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Archive 12/1999


17.Dec.1999
amiga-news.de


amiga-news.de currently reworked
We are switching the website completely to SSI (Server Side Includes). Therefore some links to subpages might not yet work perfectly. In this case, the "Home Button" does however always bring you back to the main page. We hope to finish the change tonight (December 17th). Tomorrow we will be back with the news. (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
Czech Amiga News


WarpJPEG.datatype for PPC
This JFIF/JPEG datatype by Oliver Roberts is especially made for PPC users with WarpUP.
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha

YAM mailinglist moved
Since the current YAM mailinglist had spam problems, it has been moved. At the title link you can subscribe to the new list. (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
AA Audio Page


LAME beta version 3.58 released
New LAME beta version 3.58! Lots of quality and bugfixes, various new options (filtercut-offs etc) ..new from earlier versions is the linking with mpglib and libsndfile which enables LAME to read mpeg audio files, 16/8SVX and many more... ;)
Download: LAMEbeta.lzx - 440 Kb (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
Amiga Central


Amiga Game Music Album
The Amiga music CD "Immortal" by Monteiro Music is now available. (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
Epic Marketing


Epic Marketing News
Did you enjoy the charming adventures of little Simon as much as we did? Did you always hope for the successor to be ported to Amiga? Have you been mad because this great game was only available for PC? Now there is the opportunity to change this...

Epic Marketing got the license to port Simon The Sorcerer II to Amiga. On the one hand, we are of course very proud to get the opportunity to port this great adventure to the Amiga. But with the latest ongoings at Amiga (Inc) we have to ask ourselves how many Amiga users at all are interested in a first class game? The license, the porting and the production of SImon The Sorcerer II won't be cheap. So we decided to do a pre-order campaign. We need 500 pre-orders to do Simon The Sorcerer II for Amiga. When we reach the 500 limit, the game should be available in 8 weeks.

We will update the pre-order data on our homepage weekly. Simon The Sorcerer will run on all AGA or gfx board systems with 030 CPU and sufficient memory (about 8 MB fast). The game will only be released on CD.

Please place your pre-orders here:
Online: order@epic-marketing.de
Tel: (+49) (0)8081 400492
Fax: (+49) (0)7071 400493
Snail Mail: Epic Marketing, Hirschauer Str. 9, 72070 Tübingen (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
Andreas Magerl in ANF


Amiga games wish list
Andreas Magerl writes:
On our homepage, area "Aktion", you'll find a form for entering your top 5 wish list for games on Amiga. The submissions are evaluated regulary, and published in each issue of Amiga Future and our homepage.

Of course it only makes sense if enough users participate. The idea is to show coders and companies over a long timespan which games are wanted by Amiga users. (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
Michaela Prüß in ANF


AmigaOS 3.5 - self-made fix for broken AGA buttons
Michaela Prüß writes:
For all those who still have the problem with AWeb 3 SE (OS 3.5), or probably all other AWeb versions, too, that there are some colored dots instead of the buttons at the top: There is a way to fix it (already reported to amiga.de):

Load images/def_buttons in a graphics program (I did it with PPaint). Expand the palette from 8 to 16 colors, and copy the 8 colors to the 8 new ones. Then adjust the first 8; it doesn't matter to what, but it must not be any of the original 8 colors. With PPaint, all you have to do is commiting a color adjustment, and the buttons look like before (almost, I had to swith RED and GREEN manually). Then cut it out (preferrably more precise than I did), and save it as imags/def_buttons (back up the original, you never know...). With the 16-color version it worked on first try, and I can finally see the buttons. If someone gets it done precisely, please send me a copy - I never got the hang to paint programs...

Oh, yes, the 16 colors. Don't tell me you surf with 8 colors and it wouldn't work that way. If you surf the web with 8 colors, you should be used to looks like that...

Dennis Gronewald followed up:
There is an easy way to get rid of the gfx bugs in AWeb. Simply enter the image drawer of AWeb. Here you find the file "def_Buttons". Simply put braces around the "Transparent" tool type. Worked for me. (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
Andreas Etzrodt in ANF


New CD32 game
Andreas Etzrodt writes:
Good news: We recieved permission by Petro Tyschtschenko himself to offer CD32 games. Without license fees. Citing Petro: "Dear Andreas, we don't want to make money by that. As long as it is not commercial, it's free." Since we already distribute it as Shareware, luckily we don't face any additional costs.

