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Archive 01/2003


22.Jan.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)


News-flash: IBM Introduces Their Own PDA Concept
Yesterday in New York at the LinuxWorld convention IBM introduced their own concept of a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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22.Jan.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


Freeciv Amiga native 1.18
The new Freeciv Amiga native version is available from now on for download at Sebastian Bauer's homepage. It covers exactly the version 1.14.10 which has been published at www.freeciv.org two days ago.

Freeciv is a free Civilisation clone which is playable via Internet versus several players or offline versus the computer. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
EdWord


Editor: EdWord Professional V6.0 - source code
After Martin Reddy published the full version of his editor EdWord Version 6.01 for Amiga computer as freeware in September 2001 he has now released the source code under GPL (GNU Public License) also. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Nova Design


Nova Design PR: Giant Nova Design Software Sale
By the title link there is a press release by Nova Design which covers offers for several software e.g. ImageFX or Alladin 4D. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Onyxsoft


Onyxsoft: QuickSketch and several updates
With QuickSketch a new freeware program by Daniel Westerburg is introduced to the product portfolio of Onyxsoft. The program is similar to 'QuickNote', it might to be used for text notes, but QuickSketch can additionally handle graphic (sketched) notes.

Furthermore the following updates were made available:
  • DagensTV (version 1.2)
    The program processes information of the TV pogram which are sent by dagenstv.com via email.

  • MultiRen (Version 1.53)
    MultiRen is a tool for renaming files comfortably.

  • TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.23)
    TheMPegEncGUI is a graphical interface for MPEG audio encoder.
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Amiga Society


Amiga Society: Schlachtfeld - 32x32 patterns in raw format
The 32x32 patterns for the action strategy game 'Schlachtfeld' (graphics phase I) are in a raw format online now. The patterns do not fit exacty together. This is mostly because of the rendering which shifted the patterns a little bit. This requires a massively post production work for some patterns. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)


Diskmag: Eurochart needs support!
One of the last diskmags of the Amiga demo scene, "The official Eurochart", will be published by middle or end next month. The editors ask for a vote for volume 48 and to participate the poll (Scene Survey) or to contribute something else e. g. English articles, graphics or musics. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


News from Eyetech: State of AmigaOneXE
After moving the website of Eyetech onto another server the site is now up to date. Beside some changes in prices for the Eyetech complete systems a change for the AmigaOne interested persons is interesting: The AmigaOneXE-G3 will be delivered with a G3 CPU (750FX) with 800 MHz instead of the announced 700 MHz.

On the AmigaOne mailing list Alan Redhouse is talking about the latest stateof the delivery of the AmigaOneXE:

It seems the first 25 boards are delivered to Eyetech and are taken under another quality control by 25 chosen testers. The other motherboards will be delivered to Eyetech in the next week. Because of the high inquiry and the fact of the quality check by Eyetech the delivery will take a longer time than expected so the boards will be delivered to dealers and customers in February. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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21.Jan.2003
Amiga.sf


Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 21st January 2003
The following software-ports have been updated or added:

(ps)

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21.Jan.2003



Aminet uploads until 21.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet:

AMIthlon_CD.lha      docs/help    2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
PfPaint_ENG.lha      gfx/edit    42K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha      gfx/edit    45K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
ShFGlowIcons.lha     pix/gicon   25K+Shadow Fighter glow icons by Ponos
SSGlowIcons.lha      pix/gicon   72K+Samurai Shodown glow icons by Ponos
(ps)

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21.Jan.2003
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 21.01.2003)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly only meant for playing from disk on your hard drive. The following packets have been updated or completely new added:

  • 21.01.03 new: 1000cc Turbo (Energize) done by Codetapper
  • 21.01.03 fixed: The Speris Legacy (Team 17) fixed save game bug
  • 21.01.03 improved: Sky Chase (Imageworks) supports 2 new versions
  • 21.01.03 new: Lunar-C (Mindscape) done by JOTD
  • 21.01.03 new: Battle Chess (Interplay) done by Psygore
  • 21.01.03 improved: Better Dead Than Alien (Electra) supports another version
  • 21.01.03 improved: Lost Patrol (Ocean) NTSC version supported, miscellaneous fixes
  • 21.01.03 improved: Iron Lord (UBI-Soft) supports German version
  • 21.01.03 new: Fascination (Coktel Vision) done by CFOU!
(ps)

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21.Jan.2003
S. Eichholz (ANF)


heise: Atari-ST-Emulator for PocketPC
As "heise" says for PocketPCs with StrongARM CPUs has been released an Atari ST emulator. The emulator is "Donorware", this means it is for free but donations are welcome. If there are enough "donations" maybe the coder will develop an Amiga emulator. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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21.Jan.2003
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)


Today grand opening of The Butterfly Vale
Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages! The Butterfly Vale has opened its gates for visitors. The Vale is your future source for MorphOS ports and high-quality own MorphOS developments.

As for your journey to us, please recall that the Vale is located in a remote place where the air is still fresh and clean. We would like to keep it that way and ask you to if possible leave your power-consuming Pentium switched off and use alternate means of transportation. We recommend coming in by flying horse.

