Amiga News - Archive 12/1999

`30 Dec 1999` Torsten Dudai	New Caricature: Once Upon a Time, part 2
`30 Dec 1999` Sebastian Bauer in ANF	Latest developer version of Freeciv Sebastian Bauer writes: I just uploaded the latest developer version of Freeciv to my homepage. Additionally, there are new versions of Pic2Icon (v1.1) and SimpleClock (v1.1).
`30 Dec 1999` Felix Schwarz by e-mail	Moving... innovative-web.de is moving. In the next days, our web presence will move to a different server. After the move, we will be able to offer a further improved web presence. During the move, there can be downtimes of several days (worst case!). In this time, please send e-mail to bs168@fen.baynet.de instead. Greetings and a happy new year, Felix Schwarz.
`30 Dec 1999` Petra Struck	Axel Krämer now at Met@box I had the opportunity to talk with Axel Krämer on the phone a short time ago. He is now at Met@box, responsible for production and logistics, and is very happy with his work. Just like before, he has a keen eye on what is going on in the Amiga sector, and wishes all Amigians a happy new year 2000. Of course I also asked Axel about news on the joeCARD, and he promised to tell us news immediately :-).
`30 Dec 1999` amiga-news.de	Software News
`29 Dec 1999` Andreas Magerl in ANF	Data loss Andreas Magerl writes: We, too, have a millenium problem... or not, well, perhaps yes, even if you cannot call it like that, probably yes... In any case, all charts, reader mails, cheats and wish lists, which have been submitted by the online forms on our page in the AKTIONS-area, have been lost. This affects the time from 21.12.99 to 28.12.99, 21:00 PM (MET). If you haven't submitted yet, you should do so now. Please resubmit your votes and submissions. Thanks.
`29 Dec 1999` Aminet [recent]	Aminet uploads 28.12.1999
`29 Dec 1999` Heise [Newsticker]	GPS under your skin According to plans of US manufacturer Applied Digital Solutions (ADS), online shoppers will carry their customer card under their skin in the future. The Florida company has now filed a patent for a maintenance free implant, which is (among others) able to recieve and send GPS signals. The transciever can be implanted in the human body with little effort, says the company in an ad, provided with power by muscle movements.
`29 Dec 1999` Heise [Newsticker]	Subject on the Chaos Communication Congress: Tron (again) This year, too, Tron's ghost is spooking the halls of the Haus am Kölnischen Park in Berlin, where the Chaos Communication Congress closes today. The cause of death of the star hacker is no longer in doubt after two autopsies. The suicide theory of police and prosecutors is criticised by the CCC, Tron's parents and their attorney even more than before, however. "It could not have happened without outer force", Chaos spokesman Andy Müller-Maghun brings the murder theory to the point after detailed studies of the autopsy report and prosecutor files. Police research has been focused only on the suicide theory from the very beginning, Müller-Maghun criticises. Other hints have been ignored on purpose.
`29 Dec 1999` Czech Amiga News	EXODUS The Last War You find new screenshots of the space strategy game. The game is scheduled to be finished between February and April 2000.
`29 Dec 1999` ANN	ANN celebrates 3rd anniversary :-) ANN (Amiga Network News) celebrated its third anniversary yesterday. Happy birthday, and thanks to Christian Kemp, who is studying the newsgroups since 1996, and supplied us with news from this area.
`29 Dec 1999` PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX	akMPEG version 3.07 for 68k+PPC (25.12.1999) Download: akMPEG2.lha
`29 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	Amiga 2K announces the first exhibitors On April 1st/2nd, 2000, the Amiga 2K show is again taking place in St. Louis. The first exhibitors have announced themselves, and Petro Tyschtschenko will have a speech at the show.
`29 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	Amazing Amiga Computing Magazine closing With Amating Amiga Computing Magazine, another Amiga print magazine is closing down. The magazine was mainly distributed in North America, and now had to file for bancuptcy.
`29 Dec 1999` Atéo	New AteoBusPrefs version 2.310 Download: ateobusprefs.lha
`29 Dec 1999` Detlef Wojtaszkiewicz in ANF	PPT version 6.18 The freeware image processing program PPT has just been released in version 6.18.
`29 Dec 1999` Oliver Wagner by e-mail	V³ 3.0 final released Download: V3_30.lzx - 1.03 MB
`29 Dec 1999` Olaf Köbnik by e-mail	Amiga Arena News: redesign finished! After many delays, the Amiga Arena is online again, and looks forward to a year 2000 with you! The Amiga support continues! The Amiga Arena wishes all of you a happy new year! :-) Visit the Arena at the title link. Special offer with GeoWorld online!
`29 Dec 1999` Wegar in dcsam	AMC-mailbox to be closed Wegar writes: The AMC mailbox, and with it the support forum for the Amiga point program TheAnswer will be closed. The mailbox goes offline December 31st, 1999, at noon. I will still be available for contact at wegar@cube.net or my homepage www.wegar.de.
`29 Dec 1999` John Chandler in aros-dev-ML	KOSH book list updated The book list of the KOSH project has been updated. New are the following books: General Programming & Algorithms:Operating Systems: (New URLs for recommended OS projects:) Programming Languages: Web/Internet Development: The book list is availabe at www.snowcrash.u-net.com/kosh/booklist.html">www.snowcrash.u-net.com/kosh/booklist.html or kosh.convergence.org. If you are interested to add to the list, preferably with a short review, or want to write a review for a listed book, send to metaljoe@snowcrash.u-net.com with "RFB" or "KOSH Books" in the subject line.
`29 Dec 1999` Joerg Deckert in amiga.ger	Connectline v5.2.beta2 Joerg Deckert writes: This is an update for version 5.1 of Connectline. All components are in there, but there was not enough time for a completely new version, since there was a Y2K bug to fix and the new year is near. For a full version an updated documentation and complete tests are missing. New: Features: Requirements: Complete source code available on request! Download: ConnectLine.lha Fido-Filerequest: Magic "CL" at 2:248/4001 (analog and ISDN). The website is preliminary so far, so only the archive is available there for download.
`28 Dec 1999` Marc Albrecht by e-mail	A.C.T. with new layout The draft of the new A.C.T. pages is online. The "News" frame carries a time limited special offer for Samplitude Opus Amiga.
`28 Dec 1999` Amiga Flame	Amiga Flame survey Vote the top 10 games of 1999 at Amiga Flame.
`27 Dec 1999` Martin Baute	Translator`s note I took the liberty of spending the christmas days with my girlfriend, her mother (and family), my mother (and grandma and my sister) and a couple of good friends (chronological order), not using my computer at all. This results in all those christmas greetings posted on the main page being translated only now. I hope you can forgive me. ;-)
`27 Dec 1999` Stefan Robl by e-mail	Christmas / New Year greetings Dear friends, aquaintances and users of my software! Another year is almost gone, and I want to write what has happened this year from my point of view. For one, my studies are doing well (I am in my 5th half-year), but it takes me more time than I expected. This sometimes causes significant delays in my coding projects and / or in writing e-mails. I want to say sorry for this, but my studies have to be top priority. In the summer break I wanted to use every free hour for coding - and that's what I did, resulting in good progress in my projects. At first, the WizardClasses, an object-oriented C++ development system, recieved a major update, allowing me to develop others more efficiently. I planned to release this system to the public midtime next year, to make life easier for other programmers. The first remarkable release this year was my new FrameMachine driver system "FMdriver", which has been accepted very well by the users of this video board. It is now also possible with FMdriver to watch TV on Workbench, with full PPC support for super fast color space conversions. Afterwards I was planning to finish ArtecScan 2.0 - the scanner driver for Artec scanners. With my recently updated WizardClasses, I was able to finish it faster than usual. But then, the worst thing for every coder happened: my system hard drive was defective, and I lost my complete data (source codes, e-mails and other data). With the help of Petra Struck (author of the German "AmigaNews"), which published my need for an identical hard drive, and Hendrik Hanke, who did lend me his hard drive, I was able to recover my lost data by exchanging the defective controller board. Thanks again!! Well, this did cost me roughly two weeks work, and by summer brak was over. ArtecScan was not finished again... :( Of course I tried to continue with the ArtecScan development, but with this it took some more weeks. I demonstrated the results of my work on a little computer exhibition, the "Computronika" end of October in Germany. Afterwards, I released the alpha versions of ArtecScan to the public on my homepage. After I released ArtecScan, I wrote a FrameMachine driver for the hardware independant video driver standard (VHI) by Felix Schwarz. Two weeks later, the most important Amiga event of the year took place, the HomeElectronicsWorld'99 in Cologne. Of course I was there, too, and met a lot of people. It was a nice event, and it made clear that the Amiga will live on! In the very least I will continue programming for the Amiga, and use it, and I hope you do, too! If Haage & Partner, Amiga Inc. and DCE do the right thing, we can have a great new computer by the end of next year! At the end I wish you all a merry christmas (a little delayed), and a happy new year!! Yours, Stefan Robl.
`27 Dec 1999` Fun Time World	New Area at FTW: Zone 2000 In this area, Fun Time World lists Amiga programs having a Y2K bug, and offers download tips for fixing the problem.
`27 Dec 1999` AmigaGames.com	Alltime Amiga Games Top 50 updated The Top 50 list of all Amiga games ever released has been updated. Currently, "The Settlers" are ranked 1st, "Monkey Island 1" 2nd and "Civilisation" 3rd.
`27 Dec 1999` Andreas Magerl in ANF	Wanted: Programmer of "Erben der Erde" Andreas is urgently looking for the up-to-date address, phone or something else from the programmer of the Amiga game "Erben der Erde".
`27 Dec 1999` DJ Takka in ANF	311 techno music tracks for the Amiga DJ Takka of THE RAVEBUSTERS writes: We have uploaded all our Amiga modules we could find to our homepage. Since we were among the top trackers in those Amiga times, a visit could be worth your while! CU, and merry christmas, and a happy new year!
`27 Dec 1999` Martin Endres by e-mail	camd driver for the Triple-Play MIDI interface Martin Endress writes: Sometimes we are asked for a camd driver for the Triple-Play MIDI interface. We are looking for such a driver, or a manual for this interface. The driver will then be released on the CamX / Camouflage homepage. Contact: endres@work.de.
`27 Dec 1999` Torsten Dudai	New Caricature online: Once Upon A Time, part 1
`27 Dec 1999` N.A.	Software News
`27 Dec 1999` AmigaOS 3.5	AmigaOS 3.5 Boing-Bag 1 available On-time for the quiet days we were able to complete the first update of AmigaOS 3.5, which contains bug fixes and expansions. And there is a christmas surprise... :-) boingbag1.lzx - 3,6 MB or boingbag1.lha - 5,2 MB
`27 Dec 1999` Brad Webb by e-mail	Amiga Update Newsletter from December 23rd, 1999
`27 Dec 1999` Haage & Partner	H&P News The best wishes for 2000... We want to very much thank all Amigians which stayed faithful with Amiga and us in 1999. We wish everyone a calm christmas, and a cheerfull new year 2000... Between December 24th and January 3rd we are unavailable officially. We won't be idle really, but we don't want to be distracted ;-) PenPartner Tabletts available again We purchased a small leftover of the well-liked Wacom PenPartner graphics tablet, which is out of production.
