chat.amiga.org
amiga.org has set up a website listing IRC channels of
Amiganet giving positive coverage of Amiga.
This site will be continuously updated and also announce special shows and events.
Currently, four IRC channels are listed:
Additionally, there are links to IRC clients for different platforms.
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Digital Images: Deadlock
In the above statement, Stuart Walker of Digital Images explains why the game
Space Station 3000 will not be released. However, "Deadlock" as a new Amiga game
and "Wipeout 2097" as a Mac-port of the Psygnosis game are announced.
Development of Space Station 3000 has been canceled because the 2.5 years of
development did not give any tangible results. The game was redesigned and
rewritten again and again, but the nice ideas did not turn into results.
Deadlock is a Space Combat Simulator having its origins in Space Station 3000.
The game will make use of many so far unpublished space vessels from Space Station
3000 and will be set in the 22th century. The game website
has some graphics of the vessels, and more.
Digital Images also purchased the Macintosh license for
Wipeout 2097. Details on this
are announced for the near future.
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Turboprint 7.15
Turboprint with new (Canon BJC 3000, 6500, 8200) and improved (Epson, HP) drivers
available. This update includes the following changes:
Turboprint 7.15 update download for Turboprint 7.10 users:
tp715.lha (ps)
iFusion can be pre-ordered from Blittersoft
iFusion can be pre-ordered. Blittersoft requires advance payment. There are no statements
about when the program will be completed.
(ps)
Aminet Set 10 CD-ROM now available
The AMINET SET 10 offers all files that have been added since release of set 9,
and full versions of Max Rally, Zombie Massacre, Personal Paint 7.1b, Pinball Dreams,
Pinball Fantasies & Pinball Illusions.
AMINET SET 10 (November 2000) includes over 3 gigabyte software in over 4,000 archives.
This Aminet Set includes the Aminet CDs 36 through 39 as unchanged bundle!
(ps)
Tales of Tamar team looking for reinforcements
To reinforce our team, we are looking for a freelance programmer for MacOS as well
as a DirectX programmer, preferrably from the Cologne area. Applicants please contact
Martin Wolf with the subject "Tamar".
(ps)
MorphOS News
The TrueType-Font library ttf.library 0.8.3, allowing usage of TrueType fonts
with AmigaOS, has been ported to MorphOS PPC. Requirements include a MorphOS
installation and the tools accompaining the ttf.library. Further details at the
title link.
Internet Junkbuster
Junkbuster is a HTTP proxy, which blocks certain requests (typically banner ads) that
match a pattern given in the "blockfile". It can also filter cookies and other
identifying headers (e.g. User-Agent).
More information about Junkbuster.
Dirk Harlarr Becomes Internal Director of CS&E
David Connely decided that Dirk Harlaar should not only manage the German part of CS&E, but for all other countries, too.
Further informations are available at the title link.
(ps)
Dr. Dobb´s Journal/Amiga
Dr. Dobb's Journal September/2000 (a well known magazine about algorithms and programming paradigms)
publishes an article about GUI's by Michael Swaine. The article even deals with the history of Amiga
from the beginning of Commodore to the newest plans of Amiga, Inc.
(ps)
Narr Site Completely Revised
The 'Narr Site' was completely revised and is now using a complete new design.
The page offers many Amiga-Freeware for example Toolbars, PlayGUI, ShowGUI, anims and mods.
A new clean looking WB-Font and a game-set for the WB-Game Mahjongg Tiles.
(ps)
Little Helper for MAS-player
Dirk Conrad published some usefull CLI commands that can be used with the hardware based
´MAS-Player´. On his homepage you will find the source codes too, and an example for how
to use these commands with DirOPUS buttons.
New ILBM-Datatype Version 44.23
Stephan Rupprecht wrote:
Unfortunately version 44.22 of my datatype has a major bug. You sometimes cannot reopen
the datatype. With the new version I fixed this and I would like to thank all of who reported this bug.
SEAL Meeting Report
At the title link you can find reports and pictures of the latest SEAL-meeting (10-27-2000).
(ps)
30.10.2000
amiga-news.de is Moving
amiga-news.de is moving to a new and own server. Due to this during the next days short failures are
possible. If you will fail to access amiga-news.de we ask you for your understanding and patience.
(ps)
Payback Status Report
James Daniels wrote in his status report, that he used most of his time to
create new levels which include levels taking place at night. Among many changes
the lightning of the streets and the cars has been improved, support for
PSX controllers, different looking pedestrians has been added, and some bugs
were fixed. People now panic when the player tries to kill them. The weather now features
thunder-storm with superb light effects, and the game speed has been improved. (ps)
CS&E Back Again
After a longer discussion David Connolly has decided to hand the Amiga section
of CS&E over to Dirk Harlaar in Germany. The full press release is available
via the ttlte link.
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stormamiga.lib v45.00 alpha 3 for SAS/C
After a longer period Matthias Henze has released a new alpha version (v45.00
alpha 3) of stormamiga.lib v45.00 for SAS/C on 29. October 2000. In this
version, only available for registered users, some functions have been added,
some functions have been optimised, and some bugs have been fixed.
Easy Publishers: E-mail Problems
Because of work on our own telephone installation the Easy publishers can only
answer to incoming e-mails in a restricted way until 13. November 2000. For
urgent things it is recommended to use normal mail or the telephone
(address). Important things may be mailed to the
following e-mail address:
ricco.clemens@gmx.de.
These will probably be answered at the end of a week. The publishers ask for your
understanding.
(sd)
Email tool: Excelate Victory
On the above page the e-mail tool Excelate Victory is announced for December
2000. It supports POP3 (e-mail receiving), SMTP (e-mail sending) and MIME (attachments)
with 13 easy to use commands. This allows for example the easy programming of an
e-mail client using ARexx respectively in general the easy implementation of
e-mail applications. As an example a word processor could be easily enhanced
accordingly. A restriction on a certain language doesn't seem to exist. Czech
Amiga News lists C, Blitz BASIC, AmigaE etc. and AmigaDOS-Scripts,
ARexx-Programme, SCALA, CanDO...
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Amiga Update Newsletter
The latest Amiga update newsletter by Brad Webb can be found under the title
link. The archive of the previous issues is to find here.
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Amiga Show in Cologne
The following message has been posted in the news section of Amiga Future
on 28. October 2000:
«There will be an Amiga show taking place in Cologne this year!!!
Unfortunately we don't have the time to post more precise information on
this topic, today. It will happen from 9.12.2000 to 10.12.2000 in Cologne.
As said, comprehensive and actual information can be found here at the Amiga Future.»
Supplement 29 Oct 2000
Quotations taken from the Amiga Future-Site:
«As promised yesterday here now some more information about the Amiga
show in Cologne:
Haage & Partner organizes an Amiga exhibition on 9th and 10th of December in the
central placed Mediapark in the Cologne North town. Several known exhibitors
have already promised the exhibition management to attend. There are no
information about the seminars and events for now. Therefore we don't release
anything regarding these.
But it is sure that the exhibition date will be at the same time the sales start of
the amigaOS 3.9. The OS 3.9 will now contain a complete non cut down TCP/IP
stack and many more new features.
We will soon be able to present an exhibitors list and many more details at this place.
AudioCutter Cinema project file
To demonstrate the abilities of the AuioCutter Cinema the sample "Leaving" can
now be downloaded using http://www.AudioCutter.de/download.html.
In addition to that you can download the complete project file that was used to
create this sample. This project file demonstrates the use of several layers as
well as the creation of surround effects via the editable sound positions and
the echo surround effect. The project itself bases on only two initial samples
(with unfortunately medium quality). To reduce the size of the project file, it
had to be scaled from 24 Bit / 96 kHz to 16 Bit / 48 kHz.
AudioCutter Cinema Voting Area
Your opinion is wanted. At
http://www.AudioCutter.de/vote.html
it is now possible to rate the quality and power of the AudioCutter Cinema and
possibly express critics and suggestions for improvements. Virtual Worlds
Productions is very interested in this feedback to improve AudioCutter Cinema
furthermore.
(sd)
Amster v0.8
On the 29. October 2000 version V.08 of the
Napster client "Amster"
for Amiga computers has been released. Amster is a client for the exchange of
MP3 files and supports features such as chatting, search, download, announcing
lists and many more. This update contains a number of improvements and bug
fixes, that can be taken from the
readme.
The program runs on AmigaOS v3.0+ and requires MUI V3.8, MCC_NList V19.97,
and MCC_Textinput V27.
Download:
Supplement 30 Oct 2000
Thomas Wenzel wrote in the
forum:
«Hmmm... can't open Textinput.mcc V26 though I have installed the delivered v28.
Oliver Wagner seems to use some of this Vapor stuff in the new textinput.mcc.
As long as it is free available, it's all the same to me, but despite of this I don't like it.»
(sd)
ACE 2000 - Show Report by Craig Delahoy
Already on 23. October 2000 Craig Delahoy, member of the Amiga Advisory
Council, has released his comprehensive report about the ACE 2000, which
contains many detailed information.
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DirOpus v4.15c beta
Jacek Rzeuski has released the beta version V4.15c of the directory tool
"DOpus". This version offers among other things support of archives via the
XADMaster-library. The complete, extensive changes can be taken from the history.
ILBMdt v44.22
On 28. October 2000 Stephan Rupprecht has released the version 44.22 of his
ILBM datatype. The ILBM datatype makes it possible to display images in the
IFF-ILBM format. Rupprecht's datatype stands out for the capability of
displaying HAM- and EHB-images on a Picasso 96-, CyberGFX- or similar screen in
the correct colors. Additionally it possesses the ability of displaying 24bit
graphics without a graphics card. Compared with the previous version an internal
change has been made. As ramlib uses only a little stack all libraries are now
opened in LibOpen() instead of LibInit().
Improved telnet.device Wanted
The telnet.device makes it possible to use BBS's via the internet. But because of
existing errors this device causes so big problems for sysops that they gave in
and now work with ftp-sites instead of BBS-sites though their appealing systems
already existed since the early nineties.
It is feared that, if these problems aren't solved soon, all good Amiga BBSes
will disappear.
When th device is ready Mads will collect money for paying off the work.
Everybody who feels being able to solve the following problems may write to Mads@softhome.net.
NRNF: Bubble Heroes Test
On 29. October 2000 Fabio Trotta has released a comprehensive test of the game
"Bubble Heroes" on No Risc No
Fun.Because of delivery problems the test has been delayed.
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«Basically, we decided it was no longer viable to continue the site. From our
point of view the Amiga is dead, very little software and support. And
Amiga's current plans may sound nice but they will either:
a) Never Appear
b) Apear, but, will not be anything like the amiga you know and love.
Which will leave amiga owners with some non standard hardware which is
of limited use.
It was good while it lasted but it's time to call it a day.»
Install Kit v3.9 Released
Recently, a new version of the Amiga CD32 Games Install Kits has been released on the Airsoft Softwair Homepage.
Version 3.9 is a bigger update and supports a lot more games now. Furthermore, bugs have been removed and a few things
have been improved respectively added. Since we are now slowly approaching the moment where nearly every CD32 game is
supported, here a list of the games that are not yet supported, and for which I am therefore looking for:
If somebody owns one of the CD32 games mentioned above, he may contact me. The Install Kit v3.9 can be
downloaded under the title link.
(ps)
GameSpy: Interview with Tribsoft
James Hills of GameSpy.com interviewed Mathieu Pinard of Tribsoft. Tribsoft cooperates with Hyperion Software and Titan Computer
in porting software. In the case of Europa Universalis, Tribsoft ports this strategy game to Linux, while Hyperion does the
Amiga and Mac ports. Titan retails the product. In the interview, Pinard points out the reasons for this cooperation and more.
(sd)
FPSE V0.08 Amiga Revision 5
Mathias Roslund released the version 0.08 Amiga Revision 5 of the Open Source Playstation Emulator "FPSE" (Free PlayStation Emulator)
on October 27th, 2000. This is a minor update which mainly concerns people that have SCSI errors. In detail, following things
have changed:
The emulator runs on PPC-Amigas with 32MB RAM, WarpUP V4, CGFX V3 and requires a PSX-BIOS.
Amiga SDK Linux Update 1.01
There is an Amiga SDK Update (for the Linux hosted version) from version 1.0 to version 1.01 available for download at the
the protected area of the Amiga Developer Support page, to which developers
and beta-testers can log in using their Support Network-ID. (ps)
Amiga SDK: Top 10 - Portation Wish List
Patrick Roberts started a poll to determine which applications should be ported to the Amiga DE.
