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Archive 06/2002


12.Jun.2002
Markus Nerding (ANF)


AmigaOS 3.9 Update
The ATO coordinator Söenke Tesch has just dilivered some new data. New are a Greek locale, the Finish locale (Suomi) has been reworked. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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12.Jun.2002
Markus Nerding (ANF)


Haage & Partner: Summerfresh Offers
Summer is near and so is the time of our super summer offers. Not only the newest version of the DTP classic Pagestream 4.1 is available for a summer price (Amiga, Windows, Mac) but also we offer the professional graphics processor ImageFX 4.5 including a German handbook and the AmigaOS 3.9 book (2nd edition) for special prices (also available bundled with OS 3.9). (tranlators note: English versions of the books aren't mentioned in the original message)

At least the bang - who does'nt catch one now will have it already: Arteffect 4 together with the AE collection for a super discount price.

The prices of these offers you will find with the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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12.Jun.2002
Sanjay Menon auf AMIOPEN-ML


Gary Peake after heart attack on the way of recovery
Sanjay Menon sanjay@amiga.com via email:
Subject: AMIOPEN: Gary hospitalized

Gary suffered a heart attack over the weekend but is now back at home and on the way to a full recovery. He is following doctors orders to get plenty of rest and stay away from email.

He has asked me to thank you for keeping him in your thoughts and for your best wishes. He hopes to be back on email towards the end of the week.

Sanjay (ps) (Translation: ub)

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12.Jun.2002
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)


morphos-news.de under new direction
Thorsten Schölzel retracts his work from morphos-news.de. He handed the direction over to David Scheibler and Jürgen Lukas who both will continue to provide you news about the alternative PPC OS "MorphOS" and the PowerPC computer "Pegasos".

Thorsten Schölzel: "With my recession my email address "ts@morphos-news.de" will not be valid any longer, please direct personal emails to Thorty@Thorty-online.de. I want to take this opportunity to thank all those people who gave help and support, especially the editoral staff!" (ps) (Translation: ub)

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12.Jun.2002
Linux/APUS bei Souceforge


Linux/APUS: New FAQ added
A short-term FAQ has been added. This will give info to people until the fancier autoFAQ can be restored. All entries will be archived for future usage (unlike before when they all got lost). (ps) (Translation: ub)

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12.Jun.2002



CDTV- und CD32 Websites with a new layout
Two English homepages about the CDTV and CD32 have changed their layout: The Amiga CDTV has been released as a multimedia device (CD-Player and Video Disc Player) in 1990. In autumn 1993 it has been replaced by the Amiga CD32, which is a video game console. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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12.Jun.2002
Martin Kuchinka


Programming language: New MMU module for PowerD
As reported version 0.19 alpha 6 of the programming language PowerD by Martin Kuchinka has been releaed in middle April. On the 10th of June 2002 a MMU module has been added. Further information are available via the title link.

Download: mmu.lzx - mmu_list.txt (ps) (Translation: ub)

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12.Jun.2002
Amiga Community (SixK)


SDL game: Crimson Fields 0.2.4
SixK has released the next port based on SDL at his new website `Amiga Community'. This is the game Crimson Fields which is available in version 0.2.4. The game is a Battle Isle clone, which runs, exept a problem with some colours, with Amithlon.

The SDL library allows platform independent programing and ports of games and other multimedia products. (ps)

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12.Jun.2002
EvenMore


Textviewer: EvenMore version 0.60 from June the 11th 2002
The freeware textviewer 'EvenMore' from Chris Perver is ready for download in version 0.60. Changes since version 0.60 from June the 5th 2002 (Chris Perver changes the version number only with major updates):
  • Created a very basic work in progress IXML plugin (See Ix-Guide, www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/hudson/187.
  • Amended EvenMore's escape code interpreter. Not sure if these codes are in use already, if they are, someone let me know. I have 2 new codes, *e[50;0;0;0m and *e[51;0;0;0m. Both take 3 arguments after them to allocate a pen for text (R,G,B). 50 changes the Pen colour, and 51 will change the background colour, thus giving you multicoloured text.
  • Rewrote RTF plugin from the ground up with full colour support.
Download: EvenMore.lha (800 KB) (ps) (Translation: ub)

