A: In the home. Homes need set-tops, desktop computers, handhelds and cell phones.
Motorola even has a cell phone running the Amiga OS, by the way. The home is our target,
and I think you'll see us first in set-top boxes. We also have some reference designs for
some amazing desktops that we think will blow people away. We won't build hardware ourselves,
but we have reference designs for others to build.
Q: So there could be new Amiga hardware coming out. Will there also be shrink-wrapped
Amiga OS packages to run on Windows?
A: Yes, there will be, but I'm not sure what the timing will be. We're still finishing
up some of the last components, like the 3D renderers. That will all be finished up in
the next new months. Already, we can run very cool 3D animation on a Cassiopeia, and it
is very smooth.
The entire interview is to find under the title link.
(ps)
New QNX Distribution
Today QNX Software Systems released an new QNX® distribution.
This one contains Version 6 of QNY RTOS with new Neutrino® 2.11 mikrokernel, as
well as Photon® 2.0 mircoGUI. Newly added was SCSI support, a packet manager allowing
to update the integrated browser VoyagerTM. The new distribution offers enhanced support for
audio streaming and video in the range of multimedia. More information is to find under
the title link.
(ps)
´The Commodore Billboard´ Needs Help
Amiga Future wrote:
´The Commodore Billboard´ has a really big problem. The site has 17 new TV-advertising spots
and several other stuff, but has not any possibility to offer that amount to the users on their own server.
Because of that Soren is urgently searching for users to put some files on their servers. If you have
this possibility, please contact Soren via eMail.
Following the complete message:
«The 17 tv-ads require some 70 MB. This will generate more traffic than I'm
allowed to use on my server. I'm currently in contact with a guy who might
be able to host all the files for free. This is obviously the ultimate solution,
but if this fails, I would like to know if some of you die-hard Commodore fans
out there would be willing to help me?
Instead of one server hosting all the video clips, I was wondering if we
could spread the files over several servers. If 17 people would volunteer
and host 1 file each? You would have to provide between 2.2 and 5.5 MB
storage space each. Would anyone be interested? I order to make this work,
I guess it'll have to be all or nothing. If only 5 people volunteer, I think
I'll scratch this hosting idea. As you may have traffic limits on your
accounts I can inform you that The Commodore Billboard has between 30-40
visitors aday. This will of course be higher for a short while, when the
news about the 17 tv-ads reaches the Commodore news sites. But then again,
not all 40 will download 5 MB video clips. And with the audio previews
available, maybe people will be more selective and not just download the
whole lot. This might help decrease traffic. By the way, you have to provide
webspace on fairly decent servers. I wouldn't want people to download the
video clips with a speed of 0.2 KB/sec. ;-))»
Any help in solving the hosting problem is much appreciated.
eMail»
(ps)
New Version of sKulpt Released
sKulpt is the successor of the legendary 3D software ´Sculpt Animate 3D/4D´ of Eric Graham and Byte By Byte.
Some years ago the raytracing program has a lot of friends because it was simple, cheap and effective.
It was made many pictures with this program of amateurs as well as of professional.
The successor sKulpt will be developed completely new by CdBSSoftware
and supports already for now PowerPC and Warp3D.
Have a look at the title link for further interesting information.
Download: Skulpt_exe.lha - 68K skulpt_wos.lha - PPC
(ps)
Frogger Version 1.64b2 Released
There is a new beta-version 1.64b2 of the MPEG video player ´Frogger´ by Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz which
you can download in several processor-versions as usual.
This program is shareware and you can register via the website online (via RegNet) or via transfer of money.
(ps)
Heise: Linux 2.4 with File-System ReiserFS
«The Linux-kernel v2.4.0 has just been finished at last, and development already goes on. The biggest
change which will be integrated in the next kernel-version 2.4.1 would be including of the Journaling File System
ReiserFS. Already at the beginning of October Linus Torvalds explained in an interview with c`t that he
will not include ReiserFS in kernel 2.4.0, but as soon as possible in the 2.4. line. Obviously the time is right:
kernel 2.4.1-pre7 contains ReiserFS.»
Have a look at the title link for the full article (German).
According to Sourceforge
Apus test-kernels are also available for Amiga Linux.
(ps)
17 Jan 2001
Reader on ANF
Vulcan Software Alive
After a long period of abstinence there are some news from Vulcan Software. We remember: An English producer
and developer of moderate Amiga games.
The "Valhalla" series, which was not very successful for the Amiga already, will be continued for the PC.
For the Amiga this game could at least convince by its few spoken sentences, but the first screenshots
of PC-Valhalla makes suspecting a product PC users might gladly leave un-converted.
(ps)
Allan Odgaard Needs Help
Allan Odgaard, who is known from several MUI-classes, has a serious problem with his hard drive. In order
to solve this problem he needs an identical hard drive. The following type is needed:
Seagate ST3660A with the following parameter: 1057CYL-16HEADS-63SECT-545.5MB
Those ones who can place this hard drive at Odgaard`s disposal please mail to Allan Odgaard.
(ps)
Since child windows seem to be patented, Stefan Berger has removed
the support for them again. :-( If someone knows whether this
technology can be used freely, we'd like to know :-)
Georg Steger has written an ASL Font Requester
Johan Alfredsson has implemented and improved C:Run, C:NewShell,
C:List, C:Dir, DisplayBeep() and some more.
Adam Chodorowski has improved our Workbench and began to port
a TCP/IP stack to AROS (ping compiles but there is no code
for the stack, yet).
Michael Schulz has begun to work on a new AROS i386/Native core
which can load the large AROS kernel. AROS needs GRUB to boot,
now.
Flavio Stanchina has improved lots of header and build files.
