Interview with Thomas Dellert (DCE)
Read this interview with Thomas Dellert (DCE), done by Petra Struck on
March 29th, 2000, clarifying the availability of PowerUP products.
MetaView 2.9 released
The sollution for clip art users converts from WMF, CGM, GEM, DSDR, DR2D, DXF, XFIG, EPS, WPG, HPGL
and CMX to EPS, CGM, GEM, DR2D, HPGL, WMF, JMF, AI, XFIG or ILBM. Also im- and exports AMF
(see AmigaMetaFileFormat). Download:
MetaView.lha -
MetaView.readme
AmigaPeople on the Net
This is a list of Amiga users, where any Amiga user can add himself, to provide
help and support to Amiga users nearby. This list is international, and not limited
to the German language countries.
New rare demos at Ami Sector One
At Ami Sector One, some very rare demos can be found which are not available on Aminet
or Funet. Among others, you can download e.g. "Gate Megademo 1" and "Gate Megademo 2"
form the group "Gate" from there.
AmigaImpact already offers Amiga news in French since October 1999. This way, a wonderful
cooperation begins, since we can provide each other with news about Amiga, making up a
perfect match :-).
Amiga & Atari show, Neuss - website now online
As already previously announced, the show has been relocated to the weekend from June 10th
to 11th, 2000. More info about the "World of Alternatives" is now available at the title link.
Everything with a name will attend the show: Amiga Germany, Vesalia, KDH, Epic Marketing,
Haage & Partner, Schatztruhe, Titan Computer, RBM, Individual Computer, Dreieinhalb-Computer,
ACP & TCP, and of course the host, Falke Verlag.
Help forum for CD32 users opened!
At the title link, a new forum for CD32 users has been opened.
If you have problems with the CD32, want to buy / sell
CD32 games or hardware, you are at the right place there.
Sharks! CD32-Edition no longer "Powered by CD32-Alliance"!
At this place, I want to announce that the upcoming CD32 game Sharks!, coded by
Christian Steiner, is no longer supported (powered) by the CD32 Alliance. I don�t
want to name reasons at this place.
Current information about the games progress can be gathered directly from the
programmer: c-steiner@t-online.de, or
simply his homepage at the title link.
Java-Installation for Linux and Wind*ws
The documentation about the installation of java was extended. Now there are
different sections which describe how to install Java� (JRE� 1.2.x) and
Swing� under Linux and under Wind*ws. Additional there are some special
scripts for Wind*ws available which make the installation very easy - only
some mouseclicks are necessary now.
JavaRunner 1.1 for Linux (PPC and 86x86) and Wind*ws
The new version 1.1 is now available. A bug was removed which took effect only
under Linux and some special abilities were included. So the JavaRunner now
tries to create the CLASSPATH-environment-variable if it doesn't exists.
Additional V 1.1 works perfect with the new JRE� 1.2.x.
New print magazine in Poland
I would like to inform you and all Amiga users that we have started publishing
a new paper Amiga magazine in Polish. It is called "eXec" (48 pages, with CD)
and will be released on April 8th, 2000 at Amiga Meeting 2000 fair in Lodz.
IBrowse2 extension
First big support for IBrowse2. This project allows IBrowse to view the sites which
uses dynamic fonts technology (tag FONT FACE). Expand your IBrowse2.2 with Cascading Style Sheets.
AFD-Copyright news
Here some news on the project "AFD-Copyright"TM or
"Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note"TM. This
copyright notice is an offer to all Amiga developers wanting to release FD-Software,
be it freeware, giftware, shareware or whatever.
AFD-Copyright is now available in fifteen (15!) languages - in two formats each,
plain text or HTML file. The latest extension has been the Russian translation by
Andrew Boyarintsev and Oleg Sergeev.
The files can be downloaded from the Official Support Site for AFD-COPYRIGHT -
single file or complete archive. The address is http://AFD.home.pages.de (title link).
The webmasters among you are asked to add this to your hotlist. If home.pages.de
should be offline again, you can also find the site directly at
http://www.dknoll.myokay.net/AFD/.
The Amiga 2K show is fast approaching. With more exhibitors and advance ticket
sales than ever before. It is shapping up to be a great show.
Be certain to check the web for information about the Banquet. We have been
able to secure the ability to sell tickets to the Banquet right up to Saturday,
providing we don't sell out. Tickets are limited, so if you want to be absolutely
positive you get one, send your check via overnight mail to:
Amigan-St. Louis - PO Box 672 - Bridgeton, MO 63044
Banquet tickets are $35 each. Check or money order only please.
New software for MROOCHECK PC-Wheel-Mouse-Interface by Elbox
New software for Wheel support for MROOCHECK PC Mouse Interface. Also included in this
release is FreeWheel - the commodity which converts wheelmouse events into scrollbar
movement or cursor key movements. It can also map several useful functions to the wheel
button, and a fourth mouse button. Read more in ReadMeFirst.
The Mroocheck interface guarantees full compatibility of these devices with Amiga
computers (wheel and extra button functions included). The basic advantage over the
solutions, which are based around connecting mouses to the Amiga serial port is that
a mouse/trackball connected through the Mroocheck interface is active as soon as in
the early-startup-menu, not only after the computer software drivers are started.
Obviously enough, Mroocheck does not block the serial port in Amiga.
Toms Commodore Emulation Website
Tom has recieved permission by Dave Haynie to post some of his
videos from his
time at Commodore, West Chester, PA as .mpg. All in all, six different .mpg
files are available for download.
Regarding the article above, we recieved the following counter-reply from Pierre Prestel, which we
release unchanged:
Pierre Prestel [http://Amiga.Ac]
Admin@Amiga.Ac [mailto:Admin@Amiga.Ac]
30. March 2000
COUNTER-REPLY!
On the internet site "http://www.amiga-news.de/archiv/news0003.shtml",
my article from March 23rd, 2000 was changed by the Amiga-News.De editors,
to make the following incorrect claim:
Post Scriptum 28.03.2000:
Article removed, since it seems to be an early April Fool�s joke.
----------
Herewith I make use of my right to have a counter-reply published!
My article, where I promised a free .pc domain including unlimited
webspace to the first 50 people sending in an e-mail, has been removed
to make the incorrect claim that it seems like an early April Fool�s
joke. This is a FALSE claim which probably was intended to reduce my
creditibility and the status of the Amiga search engine http://Amiga.Ac.
Once again I want to confirm that all of the first 50 people sending in
an e-mail (which have not been reached so far) will recieve the promised
domain including unlimited webspace.
Pierre Prestel
System-Administrator
Note from the editors:
1. ICANN "Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number" -
Authority for CCTLDs (CountryCodeTopLevelDomain) - has only accepted a single new CCTLD since it�s
founding, "ps" standing for Palestina. There are no informations about accepting a "pc" CCTLD.
2. IANA "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" - Authority in IP
issues - maintains the list of all valid CCTLDs for the ICANN, and also does not list an CCTLD "pc".
3. Only the name server available at amiga.ac lists the CCTLD "pc". None of the worldwide, centralized
name servers on the internet knows this CCTLD. This means that persons who want to surf to a subdomain
of the CCTLD "pc" have to tell their TCP/IP stack to use the nameserver amiga.ac first.
For the above reasons, we (the editors) don�t think that a claim for counter-reply is valid. In the
interest of finding the truth, we of course accepted the text above for official release.
Linux concepts: device management under Linux
The free Linux information service linuxinfo.de put the third part of the Linux concepts series online. This part is covering the device management under Linux. The text is as usual available in the Dokumentation / Konzepte
area.
Planetamiga Austria presents a completely renewed online offer
Planetamiga is proposing a completely reworked and at the same time the first Amiga online shop featuring a shoppingkart system in Austria since today. After the former version of the Planetamiga site had somewhat aged, Planetamiga decide to realise a completely new idea. The design and structure of the page is decent, but the contents is expandable.
Most interesting for austrian Amiga users might become the Planetamiga-Newsletter which does not only send actual information about the Amiga directly to the private mailbox, but will also inform about the most recent deals. Planetamiga is also planning a bannerfree Webinterface for webmasters. Since this is not ready it will not be described yet.
Hardware meeting of the IMAGE usergroup
On the 1st of april there will be a hardware meeting in N�rnberg, Mannertstrasse 10 (side entrance JVA) beetween 09:00 and 24:00 h. If you want to attent please contact J�rg Karisch (joerg.karisch@student.fh-nuernberg.de) or Tel.: 0911-317459. You can also get a road description there. Don't forget your extension leads and plugs.
Amiga 2K Press Release
The big Amiga 2K Show in St. Louis will begin on Saturday. Find a list of all the events and happenings at the show under http://www.amiga-stl.com/show.html. Follow the titellink to read the complete press release.
Amiga Forever News
Follow the titellink to read news about the Amiga Forever CD Cloanto. First there are new files for the Amiga Forever 3.0 CD. There are new links to legal download sites for classic Amiga games and softwares on the Amiga Forever Homepage.
Press release: Commander-ImageFX (configurable GUI)
Follow the titellink to read the complete press release about Commander by Dhomas Trenn. Commander is a software which creates configurable graphical user interfaces for other softwares. Actually Dhomas has adapted his software fo ImageFX.
