Wanted Team - Update - Thursday, October 25, 2001 - posted by Bernd

There is an update on the Wanted Team site: The public version of the Janko Mrsic-Flogel replayer is now available. With this extern replayer you can listen to many classic Amiga tunes like the musics from Bomb Jack and War Zone. Don't forget that you can already legally download some of Janko's games from AMI Sector One. More will follow! Also there is a new replayer for NovoTrade tunes with example tunes. Some new custom modules and Soundtracker rips complete this update.

WinUAE 0.8.17 Release 2!!! - Friday, September 28, 2001 - posted by Marcos

WinUAE, one of (if not) the best Amiga emulators was upgraded to version 0.8.17 Release 2. Here is what is new on this version:

FIXED: Fixed the center_image() routine which was causing crashes with
centering inside of screens less than 800x600.

FIXED: Remove hard dependency on RegisterDeviceNotification API so that
WinUAE still works on Win95.

FIXED: Event timing works better now, and shouldn't hang any demos or
games. (Bernd Schmidt)

FIXED: Max out at 512-Megs of ZorroIII RAM, since 1-Gig won't work.

FIXED: Merged in some CIA-related save-state changes. (Bernd Schmidt)

FIXED: Banshee AGA and Lemmings3 AGA are now mostly working, thanks to
new delay-offset code. See the "KNOWN BUGS" section above for
further details. (Toni Wilen)

FIXED: Sound-syncro settings can be changed on-the-fly. (Jose Gil)

ADDED: New version of "uaediskchange" utility. Put this inside your
"Amiga" installation, and call it in your startup-sequence like
"run >nil: c:uaediskchange cd0:" to watch cd0: for disk-changes.
You can watch more than one drive. (Bernd Roesch)

CHANGED: Tweaked the sound-syncro code again. (Jose Gil)

CHANGED: Creating an AmigaDOS .adf file from the GUI will now create a
formatted disk. (Toni Wilen)

REMOVED: No restriction on only being able to run one instance of WinUAE.
NOTE: USE THIS WITH CAUTION.

For more info and downloads, visit WinUAE Homepage

Downloading problems - Thursday, September 27, 2001 - posted by Bernd

Many users have contacted me and asked me for the username and password to enter in the appearing pop up box when trying to start a download. This site is NOT password protected and downloads are ONLY possible from 1am EST until 8am EST. If you try to download something outside this period there should be a message which tells you that downloading is not possible at the moment. Though I still have no explanation for the pop up password requester, but I am working on a solution for you.

Coverscans Archive Update - Sunday, September 23, 2001 - posted by Peter

Some more coverscans for you to enjoy: Battle Valley, Huey, The Lion King, MegaPheonix, Pinball Magic, Rodland, SpinWorld, Super Grid Runner.

New WinUAE 0.8.17 - Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - posted by Bernd

There is a new stunning version of WinUAE. Here is a list of changes:
Most important new features are increased compatibility, support for FDI and HD disk images, BSD socket emulation (mostly working) and save state option (for those who need this). A full list of the changes can be read here.
Download the new release by clicking here or here (German mirror).

AmigaTRANS 3.01 Released! - Monday, September 10, 2001 - posted by Marcos

Hi all! AmigaTRANS, an [freeware]utility to ease Amiga to PC file transfers without the need for any specific software running on the Amiga, has been updated to version 3.01. Here's what's new:

Changes:

Maximum timeout changed to 600 seconds for larger files

Serial buffer now automatically sets itself to available size

(The documentation has remained unchanged)

Fixes:

Fixed a bug that caused the program to hang at the end of a transfer

Fixed the Windows 95 buffer overflow bug (properly this time!)

You can get it at it's homepage @ http://www.agnus.org.uk/amigatrans/. Thanks to Zophar's Domain for the news.

New sound tool for *nix Amiga Fans! - Sunday, September 9, 2001 - posted by Marcos

UADE - Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator was released. UADE is used to play old Amiga tunes based on UAE Emulation. It supports 90 different sound formats. UADE doensn't need an Amiga ROM file, as all the required bios calls or funcionts are emulated. And as the name says (and in case you didn't notice) this emulator only runs on *nix (Linux, Unix, etc...).
The news on this version [0.40] are:

Multifile loading support (VectorDean, TFMX, YMPlayer, ...)