(ps)
Amiga Samba Installation Script
A new installation script for Samba is being developed. Samba is a software which enables connecting
PC to Amiga. The new installation script is to help amateurs to install Samba in a simple way. Please,
have a look at the title link for further information.
(ps)
VHI Studio 5.4 is Here!
A new version of the reference software in case of video cards and digital cameras on the AMIGA, VHI Studio 5.4,
has been released. The update is free for owners of VHI Studio 5.x. Since v5.2 there are the following
changes:
(ps)
Virus-Help Denmark News
Jan Andersen from Virus-Help Denmark was often asked if he was able to provide
the website of Virus-Help in German and French language, too. Peter Schmidt called his
attention to the possibility to make use of "Translator.go".
So, now via Translator.go the website can be translated by request to German, French, Spanish,
Italian, and Portugese. Andersen is aware of this not to be the best choice, but
better than nothing at all. Base language of the website is still English.
(ps)
NewTecniques: Bonus
The bonus content of the graphic magazine 'NewTekniques' with many interesting
workshops, articles, and tutorials only accessible for subscribers so far, was now
made openly available. In the issue for Mai/June 2000 e.g. it is in detail describe how to create a
perfectly animated
Boingball
with LightWave.
(ps)
Scalos Module Update
Mike Carter has fixed the path problem in his module 'Execute Command' for Scalos
and now made it available for download as version 1.1.
Pictures from Oldie Party
Under the above title link you can find pictures from the "Oldie Party for Homecomputers" which
was organized by the HTWK Leipzig on Mai 4th, 1999.
(ps)
Back to the Roots Update
Back to the Roots is one of the best sources for legal game-downloads. This update contains the
"Championship Manager"-series, "Second Samurai" and "Emerald Mine".
Don't forget to take a look at the other games. There are new scene demos, pictures and sounds taken from Amiga-games.
(ps)
- EasyAccess can be made resident
- supports GET and POST method and every kind of CGI (tested with CanDo, Perl, Python and Batch-files)
- support for automated creation of directory content-files, Auth-Scheme RFC 19452 "Basic", Server Side Includes and more.
Plans for a New Elbox Voodoo-driver
Elbox announced the release of version 1.2 of the Voodoo-driver for the PCI-board for
this week. The new version should contain many improvements. Additional information
is available at the title link.
(ps)
TIDesigner V1.22 Released
TIDesigner is a good help-tool for everyone who wants to create TealInfo folios
for the Palm Pilot easier. The program is shareware.
AmigaOS Change-Logs Release Campaign
Matt Sealey started a petition to find out how big the common interest
in the publishing of change-logs since AmigaOS 3.1 really is.
The change-logs contain changes and add-ons compared to the previous
versions of the AmigaOS. This could be helpful for the development of new software.
The logs for AmigaOS V2.0 up to V3.1 are available on every Developer CD.
According to Matt Sealey Haage & Partner declined publishing their changes on the Developer CD V2.1.
AmigaOS 3.9 Wallpapers (Background Images)
Hello Amigans, as there's the huge amount of 4 new background images on the
AmigaOS 3.9 CD since AmigaOS3.5 I have decided to do some myself. The first
archive is already available on Aminet under pix/back/os39wallp.lha (1024x800
24Bit). A 800x600 version was just transferred onto Aminet. The 800x600 version
is named OS39w800.lha
Both archives are freeware and I allow Haage&Partner to use these.
(ps)
MacOS X Resembling Image Set
Under the title link you can download two MacOS X (Aqua) resembling image sets
for use with Opus Magellan 2. Additionally, to make the workbench look fresh and
stylish, there are several patterns for use with MUI and also for the workbench
windows with a similar refreshing look.
You can find screenshots and the archive sized 102 KB.
(ps)
Ultra Violent Worlds released
Some time ago Crystal Interactive
has announced to offer Amiga games on dual format CD-ROMs, that would contain a
version for another computer system along with the version for the Amiga. Now, with
Ultra Violent Worlds the first game of this kind has been released for the Amiga
and IBM PC compatibles.
Ultra Violent Worlds is a 2D-Shooter with vertical parallax scrolling on three
levels, background animations in arcade quality, impressive explosions and
atmospheric sound FX inclusive a matching soundtrack. Next to the 1 player mode
there's the possibility to play with two people on one split screen at the same time.
The game was developed by the Australian company Vorlan Software. The
Amiga version was already released in 1998 and contained several bugs at that
time. These were fixed in this re-release.
The Amiga version runs on any Amiga with AGA, 2MB Chip-RAM and 2MB Fast-RAM.
The PC version runs on Windows 95/98 with 8MB of free RAM.
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WAV datatype v41.6
On January 14th, 2001 Stephan Rupprecht has released version 41.6 of the
WAV datatype. With this datatype you can play sound files encoded in WAV
format.
In this version defective samples shouldn't cause the RIFF parser to run
into an endless loop, anymore.
New Multi-Functional Chip
An interesting multi-functional chip was presented by people out of the
Commodore/Amiga area at the CES. The company Embedded Wireless Devices (EWD)
offers with the "Valhalla E8000" a chip that is capable of transferring several
wireless communications protocols like Bluetooth, 802.11 (wireless LAN) or Home RF
simultaneous. Panasonic will apply the chip in future products.
(sd)
Digital Almanac III update v2.3
Achim Stegemann wrote:
A new update for Digital Almanac III to version 2.3 was sent to all online registered
cusotmers.
It mainly fixes some bugs in th PPC version with caused crashes in special cases.
More information about the update can be found on the homepage following the
title link.
The English version of DA III will be finished as planned in the next three to
four weeks.