`27 Dec 1999` Ralph Schmidt by e-mail	MorphOS PowerPC OS announcement Today we announce the availability of a new Amiga next generation PowerPC OS project, called MorphOS, to the public. In its current state it provides a modern memory protection microkernel which runs a virtual amiga emulation. This microkernel will be the base for a new OS layer. Research for this project started in early 1998, while at the end of 1998 an early implementation was ready. In 1999, we started on the virtual amiga emulation to make the current AmigaOS available without requiring 68K hardware. The basic design goals behind MorphOS are - memory protection - resource tracking - asynchronous message system - low interrupt latency - virtual memory (optional) - distributed computing - symmetrical multi processing (SMP) - recursive memory management - task/thread and clan/chief model - clean design with an elegant API - micro/pico kernel mixture The developer release is planned for end of January. Minimum system requirements are - A4000 with CyberStorm PPC/604e and Symbios 770 SCSI - CyberVisionPPC - at least 32MB memory installed - Kickstart 3.1 (Version 40.68) and Workbench 3.1 or up Hardware requirements might change as soon as more hardware setups are tested and implemented. As the success of this project will also depend on your feedback/support, we suggest that interested developers visit our project webpage for a general MorphOS overview and information on how to join us to help. Feel free to enter the project webpage at http://www.morphos.de or http://www.morphos.ch
`27 Dec 1999` amiga-news.de	The amiga-news.de team wishes all readers a merry christmas! © Airbrush Paradise Tingler ARABIC: Saiid yom al-milaad wa senat jadiida ARMENIAN: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand AZERI-AZERBAIJAN: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun BASQUE: Zorionstsu Eguberri. Zoriontsu Berri Urte BULGARIAN: Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo. Tchestita Nova Godina CHINESE-CANTONESE: Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun CHINESE-MANDARIN: Kung Ho Hsin Hsi. Ching Chi Shen Tan CZECH: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok DANISH: Gl�delig jul og godt nyt�r DUTCH: Zalig Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar ESTONIAN: Roomsaid Joulu Phui ja Uut Aastat FINNISH: Hyv�� Joulua. Onnellista Uutta Voutta FRENCH: Joyeux Noel et heureuse Anne GAELIC-IRISH: Nollaig mhaith Dhuit Agus Bliain Nua F� Mhaise GAELIC-SCOT: Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur GERMAN: Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr GREEK: Kala Khristougena kai Eftikhes to Neon Ethos HAWAIIAN: Mele Kalikimake me ka Hauloi Makahiki hou HEBREW: Mo'adim Lesimkha HUNGARIAN: Boldog Karacsonyl es Ujevl Unnepeket ICELANDIC: Gledlig jol og Nyar INDONESIAN: Selamah Tahun Baru IRISH: Nollaig shona diobh IROQUOIS: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut Ojenyunyat osrasay ITALIAN: Buon Natale e felice Capo d'anno JAPANESE: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto KOREAN: Sung Tan Chuk Ha LATVIAN: Priecigus Ziemas Svetkus un Laimigu Jauno Gadu LITHUANIAN: linksmu sventu Kaledu ir Laimingu Nauju Metu LUXEMBURGHISH: Sch�in Chr�schtdeeg an dudden Rutsch an d'n�it Joer MANX: Ollick Ghennal Erriu as Blein Feer Die Seihil as Slaynt Da'n Slane Loght Thie NORSE-DANISH: Gledlig jul og godt Nytt Aar POLISH: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia i szczesliwego Nowego Roku PORTUGUESE: Feliz Natal e prospero Ano Novo RAPA-NUI (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua ROMANIAN: Sarbatori Fericite. La Multi Ani RUSSIAN: Pozdrevly ayu sprazdnikom Rozhdestva Khristova is Novim Godom UKRANIAN: Veselykh Svyat i scaslivoho Novoho Roku SAMOAN: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou SLOVAK: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok SERB-CROATIAN:Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina SINGHALESE (Ceylon/Sri Lanka): Subha nath thalak Vewa Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa SLOVENE: Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto SPANISH: Feliz Navidad y prospero Ano Nuevo SWEDISH: God Jul och ett Gott Nytt �r TAGALOG (Filipino): Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon TURKISH: Yeni yiliniz kutlu olsun WELSH: Nadolic Llawen. Blwyddn Newdd Dda
`27 Dec 1999` Andreas R. Kleinert by e-mail	SatTrack Colin Knight is looking for a year2000-compliant update for the satelite tracking program SatTrack (Aminet:misc/sci/SatTrack_v42.lha) or a comparable replacement. There has to be a German author involved in the program, but there is no e-mail address contained in the archive, and the contact information seems to be outdated. If someone is also interested in this area, or can provide further information, should please contact Colin Knight by e-mail (disabled right now, but it shouldn't be bounced), or with a quick phone call at +44-703-613855.
`27 Dec 1999` Steve Crietzmann in STA-ML	Official open-source AmigaOS development page There is now a developer's list for people who want to work as a developer to help build the future of AmigaOS! The list is for all those people who said "Yes, I will help you work on AmigaOS. I want to be part of the team that writes AmigaOS in the future." The list is for YOU. Please send a blank e-mail to: amigaos-dev-subscribe@egroups.com And you will be added to the NEW "AmigaOS Developers List". I would like to see as MANY of you there as possible. If, when AmigaOS goes Open Source, you want your name to to go up in lights as being on the first team of programmers, you can do that by joining the list above. This list is meant to discuss the "how" issues of developing AmigaOS, so that we are ready to go once we've got the source code. See also Press Release.
`27 Dec 1999` Stefan Ossowski by e-mail	Schatztruhe The team of Schatztruhe GmbH wishes you a merry christmas, and a quiet and happy time. Enjoy the quiet christmas day, and celebrate a great new year 2000.
`27 Dec 1999` Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail	NewInstaller v1.5 released The NewInstaller v1.5 has been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Numerous bugs have been fixed in this version, and some things improved. Merry Christmas to you!
`27 Dec 1999` Andreas Magerl by e-mail	APC & TCP Since Andreas is facing a prolonged visit to the hospital, the APC & TCP computer club will be unavailable from mid January to early March. During this time, neither e-mails, fax nor phone calls can be answered. The homepage will not be updated, either.
`27 Dec 1999` Martin Strobl by e-mail	COOL bits We wish all our customers (and all others too, of course) a merry christmas and a happy new year. I have one request: Drink as much as you want during these days, but please don't drink and drive!! THANKS. Please note: Between December 24th and January 3rd, our shop is closed. We are available again on Tuesday, January 4th. The special offers on our homepage will be updated. A list of new releases etc. will be posted shortly. Please note our changed shop times starting January 1st.
`27 Dec 1999` Andreas Magerl in ANF	APC&&TCP Starting immediately, the publisher and computer club APC&TCP can be contacted at the new e-mail address Andreas@chiemgau.org. The old address will be deactivated shortly.
`27 Dec 1999` Halil Ibrahim Tasova in ANF	JST version 2.9d Download: jst.lha
`27 Dec 1999` Kai Höltel in ANF	Amiga User Club Bautzen e.V. Amiga User Club Bautzen e.V. wishes a merry christmas for everyone. Read more on our homepage.
`27 Dec 1999` Markus Fellhauer in ANF	Frogger version 1.48 (beta) for PPC released Download: frogger_ppc_148.lha
`27 Dec 1999` Alexander Lohrmann in ANF	clickBOOM offers Quake sources for download clickBOOM has also released the Quake1 sources by ID Software. clickBOOM offers help for programmers wanting to do a PPC implementation. The best PPC versions will be offered for download at clickBOOM, with a note that owning the original game is required for the PPC version. Can someone clarify this: When ID Software officially releases the source code, and a programmer develops a PPC version from it, why is one required to own the original CD from clickBOOM? Or is there a difference between the sources from ID Software and clickBOOM? It would be nice if you would share your knowledge with us in the forum.
`23 Dec 1999` Jörn Plewka in ANF	Merry Christmas DCE, Gruner Bürotechnik and of course Katodev, too (Andreas, Stefan, Markus, Thorsten, Torsten, Rüdiger and Jörn) wish all Amiga users and visitors of this server a merry christmas. We, Katodev, will offer limited support for the next days. But please don't call us on the phone, but use e-mail. A word to go: Rather shut down once too often...
`23 Dec 1999` Ralph Torchia	Spitfire version 0.31 released Spitfire is a Palm desktop for Amiga (makes connection between Amiga and PalmPilot or similar small computers). With the latest version you can insert, edit, delete, create backups and more. Download: Spitfire.lha.
`23 Dec 1999` AmigaAMP	New AmigaAMP PlugIns New: Waves Of The Future v2.3 and Trance Tunnel v1.5.
`23 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	Descent II source code released "Matra Datavision, a subsidiary of the French technology company Aerospatiale Matra, has released its CASCADE Object Libraries under the label Open CASCADE as open source."
`23 Dec 1999` Society in ANF	Fake around A fake named "RSE-PRY2.LHA" is going around. It says it is a crack patcher, and destroys the floppies! The fake has been uploaded to all mailboxes! Beware!
`23 Dec 1999` Olaf Gröning in ANF	Multiterm Kit V5 The software Multiterm Kit V5 has been released for free download by TKR. Moreover, MultiFax V4 is also available for download. Download: multiterm_kit_5.lha Download: multifax_v4.lzh
`23 Dec 1999` Stefan Funke in ANF	Programmer for Realsoft 4D (Amiga) wanted! Realsoft announced the successor of Real3D on their homepage. The new version is called Realsoft 4D, and is currently only planned for Windows, sadly, since Realsoft has so far not found a programmer willing to implement such a demanding program for the Amiga. Should someone be interested, please contact barkholt@post3.tele.dk.
`23 Dec 1999` Ralf Vetter in ANF	VOICES Vol. 1 Drums available! Some time ago, Nightshift announced the production of a high-quality SoundCD series in the Amiga Special. The first CD of the "VOICES" series, containing first class drum sounds, is available from Nightshift starting immediately. Further details on the Nightshift homepage (Produkts/CD-Roms/). Some example drum loops are available for download.
`22 Dec 1999` D. Sessler in ANF	QUAKE 1 sourcecode released At planetquake.com (title link), under the news from December 21st it reads: "This is the complete source code for winquake, glquake, quakeworld, and glquakeworld."
`22 Dec 1999` AC-Forum [Ulf]	This is where IWin is stealing... We thought from the very beginning that IWin is a fake/hoax. Now, we read in the Amiga Club Forum a posting from Ulf, with a URL (title link) which confirms this anew. You find the plagiarism on the IWin coorporation website (see DatapakTM). Dear IWin crew, don't you think it's about time to come out ;-). The title "biggest hoax/fake of Amiga history" has been yours for quite some time already :-).
`22 Dec 1999` Epic Marketing	Simon The Sorcerer The number of pre-orders for Simon The Sorcerer II Amiga is currently at 156. So we have almost one third of the necessary pre-orders. The final game will run on AGA and gfx boards, and require a 68030 and 8 MByte RAM. You can place your pre-order online: order@epic-marketing.de
`22 Dec 1999` clickBOOM	S-Files Starting immediately, clickBOOM will tell what's new every month with their "S-Files". In the current S-File there are christmas and new-year greetings. Then, a new game for girls is announced: "Sarah goes shopping" - which turns out to be a joke from Sofia (author of the newsletter. In my opinion it wouldn't be bad to target people who don't like the shoot-em-up genre that much. (ps) Then, the newsletter announced what can be expected from the next ten days: Further details about the new game "Nightlong". A new project named TNT will be announced. A statement about PPC and future Amiga developments. A "crazy" offer: all clickBOOM games - if you do something for it (what will be told next time).
`22 Dec 1999` Atéo	Atéo News There is a new update for ateoser.device, new driver versions (serial and ethernet only with keyfile), new preferences versions (serial and parallel) and a new program telling you which installation status your system has, and generates keyfiles; all available from the download area. Atéo still works on the second scandoubler prototype. Work is making progress.
