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Archive 07/2001

`19.Jul.2001` Stephan Rupprecht (E-Mail)	Tool: SGrab with PNG format to save Stephan Rupprecht wrote: I just released SGrab v1.16 on my homepage. This now offers the possibility to save screenshots as PNG files. Download: sgrab.lha - (99 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 16:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)	e.p.i.c. interactive: Feeble Ubdate Thomas Steiding of e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH wrote: Update & FAQs about The Feeble Files As announced last week we require at least 400 pre-orders to enable an Amiga port of the cartoon adventure The Feeble Files. Including today's entries we received 232 pre-orders and we are hoping, that the following days will bring the rest. The game can be pre-orders from us (order@epic-interactive.com) or from any stockist. With the enclosed FAQ we hope to be able to answers some frequently asked questions regarding the announcement. Q: What is The Feeble Files about? A: The Feeble Files is the official sequel to Simon The Sorcerer II by the British Adventuresoft company. Feeble is a little green alien having the task to make circles in grain fields on earth. He lives in a world restrictively ruled by the Omnibrain and he is an honest citizen never violating the group's big catalog of rules. But one day this kind hearted gawky stumbles into a full-grown conspiracy against the Omnibrain. As one can see from the screenshots on our homepage, the characters of this game are fully rendered. The game comes along with complete German or English spoken samples. The German games magazine PC-Games rated the title at 80%, then. The German vocals came for example from the German movie voices of Brad Pitt, Whoopi Goldberg, and Roseanne. More information and topical Mac screenshot are to find on our homepage. Q: What Amiga do I need for The Feeble Files? A: The Feeble Files requires an Amiga equipped with a 4 MB graphics board and 32 MB of memory. Furthermore a 68060 OR a PPC CPU is required. Theoretically the game would run on a 68040/40, but sure would be very very slow on this configuration. Q: When will the game be out? A: As soon as we have received 400 pre-orders (no matter if those were directly ordered from us or from a vendor - who forwards the orders to us), we will start to port the game to the Amiga. Due to the porting engine of our leader of development, Paul Burkey, the game then should be shipping for the Amiga within 6 weeks!! Q: Will there be more Amiga games from e.p.i.c. interactive? A: Theoretically it would be possible to port to the Amiga more games currently available for the Apple Macintosh. But since license fees for other games, e.g. like in case of the Settlers clone Knights&Merchants or the RPG-mix Gorky 17, are much more expensive (and hence the number of sales to be expected for an Amiga version must be higher), it is clear: If The Feeble Files port will not become reality, we don't need to start thinking about more games. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 16:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Andre Geisler (ANF)	GRex4000T available from August Andre Geisler wrote: This moring I called DCE on the phone. From this call I learned, that definite there will be a PCI expansion for the Amiga4000T (and A4000D built into a case), which will be connected to the PPC board's bus, as usual. This would be available from the end of August, the latest on the Cologne show. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 15:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` infinity (ANF)	Elbox Computer announce mutual consent with Hyperion After a long time of both official and private discussions Elbox announced on the Mediator mailing list to sign Hyperion's contract for the Warp3D drivers. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 15:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Michael Asse (ANF)	Start of the AmigaFFE project Michael Asse wrote: Today I would like to announce the official start of the AmigaFFE project in which I would like to tackle the port of the 'Frontier First Encounters' game to the Amiga with help of other interested people. As a first step I defined preliminary project aims to which you can, may and shall send me suggestions and tips, etc., since this is my first project and I don't have the specialised knowledge to do this perfectly. Please, don't send me any "What should that gain...?" mails. I would not reply. The provisional time limit to send suggestions for the project aims was set to 31. August 2001. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 15:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Matthias Münch (ANF)	PowerPC ATX Board Matthias Muench wrote: I just happend to find an interesting article on the IBM site, which is about a new PowerPC ATX board. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 15:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` T.o.T.	Game: Tales of Tamar News Tales of Tamar is an Internet based rounds game by Eternity Entertainment for the Amiga, Atari, Linux, and PC. Since a few days the first Java version is available, which later will be available for settop boxes, handheld, and all other computers not supported native. New Atari version v0.21 The option screen was ported to the Atari version v0.21, enabling sound, Internet, and modem settings. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 11:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Marco Miljak, c't 14/2001 (ANF)	AltairBASIC source code by Bill Gates Under the mentioned URL one can find a very interesting analysis of the AltairBASIC once programmed by Bill Gates. The British computer scientist Reuben Harris disassembled and elaborately described it on his website. There also is an AltairBASIC simulation basing on Java applets. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 11:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Stephan Rupprecht	Library: WBStartEmu V45.2 / Datatype: Icon-Datatype V44.3 Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.2 of his WBStartEmu (wbstart.library) for OS3.9. The icon datatype for OS3.5+ was updated and now is available as v44.3. Download: WBStartEmu.lha (5 KB) IconDT44.lha (8 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 11:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Sven Zander (ANF)	Kult is coming home - News at "com!online" 08/2001 The current issue 08/2001 of the German print magazine com!online mentions the Amiga in the news on page #20 reading that the Amiga boss Bill McEwen announced the cult-brand soon to come back. The new One PPC 1200 would be under development specially for this purpose. If this computer will attract enough customers the company would found new agencies, yet. The following interesting wording was used for the Amiga: "In the long run this box cannot be killed", and, "....for the scuffproofed veteran...". (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)	AROS News As already reported there were hardware problems with the server hosting the AROS website. Some good and bad news about that: the good news is, that the hardware will be replaced, the bad news is, that the machine will be connected to a new network and thus the page temporary might not be available, again, due to DNS conversion. Here the original message with more details: As you might have noticed, we had a lot of hardware failures in the last months. Now there are good and bad news. The good one is that the hardware will be replaced. The bad one is that the machine is moved to a different network and this means that we'll have DNS hell all over again ! The "real" name of the machine on which AROS is hosted is "sebigbos.hepe.com". This name should work when aros.org doesn't. So when CVS doesn't like you anymore, check AROS/scripts/updatecvspath to fix the host name until I have fixed the DNS server (usually takes only several weeks...hrm :-). The mailing list runs on lists.hepe.com. The only thing which will not be reachable for the time being is the web and the ftp site. Sorry for any inconvenience. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Game: New Schlachtfeld survey The previously announced Schlachtfeld survey is online. This survey is about how to differ the units: Units in red/green/blue/yellow. Units with tactical field signs. Units with different textures. Units with different textures and tactical field signs. Different textures with certain primary colours (red/green/blue/yellow) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` No Risc No Fun (ANF)	nrnf: Interview with Matay There is an interview (English) with Filip Dab-Mirowski of Matay online on 'no risc no fun'. Learn about the future of the Prometheus. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)	Stardate-Mailbox back to the Internet One week after a flashlight caused damage to the DSL connection the Stardate-Mailbox is available via Internet (http/telnet), again: stardate.2y.net (title link). Also the Dynamite server of same denominator is running, again. Background: While a thunderbolt in Muenster (Germany) and the surrounding area a flashlight hit the telephone switch and put off my DSL connection. The (German) Telekom repaired it, now. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2001` Alexander Kurtz (ANF)	Upload function for the Aminet on www.aminet-gui.de Soon there will be an upload function available on the AminetGUI. Thus it will be possible to upload files of up to 5 MB of size to the Aminet, without any FTP knowledge. The current script still is beta and is being reworked. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Jul. 2001, 10:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Thorsten Schoelzel (E-Mail)	RealAudio/Media-Support page updated (Update) A few days ago Sigbjørn Skjæret released version 2 of his RealAudio/Media player "RAPlay". New is among other things the support of the RealMedia format, which could not be played up to now. More information e.g. about installation as well as download possibilities are to find under the title link. Of course there also is a PPC version. Update 19. July 2001: Thorsten Schoelzel wrote: As I just was told by Sigbjørn Skjæret, RealMedia is not supported, yet. But there is a better RealAudio 1 & 2 support. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 22:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Christoph Meier (ANF)	Tom's Hardware Guide: Corel takes over Micrografx The Canadian software manufacturer Corel according to Tom's Hardware Guide is about to take over their American graphics software competitor Micrografx. This fusion will be established by exchange of shares. Some 32 Millions USD were mentioned for the price. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 21:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Big Book of Amiga Hardware Update On the 5th of July in 2001 Big Book of Amiga Hardware has been updated. From today the updates are also available at the German mirror. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 14:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Diverse	Apple: Quarterly results Q3/2001 After Apple has published its quarterly profits- and loss results there are some articles in various media. At Macworld Expo which currently takes place in New York some new models are supposed to be showed. Apple: Apple Reports Third Quarter Profit of $61 Million Golem: Apple looks optimisticly in the future Heise: Apple gains hope Macnews.de: Detailed quarterly results q3/2001 of Apple Spiegel: Apple: Anxious in the autumn Stern: Apple finally is profitable again ZDNet: Apple got profits (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 14:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Scalos	Workbench replacement: New autodocs for Scalos In the section 'Developers' of the website you can find new autodocs for Scalos. Autodocs are developer-documentations which were made in a standardized way. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 13:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Oliver Roberts	Datatypes: WarpJPEG.datatype version 44.21 With the help of so called datatypes various datatypes can be showed with different programs. Oliver Roberts has published version 44.21 of his 24-bit JPEG-datatype which is available for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS. Some bugs has been fixed and the support for some webcam-pictures has been added. Besides this the memory management has been optimized and the PowerPC-version was newly compiled with VBCC 0.8. Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (134 KB) (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 13:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Haage&Partner	H&P: StormC student version (Update) Because of the immense request Haage&Partner offers a student version of the developer system 'StormC'. It is a cheap full version without any restrictions. It is available for schoolboys and schoolgirls as well as students who send H&P an officially recognized evidence of their school or their university with the order. Postscript: If you can prove a valid training contract trainee can order the student version, too. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 13:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: Safe version 16.2 With the virus scanner 'Safe' you can detect virus but you can not eleminate them. It follows the details to version 16.2 which has been published today: Name: Safe v16.2 Archive name: Safe.lha Archive size: 37.500 bytes Release date: 17. Juli 2001 Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski Required: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended) NOTE THAT SAFE IS VIRUS DETECTOR - NOT FILE CHECKER OR CLEANER! IT ONLY INFORMS ABOUT ATTACK AND REMOVES VIRUS FROM MEMORY IF POSSIBLE! New in v16.2 Added XFD slave to detect and remove PENETRATOR and two SMEG2 clones from files. Please use xfdDecrunch to perform cleaning or VirusZ to see the infected files. Added to Safe memory removal for SMEG2 viruses. Added generic memory removal for PENETRATOR and other SMEG1 kind infectors. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2001, 02:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` Joerg Rebenstorf, CEO ALiENDESiGN (ANF)	New web-design at ALiENDESIGN The web-design of the ALiENDESiGN company was completely reworked. We think that our web-designer FoX did a very good job, again, as he previously did with the product pages, and so we would be happy, if you would drop by. The Repulse sound card still is available from our online shop and the online shop now is fully integrated to the web-offer. Suggestions are welcome, contact sales@aliendesign-gbr.de. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 21:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001`	Aminet Uploads until 17.07.2001 IBrowseMI.lha comm/www 26K+GlowIcons Toolbar for IBrowse IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 19K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.2.0 MD2MI.lha comm/www 25K+GlowIcons Toolbar for MicroDOT 2 simplehtml.lha comm/www 38K+V0.17 of the simple HTML Offline Browser lns-hst.lha demo/aga 2.6M+Hotstyle Takeover by Loonies (MS2001 2nd PhxAss.lha dev/asm 151K+PhxAss V4.40 68xxx Macro Assembler uncat.lha dev/misc 8K+Create .cd file from running program PFS3ud.lha disk/misc 124K+PFS3 undelete qformat.lha disk/misc 6K+Quick format for FFS disks SyQuest270-ML.lha disk/misc 17K+Mountlist for SyQuest 270MB Drives f1me.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Formula 1 Manager enhanced paranoia.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Paranoia Vol.1 psv.