(sd)
Ann Looking for Advertising Income
For financing the Amiga Network News
Christian Kemp is looking for companies to advertise on ANN. The
latest advertising banner showed only 5 US Dollars during 13 days while 50,000 page views
were counted. Costs appear to ANN among other things because of web space,
telephone (monthly around 100 US Dollars), and domain name.
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The site uses PHP-Nuke for the layout of the
content and offers among other things a personal login and a text box with the
latest files of the file area of amigadev.net.
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Second SimpleMail Alpha Released
On January 14th, 2001 Hynek Schlawack and Sebastian Bauer have released the
second alpha version of the email client 'SimpleMail'.
Compared to the previous version the following has changed:
SimpleMail can be found under
http://www.schlawack.net/simplemail/.
There are also screenshots of the software on this site.
The authors hope for this second version receiving a little bit more feedback as they got for
the first one and point out that the alpha state refers to functionality, but by
no means to stability.
Voyager: Supported Tags
On January 14th, 2001 Oliver Wagner
has updated the list
of the HTML tags supported by the WWW browser 'V³'. It now meets the level of
the version 3.3.69 of the browser.
(sd)
Fun Time World
Since 1997 the AAA Awards were given to people out of the Amiga area, among
other things for their hard- and software products. Among the award winners
have been Holger Kruse, Dave Haynie, Marcel Beck, Kermit Woodall, Stefan
Burstroem and SoftLogik. Now the awarding of this price will be canceled for the
time being. The reasons for this are too little manpower and too low support. In
the future the award may be granted again. This depends among other things on
the community and Amiga. Everybody who wants to comment on this may write
to f98-msa@f.kth.se.
playamiga.de - News About the Reorganisation
The renewal of playamiga.de comes to figures. The popular company
Synotec will care for the
re-design. Since there should not only be optical changes, but also changes of the contents
we need your help.
Some questions were worked out for a completely new rating system. If you would like to help
with this, just send an e-mail to Juergen A. Theiner
and you will get the questions in return. Many thanks in advance and already look forward to
the announcement of: ´playamiga.de becomes Play!Amiga´
(ps)
The Quantum Leap: StormC 4
The latest version of the successful development system actually represents a
quantum leap: network capability, shared make, CVS, modified GCC compiler for
the Amiga hunk format, global full-text search, extended editor, debugging
of tasks and shared libraries, and the new StormDOC.
But the most important feature of this new development system is the step
it takes towards the new AmigaOS. Though still everything runs on the Classic Amiga
and will be published like that, but everything was developed with easy portability
in mind. Last but not least this was the reason for a modified version of the
GCC used as compiler.
(ps)
Infomedia Network News
Infomedia Network and the Tao Group signed an agreement to deliver TVision
products. Press release of
01-10-2001:
Infomedia and Tao Group Collaborate to deliver TVision Development Kit...
Press release of
01-12-2001:
Infomedia Network and Tao group have formed a closer relationship to deliver
Infomedia's TVision product for the Java embedded space...
(ps)
THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES - Release 1.0.1
In release 1.0.1. of the KICKSTART ARCHIVES beside of some smaller changes in particular
the PDF files of the patent history have been re-converted and can be read trouble-free
with Apdf v2.2, now too.
THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES due to quality problems in the beginning will be written on
blanks of the type TDK CD-R74CMEC and shipped in a bubble wrapped envelope.
Since all of the specimen copies are out, we can now care for the orders very fast.
Thomas Unger (Kickstart@nexgo.de) is always
all ears for hints on interesting websites still missing on the CD-R. If these match
the concept of the KICKSTART ARCHIVES, he will contact the owners.
(ps)
XBaze Website with New URL
The website of the database program 'XBaze' by Rafal Kaczmarczyk is
available under http://www.o.k.pl/~xbaze/ (title link), from now on.
(ps)
Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Interview Action!
"Rags" the action game by Shades Production was a little sensation
at Aminet, not without a reason! For all of you still remembering "Beach Head II"
on the C64 it's to be said "obligation to download"! But read the preview
of "Rags" and the interview with Shades Production! at the "Aktion" area yourself!
Amiga Arena - Special Price Action!
PhotoAlbum/CyberShow, GeoWorld, and VPrefs are available at a special price only until
01-31-2001!
(ps)
Silicon Valley Pioneer William Hewlett Has Passed
«The legendary engineer and Silicon Valley pioneer
William Hewlett
has passed on Friday in Palo Alto, California, at the age of 87. He was co-founder of the technology corporation
Hewlett-Packard. Together with David Packard he started his business in a
garage in Palo Alto and lead it
to the computer age and to a high tech giant with 49 milliards US dollar volume of sales. Hewlett millionfold
got ahead of his initial target, "...to do anything to earn a nickle". The economy magazine
Forbes listed him on
position #26
of the richest men of America with fortune of nine milliards US dollars.»
(ps)
NVidia OS Poll Online Again
The offline taken poll on the favourite operating system is now online again.
At the time Amiga is ahead with 57.91%. IP addresses of "multiple voters" are
logged and published in a black list!
(ps)
Chip: C64 with New Garment
«The Internet magazine Hardwareguru has sighted a Commodore 64 at
the super market Kaufland as a surfing machine designed to be directly
connected to a TV set.
Web.It reissued the C64, but did not use the original hardware. The Web-C64
is equipt with a low-end AMD processor with 100 MHz, 16 MByte ROM, and 16 MByte RAM,
as well as two MByte flash memory.»
Entire article at the title link (German).
(ps)
Amiga-Community.net News
At Amiga-Community.net you can post your opinion about several products for
the Amiga. For each (rational) opinion of members one will get 1 (one) score.
For every 4 (four) scores one will get 1 (one) EURO credit entry. Credits can
be payed from 5 (five) EURO!