`22 Dec 1999` Titan Computer	NCodeR now cheaper
`22 Dec 1999` Total Vision	Frogger for PPC version 1.47 released Note from the author: Please beware that this is a version not yet finished, and probably unstable. In this case fall back to version 1.45. Download: frogger_ppc_147.lha
`22 Dec 1999` Peter Fischer by e-mail	AmiMasterGear version 0.8 released A new version of the AmiMasterGear (SEGA-Emulator) has been released, version 0.8, author: Joan Antonio Gomez Galves. Download: AmiMasterGear.lha
`22 Dec 1999` Heise [News]	Compaq licenses BeOS "Operating system company Be has given a 'Stinger' license to Compaq. This special version of BeOS is especially prepared for so-called Internet Appliances aside from the PC. If and when such a surf device will be presented to the market by Compaq was not announced by the computer manufacturer." CNet: Be, Compaq in software licensing agreement
`22 Dec 1999` AmigART	Amster v0.1 release 2 available Amster v0.1 release 2 is a freeware port of Napster MP3 search/download client, done by Gürer "Palpa" Özen. Download: amster.lha
`22 Dec 1999` V3	Search Central PlugIn for V3 version 3.02 released Download: vsearch_plugin_302.lzx
`22 Dec 1999` AMIGA	AMIGA International, Inc. on BCS India '99 From December 8 - 10, this year's TV- and Cable exhibition in New Delhi was held at 'Pragati Maidan' exhibition grounds. AMIGA, in cooperation with Rajan Electronics, demonstrated at their own booth how powerful the A1200 can be used in the TV- and Cable industry. In three days we sold more than a hundred machines, so the show was a full success.
`22 Dec 1999` Lázló Török	First demo of SavagePPC version 1.0 released Savage, the video driver for ShapeShifter (MAC emulator) is now available as PPC version. The driver supports 4, 8 and 15 bit, and is coded in 100% assembler. The shareware fee is USD 10 or 15 DM. Download: SavagePPC.lha
`22 Dec 1999` Steve Crietzman in SaveTheAmiga ML	Amigakernel.org A first draft of the Amigakernel homepage has gone online today. Praise, suggestions, comments and ideas for improvement please mail to Steve.
`22 Dec 1999` Arcadia	New demo of "Bubble Heroes" released The development status of the game is already at 91%, so we can look forward to another adventure game. Download
`21 Dec 1999` Marko Seppänen by e-mail	New Image Engineer tutorial and more Image manipulation software, Image Engineer's website now includes a 3-page tutorial explaining usage of alpha channel (masks). It's actually very easy when you know how. Image Engineer plugin, Visual Puzzle, has new puzzlepieces. And don't forget offer of the month at website of Visual Engineering.
`21 Dec 1999` Aminet [recent]	Aminet Uploads 21.12.1999
`21 Dec 1999` Czech Amiga News	Czech Amiga News SecondSpin v1.85 released SecondSpin is a new encoder that doesn't have to be started from Shell, but offers an easy-to-use GUI. For encoding the MPEG files, the packet relies on the LAME encoder. The audio tracks can be loaded directly from the Audio-CD, and converted to MPEG Audio files. AIFF and WAV files can be converted, with the conversion MPEG -> AIFF being possible too, with support for layer 1, 2 and 3. New: Now also supports conversion of Protracker, XM, S3M and Fasttracker modules to AIFF or MP3. Download. JST Version 2.9c In the new version of the Degrader and HD-Installer, the WHDload emulation has been fixed. Download: jst.lha USB for Amiga underway
`21 Dec 1999` ANN	TV-Logo v1.0 The Amiga Computer Club D.A.D. Kranj has released version 1.0 of TV-Logo. (This is the program for displying and controlling the logotype of TV station in the TV picture. Program is running on any plain Amiga. All you have to do is to get this program and a genlock.)
`21 Dec 1999` HydraBBS	The END for HydraBBS? The author of HydraBBS obviously lost his motivation. He took on a full-time job, and his A4000T also doesn't work as intended. He now thinks about leaving Amiga, and possibly learn Linux and Java, to participate in the FreeWorldBBS project.
`21 Dec 1999` Apex Designs	Status report and new screenshots of "Payback" Apex Designs opened up a mailinglist for Payback. You can subscribe here.
`21 Dec 1999` Michael Garlich by e-mail	Press release on Heretic 2 We have released first Amiga screenshots of Heretic2. You can get them under www.titancomputer.de/ami/heretic/index.html (title link). Screenshots taken from HereticII beta7 runing on A4000 060/PPC233 CVision.
`21 Dec 1999` Alexander Kurtz by e-mail	Aminet GUI update Alexander Kurtz writes: I applied some changes to the layout of the interactive area. You can now easily switch between areas. For technical reasons I cannot offer the chat room anymore! I am looking for a new system hopefully usable for Amiga browsers. If you sill want to chat, I can warmly recommend #miggy.de. It is available on de.arcnet.vapor.com. Try it. Moreover I want to announce that work on the reworked layout of the seperate directory pages is almost finished. I think I can put the expanded layout online starting next year. Since I am not at home from December 24th to somewhat around January 3rd, there won't be updates during this time. And since this update is the last one for this year, I want to wish all users a merry christmas, and a happy new year 2000. Thank you to all visiting my page regulary, and I hope you come back in 2000 to my Aminet GUI!
`21 Dec 1999` Markus Killian in ANF	Cybermagic 0.5.0 Starting with this version, the 3D module are available in WarpUp versions. A new 3D module is included as well as an Installer script for AmigaOS3.5. Download: Cybermagic.lha
`21 Dec 1999` Frank Fenn in ANF	Thor Version 2.6a - Y2K fix There is a Y2K bugfix for Thor. Download: thor26upd.lha
`21 Dec 1999` AmigArt	WarpMAME - Arcade Emulator for WarpUp Download: WarpMAMA_v0.36B11_v0.4.lha and/or WarpNeoMAME_v0.36B11_v0.4.lha
`21 Dec 1999` Michael Garlich by e-mail	CandyFactoryPro version 1.03b released In the download area the latest version of CandyFactoryPro is available for download. Changes since the last version. Download: CandyPro103b.lha
`21 Dec 1999` Oliver Wagner by e-mail	NetInfo II version 2.5 and MetalWEB4 pre.2 released Download NetInfo: netinfo_25.lzx Download MetalWEB: MetalWEB4_pre2.lha
`21 Dec 1999` Matthias Henze by e-mail	Followup to the statement concerning development of HSMathLibs Matthias Henze writes: In this statement I wrote that many users complained about bad support. It occured to me that many forums and mailing lists carried postings about the stormamiga.lib and the HSMathLibs. Obviously there are many questions on the subject, the answers of other users are however seldom close to the truth. Guesses, rumors, speculations and half-truths are spread, but almost nobody comes up with the idea to contact the author, me. I cannot know every forum and mailinglist. If you have a question, a comment, criticism etc., has to tell me, and not simply complain about bad support. Questions and comments on the subject please by e-mail to Matthias_Henze@CyberdyneSystems.de.
`21 Dec 1999` clickBOOM by e-mail	Nightlong is coming clickBOOM's Millennium Madness continues -- the biggest Amiga game ever will be ready very soon, so it's time to show you more of it. We have prepared the Nightlong movie trailer to whet your appettite while waiting for the game. It's a cool teaser to show what the game looks like in motion. Mind you, it's in low res, and not too long so it wouldn't take forever to download. You'll have to try to imagine it at 640x480 16-bit gfx and 16-bit sound. :) Full specs for Nightlong will be available in a few days.
`21 Dec 1999` Steven Flowers by e-mail	The nightmare starts in 2000 There will soon be a 10 MB trailer available from the website, and the February issue of "The Pulse" will carry an exclusive preview.
`20 Dec 1999` AWD [News]	CUCUG: The Status Register 12/99
`20 Dec 1999` AIDA	Transscripts of the IRC conferences during the HEW '99 During the Home Electronic World in Cologne on Saturday, November 13th, 1999, again IRC conferences were held with personalities from the Amiga szene. As last year on Computer '98, well-known companies and people all around the Amiga joined these conferences organised and moderated by members of the UGN (User Group Network).
`20 Dec 1999` Olaf Köbnik by e-mail	Amiga Arena News GeoWorld special at Amiga Arena! Probably the best geographic software GeoWorld is available for a special price from Amiga Arena. More details at the title link. Amiga Arena wishes all users a merry christmas!
`20 Dec 1999` Thorsten Dudai	New Caricature online - Merry Christmas...
`20 Dec 1999` Aminet [recent]	Aminet Uploads December 19th, 1999 - 2 Thomas Frieden has offered the source code for ADescent for download on Aminet. Download: ADescentSrc.lha. For matters of copyright please also read ADescentSrc.readme.
`20 Dec 1999` Peters Amiga Homepage	All Epson and Deskjet printer drivers updated All printer drivers for Epson and Deskjet printers have been expanded by several commands, improving the printing quality.
`20 Dec 1999` John Zacharias	AEMail Update Version 2.21 Download: AEMail221.lha
`20 Dec 1999` PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX	Update akMPEG version 3.06 (68k + PPC) Download: akMPEG2.lha
`20 Dec 1999` Ralph Torchia	PVS (Picasso Variable Setter) Update version 3.2 Download: PVS.lha
`20 Dec 1999` Markus Kühnen in ANF	Fake Warning! The latest Aminet upload of "VersionWB" (3.0) in util/sys is a fake. In the program itself, (probably) only the version number has been changed, the file has the same size as the current v2.12. The archive has been expanded by some "jokes". Håkan Parting, author of VersionWB, writes: If you have installed the fake version, please remove it again and replace the VersionWB command with the original. If the fake contains a virus is not yet known. Download the original: VersionWB2_12.lha.
`20 Dec 1999` Felix Schwarz	New fxPAINT plugin for connecting with other applications The new Stargate PlugIn allows to easily connect other graphics applications directly with fxPAINT. A PlugIn for Ultraconv NG and sample source code for developers is included. Download: stargate.lha.
`20 Dec 1999` AWD [News]	Compuquick x-mas offers
`20 Dec 1999` Visual Engineering	Visual Engineering News The website of Visual Engineering has been reworked. Aside from tutorials you can find new effects for Visual Alpha. Registered users of Visual Border can order Visual Alpha seperately.
`20 Dec 1999` Czech Amiga News	Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko by Carl Moppett
`20 Dec 1999` Czech Amiga News	Reworked REBOL documentation Download the REBOL documentation (hold down shift): manual.r
`20 Dec 1999` CyberGraphX	Survey At the CyberGraphX website there is a survey to judge interest in 3D glasses for Amigas with CyberVisionPPC or BlizzardVisionPPC. Results will be posted in a week or so.
`20 Dec 1999` Aminet [recent]	Aminet uploads December 19th 1999
`20 Dec 1999` Oliver Roberts	WarpJPEG.datatype version 44.2 Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha
`20 Dec 1999` Vapor.com	MicroDot I (not II) update version 1.18 Download: microdot1_18.lzx - 440 Kb
`20 Dec 1999` Thorsten Gehler by e-mail	Novia INS version 0.74.02 beta released A new version of the Open Source BBS System NOVIA is available from my homepage. The project is under GNU General Public License, so the source code is included in the archive. The program can be downloaded as lha archive at novia.lha. There now is a (simple) technical documentation for the program. Moreover, I am looking for programmers, documentation writers, translators and beta testers helping me to bring this project to "final" state.
`20 Dec 1999` StrICQ	StrICQ beta version 0.1653 released Download: STRICQ.lha
`20 Dec 1999` AmigArt	aNapster released aNapster is an Amiga client for the Napster "MP3 sharing protocol". Download: anapster-snapshot.lzx.
`20 Dec 1999` AmigaAMP	New PlugIn for AmigaAMP by Stian Strøm
`20 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	BoXeR survey results BoXeR 6z 58.6% BoXeR 4z 24.6% BoXeR 4 11.0% BoXeR 6 5.8% PCI Display Card 63.4% PCI SCSI Card 12.6% PCI Ethernet Card 8.4% PCI Toaster NT Card 7.8% PCI Sound Card 6.8% PCI Multi-Serial Card 1.0% You can still get a 50 USD discount by participating in the survey.