Song end support for PTK-Prowiz deliplayer (for protracker + variants)

Optimized playlist scanning

You can get it at it's Homepage @ http://www.ee.tut.fi/~orsila/uade.html.
Thanks to Retrogames for the info.

Emerald Web update - Friday, September 7, 2001 - posted by Peter

The emerald mine section, Emerald Web, has been updated. Please visit the Emerald Web news page for more information.

Binary update - Sunday, September 2, 2001 - posted by Bernd

With kind permission of GP Software Directory Opus 4 is now online. Dir Opus is the most popular file manager for the Amiga and is an essential tool for every user. Also you should visit GP Software's Internet site for further information about the new version 6 of Directory Opus for the PC. Many users requested 'more tools on AMI Sector One'. Here are some new addidtions: OctaMED Soundstudio 1.0 is a very good tracker for the Amiga. Please note: This program was formerly a commercial product, but according to the publisher it is now freeware. F.R.A.C. is a program to create fantasy and roleplaying games. The Bible consists of 4 disks and consists of Old and New Testament. Absolute Adventurer is a disk containing solutions for adventure games.
Now the games: The programmers Keith Golden and Laurent Arditi allowed us to upload their Amiga games: Get Adventures through Time which was one of the first point-and-click adventures for the Amiga; Skweek and Super Skweek are two popular arcade/puzzle games with cute characters by Laurent Arditi. Cyber Man is a wonderful 3D pacman clone which is very enjoyable. Giddy 2 is Phillip Ruston's former dizzy licenceware game. If you are interested in Giddy 3 for the PC go to its site. Grand Prix Simulator is a realistic Formula One management game.
Demos: This time there is only one new music disk called Ripped Gems.
Finally there is a new wave of coverscans:
Accordion 1.1, Arcade Pool, Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh, The Art of Chess, Atomino, Ballistix, Calculation 1.1, Distant Armies, Eye of the Beholder, Eye of the Beholder II - The Legend of Darkmoon, Fantasy World Dizzy, Flight Path 737, Hoyle's Book of Games - Volume 1, Hoyle's Book of Games - Volume 3, Inertia Drive, Las Vegas, Lemmings 2 - The Tribes, Magicland Dizzy, Mouse Trap, Obliterator, PP Hammer and his Pneumatic Weapon, Project X - Special Edition, Protector, Seahaven Towers, Skweek, Super Skweek, and Turn It.

Wanted Team - Update - Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - posted by Bernd

There are some new or improved Eagle Players (Rob Hubbard ST, Protracker etc) on the Wanted Team Page. Also there are some new music rips of Amiga games.

More covers and manuals - Sunday, August 19, 2001 - posted by Bernd

Today there is an upate with many new high quality cover scans und useful ASCII manuals for games which you can download. The new cover scans are of course in the scans section. The manuals can be found on the downloading pages for the games. Now cover scans (all front and back):
Better Dead Than Alien (Electra), The Black Cauldron (Disney / Sierra), Chrono Quest (Psygnosis 1988), Colossus Chess X (CDS), Desert Strike (Electronic Arts), Incredible Shrinking Sphere (Electric Dreams ), Netherworld (Hewson), Oxxonian (Time Warp), Project D (Utility/Disk copy Program) (Fuller Computer Systems), Quadrel (Loriciel), Quarterback Tools (Central Coast Software), Qwak (Team 17), Return of the Jedi (Domark), Solitaire's Journey (QQP), Volfied (Oxford Digital Enterprises / Empire), X-It (Psygnosis).
The user manuals: 688 Attack Sub, Airbus A320, Amberstar, Arthur - Quest for Excalibur, A-Train, Black Crypt, Das Boot, Budokan, Chuck Yeager's ATF 2, Debut, Earl Weaver Baseball, Ferrari Formula One, Fire & Ice, John Madden Football, Keef the Thief, Monster Business, Omega, Populous, Ports of Call, Powermonger WW1, Severed Heads, Sim Ant, Sim City, Sim Earth, Sword of Sodan, Syndicate, Ultima 3, Ultima 4, Ultima 5.

