Channel Atari

MYMAIL UPDATE

MyMail by Erik Häll is now up to v0.66 and here´s some update info sent by him:

  • Problems with the new window handler was causing bombs this problems are now fixed.
  • Some problems with cursor in editor window fixed.
  • Problems to find web page name at add to CAB hotlist partly fixed.
  • A encoding fault in the uuencoding is now corrected.
  • Added new entry in menu for editing of personal address card.
  • Added new windows for editing of personal address card. The contants in this window is saved at close of the window. If the button "always send this include in new mail" is selected the address card is sent in all mail.
  • Incomming attachments with the name vcard.vcd is never shown in editor it is added to the database named vcard.txt
  • If there is no hits at search in the alias database when typing a name instead of a email address mymail continues to search in the addresscard database (vcard.txt)
  • MyMAIL is now recognizing if a popserver is locked.
  • Many small bugfixes.
This new feature with VCards is compatible with IE Outlook and Netscape Mail. You can actually send a card with all your personal info, name, e-mailadress, URL, phone, street address and more and the receiver can pick it up with MyMail or the apps mentioned above.

My MyMail support page is to be found at:

http://home.bip.net/atari/mymail/

There´s also some new snapshots there, taken from the MagiC 6.0 environment.

and the official webpage, made by the author:

http://www2.tripnet.se/~erikhall/programs/mymail.html

POPWATCH AND NEWSWATCH

Some features of POPwatch:
Works with STiK, STinG and GlueSTiK, you can see your mails at your providers POP-server before you download them (or not), delete any unwanted emails (junk mail), so you don´t bother to download them at all, view parts of the emails before download, download selected mails into your standard email app, Oasis2, NEWSie or NOS, POPwatch can automatically check for new mails every x minutes, BubbleGEM support, associate sound with players like NED Player and GEMjing.

Some features of NEWSwatch:
Works with STiK, STinG and GlueStiK, allows you to use Oasis 1.3x/Snews/Okami 1.29+ or Oasis2 in conjunction with STiK to send and receive Usenet News articles and BubbleGEM in-built help.

POPwatch is updated to version 2.61 and NEWSwatch into 2.11. You will find these apps at my download bay located at:

http://home.bip.net/atari/apps/

and at the homepage of Gary Priest, where´s other useful Internet apps made by him is to be found, with other various software. Apps like Finger, WhoIs, CoSTa, xURL, xTASK and more:

http://www.the-gap.demon.co.uk/atari/atari.htm

NEWSie

Johns Rojewski´s NEWSie for email, News and FTP is also updated into version 0.90.

Among lots of fixes and so on, here´s some of the news:

Support for Re-Queue of mail messages, i.e. send again from OUTBOX (NEW feature),
Support Incomplete mail (i.e. "draft" status) via shift key (Requested Improvement)
Support window Info line for Mailbox and Overview windows (Requested Improvement)
Pass unused keypresses to AVSERVER, if server exists (Requested Improvement)
Improve ´Extract Binaries´ to look in multiple paths for programs
Provide UUDecode function both internally and externally (Requested Improvement)
Translation for German language - only RSC at this time (Requested Improvement)
Implement newsgroup first/last article display/maintenance (Requested Improvement)
Support FTP servers w/o use of PASV command (Requested Improvement)
Expand FTP Output buffer size for speed improvement (from 1K to 4K)
Support browser WWW-Authenticate w/Authorization: response to "Unauthorized" (401)
Support Status update/display in window information line (Requested Improvement)
Provide auto-extraction of Attachments/Binaries on msgs (Requested Improvement)

http://home.bip.net/atari/newsie
http://www.primenet.com/~rojewski/newsie.html

ASH INTERNET PACKAGES

ASH have updated both their Internet packages into newer versions. The webbrowser CAB 2.7, PPP-Connect 1.4, Fiffi 1.10 and Emailer 1.1. I have already translated apps from the distribution into the swedish language. You will find swedish RSC-files, update docs and descriptions at the location:

http://home.bip.net/atari/ash/

MILAN - THE NEW TOS COMPUTER

There´s lots of projects in the air now concerning this new computer, the machine is officially released and contain the new TOS 4.5 and the MiNT-based pre-emptive operating system Milan MultiOS 1.2 with lots of "Home"-apps, like Papyrus 6 Home, Texel Home 2, Smurf Home, etc as you already noticed through:

http://www.milan-computer.de/

and my swedish webpage:

http://home.bip.net/atari/milan/

One of the most interesting developments its made by SoundPool and escpecially the StarTrack Audio-card and the mastering software. Thanks to a PCI to VME-bridge, Milan now have a professional system for Audio as a option.

VIDEO AND ANIMATIONS SOFTWARE

M_Player (Falcon030, TT030), MP_STE (Atari ST(F/FM/E) by TELLO Guillaume and AniPlayer (Falcon030, TT030, Milan) by Didier Mequignon is updated into v2.90, 2.79 resp 2.02. AniPlayer also contain a MagiC Setup program by Joachim Fornallaz for a comfort install of add-ons etc. My support page have turned to be a Scandinavian support webpage now, but you can always download the original multilignal apps from there. Here´s all the addresses you need:

http://home.bip.net/atari/movie/
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gtello/
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/didierm/
http://www.stud.ee.ethz.ch/~jfornall/aniplayer.html

SOME STATISTICS

I´ve open a door for you to read the statistics according my home page. The stats is started in the month of April and there´s some very interesting data to read, here´s some...

Someone is using the new MS Internet Explorer 5.x, The US Department of Defence have found my site interesting, WebTV, MS Windows 98 and visitors from nearly all the countries in the world, you can also build a picture of what screen resolutions is common and the color depths used, this is good platform if you´re going to create a homepage yourself. How you would construct a webpage that common or all visitors can access with no problems, depending of their computer systems.

You will find the stats entry at the bottom of the left frame, just below the buttons or directly through:

http://www.TheCounter.com/counter/12763.vmain

MY HOMEPAGE

Due some problems with my accounts provided by my Internet Service provider, I decided to stay (and move). If you have a link to my Atari Homepage, don´t bother. It works anyway. Visitors that use this link will be automatically re-mapped to the new location. Anyway, the exact address is:

http://home.bip.net/atari/

Bottnia Internet Provider (BIP) is a swedish provider that gives free services to the Net.

MY E-MAIL ADDRESS

My new e-mail address proivded by BIP for Atari related mails is:

atari@mail.bip.net

If you have my old address in your address book. don´t bother, the old ones atari@ebox.tninet.se or atari@hem1.passagen.se works just fine, so send me some mails about your summer vacation or your Atari interests. Its always nice to get in touch with you.

Best Regards

Mille Babic
atari@mail.bip.net