`20 Dec 1999` V3 Portal	New Search plugin for Voyager vsearch_plugin_301.lzx
`20 Dec 1999` Mikko Kallinen	Lambda - 3d space action game In his Lambda status report Mikko says that most basic functions of the new 3D engine have been defined and implemented in OpenGL. That "Descent: Freespace" will now be ported was a slap in his face, since he begun Lambda development because there were no up-to-date 3D space action games for Amiga. After he recovered from the initial shock, he is wildly determined to make Lambda better than its pendant. Does anybody know the e-mail address of Mikko Kallinen? If so, please send a short e-mail.
`20 Dec 1999` Foundation	Foundation Update 1.27 Beta testing of the latest update took longer than planned. Version 1.27 should work with all previous versions, older updates are not required. Download: FoundationUpd27.lzx
`20 Dec 1999` Yandiy in ANF	Win at Amiga-Online Starting today, you can win CDs from Amiga-Online. All you have to do is to collect enough links and mail them until January 15th, 2000.
`20 Dec 1999` Michaela Prüß in ANF	BUGFIX Installerscript VersCheck V2 Three days ago a bug sneaked into the VersCheckV2 Installer script. For those who didn't already fix the bug on their own: 1.) The fixed archive is on my homepage, and will soon be available from Aminet too. Download: VersCheckV2.lha 2.) Only available from my homepage is a second archive containing only the Installer script. Download: VersCv2Fix1.lha - 11 Kb. 3.) For those daring enough: In line 31 of the script, a ")" is missing at the end of the line - that's it. Somehow it got lost. The Installer message sais line 1163 or such, because the effect of the missing bracket is not recognized earlier.
`20 Dec 1999` Alex Kazik in ANF	scene-handler A new version of scene-handler has been put online yesterday. With scene-handler, you can mount and directly access MovieShop 4.2/4.3/4.8 scenes and projects. Download: scene-handler.lha. Please participate in this small questionaire about scene-handler. I am currently working on a version for MovieShop 5.2. This is also subject of the questionaire.
`20 Dec 1999` Han van Gelderen in ANF	Team AMIGA Central now online
`20 Dec 1999` Andreas Schaumlöffel by e-mail	HD-Crash Andreas Schaumlöffel writes: Due to a very stupid HD crash I lost all e-mail addresses I collected on my system. So all who know me, please send me a short mail with the usual data, so I can add you to my AB again. Additionally I lost the list of people having an e-mail abo of Amiga Phönix. You, too, please send me a short e-mail so I can set up the list again. APhönix.
`20 Dec 1999` Andreas Mayer-Gürr by e-mail	Amiga RC5 Team Effort News Andreas Mayer-Gürr writes: 1.) CSC: A new PC client, twice as fast as the old one, is available. 2.) RC5: An older 68k (beta) RC5 client is available, which does not support some details of the latest client (like status bar and statistics with Myzar), but is about 30% faster. I tried it and it works very well, my 68060 does about 148 kkeys/sec instead of the 117 kkeys it did before. If you only use the client for calculating, I did not encounter problems. So: 2a.) get blocks with the latest client 2b.) calculate blocks with the beta client 2c.) submit blocks with the latest client, and continue with 2a.)...
`20 Dec 1999` Jens Schönfeld by e-mail	X-Surf network cards delivered Jens Schönfeld writes: This morning, the X-Surf ethernet cards have been delivered to all distributors at the same time, a full week delayed. The delay of the delivery was however not due to technical problems, but due to my car accident: I was busy handling police, insurance and the company that towed away my car (by the way, anyone interested in a Volvo 850 crash car?). Since the cards will reach customers before christmas, however, I think I can be pardoned, can I?
`20 Dec 1999` Cloanto by e-mail	Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever Holiday Bundle: New ROMs & MP3s For all Amiga emulation enthusiasts who ever wondered what Workbench 1.0 looked like, or what the late Jay Miner, "Father of the Amiga", has to say in his own voice about the Amiga and other interesting issues, Cloanto just released the Amiga Forever Plus Pack, which contains new Amiga ROM, Workbench and MP3 audio files! The Plus Pack joins the Amiga Forever family of emulation and support products, which are officially licensed by Gateway's Amiga companies. Only for the next few days, the Online Edition of Amiga Forever 3.0 (stand-alone) and the Amiga Forever Plus Pack are available in a special holiday bundle for a special price. The Amiga Forever Holiday Bundle includes the Amiga Forever Online Edition package, with its preinstalled Amiga emulation environment (1.3 and 3.1 Amiga ROM and OS) and the Amiga Explorer networking software, plus the following new items, which are part of the Plus Pack: For download convenience, the items are archived in two files which can be downloaded separately, also with the help of an optional download wizard. It is always possible to resume an interrupted download, or to download the same file again at no additional cost. The Plus Pack is cross-platform, while Amiga Forever Online Edition is for Windows systems only. The Amiga Forever Holiday Bundle is available now from the Amiga Forever Home Page at http://cloanto.com/amiga/forever/ (title link) The Cloanto Team wishes all Amiga fans great holidays and a very happy New Year!
`20 Dec 1999` mailto:pnolan@cix.compulink.co.uk	Paul Nolan Ltd extends Photogenics 5th anniversary sale until December 25th. Paul Nolan would like to thank those who have purchased Photogenics for their support, and wishes everyone a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. For those who missed the sale details, they are as follows. Paul Nolan is offering the full version of Photogenics 4.x at a 25% discount. This brings the price down from $99.99 - to $75, or just $65 if upgrading from a previous version of Photogenics. The special is only available direct from Paul Nolan Ltd, either online at http://www.PaulNolan.com, or the StarByte order hotline on 1 800 243 1515, extension 400. Callers outside of North America should prefix this with their international dialling code for the US (for example dial 00 1 800 243 1515 from the UK).
`18 Dec 1999` Martin Baute	Translator wanted! Since the "restart" of the English pages of Amiga-News, the daily translations are a one-man-job again because Marek didn't respond so far. I am looking for users willing (long-term) to do German - English translations regulary of all news items appearing on a given day of the week (or two), and send them to me by e-mail. You don't need to know HTML well. If you can type <A HREF=""> and <OBJECT><UL><LI>, know the pop-up menu of your favourite browser and can handle a text editor, you qualify. :-) Oh, and you should be able to read (and understand) German. ;-) Those interested in supporting Amiga-News this way should contact me by e-mail.
`18 Dec 1999` amiga-news.de	amiga-news.de currently reworked We are switching the website completely to SSI (Server Side Includes). Therefore some links to subpages might not yet work perfectly. In this case, the "Home Button" does however always bring you back to the main page. We hope to finish the change tonight (December 17th). Tomorrow we will be back with the news.
`18 Dec 1999` Czech Amiga News	Czech Amiga News WarpJPEG.datatype for PPC This JFIF/JPEG datatype by Oliver Roberts is especially made for PPC users with WarpUP. Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha YAM mailinglist moved Since the current YAM mailinglist had spam problems, it has been moved. At the title link you can subscribe to the new list.
`18 Dec 1999` AA Audio Page	LAME beta version 3.58 released New LAME beta version 3.58! Lots of quality and bugfixes, various new options (filtercut-offs etc) ..new from earlier versions is the linking with mpglib and libsndfile which enables LAME to read mpeg audio files, 16/8SVX and many more... ;) Download: LAMEbeta.lzx - 440 Kb
`18 Dec 1999` Amiga Central	Amiga Game Music Album The Amiga music CD "Immortal" by Monteiro Music is now available.
`18 Dec 1999` Epic Marketing	Epic Marketing News Did you enjoy the charming adventures of little Simon as much as we did? Did you always hope for the successor to be ported to Amiga? Have you been mad because this great game was only available for PC? Now there is the opportunity to change this... Epic Marketing got the license to port Simon The Sorcerer II to Amiga. On the one hand, we are of course very proud to get the opportunity to port this great adventure to the Amiga. But with the latest ongoings at Amiga (Inc) we have to ask ourselves how many Amiga users at all are interested in a first class game? The license, the porting and the production of SImon The Sorcerer II won't be cheap. So we decided to do a pre-order campaign. We need 500 pre-orders to do Simon The Sorcerer II for Amiga. When we reach the 500 limit, the game should be available in 8 weeks. We will update the pre-order data on our homepage weekly. Simon The Sorcerer will run on all AGA or gfx board systems with 030 CPU and sufficient memory (about 8 MB fast). The game will only be released on CD. Please place your pre-orders here: Online: order@epic-marketing.de Tel: (+49) (0)8081 400492 Fax: (+49) (0)7071 400493 Snail Mail: Epic Marketing, Hirschauer Str. 9, 72070 Tübingen
`18 Dec 1999` Andreas Magerl in ANF	Amiga games wish list Andreas Magerl writes: On our homepage, area "Aktion", you'll find a form for entering your top 5 wish list for games on Amiga. The submissions are evaluated regulary, and published in each issue of Amiga Future and our homepage. Of course it only makes sense if enough users participate. The idea is to show coders and companies over a long timespan which games are wanted by Amiga users.
`18 Dec 1999` Michaela Prüß in ANF	AmigaOS 3.5 - self-made fix for broken AGA buttons Michaela Prüß writes: For all those who still have the problem with AWeb 3 SE (OS 3.5), or probably all other AWeb versions, too, that there are some colored dots instead of the buttons at the top: There is a way to fix it (already reported to amiga.de): Load images/def_buttons in a graphics program (I did it with PPaint). Expand the palette from 8 to 16 colors, and copy the 8 colors to the 8 new ones. Then adjust the first 8; it doesn't matter to what, but it must not be any of the original 8 colors. With PPaint, all you have to do is commiting a color adjustment, and the buttons look like before (almost, I had to swith RED and GREEN manually). Then cut it out (preferrably more precise than I did), and save it as imags/def_buttons (back up the original, you never know...). With the 16-color version it worked on first try, and I can finally see the buttons. If someone gets it done precisely, please send me a copy - I never got the hang to paint programs... Oh, yes, the 16 colors. Don't tell me you surf with 8 colors and it wouldn't work that way. If you surf the web with 8 colors, you should be used to looks like that... Dennis Gronewald followed up: There is an easy way to get rid of the gfx bugs in AWeb. Simply enter the image drawer of AWeb. Here you find the file "def_Buttons". Simply put braces around the "Transparent" tool type. Worked for me.
`18 Dec 1999` Andreas Etzrodt in ANF	New CD32 game Andreas Etzrodt writes: Good news: We recieved permission by Petro Tyschtschenko himself to offer CD32 games. Without license fees. Citing Petro: "Dear Andreas, we don't want to make money by that. As long as it is not commercial, it's free." Since we already distribute it as Shareware, luckily we don't face any additional costs. By the way, many have misunderstood our first announcement. Of course we don't want to release a commercial game, with pressed CDs including cover. We want to create a runnable CD32 CD with our own CD-R. Of course it will include a cover, but only a self-printed one. So interested CD32 owners can contact us, and probably place their pre-order. The CD will not cost more than 15 Euro, probably much less (we did not yet calculate what is possible). Oh, and for those who missed the first announcement: We talk about the Shareware game "SHARKS!", which is available as demo version from Aminet. Most likely it will be adapted to AGA, so the hardware performance of the CD32 is used. More details from: Andreas Etzrodt Hauptstr. 15 49835 Wietmarschen or by e-mail
`18 Dec 1999` Sascha Koebner in ANF	Source code for DESCENT 2 released! Sascha Koebner writes: At the title link, capable Amiga coders can download the source code for 'Descent 2' (by Interplay), and of course port it (!). 'Descent 2' is the successor of the successful 360 degree 3D shooter. The comparatively smart KI, and the heavily improved 3D engine compared to 'Descent 1' should be enough motivations for coders to try their skills at it. It seems to be the source code for the PC version 1.2.