New downloading restrictions and new coverscans - Monday, August 13, 2001 - posted by Bernd

Because of the results of our latest poll we decided to limit the downloading time from 1 am EST to 8 am EST. This will increase the downloading speed for all users.
Also there is a complete redesign of the scans section. The loading time of the HTMLs within this section is now faster. Many new scans (all of them were scanned by Peter) were added: Alert, Alpha-1, Aztex, B17 Flying Fortress, Blue Angels, Boulderdash Construction Kit, Bug Bomber,Cortex, Dog Fight - 80 Years of Aerial Warfare, Emerald Mine 2, Emerald Mines CD32, F/A-18 Interceptor, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indianapolis 500, Kelly X, Projectyle, Prospector in the Mazes of Xor, Reach For the Skies, Rockford, Sim City 1.2, Sim Earth, Strike Force Harrier, Supaplex, Tetra Quest, Their Finest Hour - The Battle of Britain. This is a total of about 50 new scans (front- and back cover scans). All new additions were marked with a "New". Don't forget to contact us if you would like to contribute scans.

Binary update - Sunday, August 5, 2001 - posted by Bernd

It is summer and we are a bit lazy... Nevertheless there is a small update:
Dr. Janko Mrsic-Flogel managing director of Paradox Software allowed us to have the Paradox Amiga games on our website. Most of the Paradox Amiga games were already released in 1986. Therefore, they belong to the early games for our favorite home computer. Download Protector (a horizontally scrolling shooter) and War Zone (vertically scrolling desert action) which are real classics. Also there is another Ed Scio simulation called Armour-Geddon (future flight simulation). Of course there are some new Public Domain games too: Empire (Amiga port of the strategy game), Pythagoras (popular German trading simulation from 1990), Roulette Game (realistic roulette simulation) and Sealance (best PD submarine simulator for the Amiga). If you are interested in Syndicate you should download Roger Moffa's Syndicate and Syndicate - American Revolt report which is very useful.
Also we got a new permission from a tools company: It was granted by the company Hartwerk (thanks to Ralf A. Tetzel and Rainer Wolf of Arktis) which produced many German award winning Amiga applications. The first product you can download is called Translate It. This is an English/German translation program which knows thousands of words and is ideal for translating user manuals or letters.
Finally there are new games and links on Emerald Web. Visit the Emerald Web News Page for further information.

Wanted Team - Update - Wednesday, August 1, 2001 - posted by Bernd

There are new sound players and modules on the Wanted Team page. Read the Page History for further information.

Emerald Web - Binary update - Saturday, July 28, 2001 - posted by Bernd

There is a binary update on Emerald Web. Click on the link to see which games are new. My tip: Download the Per One Mine series which has some nice Anime style title pictures.

Emerald Web update - Saturday, July 21, 2001 - posted by Bernd

There is a small update on Emerald Web. Click on the link for further information.

Emerald Mine Online joins AMI Sector One - Sunday, July 15, 2001 - posted by Bernd

The popular Emerald Mine related website Emerald Mine Online by Peter Levan has become a part of AMI Sector One and is now called Emerald Web (short: EW). EW features tons of Emerald Mine related downloads such as hundreds of games, coverscans and more.
The layout of the site has been completely reworked and is now based on the standard AMI Sector One design. Have a look - it is beautiful. Also there are more contents, more Emerald Mine related games plus much more. The URL you should bookmark is http://amiga.emucamp.com/emerald. With the start of EW, Peter has also become a part of our staff. Check the staff section.
If you have any Amiga Emerald Mine related games that are not in the archive and you wish to contribute to EW, or you wish to review any of the games in the archive, please email one of the staff members..

Reading Amiga disks on the PC - Sunday, July 15, 2001 - posted by Bernd

Previously you could only read Amiga floppy disks on the PC by using the Catweasel ISA Card or the ADF Read program. Now there is a third method called Disk2FDI: This tool requires any second disk drive on the PC to operate. After you have
inserted an Amiga disk in one drive and any blank disk in the other drive you can start the program. Disk2FDI will save the contents of the Amiga disks as an ADF or a FDI-file (that's a new disk image format by the author of Disk2FDI). In my opinion Disk2FDI is a very interesting program you should test if you are interested in creating disk images of any Amiga floppy disks.

