The Aminet hasn't been quite as active this month as
it has been lately. Interest in the Amiga freely distributable software
seen waning at last? Hardly. Actually what happened is that the Aminet
filled up. Wuarchive, the Aminet's
home, is back on line on a 110 GB RAID server, so there's probably
space for a year or two. A lot of uploads disappeared over the couple
of weeks this was happening, but there was still plenty to see, do and
download.
If you have been using our Dir Opus coverdisk, or have upgraded to a newer version, you really should mosey on down to biz/dopus. Notable new arrivals in that neck 'o the woods include biz/dopus/bZ_Filetypes.lha (14k) which has a whole bunch of filetype extensions. If you are still on DirOpus 4, you'll still find things in that directory of use to you, such are a recent re-upload, biz/dopus/VCopy4xx.lha (10k) which is a version checking copy command.
Looking to network a couple of Amigas together? Can't sit still waiting for the next CU Amiga DIY article to get your teeth into? comm/net/diskserial.lha (20k) may be just the thing you are looking for. This archive contains a device driver and the hardware schematics for a nippy little 30kB/s pseudo serial link via the floppy disk port. Don't get too excited about fast modem connections, this isn't a true serial connector, but should make an excellent alternative to sernet.
Check out RTUtils at utils/cli/rtutils.lha (7k), a couple of CLI commands which use the treqtools library. RtEZreq is a command which replaces the standard requestchoice command, and rtgetstring string returning function. Very nice. Something for the less advanced user? Peter Hutchison's guide to hard drives could come in pretty handy at docs/help/hardDrive.lha (8k).
As always the Aminet provides fun as well as usefulness. Regular readers should
have picked up on my liking for voxel engines. Latest example to check is
Alastair Robinson's effort at
game/demo/AMRVoxel.lha
(504k). This one is an attempt at a voxel driving game. Early stages yet, but well
worth the download. This month's pic of themonth is Davide Bigazzi's rendered version
of Robert's painting of thetemple of Karnak, which can be found at
pix/trace/philae.lha (373k).
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