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Archive 05/2003

`28.May.2003` Dennis Pauler (ANF)	Star Empire II: Last possibility to join Tomorrow, Thursday, a new round of the email based space strategy game Star Empire II will start. The aim of the game is to become the leader of the universe but there are 32 human beings trying to do this and several computer controled pirates. Diplomaty, alliances, but also armed space crafts are strongly indicated to fulfill this. Who wants to join has now the last possibility to do so Btw.: The server program of Star Empire II is powered by AmigaOS... :-) (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 28. May. 2003, 23:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2003` pcgames.de (ANF)	PC Games: Munich decides for Linux »The Munich city council has decided today that in future on all 14,00 PCs and notebooks of the city Linux software will be used instead of Microsoft programs. The council followed with this decission a claim of the 1st municipal Christian Ude. The migration to the open source operating system should be done steadily during the next years. Initially the public offices which use mostly office applications should be changed to the new software. The costs of this change including teaching courses are guessed to nearly 30 million Euros«. Read the full article (German) by the title link. Further links regarding this topic: Golem: München pro Linux: Stadtrat lässt Microsoft abblitzen heise: IBM: Münchener Entscheidung ein "Ritterschlag für Linux" heise: CSU kritisiert Münchener Entscheidung als "Software-Abenteuer" SPIEGEL: MÜNCHEN WÄHLT LINUX SuSE beißt Bill (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 28. May. 2003, 22:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2003` Lorraine Design (Website)	New YAM toolbar icons At Lorraine-Design there are new icons for the YAM toolbar available for download. Here is a preview. Download: NewYam.LHA (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 28. May. 2003, 16:28] [Comments: 1 - 31. May. 2003, 19:19] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2003` Steffen Nitz (ANF)	Game: 'Die Kleine Gilde' - lookong for further names Steffen Nitz writes: "'Die Kleine Gilde' version 0.25 will be released within the next 4 - 5 days and I ask for the following: Actually I am binding the new profession smith to the game and need 20 to 30 house names regarding the smith profession. I am looking for names like "Heavy Hammer", "Hot Iron" etc. There is a keyfile to win for 'Die Kleine Gilde' or for `SN-Münzarchiv'". Update: Steffen Nitz has published this screen shot from the game. Under the title link you will find some others. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 28. May. 2003, 14:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2003` Marc Albrecht (E-Mail)	amiga-news.de: Comuter center maintenance Tomorrow night (i.e. from Thursday to Friday) there will be some hardware compounds changed at that comuter center which hoste amiga-news.de therefore between 23:00 and 03:00 that night it might be that the pages are unreachable. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 28. May. 2003, 11:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2003` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: Preview from PairsNG and an own domain The one or other user might remember the game "Pairs" which was released in 1996 for the first time in version 1.0 by Tobias Lenz. Seven years later Christoph Kimna is working with "PairsNG" on more than a honorable successor. The preview reports about Olaf Köbniks first impressions of "PairsNG" and with the screen shots you can see yourself that there will be a real classic one soon, which won't release you too easy. Furthermore there is additional information given about the author Christoph Kimna during the interview and one more surprise. The interview, the preview and the screen shots are at the section "Interviews". The interview is currently available in German. Amiga Arena - Now with an own domain it took long but with the friendly support of the Fun Time World the Amiga Arena is reachable at http://www.amiga-arena.de from now on. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 28. May. 2003, 01:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2003` David Rey (E-Mail)	Official release of YAM v2.4p1 The email client YAM (Yet Another Mailer) has been released by the YAM open source team to be publicly downloadable. Read with the following the list of the new features: Fixed: failed to quote messages containing attachments (damato) Fixed: the "Abbreviation" string gadget in the Glossary reset itself to "- new -" every time the contents were deleted (damato) Fixed: it could happen that a temporary letter file was used for several Write windows at once (damato) Fixed: would try to delete an inexistant ".autosave0" file if the AutoSave option was set to 0 (damato) Fixed: couldn't exit if ConfirmOnQuit was enabled and YAM was iconified (damato) Fixed: the HIDE option prevented the application from popping up if MUI's own appicon or the commodity system were used (damato) Fixed: the FOLDERINFO ARexx command returned the wrong ID number for folders containing "sent and received" mail (damato) Fixed: changing the folder type failed to refresh the message list (damato) Fixed: forgot to pack messages when they were imported into compressed folders, causing all sort of calamity (damato) Fixed: folders that "lost" their directory were automatically recreated as folders of type "outgoing" (damato) Fixed: cancelling the password requester in the folder settings window would create a folder protected with an empty password (damato) Fixed: the "Export..." item in the popup menu would export