Prerelease of the FTP client ATC
A new prerelease of the fantastic FTP client AmiTradeCenter by Matthias B�cker has been available for a couple of days now. The software is very performent, is very stable and has extended configuration possibilities; even a Tetris game, to shorten the download time, and a graphical CPS display have been build in.
Please correct your bookmarks, link pages and mailing lists. Members of the club, who have got a hompage at APC/TCP, should consider that their URL has changed too: http://www.apc-tcp.de/members/xyz
A.G.N.U.S
A.G.N.U.S is a new link directory "Amiga Emulation Directory" which covers the subject of
emulation. There you can also read the interview with Dominic Schmidt and
Torsten Giebl, authors of the Fellow project.
New caricature online: The mighty magician
Please use this occasion to visit the homepage of
our caricaturist Torsten Dudai. Torsten has redesigned and completely reworked his site
recently. You can read how caricatures are created for example.
Indiana Jones 4 part 2
Robert Konrad, PR-manager of "Indy Project", writes:
As you can see on http://indyproject.de (title link), there will be an
Amiga version of Indy Project. I will see after it. Perhaps I will need
some more people, perhaps I am good enough myself until then to handle it myself.
See, it will take some time until the game is close to completion, and before
starting the port makes sense. I don't expect major problems with the port,
but there won't be a disk version :-(
If there are still some Turrican fans around, you should have a look at
turrican.emucamp.com.
New online registering, new homepage and new version AmiCompSys 1.32
Håkan Partings website holds many new items. By virtue of a cooperation
with ShareIt, he now offers SSL online registering for
AmiCompSys. Credit cards like
MasterCard, Visa, Diners and American Express are accepted. Cheques and
bank transfers are also accepted as before.
The new website http://www.parting.nu/ is now also home for his other programs
VersionWB, AMarquee and GlossTask.
Today, version 1.32 of AmiCompSys has been released.
Amiga News now in Turkish, too :-)
The team of the online mag AmigArt will
translate our news to Turkish starting immediately. This is a great day for us;
amiga-news.de in two new languages on the same day! We are proud to be available in
six local languages, and want to send greetings to all translators on this occassion :-).
Disk icons with "label"
Bernward Hofmann did send us a new submission for our Tips and Tricks site.
If you have multiple disk drives connected, this is the tip for you, since
Bernward explains in detail (in German... :-/), what you have to do to recognize
at first glance which of your disk drives just recieved a new disk.
Many thanks for this tip. If you have more tips for this site, feel free to
send them to ps@amiga-news.de.
Computer Reseller News 12/00
The magazine "Computer Reseller", in its 12/00 issue, reports about the
Amiga comeback. read the full article (German) at the title link.
Amiga News now in Polish, too :-)
Starting immediately, Piotr Pawlowski will support amiga-news.de by translating
our news to Polish two to three times a week, and posting it to his website.
So we are available in five languages already. Piotr is from Kielce, studying
Economy, Finance and Banking at the SGH (Warsaw School of Economics).
Fusion 68k v3.2 released
This version is the final upgrade for the 68k version, before the PPC version
(which is close to completion) will be released.
Order Fusion.
Wanted: Information about CDTV!
To continue development, or to re-engineer the CDTV released 1990, I am looking
for contacts to the manufacturer / the programmers of the CDTV software. Sadly, the
manufacturer company seems to be out of business, so I ask the readers.
This is what I know: Manufacturer: Digital Creations
Programmers involved: Bill Barton, John Botteri, Randy Jongens, and David
Porter
If anyone has informations about this, it would be great if you'd contact me
at stefan.robl@tirnet.de!
HBMonopoly 2.3
In the new version 2.3 of the networking Monopoly game, you can choose between
several board graphics. Download from the official homepage at the title link.
Alive Mediasoft with new website
Alive new web site is finally open with a host of new features, new games,
new hardware, and serious software. As a special welcome back present,
for a limited period Alive's game Blade will be available for free
download. (Please read the legal terms before downloading).
So now all you have to do is go and have a look...
But be warned - the site is experiencing very heavy traffic, and although
we've increased our band width to the largest account available, you may
still get a request for a time-out. If this happens, please come back later.
NEW Pulse Soon
The Pulse Issue 12 is just around the corner. We are giving you an advance
opportunity to request your copy now, as all 2500 copies of issue 11 were
requested in advance and went on the day they arrived from the printers.
As we've had a good response from issue 11, we may consider increasing this
run to 3000 if demand is high enough, but we must know within the next week.
Epic Marketing: Simon The Sorcerer II by end of April
Simon The Sorcerer II for Amiga is currently in beta testing. There are some
bugs to fix before the game can be produced. We are looking for a release date
by the end of April 2000.
New Aminet uploads
We are currently relocating the main site to us.aminet.net. On the first
mirror, there already are new files; by the time this article is posted,
everything should be back to normal. de.aminet.net will be down two more weeks,
however.
Digital Almanac II Final Version
For all registered users of Digital Almanac II, the real final version of the
program (v1.8.11) is available for download on the author's homepage. This
puts an end to DA II.
Ideas and suggestions for improvements are accepted by the author anytime, but
will only be implemented in DA III. News and screenshots of DA III will be
released regulary on the homepage. An Aminet upload is currently not possible.
.Amiga too long as a domain ending!
Starting April 2nd, 2000, there is a new top level domain on the net: .PC
As introductionary present, we give away 50 domains FREE with free-of-charge
web hosting and as many free e-mail accounts as you want. Everyone being among
the first 50 until April 2nd, gets a .pc domain and a chance to reserve a really
unique domain name for himself. Domains are not passed out to buyers before
April 3rd! And this is how it works:
Simply send an e-mail to DomainNIC@Intermail.Nu, containing the .pc domain name
wanted and a personal password. If the domain is NOT to be hosted by us, we also
need the technical information for rooting. The acceptance of a free domain does
not imply any commitments, and there won't be advertising banners. Sponsored by:
Amiga-Accelerator - Search Engine for Amiga-People! http://Amiga.Ac
PS: Pierre Prestel posted to the ANF
that, due to the theft of the .nu domains, the e-mail address for the .pc giveaway
is no longer valid. If you want to participate, should use Admin@Amiga.Ac instead.
Details can be found on http://Amiga.Ac.
PlayGUI 2.6 available
Starting immediately, PlayGui v2.6 can be downloaded from the title link. Additionally,
there are some new skins. PlayGui is a GUI add-on for Hippoplayer and Play16. PlayGui
provides these two programs with a skin interface, which can easily be cusomized with
new graphics by the user.
SimplePost Version 0.1 released
SimplePost is a postscript previewer for Amiga. Currently there's only some kind
of beta version as some important features as e.g. printing are still missing.
OS3.0 and MUI are required.
Download: simplepost.lzx - 645 Kb
Mitchy back online!
After the server move, the link directory of Amiga.org Mitchy is back online
with many improvements and new layout. Mitchy now has its own domain and can
be reached directly under http://search.amiga.org/.
Alive Mediasoft website down
Within 6 hours of Alive's new web site being launched, we have exceeded our
monthly traffic allowance! As we are already on our providers premium gold
account we cannot increase the bandwidth any further with them. The site is
still there but many people are find it impossible to get on as it's just
too busy. We are in contact with several larger internet providers to find
someone to cope with the traffic. As soon as we find one we'll move the
site and hopefully see no more problems.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but do keep trying - you never know it may
calm down in the next few day!
Graphical Artists Competition
APRIL GRAPHICAL ARTISTS COMPETITION
OOSTERHOUT (NB)-NL -- 24/3/00 -- C&C · Logo and Design, an innovative and
Benelux based designing company, is looking for a Graphical Artist by ways
of competition.
Up to the 30th of April 2000 we welcome any graphical artist, who is
interested in doing some parttime work for our company, to join the
contest.
All the details can be found at our website http://www.designburo.nl
300 gigabyte harddisk comes
«The harddisk manufacturer Seagate has achieved a new record regarding
data density. The company succeeded in saving a density of 45 gigabit per
inch square [7 gigabit per centimeter square]. Converted to a regular harddisk
with five metal drives this results in a harddisk size of 300 gigabyte.»
Launch of www.amigan.com
On April 3rd http://www.amigan.com will launch. My work DNS server just
picked it up this morning, so do not be distressed if it does not come up,
it exists I assure you :) (look at www.qwhois.com to see). This is web site
is owned by the newly formed Grapevine Computers Inc., and will eventually
include many features, at this point I'm not sure which ones will be
operational at launch date. It is being run on a fully Pearl/CGI enabled
Linux web server with a secure site certifcate for secure online purchases.
The idea behind this corporation is that it will be 100% owned by Amiga
users, and at launch date users may purchase shares of stock no matter where
in the world they live (We've contacted the IRS on how to do this). We want
to compete with the very few online vendors of Amiga products that have a
monoply like effect selling upgrade parts and replacement parts for very
high prices for classic Amiga. We will also be a dealer for the new Amiga.
I've contacted Bill McEwen but I haven't heard back from him (he's a busy
guy I'm sure), to get the offical Amiga blessing. All shareholders will get
a discount on items for sale, and right now were planning on members of the
board of directors getting products at cost. Shares of common stock will be
sold for $1 US, and anyone can purchase a few as one share. It is a
privately held close corporation, in in will operate pursuant to the Texas
Close Corporation Act (my lawyer talking there).
We're also looking for a couple people. One, someone to translate the site into German
and and server as a coordinator and contact for operations for German.