Read the results under the titel link.
(ps
ImageEditor »NetPBM-Imageeditor«
ImageEditor version 1.17 by Christian Effenberger has been released. ImageEditor is a well featured digital image editing
software based on the NetPBM-Filter (including PPC-Support). ImageEditor is part of the SiteWay project.
Download: ImageEditor.lha - 1,5 MB
(ps)
CGX V3 Elbox Mediator ViRGE Driver Update : Release 3
This is the third release of the Elbox Mediator archive with Virge-drivers. The archive contains
changes and bugfixes concerning the CGXMode problem. The name changed from ElboxGenericViRGE to MediatorViRGE.
The old driver must be removed. There are more details on theMediator page.
CS&E Retireing from the Amiga Market
«Farewell from CS&E, Dear friends,
maintaining a commercial business in the Amiga market has become
increasingly difficult. I don't just mean in terms of the poor sales, but in
terms of maintaining professional communication and business relationships.
I don't feel I am able to offer a truly professional service for the Amiga
as I have failed on both these counts. I have made inproper comments on
mailing lists and failed to attract developers to sign for CS&E.
As I have made the announcement before that CS&E would leave the classic
Amiga but come back for the next generation, it is with regret that I have
to say this time the company is leaving the Amiga to concentrate on the PC
development.
Amiga Survivor will be continuing as a non-profit making magazine
through the editorial staff but CS&E will continue to lend a hand in taking
orders.
I wish the Amiga all the best and will be keeping a very close eye on
all the developments as an eager customer.»
(ps)
Amiga SDK now also Available for Windows
The Amiga Developer Kit (SDK) is now also available for Windows.
System requirements:
Ethernet network interface card with Windows 95B, 98, NT Workstation 4.0 (with SP3), 2000, ME, 64 MB RAM
(128 RAM recommended), 100 MB free harddisk space, 200 MHz CPU or faster. (ps)
Heise: Cracker steal Microsoft source code
Apparently no canard. As can be read at the title link at Heise, unknown crackers
have invaded the Microsoft computer net and stole source code of the newest
Windows versions and office software.
For full article (German) follow title link. (ps)
innovative-web.de Moves
innovative-web.de moves to a new server. Email and web presentation may be temporarily
down. Should the website at http://www.innovative-web.de
not be available, please try http://www.innovative-server.de,
a 1:1 mirror of the data of innovative-web.de. This domain is already located on a new server.
Please send email for the duration of the move to xyz@innovative-server.de instead of xyz@innovative-web.de.
(ps)
microsoft.com Whois entry at InterNIC
Hackers have attacked InterNIC:
Christian Kemp posted today at ANN,
that the "Whois" entry of microsoft.com at InterNIC (the registration site for
.com domains) looks currently as follows:
Supplement:
Richard Koerber told us on ANF:
The InterNIC hack is a joke. The alleged "hacker attack" on InterNIC has turned out
to be a misinterpretation of the result of the WHOIS query.
Heise: Alleged hack on microsoft.com a joke (update) «The report is a canard.
Seruriteam apparently did not make themselves familiar with the tools for querying the
whois database before releasing the news. The clients do not only show the queried
domain but all that contain the search string. If the query contains only the word
Microsoft, you get several domains, among others MICROSOFT.FEARPENGUINS.CX.
On a casual glance, the search result irritates: one might think, the entry was manipulated.
An information contained in the search results states in such cases that it's several
independent entries. Indeed the entry of the Microsoft domain remained unchanged - a
joker from San Francisco has merely created sub-domains for the domain terrorists.net.
In another entry, he pays tribute to Apple with
APPLE.COM.IS.THE.CHOICE.OF.ALL.SELF.RESPECTING.TERRORISTS.NET.»
(ps)
MUI PPC for MorphOS V3.9 - public beta
It is a public beta of MUI PPC for MorphOS, version 3.9. Please read the documentation
carefully before installing the archive.
Nightlong Update
At the clickBOOM portal, there is an update of Nightlong (V1.1) for registered users.
It should solve the problems with disappearing samples and the music.
(ps)
New Real-time Website Statistics Program Created on the Amiga!
Though the complete website is in Dutch (for now), I am pleased to inform
you that I released Webcat.nl Stats. Webcat.nl Stats is a website statistics
application. It is free for personal webpages and I used my Amiga to develope
it. There is of course a category: Computers - Amiga you can choose. Furthermore
you can select your own icon (only 11x11 pixels!) that will appear on your
page. You're all invited to check it out at http://stats.webcat.nl/ (title link).
(ps)
RC5: Client V2.8011 build 464
A new version of the RC5-64/OGR client for the participation in the RC5 contest has
been released. It is a pre-release V2.8011 build 464, which is available for download
for 68000-68060, WarpOS and PowerUp Amigas.
In the download area,
of the above page, all changed made since build 463 as well as the known problems with
the current version are listed.
New-Look SEAL Website
South Essex Amiga Link, the UK Amiga user group well known for SEAL-O-RAMA and
Clubbed magazine, has uploaded their totally re-designed website. We hope the new
site looks cleaner, is easier to navigate and faster to load.
But... the update is more than just a new look, the site now concentrates more
on the Club's activities. You'll find an illustrated report of every meeting in
the Club/Reports section and we'll soon be adding examples of members' work in
the Gallery section.
From now on the SEAL website will be updated at least every fortnight. So visit
us at http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk and let us know what you think!
(ps)
Taifun Alpha Version - DEMO
As successor of the video- and animations special effects program 'Wildfire' the
development of 'Taifun' for the new Amiga is in progress. Now a very early preview-version
was released. An installed AmigaSDK is required.
Atéo-Concepts will Shut Down at the End of October
Due to a very strong decrease of the Amiga market and big difficulty in buying
products, we have decided to close Atéo Concepts at the end of October.
We will keep in touch with users that want to contact us for various technical
questions or for after sale service. The e-mail address
ateo-concepts@libertysurf.fr
will stay available. Soon, new driver versions with no keys will be available
on the Atéo Concepts website. Also you will find a list of articles in store; these are
offered without p&p.
(ps)
BlueBlack Solution is Looking For Another Art Designer!
BlueBlack Solutions is looking for a talented art designer who will as additional support help to create
in-game-graphics and sequences for the commercial real-time-strategical 'Operation:
Counterstrike'.
Ragonsoft AmigaXchange - Banner Exchange
The banner exchange is only for websites that deal with the Amiga and have a factor
of 0.9. For 100 fade-ins you will get 90 credits. The fact that only Amiga websites are
allowed for the banner exchange will give you advantage to reach the proper people.
(ps)
Haage & Partner News Update of PowerPC World
After a longer break Stefan Funke has made an update of the PPC World pages.
PPC World
AmigaOS 3.9 announced
Maybe surprisingly for many of you Amiga Inc. not only released some new details
of the AmigaONE at the ACE 2000 in Australia, they also announced a new AmigaOS for
the classic Amigas. As for OS 3.5 the new AmigaOS 3.9 is developed by H&P. More
details will follow. news
We are five
No, we are not five people, but our company is now five years old. Yes, we can
not believe it either, that is already was such a long time ago as Jochen Becher, Juergen Haage,
and Markus Nerding have given each other the "word of consent" at the notary ;-). We want to say
thank you to all the Amiga users those have supported us all that time. It was always
a greast pleasure for us:).
More co-workers wanted
For special support tasks and several minor and medium projects we are looking for
experienced co-workers for the fields Genesis support, web programming, AmigaWriter
support, PageStream support and general coders. more
ArtEffect workshop now for download
The popular workshop, which presents in twelve chapters the interesting functions
and effects of ArtEffect, is now available as archive for download.
Download:workshop4.lha
(ps)
Mitchy: Victim of its own success
amiga.org reports (title link),that 'Mitchy', the webcrawler and the Link-Directory
of amiga.org, due to too great success and the related accesses the server cannot bear it anymore.
amiga.org is already working on bringing 'Mitchy' back online better than ever.
(ps)
AmigaAIM Version 0.9397 Beta
For the AOL Instant Messenger like software for the Amiga a new
beta-version is available and can be downloaded from the usual sites.
(ps)
MAS-Player Software Version 1.3c
An update of the software for the hardware based MPEG-Player 'MAS-Player' is available.
This hardware gives good results in playing MPEG-files even on a 680x0-processor.
ShowCGXConfig 42.2 and VooDoo Alpha Driver
ShowCGXConfig was released in version 42.2 and shows now all gfx boards recognized by CGX.
Also it displays which gfx board in which system is used. More info you will find
on the CGX V4 site.
A new free alpha driver for VooDoo-gfx-boards connected to the Mediator board is also available
for download. More info you will find on the Mediator site.
Sega Dreamcast Tools
Those ones who are interested in doing more things than "just" playing with their consoles should
visit the website of Marcus Comstedt. There you can find everything you need to program under
AmigaOS.
(ps)
PCWELT: Amiga is back!
PCWELT reports positively about the Amiga One. Look at the article under title link. (German)
There is a report about Amiga at I.T., too: Amiga OS to run in household electronics
«The OS by Amiga runs on TV set-top-boxes, portable devices and game consoles. They also report about
an already signed contract on a DSL TV set-top-box and eleven several arrangements.
In the video-text of the ZDF (German TV-station) the following message was released:
New Amiga-models from summer 2001:
After more than six years the software producer Amiga has announced new desktops and workstations for summer
2001. This is about a special hardware-specification. Besides this Amiga is going to support portable
devices like Handhelds and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). The new computer shall have at least 64 MB RAM,
a graphics board by Matrox, and a sound system by Creative Labs.»
T-Online (German internet provider) also reports:
«AmigaOne will come next summer (German)
New PC follows the trend.
Amiga wants to come out grand again. Over six years devotees had to wait. After the announcement of a
platform independent Amiga operating system the corresponding hardware now is supposed to appear, too.»
The non-Amiga medias collective are strongly interested. We have listed
all these and even more articles in chronological order in the category extern articles.
(ps)
AmigaOne with New Logo
Amiga immediate was responsive to the wishes of the community and changed the Amiga One logo. Many users were
unhappy with the old one.
In the Amiga One forum this issue is
discussed very much.
(ps)
Pictures of the ACE in Melbourne
Under the title link you can find some pictures of the Amiga-exhibition ACE which took place on the
21st and 22nd of October in Melbourne. Greg Perry by GPSoftware has taken these pictures.
(ps)
Amiga Arena News
The PhotoAlbum/Cybershow package and the XadMasterlibrary are available for a special
price from Amiga Arena until 2000-10-31 only.
Amiga Arena Interview Action
A new interview with Marcel Beck (YAM) is online.
Amiga Arena - Support Your Local Hero
Amiga Arena supports the poll by UnIQue on the subject of continued development of
the game A.C.Sys. A small review of the demo version is online.
Amiga Arena - Links Support
Aside from new links, there is also a review for the freeware game BubbleStones,
a Bust a Move clone. There will be more reviews in the future.
(ps)
This StormC 4 release has a few new features added to it. The most important feature is the .fd file option.
>From now on, PPC680x0 has a big list of .fd files to learn 68k library-call registers from. This means that
it is actually possible to determine which function is being called: Only the registers used by this function
are saved/restored to and from the 68k.
A new executable, PPC68k24 has been added to the archive as well: This version works with graphic-boards as
well, has a 24-bits picture on CyberGraphx and has the scroll/effectsbar disabled.
FWCalendar Update Version 4.09
FWCalendar is an ARexx script (macro) for FinalWriter V4+ or Pagestream V3+,
for easy creation of calendars. The script can be customized with over 100
user-configurable variables.
Exodus to be distributed exclusively by Blittersoft
Exodus will be distributed exclusively worldwide by Blittersoft, except for Germany. KDH
Datentechnik signed a contract with Blittersoft so they will have exclusive distribution
rights for all Blittersoft Amiga games in Germany.
Exodus is a realtime strategy game created by a Polish programmer team.
(td)
YAM goes OpenSource
In the YAM News Letter No. 9, Marcel Beck announced that he will discontinue development
of YAM. Reasons are lack of time and a shift of interest.
He will release a final version of "his" YAM, containing some small bugfixes. Afterwards
he will release the source code of this version on the
YAM website. E-mail support for YAM up to version 2.2 will
be continued.