the whole folder contents (damato) Fixed: the "Check PGP signature" menu item in the Read window was sometimes disabled even if the message had a signature to check (damato) Fixed: the "Save decrypted message" menu item in the Read window didn't work as it should in compressed/encrypted folders (damato) Changed: it is now actually compatible with the most common MBOX formats, e.g. MBOXRD (damato) Changed: added support for the DST variable created by Facts, rendering SummerTimeGuard emulation obsolete (damato) Changed: no longer disables the pattern field in the ASL file requester opened to attach files (damato) Changed: no longer complains if it can't save ENVARC:mui/YAM.cfg on exit (damato) Added: new hidden option "AutoColumnResize" for YAM to resize the NList columns when switching folders if the option is enabled, which it is by default (damato) Added: confirmation requester before cropping attachments (damato) (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 28. May. 2003, 01:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2003` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	Dia-CD (Vacation pictures burned as VideoCD) Today Carsten Siegner finished his project "Dia-CD" (at his home page at "rexx"). With this program you can watch your pictures from the vacation easily utilizing a TV and a DVD player. The program creates automatically a slide show and compiles a VCD-Image by demand. Features: any picture archive convertable any picture format usable (utilizes the datatypes) adding a soundtrack Later navigation with the keys of the DVD rc Written in ARexx competly; so to use with all Amigas. Every picture or every picute sequence might have its own presentation time (10 s - 100 s) If demanded the source pictures are added to the VideoCD as well, so they won't be lost To every VideoCD a ReadMe file can be added There is a brief online help optional Requirements: RexxTricks_386.lha (from Siegner's home page) Tritonrexx (at the RexxTricks directory) triton.library (at the RexxTricks directory) dttoppm.lha (Aminet) sox.lzx (from Siegner's home page or Aminet) Multiviev execute AREXX vcd-ffmpeg.lzx (from Siegner's home page) min 1 GByte free hard disk space min 64 MByte free RAM Installation: Install RexxTricks with the installer. That will install all data for Tritonrexx and the triton.library also. Unpack dttoppm.lha and copy the program to C:. Unpack vcd-ffmpeg.lzx and move vcdimager and ffmpeg to C:. ARexx needs to be stated at boottime, Sox must be at C:. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 28. May. 2003, 01:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2003` James Daniels (E-Mail)	Game: Payback for GBA - Status report #7 On May the 27th 2003 James Daniels by Apex Designs released the seventh status report about the port of the game 'Payback' to the Gameboy Advance. The update focuses to the new features and performance increase which were done during the last month. The report includes four new screen shots and a video clip of the game in action. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 28. May. 2003, 01:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.May.2003` KDH News (ANF)	AmigaOne: German mailing list A German-speaking mailing list for AmigaOne-customers was built up today. This mailing list should help AmigaOne-customers to communicate with other customers in the German-speaking scope (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), also it should be a authority for tips and tricks because of the AmigaOne. This mailing list is supported by the Amiga dealer Point Design and KDH Datentechnik and is made as a completion to the official Amiga mailing list. You could announce at here. Source: Jürgen Schober - Point Design Günter Horbach - KDH Datatechnic (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 27. May. 2003, 20:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.May.2003` David Rey (E-Mail)	YAM Newsletter 12 - visits in the YAM future The YAMOS team, developer of the e-mail client YAM (Yet Another Mailer), have been published the YAM newsletter No. 12 today. There they related to the new features of YAM-Release 2.4p1 which explains hidden options "AutoColumnResize" of this version and visited to the future of YAM. Read the complete English-speaking newsletter under the title link. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 27. May. 2003, 16:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.May.2003` AROS (Website)	AROS: Call to Logo competition The face of AROS in this way. So a logo competition is organized, that is open for designer and graphic artists. After the delivery date there are public selections, at its end a winner is announced. All logos had to be delivered until the 30th June, and they are not allowed to contain copyrighted elements. They had to be in a vector or a bitmap format. Following formats are supported: SVG, EPS, EPSF, PS, AI, PNG, GIF, TIFF, IFF-24 oder PSD. The winner will be fame and honour. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 27. May. 2003, 16:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.May.2003` AROS (Website)	AROS: Status Report May 2003 Another whole month has gone by, which means that it's definitely time for another status update. Doh, why do have all the status updates to begin like that? :) I'd like to thank all the people who showed interest in AROS in the last months, and there have been a lot! Anyway, let's not wait longer, here are the juicy bits, in this relatively uneventful month... Hardware Johan Grip received the Pegasos board at the end of April, installed Debian GNU/Linux on it, and started working on the hosted AROS port. However he was no longer able to continue for personal reasons, so he sent the board to Michal Schulz, another talented hardware hacker. In the meantime, Michal, who already had a PPC PReP board, worked on the native PPC port. He merged his sources in the AROS CVS tree, creating the new 'arch/ppc' directory. To this day, he went as far as implementing task handling and scheduling. Congratulations Michal! Sources as well as a PReP boot image can be found at http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~misc/AROS.ppc.tar.bz2 Michal is also reworking exec.library to make it hardware/platform-independent, by moving dependent stuff in resources like kernel.resource, OpenFirmware.resource... Build system No fundamental changes to this sometimes hated system, but lots and lots of little bug fixes and improvements by almost every active AROS Team member in tools, config files, makefiles... So much activity caused quite a few broken nightly builds, but it seems now stabilized. Also the newer gcc 3.3 that got installed on the build machine led to some problems, but nothing that couldn't be handled. We now use bzip2 instead of gzip, and a custom, simpler package format than tar to create the AROS floppy and squeeze every possible byte. In the quest to more space, some less useful programs were removed from floppy. Thanks to Adam Chodorowski for the cleanup and optimizations! i386-pc Installation The installer for the i386 native port, install-i386-pc, is currently broken, but a graphical bootsector installer is in work, as well as a bootmenu editor, courtesy of Sebastian Heutling, who also still works on the HDToolBox partition editor. User Interface Adam Chodorowski began to work on the Zune custom class PreferencesWindow.mcc which implements the AROS standard prefs window buttons and look. Paul Smith continued his huge work on the next iteration of Wanderer and the underlying desktop.library. It draws icons, and different views are possible (large icons, small icons, details). Fabio Alemagna added horizontal and vertical color gradients to Zune images. Take a look at the obligatory screenshot! By default, the Boot Shell is now closed after Wanderer is started. To open a new shell, use the Wanderer/Shell menu item, or use Amiga-W shortcut (Amiga key is the right Win key on pc105 keyboards) Localizations Thanks to Olivier Adam for his French translation of dos.library catalog, and to Paulo Silva for the Portuguese keyboard description (which Georg Steger implemented). Miscellaneous Some miscellaneous things that have happened: Staf Verhaegen continued to work on diskfont.library. Stefan Berger worked hard on ports of gtlayout.library and term 4.7, which can be found in contrib. Adam Chodorowski imported AHI 5.8 in AROS CVS, following Martin Blom's release of the AROS port. Georg Steger worked on the unix hosted kernel to allow nesting supervisor, so that signals occuring during a signal handler execution are not ignored. It should improve the stability of the serial device. and of course, lots of fixes here and there by many developers: for a rough idea, already more than 350 CVS commits this month (although we won't beat the record of 890 last month, according to the AROS-CVS mailing list archive). Documentation AROS documentation, in source and HTML-rendered form, is now available on the download page. Web Randy Vice set up an AROS support site, TeamAROS, at http://thenostromo.com/teamaros/. Be sure to check their bounty program if you want to sponsor AROS development. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 27. May. 2003, 16:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.May.2003` z5 (ANF)	A.D.A.: Changes and votes Forgot your password or username? Just click Log in on demo list page, enter your email address and the username and password will be send to you. Now there is no excuse anymore not to get active. By the way, about 120 votes were added in the last week. Thanks and keep them coming! (nba) [News message: 27. May. 2003, 15:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.May.2003` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	AA: Interview with Bill Panagouleas / 'DNA - The Variety of Life' Amiga Arena Interview with Bill Panagouleas (DiscreetFX) Olaf Köbnik talked with Bill Panagoules about the Amiga port of Mozilla and about upcoming products for the Amiga. The (English) interview. Amiga Arena Fullversion: DNA - The Variety of Life "DNA - The Variety OF Life", the first work by "Applaud software" is now available for download. The game is a strategy game. The story is somewhat similar to the one of "UFO - Enemy unknown". The earth is threatend by mutants. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 26. May. 2003, 22:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.May.2003` Diverse	Software Updates - 26.05.2003 (Update) New Ports of Amiga.SF: abcm2ps and cURL abcm2ps Version 3.5.3 abcm2ps is a program which converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript. It was developed mainly to print barock organ scores which have independant voices played on one or many keyboards and a pedal-board. abcm2ps-3.5.3.lha cURL Version 7.10.5 cURL is a client to get documents/files from or send documents to a server, using any of the supported protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, GOPHER, DICT, TELNET, LDAP or FILE). The command is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of interactivity. cURL offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL (https:) connections, cookies, file transfer resume and more. curl-7.10.5.lha IRC-Client: BenderIRC Version 1.5b14 Download: BenderIRC.lha Tools: LCD-Test and Changer Philippe Bourdin released two new programs: "LCD test" tests LCD screen on defective pixels, as certain colors are faded in, which facilitate a