Unfortunately entries with AWeb don't seem to work and therefore there is
a special forum for AWeb users.
IBrowse and PC browsers seem to work. If someone has problem with other browsers, please
contact Xandiy@web.de.
(ps)
CDTVTools v1.0 Published
CDTVTools v1.0 has been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
This package is a collection of programs using the CDTV base library
to give also normal Amiga users the CTDTV feeling. All of the included
programs are commodities which can be controlled via Exchange. So now
everybody can e.g. start the original CDTV screen blanker, CD player or
preferences program.
The tools are basing on the CDTV basie library "playerprefs" by Commodore
which is implemented in the CDTV's ROM. Since I discovered documentations on
this library on the Developer CD v1.2, I was able to develop these tools within
two days. Of course these tools are freeware.
(ps)
EMail Game: StarEmpire II
01-31-2000 will be the official launch of StarEmpire II planned, the space strategy game!
This text basing game is payed via e-mail, so no flatrate is needed. There are still some
seats to take - who wants to can still log on.
There is also af FAQ page from
now on, in which the most important questions are again answered nin short. If there are still
questions to ask an e-mail to starempire@virtualdimension.de
will be adequate.
(ps)
PC Manufacturer Gateway Cancels Every 10th Job
Onlinekosten.de wrote:
«The US computer manufacturer Gateway after unexpected deficit cancels
more than every tenth job. As the company announced on Thursday (local time)
in San Diego, California, job slashing would go off already during the first
quarter this year, Gateway employed 19,300 people worldwide in 1998. The offeror
specialized in direct shipping of PCs announced a deficit of 94,3 millions of
US dollar for 4Q/2000, because of diclined demand and risen pricing pressure.
»
Heise wrote:
«More than 10 % of staffers of the oppressed PC manufacturer Gateway will loose their
jobs: this is a consequence which Gateway drew from extremely base balance for the 4th quarter.
Balance was even worse than expected after the profit caution from late November when Gateway
stated to be in the red in the 4th quarter.»
(ps)
Scalos 1.2d Beta Released
A new beta version of Scalos, the extensive Workbench replacement, has been
released. The website hasn't been updated, yet. Please read the readme's
before installation!
Here the original mail:
All OS3.4+ owners will be pleased to know that a new Scalos exe has
been released! The fixes are a combined effort with the original
source from Juergen and the dedicated effort of Dave for sloggin' it
out through late nights! Until the website is updated later today you
can grab the new executable only archive from:
http://scalos.striatum.org/products/scalos/main/Scalos-V1.2d.lha
To install, simply copy the executable in the archive to SCALOS: path.
Please continue to read this email before installing anything new!
You will also need the latest (release 3) of the seperate icon system
archive
http://scalos.striatum.org/products/scalos/main/Scalos-IconSystem.lha
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THESE FILES ARE STILL CONSIDERED BETA STATUS
UNTIL IT *APPEARS* EVERYBODY IS HAVING NO PROBLEMS. We appreciate error
reports to the mailing list, share your problems regarding OS3.5+ icon
images with us so we can ensure all problems are fixed.
NOTE:
We are aware that the logo in the about requester does not remap to
the correct colours currently, this is a side effect of the new 'C'
ported code for portions of Scalos. This will not affect use and we
hope to have that fixed before the next release. Which should
hopefully feature some decent bug fixes.
Ensure you backup your OLD 'Scalos' executable file before replacing
it with this new one, just incase. Once everything is finalised all beta
files will become release versions and appear in the main Scalos
distribution archive. Hey, we might even upload it to Aminet too :-)
Have fun, and lets hope all is well.
(ps)
Greg Donner: OS3.9 FAQ Update
Greg Donner has updated his Amiga OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) as well as
the compatibility list, installation tips, and the page with known bugs.
(ps)
ICS Version 2.01b Released
Version 2.01 of the free available color calibration software for AmigaOS 'ICS' by
Wolf Faust was released. Download links for the program as well as diverse additions you
will find under the title link.
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Patch for EASys! 4.84 Released
On the 'Servicepacks' page there is a "patch" for the current version 4.8.4 (has to be installed!)
underr OS 3.9 available. Please, it is absolut necessary for you to read the
Readmefile before
installation!
Amiga-Community.net Looking for Sponsor(s)
Since finally a possibility was found to give bonus for written opinions one or more
sponsors (with banner) are wanted. Interested people may please contact
From now on there will be scores. Everybody who is registered for the Community will get scores.
First register and then wait until your member-number gets mailed to you, then you can score.
One score for every message. What one can do with his/her scores will be announced during the
following days.
(ps)
Nice Calculator for the AmigaOS
Who ever worried about the shop-soiled calculator of the AmigaOS
can look forward, now! On my homepage one can download the initial
version of CoolCALC. This one virtual offers the same functions as
the original program, but can be embellished with skins (one is part
of the archive) and can be iconified. Under the title link you will find
screenshots and also the download area. Have fun!
(ps)
New Aminet Uploads
Mishap: The recent number suddenly did not show any new uploads any more. Of course the new
number now gives in return the uploads of the last two weeks; but there is no other
option to get back to rotation, yet.
(ps)
WB2000 Images and MiniGlowIcons Update
Due to great demand now there is an updated archive of the Mini GlowIcons, and
an special archive for WB2000 users who can only use IFF-pictures with this program.
If number of downloads, which you can reach via "Aktuelles", will keep on this high level
there will be new icons added.
(ps)
V³ 3.3.65beta Released
It was released version 3.3.65beta of the Amiga-browser Voyager. This is the first version with a new
layout-engine. A keyfile is needed. you can find important information about the changes in
v_33beta65.readme.