`18 Dec 1999` Andreas Kleinert by e-mail	New ak-Datatypes You can now download akJFIF v44.60 (16.12.99), akPNG v44.60 (16.12.99) and akTIFF v44.60 (16.12.99) from the download page seperated by system.
`18 Dec 1999` clickBOOM by e-mail	clickBOOM auction FREE AUCTIONS FOR EVERYONE Starting today, and for the next 60 days, holding an Auction at clickBOOM's Amiga Auctions is absolutely FREE for everyone! There are no limits to what you want to sell, how many Auctions you want to hold or how long you want them running. Use all three types of Auctions, use photographs, layouts, all FREE ! GAME AUCTIONS But, that's FAR from everything. We want you to come every day and check the latest Auctions. Every day, for the next 15 days, we will auction one copy of each of our games! The highest bidder takes it, so you can walk away with a brand new clickBOOM game of your choice for as low as a few dollars !!! COMPARING CLICKBOOM AMIGA AUCTIONS TO EBAY Sure, eBay is the name in online auctioning, however, when it comes to selling Amiga goods, clickBOOM's Amiga Auctions are simply a better choice:
`18 Dec 1999` Ivo Janacek by e-mail	New FastATA / Powerflyer and FastATA4000 drivers Download: FastATA'99v50a27.lha EIDE'99v26a27.lha FastATA4000v15a27.lha
`18 Dec 1999` CCC-ML	16th Chaos Communication Congress HOWTO/FAQ 1.2 At the title link, you will find a detailed FAQ about the Chaos Communication Congress, which will take place on December 27th - 29th in the Haus Am Köllnischen Park (HAKP) in Berlin.
`18 Dec 1999` Haage & Partner	Haage & Partner News NoPiracy News Thanks to the help of Amiga.org, a new NoPiracy forum is online. It is open for all discussions on the piracy subject. For several weeks now there is a poll on the subject for the Amiga, as well as some new logos and banner on the NoPiracy site. Have a look at it, and place the logos on as many websites as possible. New STFax support Wolfgang Hosemann will do the e-mail support for STFax starting immediately.
`16 Dec 1999` Martin Baute	Oops... Yesterday I fumbled with EditPad (of AmigaOS 3.5), so the news update didn�t actualy made it to the web, which I found out only today. Have a look at the archive to make sure you did not miss anything important to you. Sorry. Oh, and 3.5 users, beware: If you open (with EditPad) a file "A", then insert a file "B", and then choose "Save", the result is saved as file "B", not "A" as you would expect. At least in my book. ;-)
`16 Dec 1999` StrICQ	StrICQ beta version 0.1646 released Download: STRICQ.lha
`16 Dec 1999` Internet Intern	Internet Intern: Short Break, Please! "According to a message by the Reuters news agency, the special commissionaire for the Y2K problem of the US government has asked the hacker scene for a short break." www.y2k.gov "'We have really enough to do on that weekend (...) If you want to point to security holes, why not the next weekend?'"
`16 Dec 1999` Haage & Partner	Haage & Partner News PageStream 4.0 Since the HEW 4 weeks ago, the new PageStream 4.0 is available for Amiga. The first patch will be released soon. STFax Pro 4.0 demo version For quite some time, a demo version is available for the new STFax Pro 4.0. Download: STFax4Demo.lha. STFax support wanted Haage & Partner is looking for someone who knows the product well or is willing to learn about it, for offering e-mail support. I am interested.
`16 Dec 1999` clickBOOM	clickBOOM with new layout clickBOOM offers T-zero for half the price to all who own any commercial shoot-em-up game.
`16 Dec 1999` Michaela Prüß in ANF	VersCheck V2 FINAL RELEASE Michaela Prüß writes: Starting immediately, VersCheck v2.19 (FINAL RELEASE) is available for download from my homepage. An Aminet upload has been submitted, it should be available there tomorrow. FINAL RELEASE, since I need the next version of VersCheck for my Install script project, so I finished everything important that was left open or undone, and created a last update release. The next version will therefore be v3 (assuming there are no necessary bugfixes to do). What has changed? To all who still have my Webjump homepage in their bookmarks: Due to the bad bandwidth and continuous server downtimes, I moved the pages to http://24.132.37.25/~Gateway/, a different, very fast "free web service" (for all still looking for such, have a look at http://24.132.37.25/index.html). The old address does however link to the current page. Since I wanted it to be easier, there are direct adresses to the pages (please only use these, web layout will change shortly).
`16 Dec 1999` Volker Grabbe in ANF	Metalweb 4 pre 2 Pre2 of Metalweb, a WYSIWYG HTML editor for Amiga, has just been released at vapor.com. A must-have for determined homepage maintainers who don't know HTML that much, or people like me who don't have so much time to code these things. Download: Vapor: MetalWEB4_pre2.lha or Aminet: MetalWEB4_pre2.lha
`16 Dec 1999` Jörn Plewka in ANF	Bad availability of KatoDev We, too, have been affected by the moving of one of the biggest providers (Xlink). The server responsible for our web pages (http), their maintenance (ftp) and e-mails (pop3) are either unavailable or offer only very low bandwidth. We ask for your patience, since we cannot switch providers fast enough. AMPlifier Version 2 has been released. Download: amplifier2.lha
`16 Dec 1999` Ralf Vetter by e-mail	mp3 input... You are always looking for mp3 input, e.g. for AmigaAMP. Who still remembers the rock legend "Birth Control" and their hit "Gammaray"??? A great remake of this song has been released for free download by the original artists at www.birth-control.de/CD-gammaray90.htm (title link). For rock fans a must-have, for techno fans a gateway to new dimensions... :-).
`16 Dec 1999` Thomas Frieden by e-mail	Hyperion ports Freespace to Amiga Hyperion is happy to announce that they have recieved the license to port the game "Descent: FREESPACE The Great War" by Interplay to Amiga. The game is a space combat simulator. The game will be ported by Hand-Jörg Frieden and Christian Sauer, and distributed by Titan Computers. The game is planned to be finished in second quarter 2000. Further details and screenshot.
`15 Dec 1999` Aminet [recent]	Aminet uploads until December 14th, 1999
`15 Dec 1999` Stefan Ossowski by e-mail	Aminet 34 CD-ROM released This time, a full version of AmiAtlas V4 is shipping with the 850 MB new since Aminet 33.
`15 Dec 1999` Alexander Kurtz by e-mail	AminetGUI Alexander Kurtz writes: Following a wish by Ingo Bowe, greetings to you, I expanded the upload list by a new function. This function allows changing the list sorting, which can now be done by date or directory. Also new is the server choice. By clicking on the country flag you can switch to the uploads of the according mirror server. This function is also available for the search function. For the other directories this is in the works. In the update of December 10th, I made an embarrasing mistake, which has already been fixed. However, I realized that some 4.x versions of Netscape Navigator do have problems with my target tags. I try to fix the problem as soon as possible. On this point, I want to mention my forum and my guestbook. Both can be found in the top bar at "Interactive". Tell me what you think of my page, or whatever you have to say about Amiga. I am looking forward to your posts.
`15 Dec 1999` Andreas Schaumlöffel by e-mail	Amiga Phoenix homepage We from Amiga Phoenix are still looking for people wanting to participate. We are a new online Mag, which, without your help, will possibly not "survive". If you want more info, come visit our homepage, or write me an e-mail to: Andreas@aphoenix.de.
`15 Dec 1999` John Haubrich by e-mail	TreeList source code released John Haubrich, too, has released the source code for almost all his programs. Download: www.kc.net/~johnhkc/amigasrc/ He writes: Nearly all of my Amiga source code has been released on my web page including source for the lovely TreeList MUI custom class. If you are planning to update TreeList, I have a few suggestions: Finally, I'm selling my A4000T on EBay (soon) which has all the source and more... P.S. If 100 people will send me $100,000 each, I'll continue developing for Amiga. ;-)
`15 Dec 1999` Dr. Maurizio Ciccione by e-mail	AudioLabs News ProStationAudio Version 2.50 will be available for a millenium special price. Further details at the title link.
`15 Dec 1999` IrseeSoft	Turboprint 7.09beta3 released New in Beta3: 1440dpi printing bug with BJC6000 fixed. Download: tp709beta3.lha
`15 Dec 1999` Kai Weber in ANF	Stefan Becker releases his Amiga program's sources Stefan Becker, author of ToolManager, UMSRfc etc., released all his Amiga source codes in Aminet. Download: dev/src/stefanb_src.lha
`13 Dec 1999` Marcus Klemm in ANF	New PPCLibEmu in Aminet In Aminet, there is a new version of the ppc.library for WarpOS at /util/libs/ppclibemu.lha.
`13 Dec 1999` AHI	Third beta version AHI-PPC In this version, Martin Blom has rewritten the PPC handling and added a 16bit DSP echo. Moreover, HIFI mixing subroutines have been implemented in m68k Assembler. Download: ahipre3.lha.
`13 Dec 1999` Thorsten Willert by e-mail	Problems with ImageFX 4.0 There is a problem with the latest versions of ImageFX 4.0 and 4.1 under AmigaOS 3.5. Cycle gadgets are not displayed! Obviously ImageFX cannot handle the chooser.gadget version of 3.5. Haage & Partner and Nova Design have already been notified by me. I have created a little patch in the meantime, patching ImageFX to make use of the chooser.gadget from the Aminet ClassAct demo, so the program is at least usable. The patch should appear in Aminet soon: gfx/ifx/IFX-patcher.lha. The patch and more information about it is available from my homepage (title link) under ARexx-Scripts. And one hint for ImageFX 4.0 CD: The installation cannot be started from CD, since the Installer icon and the script have different names. So copy everything to hard drive (about 8 MB), and then start installation.
`13 Dec 1999` Olaf Köbnik by e-mail	Amiga Arena News Amiga Arena CD-ROM survey to all PD/Shareware programmers! Since over a year now, the Amiga Arena homepage makes limited special prices and freely downloadable full versions available for Amiga users! Due to ever changing specials and a collection of continuously updated links to Amiga programs / products, Amiga Arena offers a big choice of informations from the active Amiga world to the user. The Amiga Arena CD-ROM is scheduled for release in spring 2000! The CD-ROM will contain the Amiga Arena homepage with it's links, demo versions, shareware and PD software! It will give an overview about the still active developments to the (German) user. I want this CD-ROM to be different from the usual shareware CD-ROMs, offering a comprehensive, informative and up-to-date overview about Amiga programs / products. To achieve this, I need your help! Please request further information from olaf.koebnik@online-club.de. Thank you for your attention!
`13 Dec 1999` Benjamin Dauhrer in ANF	PowerOS homepage now also available in English Starting today, the English version of the PowerOS homepage is online. For more information about PowerOS follow the title link.
`13 Dec 1999` Sven Kahlbrock in ANF	Free web design for Amiga users Sven Kahlbrock writes: Free :-) You have a private homepage somehow concerning Amiga? I will create a design for you for free, according to your wishes. You'll only have to write your pages and bring them online. If you'd encounter troubles or just have questions, I will happily help you - all for free. Only a link telling that the design was made by me, that would be nice, but is not required. For more informations or questions please write me an e-mail.
`13 Dec 1999` Felix Schwarz in ANF	New ANet 1200 homepage For the successful PCMCIA ethernet card ANet 1200, pictures and technical specifications are available starting today.
`13 Dec 1999` Alex Kazik in ANF	Wipeout2097 HighScore At the title link there is a HighScore list for Wipeout2097. Everyone can enter his best times. Oh, and the Wipeout2097 Demo (3.8 MB) is now available for download from AmigaExtreme: Wipeout2097_Demo.lha.
`13 Dec 1999` Markus Schmidt in ANF	ICQ user list Markus Schmidt writes: I am planning to post an ICQ user list, including online status and system used, to my homepage. Therefore my call to all ICQ users: If you are interested in being listed there, please write me a mail with "Your Name, Nick, ICQ-UIN, City, System (Amiga, PC, Mac, ...)" and a short note if you want the status to be shown or not. Regarding the online status, please remember this can be disabled in your ICQ program. So it's up to you if and when the status is shown.