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: PSV Football manager revolution.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Classic Revolution scorpius.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Scorpius toons.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Amiga Toons Vol.1 vt2.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: VideoTracker 2.0 PSX-BlackCheat.lha docs/mags 177K+PSX-CheatBook HTML-Only CircusLinux.lha game/actio 744K+SDL game compiled for Amiga Mattonite.lha game/demo 484K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress FoundationMan.lha game/misc 256K+Foundation Manual (PDF version) IChing.lha game/misc 100K+V2.0 of a GUI I-Ching fortune telling pr PicShow.lha gfx/show 9K+Datatype picture viewer for directory to DickTracy.lha mods/misc 32K+Custom module from "Dick Tracy" rno-r063.lha mods/misc 190K+Rno-records release no.63 by tang (triph NeuralAss.lha mods/pro 100K+Two Protracker mod's from the demo 'Neur ClassMI.lha pix/gicon 33K+A GlowIconsSet for ClassAction eNoteMI.lha pix/gicon 9K+A GlowIconsSet for eNote PlayMI.lha pix/gicon 38K+A GlowIconsSet for PlayGUI FF9_icons.lha pix/nicon 29K+Great set of FF9 Newicons HP_Deskjet400C.lha text/print 24K+Deskjet 400C/L Driver for WB 40.10 HP_Deskjet600C.lha text/print 26K+Deskjet 600C Driver for WB V40.12 CheckX.lha util/arc 28K+V1.85 Check for Archive/Packer/Virus alba.lha util/boot 61K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG JPEG-DT.lha util/dtype 433K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (43.5) JPEG-DT35.lha util/dtype 357K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (46.3a) JoinReplace.lha util/sys 17K+V1.20 powerful Join replacement Easyreset.lha util/wb 18K+EasyReset - system reset utility Memicon.lha util/wb 17K+Memory/Screen/OS display for OS3.5/OS3.9 (as) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 21:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` Da SixK Port Page	Tool: Webalizer 2.01-06 for MorphOS With this tool HTML statistics can be created from Apache log-files. This version is for MorphOS and is faster than the 68k version (1.8 seconds contrary to 11 seconds, determined using the same Apache log-file). Download: webalizer-2.01-06_mos.lzx (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 17:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Game: New Schlachtfeld pictures In spite of the turbulences around the Amiga-Society of course development of the Game Schlachtfeld is being continued. Edgar Leiding rendered some units for the game's board, again. Thus now there are nine unit previews available - there will be some changes, of course. There will be a survey regarding the camouflage: the question is, if the enemies should use different colours (red, blue, ...) or should differ by different textures and/or tactical field signs. You can also post your opinion about that in the forum of the Schlachtfeld website. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 15:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` I. Souvatzis (ANF)	NetBSD-1.5.1 released NetBSD-1.5.1 is a patch release for the Unix like open source operating system from now available via FTP. Since NetBSD-1.5 mainly some enhancements regarding system security were added. VLAN's (viruel LAN's) support is one of the new features. Closer information can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 14:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` Christian Effenberger (ANF)	mSQL database administration program Who ever dealt with SQL database systems soon realized that in fact only mSQL comes into question for working offline. mSQL is the most compact and resource sparing SQL-DBMS for the Amiga. One example to point this up: The mSQL daemon requires less than 10% of the resources the MySQL daemon needs and even can react 4-times faster on client requests via mUSD (unix socks daemon). The biggest disadvantage of all SQL systems for the Amiga is the lack of any GUI software for administration and database care. That's why I wrote a program named mSQL-Administrator, which contains the operation of the following executables of the "mSQL.bin" directory: msql, msql2d, msqladmin, msqldump, msqlexport, msqlimport, relshow, and mUSD. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 14:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2001` Richard Körber (ANF)	Palmiga is now called amiga-pda The Palmiga Project is a project for all Amiga users that own a PalmOS-PDA to use with their Amigas. Palm Inc. wrote to me that the name is violating their trademark, combined with the request to change it. Due to this the mailinglist can from now on be reached via "amiga-pda": http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amiga-pda. Assigned members should post to amiga-pda@yahoogroups.com. The Pamiga website will be redesigned in the near future available at the URL http://amigapda.shredzone.de. I want to let you know they have send their request in a very polite way against the trend without announcing any lawyers. :) (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 09:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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