Binary update - Sunday, July 8, 2001 - posted by Bernd

By courtesy of Rainer Bopf Software Developments we can upload here the famous Airbus A320 games series. The first of these games you can download is Airbus A320. Released in 1991 by Thalion it was one of the most realistic flight simulations at this time. Also JU-52 Flight Simulator is available. Please note: So far this game has been unreleased and now is the first time you can get it for free on the Internet. BTW: Rainer Bopf is still developing flight simulations for the PC. If you are interested visit the above link or order his products directly from the Media Online Store.
Let us continue with more commercial games: You can now legally download the rare Microdeal games Amiga Soccer and Airball. Many thanks to the development team Ed Scio (now running Brat Designs) and Pete Lyon (now active as a freelance graphic artist).
There are also another two games from Mark Page - the creator of Super Methane Brothers: Escape and Escape 2 (registered version). Many thanks to all contributors of this update.
We go on to the demos: A great part of you has probably already heard of Rob Hubbard. Years ago he composed many famous tunes for the C64. Now he is sound director at Electronic Arts. About one decade ago Allister Brimble arranged many of his C64 tunes for the Amiga: Download Rob Hubbard Collection 1, Collection 2 and The Very Best of Rob Hubbard. We are sure that you will know some of the tunes on these disks. Just try it. Also there is an early music disk from William Hensel called Deep fry the Sky and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. The trailers for the games Crime Town Depths and Wing Commander can be found in the demos section too.
Applications section: Get the rare disks Data Division Docs 2 and Data Division Docs 3 on which you can find a lot cheats, solutions and other stuff. Helpline is a disk with many German solutions for mainly Public Domain and advertising games. Also get Karaoke for Kids - it is very funny.
Besides there are many new high quality cover and ad scans: Airbus A320 Vol. 2, Battlestorm CDTV, Dreamweb, Epic, Eye of the Beholder, F1, Frontier Elite 2, Genesia, Kings Quest 6, Knight Force, Legend of Faerghail, Lionheart, Loom, Pinball Dreams, Robin Hood, Silkworm, Sleep Walker, Spirit of Excalibur, Tower FRA and Zeewolf.
We, the AMI Sector One staff hope that you liked today's update.

New versions of Super Methane Brothers - Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - posted by Bernd

Mark Page - author of Super Methane Brothers - has sent me new Amiga versions of his game. Both versions are now running on real Amigas and Amiga emulators. Here are the changes in the normal version:

• automatically switches between OCS/ECS and AGA graphics


• copy protection was removed from the disks

Changes in the HD CD32 version:

• full CD32 intro


• joystick / joypad selection menu


• changed the internal disk name from CD0: to SMB: so that it is assignable on a harddrive


• remove reference to the cd.device


• minor code change: "tst.w 1" instead of "ifne CD32"

Thanks again to Mark for creating these optimized versions which you can only download here on AMI Sector One. If you are interested in the full MS-Windows version of Super Methane Bros. you can download it for free from Mark Page's Internet site.

I will upload other Amiga stuff from Mark Page later.

Tutorial on WinUAE - Tuesday, June 26, 2001 - posted by Marcos

Are you having some kind of trouble configuring WinUAE? If so, I may have something that can help you out... mv2k has posted a nice "Configuration-HOWTO" for WinUAE on EasyEMU, so try and check it out... You may get surprised!

Genetic Species now for free - Tuesday, June 26, 2001 - posted by Holger

The awesome Amiga-game Genetic Species is now available for free!
It has about 180MB of data to download.

Get it for example here:
http://de.aminet.net/aminetbin/find?GS-Fullgame

New staff members, new games - 23 June, 2001 - posted by Bernd

Probably you remember my news posting of 12 June which was called "New staff members are required". Finally I have made my choice and here are the new team members (sorted by the time they joined)

• Marcos Alves from Portugal
• Keith Michaels from the USA
• Tony Whent from Australia
• Holger Herrmann from Germany