AmigaOS 3.5 Boing-Bag #2a Released
Because of some minor bugs at Boingbag #2 of AmigaOS 3.5 yesterday it was published an update #2a which
simply has to be installed over Boingbag #1 or #2.
Download: BoingBag2a.lha - 1,6 MB
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MorphOS News
Sigbjørn Skjæret has published a new VCDGear 1.6d at www.morphos.de.
"This Amiga-port of VCDGear (station-version) can make VCDs on your Amiga. You can find information
to the original project at www.vcdgear.com."
Please have a look at the VCDGear.readme (1780B).
Futurezone: New Power Macs are Ready
The most efficient model of the new Macintoshs which is a 733 MHz G4 Power Mac surpassed a Pentium-4-PC [1,5 GHz]
with 12 seconds while rendering a 3D-graphic to the pleasure of the audience.
Epics News: Amiga-Version of Earth 2140 Available
From today Earth 2140 which is a for the PC developed real-time strategy game by Topware Interactive
is available for Amiga. Earth 2140 needs an Amiga with at least 68040 CPU, a 4 MB graphic board and
24 MB RAM. But in order to have the full pleasure of the game it is recommended a PPC Amiga with
32 MB RAM. On the website of Epic Interactive under the title link you can find a new demo-version
as well as further information about Earth 2140.
NVidia OS Opinion Poll
There is an opinion poll at the NVidia news site in the left menu about the preferred operating system.
The Amiga is also on the list and is currently on the third place with 17,99 % after BeOS and Windows.
Supplement 11.01.2001:
The opinion poll has been canceled because the voting was falsified by scripts which vote again and
again. The script-kids do not have the faintest idea which harm they make!
(ps)
Simon the Sorcerer II
As you can read on the homepage of Paul Burkey, who made the Amiga-port of Simon the Sorcerer II, there
will be a MAC-port soon. It also could have been solved the audio-problem. There will be an update
for the Amiga-version in a few days.
(ps)
"Die Welt": How The Chips Learned Being Noisy
"Until 1985 acoustical there was no alteration according to the standard of computer sound
which was introduced by C64. To this time Atari had the idea of producing an home computer Atari ST
equip with a MIDI-interface. This Musical Instrument Digital Interface made it possible to
control electronic music instruments like keyboards with the computer. Atari ST was the first computer
in series that used this possibility and made the data exchange between computer and music instruments
possible. The built-in 8-Bit-sound-chip had only the ability of producing three mono voices, but the
main processor worked perfectly together with the MIDI-interface. Musicians from all over the world
recognized the future of computer music and almost each sound studio connected its mixing desk with
an Atari ST. Since the early nineties a MIDI-interface was standard for sound cards.
Two years after the introduction of the ST, in 1987, Commodore set a new standard for music computers
with the Amiga 500 for the mass market: four-channel-stereo was the new standard. Programming of music
directly in the computer was now possible without expensive equipment. For a long time this was
the greatest advantage of the Amiga towards other computers. Because of that and because of its great
graphical abilities it was the game computer at all."
Also in the today`s `Die-Welt`-article Concerto Commodore
it is reported of the musical abilities of the C64.
(ps)
CES: New Products and Pictures
Under the title link you can find the final report by Christoph Dietz.
He discovered many new products on the CES
which though are not necessarily Amiga specific, but not less interesting.
(ps)
Another Commander now Freeware
´Another Commander´ is a buiseness simulation and stragety game in space. The game
was made available for free download by Rangonsoft.
Picture Supplement regarding WoA 2000
Mirko Nauman has sent us a whole lot of pictures from the WoA2000. Unfortunately we cannot
publish all of these, cause 34 MB are simply much too much. We selected the nicest pictures
and made a little catalog out of these which you can find under the title link.
This is how the pictures were taken:
Mirko filmed on the show with his MiniDV video camera SONY DCR-TRV8E and then
connected this camera via SVHS cable to his second Amiga with PicassoIV
and PalomIV TV module. As his camera takes 25 frames per second he had to
select and save the best pictures. Then he converted the pictures saved before to
JPEG using the picture format converting software GfxCon by Dirk Farins.
(ps)
Heise wrote:
«Though Corel Corporation will publish their this year's strategy first on 23rd of
January, analysers estimate that corel will part with their Linux branch. In reply on these
notions in US reports Corel's share value rose at 7.5 % at the American technology stock
exchange Nasdaq, last Monday. Already in December speculations came up about Corel might take this step.
»
Entire article at the title link (German).
(ps)
Amiga-Community.net now with Customer Portal
Amiga-Community.net perhaps is the only customer portal for Amiga. You can give your
opinion about products or websites for Amiga. One can enter anything dealing with Amiga,
e.g. shareware - freeware - hardware - software - .....
You can also suggest new categories and products. Some products are already in, these
just need to be rated, now. But there is no reimbursement as with similar services.
(ps)
CD32 Games Install Kit v4.1 NG Released
The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.1 NG has been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
But this update can only be downloaded and used by people owning the CD-ROM "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair
Gold Edition". In version 4.1 the integrated emulator's compatibility is strongly enhanced, and some
bugs are fixed. Owners of the CD-ROM "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" can download the
update using the program updater which is part of the CD-ROM.
(ps)
30.3./1.4.2001 - Amiga2001, St. Louis, USA
The 7th Gateway Computer Show ´Amiga2001´ will take place late March /
early April 2001 in St. Louis, USA. Organizer is Bob Scharp. On the web page
(title link) you will find unter "Next Show" an updated list of exhibitors,
which clubs and personalities will attend, and which events are panned.
If you would like to be exhibitor on the Amiga2001, please click on "Exhibitor?".