Here's a short overview of our main attractions. While you browse our various areas, you may notice that we have some smaller archives up that are not mentioned here.

cdda.library 1.0

cdda.library is a MorphOS library that provides CD digital audio services to A-Box programs. Developers benefit from the library's high-level functions such as drive search by certain criteria, looped playing of CD sections, event callbacks and author/track title information where available.

Users benefit from the library's drive autorecognition by not having to enter or even recall any device/unit values in most cases - thanks to cdda.library's powerful functions, ScummVM MorphOS is the only port that does not need the user to specify a CD drive.

ScummVM 0.3.0b + new CVS

The full ScummVM 0.3.0b MorphOS distribution is now online. It includes an updated PDF manual, and the icons have been converted to Ambient format. Also, there are now new icons for the Simon the Sorcerer games.

A new CVS snapshot has been uploaded as well, this one is the first public MorphOS snapshot with experimental, preliminary support for "THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND", as well as support for the Mac/Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 2 and early support for the CD32 version of Simon the Sorcerer.

Exult 1.0

Exult is a rewrite of the Ultima 7 engine for modern operating systems. It allows you to play one of the best and most detailed parts of Origin's famous Ultima series. Exult has recently turned to version 1.0 which means that both parts of Ultima 7, "The Black Gate" and "The Silver Seed" along with their add-ons "The Black Sword" and "Forge of Virtue" are fully supported now. The original data files are required to play.

FreeSCI 0.3.4

The MorphOS port of FreeSCI had been announced three days ago on the FreeSCI homepage (http://freesci.linuxgames.com). Today saw the official release of FreeSCI 0.3.4, and the MorphOS version is available for download from the Vale on the same day! FreeSCI is an attempt to create a portable interpreter for games written for Sierra On-Line's SCI system. Playable games include King's Quest IV, Space Quest 3, Leisure Suit Larry 2 & 3, The Colonel's Bequest, and several others. 32 bit Ambient icons for nine games known to be completable are included in the archive.

Frotz

Frotz is an interpreter for the adventure games produced by Infocom, and fan works created with Graham Nelson's Inform compiler. Frotz MorphOS Release 1 is based on David Kinder's Amiga port, Release 14 (the current Amiga version is release 16). Major changes to the Amiga version (14) are:
  • Updated port to Frotz 2.43 code base
  • Made Frotz fully graphics cards compliant
  • Rewrote GUI code from BGUI to MUI
  • Rewrote audio.device code to AHI
  • Aspect correction for V6 graphics
  • Fixed lots of preferences issues


Inform

Graham Nelson's Inform allows you to write your own games to run on Infocom interpreters. In addition to the binary, I've provided an archive with most material from Glenn Hutchings' all-in-one Inform package. It is meant for new users who want to start quickly with Inform. It includes the library, some useful 3rd party contributions, examples and a tutorial, all ready to use.

Magnetic

Magnetic is an interpreter for the adventure games once produced by the British company Magnetic Scrolls. It is based on David Kinder's Amiga port. Major changes from the Amiga version are:
  • Rewrote Copper code to proper graphics cards compliant code
  • Implemented title splash screen
  • Implemented animations for Magnetic Windows games
  • Implemented online hints for Magnetic Windows games


The Butterfly Vale is looking forward to your visit. Also keep in mind that this is just the beginning ... (ps)

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21.Jan.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper: Another SID-driver for the Catweasel
The second Amiga-based SID-driver is a playsid.library that accesses the SID of the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper directly. At the moment this only works on Catweasel controllers that are plugged in a Zorro slot of an Amiga, support for Clockport-connected controllers will be added shortly. Playsid plays back a lot of tunes that are known from C64-games and demos. The probably most famous collection of SID music is the High Voltage Sid collection that contains more than 20000 songs.

Special thanks goes to the brothers Rakesh und Sharwin Raghoebardayal who have adapted the library to the Catweasel in their spare time, and released it as freeware.

Download: playsid.lha - 19 KB

Link: High Voltage SID collection (ps)

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20.Jan.2003
Free Pascal


Compiler: Free Pascal 1.0.7 Amiga snapshot available
A new snapshot of the compiler Free Pascal version 1.0.7 is now available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
AND Software


Context menu: ContextSAS Version 1.65
The program ContextSAS by Andre Dörffler enables you to provide and to use context sensitive menus for AmigaOS3.5+. The DefIcons system is supported. By using a few additional tools one can thereby iconify even Workbench windows and create links.

With the new version 1.65 newdrawer_gui was added in the tools, which can be used as replacement for newdrawer. This time with GUI. This version offers the possibility of defining a dividing line for each menu entry and the activation by the middle or left mouse button is now functioning correctly. In the next update a hierarchical menu definition will be added, so stay tuned...

Download: ContextInstall165.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV


TV board software: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 240
Guido Mersmann published beta version 236 of the TV board driver software AmithlonTV.

