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Amiga events 11.-14.09.25 • Classic Computing 2025 • Hof (Germany) 17.-19.10.25 • Amiga40 • Mönchengladbach (Germany) 31.10.-02.11.25 • Amiga-Meeting 2025 • Neumünster (Germany) 14.-16.11.25 • Flashback-Symposium #02 • Jößnitz (Germany) 31.Oct.2002 z5 (ANF) A.D.A. presents Sulaco/Encore and additional screenshots A.D.A. is proud to present Sulaco, Encore's high end Amiga demo from Abstract 2002, featuring gorgeous textures and graphics, a cool tune and nice design. more ... (ps) [News message: 31. Oct. 2002, 19:03] [Comments: 2 - 02. Nov. 2002, 22:05] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 31.Oct.2002 Faces of Mars (ANF) Classic Radio Shows on CD-ROM The Radio Plays CD-ROMs contain original radio shows from the USA and Great Britain. The programs are from the 30s to the 70s and have been specially, digitally prepared and converted to MP3 format for inclusion on these CD-ROMs. They may thereby played on all computer platforms (Amiga, Linux, Mac, Windows, modern CD-Players, etc) and an autoplayer for Windows is included. The Radio Plays represent the genres Adventure, Science Fiction, Mystery, Western and Mixed. Each CD has about 35 to 48 hours of programs. The catalog contains among other things Tarzan, Superman, Buck Rogers, Dr. Who, Lord of the Rings, The Shadow, Sherlock Holmes and The Lone Ranger. Dealers may order lots of 10 CDs from our dealer price list. With the order of 51 CDs or more there is an additional rebate of 10 percent. With the order of 100 the shipping and handling charges are eliminated. Shipping and handling costs are 12 euros for the first 10 CDs, with more than 10 CDs, there is a 1 euro additional charge for each. These CDs come directly from the USA. Prices per CD are about 12 to 14 euros. You'll find more information by clicking on the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 31. Oct. 2002, 17:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 31.Oct.2002 AMIGAplus AROS: IRC Channel Moves to New Server The IRC channel of the alternative operating system AROS is now on the Freenode IRC network. You can make the connection at irc.freenode.net, or you can find another Freenode server at www.freenode.net. Long nicknames, nick registration and many other things are possible with this. The channel name is still #aros. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 31. Oct. 2002, 13:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 31.Oct.2002 Oliver Hummel (ANF) The World's First 32-bit Game Console? This is not exactly burningly current news, but it is meaningful in an historical context. On my foraging for exotic game consoles I bumped into a very interesting Fujitsu product, the FM Towns Marty. Fujitsu sold a lot of FM Towns PCs in the late 80s. At some point back then, they decided to develop a game console, and the FM Towns Marty came from that. The Marty was equipped with a 386 at 16 MHz, later there was a 486 version. It also had 2 megs of RAM. For storage there was a CD-ROM drive and a 3.5 inch floppy drive. For the graphics there were special custom chips which made 256 colors from a HiColor palette possible. But the most interesting thing is: Marty was introduced in 1991! So the CD-32 loses its title as the first 32-bit console in the world to the Fujitsu Marty. By the way Marty may also be the second console to come with a CD-ROM drive (after the PC-Engine). Because of the close compatibility to the FM Towns PCs there were also a lot of games available, but there were also specialized Marty games, including versions of the Lucas Arts classics Zak McKraken and Monkey Island, and I would guess that these were the best versions of these games, what with 256 colors and not the grisly MIDI music found in the PC version. Pictures of the FM Towns Marty may be viewed here and here. Because Marty was not officially sold outside Japan it's difficult to come by information on it. So I suppose the CD-32 could also claim to be the world's first 32-bit game console. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 31. Oct. 2002, 13:09] [Comments: 3 - 04. Nov. 2002, 14:09] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 31.Oct.2002 RUX - Günther Klug v. Biedermann (ANF) TurboCalc Going Open Source? There's about a fifty percent chance that TurboCalc will go open source. Motivated by the free release of AWeb and other programs, I wrote TurboCalc author Michael Friedrich a couple weeks ago, to ask if he might entrust TurboCalc to another programmer or programming group for further development. Observation: TurboCalc is a spreadsheet (table calculation) program, such as Lotus 1-2-3 (tm) or Excel (tm) for PCs, or MaxiPlan (tm) for the Amiga. I got an answer the day before yesterday (excerpt): Subject: RE: Open Source TurboCalc Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:40:51 +0100 ... the idea of open source sounds good, but I am not so sure if others would enjoy working with my code: 300,000 lines of sparsely commented assembler code is not going to be easy to read, even I had some problems with it :-) .... I'll write you again. Cordially, Michael His comments so far. Certainly he will want to confer with Stefan Ossowski of GTI. To raise some question (and spur discussion): What do past, present (and eventually new) TurboCalc users think of using a further developed TurboCalc? Please don't write a list of requirements of WHAT needs to be improved or added. You'll get a chance to express these comments! Are there programmers who are CAPABLE (this genre is not the simplest) and who WANT to develop Turbocalc further? I'll do what I can to help and encourage as a Betatester from the start. I'll be happy to hear sincere comments and discussion. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 31. Oct. 2002, 12:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]       1 2318 4630 ... <- 4635 4636 4637 4638 4639 4640 4641 4642 4643 4644 4645 -> ... 4650 5517 6390 [Archive]

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