`13 Dec 1999` Andreas Etzrodt in ANF	New Amiga CD32 game Andreas Etzrodt writes: Hello CD32 owners! Aren't you upset that there aren't even "simple" new games for your system? There you are owning an "Amiga compatible" console and cannot access all games... Solution: home made! We (Christian Steiner and myself) succeeded in burning the Shareware game "Sharks!" (coded by Christian, demo on Aminet) to CD and make it run on an Amiga CD32. This is owed to Michael Ulbrich, who gave me many hints. Due to his help, it worked on first try. Many thanks to Michael! Why I am writing this? I would like to know if there is interest in expanding this game as CD32 version. I mean if noone would want the game, it isn't worth the time to "pep it up". And there are license issues to clarify. You need a "Trademark File", which had to be licensed from Amiga (at least in Commodore times). I will write to Amiga Int. if this is still necessary, and how much it would cost. So write me if you are interested in a CD32 version of Sharks!. Besides, Sharks! does not have to be our last game for CD32. We can of course release other (self written) games in CD versions. But as I said before, clarify the license issues and judge interest in this. (You can already contact me anyhow.) E-mail: the_shark@gmx.de.
`13 Dec 1999` Nils Görs in ANF	ToolsMenu and Hotkey Editor Nils Görs writes: Version 1.1 is finished now and should be available for download from the following URLs within the next days: Title link, and web.ukonline.co.uk/awnpipe/. I also uploaded T.H.E. to the Paderborn Aminet server, it should be available there at util/wb/THE.lha.
`13 Dec 1999` StrICQ	StrICQ beta version 0.1637 released Download: STRICQ.lha
`13 Dec 1999` Fun Time World	Perfect Paint version 1.2 released With version 1.2, a beta version supporting 24bit pictures is shipped. Version 1.2 can only load 256 color pictures. Download: PfPaint.lha
`13 Dec 1999` AWD [News]	National Amiga announces MK/2 keyboard adapter for A2000 / A3000 With the new adapter you can connect standard keyboards and mice to your Amiga 2000 and 3000.
`13 Dec 1999` AmigaCentral [News]	BoXeR poll The BoXeR is comming. To be able to make better plans for the first production run, AntiGravity is commiting a survey which models are preferred. Those participating in the poll get a 50 USD discount on all BoXeR systems. BoXeR specifications
`13 Dec 1999` AmiDog	AmiGenerator update version 1.10 (PPC only) Download: AmiGenerator110.lha
`13 Dec 1999` AmigaAMP	New PlugIns by Stian Strøm "Waves Of The Future" has been improved, "Dude Rock" and "Trance Tunel" are new. Download from the PlugIn page.
`13 Dec 1999` Haage & Partner	AmigaOS Developer Network and support for ImageFX AmigaOS Developer Network has been created as a service to supply a group of developers with the latest informations about AmigaOS. To our regret, the number of members is limited. You can apply here. E-mail support for ImageFX is now the responsibility of Gunnar Gertzen, long-standing ImageFX user. He is already working on a German localization and manual, too. More details on this to follow shortly.
`13 Dec 1999` Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail	New NewInstaller v1.4 themes Three new themes for NewInstaller have just been published on the Airsoft Software homepage: Amiga Theme, Outa Space Theme and Windows98 Theme. Amiga Theme is a theme in Amiga look, with Boing ball etc.. Outa Space theme is meant for all space freaks since it contains some "spacy" graphics and sounds. And the Windows98 theme gives installations with NewInstaller look like Windows installations. All themes are available for download from the Airsoft Software homepage.
`13 Dec 1999` Marko Seppänen by e-mail	New Image Engineer PlugIn Visual Border grows and splits as 2 separate plug-ins. Visual Alpha is that new plug-in. It allows you to create grey alpha masks, which you, after once calculated, can keep and composite with other images later. For people, who are not familiar with alpha masks; Think about a stamp or actually it's edges. This plug-in can create you a stamp shaped image and mask with smooth edges. You can then composite it to a bigger image. Ofcourse there are other more complex effects, than simple edge effects. This could be great tool for one, who is creating graphics for video. Visual Card-plug-in also will soon benefit from Visual Alpha. OFFER OF THE MONTH Register Visual Border for Image Engineer and get Visual Alpha for free. This could be very good christmas present for somebody. However last day to order is 9. January 2000. So, if you next morning after change of millennium, find couple of wrinkled bucks from you pocket... Remember that all minor and major updates of registered plug-ins will always be free for you. Already registered users of Visual Border will get version of Visual Alpha with few effects for free. Just for being good customers. Visual Engineering is a powerful collection of plug-ins, scripts and graphical material for shareware image manipulation program, Image Engineer. Plug-ins bring new features to Image Engineer, what even by itself can do lots of image manipulation tricks. All the plug-ins are controlled by user friendly GUI. With couple of mouse clicks, you can do heavy image manipulation. Logos? Click. Frames around image? Click. Most of the plug-ins are free. Some of them aren't. I'm sure the few graphical examples at new website of Visual Engineering should convince you. You can however try demoversions of non-free plug-ins. Online shopping is possible by a credit card. INTERNET Visual Engineering website wwnet.fi/users/smarko/visual/ Image Engineer website www.amigaworld.com/support/imageengineer/ EMAIL Marko Seppänen marko.seppanen@wwnet.fi
`13 Dec 1999` Andreas R. Kleinert by e-mail	"Elite" source code released The authors of the classic space trading and combat simulation "Elite" have released the source code for the game on it's 15th anniversary. Full press release at the title link.
`11 Dec 1999` AntiGravity	AntiGravity.com BoXeR Survey and Discount Offer AntiGravity.com announces it's BoXeR survey. Planning for the first production runs of the new Amiga is underway and Anti Gravity Products needs to know which models will be needed the most as the production begins. Anti Gravity Products offers each household involved in the survey $50 off one BoXeR system purchased between now and 90 days after shipping commences. For those that have not already done so, check out the BoXeR Specs for the latest specifications. These specs are the latest we have in writing and come directly from the designer himself. Remember, you can still build your own BoXeR with a few clicks of the mouse at our Build-A-BoXeR page featuring instant update techonolgy.
`11 Dec 1999` Paul Nolan Ltd.	Paul Nolan Ltd celebrates 5th anniversary of Photogenics Photogenics 1.0 was launched five years ago today at the World of Amiga show in London. To celebrate, Paul Nolan is offering the full version of Photogenics 4.x at a 25% discount. This brings the price down from $99.99 to $75, or just $65 if upgrading from a previous version of Photogenics. The special offer will run from the 10th through to the 17th of December, and is only available direct from Paul Nolan Ltd, either online at http://www.PaulNolan.com, or the StarByte order hotline on 1 800 243 1515, extension 400. Callers outside of North America should prefix this with their international dialling code for the US (for example dial 00 1 800 243 1515 from the UK).
`11 Dec 1999` Ulrike Hambuch in ANF	WBInfo 3.0 - not enough interested so far Some weeks ago, we issued a request for people interested in a v3 version of WBInfo to contact us and answer the following questions: So far, we recieved only 9 mails. That's a little frustrating. If you are interested, please contact us. If a minimum of 20 announces interest in a Shareware version, we start development.
`11 Dec 1999` Czech Amiga News	Gateway unveils Linux-based server 'appliance' Gateway Micro Server 100
`11 Dec 1999` A/NES	A/NES CGFX v1.16 emulator for Amiga released Download: anescgfx.lha - 84 Kb
`11 Dec 1999` Czech Amiga News	Czech Amiga News SoundFX version 3.82 released Turboprint 7.09beta2 with new drivers for BJC1000, BJC2000, BJC6000 and BJC7100 Nova Design and Newtek announce millenium pack for Toaster / Flyer Support Open Source AmigaOS Survey with your entry Amiga Survivor Magazine issue 8 released ICQ Pager v0.1 - first public release
`11 Dec 1999` CCC-ML	16th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, December 27th-29th 1999 Hello friends of chaos, you always try your best, but that's how things are going: You had to wait until the last second for the website and the FAQ. That's over now. With the next mail, the complete FAQ will be going down the Chaos Update. Click the title link for info. But now for the Congress: just as last year, the Congress is taking place in Berlin, house Am Köllnschen Park. Those who attended last year will easily find their way, since we are planning only minimal changes. The rooms are changed only slightly, the important parts (lecture rooms and hack center) will be as usual. The press rule has been simplified, and one achievement from the camp or another can be found on the congress. Have a look at the projects. Perhaps there is something in there for you. If you are planning to join the congress with an interesting project of your own, contact orga. Otherwise we wish you and ourselves a relaxed congress, and most important much fun at the systems. The chaos at the end of the so-called millenium
`11 Dec 1999` Ivo Janacek by e-mail	New drivers for FastATA/PowerFlyer and 4xEIDE The new drivers now also support AmigaOS 3.5. Download: FastATA'99v50a26.lha EIDE'99v24a26.lha FastATA4000v14a25E.lha
`11 Dec 1999` Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail	New christmas Rainboot configuration Two new special christmas configurations have just been released on the Airsoft Softwair website. For one ChristmasBoot with a lighted xmas tree and nice christmas music, and CocaCola Christmas Boot with original music from the ad. A must-have for those wanting to bring christmas feelings to their Amigas!
`11 Dec 1999` Norman Thiel in ANF	Realtime MPEG1 encoding with Paloma Norman Thiel writes: Paloma users watch out: The programmer of the super-fast PaloAVI and Moovid has marked another milestone. It is now possible to create MPEG1 videos with Paloma. More at the title link.
`11 Dec 1999` AmigaAMP	Flutter PlugIn update v1.1 Download: FlutterPlugin11.lha
`11 Dec 1999` Rainer Benda in ANF	Amiga Int. NOT retailer of OS 3.5 The Amiga Plus issue 1/2000 wrote about Amiga Int. selling OS 3.5 for 50,87 Euro. This is not correct. Amiga Int. is selling OS 3.5 only to distributors and retailers.
`11 Dec 1999` Czech Amiga News	Delfina Plus in production again Since a hardware problem has been solved, production of the DelfinaPlus cards has been restarted. The soundcard should be available again before christmas.
`11 Dec 1999` NewsRog	New multipart script for NewsRog from Stephen Bridges Download: NewsRog_Scripts.lha
`11 Dec 1999` Czech Amiga News	SecondSpin: New MPEG audio solution SecondSpin is a new encoder which does not need being started from the shell, but offers a simple to use GUI. To encode MPEG files, the package relies on the LAME encoder. The audio tracks can be loaded and converted to MPEG audio files directly from the audio CD. AIFF and WAV files can be converted, with MPEG -> AIFF conversion being possible, and support for layer 1, 2 and 3. The necessary track informations can be requested from www.cddb.com. Download from the title link.
`11 Dec 1999` CNet [News]	CNet: Gateway founder Waitt expected to drop CEO role CNet: Gateway founder Waitt will step down as CEO "The founder of the PC distributor Gateway, Ted Waitt, has stepped back from his position as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and withdrawn to member of the board. He explained, however, that he will continue to influence the company strategy. Successor, starting January 1st, will be Jeff Weitzen, who is also holding the position of President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Before joining Gateway in January 1998, Weitzen was working 18 years for AT&T, last being responsible for 24 million dollars turnover as Executive Vice President. Weitzens goal is to make money with software and services all around comuters in addition to selling PCs; e.g. by seling systems bundled with internet access.
`11 Dec 1999` Steven Alive by e-mail	Whales Voyage II released on CD Alive Mediasoft has released the game Whales Voyage II on CD. Screenshots and further details at the title link.