If there will be new versions of YAM for AmigaOS or other operating systems, Marcel Beck
will offer them for download on the YAM website. YAM is an email client for Amiga computers,
enabling the user to edit, send, recieve and manage e-mails. Currently YAM is available in
version 2.1 dating 2000-06-19. YAM is freeware.
(mj)
NetBSD-1.5 BETA Amiga test version
NetBSD is a free, easily portable UNIX-alike operating system, which, aside from many
other platforms, also exists in an Amiga version.
A new test version of NetBSD-1.5 for 68k Amigas is available at the FTP server
ftp.netbsd.org in the directory /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5_BETA/amiga.
Minimum requirements: WARNING: 1.5 requires a major reinstallation. Moreover, 1.5_BETA is
a test version. If you need bugfixes and a minimum downtime, you should install NetBSD-1.4.3
when it becomes available.
Test reports, in English where possible, should be send to the mailinglist
port-amiga@netbsd.org. Instructions for
subscribing to this mailinglist can be requested from majordomo@netbsd.org.
(ps)
Software Update MAS-Player v1.3b
MAS-Player is a hardware for playing back MP3 and MP2. The MAS-Player version 1.3b
is available for download at the title link.
New in this version: A DAO CUE sheet editor, allowing to split a MP3 file recorded
from a complete CD. This can be used e.g. for CDs where songs blend into the next one.
The CUE sheet editor can process CUE lists, which are used by Windows software like e.g.
CDRWIN.
(ps)
Frogger V1.6 beta for Linux/x86
Betaversion 1.6 of the MPEG-player "Frogger" for Linux/x86 is out now.
The player supports the playing of MPEG-1 and -2, and Audio-Layers 1, 2 and 3.
New Executive Update by Bill McEwen
A new Executive Update by Bill Mc Ewen is online. The EU is about the exhibition
in Melbourne and the new AmigaOS version 3.9 that will be released before christmas.
Take a look at the first screenshot Screenshot.
(ps)
akMPEG V4.50
The new verison 4.50 of akMPEG by Andreas Kleinert is available for download at the Aminet.
The MPEG-player needs AmigaOS V3.0 and supports CyberGFX, Picasso 96, AGA, 68k, PPC and MorphOS.
AmigaOS- and SDK-Update
Apart from the AmigaOne there were some additional announcements by Bill McEwen.
Czech Amiga News summed them up in a little article by Greg Thomas.
They say, that the PPC-Amiga-Device by Eyetech will be expandable with Mac acceleration boards.
AmigaOS V3.9 will be shipped with Workbench V3.9 and a kickstart-chip V3.9.
The new SDK-update will be released tomorrow and the next version in one month.
Furthermore Amiga will make 10% of the firm available for investments by Amiga-users.
Attention: Whether Amiga Inc. nor any other person did check this article.
Supplement: 23.10.2000: Sjoerd wrote on ANF that he asked H&P
and they said that there will be no new Kickstart version for AmigaOS 3.9.
(sd)
NListtree V18.5
Version 18.5 of the NLosttree-class for MUI were released. The class presents listree entries in a tree structure
and it supports drag&drop, and multi-selection of entries. The changes are:
The class needs AmigaOS 2.x, MUI V3.8 and MCC_NList V0.89 (NList.mcc V19.97).
AmigaOne Area at amiga.com
At the area products at
amiga.com is now a section specially for the AmigaOne.
There are news, information,
FAQs and a discussion forum at your disposal.
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New German Magazine - Triple-A
Bastian Moritz wrote:
Until some months ago I had created an Atari fanzine with some other people. But
as I am also an Acorn user and some of my colleagues Amiga fans we thought that
we could also put it all on a broader basis.
This resulted in Triple-A, a fanzine for Amiga, Acorn and Atari. The first issue
comes out on 29.10. From today on you can at least surf to our homepage.
At www.triple-a-mag.de
you get infos and a forum. In addition to this you can subscribe here or place
free adverts. (sd)
Digital Almanach III Demo Bugfix
Achim Stegemann wrote:
Everybody having difficulties with the demo of the planetarium program Digital
Almanach III can download a bugfix from my homepage. Unfortunately there was an
enforcer hit in the first demo version which caused problems on some few Amigas (020,030 ??).
Merlancia Comments on Criticism Merlancia Industries announced
some hardware for the AmigaDE some days ago covering computers from Palmtop over
laptops to PC-towers. This announcement caused some doubts. In the above
statement, dated 22. October 2000, Ryan E. A. Czerwinski from Merlancia comments
on the criticism.
Among other things it can be read that the release of the TORRO website took
place to give the Amiga community an idea now of what is in development.
For the COMDEX, in Phoenix, Merlancia announced the introduction of a working
Hurricane prototype and invited to an arrangement for a private talk at the
exhibition. They are working on the Hurricane board for eight months now. As
expected release date for the Hurricane and the eClips they named the second to
third quarter 2001. This date also depends on the release of the AmigaDE.
The complete statement
caters to further nine subjects.
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CS&E: Amiga Future and Games at the Shops
The english issue of Amiga Future will be available by February 2001 at the
newspaper sellers in Great Britain and Ireland. The price will be £5,99. A
six months subscription including coverdisk costs £29,99 and can be ordered
at CS&E.
In Great Britain and Ireland CS&E now also offers Amiga games via retail
chains like Dixons and Electronics Boutique. PC games will be ported to the Amiga
(and vice versa) and released as dual-format-package by CS&E. So there
are three possibilities for the Amiga user to buy games. 1) At the local Amiga
retailer. 2) Via retail chains like Dixons. 3) As download liable for costs via the
soon opened website http://www.pc-software.com/.
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Aminet Set 10
Schatztruhe announces the release of the 10. Aminet set by 2. November 2000.
This set contains all files that have been added since the 9. set and full
versions of Max Rally, Zombie Massacre, Personal Paint 7.1b, Pinball Dreams, Pinball
Fantasies and Pinball Illusions. The Aminet CDs 36 to 39 are included in
unchanged. Altogether the set contains more than 3G of software in
almost 4000 archives.
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Nostalgia: Putty Squad Demo
On 20. October 2000 the demo of Putty Suqad was released in the Amiga
Rediscovery section of AmiHoo. This demo
was released as coverdisk. The game itself was never released by System 3 Software.
Amiga Rediscovery of AmiHoo has the conception
to rediscover some of the greatest Amiga games by playing the demo
versions which were released as cover disk years ago. So this site also calls to
share your thoughts about the games with others and to ask for help at comp.sys.amiga.misc.
Besides the demos of the recent months there's, among other things, a help file on
the page reachable on the page at the title link that explains how to unpack the DMS disk
archive.
Screen Shots of Crossfire II
Stefan Schulze writes:
On our website are the latest screen shots of the action shooter Crossfire ready for
admiration. They are completely taken from the campaign mode.
Besides that it looks as if Jan Morgenstern (www.jm-music.de) will be supporting us as a
free lancer in the future. I'm really pleased that we don't have to rely on
Techno now. :)
(sd)
Amiga Flame: Article concerning AmigaOne Games
Articles appeared regarding the games Europa Universalis, Echelon: The
Storm, Jagged Alliance 2, and Battle for the Globe at Amiga Flame.
The strategy game "Europa Universalis" will be ported by Hyperion-Software for
the Amiga. The games "Echelon: The Storm" and "Jagged Alliance 2" are listed on
the AmigaDE Software list
that was released by Amiga recently. "Battle for the Globe" is an
action-strategy game that is being developed at the moment by Nordicsoft for
PPC-Amigas and IBM compatible PCs.
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Mediator Drivers
Already on 19. October 2000 the following information appeared on the CyberGFX
website: Elbox has sent an updated driver archive to the registered Mediator
users. This archive contains the Mediator system files, a SANA-II network driver
supporting many network chip sets and the CGX Virge driver.Those belonging to the
registered Mediator users may contact Elbox
regarding the latest drivers. The latest CGX Mediator drivers can be found on
the CyberGFX Mediator page.
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StrICQ v0.1728 beta
After a long time a new beta version of the ICQ client "StrICQ" for the Amiga
was released on 20. October 2000. This beta version 0.1728 is dated on 18.
February 2000. According to Czech Amiga News this version is supposed to work
better together with ICQ2000. Though it tends to crash the ICQ2000 client during
the chat initialisation.
Amiga Super Expansion System
The new company Fastech announces an expansion on their website with the
following features: 3 PCI slots, 3 Zorro-III compatible slots, 1 AGP slot, 1
SDRAM DIMM slot, 2 CPU expansion ports, 1 A1200 clock port, 2 x serial and 1 x
EPP parallel ports. As CPU modules are a G4 module with 400 MHz and a Coldfire
module with 333 MHz announced. The expansion shall be released first for
A3000/T- and A4000/T computers and is in the alpha test stage at present.
While the G4 module is delayed to reach a higher performance via a rework of the
design the Coldfire module is in the test stage. As the Coldfire is not 100%
compatible with the 68k line OS patches and library patches are needed. They are
working on these at the moment.
Editorial note:
Hints strengthen that this website and so the report may be a fake. We can't neither
confirm nor deny this at the moment, but we'll continue our investigations.
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ppclibemu v0.8c
Frank Wille has released the version 0.8c of the ppclibemu on 21. October 2000.
This software emulates the ppc.library by phase 5 under WarpOS and this way allows
the direct use of PowerUp-programs with WarpOS. This version patches the
Exec-functions FreeMem()/FreeVec() to avoid problems with bad coded programs
which free PPC memory using theses Exec-functions. This affects for example
TurboPrint.
Download:
The update contains solely the libraries. Everything else is included in the
complete archive of the version 0.7.
CS&E: Software and Banner
CS&E will soon releae "Cosmo's Fun Class".
This is a education software package for children at the age of 4-9 years. It fosters
reading, calculating and the hand/eyes coordination and much more.. The software
runs on an A1200. It was developed by the team of
Electronics Dream Interactive.
In conjunction with an Amiga Survivor subscription the package is available at a special
price. To do a translation into German language CS&E needs 300 pre-orders. They expect 1000
pre-orders for the game "Carmageddon". All in all the people at CS&E hope to sell
5000 copies of "Carmageddon".
"Back in Time 2" however has been finished as is the English version of "Cosmo's Fun
Class", so they don't need any pre-orders for that. Details about pre-ordering are
available via email: csande@csande.com
and will be released soon in both, the print and online magazines of CS&E.
On the website of the Amiga Survivor
magazine is free room for small banners. Everybody interested may place
his/her banner there in exchange with banners by CS&E on their own
websites.
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Kickflash under Production
After a long period of waiting a reworked version of Kickflash is finally under
production. First there will be a version for the absolute Amiga classics, the
A500 and A1000. Besides 1MB flash memory for Kickstart ROMs, there is also a
86 pin CPU-Slot for A2000 accelerator cards, and a Zorro slot. A version for the
A1200 will follow.
(ps)
Statusreport about Descent: Freespace �The Great War�
Hyperion Entertainment Software is working on a port of "Descent: Freespace
�The Great War�". The game already runs in software-render-mode. The
engine still needs some optimization before work on the 3D acceleration can
begin. Furthermore Ben Yoris tolled us that there is still hope for a version
running on 060 or 040 CPUs with Warp3D.
(ps)
Malice: The better Q***e?
To shorten the waiting until the release of Shogo and Sin a bit, I provide a
test about Malice, a Q***e conversion. Is it really more than a mission pack?
(ps)
AminetGUI - Update
Alexander Kurtz wrote:
The AminetGUI is once again free from commercial banners and PopUp windows.
The AminetGUI has also found a new server. I would like to thank Ingo Bowe
once more for providing his server.
During the move, AminetGUI has been restructured. The new structure permits to
provide new language versions of AminetGUI in a simple way. A developer archive
with a matching template in the download area will be available soon. Spanish
will be the first language to be added. Many thanks in advance to Tomás J.
Cantóy Diez. More translators are always welcome.
I would also like to thank Buster who send me the German version of the
Aminet-Upload.docs some while ago. Those can be reached at the Docs area.
Due to the move I also drop the Link area. Links are handled by the
Amiga-Gateway from now on.
(ps)
Press Release from Amiga Inc.
Just now an important press release of Amiga Inc. went online in which the
hardware specifications for the AmigaOne, PCI+AGP Slots for the 1200 and 4000
and more were announced. Worth reading!