Eternity News: MPG Video-card / USB for AMIGA
Eternity wrote:
We are looking for some developers for the realising of an MPEG-Video-card or a USB-card for
the Amiga in co-operation with Kato Development:
Programmers that develop drivers and host programs, based on Linux-sources, for the Amiga.
We consider the following suppositions:
With the knowhow of Kato and some other persons we will try to develop one of the above mentioned products.
We make no promises!
Additionally we are looking for distributors that would like to support the investment and will get better conditions.
And last but not least we would like to come in
contact with other projects of this kind, cause if there are already projects like
this running, we will renounce ours. (ps)
Audio Driver for New and Old Sound Cards
Katodev announce that the development-documentation for the X-Audio.device is still
available at the software page of their website. They would be glad if new cards would use it.
Amiga Survivor CS&E took over the well known printed magazine
´Amiga Survivor´, originaly published by Robert Iveson. They are looking for
advertisers to finance the future of this magazin. Visit the title link or contact the
below address for further information.
David Connolly
Managing Director
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum
Oxford Business Park
Oxford
OX4 2JZ http://www.csande.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 481421
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 481482
(ps)
Trogladite Software is Looking for Developers
Trogladite Software is looking for new software-developers and web-designers
for our website. If you are interested visit the title link for further informations.
(ps)
Black_Amiga Gives In
Black_Amiga wrote:
After days of considering hither and thither I have decided to abandon the
Amiga. That means that ATP will be released in its momentarily development
state (version 0.9 beta) and also that I offer my Amiga for sale. More about
this on the homepage.
CES: Infomedia Network
TVision recognized as Industry's first Open JavaTM Programmable Set-top Box
LAS VEGAS-Infomedia Network was recognized today at the International
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as being the first TV set-top box
manufacturer to provide an open JavaTM Programmable Set-top box.
Utilizing a true real time operating system and JavaTM Virtual Machine,
Infomedia's TVision set-top box provides features and functionality that
content developers and service providers have been looking for in
programmable consumer electronics devices.
(ps)
SMSEngineer Update
The software SMSEngineer, that is used to send short mails to cell phones, has been
released in version 1.0.9 (SMS = Short Message Service).
Update of OpusMI
The 7. release of OpusMI is now available on Aminet and on the
MasonIcons homepage. The complete OpusMI archive contains meanwhile more than
450 GlowIcons for use in DirectoryOpus Magellan.
(ps)
AmigAIM Beta Version 0.9407 Released
The new beta version 0.9407 of AmigAIM, the AOL Instant Messenger compatible
messaging software for Amiga is now available and can be downloaded from the
usual places.
CES: Interview with TAO's CEO Francis Charig
As already reported, Christoph Dietz flew to Las Vegas for amiga-news.de to
attend and report directly from the CES.
Read the interview he had with the CEO of TAO, the software partner
of Amiga Inc. under the title link.
(ps)
First meeting of the Amiga User Group 99 of the new year
The AUG99 is meeting on January 19th in Sinsheim at the Shooters (Citydom).
More infos as well as a city map can be found on our homepage. Everybody who
is interested in dropping by is invited.
(ps)
OS3.9 FAQ by Greg Donner Updated
Greg Donner created an extensive FAQ , which he updates
regularly,in English about the new Amiga OS3.9 on his homepage. His
compatibility-page, the page with known bugs, and the installation tips have been
updated also.
(ps)
Heise: CES: The Computer Sector Deals in Entertainment Electronics
«On Saturday at 19 o'clock MET the Consumer
Electronic Show (CES), the world's
biggest annual entertainment electronics fair is opening its doors in Las
Vegas. One and a half hour before, Bill Gates will hold his keynote, which he
will - as known by now - change on the birth hour of his new favourite, the
game console XBox.
Though this will be no more surprise to anybody, but there are a lot more things
to discover at the CES: After all there are 1800 exhibitors at the start this
year and in addition to this there is a "frame program" at the fair with
over 100 presentations with about 300 experts. 110.000 visitors are expected
from over 100 countries. The fair was first held back 1967 with some modest
200 exhibitors and 17.500 visitors.»
Christoph Dietz of amiga-news.de has flown to Las Vegas to report to our
readers from the fair and to cover us with pictures. In addition he has
arranged for some interesting interviews. You can expect interesting news.
(ps)
Fun Time World: New forum in testing process
FTW writes:
«Nearly every Amiga-site has a forum, so why create one more? All of the forums
that are working at our place currently are based on very simple technology
can can hardly be expanded. The new forum is based on the Yet Another Bulletin
Board´ in short ´YaBB´ and is offering every imaginable comfort. The
forum will now be
tested for some weeks and later on we will decide whether we stick to the
system or remove it. The design is only partly adapted to out page. It will
change during testing. To participate you need to register during which you
can choose an appearance for yourself. If you wish so, your data will be
stored in Cookies, so you will register automatically on your next visit. The
new forum is really fun. We would be happy to find as many participants as
possible. We will the create more special forums on request.»
(ps)
New Layout in the Amiga-Section of alternative-games.de
From today on the new layout of Alternative-Games.de is also online in the
Amiga-Section. Now we want to know what you think of the new design and
therefor we have started a poll which will be available until 02-01-2001. We
are looking forward to your visit!
(ps)
VirusHelp Denmark: Update of xvs.library
Yesterday, an update to the xvs.library was released which can recognize
the trojans "4kIntro Trojan" and Dkg-Blum Trojan. If you're using VirusChecker,
VirusExecutor or VirusZ, make sure to update the library.