Second, someone to serve as a cordinator and contact for operations in
England. Stock will be traded in consideraton for these positions, and they
will eventually will be paying positions when we get off the ground. This
is by no means full time (it's not going to be full time for me either, even
though my girlfriend sure thinks it is). Interested persons can e-mail
president@amigan.com . If their DNS servers are not updated yet, they can
e-mail tom@grapevinecomputers.com .
Further details will be released on April 3rd on the website. Anyone having quesitons can e-mail me.
Thanks, Tom Kisner, President/CEO, Grapevine Computers
Program updates
As the AminetServer is currently down I would like to remind that all my
software projects are available for download on my website (title link).
Some programs were updated (e.g. RAWBInfo, PrintManager, IcoDT,...) since
the server was down.
Two new games (Website currently down)
Alive Mediasoft will publish two new games in April: Super Taekwondo Master
and Cedric and the Search for the Magic Sceptre. Super Taekwondo Master is
a 2D action simulation with one- and two-player modes.
Cedric and the Search for the Magic Sceptre is an action role-playing game
in which you play the role of the heroic Cedric who undyingly fell in love
with the daughter of the king. This love is reciprocated, but of course the
king won't let his daughter marry a commoner. One day the king's magic sceptre
is stolen, and Cedric now gets the chance to raise his reputation by returning
the sceptre. In the process, Cedric has to master some adventures.
UniView v40.6 update
Yesterday, I uploaded a new version 40.6 of my MultiView replacement UniView
to the support page. There haven't been that many tests, but it runs stable
on my A4000/060/OS3.5.
New features: Multiple windows, AppIcon, selectable screenmode etc. UniView
is Shareware, but without limitations.
Image Engineer Keyfile to be won!
Would you like to WIN a free keyfile for Image Engineer? Winner will also
receive full version of Visual Puzzle as a bonus for a job well done.
Somewhere at website of Visual Engineering, there's 3 BIG hided letters.
Find them all and tell me what they are. There can be only 3 winners, so better hurry...
Buy Amiga products online
AmigaRealm, one of the largest link collections for Amiga links, has created a
special page with all companies offering online shopping on their website. This
way, users have the opportunity to get an overview over Amiga articles available
online. Link to the shopping directory:
www.shopping.amigarealm.com.
AAA Award
The current voting for the AAA Awards will end on March 26th. If you want to
recommend websites for the AAA Awards, visit the title link. Websites are
nominated for the following countries: International, Spain, Sweden, England,
and USA. Awards are given in the following categories: Work for the community,
best product, and a special price for long time commitment.
MicroServ.org: Online again!
Sadly, we were forced offline for some days due to water damage. Now, the
phone company has installed a new cable, and everything is online again.
We want to say sorry for any harassment this has caused to you, but we couldn�t
do anything about this. Since everything has been started up again, we want to
ask all users to check their accounts and passwords, and report any inconsistencies.
AmigaTools.net News
http://www.amigatools.net has been completely updated on Thursday (e.g. now
including HTML4.0 check). All download files have been retranslated and
re-uploaded last week; partly because the gateway.library has been changed,
and some basic changes have been applied to the libraries and libs.
Today, two uploads have been added:
VersCheck V2 has been updated (primarily changes to MUI due to the
many changes by VAPOR).
VersCheck V3 beta is now on the download area. BETA means an incomplete
and buggy version.
If you want to, you can download the version and test it. Since some issues
are already known, and it makes the coordination easier, I created a mailing
list for all beta testers. So if you want to test, too, you should contact
me to get yourself added to the list. Wanted: Testers with Amiga clones
and emulators.
Smidge demo at Amiga Rediscovery
After Mikey Carillo had to cancel the Amiga Yellow Pages under
pressure of
the original Yellow Pages, he concentrated on his project "Amiga Rediscovery".
Here, he regularily released old game demos for download and explains at length
what is necessary to play them. Currently, Mikey offers the game "Smidge" for
download.
Amiga Active: Preview on issue 7 online
Aside from many reviews, e.g. on Heretic II and Diavolo Backup 2000, the digital
technology is main subject of the latest issue.
Digital Almanac III Brainstorming
If you are interested in the astronomy software Digital Almanac (DA), you can get the
latest development status about DA III (PPC) from the author's homepage. The most
important changes and improvements are presented there.
Moreover, the author is looking for reliable and determined beta testers and users
of DA II with good ideas that could be implemented in DA III. Right now, only the 68k
version is worked upon.
Requirements are (68k):
a well equipped Amiga (68040/40 or 68060/50, OS 3.5, 32 MB)
registered (!) MUI user
basic knowledge of astronomy and astronomic terms
programming experience in C (C++) and mathematic knowledge is advantegous
Apply by e-mail, stating knowledge and hardware.
As a reward, the software itself is free. A first (German) beta version for 68k will
probably be available by the end of April. Right now, only an English localisation
is planned. The time schedule for the PPC version is depending on DCE, so no dates
for this.
Forming a professional / commercial development team to work on AROS
My boss, Mr. Yourievski from the Sowatec AG has offered us a once-in-a-lifetime
chance: If enough people apply for working full time (incl. getting payed real
money :-) on AROS here in Switzerland, he will have a really good look at this
business opportunity. If he can see a way to make money with it, he will handle
everything necessary to get us going at full steam :-)
So if you think you're worthy ;-) and you can move (or already life) in Switzerland, send your resumee to:
Sowatec AG Witzbergstrasse 7 8330 Pfäffikon Switzerland
If you cannot move to Switzerland, then send your resmuee, anyway. Just note
that we need at least 5 developers here; when we reach that, then the rest can probably live anywhere :-)
Also note that this would greatly enhance our relationship with Amiga Inc
(because then, they would have a professional partner instead of a bunch of
hobby developers working on their spare time).
Please bother him only if you're interested in working full time on AROS.
All other inquiries should go to me
digulla@sowatec.com directly.
AWeb-II upgrade for OS 3.5 SE version
As already announced by KDT on March 9th, the Amitrix website points to
the cheap upgrade option to the full version for users of the AWeb version
shipped with OS 3.5.
LTP IV demo party in France
The big demo party LPT4 will be held in France (91560 Crosne, France South-east of Paris, close to Villeneuve
St Georges) from august 25th to 26th. More information can be found under the titellink.
Advertising of the LTP IV demoparty held in France in august. This party is an oldschool party with Amiga
computers compos (A500-A1200) Last year, it was won by Scoopex.
Amiga 4ever issue 15 released!
Numen writes:
Howdy!
At last, though a little later than planned, issue 15 of Amiga 4ever is available at our homepage following the
titellink. There are recent news, soft and hardware reviews (ImageFX, AmiAtlas 5, AliBaba, several Modems...)
as well as the Heavy Metal Corner, scene demos and an interview with Sylvio Kurze of Deep Silence, among
others. Furthermore Amiga Aktuell issues 2/00 and 3/00 are included as guide versions. It's sure worth taking
a look at it. Receiving it by e-mail is also possible. Simply send an e-mail to
Numen@Helimail.de with "A4ever 15" as subject.
Yahoo: Comeback: Amiga reveales new system
"Amiga-CEO Bill McEwen announced a new system for the 1st of april. The new Amiga is still at developing
status but nonetheless so much evolved that a system will be played in a lottery at the Amiga 2000 conference in St. Louis.
Amiga also plans to reveal the precursor of a new operating system, which has been developed together with
Tao-Group and based on the Tao-OS Elate, at the Amiga 2000 in St. Louis. A cooperation with Epic and
Hyperion should bring new games to the Amiga."
Complete article (German) under the titellink.
Help Forum
You can find a help forum where Amiga users can help each other on the homepage following the titellink.
Click on the "Stefan1200's Amiga Seite" button and then "Hilfe-Forum" in the left frame. Furthermore
the homepage is now better suited for smaller resolutions since the left frame is somewhat smaller now.
New Amiga related IRC channel
Recently a new IRC server network has opened its connections to the world, and so I decided to register
an Amiga related chat channel there. It is called #amiga of course and runs on the krushnet.org servers.
Those servers are pretty fast and very reliable and therefore I would like to invite as many Amiga users
as possible to this new channel.
To get there type the following commands in you IRC client:
/server krushnet.org
/join #amiga
That's it. Hope to see you there :-)
Black_Amiga online
From now on the Black_Amiga homepage is online. You can download the latest programs by Black_Amiga
like BlackSnesGui, AT or UnZipGui there.
FutureZone: New gigantic harddrive from IBM
IBM have released a new harddrive with a capacity of 75 GB. The peculiar thing about it is that it isn't
composed of aluminium but glass(!).
Linux concepts: The Linux filesystem ext2
The free Linux information and documentation service LinuxInfo.DE (titellink) put a second article in its
Linux concepts series online (German only).
This part covers the standard filesystem ext2 under Linux. In addition to a general introduction to the
filesystem, the article also covers the filesystem hierachy standard and describes the internal architecture
and organisation of the system. The article can be found under "Dokumentationen/Konzepte"
Contact Manager 1.8 released
Contact Manager is a system adress book which also handles user information, websites, ftp-sites and
IRC channels in addition to adresses.
Download: cmanager_18.lha - 637 Kb
Important poll concernig the future of AROS
Aaron Digulla started this poll in order to have a better evaluation about what the users think about
AROS, and to help him with deciding whether or not and how the AROS project will be continued.