Nightlong problems due to bugs
Thomas Nosutta of ACBB writes:
Nightlong has been shipped and I received it today. Unfortunately the game
cannot be installed since there are no executable icons. As promised, Qu**e is
included but it can't be installed either, but there are nice videos on the CD.
Note from the editors office: Many users were able to run the game without any
problems. As we were told on the phone today, a wrong CD-filesystem might
cause this problem
(ps)
Kernel Version 2.2.10 for Linux_m68k Available
Michael Heider wrote:
As announced, the Kernel-2.2.10 for Linux_m68k can be downloaded on my
homepage under the link mentioned above from today on. A comment how to
install this kernel is included in the archive.
I would also like to announce the following: After a call at SuSE I was told
that SuSE Linux 7.0 for PowerPC should be available from next week on.
Pre-orders are already accepted at this time.
In near future I will once again create an installation how-to and inform
about the innovations.
(ps)
MorphOS: CygnusEd Professional 4.21
An official PPC port of the text editor "CygnusEd Professional V4.21" has been
released for MorphOS. This port needs the original CygnusEd4-CD-ROM as a
basis. During the installation of the patch, the 68k version stays untouched
so that it can still be used in case one would like to install both versions
on the same partition. The updated frontend recognizes whether the editor has
been started under MorphOS or AmigaOS an then loads the corresponding binary.
This update can also be downloaded at Schatztruhe.
MorphOS: BoardType V1.0
BoardType is a small tool which prints out the version of the BlizzardPPC board
in use. This information is needed to track bugs. The bug report
should mention the output of this tool.
Five New Rainboot3 Configurations
On October 20th, 2000 Airsoft Softwair released 5 new
Rainboot3-configurations. There are Aladdin Boot, Beatbox Boot, Baaack Boot,
Lion King Boot and Windows Sucks Boot by Werner Henkel. You can find them at
the download
area of the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
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BlueRibbon Soundworks Inc. Is Alive ...
Alfred Faust wrote:
Nearly 5 years after the take over of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc. by
Microsoft, I received the official permission from Todor Fay (the former boss)
to post all of Blue Ribbon Inc.'s products for download on my newly created
homepage. Until now, the software could only be (officially and
legally) acquired if you happened to be a member of Compuserve.com (USA).
I'm very grateful to Todor Fay (and surely every other musically interested AMIGA-user does so)
for this permission, because in my opinion programs even though
those have great functionality never have achieved this level of
user-friendliness. They fit so nicely into the AMIGA system that they
run on OS 3.1 and on graphic-boards (promote with NewMode) without any problem.
Bars&Pipes can be expanded by its tools and accessories to such an extend
that it is in a certain way "updatable".
My new homepage concerns:
As mentionned above the site has a huge download-area where you can
_l e g a l l y_ download all of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc.'s products.
(ps)
In this context, it might be interesting to point out
Merlancia's Collection of Amiga
and Commodore antiques and curios and prototypes and his 1974 AMX. There
are lots of pictures of the prototypes.
(ps)
EU-Commission starts Poll about Software Patents
"The European Commission has started a poll about patents on computer programs,
so-called "computer-implemented inventions". Prior to this is the EU's fear
that the lack of EU-standard provisions of law in this sector could slow down
economic growth, competitive capacity and development of the internal market.
The commission has asked concerned institutions, companies, the public, and
the member-states to express themselves about a
probe document
from the commission's departements. The commission will state its final
position concerning this subject around beginning of 2001."
Complete article under the title link. (German) (ps)
AMP 2
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has posted some important comments about his
movieplayer "AMP 2" on his website. Among other things he points out that the
prefs-format has changed. Therefore all the former AMP.cfg files must be
deleted before you can use the new version. Some option were had, names of options were
changed or options have been removed, and may not be used in the old way anymore. More
informations can be found under the title link at the "AMP 2" section.
Olliweb.de back online
olliweb.de provides information covering the Amiga - Linux subject. After
the website was offline for quite some time, due to logistic and technical
problems of the provider, olliweb.de is available again from now on.
(ps)
Slashdot.org Reports on the Growing Success of Amiga
Mike Bouma wrote: «Already well over 15,000 developers have bought the Amiga SDK 1.0 and
soon there will be an update available (3D, Sound, GUI and performance improvements).
It will be downloadable freely for 1.0 buyers and a Windows equivalent will be available.
There is an enormous amount of activity going on within the Amiga community, ....» Read the full article
at the title link. (jp)
Pictures of Phase5 PCI Board Prototype
A two year old picture was made available on the CyberGraphX homepage
which shows the prototype of a PCI bridge from Phase5.
The prototype served as a help for the development of graphics board drivers
for the Amiga based on Mac graphics boards. You can find the link to the
picture if you follow the title link in the second news bottom right
(Phase5 G-Rex PCI Bridge Prototype).
(td)
A Coruna - Meeting of Spanish Internet Participants
About 600 internet participants from all over Spain will meet from
October 20th to October 26th in A Coruna at the Arroutada Party. This
year's Arroutada Party is held at the Coliseo of A Coruna, organized
by the "da Mocedade Informatica Galega de A Coruna (Amiga)" and
sponsored by the local town hall.
According to informations from the local town hall, this is the
eighth year of this party which was held until now at the Forum
Metropolitano, but was moved to the Coliseo due to the enormous
success.
At this multiuser event a network of 600 computers is formed
which are all connected to the internet. The technology is sponsored
by the R. Ademas company. A sound machine of 80,000 watt will be available
as well. Contests with prices of up to one million ptas will take place.
A huge projection screen will be installed as well on which animations,
roboter fights on Linux and other elements from the world of computer
science can be seen. Also, further activities will be organized which
are aimed at the entertainment of the participants.
(jp)
PSV Manager Available in English
Thanks to the help of 'Scanner' (webmaster of the Ami-Site),
our soccer management game ´PSV Manager´ is now available for download in English on our new
website. There you'll also find further information on
´PSV Manager´ and all other current and future projects.
(ps)
PlayGUI Website News
Version 1.6 of the PlayGUI add-on PLone is finally ready and can be found on
the PlayGUI website. The following has changed since V1.5:
(ps)
Results of the Top 10 SDK Wish List now made public
At the title link you'll find the results of the top 10 SDK wishes survey.
Among others, special wishes like an extended documentation on VP programming
(special tutorials and examples), USB and Firewire support, or even a
language translation routine were named.
(jp)
BGUI v41.11 Final
On October, 17th 2000 the archives of BGUI v41.11 were released. BGUI is a GUI system
offering options similar to MUI. Further development of this
system was surrendered to the AROS-project. Who would like to
participate in development can obtain access to the source codes by AROS.
for this can get the sources via AROS.
Download:
Beside the listed archives many informations, the E-Developer- and the AREXX-Interface archives
are available for download on the BGUI site
CrossUpdate from LW Amiga to LW6 Intel/Mac
The well-known raytracer "LightWave" is available at favourable conditions as a cross-update.
Any Amiga version of LW can be changed at special conditions to a full version of LightWave6
Intel/Mac. Please, visit the title link for more informations.
(ps)
Shogo-Demo for Mac
While Amiga users still have to wait PowerMac users already can have a first look at the 3D-Action-Shooter "Shogo: MAD".
Since a couple of days the 41 MB demo version is free for download.
(td)
Move of AmigaNG-Program-Overview
The "AmigaNG-Program-Overview" can be accessed under http://www.Thorty.online.de/AmigaNG-Liste.html.
Please change your Bookmarks.
As Thorsten Schoelzel said, there is the possibility of porting Macromedia´s Shockwave "Flash4"
to the Amiga, and therefore he asks for your support for this project.
(ps)
Aminet CD 39
The Aminet CD 39 - October 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (decrunched) of software in thousands
of archives. Since Aminet CD 38 over 790 MB of new software has appeared. All programs have described
in German; many ones contain a German documentation. The great highlight the Aminet 39 contains the full
version of Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions.
(ps)
Amiga SDK Wish List
Patrick Roberts is going to create a list of wishes for the Amiga SDK. If your wishes should be
took down in the list please mail your favourite ten wishes to Top10.
The results will be published on Friday.
(ps)
New Compuquick Website
At the end of June Amiga Inc. announced a strategic agreement of sales with Compuquick Media Center (Columbus, Ohio).
Compuquick Media has completely new designed its website and created an own area for Amiga.
(ps)
Spo³ Demoparty put off until 25.11.2000
The demo party which should take place in early November has been put off until the 25th of
November 2000 but will take place in Spoleto, Italy as planned.
(ps)
ACE 2000 - The Alternative Computer Expo
On the next weekend from the 21st to the 22nd of October 2000 the Alternative Computer Expo takes place
in Melbourne, Australia. This fair is concerned with all alternative operating systems like
Amiga, Mac, Unix, OS/2, BeOS, RiscOS, QNX and some more.
Already on Friday the 20th of October there is a Geek-festival. A keynote will be held by Amiga CEO.
On the fair you can expect seeing the second version of AmigaSDK as well as getting information about
AmigaOne. For the first time in Australia you can look at the PCI-Mediator-Board. Besides this the
Mac OS X will be presented.
An IRC-Channel (for further information please mail to Paul Demark))
and a webcam, organized by CAUS, is planned
for the internet.
Seminars, conferences, meetings and workshops will take place during the fair. Last but not least there
is a museum of computers.
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ttf.library V0.8.3b
Richard Griffith has published version V0.8.3b of ttf.library in Aminet (util/libs). This library
makes the use of Truetype-fonts on the Amiga possible. It is compatible to the bullet.library by
Commodore and is based on the work of FreeType project.
This pre-release has been hardly tested. In this version there are the following changes:
Bugfix: Enforcer-Hit/Crash in ttfmanager.
The library works on AmigaOS 3.0 upwards. There are optimised versions for each processor of
the 68k-family. You can find corresponding links, links on sources with Truetype-fonts and
information to the ttflib mailing list at the Hompage.
Download:
util/libs/ttflib68000.lha,
Readmettfsrc.htm
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Dreamworlds Development is Looking for One More Musician
Because Audun Evensen (our musician up to now) does not have enough time anymore we have decided to
engage another musician. She/He should get along with each possible kind of music, work on time,
be well up in editing samples and of course should be interested in games.
Having a sampler, good hardware (PPC) and knowledge in English are advantageous but not necessary.
Of course you are participated in proceeds from the sales.
First (and urgent) music for Crossfire II is needed. Here is Techno or something like that sufficient.
It`s all right if different kinds of music are used provided that it fits to hard action. :) I prefer
stirring classical music but it is hard to handle with the computer. Furthermore some intermediate
progression have to set to music (own format).
After finishing CF2 (if a further co-operation is desired) we need right music (medieval, atmospheric,
classical, sometimes rock music) instead of Techno for our next game called "Between The Lines", a
role-playing in real time.
Those ones who are interested in (or have any questions) please mail to
stefan@dreamworlds.de
with a demo work or state an internetaddress where I can find such a sample. A few information about
yourself and your hardware configuration would be useful.
(ps)
Bartman Software with new project "Fubar"
The english-american Bartman Software Team currently works on completing
the commercial action / strategy game Fubar. Almost 4 years of development
have already gone into this project. A new beta version is already
available from the Bartman Website
(here) in
exchange for a user registration. Minimum requirements are an Amiga with
MC68020 CPU, 12 MB RAM, AGA and a CD-ROM. More information and details
of technical features can be found at the title link.
(jp)
New UAE-JIT Version for Linux
On October 14th, Bernie Meyer has released a new version of his JIT
compiler for UAE running on Linux. While the stock UAE only interprets
the 68k Amiga software, the JIT compiler converts the programs to x86
code at runtime, making them run significantly faster. This version,
code-named "Everton", contains the following changes:
The title link leads to several archives for Linux to download,
including source code.
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MorphOS Release #2
The second release of the Amiga PowerPC OS "MorphOS" has been released
today. If you want to participate in the public beta test, you can
download the archive from the
download page stating your
name, e-mail address and your system.
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The game spans 300 years - from Columbus to Napoleon. 60 countries
controlled by artificial opponents react to your actions and the ongoings
in the world. The player has the job to skillfully manage religion,
trade, conquest, discovery and diplomacy.
Note:Stéphane Campan
of AmigaImpact told us that the port will not be done by Tribsoft Inc.,
but by Hyperion.