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12.Jun.2002
osOpinion


osOpinion: Amiga, Inc: Close That Open Hardware!
»Nowadays, Amiga is a software-only company developing the "Amiga Digital Environment," which is supposed to run applications written in "VP code" on everything from toasters to PDAs. The AmigaOS is being updated, though, and the first new version (4.0) will be a PowerPC OS, based on OS 3.x for the old 68k Amigas.«
Complete article see title link. (ps)

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12.Jun.2002
DCR8520 Amigaports


DCR8520: bibcursed v2.0.0 - Anubis v3.0.2 - barkix v1.0.2
Spaniard Diego CR 'dcr8520' has updated his Web site at SourceForge with many of his Amiga ports. You will find there lots of small tools which alleviate the daily handling of many applications.

Updates:
  • bibcursed v2.0.0 - Editor for BibTeX
  • Anubis v3.0.2 - Mailprogram
  • barkix v1.0.2 - Barcode generator for PCL without the need for font cartridges
(ps)

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11.Jun.2002
Mario Börner (ANF)


Falke34: Homepage online again and Bekuna Version 1.9R4
Aftr some query with the provider is the homepage of Falke34 online again. In the meantime there were several updates on this site, e.g. the informations on the game Tales Of Tamar (site partly under construction)are updated.

Also an update for the greetings program ´Bekuna´ Version 1.9R4 from Kuno Naumann is available for download. The program has many features like greting depending on daytime, display of date, time, summertime, moonphase and sign, and reminder of birthdays and events.

Download: BekunaUpd.lha (ps) (Translation: gf)

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11.Jun.2002
Autor: Mirko Naumann


Hardware: Serial ATA (SATA) - The new port for hard drives
On the website of Acard, the manufacturer of the IDE-to-SCSI adaptor, you can see that these people are still busy and have released new adaptors. Now they support transfer rates up to 160 MB/sec (LVD-SCSI).

The new port is one of the climaxes of the Computex. More and more manufacturers of mainboards, controllers, and hard drives have products with the successor of IDE and E-IDE (up to UDMA-133) in the program. Serial ATA should replace the parallel ATA complete until February 2003.

The advantage of SATA is the easier and more stable connecting. Timing problems are history. Also the new cables with 4 to 8 poles ease the circulation of air inside the tower because they are not blocking the stream.

SATA uses up to 4 direct point-to-point connections between controller and one device per connection. This doubles the maximum of possible devices. Problems with jumpers and bus-termination are no longer expected, because every wire is terminated at both ends in the chip. A defective device will not effect the others.

SATA is designed for using period of 10 years with two duplications of performance up to 600 MB/sec. At start a transfer rate of 150 MB/sec is supported, slighlty less than LVD-SCSI with 160 MB/sec. Some of the other features are the break through of the 137 GB limit of harddrives, "hot-plug"-abilities, and 1st-Party-DMA.

The first devices will maybe available in third quarter 2002, but some manufacturers of mainboards have started to implement it into their chipsets.

Amiga users can use the new harddrives with an adaptor on normal ATA ports (from UDMA-33) or (maybe the better solution) with bridge adaptors on SCSI. A question about that is send to ACARD, but still on the way. The answer will be presented here. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2002
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 11.06.2002) (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games you only can play on disks on your harddisk. The following games are added or updated:
  • 11.06.02 new: M1 Tank Platoon (Microprose) done by JOTD
  • 11.06.02 new: Killerball (Microids) done by JOTD
  • 11.06.02 new: Guy Spy (Ready Soft) done by JOTD
  • 11.06.02 improved: Road Wars (Arcadia Systems) supports another version, new icons
  • 10.06.02 new: Dream Web (Empire Software) done by Dr.Zarkov
  • 10.06.02 new: Invasion (Sector Software) done by Codetapper
  • 10.06.02 improved: Deuteros (Ian Bird) supports another version
  • 10.06.02 new: Blasteroids (Tengen/Image Works) done by Psygore
  • 10.06.02 improved: Super Cars (Gremlin) now compatible with emulators, manual included
  • 05.06.02 improved: Battle Isle (Blue Byte) minor changes
(ps)