You can find the poll and more details under the titellink.
AROS News
AmiWorld On-Line have translated an article about AROS
to several languages. There are german, english, italian and japanese versions by now. You can
find the translations under the titellink.
C64 Specialists wanted (repost)
Note from the translator: This is a repost, since I fumbled with the layout
of the original post. Sorry. (mb)
Did the C64 work its charm on you fifteen years ago just like us? Well, probably the Amiga did that...?
The Commodore is out of production. But in the eighties, it was the favourite toy of that generation.
Today, it is catching dust in the basement or is used by a few musicians as strange sound machine. But
perhaps you can help us on our search. Perhaps you know exactly the people we have to ask.
WHO WE ARE?
We are two communications designers from Wiesbaden who grew up with the old C64. We were constantly
blamed for wasting our time with that "thing", instead of doing important things. We now catch up
on this. :-)
WHAT'S THE PLAN?
We want to publish our Thesis by the end of 2000: "Commodore 64 Culture" (working title), researching
this phenomenon. We want to show the culture that grew around the C64, and still exists today: The
8-bit machine as stange sound machine, nostalgic toy, collector's item. Experimental, playful,
multimedia. The accompaining CD-ROM will contain well-known songs as well as C64 emulators for
PC and Mac. A webpage is also planned, elaborating on the multimedia part of the book and linking
to other C64 pages.
WHAT WE ARE INTERESTED IN
We are interested in the world accompaining the C64: The history, technical details, sales numbers,
press reviews, games, crackers, hackers, first office applications, copy parties, the marketing
drive of Commodore, the demo scene, today's SID-Chip fans, the self build hardware extensions,
banner printing orgies, computer "summer camps", the booming software industry of the 80ies,
waiting for datasettes, sore fingers while typing listings and what is left of that today.
WHAT DO WE WANT FROM YOU?
Of course we have to do research. We need your help with that. We are collecting opinions, details,
background information, documentation from journalists, fans and developers. From the submissions,
we will create the compendium of the C64 culture. We are looking for every detail around the "bread box":
Every contact suggestion, whom to talk to, every website we can look at. And of course your story.
HOW TO START?
If you are interested in the project, contact us. Forefront, we want to know what kind of C64 user
you have been or still are. Please describe in a few sentences what you did back then. Of course we are
curious about any kind of stories. And of course we are looking for the answers to the most important
question: Why, do you think, has the C64 been so successful, and what did it start? Afterwards, we
will contact you, and would be happy if you could answer us a couple of questions. If you know someone
who is as interested in this subject as we are, send him this e-mail. In any case, you can subscribe
to our mailing list, if you want to know about our project's progress.
DEADLINE
Submissions should be send until end of April, since our thesis has a definite deadline. Many thanks
for your attention and help.
Press release by AIO
http://www.aio.co.uk/
Starting with the next issue, the magazine AIO
will be made by Mark Tierno. He replaces Chris Seward as editor. Please read the
complete press release at the title link.
fxPAINT mailinglist opened
Due to the big demand, we decided to create a mailinglist for fxPAINT. If you want
to subscribe, just click on the link on the homepage.
AmigAIM 0.9338B
A new version of the AOL client has been released on the author's homepage. This
program enables Amiga users to chat with AOL cutomers.
First picture of the new BoXer design
Blittersoft presents a first picture of the new BoXer mainboard. The redesign
was neccessary, since the previous version was already outdated.
Deep Silence homepage with new URL
The Deep Silence homepage has moved to suse.unixcity.de/deepsilence/ (title link)!
Please adjust your bookmarks. Also a completely new layout has been created for
800x600 users. DeepSilence is the first real Manga action RPG for Amiga.
wARPgATe with new domain
The wARPgATe has recieved a more fitting domain. Daily news about WarpOS and Warp3D can
now be found at www.warpgate.org (title link).
RADWAR Party 2000
On May 27th, the celebrity hall Heinsberg-Oberbruch (near Aachen, Germany) will host
the Radwar Party for the ninth time. The successful party meeting is a meeting for
the former and current computer scene as well as musicians, DJs, programmers and
representatives of the software industry.
The RadwarParty2K claims to be more than a szene party - the meeting of people from
different nations and professions is a platform for information exchange and know-how
transfer in a relaxed atmosphere.
News from Individual Computers
Much has been done at Individual Computers, the newsletter has grown very long. So
here the headlines only. Read the full news at the title link.
+++ Hypercom 4plus production successfully finished +++
+++ Talks with Albrecht Computer Technik (A.C.T.) confirmed +++
+++ ISDN board: New concept +++
+++ Samba Install CD delayed +++
+++ Supply situation critical +++
+++ New software online +++
Eternity News
Spring has just arrived, and we have already something more to report:
World of Amiga & Atari
We will exhibit on the show taking place on March 20th/21st in the city hall Neuss.
Tales of Tamar will be shown as well as the "Exorzist" system based on Blizzard
technology. A new Exorzist system will also bee shown, provided all needed parts
are available until then.
Yesterday I wrote the last of the four exams that kept me away
from my beloved Workbench and caused the long delays between
updates to this site.
Starting immediately, news should appear here no longer than
36 to 48 hours after they appeared on the German main site
(just as they used to before the four riders appeared, and
their names were "Databases", "Business Science", "Industrial
Bookkeeping", and "Software Engineering"... ;-)).
I want to thank you for your patience. I want to thank Eric
Gillé, Jerry Withers, Guido Fehst, and Rüdiger
Hanke for helping me with translations. And I want to thank
Petra Struck for not tearing me apart for the delays (she
is very concerned about keeping her site up to date, you
have to know... ;-))
And most of all I thank my girl friend. This weekend I am
moving to her flat, and for the better part of Saturday
evening and Sunday morning, she had to do all the work on
her own while I was translating... :-/
Oh, and by the way: The Executive Update was news item #2500
at this location! Talk about timing... :-)
Heise: Nuclear clock signal of the PTB in Internet
As reported by the Heise Newsticker, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesamt now
offers the service of a nuclear precise clock in the Internet. To get the precise
time, you need special software. Aside from many other platforms, the Amiga was
respected, too. The software is freeware, started as commodity. The title link
points to the Heise news site, you get to the download area from there.
PlayGUI News
PLone, the PlayList add-on for PlayGui, has now been released as version 1.3, and can
be downloaded from the title link. PlayGui is an add-on for the players Hippoplayer
and Play16, and gives these a skin-like new interface which can easily be customized
by the user.
HTMLEXT 2
HTMLEXT is now available in a reworked version. New: Pixelmeter gauge, buttons
with the important functions and many detail improvements. Have fun working ;)
Download: htmlext215.lha
AMIGA Forum
The Amiga area of my homepage is not that big, but not uninteresting (I hope).
I just implemented a forum hoping that it will be used. Just have a look.
Amiga User List updated
My site has been updated again, and I will resume answering e-mails as usual. Another
note on the Amiga User List: On April 4th, the AUL celebrates 1st birthday. This will
be the day of the next release, too. I don't want to say what will happen then: Surprise...
most of you will like it for sure.
VirusExecutor v2.02 released
Name: VirusExecutor v2.02
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size: 196,951 Bytes
Release date: 15. March 2000
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
System: OS 2.0x or higher
Download: VirusExecutor.lha
No good news: Amiga Format folds :-(
Ben Vost informs us that the next issue of the print magazine "Amiga Format"
will be the last. Read his detailed statement at the title link.
It is really sad to see one magazine folding after another in recent months.
New Amiga web portal: AmigaGlobe
The new portal site by Andrian Sweeny offers news, several theme oriented forums,
a member area and an Amiga job market.
Dafel: Bloodline
On the Epic website, in the Projects area, there are first informations about
Dafel: Bloodline. The game is a classic action role playing game. Aside many
other features, the game will be released in a RTG and an AGA version, offering
extra graphics effects for fast CPUs and 3D effects like light, transparency and
fog. Sound will be done with AHI support and Advanced FSG Audio System. If everything
goes as planned, the game will be released in May, distributed by
Pagan Games.
Amiga.org with new Layout
Amiga.org has now moved to a new server and at the same time greatly
imporved thier look. While not entirely yet complete the main pages are
already available.
New ProStationAudio Line and AudioLabs Promotion Video
Three new products have been added to the new ProstationAudio product line:
Millenium, Classic and Remix. The spectrum of possible customers is thus
expanded to accomadate many different professionals, such as DJ`s. More
informations at the title link.
4D+ Internet Double Wheel Maus available
VMC now has available the NG4D+ Internet Mouse. It has 4 buttons and 2
directional wheels. The Mouse includes a specially designed Amiga driver,
which includes all functions of the mouse and it is fully compltible and
integrated with AmigaOS.
Horizontal and vertical scrolling are controlled by the 2 wheels. All
buttons are individually controlled by the driver software. Here some
< HREF="http://www.vmc.de/prd_vmc/ger_ng4dplus.html">technical details (German).
I have tested the VMC mouse. The installation on the serial port was
simple and the configuration of the commodity driver software very easy.
This mouse has a good feel to it, even though it is quite a bit higher that
what I am used to. This takes a while to get used to. The first few hours I
still scrolled in the old fashioned way, but once I got used to the
scrolling wheels I never want to be without them again. A few old games
that hit the mouse hardware will still require the old mouse to function,
but it still can remain connected without any problem. I can only recommend
this mouse! (ps)
Infrabox goes down in price
The InfraBox infrared remote control transceiver for Amiga computer is
now available for a special price. The hardware module allows you to
control your audio and video appliances using your Amiga. Vice versa,
using a remote control commander, you can control your Amiga programs.