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Amiga Future Now in English CS&E and Amiga Future signed an agreement on
publishing an English version of the German printed Amiga games magazine "Amiga Future".
At the beginning it will be published as a part of Amiga Survivor and after few issues
the new magazine will be published under the name Amiga Future UK.
The whole press release with further informations is available at the news pages of
Amiga Future-Website.
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SMSEngineer V1.0.6
Version 1.0.6 of SMSEngineer released.
The changes since version 1.0.5 are the following:
The program needs MUI V3.8+, a TCP/IP-stack, and some additional MUI-classes.
Which classes you will need is written in the
readme file.
Amiga Arena News
In co-operation with Denis Unger Amiga Arena offers FLM at a very special price of 10DM.
FLM is a program that can be used as a dictionary, as a text translator, and for vocabulary exercises.
FLM contains some English/German dictionaries with about 175000 entries.
New JST Version 4.2 Released
Version 4.2 of JST released.
If you want to play old games on your new system you would appreciate JST, because
many disk based programs can be installed to harddisk with JST.
Software Updates by Sebastian Bauer
At the webside of Sebsatian Bauer are new versions of Atari800 (1.2), html.datatype (0.12),
SimpleHTML (0.12) and SimplePac (1.3) available.
(ps)
Issue #9 of Amiga Survivor Magazine
According to informations from David Conolly, the publisher of the Amiga Survivor Magazine,
issue #9 of the printed magazine will be published at the end of October. This issue will
contain a version of Max Rally. Issue #10, published at the end of November, will be shipped
with the game Cosmo´s Fun Class. Issue #11 will fusion parts of the Amiga Future Magazine
with the Amiga Survivor Magazine. This issue will have a 68 pages special, and one or two
secret gifts. Shortly there will be a webside at http://www.amigasurvivor.com. At the moment
you can subscribe to an Egroups-Mailing List.
(ps)
New Updates for OnyxSoft Software
New versions of the following programs are available from OnyxSoft:
Further informations: There will be some server changes in the near future. As soon as we know what exactly
will change we will inform you.
(ps)
Basilisk II Homepage Reworked
The homepage of the Mac emulator "Basilisk II" has been reworked and newly
designed. The 68k MacIntosh Emulator is obtainable for AmigaOS, BeOS, Unix, Linux,
and Windows.
AmigAIM 0.9396 beta
On October 15th, 2000 Richard H. Poser has released the beta version 0.9396
of AmigAIM. This program makes it possible to use the AOL-Instant-Messenger-system
"AIM". Compared to the previous version the following has changed:
ProStationAudio Tutorial for SMPTE sync.
On the website of AudioLabs a tutorial was released which deals with
synchronized audio output via an external SMPTE source
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Amiga Flame Celebrates fourth Anniversary
The online game magazine "Amiga Flame" celebrates its fourth anniversary. Four
years ago it was introduced to the public for the first time to show that an
Amiga games market exists. Now, after the past years full of hard work they
foresight hopefully
thanks to the Amiga Digital Environment (AmigaDE), and the AmigaOne.
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Facts about AmigaDE
Gary Peake, Director Support Amiga Inc., has posted on October 14th, 2000
facts on the Open Amiga mailing list regarding the AmigaDE.
This posting summarizes different known information.
(sd)
Amiga Database for SuSE Linux PPC
Michael Heider wrote:
Using the title link you find some helpful texts and also some configuration
files in the newly installed Amiga data base for SuSE Linux PPC (both versions).
Among other things it is now possible to use SAX and YAST2 under SuSE Linux PPC
on the Amiga,too. The data needed for that are ready for download on my homepage.
I also want to announce that in the next few days there´ll be a kernel 2.2.10 for
all Linux_m68k users ready for download which also works with the Linux_m68k CD I
created.
(sd)
V³, AmTelnet, Microdot-1-Source
Oliver Wagner has released on October 14th, 2000 in .plans on the V³ portal site
information regarding the current state of development of the web browser.
The V³ development proceeds well. Frames are supported again, and
the tuning of the deeper integrated layer- and cliprects-routines gave a
relevant speed boost for output and scrolling.
Soon there´ll be a new release version after David Gerber has finished the
configurable popup menus.
Of AmTelnet there´s a test version which is supposed to fix the problems with
Z-modem-transfers in conjunction with Miami - or maybe not.
Besides that Oliver Wagner has released the source code for MicroDot-1 (not 2).
Elbox Drivers Updated
On October 15th, 2000 Vision Factory Developement has released an update of the
Virge drivers for the Mediator board from Elbox. The update contains small
changes and extends the driver with support for 2MB cards.
SWOS Tournament in Danger!
What a pity. It could have been so cool! Actually I had planned to host a SWOS
tournament at the AmigaMeeting. Sponsors had quickly been found. Now the whole
thing might not take place.
(ps)
AROS: Development Status
On oktober 11th, 2000 AROS has released a status report about the current status of
this Open Source project. The changes concern mainly the AROS version for
x86 computers.
Cleaning-up of the AROS source tree by Bernardo Innocenti, simple hardfile
support of FFS formatted floppy disks (ADF) by Georg Steger, and better mouse
support for AROS native/x86 by Tobias Seiler (mouse buttons work now). Georg
threw in some additional code to change the position of the mouse pointer on
the screen, and now you can move the window around. Since VGA.HIDD doesn´t
support the XOR drawing mode, yet there is still some graphics garbage when you move
the window, but that should be fixed, soon.
(sd)
StarOffice-Sourcecode Released
Sun has released the source code of StarOffice as Open Source on October 13th,
2000. This is the pre-release of StarOffice 6.0. The further development of
the package has been handed over to the OpenOffice-Project.
The source code is 400 MByte in size, and is available for download at the OpenOffice
website for download. It contains 35,000 files which count all together some
9 million lines of C++ code. A Pentium III computer with 256 MB RAM and Linux
would need some 20 hours to compile the package. The space required on the
harddrive will grow up to 2 GByte while doing this. Currently supported are
Windows, Linux, and Solaris. A version for Mac OsX, which is said to be still in an
earlier stade, should follow.
Sun themself will still participate in developing the Office package in the future
through their development department in Hamburg, and release official StarOffice
versions basing on OpenOffice. Those will also contain components which
Sun has acquired from thrid party companies and thus are not part of the
OpenOffice package. These components include the spell checker, the thesaurus
and the database Adabas D. (sd)
MI News: AppMI - 5. Release
AppMI is a freeware collection of images and animations for toolbars with
GlowIcons design, which would perhaps become a standard for the Classic Amiga
System. The fourth update has been completed now.
The new archive contains 66 new or reworked images, 2 new animations and a
new HTML documentation for easier navigation. More informations about AppMI
are available here.
The archive for registered users will be sent to them by email soon.
(ps)
News about SView-Ports
SuperView is a well known graphics converting and viewing tool well knwon of the Amiga.
The author Andreas Kleinert is working on porting SView to other systems,
and publishes a status report:
The GUI preview of the planned WinSView tool kit still is
at alpha state while subject of intensive development. Hence it still is not available, but
by this you will get some initial impression on what it is about.
Development takes place on two levels:
Both originally were developed using Watcom C/C++ - for the class library part
and for testing it we use the Watcom C/C++ V11 ability to develop 32 bit
software for the Win9x/NT character mode (DOS box), and for the GUI
part BlueSky´s Visual Programmer is utilized.
But the design of the C++ classes is completely platform independent
(e.g. regarding endianess) and suitable to be ported for a wide range
of operating systems, e.g. certain Linux derives, BeOS or QNX. Additionally,
no compiler specific C++ specialities are used ("baseline C++") and utilization
from a clean C program is no problem.
More infos can be found at the title link.
(ps)
ACG News
The Belgium Amiga Club ACG have a new version of the
Dutch newsletter "acgmail 86 Oktober 2000".
In the first article the club is asking for help from
the Belgium and Holland Amiga-users. Because there are
less and less Amiga users in the club they are considering
to stop the Amiga part of the club. If you want to help
you can e-mail us - vissers.erwin@altavista.net.
(ps)
DCE Obtains Exclusive Rights for the Voodoo CGX Drivers
Vision Factory Development (VFD) and DCE Computer Service have signed an
exclusive contract on the usage rights of the "CGX Voodoo"-drivers. Contrary to
some declarations, this driver will only be available for the G-REX PCI
board.
Complete announcement at the title link.
In this context please check out the official announcement at CyberGraphX.
(ps)
VMC News
From now on, the VMC-ISDN and HyperCOM user-forums may again be used
without any problems. All of the links of our vmc.de domain have been
transfered to our usbhop.de until the definitive re-transfer.
Also, Mr. Frank of VMC asks Mr. Schoenfeld of Individual Computers to expose
the true facts.
More infos at the title link.
Supplement: Since amiga-news does not want to become the scene of such
conflicts, we would like to ask our readers, who want to be informed about the
process of this conflict, to get information directly on the websites of the relevant
companies: VMC ./.
Individual Computers.
(ps)
H&P: New ImageFX Offers
For a limited period of time we offer all of the ImageFX packages (also all of
the updates) including the PPC-Expansion PowerStation. You can get an overview
on the offers in the press release at the title link.
(ps)
Amiga Shockwave-Player Support Page
Thorsten Schölzel writes:
Herewith I would like to announce the opening of the "Amiga Shockwave-Player
Support" page. On the support page, you will find a shockwave player for Amiga as
well as a configuration for the player under AWeb and IBrowse, so you can
finally see shockwave files through a browser.
Currently, the site is under construction, but more content will follow in
the next days.
(ps)
Elbox: SHARK ATTACK
Follow the title link to find detailed information from Elbox
about their new PowerPC processor boards for Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000. Announced
are PPC G3/G4 boards named SHARK with various processors which can be fitted
into the MEDIATOR PCI A1200 and MEDIATOR PCI A3/4000 bus boards.
(ps)
STFax 4.5 Available
Now that Haage & Partner took over the distribution of STFax (the powerful
fax and phone answering software), a new version is available. It now supports
ELSA Office modems. For customers of version 4.x, a free update is available
on H&P's FTP Server.
(ps)
Opera Beta for Linux-PPC Available
J�rg Dietrich wrote:
And though it works: Opera runs on Amiga! Only on APUS, but better than nothing. The beta-version
of Opera, the commercial web-browser, is now for Linux PowerPC available (title link). It runs
on my Amiga 1200 with Debian Potato. (ps)
Heavy Domain Quarrel between VMC and Individual Computers!
Sure one ore the other usere already realized that the website of Harald Frank
VMC is taken by foreign content. The reader is
welcomed to a completely new pay system in the internet. As contact address
jens@jschoenfeld.de is given.
Calling Harald Frank provided clearness. A heavy domain quarrel between Individual Computers
and VMC is the cause. Until this is cleared up VMC will be accessible at
http://www.usbshop.de.
At the title link you will find the following statement by VMC:
«10-11-2000Unbelievable, www.vmc.de was stolen!
As we had to realize this afternoon the owner of our domain was, pretending wrong facts, renamed to
Mr. Schoenfeld by the internet provider Schlund.
The internet pages viewed at the domain which was up to now our domain, have nothing to do with our
company, and also every e-mail to the addresses of VMC are sent to Mr. Schoenfeld directly, by-passing
the mail secret.
Because of this we ask all of the customers to send their e-mails to our
usbshop.de domain which means to you, just to change the name vmc.de
into usbshop.de in the e-mail addresses for the next days.
According to information via telephone by Individual Computers Jens Schonefeld will use this campaign to force
a better position of him to the company VMC Harald Frank regarding wholesale prices for VMC driver software.»
(ps)
A Lot of Eternity News
Some things are changing at Eternity, but in main everything will stay the same:
Eternity is and will keep being Amiga vendor, Amiga publisher, and distributor of
Amiga hardware and software.
This news is most important:
The URL has changed!
http://www.eternity-computer.de from now on is the new online home of Eternity. Please
change your bookmarks! Many thanks to Marc Albrecht for hosting the Eternity pages free
of charge for several years.
To make getting used to the new URL more easy for users we have raised another of our
popular special projects:
For orderings within the next two weeks the customer will get 1 DM discount on every of
his/her order already placed in 2000. With this we want to thank our many faithful customers
and want to give them a very special bonus.
EAsys! Servicepack 3
For the system enhancer EAsys! distributed by Eternity service-pack 3 was released.
This fixes many little bugs, and automatic creation of icons is implemented. Who wants to
learn about the other new features should get it soon.