`11 Dec 1999` Futurezone	Futurezone: search engine AllTheWeb faster and more prudish AllTheWeb is a new, super-fast search engine. "Fast Search & Transfer, provider of internet search products and services, has released a new version of FAST Search, which is also powering the AllTheWeb search engine. The new FAST Search is designed to give especially relevant results to the user based on newly developed algorithms. Based on a database of over 400 million visited documents, the search is conducted in a new catalog of 210 million websites."
`11 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	AmigaFanatic! website online again :-)
`11 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	Top 50 of Amiga games Help finding out which have been the 50 greatest Amiga games ever, by entering your favourite 10 in the form.
`11 Dec 1999` Andreas Falkenrath by e-mail	Britney Spears theme for NewInstaller Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: The first theme for NewInstaller v1.4 has just been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. It is a Britney Spears theme (due to the big success of the Britney Spears Rainboot theme...). I suggest everyone who wants to have a look at the new features of NewInstaller v1.4 to download and install the theme. It's worth it!
`11 Dec 1999` GNN	GNN: Met@box enters digital satelite TV market "The Met@box AG has took over the Amstrad Distribution GmbH completely, which has offered a broad spectrum in the satelite reciever area in the German language countries for years. Moreover, Amstrad offers a comprehensive product line of TV supplements under the label Technowelt."
`11 Dec 1999` Aminet [recent]	Aminet uploads until December 8th, 1999
`11 Dec 1999` Achim Stegemann in ANF	Digital Almanac II Update Version 1,7,7 The ultimate update for the reknown astronomy program "Digital Almanac II" has been released. This update removes all previous bugs in the programm, which appeared after version 1.7.2. This update is for users of the Aminet version as well as for the CD-ROM version. Aside from the bugfixes, the update offers many cosmetic improvements and some new usefull features for programm control.
`08 Dec 1999` KATO	Melody Driver Update v2.12 and Amplifier Update v2.01 Download: melody.lha Download: amplifier2.lha
`08 Dec 1999` Heise [Newsticker]	Sun announces Java 2 for Linux "Sun has just announced they will offer an own Linux version of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE). So far, official statements said that Sun supports the Blackdown Porting Team in its efforts in a port to the free operating system. The driving force behind this change of mind is probably the company Inprise, which plans to add the J2SE to their JBuilder announced for the beginning of the next year, and added manpower to the port. Starting immediately, a preview version (Release Candidate 1) can be downloaded from Suns developer site (free registration required)."
`08 Dec 1999` Amigart	3dfx Open Sources Glide API And Releases Hardware Specifications "3dfx Takes Leadership Position in 3D graphics for Linux SAN JOSE, Calif.- Dec. 6, 1999 - 3dfx Interactive� Inc. (NASDAQ: TDFX) today announced that the company is Open Sourcing its Glide� application programming interface (API) and releasing hardware specifications for all its currently shipping 3D hardware accelerators. By Open Sourcing Glide and releasing the specifications, 3dfx is enabling software developers and the Open Source community to better develop, support, and maintain drivers for 3dfx products across a variety of delivery platforms. Moving forward, 3dfx will focus its internal efforts on developing the industry's best Direct3D and OpenGL hardware platforms." Full article at the title link.
`08 Dec 1999` Amigart	New RamDisk Image for LinuxPPC99 installation for PPC Amiga released Download: apus-lp-ramdisk.image991206.gz
`08 Dec 1999` Haage & Partner	New maintainers for 3DWorld and PPCWorld at H&P H&P is happy that new maintainers could be found for the important web areas PPCWorld and 3DWorld could be found. Stefan Funke will look after the PPCWorld and Robert Konrad after the 3DWorld starting immediately. H&P would wellcome you supplying the two with data to bring the software lists up to date. PPCWorld and 3DWorld. Winners of the H&P action were Carole Jadoulle from Belgium and Michael Malyshew from Russia. The action continues, visitor number 535,353 and 555,555 are the next to win.
`08 Dec 1999` ttf.library - Truetype for Amiga	ttf.library v0.8.2 released
`08 Dec 1999` Peters Amiga Homepage	New driver for HP Deskjet 670/870 The UAE FAQ has also been updated.
`08 Dec 1999` Stuart Walker by e-mail	Wipeout 2097 demo available Download: Wipeout2097_Demo.lha - 3.8 MB
`08 Dec 1999` Michael Burkhadt by e-mail	Press info: New address IOM Since Monday, IOM Film- und Videoproduktion Hof has a new address. You can contact us at the Pensum group, a marketing and communications agency in Hof. Please note the following in your papers: IOM Film- und Videoproduktion Ossecker Strasse 174 D-95030 Hof/Saale Phone: 09281-7676-990 Fax: 09281-7676-950 Mobile: 0171-3296371
`08 Dec 1999` Javosoft by e-mail	New FastATA/PowerFlyer driver version 1.4 Download: FastATA4000v14a25E.lha
`08 Dec 1999` Kristian Katzenstein in ANF	Great Nations Demo 1.5.0 released At the title link, Great Nations 1.5.0 can be downloaded as Amiga- and PC-version. The PPC version is worked upon. New screenshots of the game are also available.
`08 Dec 1999` Remco Weg in ANF	ASM-One v1.42 released A new RTG beta is also available.
`08 Dec 1999` Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail	NewInstaller v1.4 released The long awaited update for NewInstaller has finally been released. In version 1.4 there are many new features, and some bugs have been removed. NewInstaller v1.4 now supports over 15 different languages. The first themes will also be released soon. Download: NewInstaller1_4.lha
`08 Dec 1999` Carsten Schröder by e-mail	AMIGA aktuell 12/99 online
`08 Dec 1999` Hâle;kan Parting by e-mail	VersionWB 2.12 released BUGFIX: The change in v2.11 with the TEXT argument broke a few scripts, e.g. VersionCopy.dopus distributed with VersionWB. Those scripts should now work again. NEW: VersionComp.dopus5 script for Dopus 5.5+ was added to the distribution. It was made by Wolfgang Breisch. BUGFIX: Fixed problem with XPK-packed files that could not be unpacked, due to missing resources. Download: VersionWB2_12.lha
`08 Dec 1999` John Chandler [Suite.101]	We're In This Together Now (Part II)
`08 Dec 1999` Jan Andersen by e-mail	xvs.library v33.19 released Here is some great news the xvs.library has just been updated. But the programmer has changed, Here is a little cut from the doc: The entire XVS software package is written and copyright � 1997-99 by Georg Hörmann. Additional changes and updates during December 1999 and onwards are copyright � 1999 Alex van Niel. Alex van Niel has the permission from Georg Hörmann to update the XVS package and make any adjustments Alex van Niel thinks are necessary. Georg Hörmann can NOT be held responsible for any changes Alex van Niel made. Well, good news. Now lets get back to the library, here are some info: Name.. : Xvs.Library v33.19 Archive name.. : xvslibrary.lha Archive size.. : 50.404 bytes Release date.. : 4 December 1999 Programmer.. : Alex van Niel
`08 Dec 1999` Stefan Funke by e-mail	ScanQuix 5 with WarpUp As being informed by rbm, the latest version of the scanner driver offers PPC support with WarpUp. The ScanQuix package is distributed on CD-ROM. The hardware present is detected during installation, and the corresponding drivers are installed.
`08 Dec 1999` Robert Wahnsiedler by e-mail	Vote: Which future Amiga hardware sollution do you favor? This vote is for judging which hardware Amigians want for the future!
`08 Dec 1999` Felix Schwarz in ANF	New 10MBit Ethernet card for A600 / A1200 Felix Schwarz writes: The ANet 1200 is a 10MBit Ethernet card for the Amiga, which can be used in the PCMCIA-port without opening the case. The necessary SANA-II driver for the Amiga and a workshop for establishing a connection between Amiga and PC are included. The ANet 1200 is available immediately.
`08 Dec 1999` Markus Fellhauer in ANF	StrICQ beta version 0.1631 released Download: STRICQ.lha
`08 Dec 1999` Chris Hodges in ANF	New Deli14BitGenie version 4.20 online Chris Hodges writes: Here just a short notice that yesterday I finished a new version of the well-known Deli14BitGenie for DeliTracker, and uploaded it to my homepage. The main improvements in the update are the finally font sensitive GUI (surely many will be happy about this), seperate Base & Trebble filters for the DSP, and many bugfixes. Have fun and a merry christmas, and if everything goes well, we will see again next year :)
`08 Dec 1999` rAMBOY in ANF	wARPgATe open again Starting January 1st, wARPgATe will again report about all activities in the WOS/W3D area. So please be a little patient.
`08 Dec 1999` Sebastian Hübner in ANF	Phase5: G4 boards in first quarter 2000, with AGP-slot Sebastian Hübner writes: Today I got mail from Phase5: The G4 boards will be coming in first quarter 2000, and with an AGP slot on-board. The CyberVisionNG will therefore be based on NVidia, 3Dfx or ATI chips. Due to the standard slot, it will be possible to offer LinuxPPC as an alternative to QNX Neutrino OS. The delay is due to the unavailability of the Motorola MPC107 controller chip and delivery schedules for G4/400 MHz not being met (see also news of October 26th, 1999). Sadly there are no news on this subject on the Phase5 website. (ps)
`06 Dec 1999` Thorsten Hansen in ANF	AMPlifier 2.0 released Enhancements: Please, use only hansen@katodev.de aside from support@katodev.de. The old address is dead.
`06 Dec 1999` Markus Fellhauer in ANF	StrICQ beta version 0.1603 released Download: STRICQ.lha
`06 Dec 1999` Aminet [recent]	Aminet uploads until December 3rd, 1999
`06 Dec 1999` AmigaRealm	AmigaRealm.com On our daily web surfing session, this nice Amiga portal site has caught our eye. Easy-to-navigate, Amiga users can find links about every subject around Amiga. Aside from the very well sorted links, extraordinary websites are presented seperately. The site, aside from many own information pages, also offers help and support. An all-around well made website :-) (ps)
`06 Dec 1999` Alive Mediasoft	Goal2000 As reported before, the soccer game has been already released. At the title link, there are now also screenshots and a downloadable demo available. Download Demo: goal-demo.dms - 234 Kb.
`06 Dec 1999` NewTekniques	NewTekniques: Online issue December 1999 This issue has a special about Startrek.
`06 Dec 1999` AmiDog	DarcNES / Amiga update 991202 Download: dn991127b.lha
`06 Dec 1999` Torsten Dudai	Caricature Title: The grave-digger is working again. 1994 Commodore, 1996 Escom. 1999 Gateway? ;-) (mb)
`06 Dec 1999` Robert Nyberg by e-mail	Candy Factory Central website updated Version 1.03 is finished, but due to holiday at MotionStudios cannot be offered for download yet. The Casablanca version of Candy Factory as also making good progress. More informations about the development can be found at the titlelink, "News" section.
`04 Dec 1999` Czech Amiga News	Payback News The Apex Designs website has a new, clear layout, and a new status report is online.
`04 Dec 1999` Czech Amiga News	FastATA / Power Flyer driver At Javosoft, new versions of the driver software for the ELBOX FastATA (PowerFlyer/Winner) High Speed EIDE Controller for A1200 and A4000 have been released. Download: FastATA'99v49a25.lha - for A1200 FastATA4000v13a25.lha - for A4000
`04 Dec 1999` Andreas R. Kleinert by e-mail	PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX: Online registrations cheaper Andreas R. Kleinert writes: Since RegNet has lowered the fees for online registrations, we are able to do the same. Please have a look at www.ar-kleinert.de/regnet_e.html and find out about all the things that became cheaper!
`04 Dec 1999` Ulrich Hambuch in ANF	WBInfo 3.0?! Ulrich Hambuch writes: To all WBInfo users, and users of the MUI Scalos Information Module. Before we undergo writing a new version of WBInfo, which is really meant to be a major update, we want to know: WBInfo is the best Info replacement for AmigaOS so far, and if you want development to continue, contact pixar@gmx.net or eric@tro.net.