By the way, many have misunderstood our first announcement. Of course we don't want to release a commercial game, with pressed CDs including cover. We want to create a runnable CD32 CD with our own CD-R. Of course it will include a cover, but only a self-printed one.

So interested CD32 owners can contact us, and probably place their pre-order. The CD will not cost more than 15 Euro, probably much less (we did not yet calculate what is possible).

Oh, and for those who missed the first announcement: We talk about the Shareware game "SHARKS!", which is available as demo version from Aminet. Most likely it will be adapted to AGA, so the hardware performance of the CD32 is used.
More details from:
Andreas Etzrodt
Hauptstr. 15
49835 Wietmarschen
or by e-mail (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
Sascha Koebner in ANF


Source code for DESCENT 2 released!
Sascha Koebner writes:
At the title link, capable Amiga coders can download the source code for 'Descent 2' (by Interplay), and of course port it (!). 'Descent 2' is the successor of the successful 360 degree 3D shooter. The comparatively smart KI, and the heavily improved 3D engine compared to 'Descent 1' should be enough motivations for coders to try their skills at it. It seems to be the source code for the PC version 1.2. (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
Andreas Kleinert by e-mail


New ak-Datatypes
You can now download akJFIF v44.60 (16.12.99), akPNG v44.60 (16.12.99) and akTIFF v44.60 (16.12.99) from the download page seperated by system. (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
clickBOOM by e-mail


clickBOOM auction
FREE AUCTIONS FOR EVERYONE
Starting today, and for the next 60 days, holding an Auction at clickBOOM's Amiga Auctions is absolutely FREE for everyone!
There are no limits to what you want to sell, how many Auctions you want to hold or how long you want them running. Use all three types of Auctions, use photographs, layouts, all FREE !

GAME AUCTIONS
But, that's FAR from everything. We want you to come every day and check the latest Auctions. Every day, for the next 15 days, we will auction one copy of each of our games! The highest bidder takes it, so you can walk away with a brand new clickBOOM game of your choice for as low as a few dollars !!!

COMPARING CLICKBOOM AMIGA AUCTIONS TO EBAY
Sure, eBay is the name in online auctioning, however, when it comes to selling Amiga goods, clickBOOM's Amiga Auctions are simply a better choice:
  1. Amiga Auctions are free!
  2. Auctions held at Amiga Auctions actually have a better selling rate than eBay !
  3. Amiga Auctions support English and German !
  4. Amiga Auctions have several layout designs to choose from !
  5. At Amiga Auctions you can choose from a list of Amiga hardware photographs, and having a photo Auction is free !
  6. Amiga Auctions show approximate price in 3 other currencies !
  7. Amiga Auctions are ran by the Amiga community, for the Amiga community !
(ps)

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16.Dec.1999
Ivo Janacek by e-mail


New FastATA / Powerflyer and FastATA4000 drivers
Download:
FastATA'99v50a27.lha
EIDE'99v26a27.lha
FastATA4000v15a27.lha (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
CCC-ML


16th Chaos Communication Congress HOWTO/FAQ 1.2
At the title link, you will find a detailed FAQ about the Chaos Communication Congress, which will take place on December 27th - 29th in the Haus Am Köllnischen Park (HAKP) in Berlin. (ps)

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16.Dec.1999
Haage & Partner


Haage & Partner News
NoPiracy News
Thanks to the help of Amiga.org, a new NoPiracy forum is online. It is open for all discussions on the piracy subject. For several weeks now there is a poll on the subject for the Amiga, as well as some new logos and banner on the NoPiracy site. Have a look at it, and place the logos on as many websites as possible.

New STFax support
Wolfgang Hosemann will do the e-mail support for STFax starting immediately. (ps)

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15.Dec.1999
StrICQ


StrICQ beta version 0.1646 released
Download: STRICQ.lha (ps)

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15.Dec.1999
Internet Intern


Internet Intern: Short Break, Please!
"According to a message by the Reuters news agency, the special commissionaire for the Y2K problem of the US government has asked the hacker scene for a short break."
www.y2k.gov
"'We have really enough to do on that weekend (...) If you want to point to security holes, why not the next weekend?'" (ps)

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15.Dec.1999
Haage & Partner


Haage & Partner News
PageStream 4.0
Since the HEW 4 weeks ago, the new PageStream 4.0 is available for Amiga. The first patch will be released soon.

