** 1 page PD/Shareware news / 1181 words ** STinG (ST Internet Next Generation) ** STINGCOM.GIF here ** STinG is a TCP/IP stack which provides the connection between the internet, your web browser and other internet client programs. STinG evolved out of ideas discussed in the STiK developers forum. Peter Rottengatter and several others decided a complete rewrite was the only way to get rid of some restrictions in STiK and the release of STinG as a separate product is the result. STinG takes a modular approach, designed to make STinG easier to extend and enable developers to divide the project into manageable chunks. There's a preliminary ST-Guide hypertext which describes the STinG model along with various other ASCII documents designed to help users get up and running but it's not easy reading. STing certainly look great but there's still no PPP support which means for anyone setting up to surf the web for the first time the choice between STiK and STinG comes down to which is easiest to get up and running and neither program could be described as user friendly. ** BC on ** Peter Rottengatter Email: perot@pallas.amp.uni-hannover.de URL: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~perot/ ** BC off ** --- Nintari? ** NINTARI.GIF here ** "God-Boy" is a Nintendo Gameboy emulator for the Atari Falcon programmed by Leon O'Reilly with the Reservoir Gods development team. The latest release is now available and features: ** BL ** * 12 colours on screen (compared with only four on a real GameBoy). * DSP based 50KHz tracker music. * Stereo sampled sound effects. * Jaguar Powerpad support. * VGA/RGB compatibility. ** BL end ** ** BC on ** Leon O'Reilly Email: LEON@powys.tec.org.uk URL: http://www.acs.bolton.ac.uk/~msg1css/maison.htm ** BC off ** --- Everest v3.6 beta release 3 ** SCHMIDT.JPG here ** ** overlapped with EVEREST.GIF ** The last English Everest release (v3.5e) was in August - two years ago! There have been several German beta releases but there's finally an English version - maybe because Oliver bought a copy of MagiCMac to run on his Powerbook! The two main new features are support for long filenames and the OLGA protocol which used together with a suitable HTML Kürzel file, makes Everest and CAB the perfect HTML authoring combination (see Martin-Eric Racine's HTML Kürzel on the AC3 Reader Disk). Everest registration costs £11 via InterActive. The latest unregistered version can be downloaded via the InterActive website. ** BC on ** InterActive, 65 Mill Road, Colchester, CO4 5LJ, England Email: jconnor@cix.co.uk URL: http://www.cix.co.uk/~inactive/ ** BC off ** --- Profile v2.22 ** PROFILE.GIF here ** Mark Baines' comprehensive Shareware system analyser has been updated again. Profile is now compatible with all Atari machines, emulators and operating systems. A Profile report is the perfect way to send bug reports to programmers. Registration costs £5 (£6 outside Europe) for a key or £6 (£7 outside Europe) if you'd like a disk containing your registered copy of Profile along with all the other Linnhe Computing software including DSKCHK, floppy disk checker, SEEKMS, floppy disk seek rate setter, SET_DEV7, Falcon serial port setter, STDCODES, STD dial codes CPX, POSTCODE, Postcode CPX, CHAR_TAB, Character table CPX, KEYCODES, key scan code display CPX, CAR_REG, find where in the UK a car was registered, CALLFSEL, CPX to call file selector, WAY_PNTS CPX which shows the distance between two UK Ordnance Survey grid reference points, DATE_DAY CPX to calculate the day of the week, day and week number for any date, STAMPS CPX to calculate stamp combinations for entered value and finally four GDOS ANSI and four replacement Atari system fonts. ** BC on ** Linnhe Computing, Linnhe, Shore Street, Inver, Ross-shire, IV20 1SF, Scotland Tel: +44(0)1862 871624 Email: msbaines@cix.co.uk URL: http://www.stsd.demon.co.uk/linnhe.html ** BC off ** --- TransAction ** TRANSACT.GIF here ** TransAction is the world's first translation crew! They reckoned since demo coders can organise themselves into crews so can they. Working with original software authors TransAction translate software to bring us new English releases. Before TransAction was formed all the crew members had been translating software for years - often duplicating each others efforts. Currently they translate German software into English but if you want to join the crew to expand their capability into other languages get in touch! The TransAction crew are currently Inactive (Joe Connor), Mick Lock and Xlator (Peter West). ** BC on ** URL: www.users.zetnet.co.uk/micklock/transact/index.htm Email: m.lock@zetnet.co.uk ** BC off ** --- AUTOVIEW Pop this small Freeware utility into your Auto folder and it can display Cyber SEQ files and play Chip or sampled music or autoselect between STe machines and ST machines (to play sampled or Chip music respectively) without any on-screen messages - ideal for intros, demos and publicity. SEQ files can be played once or looped indefinitely. All TOS versions capable of booting into ST-Low resolution (320x200) are supported. Alternatively AUTOVIEW can be launched or installed as an application for SEQ files on the Desktop. ** BC on ** Tony Greenwood (STOSSER Software) Email: stosser@airtime.co.uk URL http://www.airtime.co.uk/users/stosser/ ** BC off ** Michael Ruge reports ** If possible integrate the German flag with his byline ** ** then we can then recycle this logo each issue ** Hyp2GDOS This Freeware TTP utility, programmed by Martin Osieka, can output ST-Guide format hypertexts (HYP) via GDOS to your printer or other GDOS devices. Output to GDOS is page oriented with each page calculated in memory before being sent to the output device. The layout of the printed pages can be controlled using variables which makes it possible to set the font, header, footer and page margins. Images can also be printed in both black and white and colour - although for colour output you'll need a TrueColor GDOS driver. Hardbook ** HARDBOOK.GIF here ** The Hardware Book, created by Joakim Ögrens, is an HTML based technical reference guide to computers and electronic devices in general. Although not specifically an Atari book it includes pinouts for connectors and information about constructing cables so is of general interest. ** BC on ** Email: qtech@mailhost.net URL: http://www.blackdown.org/ ** BC off ** --- ** If there's space for this one, fit it in before Michael Ruge ** Craig Graham (Data Uncertain) has uploaded lots of new software to his webpages, here's what's on offer from the download bay: ** BL ** * XaAES (beta release 0.7). Includes full C source and 68000 binary release. * DU Debug, the first release of a text based source level debugger for Lattice C + MiNT. Includes C source. * CLA v2, the full version of the CLA v2 digital design & simulation package (Electronics/Schematics), also features an interactive simulator (similar to Galaxy CAD). * CLA v3, the full version of the CLA v3. Maintained in parallel with version 2 because they are very different. This version is much more modern and easier to design with. Includes Supports GDOS, NVDI, ST-Guide hypertext documentation. Supports AES4.1 (iconify), colour icons on all machines, and much more! * FSMedit, finite State Machine CAD package with limited synthesis facilities. Exports VHDL, PALASM, PASSM and GEM metafiles. * FSMsynth, add on synthesis tool for FSMedit - much better synthesis performance than FSMedit. * CLA-VHDL, a limited implementation of VHDL. Compiles to CLA .NET files that can be included into a CLA schematic. * DUftp v1.13, PD GEM ftp client utility, this version fixes the lock-up caused when a transfer is stalled bug in the earlier release. Source available. ** end BL ** ** BC on ** Craig Graham Email: c_graham@patrol.i-way.co.uk URL: http://www.i-way.co.uk/~c_graham/ ** BC off **