MASplayer
The MASplayer which we distribute since early this month already sells well. Happily our
customers are not dumb, so we received some suggestions on additional possible use of the
MASplayer:
Interested software authors can contact us via e-mail to eternity@pride.de.
We heavily support developers.
Free co-workers wanted:
Eternity Hard- & Software is looking for a free co-worker who would independent deal with
project coordination around Eternity´s activities. Good knowledge of English (speaking and writing) are
advantageous. Interested people would contact eternity@pride.de, please.
(ps)
MPF: Information Appliances
At the Microprocessor Forum 2000 in San Jose, USA, an all day opening lecture on the subject
information appliances took place given by Steve Leibson, chief analyser of MicroDesign Resources and
chief editor of the microprocessor report.
After main-frames, mini-computer, micro-computers, and PCs the fifth computer generation comes into
public view by the IAs. Appliances of this generation distinguish on application oriented design. Meaning
design and functionality of these appliances is styled for one application, e.g. in the case of web-pads
on the internet or in case of game consoles on easy gaming using your TV-set. This causes self describing
operation and hence easy use of this appliances.
The
article (German) on
tecchannel.de
summarizes the lecture in view of types of appliances, Connectivity (Bluetooth, IrDA, etc.), processors, as well
as displays, and gives a result at the end of the article. This result complains about that manufacturers tend to
implement too much features in their initial IAs. By this operation again becomes complicated, and prices increase
which automates failure, according to Steve Leibson.
(sd)
Elbox Website Update
On the website of Elbox (still under construction) are all dealers listed that
distribute Elbox products in several countries.
(ps)
Interview with Fleecy Moss at "Temple Of Technology"
You will find an interesting interview with Fleecy Moss at the title link. Browser
without CSS-support (Cascading Style Sheets) can flush the background to be able to
read the article. (ps)
Schlachtfeld V2.15
Due to some wrong set attributes during archiving problems appeared. The lha-archive
of the game "Schlachtfeld" was now completely new archived and was tested by Peter
Weigoldt.
"Earth 2140"-demo Released
Now there is a 13MB demoversion of the realtime strategy game "Earth 2140" available
for download. System requirements (min.) are a 040/25 processor (recommended: 060 or
PPC WarpOS), a gfx-board (CGFX & P96), 24 MB RAM (32 MB) and about about 20 MB space
on your harddisk.
Also Pagan-Games said the graphic for the game "Dafel:Bloodline" was nearly complete
so they can work now on the code for Classic Amigas, Mac and PC.
Supplement: Thomas Steiding via eMail Epic Interactive proudly announces
the release of the Amiga demo version of "Earth 2140", a port of a classic C&C clone.
You can find the demo at the download section. The complete game is about to be released
early November for DM 99,95. But you can preorder directly at Epic Interactive for
DM 89,95 (plus delivery and package). This offer is valid till October 25th, 2000. If the server is not accessible
you can download it here: http://www.pagan-games.com, the great boys who have ported
this game from PC to Amiga. (td)
Hellcoders Homepage Announces Game Project
On the Hellcoders´ homepage a new game was announced.
The plot of the space game is described as the follows:
You have captured a small space vehicle which approaches other ships camouflaged. You can gain
points if you beam yourself into a ship, kill the crew and sell the whole equipment at the black
market.
The game would have nice inter-sequences. According to the news the graphics and movies are in progress.
One may be curious about the announced initial screen shots.
(ps)
UniView V40.8 Update
Stefan Ruppert wrote:
At my homepage I have uploaded version 40.8 of UniView. UniView is a full replacement for MultiView.
It is now possible to open several files simultaneously. Each file will be displayed in a seperate
window. Furthermore I have improved opening a seperate screen which therefore works now with several
windows open. But this function is still improvable.
(ps)
New DirectDos Demo Available
Marius Schwarz wrote:
It has been announced for a long time: DirectDos (the new Workbench feeling) is available in a improved
version with many new functions and many bug fixes. The new functions are for example remember, iconifying,
new rename functions, and much more. Remember starts the DirectDos-tasks automatically again after rebooting the computer,
which helps you to continue to work no matter if the reset was your intention or a crash
of the system.
But the best of all is lower price: Instead of paying 50 DM for the program it now costs only
30 DM from version 1.02.
Please download the demo from the Aminet or my website. This one will move to a new server in the next
time. Therefore the programm is possibly not available all the time. The link will be the same.
(ps)
Pictures of the AGA from Toulon
On the last weekend in Toulon, France, the "AGA The Blue 2" took place. Under the title link you can have a
look at some initial pictures.
(ps)
Statement on Milan II
Even other systems (in this case Atari user) have to face disappointments. Milan II was put on hold.
One now wants to make the operating system Atari-TOS (incl. MagiC) hardware independent by means of
Linux. Then programs will be coded for one time and will run everywhere, which sure appears to be
well known to Amiga users. Here some extract from the statement by Milan Computer, which is to read
as full length (German) at the title link:
«Perspectives today are good on the one hand, and disappointing on the other hand:
The Milan II was put on hold. Month of work eating thousands of Deutsch Marks disappeared as well as
the hope of many Atari users to have their own and fast Milan II soon. This is primary to assign to
technical difficulty. Moreover trying to find venture capital companies from Germany to increase fund
remarkable over month failed. In this country at this time primary internet buildings in the air are supported
and created, building fictitious million value from scratch to crash down as fast as it raised most of the time.
One of the realy seldom companies able to offer their own small operating system provided with much of software
unfortunately bears the big risc for the investors to provoke costs by matter manufacturing (main boards, etc.).
But this does not mean the end of the project, at all. Milan-Computersystems will continue to offer the
Milan I with 040 processor to all of the people wanting a Milan today. And also the upgrade board to the
060 processor is still available and stable in the meantime. In fact there is nothing in the way to a Milan
with 060 processor at this time.
Now the step which will be taken is to look towards Milan III.
Therefore at this time there are two scenarios to choose from all of them banking on that the Milan-TOS
(and with it the addon MagiC-Milan) to be able to be nearly hardware independent soon.
To make TOS running on these processors an 68k interpreter will be integrated, in difference from a Windows or
MacOS emulation running independent native making high performance possible.»
(ps)
US-Patent 4,777,621
Twelve years ago, on October 11th, 1988, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) gave
the patent for issue "Video Game and Personal Computer" which was registered on July 19th, 1985 under
the patent number
4,777,621.
As inventors were named Commodore-Amiga, Inc., Los Gatos: Jay G.Miner, Joseph C.Decuir und Ronald H. Nicholson.
This patent is to be seen as THE Amiga patent.
At THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-ROM coming out in December
there is the full history of "Amiga Patent Story".
(ps)
11 Oct 2000
Radio Report about the Amiga
Next Saturday October 14th, there will be a report about the Amiga in the computer and internet programme
namely "Netradio" (title link) in the "Bayerischer Rundfunk".
Ruediger Engel will primarily report in an interview with
Claus Kruesken about the versatile abilities of the Classic Amiga in the year 2000 and will give a
perspective of the plans and the future of Amiga Inc.
Of course you can listen to the channel of Bayern 3 via antenna and cable in Germany, and in Europe via Astra Digital
Radio on frequency range of 11,14125 GHz, sound supply 6,48 MHz, and worldwide via Internet
as RealAudio-Steam for RealPlayer or Windows MediaPlayer.
(ps)
A.C.SYS - News
The homepage of ACSYS (a Turrican-clone) has moved. From now on you can access this site under
http://www.paragram.de/acsys.html (title link). Because developers wonder if they should finish
programming this game there is a opinion-poll
If more than 500 people speak in favour of this project the programming will be finished.
The editorial stuff of the Amiga Future have made a closer
look at the game saying its worthy!
Demo-Download: acsys-de.lha - 620 Kb
(ps)
New Previews at NoRiscNoFun: Sin and Exodus
You can find two new previews at NoRiscNoFun namely the 3D Shooter Sin, ported by Hyperion, and Exodus
the realtime-strategy game. And there is another pleasing message: From now on you can access NRNF without windows
of advertising.
(ps)
AMI Sector One Extended
Welcome to another update of AMI Sector One. Today there is something of interest for
both emulator fans and Amiga users. But first of all let us begin with the new features written by Bernd: Microdeal - A resume: This article is about
the hardware and software company Microdeal which disappeared in 199?. Amiga Games vs. Amiga Joker: Here I compare two
issues of these popular Amiga games related magazines.
The update continues with the new games Tanglewood
(thanks to the author Ian Murray-Watson who allowed us to upload it),
Tie-Break (thanks to the author Andreas Seebeck),
Wrath of Gwendor and the request
Wizzy's Quest (English version). Besides the
ADF of Wikinger 2 has been fixed (thanks to Hubert
Maier jr. for repairing it).
There are also some new scans of Amiga games: Advanced
Destroyer Simulation, Cosmo Ranger, Outrun, Peter Beardsley's Internat. Football, Pyramax, Quartz, Raider,
Renaissance, Revelation, S.E.U.C.K., Space Gun, Speed Ball, Tie-Break, Titan, Treasure Trap, Triango,
Turrican, UN Squadron, Way of the little Dragon, XCopy. Thanks to the contributors Peter and Raffaele.
I have also added some new tunes of games: View the new additions by clicking
here.
Finally I have also added information to another 280 Amiga games. You can access the information by clicking
here.
I hope you enjoyed today´s small update. AMI Sector One will soon be back with some great news.
(sd)
VMC-ISDN V3 Beta89 now including Mac-FreePPP Support
Harald Frank wrote:
After many days of hard work and several hundred dial-in tests, we are able to offer
an improved version of VMC-ISDN, which from the current version works with all Mac FreePPP versions
without problems.
VMC-ISDN is now the only ISDN card software for AmigaOS allowing the Apple Macintosh emulators
Shapeshifter of Fusion to build internet connections directly via ISDN and Sync-PPP. None of
the currently available Amiga ISDN card drivers offers such an option, but often have such
fatal errors in the protocols that make user-friendly operation impossible.
First tests showed that internet banking, requiring Java, can now be utilized with your Amiga
using an ISDN card and a Mac emulator like ShapeShifter or Fusion, installing NetscapeNavigator
or the InternetExplorer on your virtual Mac. Yes, the Amiga can do Java... ;)
Inventor of the World Wide Web Contra Censorship
«Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the WWW ten years ago, speaks contra the content control in the internet.»
In a longer article Tim Bernes-Lee notes why he is speaking contra control by law in the internet, and shows his point of
view of the media internet as well as of it´s evaluation. The talk between Tim Bernes-Lee and the Observer-News are to find
here.
(ps)
Fonts: New ttf.library V0.8.3
Version 0.8.3 of the Truetype-Font-Library were released.
The ttf.library adds the possibility of using TrueType compatible fonts.
(ps)
Beside many smaller corrections some additional information on the products has been added. Furthermore
direct links to available data sheets of the components use by us were enclosed. All data sheets are
available as PDF files (Adobe AcrobatReader) and by this can be freely used by any interested person.
(ps)
AWeb 3.4 Internet Browser with New Features
Michael Lange wrote:
An article published at the AWeb-mailinglist unveils some new features of AWeb 3.4:
This is just a short overview of the whole article by AmigActive. The new issue contains screen shots of the upcoming version 3.4.
(ps)
VWP News AudioCutter Cinema V 0.91 for PPC-Linux
After versions for x86-linux and Windows a preview version of the AudioCutter Cinema for
PowerPC-Linux was released. This version contains bug fixes and some minor changes. The important
new feature is a function for 2-dimensional and spectral sample analysis.
The preview-version can be downloaded here.
For further informations have a look at AudioCutter.de.
AudioCutter needs Java. We recommend for PPC-Linux the Java Virtual Machine by
blackdown.org.
Unfortunately it is not very fast, but it runs very stable.
AudioCutter Cinema for PPC-Linux on Amiga
The PPC-Linux version were even tested on an Amiga and runs very well on it.
The only thing is that you need is a kernel with audio support (Amiga-DMA sound).
(ps)
"Exodus - The Last War" and Appeal regarding a New Game
At the moment there were four different versions of "Exodus - The Last War" released : a polish, a german,
an english, and a french one.
Soon the Czech version will be available for download.
APPEAL
There are plans for developing another game; code name "Husaria". In Polish this means a kind of heavy cavalry, soldiers
specialized for fast attacks, which were noted for their victories particulary during the 17th century. For example King
Jan III Sobieski who has supported Austria against Turkey in the battle near Vienna.