Some information on the release:
Name...: xvs.library v33.24
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archiv size: 52.734 Bytes
Date: January 4th, 2001
Programmer: Alex van Niel
News for 33.24:
- 4kIntro Trojan added
Thanks to Ryben Kozlak and Jan Andersen
- Dkg-Blum Trojan added
Thanks to Peter Gordon, Urban Müller and Jan Andersen
NOTE:
This trojan also replaces/deletes or adds a file called asi.library
XVS will not (yet) be able to detect this file because as far as I
could analyze it, it looked like a normal VideoTracker file.
If XVS would have to see this as a virus, more VideoTracker files
will be fake detected. If you have problems or want this added anyway
let me know.
STILL TO DO:
- Add Neurotic Death 2 and Neurotic Death 4. These two linkviruses are
polymorphic, but crash on my system if I try to infect some test files.
It seems that they haven't been spread to the public, I received them
anonymously from the author. So it's not that BIG danger at the moment.
- Try to get and add GlobVec linkvirus. The only one who has it is Heiner
Schneegold (author of VT-Schutz) and VTC Hamburg, but Heiner doesn't
give his permission to the VTC to send me the virus :(
(ps)
Music: Psyria
Dennis Lohr ´Psyria´ has been making music as a hobby for six years.
he started with an A500 and Protracker 2.3a. Currently, he still creates his music
mainly on the Amiga, but he uses the Digibooster today. He expresses his
enthusiasm about the Digibooster like this: "For all Amigans who make music
as well: have a look at that thing! There probably is no better tracker
for the Amiga!"
Many of his songs (trance, techno, dancefloor, and pop) are available for download
on his website at the title link. The website was entirely reworked lately.
(ps)
MorphOS: sndfile.library Sigbjørn Skjæret has released version 1.22 of
sndfile.library for MorphOS. The library allows the reading and writing of different
sample formats which are used for example by AmigaAMP, DelfSF, Frogger and Lame.
More information here.
Corinna Cohn. Interviewed Bill McEwen Corinna Cohn. called up Bill McEwen, to
clear up some rumors as much as possible. McEwen answered her some questions.
Here a summary of what Bill McEwen answered:
Corinna Cohn. analyzes Bill McEwens statements as follows:
"Amiga does not have a product that I as an Amiga user would necessarily want, but
that I as a computer geek might dig. We Amiga users are a technological launching
platform for a new, possibly cool technology, and Amiga wants us to continue to
pay attention to them until its ready. This explains 3.5 and 3.9, and it explains
the early appearance of the developers kit. Amiga is going to continue to blow us
kisses until they have something to impress us with or until they run out of money."
The computer industry is in an extremely hard competition. Even if it may be
difficult for us at times not to lose our faith that Amiga Inc. will achieve what
they have planned. It is worth acknowledging that they are obviously not willed
to throw in the towel even though it would be easier and more promising to
develop tools for another famous OS ...
(mj)
we have finished our move to the new server and if everything works as we expect,
you can now see the scripts programmed by Sven Drieling in action on our German page.
The main change is that the entire news are now administrated in a database,
you can comment on every single news and can send individual news to friends
by e-mail. Also, you can view a printing and an ASCII version. If you prefer to
see the start page with titles only, you can control this with the menu above.
We are looking forward to your comments. Write us what you like and what we
could still improve.
(ps)
ClickBOOM News - S-File #9
ClickBOOM wish a happy new year to everybody and tell with their new S-File that
the entire stock of ´Capital Punishment´, and ´Quake´ was sold to
the British vendor CS&E.
More on they tell that there are negotiations regarding new licences in train.
(ps)
Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Risiko full version!
The Amiga Arena in co-operation with Frank Abbing (UAC Desing) present the
full version of "Risiko" as final v1.7, which is not available form Aminet.
Risiko Amiga in this conforms to the common game rules of the original board game by
Parker Bros. But Risiko also has included special rules as like uprisings, earth quakes, and
blitz! Both, German and English version! For all of the Amiga friends the best non-commercial
version for Amiga is ready for download! (ps)
VWP News
Due to moving our homepages to another server at the time being all services basing
on CGI scripts (as for downloads, statistics, links, boards, ....) are not available.
This concerns the domains
http://www.VirtualWorlds.de,
http://www.AudioCutter.de, and
http://www.AudioCutter.com.
The problems are known and we are working to solve.
AudioCutter Cinema V 0.99
Along with the again working CGI scripts the endmost preview version
(before final release) of AudioCutter Cinema will be available in a few days.
Then the versions for PPC-/x86-Linux, and Windows will be available for free
download, once more.
(ps)
3PMGUI Update
3PMGUI gives the MP2 CLI player MPEGA a small GUI with the features needed most.
Since MPEGA as well as the GUI causes only low CPU load, 3PMGUI most of all suits
very well for Amiga users with slow machines.
Eyetech News
An AmigaOne presentation, which can be displayed using a Scala player, is available for download
at Eyetech. It shows the presentation by Eyetech and Escena on the last Cologne show.
Furthermore Eyetech offers an EZCam PCMCIA digital camera memory
adapter
(Memory Stick, SmartMedia, CompactFlash) along with a driver allowing you to
use the camera as device on the Workbench. By this you can display or copy
pictures immediately.
(ps)
Markus Holler Music Page Updated
Beginning the new year Markus Holler, very well known to Amiga users by
very good music, has put a little audio pattern from the Merregnon soundtrack
on his music page, which you can find under the title link.
(ps)
New Plugin for ProStation Audio: Tube Pre Amp
For ProStation Audio, the audio software by AudioLabs, a new plugin called
´Tube Pre Amp´ has been released, which will work for any version of
ProStation Audio.
Netscape 6 like Image Set for Voyager
Under the title link you can download a Netscape 6 like image set for Voyager. The archive
contains the related buttons (each in 3 different colours), background patterns for MUI, and
a German description. The set is located on the Amiga/Projects page. There is also to find a screenshot.
