On the homepage of Olivier Booklage you can find a selection of interesting clients for the TCP/IP stack Sting like an alternative overlay for CAB. This overlay allows you to surf the net with the combination of Sting/CAB. Using the latest CAB 2.7 it supports cookies and authentification. If you want to try out an alternative to Dan Ackermann’s overlay then you should pay a visit to Olivier’s homepage.

After the big success of the first Milan chat, which took place shortly before the first Milans hit the shops, the Milan Team now decided to repeat that event on September 7th. At 21.00h CET on channel #Milan the interested Atarian will be able to ask the Milan Team everything (or nearly everything). Milan homepage

The biggest Atari event this year the Atari Show in Neuss now has it’s own webpage at www.atari-messe.de. There you get to know everything you need to know as a potential visitor.

You are still looking for a suitable program for the forthcoming Milan chat? Then you may try AtarIRC for Stik/Sting. The fully GEM embedded IRC client has just been released in a new version and can be downloaded directly from the author’s homepage.

M_Player is a tool by Guillaume Tello which allows you to play and to create various movie formats like AVI, MOV and MPEG. The new version features a faster greyscale display for MPEG movies:

• 160*120 +30%
• 352*240 +5%

M_Player Homepage

Men at War is the name of a forthcoming Falcon game by Bonus Software/FUN. Your quite complex task is to eliminate your opponent with the help of a machine gun. The game is played from an overhead view in various arenas (playfields). A couple of nice extras makes the FUN go on. The latest preview can be downloaded directly from the FUN homepage (new in this version: bonus items, drone bombs, new ingame gfx, module music by Toodeloo/DHS).

Ever wondered what an Atari programmer is doing day by day? In two cases you now have the possibility to read all about their activities or inactivities in their online diaries. Tat of Avena started a so called demo diary for his forthcoming Falcon demo Binliner which gives you a regularly update of how the demo proceeds or not. The Reservoir Gods have now taken over this idea for their next Falcon game Republic and have created a diary too. So let’s hope that they will still find some time to code while writing their diaries…
Binliner Diary
Republic Diary

The august release of Calamus SL 98 (german version) is now available complete with demoversion. A lot of new features have been implemented since the last version. For more detailed information you may download the announcement from the german Mausnet newsgroup Atari.News here (german language).

The new Falcon accelerator Centurbo 2 by Centek is (after a long development period and a couple of delays) now available for some weeks. The first bunch of boards has already been sold out but the second series should be available by today. The board features it’s own 50 Mhz 68030 processor, 32 MB Fast RAM and the possibility to run the whole system with up to 50 Mhz (which allows True Color resolutions of 640*400 and higher). For some more technical information, prices etc. you may visit the Centek homepage. As long as the new site under www.centek.fr isn’t up yet you should take a look at the old location. If you want to know how the Centurbo 2 performs in different tests you may also download an archive with some benchmarks here. (no longer available)

Digital Lab is a new 32 bit ‘retouche’ software by Eric Da Cunha and Frédéric Bayle. The updated version is now also available in german and english language and can be downloaded directly from Frédéric’s homepage. Digital Lab makes use of the M&E System by Parx (available at the same place) and offers a nicely designed interface as well as a bunch of professional tools to play with. Additionaly you can make use of a couple of effects to give your masterpiece the finishing touches. When it comes to speed Digital Lab still shows itself very well usable on a standard Falcon. Frédéric Bayle’s homepage – Digital Lab