`04 Dec 1999` NordicGlobal	Holger Kruse goes REBOL Holger Kruse writes: There will be some changes at Nordic Global for the year 2000. In a nutshell: For the full announcements please see www.nordicglobal.com/ng2000.txt and www.nordicglobal.com/ngoutages.txt. Holger Kruse kruse@nordicglobal.com
`04 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	More informations about Sonnet QuadDoubler
`04 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	Immortal CD can be preordered The Amiga game music collection contains the full soundtrack of "Shadow of the Beast", and music from many other great Amiga games. The CD will be released on December 9th, 1999. Preorders are accepted.
`04 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	InfraBox Infrared hardware module available for Amiga Since this module is also capable of recieving infrared signals, so you can remote control your Amiga as well as the usual devices like stereo and television.
`02 Dec 1999` Jens Schönfeld by e-mail	The Winner is... As promised, the winner of the network card X-Surf is announced by individual computers today. The goal was to find out the release week of the X-Surf by calling your favourite retailer. Since there were many correct submissions, chance decided. The Winner is... Ralph Moser Ralph Moser has already been notified, and will recieve a X-Surf next week together with all retailers. Congratulations!
`02 Dec 1999` R. Saake by e-mail	2IDs-iNETstore At the title link a new site is available for Amiga users. It is constantly expanded. At the 2IDs-iNET store, you can order our first two CDs "WATERWAVE" and "AURICULAR CONFESSION". The CDs are of course 100% Amiga produced, with SYMPHONIE PRO and DIGIBOOSTER PROF.
`02 Dec 1999` Andreas Frank in ANF	Modify Logitech mouse for Amiga mouseport Andreas Frank writes: I have written a short tutorial how to modify the great Logitech Pilot mouse to fit directly into the Amiga mouseport, without additional hardware or drivers. You can download the tutorial from the title link (not very nice so far, but it's a beginning).
`02 Dec 1999` Michael Jaccoud in ANF	AmigaNation server breakdown Michael Jaccoud writes: Today, December 1st, at about 4:00 PM, our server suffered from technical breakdown (Y2K bug?). All major protocols are affected (FTP, Mail, HTTP), so the site is unavailable for now. We hope that AmigaNation will be online again by noon, December 2nd. Mails being send to us on December 1st are lost, so please try again...
`02 Dec 1999` Haage&Partner	H&P awaits visitor 500.000 To celebrate this, there is a price to win. H&P will give away a software package from their portfolio. Visitor number 535,353 and 555,555 will get this price. Have a look at their homepage.
`02 Dec 1999` Oliver Hajduk in ANF	LinuxPPC5 Installer available At ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/projects/apus/install/redhat, the ramdisk image apus-lp-ramdisk.image991127.gz is available. It is a beta version however! Of course, the LinuxPPC-CDs from olliweb.de are automatically updated after extensive testing.
`02 Dec 1999` Kai Hofmann by e-mail	CheckHTML 1.6 CheckHTML 1.6, the freeware HTML checker for the Amiga, has been expanded by Hofmann Software Engineering International, so it can now also process Server Side Includes. More information at the title link, which also offers the archive for Aminet download.
`02 Dec 1999` StrICQ [History]	StrICQ beta version 0.1578 available Download: STRICQ.lha
`02 Dec 1999` NordicGlobal	Update: ClassAct GUI module for Miami Download: Miami32b-CA.lha.
`02 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	Ottawa Citizen: Tech pioneer is Business Person of the Year Adam Chowaniec, formerly Commodore Vice President of Technology, has been voted Business Person of the Year. He commented his job at Commodore: "We had a brilliant piece of technology, but we did a lousy job in marketing."
`02 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	3rd SecOS report by Trogladite Software
`02 Dec 1999` Amiga.org	Voyager #1, IBrowse #2, AWeb #3 at Deja.com Our Amiga browsers are rated first class in the browser judgement at Deja.com, taking place 1, 2 and 3... :-).
`02 Dec 1999` Fun Time World [news]	The Last Patriot website reworked Some very well rendered graphics can be seen there now. In the future the game is intended to use the Warp3D system. Sadly the group has no PowerPC card right now, so work on the game is put on hold for now. Work is continuing on the game Pimpin' Ain't Easy. Parts of the new engine are already finished. It works with system friendly routines.
`02 Dec 1999` Total Vision Homepage	Frogger version 1.45 released At the title link, you can download MPEG video player for different Amiga systems.
`02 Dec 1999` IrseeSoft	Turboprint 7.09beta with new drivers for BJC6000 and BJC7100 Download: tp709beta.lha Starting mid December, a driver complementary disk is available for Turboprint.
`02 Dec 1999` Soundprobe	Soundprobe for Amiga The authors of Soundprobe are disappointed about the response recieved so far concerning the Amiga version. So far, only a handful users has expressed their interest, and made suggestions. If you are interested in Soundprobe, you should send an e-mail to the authors.
`02 Dec 1999` Haage&Partner	WarpUP mailinglist To better support the needs of WarpUP users and developers, H&P has created a WarpUP mailinglist. It is open to everyone, and maintained by Sam Jordan. Mailinglist.
`02 Dec 1999` Stefan Funke by e-mail	PPC World pages reworked Stefan Funke writes: Because I want to create the PPC Worlds pages (after talks with Markus Nerding, Haage&Partner), I urgently need informations from other Amiga users if there are other sites about PowerPC in the net. The best pages will be linked from the PPC World pages. All responses please by e-mail to St-Fu@t-online.de.
`02 Dec 1999` Andreas R. Kleinert by e-mail	PNG and Amiga The book "PNG - The Definite Guide", by Greg Roelofs, O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-542-4, mentions the Amiga positively for a change: Especially considering PNG, it is very easy to support new file formats in Amiga browsers by using Datatypes... to briefly cite the book (p.36): "On the Amiga, it is ubiquitous, thanks to a technological marvel, known as datatypes, (a kind of super-DLL that, among other things, provides generic image support); but under operating systems like BeOS or Atari TOS, it is virtually nonexistent." Of course this leads to Amiga WWW browsers and a collection of Amiga tools and applications get very good comments (some from myself, too ;) The book is also very open towards other alternative platforms (Acorn, BeOS, Macintosh, NextStep, OS/2). Bottom line: worth reading.
`02 Dec 1999` Jörn Plewka by e-mail	Many requests for Melody-Z2 We thank the users for the big interest in Melody-Z2, and the companies Rüdiger Gruner Bürotechnik and DCE for the quick, uncomplicated revival: There was only a minimum number of Melody-Z2 sitting on the shelves half assembled. These cards were gone some hours after the announcement. This was unsatisfactory for Katodev. The cooperation of Katodev, Gruner and DCE now makes it possible to initiate a small production run. Special thanks goes to DCE. Save the expansion port, the card is identical to the one offered until one year ago. If your order was declined, ignore it for the time being. sales@katodev.de should contact you explaining the additional availability. After this, however, Melody-Z2 is done for sure. The MPEG1-DSP used (layer 1+2) is no longer available. Melody1200Plus (only this option, because of the same DSP being used) is also running out of production. We want to warn, however, not to see Melody-Z2 as a replacement for the Melody1200-series. Melody-Z2 was intended as Paula replacement (plus MP2 hardware interesting back then). Melody1200 is much better from both a functional and quality point of view. We recommend preferring the Unity+Melody1200xxx solution, in the very least compare them. Colored technical readouts (PDF) can be found in the Docs area on our homepage. More information can be ordered from sales@katodev.de.
`02 Dec 1999` Thomas Frieden by e-mail	New Shogo report At the title link you can get information about the development status of Shogo.
`02 Dec 1999` Aminet [recent]	Aminet Uploads until December 1st, 1999
`02 Dec 1999` Ed Collins by e-mail	TWF News
`01 Dec 1999` Aminet [recent]	Aminet Uploads until November 29th, 1999
`01 Dec 1999` Olliweb	Olliweb News Update Linux-m68k: Installation manual for Debian 2.1 and the Schatztruhe 5.1 CD with files for direct CD installation without disks! Updates at Download: lxdoom for LinuxPPC5.
`01 Dec 1999` CyberGraphX	CGX V4 page updated
`01 Dec 1999` AudioLabs	ProStatioAudio version 2.50 released Download page
`01 Dec 1999` Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS	New information area at Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS
`01 Dec 1999` AmigArt	Storm MP3 player for Amiga The StormMP3 Player is an MP3 player for Amiga computers. It uses an advanced DSP and PIC microprocessor to decode MP3 audio files without loading the Amiga with the heavy mathematical calculations needed to listen to any of the many MP3 files available.
`01 Dec 1999` AmigaCentral	Wipeout 2097 Troubleshooting In this document, Sam Jordan summarizes possible problems with the installation, and gives the solutions. At AmigaExtreme you can read a review of the game.
`01 Dec 1999` AmiDog	Emulation: new versions of DarcNES/Amiga and GBE released Download DarcNEWS: dn991127a.lha Download GBE Amiga-PPC (Gameboy emulator): GBE.lha
`01 Dec 1999` AmigaAMP	AmigaAMP News The VisFS PlugIn version 1.3 can now also display waves. Download: VisFS13.lha. Besides, a hardware page has been created, where you can find information about audio hardware, and a description of the hopefully-to-come-soon parallel port MPEG player. The FAQ-page has been updated, and there's the new AmigaBall skin on the skins page.
`01 Dec 1999` Fun Time World	FlexCat 2.4 released The catalog software FlexCat has been released as version 2.4. The program is now fully portable.
`01 Dec 1999` M. Schwarz in ANF	DirectDos homepage has moved The DirectDos homepage has moved to Nightshift. If you have asked one of the following questions before, have a look at the downloadable demo: We have just the thing for you! DirectDos opens an unlimited number of windows on your Workbench which can be used as standard Workbench windows, but having numerous advantages: Aside from these features, there are many hidden ones like opaque resize, opaque move (AGA and CGX), themes, user icons, user buttons, program appicons, drag&drop, compatible to Workbench windows and Workbench functions, 30 predefined types, about 1200 in the XL version, 30 user types, information scrolling and some more.
`01 Dec 1999` Kai Hofmann by e-mail	SGMLS 1.1.92 parser on Aminet A new version of the SGML parser SGMLS by James Clark, known from its Unix freeware origins, is available for Amiga on Aminet: dev/lang/SGMLS.lha. The porting has been done by Dipl.-Inform. Kai Hofmann, as usual. The current release has a reworked Installer script and a new support webpage at the title link.
`01 Dec 1999` Marko Seppänen by e-mail	New modules for Image Engineer From under the piles of Image Engineer's source code material, originally based on works of Simon Edwards, we found some new modules. Here's one, a Text-module.
`01 Dec 1999` Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail	TUP version 1.4 available Today, The Ultimate Protector 9x v1.4 has been released. It is a virus protection program, which is running in the background and senses / notes all files being changed. In this version some bugs have been fixed, and new catalogs for Italian and Spanish users been added. Version 1.4 of TUP can be downloaded from the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Download: TUP1_4.lha.
`01 Dec 1999` Falk Lüke per e-mail	Eternity News Now available from Eternity: Developer CD v2.1, a great collection of programs, tools and documents for OS3.5 has been released with the Developer CD v2.1. Besides the RKMs in HTML format it also contains a full version of StormC v3.0! Digital Almanac II v1.7, who knows his way in space? This program knows 55,000 small planets, 40,000 galaxies, 1,000,000 stars and is able to excite the user with animations in IFF-Anim, Quicktime and MPEG format.
`01 Dec 1999` Håkan Parting by e-mail	VersionWB 2.11 available The update contains some bugfixes, and now is AmigaOS 3.5 compatible. Download: VersionWB2_11.lha
`01 Dec 1999` Jan Andersen by e-mail	VirusWarning.guide version 2.9 available Download: vht-vg29.lha - 84 Kb.

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