AmigActive Poll
AmigActive is organizing a poll to find out about your hopes, dreams, an plans regarding the
new Amiga. If you would like to participate, you will find the form under the title link.
(ps)
3PMGUI Released
You can download the first version of 3PMGUI under the title link.
(The program is stored in the Amiga/Projekts site).
3PMGUI gives the MP2/3 Shell-Player MPEGA a small surface with most important functions.
Because MPEGA as well as the GUI make use of the CPU very economically 3PMGUI is suited to
Amiga user which has got a small CPU.
Features:
- small, fast and easily configurable
- graphical button surface exchangeable
- Shell commands for MPEGA configurable<
- Help functions and possibility of saving of MP2/3s
Postscript to 3PMGUI: The error that 3PMGUI do not find the pictures at the beginning has been cleared.
You can download the new version (still always 0.1) under the title link. Sorry.
(ps)
PC Joker Closes Down
You can read at Gamesmania.de the following lines:
PC Joker (note: successor of Amiga Joker) will be closed down
«Sad message for all Joker-fans. The PC-magazine will be closed down right before its
hundredth issue. The subscriptions will be taken over by IDG-publishing house`s GameStar. The deliveries
of these subscriptions contain a explanation of Joker-chief editor Michael Labiner. This is the second
magazine dinosaur after PowerPlay which has passed.»
(ps)
Upgrade AWebIISE to the Full Version
Expand your limited special version of Amiga internet browser AWEBII SE which was
delivered with Amiga OS3.5 and OS3.9 to the full version.
(ps)
Mediator News: Soundblaster Driver for AHI
Mr. Wajda has posted in
Mediator mailing list that he
was informed by ELBOX that the Soundblaster-driver for PCI-board ´Mediator´ will
make use of the sound system AHI. It is not known when the driver will come to release.
(ps)
SecondSpin Beta-Tester Wanted
You can transform audio-CDs to MPEG-audio 1,2 or 3 with SecondSpin. Additionally further formats like
AIFF and WAV are supported.
Author Lauri Ahonen has finished his military service and will now take care more intensively of the
development of SecondSpin. Because of that he is looking for some new beta tester.
Please contact him via eMail if you are interested in.
(ps)
Cult Magazines
Because PC-Joker will be delivered for the last time I want to give you the hint that at
kultpower.de the PowerPlay-archives was expanded very much.
Current state: 281 test results, 113 complete test reports as scans, 35 scanned advertising for games,
57 PowerPlay-covers. You can search through the database of PowerPlay very comfortably.
Besides this you can admire 53 ASM-covers from the current software-market.
So you are right at kultpower.de if you want to indulge in memories and to read test reports of cult
games like Turrican, Monkey Island, Battle Isle or Lemmings.
(ps)
Several Software Updates
In the new version of JST v4.3b a save error was fixed. With this program you
are able to copy many of the disk games to harddisk and then start the games from
there.
Download: jst.lha
Version 2.0.7 of the open source network software ´Samba´ was released.
Download: samba_2.0.7.lha
powerd v.0.16 is a completely new programming language, but similar to AmigaE. You can find closer information
in the documentation.
Download: powerd.lha
´yeac´ is the beta version of a completely new AmigeE compiler.
Download: yaec.lha
Two new plugins by Ruediger Hanke for the DTP software PageStream were released. The Word8 filter
allows to import even text saved with Word97 / Word2000. You can import documents saved with
AmigWriter using the AmigaWriter filter.
Download: Word8-Filter.lha AW-Filter.lha
With ´DVD-RAM´ you can connect DVD drives to the Amiga. Using the DVD-RAM software
2.6 G and 4.7 G (per side) medias are recognized.
Download: DVD-RAM.lha
In the patch archive for the browser AWeb the installer was extended by installation of language.
A Russian catalog has been added to the catalogs archive.
Download: AWeb3x34pch.lha cats34.lha
(ps)
BallMaster Source Code Available under GNU
Damir Arh, author of several games for Amiga computers has released the
source code of the game BallMaster under GNU Public License. Also two versions of the game
itself are available for free download.
AmiBench News
Mark ´tecno´ Wilson, the maintainer of AmiBench, the website for international
free small ads, reports in his year summary about the adverse conditions capable to make
a webmaster's life really hard, sometimes. AmiBench was hunted by bad luck last year:
scripts which weren't finished; the service provider got hacked; the server played yoyo;
the web account was closed by mistake; no feedback from the readers; ....
I can comprehend well that such conditions are very annoying and motivation goes to zero sometimes.
Give Mark positive feedback to give his motivation a boost. :)
(ps)
Amiga Music Website
Allister Brimble published his own webside at mp3s.com. He is well
known for his work for Alienbreed, Project X, Bodyblows and Superfrog.
He is still working for the software industry and he is composing music for Driver,
Driver 2 and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Some songs he did are available at the title link.
(ps)
New Version of ICS Released
From ICS, the free AmigaOS Scanner Color Calibration Software is a
major new ICS upgrade V2.01 now available. Following new features have
been added to V2 of ICS:
(ps)
New FreeCiv Beta Version
A new beta version of Freeciv, a 'Civilization II'-like multiplayer strategy game,
is available for download at the title link.
(ps)
Grasshopper LLC
Grasshopper, publisher of 'Pagestream', wish you a happy new year and tells that
within the first week of the year phone calls will not be answered, but e-mails.
(ps)
Graphics Boards Page: 7th Anniversary
Congratulations! The graphics boards page where you can find informations
dealing with graphics boards for Amiga computers celebrates 7th anniversary.
(ps)
Amiga Link Directory