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10.Jun.2002
Bernd Rösch (ANF)


AmiBlitz V2.26 new distribution with extended documentation (Update)
A new distribution of AmiBlitz 2.26 is now available. This new distribution includes an extended documentation, many libs are now described in the online guide and the different syntaxmodes are now described.

editors note:
We are not able to say something about the differences between the above version and the one reported by Amiforce on 08.06.2002. If you anything about it feel free to tell us.

Update 12.06.2002:
David McMinn explained us the difference:

I saw your note on the AmigaNews site, that you could not see the difference between the different AmiBlitz distributions, so I thought I would clarify.

First of all, Bernd Roesch has updated the editor and compiler greatly, and convinced Acid software to release Blitz Basic 2 for free, under the name AmiBlitz2. However, Bernd did not provide a ready-made package for users to download and use, only updates.

I decided to create an user distribution which would provide everything a person needs to start programming in AmiBlitz as I have been maintaining the Blitz2000 site for a few years. Of course, since AmiBlitz is free, anyone can do this if they choose, such as CJ Stroker has done on the AmiForce site.

The differences between the distributions on the Blitz2000 and AmiForce sites are that they have different contents and are aimed at different people. For example, the distribution provided by AmiForce does not seem to have the acidlibs and deflibs files, so you already need a working installation of AmiBlitz to use it (they might have it in other archives on the site though, I have not looked through all of them). The AmiForce site is also more useful for German speaking programmers, as a lot/most of the documentation they have is available in German (for example, the AmiBlitz manuals). The distributions on the Blitz2000 site are available in different sizes and have all the documents for the libraries included in the archive, as well as useful tools and the library files mentioned above.

The only thing which would be nice to keep the same between all distributions is the default set of libraries that are provided. Bernd suggested this as it makes everything easier from the viewpoint of everyone has the same libraries to start off with.

Sorry for the long mail, but I hope this clears the situation up :)

http://www.david-mcminn.co.uk
http://www.blitz-2000.co.uk (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Jun.2002
bruZard's blitzbasic


Programing: BlitzBasic - BSP2B3D Converter Version 0.3 (Update)
Jens 'bruZard' Henschel wrotes:
Due to the fact that there seems to be some interest in BSP2B3D I uploaded the current version today. There are no changes since the last release but it should be enough for most of the users. This is the Windows version of the program.

bsp2b3d.zip (ca. 1 MB) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Jun.2002
amiga.org


amiga.org: Interview with Olaf Barthel by Pods
Amiga.org (title link) released a substantial interview with Olaf Barthel. The interview was made by Pods. Olaf Barthel is involved in the development of AmigaOS since 1995 and gives his view on the new AmigaOS 4.

At the end of the interview Olaf Barthel answers questions of users of amiga.org. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Jun.2002
Mr.Vain (E-Mail)


Demo-Scene: SECRETLY! - In memory of Jan Horn
In Memory of Jan Horn (Sulaco of Secretly!) 08 June 2002
We just received some extremely sad news. Our coder and man behind the sulaco.co.za site "Jan Horn" passed away 06 June 2002, 18:30. Apparently he was involved in a car accident.

He will be greatly missed in the Delphi Game/OpenGL development community and in our hearts!! No words can explain our loss, we miss you! Our sympathy goes out to his family and friends. May his memory live on!!! (ps) (Translation: sk)

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