For this new project the programmers are looking for the following things:
If possible, we need pictures of all 4 walls of the buildings,
because we need this for making 3d-models out of them. It would
be nice if you could tell us the name of the e.g. castle, and maybe send us a little map showing the location.
Exodus - The Last War
As we reported in september, the polish group "Zloty Skarabeusz"
will publish there game "Exodus - The Last War" very soon.
Now there is a demo version (14mb) available. The demo was split into 3 files.
(ps)
Comparade 8. - Amiga & Commodore Scene User Party
The Comparade is the Amiga and Commodore Party in southern Germany. It will take place from
October 27th - 29th at Emmering/FFB, near Munich. Entrance fee at 30 DM for all of the three days.
There will be an Amiga demo competition, and a C64 demo competition performed, and network,
internet, and many more things are to happen. More information and map are to find at the title link.
(ps)
The World Foundry No Longer Responsible for Maim & Mangle
The World Foundry LLC (TWF) don´t have the rights for developing the
announced Amiga games "Explorer 2260", "Maim & Mangle", and the
"Collins Encyclopedia Galactica" (CEG, part of Explorer 2260), anymore. The developer
Chris Page now is responsible and continues to develope the games.
The website of TWF
is empty. Some quite obsolete information regarding "Explorer2260" can be
found here.
(td)
ACE 2000 - The Alternative Computer Expo
On October 21st - 22nd, 2000 the Alternative Computer Expo will take place in Melbourne,
Australia. This exhibition deals with all current alternative operating systems
like Linux, AmigaOS, MacOS, UNIX, OS/2, BeOS, RiscOS, QNX and more.
Among others Amiga International, Red Hat, Vaporware, REBOL Forces, Amiga Technology Australia, and
some Amiga user groups belong to the exhibitors.
A preview
regarding the fair was released in the I.T. The Amiga is also mentioned in this
article.
(sd)
Amiga Arena News: AudioCutter demo AudioCutterDemo - World premiere!
(LinuxPPC version 0.91)
The Amiga Arena is proud to worldwide exclusively present
in cooperation with Virtual Worlds Productions
to all Amiga/LinuxPPC users the demo version
v.0.9.1 of the audio software "AudioCutter - Linux PPC" for download.
(The link is exclusively placed in the Amiga Arena!)
Furthermore a special price offer regarding AudioCutter will be made possible to
all Amiga Arena visitors.
Hint for the demo version: It´s not possible to save with the demo version!
AudioCutter Informationen:
The AudioCutter Cinema is not an "ordinary" audio software, but integrates extensive
functions which make synthesizing, manipulating, converting and editing of
sounds possible. Additional to the editing and cutting functions there is an extensive
support for surround sound offered.
(sd)
Amiga Active #13
Already on 28. September 2000 the 13. issue of the British Amiga magazine "Amiga
Active" has been released. With this issue the magazine celebrates the first
anniversary. Additionally the website is online with new design since October 1st.
(sd)
8. Internet Amiga F1GP Championship
On 15. October 2000 starts the 8. internet championship with the racing game
"Formula One Grand Prix" (F1GP) by Microprose. Here you have, thanks to the
internet, the possibility to prove your skills worldwide in competition with
the other participants.
The conditions for participation, the rankings of the past years, and further
informations can be accessed via the title link.
(sd)
AmigaAMP Homepage Moves
Thomas Wenzel wrote:
Since amiga-software.com understandably will close their current design soon, Marc
has kindly made it possible for me to continue my supply at amigaamp.de.
The mailing list will continue at amiga-software.com for the time being.
Unfortunately my CyberStormPPC presently is broken, so that I
cannot continue to work on AmigaAMP. Incoming e-mails can also be answered in a
limited way, because it´s only half the fun without YAM :-)
As soon as my Amiga works again I´ll attend to v2.8 final of AmigaAMP. Please,
be patient...
(sd)
SpeedCOM A1200 and PARalizer
The SpeedCOM 1200 is a serial interface board designed for use with the clock
port and can transfer up to 460 kbs. As the board address can be changed, it is
possible to use two of these boards simultaneously. It has been developed by Artur Gadawski.
Currently he´s working on the PARalizer, a board with a parallel interface.
(sd)
Apple: Decreasig Market Value
Financial Time Germany: "Apple: Different problems than the rest of the PC branch"
«From surprised to outraged was the reaction of financial analysts on the reduced profit forecast
of the US computer manufacturer Apple. Several influential banks changed their bargain recommendation for
Apple shares into warnings on weekend. Admittedly some of the banks mentioned Apple´s problems not to
be typical for the branch.
Surprisingly Apple reduced their profit forecast for all business units on Thursday. The Apple market lost
52% of value, almost 9 milliards USD of market value were lost.»
(ps)
HD-Installer JST Version 4.1 Released
With JST by J.F. Faber you may now also install pure floppy-disk games to your
hard drive and start these from there. The current version 4.1 includes many
updated "Loaders".
AmigaSDK.com with New Layout
The layout of AmigaSDK.com, the website which provides you with information
about the new AmigaSDK, has been improved. The navigation is clear,
and the new look of AmigaSDK.com is well done.
(ps)
"Das Schlachtfeld" Update V2.15
"Das Schlachtfeld" (The Battlefield) is a strategy game for 1 to 4 players.
It is a mix of "BattleIsle" and "Battleforce" and has been written in AMOS
(The Creator) by Peter Weigoldt. You may download the updated archives at the
download area on the support page.
(ps)
Amihoo.com Server Problem
The Webmaster of amihoo.com, Michael Carrillo, announced that Amihoo only is available at
the alternative address http://www.amihoo.u-net.com/ (titellink) due to server problem which he
hasn´t any bearing on. He hopes that the problem can be solved as soon as possible.
(ps)
Report about the Pianeta Amiga 2000
The highlight of the report (Italian) by Andrea Vallinotto is the presentation of the
new Mediator PCI-Board by Elbox, which is illustrated with different
pictures on a second page.
(ps)
REBOL/Core 2.3 Manual
REBOL has released an obviously reworked documentation about REBOL/Core 2.3.
It has been restructured, former chapters were reworked, new chapters, and new
examples were added, as well as some diagrams that should illustrate the concept of
the series.
The manual is currently available for download as PDF file. A HTML version
should follow soon.
REBOL: Article about Huffman-Compression
Ole Friis has released an article about compression with Huffman-Encoding in
REBOL on the REBOL Forces.
Thus he starts a series of articles about compression algorithms which are
coded in REOL.
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Amiga Inc. Looking for Developer
Amiga Inc. would like to employ a software developer for the Interface-Team.
Conditions for an application are experience with Ave, the SDK and
interface programming. People who have those experiences, and who would like to know more
about the job may contact Fleecy Moss
directly. (as)
AC3Decoder Version 0.8 for Frogger
The AC3Decoder (Dolby Digital Decoder) for Frogger is available in version 0.8
for Amigas with PPC and PowerUP. Frogger is a fast MPEG video player for Amigas
with 68040/60 CPUs or PowerPC and supports the MPEG-2 layer.
Amiga Impact Cooperates with Planet
Online magazines increasingly cooperate with print magazines. The French
online and news magazine "Amiga Impact" announces to cooperate in future
with the print magazine "Planet".
amiga-news.de for example cooperates with the German
Amiga Magazin.
These partnerships are very positive for both sides as resource sharing means
that the print magazines can concentrate on the editing of the news without
having to spend considerable time to look for news.
(ps)
DS Home Page with New URL
The DS Home Page
Denis Spach's DS Home Page, known for programs like VNC Viewer, VNC Server and
X11 Server for Amiga, can now be reached at http://dspach.free.fr (title link).
(ps)
PageStream 4.0.8c for Amiga and Windows Released
Grasshopper LLC, the new distributor of Pagestream, has made an update to
Pagestream (Version 4.0.8c) available for download in the secure downloads
area. (ps)
Amiga.info - Developer meeting
On October 18th, Wonder Computers will present the new Amiga developer machine
"d´AMIGA" with the SDK software at a developer meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Those interested will find more details at the titlelink.
(ps)
Amiga Realm with New Layout
In time for its first birthday, the Amiga Web Directory service "Amiga Realm"
has completely redesigned the layout of their website and improved the
clarity. The navigation was improved and the categories rethought.
(ps)
Image Engineer Online Again
After Marko Seppaenen, author of Image Engineer, has left the
Amiga market in the middle of September and taken the website off the net,
the website is now available again at the titlelink.
Shoutcast/Icecast Client Released for the Amiga
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has written a Shoutcast/Icecast Client for the Amiga
and called it "StreAmi". There are two very popular audio streaming systems called
Icecast and Shoutcast which are able to send MPG audio compressed audio data
through the net. StrAmi allows you to fetch these audio files from any server
and listen to them in real time.
This way, you can very easily listen to radio via internet. The program has a
MUI interface and requires nothing more than a TCP/IP stack like Miami or AmiTCP
and of course a fast internet access. You'll find lists of servers at
www.shoutcast.com and
www.icecast.org.
The Biggest (literally) Freeware Football Management Game
"PSV Manager" is a football management game extravaganza. Giant and
very playable program full of humor. After success of Polish version,
we have prepared the English edition. Why You should check out this
game? Because:
AND ALL OF THIS YOU CAN HAVE FOR FREE !!!
System requirements: any Amiga, 2 MB Chip, 4 MB Fast, HDD: about 300 MB of free
space for full version; about 48 MB of free space for basic version
(without samples).
IMPORTANT: We are looking for some ftp/web site, which could distribute our
game (about 200MB of free space is needed).
(ps)
Sender´s First Module!
Sender´s First module has been released today. It is for OS3.5
users only, and allows you to drag files, dirs and drives on to
the Sender appicon, and it will create "shortcuts" to these
files, dirs or drawers. Sender is a small freeware program to
move or copy any file to any directory from the Workbench.
(mj)
First Details of the Matrox G800
By and by the first details of the new 3D graphics chip by Matrox are trickling though the net.
The G800 should be capable of an internal clock rate of 200 MHz, and was said to address the
DDR memory at 400 MHz. Three rendering pipelines should leverage performance of the by Matrox
introduced environmental bump mapping. Filling was said to range at 600 millions of pixels/sec or
20 to 30 millions of polygones/sec. Matrox is expected to introduce initial boards with G800 at
the CeBit in spring next year.
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Spoletium3 Demo-Party Bella Italia - Felice AMIGA - is not the official slogan of the AMIGA only demo party in
Spoleto (middle Italy), but might it be!
The arrangers of the party are promising: a scenic place for the event, interesting contacts,
valuable prices...
Who wants to try this, and maybe would like to put a short leave in Italy through this demo party which
will take place on November 4th, 2000: all the necessary information (also a detailed way description)
is to find at the titlelink. You can also download an invitation intro there (about 200 KB / AGA).
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The "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note"(TM).
or shorter "AFD-COPYRIGHT"(TM) has been released for the fifth time
this year.
This Copyright Note is an offer for all Amiga developers who want to
release FD-Software, be it as Freeware, Giftware, Shareware or
whatever.
AFD-COPYRIGHT is now available in eighteen (18!!!) languages -
all in two formats, as plain text and as HTML-file.
After the releases of the Czech, Russian, Catalan and Brazilian
Portuguese translations the latest addition is the Hungarian
translation by �lmos Rajnai and P�ter Kov�cs (again, from the ATO).
The files can now be downloaded from the Official Support Site
for AFD-COPYRIGHT. The address is: http://AFD.home.pages.de/
And of course, news sites are allowed to spread this message. Thanks
for your attention, interest and support!
(ps)
Pro Linux: Linux World Conference & Expo Starts
«The conference schedule makes reading like the "who is who" of the branch.
Beside popular speakers like Bob Young, Dirk Hohndel, and Arthur Tyde Jon "maddog" Hall from Linux International
will perform as keynote speaker. Exclusively for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
Linus Torvalds will be guest at the event. This trade fair which will take place from October 5th to October 7th 2000 will be
the first business-to-business event focusing the Linux operating system, and Open Solutions in Europe.
About 10,000 visitors, and more than 100 attending companies on over 9,000 m2 exhibition space are expected for the
premiere.»
(ps)
New Mailing List for Amiga Vendors
Amiga has started a new built-up mailing list especially for Amiga vendors. Vendors can register to this list on this
site.
