individual Computers: Insider Section Updated
For all programmers and people interested in technics the insider
section on the support site of individual Computers has been
expanded. The following files were added:
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mOOdS - music for your instincts
The module platform Moods has started their online module Compo on
the 1st of March. This competition is some kind of experiment,
all of the participants have to download samples from the homepage
and make the best of those few samples. The point of interest in
this is - everybody will make different music from these. Until
April 1st modules can be sent to the Moods' organizer via e-mail or
mail to participate in the Compo.
A few days after closing date the modules will be available for download
and voting. Besides of glory, fun, and new friends unfortunately there is
nothing else you can win....
More information are to find on the homepage.
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Amiga Arena News Amiga Arena - DITO Password Release!
By authority of Dirk Holtwick the registration code for
the vocabulary system software ´DITO´ is ready
for free download. DITO is built modular and has many
features (flexible dictionary, gap-texts, number converter,
vocable trainer).
The following languages are supported: English, Spanish and Italian.
DITO and all of the additional modules are available from Aminet.
Special thanks to Dirk Holtwick for releasing and to Erik Z. who
made this possible and provided the file to the Amiga Arena!
Amiga Arena - Appeal!
Any further suggestions, tips or possibilities for the release of not
further being developed sharware software? Please contact
Olaf Koebnik!
This also pertains to developers wanting to organize a special price project!
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VirusWarning.guide Version 3.2 Released
VirusHelp Denmark has updated their VirusWarning.guide.
Now the documentation contains all of the viruses which recently
became known.
Schatztruhe News
Many new Amiga products (and some classics) and all items from the GTI Amiga
Charts now available from Schatztruhe !
Additional products now available :
Chaos Engine 2 (Disk), Earth 2140 (CD), Exodus - The Last War(CD), Kang Fu (CD),
Payback (CD), Simon the Sorcerer 2 (CD), Theme Park (CD), Wasted Dreams (CD),
Animatic (CD), ROM 3.1 A1200 (Chip), Extreme Visual FX (CD), fx Paint (CD),
fx Scan v3.0 (CD), MooVID Pro 2 (CD). VHI Studio (CD), Amiga Joypad,
Amiga Mouse (white), Boing Ball Amiga Mouse Pad und DD-Disks (10er Box).
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IEEE Spectrum: Amiga: The Computer That Wouldn't Die
In the IEEE Spectrum Magazine there was published an article about the history of the
Amiga. Focal point are the features of the original hardware (suitably to the main
focus of the magazine), but the article also caters to the software.
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New Aminet Uploads
German Aminet is not accessible since two days; so today the last 7 day's
uploads from wuarchive directly.
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03 Mar 2001
Michael Wilps on ANF
Beta 3 of the exec.library 44.1 Published
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has released the third beta version of
'his' exec.library for download on his homepage. Besides bugfixes
the library contains many optimizations, too.
GlowIcon toolbar for ArtEffect 4
The IconDesigners Thomas Peterseim, Oliver Tacke and Heinz Andreolla
have made available their version of a toolbar for ArtEffect 4.0 for
download at the title link.
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New AMIGA Merchandising Products
AMIGA has some new merchandising articles. There are now CD holders, Amiga mugs
and stainless steel coffee mugs with top.
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stormamiga.lib V.45.00 alpha 5 for SAS/C
For registered beta testers, there's a new version of the stormamiga.lib which
contains many small but not unimportant improvements. Here a short overview of
the most important changes:
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02 Mar 2001
Press Release: "Free Amiga Jobs" Conversion
Cologne/Erkrath, Germany, 02-Mär-2001 - In April 2000, Free Amiga Jobs,
the online job market especially for the Amiga market, was founded by
amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus. During its existence, more than 50 employees
were placed with firms and thus many new Amiga projects brought forward.
On March 1st, 2001, Free Amiga Jobs was restructured and equipped with
a powerful database. Employers can now submit their job offers online, while
employees can search for a job by several criteria. Of course it can still
be used for free by both employers and employees.
The syntax parser is based on Dietmar Eilert's source code. Some bugs were
fixed and new functions were added:
Hints on the installation and an example are in the archive which can be
downloaded at the title link.
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VWP News AudioCutter Cinema preview V 0.99 (Linux and Windows)
The preview version 0.99 of the AudioCutter Cinema can now be downloaded for free at
http://www.AudioCutter.de/download.html.
In addition to bugfixes and improvements of the effects, it features a newer, much faster
Surround Render Engine version 0.75. Further, it is now possible to save projects
in AIFF track format in the unregistered demo version.
Imperium Terranum 2 for WinUAE
A special, self-extracting archive of the popular game Imperium Terranum 2
is now available at
http://www.VirtualWorlds.de/IT
and can be downloaded directly at
http://www.VirtualWorlds.de/Download/index.html.
This package requires the Amiga emulator WinUAE
and can be extracted directly into a Windows directory which is used by WinUAE
as Amiga harddisk.
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Golem: IBM Presents Faster, Less Power Consuming PowerPC Processor
»PowerPC 750CXe promises more power with less power consumption
With the PowerPC embedded processor 750CXe, IBM present a new processor.
The chip manufactured in IBM's 0,18 micron copper process, will be available
between 400 and 700 MHz.
The PowerPC-750CXe micro processor comes with 256K on-chip L2 cache and is
supposed to be used in miscellaneous devices as routers, modems, digital TV
boxes, laser printers, optical switches, RAID controllers but also PC's.«