The accompanying software, InfraRexx and InfraFace, are available for free.
BlackIRC 1.1 Freeware edition released
Our business is is shifting evermore into the graphic arts area and the
development of online products for servers and businesses.We therefore no
longer have the resources needed to continue BlackIRC development so we have decided
to release it as freeware. The integrated news service of BlackNews will be
taken over by amiga-news.de. We will however no longer support BlackIRC
because it is now freeware and support involves costs. Should anyone be
interested in further developing BlackIRC we are offering sourcecode
licences starting at 5000 DM.
BlackIRC is an IRC client for AMIGA with exceptional capabilities. Some
extras like XDCC, Bots, CTCP flood protection etc. are already implemented
in the client. Furthermore BlackIRC is the only Amiga IRC client allowing
video conferences.
ArtEffect 4.0 scheduled for May - PageStream 4 Release 4
Version 4 of the popular graphics software for picture editing and natural painting comes once again with
a variety of new functions and improvements. This time special focus has been on planes functions which have now
become very flexible and powerful. A new manual and a CD-ROM containing fonts, cliparts and workshops round up the
new package.
Pagestream
A free update is available now. Registered users may wait until we have created a patch or claim the complete
version (more than 10 MB) at our site. Claim
WE STILL DO NOT HAVE THE LATEST VERSION OF STORM. We reported problems to the authors, and
although these problems are suppose to be fixed, we can not get this version. We can not proceed with
FUSION-PPC until we obtain the new version. We urge everyone to bug H&P so that we can complete this
project!
faq.vapor.com now online
Vapor.com have created a seperate FAQ website for the different softwares. The contents isn't that big yet, but will
grow rapidly since everybody can post messages.
nullsana.device
There are news about a new Sana2 driver called "nullsana". The device can interconnect its units to connect a
Macintosh TCP/IP stack with an Amiga TCP/IP stack. Thus it works similarly to vlink.device.
However the new device is faster, more flexibly configurable and is conform to the newest Sana2 V2 standard
including package filter and mutiple opened units. The device can be configure as Ethernet, SLIP, CSLIP and Loopback.
Ethernet RAW Frames for Shapeshifter are supported. Sana2 statistics are computed. Since Aminet Paderborn is down
you can download the device here.
Recall of the CD-ROM version Digital Almanac II
To the owners of the CD-ROM version of Digital Almanac II (V1.8.8):
Unfortunately the CD contains a bad bug. Amigans using OS 3.1 are particularly concerned. In this case installing
the main program from CD to harddisk will fail. So if you are belong to this group of people (approximately 15 CDs sold)
you may have the CD exchanged by sending it, along with DM 3.- in stamps (return-postage)
back to the author (not your retailer !!).
If you own OS 3.5 and if the installation doesn't start by double clicking on the installation icon, copy the
Installer V44 (!!) from your OS 3.5 CD-ROM to your harrdrive, to C: for example. As said before:
This exchange can only be claimed by people owning OS 3.1 and the Digital Almanac II (V1.8.8) CD-ROM version.
A new update (V1.8.9) is available at the author's homepage. The Aminet upload will be available as soon as
Paderborn will be online again.
PC-Welt: Burned by the joystick
"A part of the Nintendo 64 games collection "Mario Party" may cause hand injuries. This has been confirmed by
the US central of the game's manufacturer. Every owner of the video game will now be provided with security gloves
in the USA.
Following a statement of the New York federal prosecutor, many parents have complained over "Mario Party" at Nintendo
in the USA. They say their kids have injured their hands while playing at it. Parents report several kinds of
injuries like burnings, stitches, cuts etc..."
Nintendo have now agreed to deliver four fingerless gloves ,which are reinforced at the palm, to each
american Mario Party customer. This engagement may cost Nintendo up to 80 million dollars. Furthermore the
company will pay for the 75,000 dollars which cost the investigation by the federal prosecutor.
A call at the hotline 0130/5806 from our part showed that there have been no cases or complaints arround
here, at least for the moment. So this may simply be a too early "April Fool's" joke.
Scout-Source Fixpack
The original source could not be compiled since an include file was missing. The actual pachage is now working.
A Scout-fixpack exists for those who already downloaded the former package.
Heretic II status
Developing Heretic II is nearly at an end. If everything goes as planned, Heretic II will be
released end of march/beginning of april. Amiga Format has rated the game 95% in a preview.
New GCC includes
If you are getting strange crashes from vfprintf when using GCC PPC 2.95.1, you should install these
replacement includes. Put these in lib/gcc-lib/ppc-amigaos/2.95.1/ newinc.lha
World of AMIGA & ATARI fair during may 2000
The Falke publication house are organizing the World of AMIGA & ATARI fair on 20th/21th of may in the
city-hall of Neuss (near D�sseldorf). Since the price for a square meter is very low, a large number of
participants are expected. Shareware authors can rent a display stand for only DM 150,-.
Media agency J.H. Sch�ler from Kiel is responsible for the acquisition and the servicing of the exhibitors.
Persons interested in exhibiting at the fair should contact them for further information.
Tel. 0431/2059330 or Fax 0431/2059340.
Visual Engineering News
Visual Engineering are proposing plugins for Image Engineer. Once again there is a
"Deal of the month". This time you can buy all of the plugins that have to be registered for a special
price.
Visual Border is surely most interesting. The plugins can be registered
here.
Amiga Explorer 3.5 released by Cloanto
Amiga Explorer has been released 1997 as a part of the Amiga Forever package (Amiga Emulator for PC).
The actual version 3.5 is the result of years of refinement and improvements. As a consequence to this
Cloanto have now decided to release Amiga Explorer as a standalone product. Further informations can be
found under the titellink.
Amiga Inc. will be giving away a special gift to the first 250 attendees of the BANQUET. That's right, a free gift
for attending what is already one of the highlights of the Amiga 2K show.
Come to the banquet, be one of the first 250 attendees, and receive a free gift from Amiga Inc. Sorry - can't say
what it is, but I know you will be proud to have it.
Oh yes, did you hear... Amiga Inc. is donating a "Developer System" as a door prize, in addition to a Amiga
1200. Another A1200 will be given in a separate raffle Saturday as well, courtesy of Amiga Inc.
Don't forget to get your money in for the Banquet tickets. Mail a check or money order for $35 US to:
Amigan-St. Louis
PO Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044
Admission to Amiga 2K is in addition to the Banquet cost. It is as follows:
Two day admission - In Advance = $17 At door = $20
One day admission - In Advance = $12 At door = $15
Class tickets will be sold at the show only.
Amiga 2K - Developers Conference
here will be a developers conference at the Amiga 2K (beginning of april in St. Louis). Here is the press release:
Developers wishing to develop for the newest and most experienced of the "Multimedia" and "Digitally Enlightened"
Computers of the last two decades. Here's your chance to sink your teeth into development on a platform that is fun
, challenging and with a known name in multimedia and video.
Amiga Inc. will conduct their first "Developers Conference" at the Amiga 2K show in St. Louis, MO. USA. If you
are a current, past or future potential Developer for the Amiga Computer platform, you need to attend this conference.
Amiga Inc. will have all of their executives present to discuss the platform and answer questions. Experienced Amiga
staff will present the "One on One" sessions. You need to attend, to get a hands on perspective of the newest and
best platform development systems.
To be accepted for this conference, you must fill in the "Developers Form." Upon acceptance, you will be notified by
Amiga Inc. Upon entry to the conference, you will be required to show a photo ID, and sign a NDA
(non-disclosure agreement).
Schedule of Conference
Friday March 31st, 6 PM - 8 PM - Introduction and discussions
Saturday April 1st, 2 PM - 4 PM - One on one meetings
Sunday April 2nd, 10 AM - 12 PM - One on one Meetings
Please go to the Amiga 2K show site, http://www.amiga-l.com/show.html
click on the "Developers Form" link and fill out the form. Amiga Inc. will review your form and email you as to your
acceptance for this conference.
Aminet Paderborn down
As many have noticed already, the german AmiNET server is down. However only the german server
is concerned. The server in the USA, UK, Italy, Sweden... are still working. Those can be found
on my GUI under the corresponding country flag on the UpLoads-Page.
One thing concerning a personal matter: The switching to SSI of my GUI will be delayed since my
10GB harddrive has broken down. I have been trying for a week now to make it work with the FastATA3 controller.
Audio Evolution website moved
The Audio Evolution website (audio harddisk recording program) can now be found
at http://www.audioevolution.demon.nl (title link). Please adjust your bookmarks.
uNDEFINABLE TUNEs as MP3
André Lorbach writes:
Some days ago I decided to release my latest music CD "uNDEFINABLE TUNEs" as MP3 for free
download. The CD is available both on Aminet and directly from my homepage
(download area).
I created my first AmigaAMP skin.
It looks rather well for a first attempt, I am curious what you think about it. It can
be downloaded from the link above.
DCE: BVision production successfully started
On March 9th, the first BVision boards have finished production. The cards will be
shipped to Vesalia Computer, so pre-orders can be met ASAP. The Permedia-II chip
now comes with a standard heat sink. This should remove temperatire problems.