finding. Download: LCD-Test.lha "Changer" is a program for looking for and replacing in files (also recursive by sublists). The program uses "Regularexpressions" and Perl-5 must be installed. The program has unfortunately no graphic user interface, but is started from the Shell (see homepage for documentation). Download: changer.pl (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 26. May. 2003, 14:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.May.2003` Amiga Society (Website)	Amiga Society: Update of Little Book and Schlachtfeld News There are some updates for the Little Book available - short entries about games like Dune II or Celtic Legends. For the fans of Schlachtfeld there are the following news: There is meanwhile an Alpha9-Version - this runs among other things also under UAE. Some systems, as for instance the A4000 from Horst Diebel want to get along however not so completely with it. On the computers, on which the play runs, one can select, against an opponent advance its team and supply oneself with the opponent of engagements. At present there are however still problems with aiming accuracy and the shots generally - Christian works however on these problems. It gave already large progress and moves the end of the alpha phase within easy reach. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 26. May. 2003, 12:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.May.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 26.05.2003 Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message: McA45a.lha biz/dbase 67K+McAgenda is a phonebook very easy to u mca45CAT.lha biz/dbase 3K+Catalonian catalog for database McAgenda mca45ESP.lha biz/dbase 5K+Spanish catalog for database McAgenda SN-KontoArc.lha biz/dbase 94K+V1.11 Accout archives (Germany only) XBaze-7.2.lha biz/dbase 533K+Very easy2use flexible and fast database OpenURLDevBas.lha dev/basic 45K+Using OpenURL library from HBasic OrpheusV1_0.lha dev/basic 40K+AGA copper creator for BlitzBasic2 FusionV1_0.lha dev/misc 217K+AGA palette manipulation & editing nA_impulse_src.lha dev/src 2.2M+Music disk asm source BackUp.lha disk/bakup 43K+A simple backup tool.. v1.4 nA_Cracker1_0b.lha disk/misc 65K+NDOS utility tools ;) ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 50K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.42a: Advanced snake game supertvCAT.lha gfx/board 3K+Catalonian catalog for SuperTV AmiFig_Koch.lha gfx/edit 1K+Draws Koch's Snowflake using AmiFig's Ar DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 34K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets Reko2As.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-..... FroggerSP.lha gfx/show 17K+Frogger spanish documentation v2.06.0 nA_showLOGO02.lha gfx/show 6K+View mobilephone logos 038_mpfree.lha mods/moods 6.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts 039_mpfree.lha mods/moods 7.8M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts 040_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.5M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts 042_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts 043_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.7M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts 044_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts hum_m220.lha mods/moods 117K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m221.lha mods/moods 634K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m222.lha mods/moods 2.7M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m223.lha mods/moods 163K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m224.lha mods/moods 114K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m225.lha mods/moods 233K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m226.lha mods/moods 295K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m227.lha mods/moods 464K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m228.lha mods/moods 1.2M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m229.lha mods/moods 2.7M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m230.lha mods/moods 209K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m231.lha mods/moods 141K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m232.lha mods/moods 150K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m233.lha mods/moods 770K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m234.lha mods/moods 1.1M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m235.lha mods/moods 1.0M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts hum_m236.lha mods/moods 217K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts kof2kxIcons.lha pix/gicon 106K+King Of Fighters 2KX glow icons Webbit2003_04.lha pix/misc 15M+Webb.it 2003 archive 04 Webbit2003_05.lha pix/misc 5.9M+Webb.it 2003 archive 04 nA_ConFile04b.lha text/misc 60K+Compare from 2 to 5 files FileComp.lha util/cli 3K+CLI tool for comparing files. MakeList.lha util/cli 6K+Create file listing from directories (68 NoLed_v1.2.lha util/misc 4K+Low-Pass Filter Killer v1.2 DRemind.lha util/time 292K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.65! (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 26. May. 2003, 11:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.May.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records #037 There is another new track by 'Liquid Skies' available. The details of release no. 37: Title: "Transarktyka" Musician: Maxus Duration: 5.10 Style: Trance Format: MP3 The whole package, including the cover and some additional information (text files), has a size of 4.8MB. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 26. May. 2003, 00:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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