STFax Pro 4.0 demo version
For quite some time, a demo version is available for the new STFax Pro 4.0. Download: STFax4Demo.lha.

STFax support wanted
Haage & Partner is looking for someone who knows the product well or is willing to learn about it, for offering e-mail support. I am interested. (ps)

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15.Dec.1999
clickBOOM


clickBOOM with new layout
clickBOOM offers T-zero for half the price to all who own any commercial shoot-em-up game. (ps)

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15.Dec.1999
Michaela Prüß in ANF


VersCheck V2 FINAL RELEASE
Michaela Prüß writes:
Starting immediately, VersCheck v2.19 (FINAL RELEASE) is available for download from my homepage. An Aminet upload has been submitted, it should be available there tomorrow.
FINAL RELEASE, since I need the next version of VersCheck for my Install script project, so I finished everything important that was left open or undone, and created a last update release. The next version will therefore be v3 (assuming there are no necessary bugfixes to do). What has changed?
  • Some settings can be done by ENV:
  • The whole version sensing has been reworked, being faster and safer
  • Output can optionally be done in ANSI (so important things can be highlighted)
  • A small statistic has been added
  • Some small and large fixes have been done, internal help -? updated
  • Two bad memory faults, which seldomly occured, but were there in the old version, have been detected and removed
  • Special News-Doc in the doc drawer "NewInThisVersion"
  • New .catalogs (update only German / English so far. So do the update with Installer only)
  • Internal ReqTools requesters replaced by ASL requesters. I had problems getting the old requesters to work with WarpOS and PowerUP, with numerous memory faults. The ASL requesters do work, and are 100% identical with WarpOS and PowerUP.

To all who still have my Webjump homepage in their bookmarks: Due to the bad bandwidth and continuous server downtimes, I moved the pages to http://24.132.37.25/~Gateway/, a different, very fast "free web service" (for all still looking for such, have a look at http://24.132.37.25/index.html). The old address does however link to the current page. Since I wanted it to be easier, there are direct adresses to the pages (please only use these, web layout will change shortly).
  • http://Gateway.To/Gateway5 (login with language choice)
  • http://Gateway.To/Gateway5/D (German contents)
  • http://Gateway.To/Gateway5/E (English contents)
  • NW:LGateway5 (NETWORD call) does currently NOT work with the three Amiga browsers, only with Netscape and IE. Should be implemented some time, however.
(ps)

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15.Dec.1999
Volker Grabbe in ANF


Metalweb 4 pre 2
Pre2 of Metalweb, a WYSIWYG HTML editor for Amiga, has just been released at vapor.com. A must-have for determined homepage maintainers who don't know HTML that much, or people like me who don't have so much time to code these things.
Download:
Vapor: MetalWEB4_pre2.lha or
Aminet: MetalWEB4_pre2.lha (ps)

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15.Dec.1999
Jörn Plewka in ANF


Bad availability of KatoDev
We, too, have been affected by the moving of one of the biggest providers (Xlink). The server responsible for our web pages (http), their maintenance (ftp) and e-mails (pop3) are either unavailable or offer only very low bandwidth. We ask for your patience, since we cannot switch providers fast enough.

AMPlifier Version 2 has been released. Download: amplifier2.lha (ps)

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15.Dec.1999
Ralf Vetter by e-mail


mp3 input...
You are always looking for mp3 input, e.g. for AmigaAMP. Who still remembers the rock legend "Birth Control" and their hit "Gammaray"??? A great remake of this song has been released for free download by the original artists at www.birth-control.de/CD-gammaray90.htm (title link).
For rock fans a must-have, for techno fans a gateway to new dimensions... :-). (ps)

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15.Dec.1999
Thomas Frieden by e-mail


Hyperion ports Freespace to Amiga
Hyperion is happy to announce that they have recieved the license to port the game "Descent: FREESPACE The Great War" by Interplay to Amiga. The game is a space combat simulator. The game will be ported by Hand-Jörg Frieden and Christian Sauer, and distributed by Titan Computers. The game is planned to be finished in second quarter 2000. Further details and screenshot. (ps)

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