AWebII version 3.3 available as special upgrade version
AWeb-II version 3.3 is now available in two flavours. A full version for users that
don't have a previous version of AWeb-II, and as an update for the users that already
use the limited version that was included in OS 3.5.
Pagan Games Member Area grows steadily
For some time now, Pagan Games is working on a complete user group on their website. The
preparations are 80% finished. Currently, people are wanted for the developer forum that
offer their code in e.g. C, Blitz or AMOS to newbies, and help explaining how games are
written and what the subroutines are for. If you want to participate, contact
info@pagan-games.com. There will be a chat
room in the Member Area, too.
Metabox AG looking for programmers
As can be seen from the subject, we - Metabox AG - are looking for programmers short- and
long-term for reinforcing our software team. We have several full-time job openings.
The location is Hildesheim, Germany. We would prefer persons that already wrote software
on the Amiga, and know the AmigaOS concepts. Of course you are free to apply even if you
don't meet these criteria, if you meet the following:
If you are not yet scared away and looking for an interesting job, you should apply
by e-mail at the following people:
A note from the translator: Since this was posted in a German newsgroup, and Metabox
is a company located in Germany, firm knowledge of the German language
wouldn't be a bad idea either. ;-) (mb)
New in the emulator bunch is SOPE, a Sony Playstation emulator. Version 000308 is the
first release. A graphics card is required. This version has no sound support yet. sope301.lha.
PlayGui News
At first, there is a new PLone version 1.2b. PLone is an add-on for PlayGui, which creates and
maintains playlists like a database. PlayGui again is an add-on for the module player HippoPlayer
and the sample player Play16. PlayGui gives these two programs an interface which can be
easily customized with other graphics (skins). A number of new skins is available from the
website.
Scout sources available
Since Andreas Gelhausen and myself won't continue development of the system monitor Scout,
we decided to release the sources under the GNU GPL. They are available from my website and Aminet.
Download: Scout-src.lha
AROS Status
Meanwhile more than 2000 games have been ported to AROS, since March 8th
MAME is running with AROS :-). Have a look
at the screenshots yourself.
Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko: "I still have loads of fun"
In an interview with the online mag amiga.topcool.de, Vice President Petro Tyschtschenko talks
about his private live, the OS3.5 sales, two new staff members in Braunschweig, and that he won't
give up (despite dwindling numbers of Amiga users; he estimates there are 80 to 100 thousand
worldwide, and about 20,000 in Germany).
Graphic card demo of Tales From Heaven released
Epic Marketing offers a graphics card demo of the 3D Jump'n'Run "Tales From Heaven", which
has been rated 90% by German magazines, for download. More informations about the game can
be found under "Products".
Download: TfH_DemoCGX.lha - 639 Kb
WHDLoad version 10.6 released
Early March, the harddisk install software WHDLoad has been released as version 10.6.
There are new installers for Bubba'n'Stix, Chambers of Shaolin and Mig-29 Soviet Fighter.
Download: WHDLoad_10.6_usr.lzx
Latest info about the CamX/Camouflage project
Martin Endres writes:
Camouflage-B 68k (MIDI only, German version) will be FREEWARE starting March 7th, 2000, and
will be available here and on Aminet for the Amiga community. If you want the German manual,
you have to pay 30,- DM: ISM/Endres, Schwarzenbergstrasse 75, 21073 Hamburg, Germany. This
version must NOT (only with my permission) be used commercially.
Download: Camouflage B2.4 Full Version - Freeware
CD32 Source
If you own an Amiga CD32, and are looking for informations about it, should have a look
at this website. Aside from news and informations about the CD32, they also collect
interesting links on the subject.
Free Amiga Games
Fredrik Liliegren of DICE AB has given permission to the maintainer of the website (title link)
to offer the following games for free download:
ProStationAudio Millennium Demo available
The Millennium demo includes a full implementation of iRec, live audio streaming capabilities.
Thanks to iRec, the ProStationAudio mixing console input (RecBus) can be switched between a
local audio board or a remote audio server, accessible via Internet or a LAN. Once connected
(Miami or compatible TCP stack required), iRec lets you record live streams. During the
streaming process, ProStationAudio allows you to monitor the incoming signal and record direct-to-disk.
ASM-Pro source code released
Asm-Pro is now Open Source. Here is your chance to do something about those annoying bugs
that don't seem to get fixed.. Download the source and track them down. I hope this helps
out the users that have been waiting for new updates of Asm-Pro. I myself have no more
serious developer time left for this project next to my job. For those who didn't know:
Asm-Pro is a complete solution for writing mc680x0 assembler programs on our Amiga. For
more information check out my webpage at: http://surf.to/asmpro (titlelink).
AHX Ripper News
Kåre Johansen recently released the absolutely
last version of his AHX-Ripper (THX-Ripper) on his homepage.
Since many of the favourite module ripper are outdated and/or no longer in development, Kåre
plans to write a new ripper (Serial Ripper). This one will offer a fuctional MUI- (perhaps ClassAct,
AmigaOS3.5) interface and support as many sound formats as possible.
Since this is impossible without support from people with the knowledge about the many sound formats,
Kåre has opened a mailing list especially for this project.
Hyperion to port SIN to Amiga and Linux
Hyperion has aquired the license to port "SIN" by Activision Inc. to the Amiga and Linux
platforms. "We are working on completing our Amiga port of Activisions Heretic 2", says Ben
Hermans, Manager of Hyperion. Like Heretic 2, SIN bases on IDs Quake 2, so Hyperion is optimistic
that the port can be completed by second quarter 2000. The Amiga version requires a PPC (WarpOS),
and will support Warp3D by Hyperions OpenGL implementation.
Warp3D V3.0
A first, preliminary version of the Warp3D v3.0 developer archive
which does not yet contain support for vbcc, and a small update
for the user archive are ready for download. FTP
ACT offers product licenses
ACT Albrecht Computer Technik offers production licenses for the
Prelude Zorro boards and extensions. The license includes the
following production rights: Prelude Z2, Arpeggiator digital IO,
MPEGIt, MPEG audio decoder and Rombler MIDI interface. The license
agreement can be downloaded as PDF file.
Current infos on the CamX/Camouflage project Martin Endres is still looking
for developers who want to develop audio/video/MIDI modules for
CamX/Elate. Notation editor, sample editor, Uni-SysEx/editor and so on.
As CamX has a modular concept, several (e.g. notation editors) could
be added to the CamX packet. The user could decide then which editor
he wants to use. Or he can use all at once.
CD32-Alliance news
Sharks! gets "powered by CD-32 Alliance"
CD32-Alliance will release the game "Sharks!", developed by Digital Design. More news about it can be
found in the CD32 corner.
CD32-Corner updated again
Finally we were able to update the CD32-Corner after over a month. Due to a system failure, most of
our files were deleted or couldn�t be found again. But we did it, and the CD32-Corner is back with new
links and the latest news about the CD32.
Request
The team of the CD32-Alliance is looking for CD32-users willing to become active for the CD32
Alliance! Currently, we look for web designers and layouters, to rework the CD32 Corner of the
CD32 Alliance, making it more user friendly and professional looking.
We are also looking for someone to continue updates of the "CD32 Cheats Guide", and someone
to translate this guide to English.
Many many CD32 users sending in news and infos!
AROS News
Some terminal programs (MMircoTerm, TermLite and AmigaTerm) have been ported to AROS.
It looks like porting to AROS has become very easy :-). The according directory has grown from
5 to 10 MB last week.
A VHI driver for the GVP IV 24 digitizer is immediately available for free download from the VHI site.
For using the driver, we recommend VLRec NG 4.0 :)
EASys! customers: Important support information
My Amiga gets a nice working corner in the basement. Since there is not yet a phone connection
available there, I am unavailable under the usual support address. If it�s important, please contact
me at thomas.neidhardt@nbg6.siemens.de.
EASys! is continously worked upon. Details are available at the title link.
Amiga User Group 99 - Update
The vote count for February has been completed, and a new vote for March has been installed.
Additionally, our forum was opened.
Server failure
As one or another might have discovered already, the following URLs are currently unavailable:
www.amiga.ac (search engine) and www.amigatools.net (my homepage). Several e-mail accounts
and websites on www.microsoft.nu and www.intermail.nu as well as several other domains located
on the same server.
Reason: The cable modem connecting the server to the net has suddenly failed Friday evening.
Sadly we have to wait for the provider maintenance to replace it, which will not happen before
Monday. Even this was almost impossible to accomplish. We have created a mirror this week,
however the IP routing is not yet active, and usually takes at least 48 hours (plus time shift
to the US, since the second DNS is running there).
New Flags
Oliver Tacke has send us nice new flags, which lead you to the translations of Amiga News (see top).
The flags are taken from the new GlowIcons series created by Oliver in cooperation with Thomas
Peterseim, Marco Schärfchen and Heinz Andreolla, available from Schatztruhe (GlowIcon Collection).
We were very happy about them, and want to say thank you :-).
Kickstart Amiga Group show is on!
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding our third show on SATURDAY 27 MAY 2000 kindly sponsered by
ANALOGIC COMPUTERS. Please go to our site for details.
Voodoo-X 1.2 released
Voodoo-X is a fast MUI interface for xadmaster.library. If you miss WinZip or something comparable
for Amiga, you should try it. It is for decompressing only, but very well made. Voodoo-X can be
found on Aminet.