(ps)
A.C.T. Stops Amiga Sponsoring
From the end of October 2000 A.C.T. and the co-operating ISP will stop all sponsoring actions
for the Amiga area. This will also concern every sites hosted at "amiga-software.com".
Single developers or groups who are sponsored up to now have already been contacted via e-mail, but
many of the addresses don´t seem to work any more or the people are no longer interested in
Amiga.
Hence A.C.T. asks all web admins whose sites are sponsored or hosted by A.C.T. to move these sites to another
provider by the end of October 2000.
For some of the sites - among them amigasystem.org - the web admins are looking for successors, because otherwise
these sites would be canceled outright. Also concerned by the sponsoring stop is the hardware and software
sponsoring: from now on A.C.T. will not deliver hardware or software products for free to "up-coming projects" or similar.
(ps)
New and IMPORTANT HyperCOM 2.96B4 Update
With this update smaller problems of being unable to print via HyperCOM parallel port under certain
circumstances are fixed. Additionally little changes has been made necessary to use our current VMC-ISDN software
along with the current HyperCOM drivers.
NRNF: Pure Nostalgia ! Old Advertising, Show Flyers....
On the No Risc No Fun site now a nostalgia area has been created. On this page from now on you will find
Commodore/AMIGA advertising, show flyers, old articles, and many more, and more to come.
(ps)
DataM II 0.9 beta Released
On the homepage of the Amiga Club Steinfurt (Germany, titlelink) and at Aminet (/biz/dbase)
Christoph Kirsch has released a new beta version of the spread sheet program DataM II.
Beside numerous bug fixes this time in particular the possibility of viewing external files (via Datatypes) has
been implemented.
(ps)
John-Sinclair-Encyclopedia-CD-ROM
The very extensive John-Sinclair-Encyclopedia by Bastei dealing with the most successful series of horror stories
of the world can be ordered on CD-ROM. Because this encyclopedia is fully based on HTML (optimised for IE, but can be
viewed using any other browser) AMIGA-Users are able to use this, too.
In addition the CD-ROM offers the radio-book "Daemonenhochzeit" for listening as mp3 file, a composed version of the JS-Comic,
short texts for each novel, pictures of the title of the magazins, and of the paperbacks, and much much more.
You can order the CD-ROM at the title link in the seperate Online-Shop.
(ps)
FUBAR - New War Simulation
The new game "FUBAR" by Rosande Ltd. is distributed by Blittersoft and will probably be released in November 2000.
But it can be ordered in advance in the shops from now on!
At Q-Lab you can buy a cd with musics of FUBAR.
FUBAR is a war simulation. The scenario of the game shows you what happens if a war begins, and forces you
as the player to take all necessary steps to finish the war. The conception of the game is to rule the
whole world, all countries, and all people. To be successful you can slip into different roles, because
ruling the world is not an easy task.
You will be the general of thousands of armies, the president of the whole mankind, but in addition the
leading scientist, manager, diplomat, and banker. Each of this roles is in touch with the military, civilians,
research, financial world, and has got connections to other competitors who are striking for the same goal as you do.
(ps)
New Mentat 0.5.2 (english2english Longman dictionary)
There is a new version 0.5.2 of Mentat - english2english dictionary,
based on Longman Natural English dictionary. New in this release - search
options for single/group of words, localization, 2 languages guide and
plenty of fixes.
(ps)
Heise: Initiative Bill against Internet-Patents in the USA
Howard Berman and Rick Boucher, two congressmen of the democrats, have introduced an initiative bill which
is supposed to restrict the possibility to patent business methods in the USA.
Above all the Business Method Patent Improvement Act addresses the rapidly increasing use of
patents for business methods.
Crucial point of the act is the declarative statement, that implementation of so called "Real-World"-business processes
on computers does not worthy being patented.
In addition the representatives want to establish the possibility of raising an objection against patents without being
forced to bring such action at law. See titlelink for full article (German).
(ps)
ProStationAudio V4.00 Finished
The new version of ProStationAudio V4.00 was finished. V4.00 now supports two CPUs (split interface on two
graphics boards and two monitors). There are two different versions for choice: Millenium
und Remix.
Download site
(ps)
Version 1.5 of ADoomPPC Released
Jarmo Laakkonen has published version 1.5 of ADoomPPC. The WarpOS version now supports Tooltypes,
too. Saving is now compatible to version 1.3 while it is no longer possible to use savings of version 1.4.
In order to increase the speed it was added a new option (nojoy), meaning without joystick.
Download: ADoomPPC.lha - 551 Kb
(ps)
Exodus - The Last War
As already reported on 26th of September the polish group "Zloty Skarabeusz" will publish their new
game "Exodus - The Last War", soon. You can look at some first screenshots at the titlelink.
The game is in the process of making and supposed to be finished within one week.
The company "SLAND MEDIA" is the publisher, which is directly connected to the group. Which company will
be responsible for sales in Europe has not been decided, yet.
For further information have a look at the provisional site.
This site is still completely written in polish. An own domain and English sites are likely to follow.
(ps)
Heise: Microsoft Aquires 25 Percent of Corel
«By a 135 million USD investment, Microsoft supports the stumbling Canadian
software manufacturer Corel. As Corel announced on Monday, the
software giant from Redmond purchased 24 million non-voting shares at
5.625 USD each. Those can be converted into fully voting shares;
holding almost 25 percent of the entire capital stock would make Microsoft one
of the largest shareholder of Corel.»
Full article (German) at the titlelink.
(ps)
Modification of Hypercom 3plus Module (Goldsurfer) for IOBlix Emulation Mode
The new Hypercom software (v2.96+) can emulate the IOBlix parallel ports, so parallel-port
scanners and ZIP-drives can be used with the Hypercom. The Hypercom Zorro cards are already
primed for this, however the modules for the A1200, Buddha, Catweasel and the X-Surf
(also sold as "Goldsurfer) need a minor technical modification. At the title link,
you will find a detailed technical description including pictures.
(ps)
Earth 2140 Work-In-Progress Report
At AmigaFire, the new Online Game Magazine, you will find a detailed status report
about Earth 2140, the real-time strategy game for 68k and PPC Amigas, which is being
ported by Pagan Games and will be
distributed by Epic Interactive.
(ps)
Of Set Top Boxes and Internet Devices
Once a month, John Chandler posts an article on subjects concerning Amiga at Suite101.
For October, he had a look at the current announcements concerning new hardware.
(ps)
VMC-ISDN V3 Timefix Update
The recovering of a bug now proved our software being forward-looking. When current system time was set
via ISDN additional 25 years were added ;-). Thanks to an extended bug-report via e-mail this error
was located and fix very quickly.
New CD-Rom for Movieshop
Starding today the 3rd issue of ´Space-Effects´ is available from Elastic Images. The CD
contains video sequences that can be used in (mainly Movieshop) video productions. The scenes are
available as Movieshop´s own sequence format and as single-frame-sequences, so you can use the clips with every
Movieshop version.
Every clip can be integrated in a currently opend Movieshop project directly from CD. A short
preview is available at the homepage at ´Software/Video-CDs´.
(ps)
New SMSEngineerMUI Version
Once again, there is a new version of SMSEngineer available at the Aminet.
Version 1.0.4
(ps)
Supplement: 03 Oct 2000 - SMSEngineer Mailing-list
We are also organizing a mailing-list for SMSEngineer, now. Just send an empty e-mail to
bengineers-subscribe@egroups.com,
and then you will reveive further information. This mailing-list is meant for bug-reports,
comments, and exchange of information. (ps)
Amiga Arena News
The TextLoaderNG keyfile is now freely available for all Amiga users! Every visitor of Amiga
Arena can download the keyfile. After releasing it for Amiga Arena CD ROM users Pascal Gisin
agreed to release the keyfile for all users. I would like to say thank you for doing so!
TextLoaderNG is a Hex editor with many functions, for example:
The development of TextloaderNG will go on and the program will run without a keyfile in future.
(ps)
AmiWolfenDoom Website Moved, and one Appeal
The AmiWolfenDoom homepage has moved and is now available at www.antibyte.de (titlelink). Robert
Wahnsiedler is still on the hunt for a person that is able to modify the ADoom-engine for making
Ninja-, Simpson and Batman-Doom possible. According to the downloadrates of AmiWolfenDoom the
interest of the users is very high.
For the modifycations you must have C/Assembler skills and you have to read the docs. There are no
major changes to make but the DEH support must be revisde (patch of the internal
graphic/sound/textroutines by using a Ascii-file with commands). For example there is no
recognition of text. This causes games that use these kind of functions to crash.
appeal
Furthermore Robert Wahnsiedler is looking for someone who is willing to modify the game
Imperium Terranum II for the Amiga community. The sourcecode is public available and there
is an absolutely resourceful StarTrek addon available. The main problem is that it does not run very good
on graphics boards, the only way is to use a tool like NewMode, but this is a not very stable
solution. If you are interested, please contact Robert Wahnsiedler.
(ps)
New LAMEbeta Version 3.87
New LAME beta version 3.87! Ok, first off, since version 3.87 LAME no
longer works with SecondSpin without changing the code and recompiling,
thus LameSpin no longer works, and is no longer included, sorry! :/
On the good note this version is slightly faster, especially the PPC
version! ;) (Note, WarpOS still has problems .. this is most likely
either ppclibemu or WarpOS's fault since it works fine with PowerUP
and MorphOS) From now on the 060 and PPC version use LAME's internal
mpglib for decoding, so if you still want to use mpega.library (which
is much faster), use the 040 version...
Eternity - New Distributor of the MAS-player
Since October 1st, 2000 Eternity took over the distribution of the MAS-Player in
cooperation with Dirk Conrad. The MAS-Player is a hardware MP3-player that can be used
with every Amiga parallel interface. The program plays MP3´s in 18bit and
44kHz with very low CPU usage and is therefore the best and cheapes solution for playing MP3-files
with an Amiga computer.
A techpage will follow. Eternity will ask Thomas Wenzel if he would support the
MAS-Player with his AmigaAmp. Eternity will offer a 6 month guarantee.
DreamCDguide Update v0.98 Released
The AminetCD navigation system has been released as version 0.98 which now
contains, besides some error corrections, the German localisation and
documentaion.
AmigAIM Beta V0.9393
On September, 26th 2000 the version 0.9393 of the chat client for the AOL network
"AmigAIM" has been released on September 26th, 2000. The following changes have
been made:
ImageFX Filters by Andrew Buckle
The website of Andrew Buckle´s ImageFX filters has been integrated into
Amiga Resource.
The 62 sets with more than 1000 filters can now be download there.
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Majesty for Amiga
The strategy game Majesty
by Cyberlore will be ported to the AmigaNG.
The licence has been acquired by Titan Computer. The conversion of the game will be
done by Hyperion Software. The release is set for 2001.
The message of Amiga Flame
contains graphics and a game description.
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New Version of DirScanner
Hynek Schlawackhas released the version 2.12 of the file search program
"DirScanner" on September, 30th. the program allows any number of search paths
and offers name, lenght, comment, date and content as search criteria. This
version contains internal changes which make the program faster and smaller.
Free TextloaderNG Keyfile online
With the permission of Pascal Gisin the keyfiles for Textloader and TextloaderNG
(registered for Amiga Arena) are available for free download for all users of
the AMIGA ARENA CD Rom Edition!
Amiga Arena - free keyfiles and full versions!
The Amiga Arena presents:
Imperium Terranum II keyfile
Space strategy economy simulation
BallMaster full version
Puzzle game like Logical!
SHARKS! - full version
Save treasures from the ground of the sea, but beware - sharks make life hard!
Matrix Hunter - full version
Little shooter!
MusicmanIII - registration free!
Complex data base to manage CDs, MCs, LPs and more.
TextLoaderNG - keyfile
Complex texteditor with filters for converting different formats!
Free for all users of the Amiga Arena CD Rom Edition!
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Voodoo3 Driver is Pre-Release for now
The present Voodoo3 drivers, by CyberGFX, are pre-release show versions, which are
not thought for daily work. A date for the complete drivers is at present
unknown.
The Virge- and VirgeDX drivers are ready for delivery and the archive will be
released before long.
New Demo of Bubble Hero
Arcadia released a new compilation of the Bubble Heroes demo as RTG version.
These demos require the rtgmaster-library version 40+ which can also be found on
the Download-page
of Arcadia.
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