Changes:

  • BUGFIX:
    Several small fixes and changes on the library core.
  • CHANGED:
    Added some information to the driver programming guide


Download: AmithlonTV_Beta240.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
Amiga Flame


Amiga Flame: Select from the Top 5 the game of the year 2002
Amiga Flame would like to determine the best game of the year 2002 out of the Top 5 of the Amiga games. Nominates, and thus being available, are the following games:

  • The Feeble Files (Adventure) - Epic Interactive
  • Software Tycoon (Simulation) - Epic Interactive
  • Tales Of Tamar (PBEM Strategy) - Eternity
  • Quake II (3D Shooter) - ID Software
  • Crossfire II (Mix of Shooter, X-Out and Wing Commander) - Dreamworld Development
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
Czech Amiga News


Audio: AHI 5.4=6.0rc0-m68k / PPC
Martin Blom, developer of the sound map driver system AHI, published new beta versions for m68k and PPC.

ahi-5.4=6.0rc0-m68k.lha
ahi-5.4=6.0rc0-ppc.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003



Aminet Uploads until 20.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet:

SN-BackupArc.lha     biz/dbase   86K+V1.0 Provide Backup's automatically (Ger
newscoaster.lha      comm/news  428K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.55) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha   comm/news  186K+NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.55 - 18.1.20
mhm-BeApe.lha        demo/intro  85K+Beape 4k intro - CAFe02 winner with sour
BlitzLstDec02.lha    dev/basic  525K+Blitz mailing list archives for December
BlitzLstOct02.lha    dev/basic  140K+Blitz mailing list archives for October 
BlitzLstSep02.lha    dev/basic  241K+Blitz mailing list archives for Septembe
FindModule.lha       dev/e       13K+Find OS Function or CONST or whatever yo
nano.lha             dev/lang   192K+Interpreter with syntax near to BASIC an
AMIthlon_CD.lha      docs/help    2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
Frenchies.lha        docs/misc  275K+French translations from Didier Giron
UklSloneczny.lha     docs/misc   89K+Guide ***POLISH ONLY*** about Solar Syst
cf2_demo.lha         game/demo   11M+CrossfireII demo, advanced single/multip
cf2_demo_upd03.lha   game/patch 400K+Patches any CrossfireII demo version to 
DVD2VCD.lha          gfx/conv    93K+DVD2VCD(Cli Usage) 
imdbDiff030110.lha   misc/imdb  5.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmiBiorythme.lha     misc/misc   68K+MUI Biorythm tool v1.0b. Now localised (
newbaer.lha          mus/misc    19K+GNU/GPL updated Paula-to-AHI redirector 
PlasmaPlugin.lha     mus/play    24K+Plasma-Spectrum Plugin for AmigaAMP Powe
XenoMorph_WB09.jpg   pix/wb      68K+XenoMorph's WB Extreme Personalization
XenoMorph_WB10.jpg   pix/wb     114K+XenoMorph's WB Extreme Personalization
MemTrailer.lha       util/boot    4K+Allocates 16 bytes for MEMORY-PROTECTION
DirSSCompare.lha     util/dir    13K+Compares two dirs (for differences)
EBGuide.lha          util/rexx    2K+View Australian TV Guides in Shell/CLI
VClock_v1.7c.lha     util/time  332K+Real Speech Clock - Final Release
(ps)

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20.Jan.2003
Amigan Software


Tool: Report+ Version 5.64a
For users of AmigaOS 3.9 version 5.63 of Report+ is set to be downloaded. With Report+ from Amigan Software it's easy to create bug reports, Aminet "readme" files, autodocs and similar reports. The program is Freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools.

Download: ReportPlus.lha - 304 KB (ps)

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20.Jan.2003
Alex de Vries (E-Mail)


New Amiga-Product: Pure Basic
Xing Interactive are very proud to announce the release of the powerful and versatile programming language "Pure Basic". The product will be released in the second week of February 2003 and is available to consumers at the very competitive price of 29,95 Euro in DVD case packaging.

Pure Basic is more advanced and flexible then any of the other Basic programming languages currently on the market and it comes at a fraction of the price. The beauty of this product is the versatility though as you can develop your own games and applications on PC Windows, Linux or even AmigaOS! Speed is another unique selling point. Where other Basic programming languages crawl at a slow pace due to complex instruction translations Pure Basic shines by even outperforming C++ written code. If you ever wanted to program your own commercial quality games or applications in an easy to learn and even more easy to use language then this is your chance! (ps)

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20.Jan.2003
Sylvio K. (ANF)


ADA team with inquiry over the Soms3D-Engine
Sylvio K., director/conductor of the Anime development for Amiga team, decided to start an inquiry concerning the Soms3D-Engine due to the many e-mails with suggestions he got.

Originally it was intended to make Soms an on-line adventure but due to the suggestions in various mails something else could become of it. Everyone who would like to participate in the inquiry, please answer the following questions by sending an e-mail with the reference "Soms3D". These are the questions:

What do you think? What shall become of the Soms3D engine?

Currently the favorites are a 'Silent Hill' similar horror game and a 'GTA3'-Clone. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


FreeBSD 5.0 available
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. It is derived from BSD UNIX, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development. (ps)

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