AMIGALAND to celebrate 8th birthday!
On March 8th, AMIGALAND had its 8th birthday! The big party will, as always, be celebrated in the
summer, and all of you are invited to join in. The exact date will be given later.
To survive in the Amiga market for 8 years is a very special achievement in my eyes! Congratulations
from our side :-) (ps)
Aminet Set 9 CD-ROM released
The AMINET SET 9 offers you all data added since the release of Set 8, as well as full versions
of GoldEd 4.8.0, Marbelous II, AmiAtlas V4 and a special edition of Digital Almanac II. The AMINET
SET 9 (March 2000) contains over 3 gigabyte software in almost 4000 archives, with 420 MB
added since Aminet 35.
New Amiga goodies at Amiga Sector
Amiga Sector regulary offers new demos, older disk mags and games for download. Currently available:
Demo Reel 3, Einsteinium, Obituary 24, X-Ray Megademo, Grapvine Issue 1-4 and Deluxe Print 2.0.
AFD-Copyright News
The AFD-COPYRIGHT Official Support Site had just today its
1000th visitor! This shows that there still is interest in the
"Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note".
The recent visitor boom happened partly due to the fact that
so many Amiga News sites reported about the latest release.
Thanks to all news-webmasters for your support!
I collected some of the sites on the page "What's New?"
If you are interested, you can visit the AFD-Homepage at:
http://AFD.home.pages.de/ (title link).
The list of news sites even includes one in Russia - and a Russian
translation will be released as the 15th language soon! Keep the
momentum going! Thanks!
Fun of Computing NG
The Amiga Zentrum Thüringen e.V. offers a computer meeting "Fun of Computing" every year,
a highlight not to be missed. On June 24th to 25th, a lot of interesting new hard- and software developments
can be discovered in the "Technologie- u. Gründerzentrum", Ilmenau. Fans of Amiga, and other
systems too, will find their time worthwile.
More informations about the "Fun of Computing NG" will be announced on the AZT e.V. internet pages
in the next weeks, and will be continously expanded. Interested exhibitors are asked to contact the AZT
board by e-mail.
MorphOS status
After MorphOS got attention by small pictures on their homepage (AmigaNews reported), there is now
a small status report on the project itself:
We are currently working on rewriting as many elemental parts of the AmigaOS as possible directly in
PowerPC code. The tests of the 68k emulation have been finished already for some time, and it works
reliable with Workbench 3.1 and 3.5. CyberGraphX, the CS PPC SCSI driver, the CDrive CD-ROM file
system and other stuff has almost completely been ported natively, to achieve best possible performance
even on the current CS PPC card generation.
The ppc.library has also been completed in a full PowerPC version (means the former 68k part is native,
too), so direct compatibility to PowerUP software is ensured, and available software is working directly
without special MorphOS adjustments. For software adhering to the original PowerUP specs there
shouldn't be a problem at all.
Since everything is running directly on the PowerPC CPU, the infamous CPU context switches for 68k
AmigaOS are removed, so PowerUP software is frequently running faster. Programs with many I/O
accesses or graphics output via AmigaOS can profit from this.
We are just now testing several PowerUP software products, and will soon publish a guideline as
well as a list of successfully tested software, so PowerUP software can employed under MorphOS
without problems.
We are working on a developer release; due to several hardware defects, the release date was
sadly delayed.
Working title: "Audiomaster 2000"
Frank Fenn (Bright Light Software) writes:
We (Michael Ulbrich and myself) have taken on the sources of AudioStream, which were released
on Aminet. The goal is to create an easy-to-use, not too complex sample tool in the style of the
classic Audiomaster IV. We consciously don't implement special functions like 2D/3D spectrograms,
since they are of little use for the home user.
Some features are (or are planned):
As soon as the first public version is finished, it will be offered for download on the homepage
above (title link). Of course we gladly accept suggestions.
CGXBlanker, DPMSManager update
Stefan Robl writes: I integrated numerous user wishes in both programs. CGXBlanker
version 1.25 now has an ARexx port, another very nice blanker module, does not get confused
by windows or screens popping up, and can optionally suppress blanking when the mouse
pointer is on the title bar.
Download: CGXBlanker.lha
and DPMSManager.lha
OpusMI Release 3 released
Since today, version 3 of OpusMI is available on Aminet. The
archive contains 300 GlowIcons for the start menu and the
toolbar of DOpus Magellan in the format 40x32 pixel.
Download: opusmi.lha
Wordworth7 updates still available
Wordworth7 updates still available
Digita have kindley allowed the kickstart amiga user group based in
surrey, england to hold the final updates to the excellent wordworth7.
Since they have been removed from their site.
Slengpung has opened!
A new scene website that presents people, pictures and
reports of the various scene parties.
Have you ever wondered how those scener friends of yours look like?
Or have you ever returned from a party and searched through the internet
to try to find all those pictures you know people took? Well.. Search no
more. The sceners online gallery has opened. Check it out at www.slengpung.com!
Ncoder V1.55 released
Speed up under PowerUp. A 5.53 min song will be encoded in 3.31 min
(with PPC 604 233Mhz)! Bug fix for BurnIt Ncoder PlugIn. Large sound
quality enhancement compared with Ncoder 1.50.
Please note:
Under OS3.5 you have to disable Skin display if strange crashes occur.
Wrong installed datatypes are responsible for this. Please use the
datatypes provided with the NcoderCD. DON`T mix WarpUS Datatyes with
PowerUp version. If you use WarpUp make sure that you don`t use any
PowerUp software in background (e.g TurboPrint). DON`T use PPCInstall
in your Startup or Userstartup-sequence!! If Ncoder won`t start under
PowerUp. Please start PPCInstall before you start Ncoder. (PPCInstall
is included on BlizzardPPC and Cyberstorm SystemDisks).
AROS
There are still problems to make AROS native/i386 with EGCS
(GCC 2.95.2), but it should work soon. New screenshots were added.
DOOM is already partly playable on AROS.
Nobody knows precise details :-(. Sadly. To me it currently seems
to be the other way round. What I read from the last statements and
interviews with Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss is that they want to
concentrate fully on TAO and their OS and do not plan to support the PPC.
Haage & Partner maintain silence in this matter. (ps)
PlayGui 2.5 and new skins released
PlayGui 2.5 is now available. If there are no bugs, this
will be the last version for the time being (final release).
Some bugs were fixed, now there's a requester for almost every
problem and Multiview is used for viewing the help file.
Download: PlayGUI.lha - 498 Kb
Gui4Cli
John Chandler writes each month an article at Suite101. In the
current article John writes about the script language Gui4Cli, which
allows to create graphical interfaces for shell commands.
The latest about AmigaOS 3.5
A new FAQ
was released on the AmigaOS homepage. It contains AmigaOS 3.5
tips and tricks that Alex compiled based on hints, tips and
discussions in the Onelist mailing list amigaOS3_5@onelist.com
(subscribe via amigaOS3_5-subscribe@onelist.com).
Warp9 celebrates
Right now we have to celebrate two events at the same time:
That the reason for us to start again a
"Counter-Competition". We have installed a counter on our special
birthday-page. Find this page and be the 3000th vistor. Everyone who
sends us a screenshot with the lucky number 3000 will take part at the
final competition. There you have the chance to win a brand-new 20 GB
harddisk by Quantum. We will pick up the winner from all e-mails with
the screenshot of the 3000 number. Good luck.
A500 Power Board available again
Those who own and use an Amiga 500 can come across the problem of not
being able to replace a defective memory expansion for their computer.
Well, not anymore. The A500 Power Board is available again.
The expansion board offers the following features:
The price for the A500 Power Board is EURO 34,99 including posting and
packaging within Europe mainland. Orders from outside Europe mainland
add EURO 10,00.
The A500 Power Board is available from all local Amiga dealers and
distributed through GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH.
For more information:
Computer City
Zebrastraat 7-9
NL-3064 LR Rotterdam
Phone: +31-10-4517722
Fax: +31-10-4517748
Alive Mediasoft News
Alive Mediasoft has added two new games to their portfolio, which should be available very soon:
Ultimate XTreme Racing with new tracks, new sound, new music, new opponents and new intro.
Giana Sisters Trilogy will be available starting mid March, and include a patch for 040/060/PPC and gfx card
support.
The games Goal 2000 and Whales Voyage 2 have been partially improved. Goal 2000 recieved a new intro and
is easier to install. Whales Voyage 2 recieved a manual, a new intro and an easier installation routine.
For those who already purchased these two games, Alive Mediasoft will soon provide patches on their homepage.
Digital Almanac II update
The latest version of the astronomy software Digital Almanac II (Rev. 1.8.8) is now available for free to all
users from the author's homepage. An upload to Aminet was also done, so the Archive will soon be
available there soon.
Moreover, the author wants to thank all participants of the DA-PPC survey. The positive feedback of
the survey will therefore be rewarded. As soon as DCE starts production of the PPC boards, DA will
be released in a first trial version for WarpOS. The PPC part of the homepage will therefore be reworked
as soon as the port becomes an issue.
Status report
At my website I now have a status report concerning my projects. There is also
some good news concerning my Coldfire Q-Box- Project. For those that always
wanted a peek in the "Lab" are now free to do so. :)))
PlayGUI 2.4 released
PlayGUI 2.4 is available immediately. PlayGUI is an alternative GUI for
Hippoplayer/Play16 with skin suipport. In a few day PlayGUI will also be
available in Aminet.