The new team members will be responsible for different parts here on AMI Sector One. Also I am just working with a kind contributor called Gustavo to improve our scripts. Some other projects are in preparation too... More about this in the next weeks. You can read some notes about the new members in the staff section.
Now the games update: Patricia Curtis (formerly project manager and assistant programmer at Apache Software) as well as Mark Page (formerly programmer at Apache Software) allowed us to upload the Amiga game Super Methane Bros. (a game similar to Bubble Bobble, but with better graphics and sounds). You can download different versions of this game: There is a CD32-HD version (does not run on emulators) and an ADF version. Like so often I would like to stress that this game is NOT freeware. P. Curtis and M. Page are still the copyright owners and they granted a permission which is ONLY valid for this site.
Btw: I am looking for the game "Murder makes strange Deadfollows CDTV" by Tiger Media. Is there somebody of you who has it? Please get in contact with me (Bernd)...
And here are the high quality Public Domain games of this update: Jouster 3 (the arcade classic Joust for the Amiga), Kamakazi Killers (good Galaga game), Rattlesnake (street fighting game).
New AGA demos are Repugnance, Roswell, Response, Tear down the Wall and Some Justice. Also a disk with the results of the Amega Party - Gfx Competiton was uploaded.
Here are some new cover- and box scans: A320 Airbus (the game itself will soon be available here), Big 6- Dizzy Collection CD32, Case of the Cautious Condor CDTV, Chinese Karate, Euro Soccer '88, Fallen Angel and Hard Drivin'.
And here is a last minute update: You can now download ALL 18 LSD Sprint Docs Disks (Sprint Docs provide cheats, solutions, freezer addresses etc). Of course every Sprint Disk has got its own HTML and screenshots. Thanks to the new member Marcos who made it possible.
I hope you enjoyed this update. In the future the updates will be bigger since the staff has grown. Also you can expect more updates during the week.

We need your opinion - 19 June, 2001 - posted by Bernd

Many people have filed their applications in order to become new staff members of AMI Sector One. I was really surprised! Finally I have made my choice... The new staff members will be introduced at the coming weekend.
Now something completely different: At the moment I receive many complaints because of slow downloading speeds. What do you think? Is the downloading speed of this site really too slow? Please take part in our poll (right column of this page) and tell us your opinion. Depending on the results we will possibly set up one or several mirrors. The poll will end in one week. And now go voting...

New staff members are required - 12 June, 2001 - posted by Bernd

Since the rest of the AMI Sector One crew (except me, Bernd) is very busy there is a demand for new staff members. If you are interested you should speak German and/or English. It is not a condition that you know something about web programming. If you are interested please contact me. New staff members will get full FTP access and CD-ROM's with all AMI Sector One files. Isn't this a wonderful offer?

The biggest commercial Amiga game download on the Net - 09 June, 2001 - posted by Bernd

We are pleased to announce that the company Net4TV Corp. (formerly known as Tiger Media) allowed us to upload their Amiga CD games: You can now get the fabulous game Case of the Cautious Condor here on ASO. This game was "Adventure of the year 1989" in Japan and got many great reviews in the press. The game has digi speech and sounds in the whole game. Its complete download size is 65 MB(!) So it should be the biggest legal download of an commercial Amiga game on the Internet. Please note: The game runs fine on any 68k Amiga with HD, the CDTV and of course UAE. Note: Set the screen to the US norm "NTSC" or you will see nothing else than a black screen.
Of course there are many other game downloads: The following games were all created with the Shoot 'em up Construction Kit (also known as SEUCK). Some people who were involved in these games were later discovered by the games industry (mainly gfx artists). Blood 'n' Bullets and Slap 'n' Tickle were written by the same team and the graphics of these games are above the average. Go Looly is a very cute SEUCK game with nice in-game screens. Mission without a Return was coded by the Hardliners team, 109 is a historical airplane shoot 'em up and Computer Conflict is a shooter in which you control starship Commodore.
Now let us continue with the last games of this update: How much do you know about Amiga games. Amiga Quiz features hundreds of Amiga games related questions. I used to play this game for a very long time. But you should be able to understand a bit of German in order to play it. Bill is a kind of trickshot billiards game. Cubix is an addictive puzzle game.
Have you already known that "Wanted Team" has now a site on Emucamp? The URL is http://amiga.emucamp.com/wt/wt.html. On these pages you can download all the Wanted Team players for the EaglePlayer and Deliplayer Amiga/PC, tunes and other stuff from Wanted Team. Don't forget to bookmark this Nr. 1 source!
After a long time I have updated the Amiga Games Compendium: There were added 1176 new games. There are additional credits for most of these titles. View the new entries by clicking here. Soon there will also be an Off-line Amiga Games Compendium. Do not miss the coming updates...
No update without new coverscans: Barbarian 2, Danger Freak, Dan Wilder, Erben der Erde CD32, Gunship 2000 CD32, Robocop, Strider and The Munsters.
Let us go to the new apps: James M. Bardeen allowed us to upload his program Genesis - The third Day which was published by the no longer existing company Micro Illusios. Genesis is a program with which you can create wonderful fractal landscapes. Don't miss the screenshots! Now you can also download EA's Deluxe Music 2.0 which was requested by so many people. Deluxe Music is a notation tool with which you can compose songs or create scores. It also supports Midi In/Out.
OK, that's all for now. AMI Sector One will be updated again soon. Thanks to all contributors of this update!