Download: PlayGUI.lha
No Risc No Fun AMIGA Online Club
My online Amiga club "No Risc no Fun" has now seen the light of day.
Despite this it would be nice to get some added support. It is a club by
users for users.We have here tests, links, downloads, a forum, release
lists and much more. Totally new is the AMIGA Ego Shooter section - where
all 3D shooters and expansion will be reviewed and tested.
Prelude Software updated
With the appeance of the Arpeggiator module for the Zorro version Prelude
soundcard from ACT, a new prelude library and new version of the prelude
tapedeck has been made available. The prelude mixer has also been updated to
version 2.2.
Met@box AG aquires the rights for two cartoon series
Met@box has aquired the rights for two cartoon series. Over the next three
years a turnover of 48Million DM is expected by them alone. In this package are also
included the rights to 51 not yet produced episodes.
FastATA`99
There is new software available for the FastATA / PowerFlyer / Winner High
Speed Controller for the A1200. The new version supports harddrives up to
67.6 GB (Split mode) and up to 2199.4 GB (No Split mode).
Amiga User meeting in Wolfenbuettel
After I received such a positive response in the amigaOS chat room about
the idea of a club independant amiga user meeting, I though I should follow
up on the idea.
The meeting will take place sometime in early summer (probably from
Saturday-Sunday on the 8th and 9th of July) here in Wolfenbuettel. At this
time I cannot make any statement about the program, since it is largly
dependant upon the amiga community itself. It is safe however to say that
barbequeing is on the adgenda. I will also try to get some "special guests"
to show up. First inquiries in this direction have proved to be very
positive.
We will try to keep the costs as low as possible. I will try to keep it
under 10,- DM per person. The costs however for lodging will most probably
have to be covered by everyone themselves. We may however be able to come
up with alternatives.
However before i can begin with planning, I need to know how many people
would like to attend.It would be great if you could send me an email if you
think you might be attending. (O.Tacke@surfway.de).
This is not a binding application, just a channel to voice your support.
AmiOlli.
AudioLabs: iRec for AmigaOS, live streaming audio reciever
AudioLabs announces iRec (internet Recording), live streaming MPEG capabilities for AmigaOS! This cool
feature comes embedded in any new ProStationAudio version, starting with the forthcoming Millennium
edition.
iRec is fully functional (monitoring and direct-to-disk recording) in the new ProStationAudio demo to be
available for downloading the first week of March 2000. Every AmigaOS user is encouraged to take advantage
of this new free tool.
Thanks to iRec, the ProStationAudio mixing console input (RecBus) can be switched between a local audio
board or a remote audio server, accessible via Internet or a LAN.
Once connected (Miami or compatible TCP stack required), iRec lets you record live MPEG streams. During
the streaming process, ProStationAudio allows you to monitor the incoming signal and record direct-to-disk,
with on-the-fly conversion from MPEG to PCM.
iRec is compatible with a large number of web-stations broadcasting in MPEG, including ShoutCast (TM)
audio servers.
Millennium saves your preferred iRec URL's into an external text file so that you can easily edit/process your
database or share it with other ProStationAudio users.
The ProStationAudio editing application requires a 68040/16MB system to start with, and is optimized for
hi-end configurations including up to two video cards, two monitors and two CPUs.
For more information about ProStationAudio please refer to the official sites:
Game news from Back to the Roots
The Amiga site "Back to the Roots" (title link), some new games are available. E.g. the two Sierra classics
Police Quest III and Black Cauldron. The former French Amiga company Lankhor (www.lankhor.com) now
supports "Back to the Roots". As a first game, the stunning "Outzone" was added, a mixture of action
and riddle elements. Some other stuff is also available.
Here are some recent development news concerning our project.
"AFD-COPYRIGHT" (TM) or "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note" (TM).
This copyricht notice is an offer for all Amiga developers that want to
release FD-Software - be it as freeware, giftware, shareware or whatever.
This notice is now available in 14 languages and each in 2 formats - ASCII
text and HTML. The newest addition has been the Czech translation by Vit
Sindlar.
Please note that a few email addresses need updating (French, Luxemburg and
Swedish translations). The latest data is available at:
pub/aminet/docs/misc/AFD-Files1-14.lha
and also on the official support website for AFD-COPYRIGHT -
which also has been updated and expanded. For details click on "What`s New"
under the Titlelink.
You are all welome to visit our website as often as you wish. Webmasters are
enouraged to add our site to their links and naturally all Amiga News pages
are allowed to pass on the word. Thank you for your attention, interest and support!
Pictures of the MorphOS Team ;-)
At the very bottom of the MorphOS supportpage you can find "Bilder vom MorphOS Team" (pictures from the MorphOS team), for example
Ralph Schmidt alias "Al Bundy" and every other character from Al Bundy's surrounding. The question is what lesson should we get out of
this? That the MorphOs Team is a laugh? ;-).
BGUI 41.10 (final Version) released
In this final lha-archive the following elements are included:
BGUI library standard versions for all Amigas
BGUI library optimised version for 68020 with OS 3 or better
BGUI preferences editor
Examples with C source code
New AmigaPlus has arrived
(German print mag)
The new release of AmigaPlus has arrived. At first to remember: The magazine is now called AmigaPlus powered by AmigaOS. This is due to the fact that AmigaOS, who have taken over AmigPlus, also took over the structure of distribution of AmigaPlus. Let's put it another way: It is labeled AmigaPlus, but it has AmigaOS inside ;-).
Highlights from issue 03/2000:
News goals of Amiga: Bill McEwen in Frankfurt
Fleecy Moss talking to Amiga Plus
The G3-Hope: met@box interview
Linus talks: An interview with Linus Torvalds
Linux distributions for the Amiga
In detail: Installing Linux on the Amiga
and much more
PhotoFolio V2 available
PhotoFolio V2 is the professional solution to catalog, view and archive pictures. Different sorting routines, gamma correction, as many viewing windows as required and much more make this programm an absolut highlight in its class. System requirements: Amiga with 68020 (or better) and at least AmigaOS 3.0.
Recommended retail price DM 69,00 [Euro 35,28]. Updates/Crossupdates of PictureManager and PhotoAlbum DM 49,00 [Euro 25,05]
03 Mar 2000
N.A.
New HyperCOM-Driver v2.95 BETA-3 Release
The drivers in this archive are still in their beta-phase and will only be shipped within 14 days with the actual boards. Please report anything that seams to be strange or a bug immediately.
The most important changes in detail:
hyperCOMx.device:
Only internal changes since the 2.95B2.
hyperPAR.device:
Only internal changes since the 2.95B2.
vmcresource.library:
Amiga-Hardware recognition have been improved as well as the internal clockport function which led to system crashes with 5 customers after the use of the drivers.
Voyager 3 statusreport
Since the last update we have worked on a list of bugs and have done some changes. Right now we are concentrating mostly on finishing Javascript support and the improvement of the API plugins. Good news are certainly the fact that Emmanuel Lesueur has made his Apdf PDF-Viewer available as a V ³-Plugin.
Vflash has been rewritten in many parts and is a lot faster now than the earlier version. M68k version are already working very well. Zapek is working hard to finish the PPC-version.
During the next 2 weeks there will be a new Voyager-Version. Imagedecoder and Vflash-updates might be available earlier eventually.
Alive Mediasoft moving
Since they are moving, Alive Mediasoft cannot be contacted beetween 6th And 9th of march. The printmagazin "The Pulse" will only be ready one week later as planned and shipped from 10th of march on.
Amiga Arena News
Due to the positive feedback for the Amiga Arena Aktion we got from Amiga users, I am able to sustain the special price sale of GeoWorld until 31.03.2000!
I want to thank all the users who have ensured their support and further developement of the software by their registration.
Amiga Forum completely reworked
We have reworked the graphics as well as the contents of our forum. Take a look at it and get your own opinion. Questions, suggestions and new ideas are always welcome.
The forum is, indeed, one of the subpages that already has been translated to English. In fact, it offers a German and an English
"chapter". The English one, however, has seen only a dozen posts or so. The forum is for you; use it! State your point of view, ask your
questions, tell us what you think of our service amiga-news.de. Aside from providing valuable (and motivating) feedback for us, the editors,
it might turn this forum from a dusty place into just the place to post to! (And yes, I am reading the forum myself regulary!) (mb)
Fusion V3.4 page removed
Blittersoft has removed the Fusion-Upgrade-Page, since the update isn't available yet. You should wait for statements directly from
Microcode solutions.
Fusion 68K upgrade
February 27th, 2000
We recently announced the availability of V3.4 upgrade for Fusion 68K.
Unfortunately this release isn't available currently and we have removed information on ordering from our site. Anyone who had pre-ordered in the last day or so will not receive the update and we will inform them by email.
If and when this release is available,it's availability will be announced via Microcode Solutions Website.
We apologise for this error and for any inconvenience caused.
Cyberdyne Systems homepage back online
Cyberdyne Systems' homepage is back online at last. We do apologize once more and hope that everything is working fine again.
Amiga search engine opened today!
Somewhat earlier as planned initially, AMIGA-ACCELERATOR opened today. It is a new search engine committed only to Amiga related subjects.
Amiga Link Directory