New permissions - 03 June, 2001 - posted by Bernd

Several new companies and individual programmers have permitted us to upload their Amiga titles on AMI Sector One: Dana Dominiak from Webfoot Technologies granted the permission to upload all games from her former company called Image Tech: These games are the fantastic adventure called Dungeon Quest and the board game Kikugi. Although both titles were already released more than 10 years ago, they have wonderful graphics. Also Patrick J. Simmons allowed us to offer here his game Quiksilver Pinball which is a wonderful pinball simulation which has tables split over two screens. Btw: He coded Kikugi too. Besides I contacted Brian Leake from Namco. He granted the permission to upload his complex game Debut which was formerly published by Pandora. Finally I got in contact with Stephen Corry who is author of the popular "Soccer Cards" series for the Amiga. Now you can download his game Soccer Cards US 94. His other title League Soccer Cards was already online. A big thanks goes to all the contributors of this update!
Apps: After a long time there are some new additions in the applications section: Colour It is a colouring book for children. With Crunchersdisk Vol. 1 and Megaboot you can crunch files or modify bootblocks of Amiga disks. Pumatracker is an interesting early soundtracker. And at last there is the rest of the LSD Docs Disks (45-65).
Of course there are new game soundtracks, too: Check the Game Music Section for the new additions. Also there are some new coverscans: Iron Lord, Indiana Jones and the last Crusade CDTV, Loom CDTV, New Zealand Story, Skateball and WEC Le Mans.
Finally I have written a small report about the Commodore CDTV. You can read it here.
Watch out for further updates with Amiga games which are absolutely new on the Internet!

Status report - 27 May, 2001 - posted by Bernd

AMI Sector One has not been updated for a long time, but there is a reason for this fact: In the last months I had enormous health problems and I was for a very long time in hospitals. At the moment I am not yet 100% OK, but I do my best to maintain AMI Sector One.
Another important information: Some days ago my files were moved to a different directory on the server. Therefore, a lot of links are broken and many cgi-scripts do not work. Please do not inform me about broken links. All problems will be solved in the next days.
Thank you for your understanding.
01 June: All links (except the guestbook) and downloads should now work. If you find any other broken links please contact me (Bernd).

More games + PC Competitor Test - 04 February, 2001 - posted by Bernd

I am glad to let you know that Alternative Realities have given their OK to have their games on-line here. You can now download the two award winning addictive puzzle games called Climbing Up + Editor and Falling Down. Both games are the registered full versions. Of course this is not yet all. Other games I have just added to the archive are Activision's Deuteros, the RPG epos Nethack, the successful PD game Megaball and the trading simulation Broker. Finally there are also two games which were written with the great video apps from the company Right Answers. The first one is called The Intrepid and the second one is Tumbler Street. Both games have very good graphics and animations.
There is also a new feature in which I test the PC Competitor adapter. This fantastic adapter makes it possible to use 2 Amiga joysticks on the PC. You can find more info in the test or on the official PC Competitor site.
Finally there are some new cover scans: Batman - The caped Crusader, Gremlins 2, Invest, Jagt den Calippo Fresser and Pacmania. Thanks to Raffaele for providing some of these scans. If you also would like to contribute scans please contact me.

Jester Interactive grants permission - 20 January, 2001 - posted by Bernd